Even beyond the smash hits, 2023 was one of the best years ever for RPGs
Even beyond the smash hits, 2023 was one of the best years ever for RPGs
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Even beyond the smash hits, 2023 was one of the best years ever for RPGs
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I liked the year a lot. Quite satiated on that RPG scratch except for one item on the list. KOTOR is strangely absent from this time of great RPGs.
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It really doesn't feel like it. It's just been really good for Baldur's Gate 3. But the article is really focusing on the retro-style RPGs and PC re-releases that have been making the rounds. Here's the whole list.
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Phantom Liberty
- Octopath Traveller 2
- Star Ocean Second Story R
- Live A Live
- Lunacid
- Loop8
- Persona 5 Tactica
- Disgaea 7
- Sea of Stars
- Etrian Odyssey
- Trails to Azure
- Rhapsody 2 and 3
- Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
- Wizardry: The Five Ordeals
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Damn, so yeah, not really that click-baity.
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While there are a ton of articles like this, most of which are low-effort, click-bait garbage, this at least makes a more compelling case by limitting it to RPGs. Maybe I'm just uninformed since I don't generally like RPGs, but it seems like there have been a lot more quality RPGs released this year (esspecially in the "double A" budget class), and the two triple A releases both actually felt like a notable step forward (BG3 in design and content, Starfield in tech).
Starfield did nothing to advance tech
It begs the question, did anyone at Bethesda see No Man's Sky?
Uh how did starfield advance techn in a big way? Pls do elaborate on that one, cause i didnt see it
More just that Bethesda is the biggest maker of Triple A RPGs and they're finally updating the creation engine in a significant way. That said, to my knowledge, its still one of the more technically advanced RPGs (even if it doesn't do much with that tech) and could hopefully at least work as a proof of concept to more ambitious developers.