GotY 2024 Ultimate Award Prediction - The Game Awards (TGA)

[Leynos]

BraLoD said:

Leynos said:

The most impactful RPGs are Ultima and Wizardry. Wizardry esp as every RPG esp JRPGS took from it. Aside from DnD itself, Wizardry is the most influential and impactful RPG series ever made. FF7 helped further popularize JRPGs in the west but no new genres or subgenres came from it nor mechanically anything new.

FF7 is often considered the most important RPG in gaming, it doesn't need to be the first to become that, as FF7 marked the change in status for the genre, RPGs are still relevant to people nowdays because almost 20 years ago FF7 made it go from niche to the biggest thing in the industry.

Over exaggerating there a bit and JRPGs fell out of favor in the 7th gen but things like Xenoblade and Dark Souls helped bring it back. There is no Final Fantasy at all without Wizardry. RPGs were successful on 16-Bit machines mind you just FF7 helped further expand the popularity in the west but Secret of Mana in Japan was more popular as is DQ. FF7 did not inspire any RPGs to copy it or create any new mechanics to be emulated and create an entire genre. Wizardry did. No FF. No DQ. No YS. No falcom. No Enix. No Square. No Legend of Dragoon. Wizardry wasn't the first either. Ultima was.