13th November 2003, 11:46 AM
Quote:That was my point, you know... that there are American console RPGs made in a console-RPG style... you made it sound like there were none.
No dummy, what I said was that there are console-style RPGs and PC-style RPGs. You can have a console-style RPG on a PC (FFVII, Anachronox) and a PC-style RPG on a console (Morrowind, KOTOR), of course. Yeesh.
Quote:Fine, you aren't saying that. Then you have no point... since you certainly can't say that any of the elements the game combines were invented for that game, or are at all unique. Is it different? Well... not really. I mentioned games that include every gameplay element that matters... many with several. Some come really close. And every (good) game has something that makes it different... AW has some, but it doesn't push the genre or anything. Its just a good, simplistic in design strategy game... a very well done one, but hardly genre-bending or anything.
The Wars games came before any of those PC games that you claimed were "Advance Wars-like"! Just like Phantasy Star came before Anachronox, and since it first appeared on a console and that's where that particular type of RPG thrived, it makes it a console-style RPG!
Gah, this is like arguing with a blind person over whether or not the sky is blue.