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Arcane
The problem is all the fags who wanted to "take RPG design to the next level" (of gayness).
NOTHING needed to change in the first place. Old-school blobbers and Gold Box games were 100% fine, they just needed cleaner graphics and interfaces.
GB games were not fine*; they lacked variety, character customization and monster AI. But if you miss the GB games there hundreds of FRUA modules to play.
Blobbers were fine but degenerated into casual games like MM3-5 and single character games like Anvil of Dawn.
It's obvious I was saying that the template of those games was good. Pure game play, no hand holding, no "cinematic story".
I'm not interested in a game designer's pseudo-philosophical ramblings. Write a book and leave us the hell alone.