>>3993458 Sea of Stars? Yeah the game is rancid shit. I tried so hard to give it a chance since the graphics are legit like really high quality and the music was fine. Fucking hell the story and gameplay were ass though.
>>3993458 That's because the entire genre of RPG's has stepped away from its tabletop roots, become worse, and why incidentally JRPG's are less pure and less RPG. It goes: Books/Wargames/Fantasy>Tabletop>RPGS(like wizardry and early ones)>JRPGs>Modern RPG's The only way to save RPG's is draw inspiration from Tabletop and the original inspirations for tabletop, Videogames RPG's really should simulate the tabletop gameplay experience but faster since the computer can do all the math and book referencing in seconds.
>>3993486 A bunch of fan games used to be inspired by Earthbound, but now that Undertale is more than 10 years old, the new indie devs of today are inspired by it instead. Some of that secondhand quirks come through, but it's like a copy of a copy, in terms of degradation of ideas.
>>3993527 They were definitely an important step. TTRPG's didn't evolve from a singular source but wargames were absolutely an influence alongside all the other board games that were being made last century by the likes of Hasbro.
>>3993686 x files is the x files but good except when monica reyes is on screen or diane fowley or early season Krychek or Marita Gimubtas and the movies and season six and the revivals
>>3993462 The only things Sea of Slop emulated from CT were the map based encounters and combo techs. Along w/ hiring Mitsuda for a cameo track (which was pretty mediocre too) Only nostalgiafags who easily gets FOMO over the newest trendy thing get riled up playing it