Bravely Default has been heralded as one of the best RPGs available on the 3DS, and one reviewer has even called it a better Final Fantasy than Final Fantasy. It’s won Gamespot’s 3DS Game of the Year for 2014, and yet, a quick Google search for Bravely Default will reveal that this game is not as universally loved as its high praise and (3DS) Game of the Year award might suggest (see: keenandgraev, Kotaku, Reddit).
Bravely Default has been heralded as one of the best RPGs available on the 3DS, and one reviewer has even called it a better Final Fantasy than Final Fantasy. It’s won Gamespot’s 3DS Game of the Year for 2014, and yet, a quick Google search for Bravely Default will reveal that this game is not as universally loved as its high praise and (3DS) Game of the Year award might suggest (see: keenandgraev, Kotaku, Reddit).
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Recently, I was lucky enough to ask some questions the Lead Developer of Project Nimbus - Pawee Pakamekanon. Project Nimbus is a fast-paced, action mech game, in which the player takes to the skies to battle in a post-apocalyptic world. The project began as a Kickstarter, which finished in January 2014, raising $17,000, and is now advancing through Early Access on Steam.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was released nearly nine years ago, (Raise your hands if you can’t believe it’s been that long.) At the time, the fourth installment of the franchise was seen as groundbreaking, and a promise of the great things to come in the early days of Seventh Generation gaming. They were right. The Seventh Generation of games saw publishers finally start to fully utilize many of the technological and narrative innovations made during the 5th and 6th Gen of games. Bethesda itself brought us Fallout 3 and Skyrim, which were built on what was done with Oblivion. I love role-playing games, both the tabletop kind and the video games. They are my favorite genre, but that will never be true for the majority of gamers. No one thing is for everybody, and what we like is ultimately subjective, but some things will always be more popular than others regardless of relative quality. Linear and uncomplicated games will always win out over RPGs, in the long run. It’s like any other aspect of pop culture where boy bands like the Backstreet Boys outsell bands like Iron Maiden.
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