Agreed. RPG's today is WAY to focused on combat.
That's what I always say.
I fear that this is partly based on violence as being a generally accepted method of resolving problems ... at least, as it seems to me, in the USA, where most developers come from. This resulted in a strong hack & slash tendency in modern RPG games, with monsters being nothing more than cannon-fodder.
I might be wrong on this, but I do ask myself where all this tendency towards combat and violence might come from ... ?
*sigh* I suddenly feel the wish to register in the IGN forums, but I don't know whether it is free there ...
Also, I wished I could put my voice into something where more people would listen to me <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> - and I mainly mean developers and editors.
For example, we NEVER ever hear of RPG games from different countries ! (Those who aren't big in PC business ...) I'm quite sure, some people in Brasil, Italy, India and somwwhere else just develop their own RPG systems and maybe even PC games for them ... why don't we ever see them ? Are editors of magazines THAT focused ?
I'm quite angry about that limited point of view.
You can quote that anytime, if you want. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Alrik
