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Video Games May 16, 2010 at 05:03:38 PM
Leading western RPG developer Bioware has said that hit corridor crawler Final Fantasy XIII “isn’t an RPG.”
Commenting on the development of Star Wars: The Old Republic, Bioware’s Writing Director Daniel Erickson launched into an opportunistic salvo against Final Fantasy XIII:
“Well, before I address the main point I just want to take a slightly more controversial route: You can put a ‘J’ in front of it, but it’s not an RPG.
You don’t make any choices, you don’t create a character, you don’t live your character… I don’t know what those are – adventure games maybe? But they’re not RPG’s.”
Bioware has previously criticised JRPGs as being “stagnant,” so it is by now no secret that the company has a low opinion of a genre which in fairness has only a tangential connection to the original conception of a “role playing game” – “stats based dungeon crawler” might be a fairer description.
source: sankakucomplex
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Posted by
on July 16, 2010 at 08:13:00 AM
True i call pure BS on Bioware. How can they say that FFXIII isn't a RPG?? I mean come on Bioware your good, but not that good, stay within your means and stick to what you know.
Posted by
Cless Alvein on July 04, 2010 at 07:43:41 AM
There's no such thing as an RPG on a console or the computer if you want to be all strict and pure about the definition. Bioware is just jealous that they won't outsell them even with a game based on the Star Wars franchise.
Posted by
on June 23, 2010 at 01:43:34 AM
You tell 'em Bioware. "JRPG"s have been the laughing stock of the RPG genre for a long time.