/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7791280
It fucks me up how N64 has a fuckton of racing and first person shooter games but little to no RPGs. Besides the obvious with the Square falling out, why was that? Did Yamauchi have a say in not allowing certain types of RPGs to get made? Was it because it didnt explore 3D enough the way a shooter or racer did? I thought the Shining Force games on Saturn showed you could still make wonderful 3D animations for an RPG. I mean fuck, they even deliberately made the only Nintendo RPG a Mario game with 2D sprites instead of 3D models (Paper Mario). Zoomers may praise that game to heave , and it is indeed good, but a lot of people thought it looked lame back in the day. I personally wanted a 3D followup to SMRPG, but thats all in the past now.