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Message: [QUOTE="What's His Face, post: 36839, member: 125725"] The same could be said of any genre, though. Racing? Pretty much the same today as it was in 1992. Fighting? You get more stuff added in like Roman Cancels, Tag, etc...but it's still punch the other dude to deplete their lifebar first. Action games? Some games place emphasis on stealth or dodging over "punch/shoot/etc. everything rapidly" over other games, but at the end of the day Ninja Gaiden 2 Sigma is very similar to Ninja Gaiden 2 just with a new dimension and some extra gimmicks. That's the thing. There really hasn't been much in the way of "innovation" in the last 30 years, just new gimmicks added to old concepts to make it look/feel/play "fresh." That said, to say that the RPG genre hasn't "innovated" as much as other genres in the last 30 years is fallacious. There have been just as many gimmicks created for the RPG genre than there has been for any other genre. The issue most non-RPG players have in noticing these 'freshen-ups' is that they don't play RPGs outside the biggest of the big-brand releases to notice. [/QUOTE]

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