Originally Posted by Sozz
Until fairly recently, RPGs were considered niche, I think to a lot of people they still are.

What are you basing Fallout being forgotten on? They seem to be used in plenty of RPG discussions.
Even if for most people they're first exposure to Fallout was the Bethesda era, that still puts the originals into the zeitgeist.
If you talk with average rpg gamer 99% won't know anything about the og fallouts.

I wouldent call rpg's niche they are probably the biggest genre second to shooters. They've been pretty mainstream since mass effect if not before.

Mass Effect made a hell of a bigger impact than the wicher 1 for example.