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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: MysterD on Saturday, April 17, 2010, 07:09:24 AM
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RPGCodex looks at the RPG's of the last 10 years - from 2000 to current year of 2010 (so far).
And they even have opinions of Game Designers of what RPG's they liked best of the last decade. (http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=200)
Michal Madej of UbiSoft (formerly w/ CD Project) really puts things in perspective of the evolution of the RPG in the last 10 years, if you ask me.
Michal Madej (The Witcher, Ubisoft Shanghai's RPG)
http://www.ubi.com
Published in 2000, Deus Ex was a forecast for the whole decade, the most influential title and an omen of incoming changes. Even excellent games that tried to stick to "the old-ways", like the remarkable Arcanum, simply went extinct.
There were, however, titles that learned the lesson - with Vampire: Bloodlines being probably the most brilliant RPG design of decade, which strongly influenced The Witcher as well.
Eventually, Mass Effect 2, a direct descendant of the aforementioned titles opened a new decade with a perfected design of the next generation of RPG experience.