My least favorite Christmas gift ever was a slideshow.

I can’t wait for us to get past this whole point. It isn’t going anywhere and won’t be regulated away. I still remember how up in arms everyone one was about how digital art was going to ruin the entire industry. A decade or two from now & an article like this will seem even sillier than it currently does. Adapt or…

I know there’s at least some people who enjoy Starfield, but to me it’s a classic case of “do the least effort possible because we have enough goodwill that we can get away with it”.

Will these updates be enough to turn fan sentiment around? Well, in a world where Cyberpunk 2077 literally won an award for getting its act together, it’s not entirely implausible.

Only if all you played was FF games.

“critics and audiences had largely soured”

People really need to specify when they’re referring to JRPGs. Persona 5 didn’t revive turn-based RPGs. It came out in April 2017. Turn-based RPGs that came out in the years preceding it include:

ah yeah that game that starts with “teachers getting sexual with students is bad” leading into “but it’s totally okay if it’s a lady teacher dating your boy protagonist” while treating queer people like jokes

There aren’t more or less turn based RPGs than when Persona 5 came out. It didn’t save the genre, and also the genre wasn’t really dying. Persona 5 is fine, but this reads like it came from one of those hyperbolid Persona 5 fans who need to play another game.

This article is so aggressively american that its’ almost racist. ‘a floundering genre.’ There were dozens of turn based RPGs before and after P5.

P5 had a great soundtrack but was a terrible game. Those mindless interrogation scenes were such a dumb chore.

I was very disappointed in Persona 5, especially after playing Persona 4 which is still my favorite game in the series. A lot of that is that I found the writing to be way worse than the previous games. I know there was a whole hubbub about the translation of the Japanese script, but I felt it really lacked that…

I freaking love Persona 5. But it is wildly hyperbolic to claim it saved the genre

Okay, but like... *dying*? Just a wee bit hyperbolic, innit? lol

Not really. A “ticking clock” is not the same as making deliberate decisions about what to do with each day visual novel style. There’s no clocking ticking as you take however long you want exploring all the possible options open to you before deciding on what to do to pass the time. Spend time with someone or upgrade…

And are we supposed to pretend like Persona 4 and P4G were abject failures?

It was a “dying genre” because all gaming sites including this one (gaming used loosely for kotaku), keep prattling on about how turn based games need to go away and be a thing of the past, ignoring the huge amount of gamers who love turn based rpgs

I’m honestly a little flabbergasted that somebody could talk about the state of turn-based RPGs in 2017 and not even mention Dragon Quest XI.

100%. The fact that it was only available where it was marketable means it was purely a business decision and not a moral one. 

Saying the Pride event “wasn’t perfect” is being way too charitable. As a trans person, it’s the reason I uninstalled the game for good after years of actively playing it, because Blizzard made the event unavailable in countries like Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Hungary and Romania. What’s the point of Pride if it’s…