>>22083648Etrian Odyssey gets the exploration shit down and has hard difficulty that will make people happy, but the latest games have been just as disappointing as the latest Pokemon games, and now they're adding DLC shit. Here's hoping Etrian Mystery Dungeon is better than that shitpile Gates to Infinity.
But even more fundamentally, EO cannot fill the gap that Pokemon will leave behind if Pokemon games continue to get worse. Even putting aside the monster-collecting elements, EO was a revival of first-person dungeon crawling RPGs, whereas Pokemon is a third-person road trip RPG, a genre that currently is basically limited to only Pokemon and little else. The only real upcoming game in the genre I can think of is Mother 4.
Anyway if anything ORAS makes the modern games look like shit because it reminds you of how complex Hoenn's map is compared to the other games, even with the shitty optional/forced teleport-to-skip-exploration moments they added in for casuals.
