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Originally Posted by fable <snip>
I was at E3 when Diablo was first being shown. Nobody except the Blizzard personnel and especially their PR department believed it was an RPG. But the PR folks started hammering away, with a huge number of ads in stores and magazines.  Blizzard simply wanted to hit two huge markets, action games and RPG players. They knew Diablo was an action title that would sell itself to that market based on features. They had to convince the RPG audience that "black" is "white," and they did so with enough money. |
Excatly, and they won a couple of "RPG game of the year" (or something) awards they could use use in marketing, and spawned a long succession of Action games which have been part in convincing the gameing communities that RPG is killing everything in sight with speed-clicking, as long as you have some skills to assign.
Why oh why couldn't they combine the Adventure genre and the CRPG genre into one (oh yeah, it is cheaper to build a speed-clicking hack*fest). Recently played an Adventure game the other day I hadn't heard of - was not terrible goo, and so very liniar. Imagine combining the tradionally adventure games with the more openness of the CRPGs. Now tha would be nice. But it seems many gamers don't want challenges (other then 10 monsters instead of 5 at the time, and call it an expansion), so that ship has sailed