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Message: [QUOTE="SkunkyBeaumont, post: 37137, member: 20390"] Just because there are a lot of games doesn't mean they aren't throwbacks. If you look at the SNES, that's the System that Gave us the ATB system on a whopping 4 games, the Linear Battle System for Tales of Phantasia, and whatever the Star Ocean battle system was called. Even blobbers had been moving towards real time implementations of their systems since Dungeon Master. Throwback is not a bad term, but even back then, Dragon Quest was playing up the "Traditional RPG elements" . I mean, even on the NES, you had Chronicle of Radia Wars, Ys, River City Ranson, Dungeon Magic, and other such action and real time RPGs innovating the landscape. Not calling them bad games, but even at the time, tradittonal RPGs with turn based mechanics were throwbacks to a previous era, and also weren't super popular at the time in the west, which is why we got Mystic Quest instead of FInal Fantasy 5. The Japanese companies thought westerners were too stupid to figure out their games. [/QUOTE]

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