This is surely one of the crown jewel within the Escapist's enormous treasury of misleading titles. Again, can we please get actual gaming news without incredibly obvious attempts at creating uninformed controversy?
The man said that the strict RPG genre was dying, which is undeniably true. RPG elements are being incorporated into more and more games and we're seeing almost all of the core elements of the genre showing up all over the place, but they're not all wrapped up in an isometric third-person turn-based fantasy game. This is probably a good thing - you only find a creative take on the isometric third-person turn-based fantasy game so often. And it's not like Bioware is turning on its fans or anything - they've been working primarily on genre-blending games for quite a while now.
The man said that the strict RPG genre was dying, which is undeniably true. RPG elements are being incorporated into more and more games and we're seeing almost all of the core elements of the genre showing up all over the place, but they're not all wrapped up in an isometric third-person turn-based fantasy game. This is probably a good thing - you only find a creative take on the isometric third-person turn-based fantasy game so often. And it's not like Bioware is turning on its fans or anything - they've been working primarily on genre-blending games for quite a while now.
