Maybe young people don't understand RPG

[JC48573]

With the lack of rpg, I don't think newbies are getting exposed enough to the genre.

[MrEco]

A lengthy and well thought out argument good sir.

But seriously, could you extrapolate please?

[BoringSupreez]

It's only natural that if there aren't as many RPGs out there, fewer new people will be exposed to the genre. And really, "newbies" don't typically play (or enjoy) RPGs anyway; it's more of a core gamer thing. Except Pokemon and Paper Mario, I suppose.

[AppleQueso]

Did I just walk into some parallel reality where Mass Effect and Elder Scrolls weren't incredibly popular?

[BoringSupreez]

Did I just walk into some parallel reality where Mass Effect and Elder Scrolls weren't incredibly popular?

Well, since he was talking about RPGs as if they weren't popular, I assumed he meant JRPGs. If that's not what he meant, then I don't know what he's thinking.

[MrEco]

Did I just walk into some parallel reality where Mass Effect and Elder Scrolls weren't incredibly popular?

Well, since he was talking about RPGs as if they weren't popular, I assumed he meant JRPGs. If that's not what he meant, then I don't know what he's thinking.

But that's what confuses me. Mass Effect and Elder Scrolls are massively popular, but even if he's talking about JRPG's there's still quite a lot of those flooding the market.

[Korpi]

WRPG's from the likes of Bethesda and Bioware. JRPG's every now and then, Xenoblade being the latest big one, I guess. MMORPG's coming left and right in the coming months. Strategy, shooter, puzzle games incorporating RPG elements. Action RPG's; Diablo III and Torchlight 2. DS and PSP have full-fledged RPG's like Radiant Historia. If you look at PC indie side, there's a lot stuff from smaller companies, that have more or less RPG elements.

Is RPG genre really suffering? I have seen typical RPG character advancement and specialization, and quests, put into games more than I feel comfortable with, lately.

Let's rather talk about how turn-based strategy or shmups are not doing so well, for example... well, apart from hardcore war strategy and one company developing bullet hells.

[ninjainspandex]

i love the rpgs on the xbox 360 borderlands for me was an epic expierience. also there was the fallout games, tales of vesperia, lost odyssey, and borderlands 2 is coming out in a few months.

[Sideroller]

I'm 12 and what is this?

[flamepanther]

Young people understand RPGs. Most of them just have other things to do that are more fun and less demanding.