RPGs are the worst genre of the worst kind. They're treated

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RPGs are the worst genre of the worst kind. They're treated as being complex when the most 'complex' ones rely on either hiding its mechanics from the player or being grind/RNG/ oriented.

People yearn and wriggle for the lack of traditional turn based RPGs, but to anyone who's played them it is of no confusion why they're slowly going away. The nature of the games rely on pure numbers with only visuals and a story (always shit to mediocre) to accompany them.


Fans of the genre will tell you they're strategy based, but that is far from the truth. Strategy boils down to figuring out how the mechanics work and then using the most obvious and clear cut way to go about encounters and bosses. This is the reason even "difficult" RPGs are only difficult at the beginning and far easier with spikes for bosses.

So if the gameplay is generally terrible what and the writing is only 'good' by video game standards, what's left? Visuals. You need to look no further than Darkest Dungeon and Persona a like to see that pretty presentation is all that matters for the traditional turn based rpg and it's of no surprise that people have moved towards ARPGs and SRPGs. CRPGs are the same, except with visuals there's more emphasis on sub par writing and the illusion of choice.

CRPGs have been revived, but only temporarily, as now people have already seen the cracks in them thanks to Pillars and Divinity. Namely mediocre to terrible gameplay, verbose text, and the game being a virtual CYOA book. Also, JRPGs are as much as an RPG as Borderlands is.