If someone was to tell me that the whole RPG genre was just a big ruse that everybody has been in on for years, I wouldn’t be surprised. Now I know I should paint every game with the same brush but after playing Yakuza 3 I’m struggling to find the appeal.

I’m just wandering between point A and Point B trigging the next 10 minutes of tedious conversation, while asking myself when does the fun happen. I’m all for narrative and character development in games but surely we’ve found a better way of telling a story in game than pressing x for the next line of dialogue.

Apart from Pokemon, which has a collectors appeal to it, I can’t name a single RPG that I’ve really thought Oh I get it. Maybe I just haven’t played the right one yet, maybe I’ve just had horrendous bad luck but the more I play, the more I doubt it.