RPGs to Rule the World | Edge Online
This is part three of our genre-oriented look at the games market in the near future. For our reasoning and methodology behind this series, please check out our first entry on shooters. Part two on action adventures is also available. Today we’re looking at RPGs—an increasingly difficult category to find the borders for, as many, many sorts of games now integrate the genre’s addictive stat-building and inventory mechanics. Much like shooters, it’s probably most appropriate to take a “we know them when we see them” approach to defining the field.
