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Anonymous01/18/26, 23:14No.3911957
Do you think RPG is one case where becoming more popular has turned against the genre, with games having to be dumbed down for the average player?
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Anon01/18/26, 23:31No.3911959
>Do you think RPG is one case where becoming more popular has turned against the genre, with games having to be dumbed down for the average player?
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Anon01/19/26, 01:26No.3911985
Again, /v/ & /vrpg/ would have a hissy fit if anyone gives a workable definition of an RPG.
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Anon01/19/26, 01:43No.3911992
Absolutely. Popularity is responsible for the insertion of contemporary social issues, responsible for dialogues being more modern and full of silly quips (which often breaks setting immersion) and it´s responsible for the simplification of game mechanics.Popularity is also responsible for unfocused development and allocation of resources. They are literally focusing on customizing genital size when that time and money could go to creating additional classes, races, spell animations, crafting systems, adding companions, maps, adding a dungeon master mode... i mean there are so many things more important. The sex scenes are not even explicit for fucks sake, heck, some RPGs give you insane customization options only to then become first person experiences.Sadly if the games were not popular presentation suffers considerably. Take CRPGs for example, the pathfinder games have the more complex builds and better mechanics but are less popular than BG3 or DoS so when it comes to other RPG aspects like solving things through dialogues or coming up with the kind of ideas that would work on PnP like using environmental assets they just fall short.I guess that it all comes down to a game offering acceptable tradeoffs.
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Anon01/19/26, 01:59No.3911996
Rpgs and jrpgs seem to be just as easy now in 2026 as they were in 1996. I don’t see much difference besides now they can be even more bloated with menu systems, cutscenes and larger maps/towns/dungeons but the skill or intelligence behind them seems the same.
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Anon01/19/26, 03:45No.3912023
Everything becoming popular inevitably ruins it
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Anon01/19/26, 05:00No.3912045
i think we keep trying to blame everything besides private equity and costs
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Anon01/19/26, 06:22No.3912063
No, on the contrary. Luckily for you, you can still play unpopular RPGs.
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Anon01/19/26, 07:44No.3912081
Nah, popularity helped end the obtuse, poorly designed gameplay of a lot of older WRPGs and stopped the retarded hipster circlejerk that killed so many beloved oldfag franchises.That said, it brought in a whole bunch of problems like
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Anon01/19/26, 07:59No.3912087
Noooooo, it just happens to be the only thing ever to have not been spoiled by adding normalfags to the mix....
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Anon01/19/26, 08:18No.3912090
RPGs were never about being smart, just patience to withstand the bullshit
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Anon01/19/26, 12:22No.3912127
100%
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Anon01/19/26, 14:40No.3912162
Hello everyone! I'm here for the first time. I'm pleased to meet you all!Does anyone know where I could get a definition for RPGs?
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Anon01/20/26, 03:15No.3912418
i love when people talk about RPGs being "popular" now when FF7 in order to succeed had to recoup a $45 million budget as a console exclusive in the 90s, when $60 for a game was actually a lot
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Anon01/20/26, 04:17No.3912443
New vegas is actionshit, not an rpg.
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Anon01/20/26, 04:54No.3912458
Absolutely, and more than most genres,I can think of only one genre that suffered more: RTS. The singleplayer campaign RTS died for esport players' sins.
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Anon01/20/26, 12:00No.3912566
It's not "dumbing down", it's "Laziness".Devs are too lazy to make proper questlines.
Devs are too lazy to make extensive systems.
Devs are too lazy to make proper dungeons.
Devs are too lazy to make enemies that rely on clever tactics and gimmicks.
If they're not "lazy" they are free to develop an extensive dungeon with challenging enemies and release it as a mod or a free DLC to prove that they are not the problem. Until then, I will continue to assume they are simply lazy.
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Anon01/20/26, 14:58No.3912610
The moment Square felt the need to release an "Easy Type" version of FFIV is the moment it was basically over for mainstream JRPGs.November 1991.
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Anon01/20/26, 23:45No.3912935
Behold, a first person shooter
Ignore all motherfuckers who think they can create a 100% perfect classification system for something as categorically complex as videogames
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Anon01/21/26, 11:26No.3913177
Yes, but not in terms of difficulty but rather variability.
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Anon01/21/26, 17:42No.3913381
If your character doesn't need to shit then it's not an RPG.
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Anon01/22/26, 01:59No.3913571
>Do you think RPG is one case where becoming more popular has turned against the genre, with games having to be dumbed down for the average player?
That absolutely happened to TTRPGs.
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Anon01/22/26, 06:50No.3913676
No, because the most popular RPGs of all time (DOS2/BG3) are insanely much more complex than literally any predecessor crpg.
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Anon01/22/26, 20:19No.3913964
Yes. But it's only one example of it happening, so at least there's the consolation that it isn't unique. And we also have the benefit of those other examples to teach us how to address the problem: gatekeeping works. Keep the pollution out, then you have no problem.
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Anon01/23/26, 13:24No.3914378
>Behold, a woman!
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Anon01/24/26, 02:21No.3914689
Is it even a question. How do people not notice how every how brain dead normie games are. And that shit has been spilling into rpgs for quite some time. Bioware hit the sweet spot of normieshit and dungeon and dragon DM nerds but that ship sailed a long fucking time ago.