Post #3885945
2026-07-17 13:25 UTC
It broke inertia in a genre that had been struggling for a long time. A lot of folks have mentioned games like Super Mario RPG which was the last SNES Squaresoft game.
With the Square-Enix merger the franchises of the companies kinda merged together alongside adopting the innovations of MMORPGs.
And so the turn based RPG fell along the wayside, much like the RTS, until E33 renewed interest. So I think E33 is important for what it represents: the viability of a once popular genre ignored by major studios. There’d been smaller time pixel art games, but that was the sort od timecapsule realm it was stuck in.
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@OmegaMouse@pawb.social 2026-07-17 13:36
Absolutely, it’s great to see smaller studios trying something new with a traditional format; an F-you to the AAA studios that have grown lazy. And I hope it kickstarts more innovation in similar games going forward.
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@prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-17 13:47
Maybe in the US. I’m pretty sure they still have a literal holiday in Japan whenever a Dragon Quest game is released