4Player-"An anime convention was held a couple weeks ago not far from where I live. While I admit cosplay/anime aren't taking up my time like the sweet sweet nectar of video games are, I stood in line for two hours to get a one-day pass for a Q&A panel with Nobuo Uematsu. Uematsu is the composer of nearly all music in the Final Fantasy series, and a very popular composer of other games in the industry.
All of the conversation below is verbatim from Uematsu's translator."
Chirag Pattni talks about the prominence of the RPG genre in gaming. The different types of RPGs available and how the genre is influencing many games.
Now a days many role playing games don't have that much role playing in them
I don't consider every game that has experience points and a skill tree an RPG. Borderlands 3 is not an RPG, stop trying to shoehorn it into that category. It is as much an RPG as Diablo 3 is an RPG -- news flash, Diablo 3 is NOT an RPG and I wouldn't even call it an Action RPG. It's a hack and slash random loot game, and Borderlands 3 is a first person shooter/looter game.
Always been my favorite genre. I think that really sparked way back when with Planescape:Torment, then Morrowind, Kotor, New Vegas, etc.
Now we're in the sort of Renaissance of classical crpgs with games like Pillars, Tyranny, Wasteland, and the coming Baldur's Gate.
Good times.
Twinfinite Writes: Final Fantasy games have always been known for having both memorable stories and characters. But some character archetypes seem to be a mold used many times.
Summons are some of the most powerful and impressive attacks in Final Fantasy games. Which ones from the series are the best though?
Distant Worlds will hit up Vancouver on April 23. Anyone in the area going?
This guy has been the sound track through my 90's and early 2000 video game memories and I have a lot of his song on my ipod.
Breezy from FF 8 is simple but a wonderful piece and my personal favorite.