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GameSpot's new Freeplay editorial series sees one titled To Infinity Engine--And Beyond!, which embraces BioWare/Black Isle's Inifinity Engine as the best RPG engine of all time and bemoans the lack of non-action RPGs in the pipeline:The computer RPG market has always been an interesting one, although now it seems to be in decline, at least when we discount massively multiplayer online games. Many of the upcoming RPGs are either pure real-time affairs, such as Oblivion, or Diablo-esque action RPGs, such as Titan Quest and Hellgate: London. Heck, even the Dungeons & Dragons-licensed games are shifting away from the system's turn-based roots, with games like Dungeons & Dragons Online being a real-time MMO game and Dragonshard being an real-time strategy game. Only Neverwinter Nights 2 seems to be holding to a strict interpretation of the d20 system (pauseable real-time play notwithstanding). Tell us something we don't know. The games industry obviously didn't get the memo that said "the BG series sold 5 million copies -- go make more games like this". | Source: RPG Codex |
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