Which RPG has been the most revolutionary RPG of this generation? Now the thing is I am caught at a crossroads. There have been so many of them. Well let me start by naming a few. World of Warcraft. Now this game has jump started the MMO business. After this game came out it got millions of people hooked and addicted. It has told people that MMOes can be largely successfull if they are done right. Then we have the game that won over 40 Game of the Year awards for best RPG in 2003. Yup you guessed it, Knights of the Old Republic. This game had a great story with great game mechanics and a fantastic setting to explore. The object I want to point out in this game is the depth of the story. Now being able to choose whether you would be good or evil in the end was completely new and different. Now we also have Final Fantasy X which is a game with a great story and a unique turned based combat system. This game has an epic feel and has so many countless hours of play. Well I call on you to decide which game hase revolutionized this generation of RPGs. You can even include your own thoughts on which RPG has been the most revolutionary.

Err, define 'this generation'. Are we talking about the current generation of game consoles, this generation as in the last ‘x’ years, this generation as in generation Y? Kind of ambiguous...

I am talking about the game console generation Xbox, PS2, GC, from 2001-2006.

Then the answer is that there hasn't been anything revolutionary. Think about the things you listed. World of Warcraft took a bunch of concepts from existing MMORPGs and combined the best into a single package. It didn't really do anything new. It just did everything well.

KOTOR was built on the same type of gameplay and character development that PC games have seen for years. The only thing that was really amazing about it, aside from its obvious quality, is the fact that it took so long for console games to catch up.

And then Final Fantasy X presented absolutely NOTHING new. And on top of that, its status as an RPG is questionable at best.

Frankly, there's been nothing new in the RPG genre in a long time. The last one that you could reasonably call revolutionary in any sense was the original Baldur's Gate.

Cant say there has been anything revolutionary but there have still been good RPG games,ill wait for FFXII if thats not the revolutionary title japan has been going on about for all the months they've hogged it then nah there hasnt realy been anythign revolutionary this generation thats quite depressing......

nonsense i want to play GRIII anytime...

Now being able to choose whether you would be good or evil in the end was completely new and different.

This has been in console RPGs since the SNES as far as I know, probably actually before that.

...examples being?

Shin Megami Tensei, as well as SLGs(which usually have all the same elements as console RPGs) like Tactics Ogre and Der Langrisser.You're more likely to find it in the latter type of game as the paths are easier to organize, I'm guessing. The Growlanser games may also have different paths like that, but I don't know as I could not stomach playing them for long. And it should go without saying that these things are not implemented in the same ways that PC developers used.

This has been in console RPGs since the SNES as far as I know, probably actually before that.

Bit of a misquote there, methinks, considering that I didn't say that.

Fixed it. Probably I was going to respond to something in your post initially(I think I was going to say that console games didn't "catch up" so much as a PC developer made a game for a console... or something like that) but decided to respond to the first post instead and just switched out the text in the quote box.

I have to agree with what's been said. Nothing revolutionary if you ask me. Just more of the same, different music, other characters, same RPGs.

Nothing has been revolutionary since the PS1 or N64 as far as console RPGs go.

OH MY FINAL FANTASY X WAS SO REVOLUTIONARY B/C THEY INTRODUCE MALE CHARACTERS WHO LOOK LIKE WOMEN BUT ARE REALLY MEN imo

OH MY FINAL FANTASY X WAS SO REVOLUTIONARY B/C THEY INTRODUCE MALE CHARACTERS WHO LOOK LIKE WOMEN BUT ARE REALLY MEN imo

how about elder scrolls? they introduced the first massive non-linear single player rpg(i think). i am not really sure, correct me if i am wrong.

Reviving a 10 month old thread. Bad idea.
Ensuing backlash. Insurmountable.
Quoting Garamond. Not a bad idea.

Time to show my age. if the whole 2001-2006 thing can be ignored for just a moment then the most revolutionary RPG has to @Of Dungeons and Green Men' for the spectrum. it introduced the whole concept of lateral thinking and puzzle solving aswell as an extendable story line since Your Sinclair magazine had new levels and add-ons every month on its free tape.

There hasn't been anything 'revolutionary' since Final Fantasy 7. FF7 isn't the best but it was the last revolutionary.

well ff7 was the best and in my opinion still is.

FFXII was the most revolutionary, I mean a new battle system, Techniques that blow ass, magic that you'll barely use. and a gambit system that means all you have to do is get close and it's pwning time. Also, they stole so much from star wars it's crazy, revolt against the empire, and crazy old time dialect.

What the shit....

Things have changed alot since this thread was created (XboX 360/Wii/PS3/DS/PSP).

No point in reviving this as the debate is aobut 2001-2006.

Bye bye.