A reader explains why he doesn’t blame publishers for sticking to tradition and why it’s up to everyone to try something new.
Tradition can be a powerful enemy. It has the potential to ruin almost any institution, but its tyranny is a hard one to overthrow. In video games, as with anything else, fans of a particular series or genre jealously guard any deviation from the norm, while others demand change.
But how do you separate one person’s proven essential from another’s archaic throwback The Japanese role-playing game is one obvious genre defined almost entirely by carefully maintained tradition. Although random battles have finally begun to disappear there’s very little other structural difference between… Read the full story