11th February 2004, 9:51 PM
Irrelevant. That would be like saying that becuase Super Smash Brothers Melee is unlike other Gamecube fighting games, it is unlike previous fighting games... console and PC really aren't THAT different.
And anyway there HAVE been PC-style RPGs on consoles before not quite this type it is true, but PC RPGs... see Morrowind, or if you look older the (admittedly quite different) Wizardry games (some of them, I think... maybe... or maybe they are console-specific, I'm not sure. I've heard that some of the console games are a completely different series from PC Wizardry anyway), or Ultima...
And anyway there HAVE been PC-style RPGs on consoles before not quite this type it is true, but PC RPGs... see Morrowind, or if you look older the (admittedly quite different) Wizardry games (some of them, I think... maybe... or maybe they are console-specific, I'm not sure. I've heard that some of the console games are a completely different series from PC Wizardry anyway), or Ultima...