It’s sad when every person in the comments knows more about games and is far more informative and well-versed on the topic than the professional getting paid to write about games for a living...

At the Stockholm Airport, there’s a charity-run Space Invaders machine that accepts any currency, paper or coin, to play a game. It’s the equivalent of those “donate your foreign currency” stations at airports, but with video games! It’s awesome.

The scales of the models being near identical was the most damning evidence of plagiarism against Palworld

*woosh*

Not unlike an RPG

Wow, that just went WAY over your head at high speed.

This seems more like a “RPGs of 2023" list than a “Best RPGs of 2023" list.

To quote myself here: “I was primarily referring to RPGs with prerendered backgrounds.” Skyboxes are a totally different thing. And RPGs with prerendered backgrounds have static cameras. That picture is a fan made high res image of Final Fantasy 7 which had static prerendered 2D backgrounds way back on the PS1.…

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:

I think the issue is outside of Dragon Quest, Persona, and various remake/indy efforts, most RPG franchises have moved away from pure turn-based systems.

I don’t see it

I feel like there were a lot of indie games and remakes of classics keeping the genre alive, Dragon Quest is always reliable, and there was Octopath.

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

I never understood why when developers are given the power to create more elaborate and beautiful 2D art than ever before they feel the need to turn everything 3D. It’s definitely gotten better in recent years, but while I’m still loving the FF7R series so far, I’m still waiting for this. It would be a fraction of the…

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.

I have a Steam folder called “Never Again.”

Sea of Stars is what I expected all of Square’s “Project” games to be, but they keep falling short. Not sure why an indie studio who has never made an RPG before can capture the magic and nostalgia better than Square can.

I know this will sound really dunb but I beleive Bethsoft wouldve been more succesful if they took on rebuilding the Battletech Universe.

Hopefully the characters are in the minifig format and not something weird like the Mario stuff!

It’s literally an HD version of the original game’s art.  I love it.