Fantasy Games are Dying

Now more than ever, there is a severe lack of fantasy games in development. What used to be an entire sub-genre has now been whittled down to a couple specific games.

[snakeeatingmouse]

approved...with a tear in my eye :(

[Tanir]

more like the devs are over saturating shooters and forgetting about fantasy games,

[Megaman_nerd]

they are just taking a rest. ;)

[slayorofgods]

Has anyone heard of a game called Skyrim?

[_Aarix_]

Has anyone ever heard of legend of dragoon....didn't think so.

[slayorofgods]

It's from the ps1 era. You have to be old enough.

@_Aarix_
Did you miss my sarcasm? Why attack such a great classic.

[_Aarix_]

Oh I was using counter sarcasm..you used a title everyone heard of thinking no ones heard of it and I actually used a game no one heard about. Lod is my most cherished rpg of all time.

[despair]

*sigh* so true....

[kma2k]

I would actaully expect with the masive sales numbers that skyrim has put up that we could see a resurgence of the fantasy games. I mean come on its the most played game on live this month. Second most sold to MW3 that is really saying something.

[ShoryukenII]

If they start making RPGs because of Skyrim, that won't be good because they'll just copy Skyrim like they copy CoD. I want developers that actually want to make RPGs to make RPGs like the developers of Dark Souls, The Witcher and Skyrim. We don't need any fakes jumping on the bandwagon (not that there is much of one).

[slayorofgods]

Developers always do this... Its all about the money. Yes the FPS craze has produced some games that lack creativity, but this isn't always true. The Final Fantasy craze(FF7 - FF10) produced some solid rpg's. For example, the legend of dragoon was only produced by Sony to dip into the Final Fantasy market and turned out to be a very solid game.

I feel a little more optimistic a TES craze, and at least there will be one less FPS game made for the sake of making money.

[jacksonmichael]

Well... we've probably got some Phoenix Downs around here somewhere...

[ShoryukenII]

There is never enough of that crap.

[urwifeminder]

Its because the medievil dragon obsession is as predictable cod,im really enjoying the witcher as it is slavic mythology not the typical king arthur lord of the rings style rpg just a bit more original, give us a greek or roman maybe egyption rpg .

[ShoryukenII]

I agree with this. They don't all have to be like medieval. I liked Skyrim because it had a Viking feel to it even if it was medieval. Dark Souls was great because it was very well executed. I just don't want all RPGs to go medieval like FPS's go gung-ho, hoo-rah American.

[jneul]

egyptian rpg, lol call me a drake and ill be there lol

[urwifeminder]

Not sure why you want to be called a male duck but they could have ducks in my egyptian rpg from slave to god a humble nubian slave rises.

[Bathyj]

...he says as he completes his 89th hour of Skyrim.

[D3mons0ul]

Non gamers took over

[sxbrady]

Fantasy is soooo boring. Skyrim and a few others are good but other then that let it die!

[D3mons0ul]

Let it die? Let you die, how about that? You don't even have to play them yet you seem to complain that they even exist.

[sxbrady]

Wow loser get upset over a comment on the interwebs!
Why don't you get your 20 sided dye and your wizard's cap your mom made you and go fuck your self basement dweller!

[Canary]

Fantasy is far from dying. It's one of the most cliched, over-used setting in the industry today... and has been for several decades.

This year alone has seen:

Atelier Totori
Dark Souls
Dragon Age II
Dungeon Siege 3
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Heroes of Might & Magic VI
Radiant Historia
Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny

And those are just the few off my head that happen to be BOTH initial releases AND archetypal high-fantasy. Expand that list to fanstasy, period, and we include stuff like Skyward Sword, Ar Tonelico, Catherine, Disgaea, Enslaved, Ghost Trick, and many, many more.

Saying that fantasy games are dying is about as ignorant a thing to say as I can imagine, right up there with claiming the RTS is still going strong, the FPS games are dying, or that there are too few snary, short-brown-haired-thirty-some thing protagonists in the medium.

Basically, it's pretty ****ing stupid.
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