It is thus that I wanted to take the time to stir up some debate on whether the RPG genre is still relevant in our contemporary gaming, and if it has a future. Though many games now openly use RPG elements at their core, the genre itself is seeing less and less complex role-playing, and more XP bars tacked onto action games. They are often well respected and their influence seems to be everywhere you look but, they are far from their glory days of the past and, it’s painfully obvious that their time will be coming to an end fairly soon. The role playing game, as a genre, falls into the role of the grandparents of video gaming these days.
