LogFAQs > #938920190

On the subject of the Western SFF thing, I think I have my own theory for it. It's not Western SFF, it's WRPG SFF. Or Open World SFF. You know, the genre that has doninated gaming this decade.

AC is not an RPG I think but it's open world. ME3 is a WRPG. God of War is an action series turned WRPG. Skyrim? WRPG.

That means other types of games might escape SFF from Witcher even if they are western. Problem is, I don't know what other western games can even be revelant on gameFAQs (shooters? MOBAs? LOL). All relevant ones are WRPGs and Witcher can SFF them just like Link will SFF Nintendo games and Final Fantasy will SFF other JRPGs.

I guess it's also kind of the fault of industry because after Skyrim they decided every game needed to be some open world thing with RPG elements. At least the single-player ones, but we don't care about the competitive multiplayer franchises here. The indies tend to show more variety, but they have a ceiling here too.

So yeah Geraldo dominates because he is the best game of the only western genre that is not complete fodder in this site.