The first part of the statement may very well be true, or not, we don't know the license owners' opinions on this matter. As for why a developer/license owner might decide to make their game engine o… (View Post)

While CRPGs often pride themselves on having great storytelling, I find that people in general—myself included—tend to gravitate more towards fiction with great iconography and memorable characters r… (View Post)

It was a generalized stand-in for my larger point, which is that typical game marketing considerations involve the gaming industry's creeping graphical fidelity standards, and in most genres also voi… (View Post)

Note I'm taking great care not to generalize, so you shouldn't interpret my statements in any wider a context than what I said. A tendency can affect some games and not affect others. I was mostly re… (View Post)

Notice I didn't set up graphical fidelity and voiceover dependency in opposition to game quality, which is indeed subjective and unmeasurable, but rather to systems complexity and content depth, whic… (View Post)