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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6256300" data-attributes="member: 82106">X-Com, an early 90's title that failed to garner enough interest to keep Micropose afloat. Ironically Hasbro owned this title and sold it to Atari, who then resolutely refused to release any sort of decent D&amp;D title for years... Admittedly its the one exception, this game has had modest success in the last couple years.Valkyria Chronicles is a stretch to call a CRPG, its more of a turn-based tactical wargame with a thin veneer of plot. It also kinda sank without a trace and hasn't resurfaced in what 6 years?Wasteland 2 is the sequel to a game published in 1988, AND is famously vaporware. Torment: Tides of Numenera is a sister game of Wasteland 2, also not released, though presumably it will be. Honestly, I don't even know enough about either of these games to clearly state that they ARE turn-based, but we'll just give you the benefit of the doubt here.Civilization - This isn't a CRPG.Warlock was released 19 years ago, it hardly proves anything.Total War is not IMHO anything like a CRPG. First of all its only partially turn-based, the tactical part of the game is an RTS that's grafted onto a turn based campaign war game. The RP aspects are minimal plot gloss. So, basically what we have is X-Com with 3 releases and 2 games that may or may not be turn-based CRPGs that haven't been released yet, one of which appears to be vapor. Its basically a dead genre. There's JUST enough interest that every few years it feebly attempts to rise from the dead, only to shuffle back off into the great beyond after one or two minor releases. Of course its always possible someone could do a D&amp;D turn-based CRPG again at some point. Its not even that far-fetched, but IMHO its still unlikely.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6256300, member: 82106"] X-Com, an early 90's title that failed to garner enough interest to keep Micropose afloat. Ironically Hasbro owned this title and sold it to Atari, who then resolutely refused to release any sort of decent D&D title for years... Admittedly its the one exception, this game has had modest success in the last couple years. Valkyria Chronicles is a stretch to call a CRPG, its more of a turn-based tactical wargame with a thin veneer of plot. It also kinda sank without a trace and hasn't resurfaced in what 6 years? Wasteland 2 is the sequel to a game published in 1988, AND is famously vaporware. [I]Torment: Tides of Numenera is a sister game of Wasteland 2, also not released, though presumably it will be. [/I]Honestly, I don't even know enough about either of these games to clearly state that they ARE turn-based, but we'll just give you the benefit of the doubt here. Civilization - This isn't a CRPG. Warlock was released 19 years ago, it hardly proves anything. Total War is not IMHO anything like a CRPG. First of all its only partially turn-based, the tactical part of the game is an RTS that's grafted onto a turn based campaign war game. The RP aspects are minimal plot gloss. So, basically what we have is X-Com with 3 releases and 2 games that may or may not be turn-based CRPGs that haven't been released yet, one of which appears to be vapor. Its basically a dead genre. There's JUST enough interest that every few years it feebly attempts to rise from the dead, only to shuffle back off into the great beyond after one or two minor releases. Of course its always possible someone could do a D&D turn-based CRPG again at some point. Its not even that far-fetched, but IMHO its still unlikely. [/QUOTE]

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