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Message: [QUOTE="Strategist, post: 166019, member: 767"] But by your own admission, the limitations of the NES affect both turn based and action games. The choice was make a limited RPG game or make a limited action game. Its not like the NES RPGs were dramatically better than the action versions. Perhaps they could better convey a sense of scale with the pulled out map and exploration, but that's about it. That is true, but the sprite limit affects turn based RPGs equally, especially those like Final Fantasy where there's some amount of animation to the characters. Yeah, that is true. The effects are more impressive in early RPGs than action games because of the non-real time factor. They are essentially FMVs being played while the player is gaming. It could be argued that the FMV style of PS1 games is a detriment, but I see your point. I think by the PS2 era, action games were starting to have equally impressive graphics as the turn based ones though. That is true, but I'd argue that from the PS2 era on, they probably could've done away with those games and they didn't. I feel like it is a self defeating prophecy. Whenever a turn based game comes out and it is well made and has some impressive visuals behind it, it generally sells well. If it is just a middle of the road game like many we've seen before or some nostalgia bait, then perhaps that is true. [/QUOTE]

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