Hi Guys,

I'm wondering when gamedevelopers start making great videogames again and i would especially would like to see a good rpg again instead of those damn shoot em up's.
The thing is although games are visually getting better the core stays the same.
The last game i played was Oblivion; the elder scrolls and although i liked the way you can fight and the endless possibilities the game seemed dead to me and the npc's you interact with are always like go there fetch that, the same way like you would do in breath of fire 5 on the super nintendo.

Same goes for assasins creed once you got the countermove you could take on 20 or more men at a time, also when you had done one city you had them all, when i finished the first mission i knew that the assasins guild master would be the endboss.(My only big question about that game is why it recieved such a high rating by pretty much all reviewers )

Then you had Kotor 1 and 2(knights of the old republic)\
1 had some very irritating bugs but for it's time was a reall good first step, and then there was kotor 2 which was made by obsidian and they basically screwed it up there was no end sequence later i heard that they had to rush it at the end because they didn't make the deadline, so initially i thought it was Lucasarts who forced it upon them.....until i played Neverwinternights 2 which had some serious bugs(special items and/or characters which didn't appear if you walked on the leftside of the right and other trigger bugs like that).

GTA 4 is also not what i expected to see the graphics are really under par, storywise also no surprises.
Very irritating controls i play it on a hd screen and a PS3 and when i'm driving i would like to see what's coming and the standard camera angle is not what i want so i have to correct it constantly with my right analog stick the same goes for doing a drive by you have to steer with the left and aim with the right -analog -stick, this game was also heavily hyped by the critics and my guess is that this was mostly based on graphics/trailers sweet talk of the spokespersons.

The other thing i'm beginning to dislike about rpg's is the fact that leveling/powering -up still abides the dungeon and dragon rules you get to spent points to the attributes you would like, i would like to see a rpg where you level up based on how often you use a technique effectively

The only two games from the past years I enjoyed thoroughly were Thief3 and Final fantasy10.
Thief was great because;
-1- you weren't the all powerfull player, so if you got into a fight with two city guards and you wanted to fight yourself out you'd probably die
-2- great story arch; you hear rumours about an appending evil, knitted together with some reall nice cg cutscenes
-3- great graphics; it has a bit of a surreal cartoony medieval feel to it but trust me it's great.
-4- excellent level design
-5- because you are not all powerfull and you have limited supplies sometimes the suspense of getting caught or not is killing you at times.

final fantasy 10 was great because of the great storytelling and the cutscenes are breathtaking and well balanced gameplay.


Well i looked on the internet to find some new great new RPG/action adventures to play and i was surprised to find out that bioware is making a sequel to KOTOR and somewhere i hoped that they would continue on from KOTOR1 and 2 and maybe do some next gen graphics and for gameplay " borrow" something from fable(starting out as a young boy to an elderly man), a world that changes based on the choices you make if you are darkside you"ll get bleak desolate places lightside the opposite.
More freeroaming, passive powers actually have an effect; so let's say you have a high awareness and/or forceaffinity, the screen begins to shock when something dangerous is about to happen and you have to push a button sequence in order to see a bit into the future using the force to anticipate what's about to happen.
I even send this and other suggestions to improve( in my humble opinion ofcourse)gameplay and to my great surprise they actually answered, but like most of the things in life you don't get the answers you want; they basically said whe are making it an online game like warcraft, but with an individual story...yeah right.
I absolutely hate Online only games, and why you ask?
They go on forever they never have a story , graphics suck(trust me i can go on forever with this).
I"ll wait and see if it becomes anything but i fear the worst.
The other day i saw a game called dragon age origins and Diablo 3 they both promise next gen blablabla(read; salestalk).
I actually saw some gamefootage of dragonage origins and to me it looked a bit stale, but we"ll wait and see i guess.

I hope that in the next years to come there will be some major changes in gamesland(like firing some of those damn suits who determine which game has a high probability of succes based on some graph or chart)...

what do you guys think?