5th September 2005, 8:26 PM
Does Illusion of Gaia count? That's more of an action game, but it was still awesome.
But, you are a bit premature to say that the SNES's power is what allowed for those games. Surely they wouldn't look or sound as good, and some aspects couldn't be done, namely the sheer number of sprites bit, but the main components of all of those games could be done on the NES. Case in point: Mother.
I submit the most likely reason the SNES is where they got so great is because game makers themselves had progressed, as well as the tools they used (programming languages). Game makers already had the concept of how to make an RPG under their belts when it came time to make some new ones. Not only that, they had some existing code to work with so they had the time to work on new code as well.
But, you are a bit premature to say that the SNES's power is what allowed for those games. Surely they wouldn't look or sound as good, and some aspects couldn't be done, namely the sheer number of sprites bit, but the main components of all of those games could be done on the NES. Case in point: Mother.
I submit the most likely reason the SNES is where they got so great is because game makers themselves had progressed, as well as the tools they used (programming languages). Game makers already had the concept of how to make an RPG under their belts when it came time to make some new ones. Not only that, they had some existing code to work with so they had the time to work on new code as well.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)