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Originally Posted by Prowler
What is the RPG equivalent of that? Pokémon?
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Jeeze, things are a little wonky nowadays, but back a decade or two I'd say games like the Ultima series and Elder Scrolls are "REAL" RPGs, vs. the people talking about RPGs who are playing stuff like very simplified JRPGs (the earliest Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy games, and so on).
But things have worked out differently as the years have passed. Some JRPGs are REALLY advanced now (I'd point specifically to something like Dragon Quest XI, which really seems to be the perfection of a tried and true model), but others have just morphed to become semi-interactive movies or music videos, largely becoming even LESS RPG-like than those earliest games on NES or SNES. Conversely, there's barely any PC RPG games anymore.
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Originally Posted by Prowler
Playstation 3's initial high price(699 euros or so here in Europe!) was also a big misfire by Sony. The system had a slow start because of it. And remember the "PS3 has no games" memes back in the day?
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I remember I got my PS3 right away, original model, and it had the full backwards compatibility with PS1 and PS2 games. I even swapped out the hard drive for a much bigger one, successfully. Years into the PS4 I finally sold it on eBay and the winner received it just went, "Doesn't work!" and got fully refunded and eBay wanted me to pay to ship it back to me just so that I then wouldn't be able to resell it because either it got broken in shipping to the guy or the guy is up to something (swapping mine out for another one, or who knows).
I was ready to go to war when that happened.