Originally Posted by magerette
Somewhat off-topic, as crpg players who have heard about the niche, declining, dead crpg market ad nauseum, some may find this post by one of the Iron Lore developers a bit ironic; he mentions the "ARPG" as a dying genre…that the heyday of the top-down action rpg is over because of—yes, folks—the boundless eye-candy-infested, limitless world of Oblivion:

That is 'funny' how one of the top rated games in the most popular sub-genre of RPG is complaining like this.