LogFAQs > #936754354

A different kind of revolution, but well, Breath of the Wild.

I actually think GameFAQs would love Disco Elysium. It is an in-depth narrative-driven RPG that takes itself seriously and got s great reception. We saw it look great in that PC poll. What holds it back is the fact that it is just too recent, and is PC only. Do the match again in 5 years, Disco likely takes it. It is just too soon though.

BotW isn't nearly as revolutionary as Disco Elysium. I'm saying this as someone who's balls deep into RPG design: DE is so fucking important it's causing people to reevaluate how they do their games in an entire different medium (tabletop RPGs, if you're curious). There have been other open world adventure RPGs before Breath of the Wild, and there will be more after it that will take little influence from it. It innovates Zelda, but it only innovates Zelda. DE is like the Metroid Prime or Halo of its genre in how it sets an entirely new standard that can't be ignored. The closest thing to how deeply it gives weight to everything you do is Alpha Protocol, and Alpha Protocol had absolutely zero lasting legacy. There's just...like, I'm trying to think of a comparison to explain how out there that game is in what it does and I'm failing, partly because it's the wee hours of the morning, but also because there's no way to match its technical and conceptual achivements to games that are still playing around with conventions set up in previous decades. It's a complete alien, and that's what dooms it. Look at how Undertale did even before it got rallied in the previous games contest and that's about DE's ceiling, because that's probably the most similar game in terms of impact.

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Shine on, you crazy diamond.