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<blockquote data-quote="Rygar" data-source="post: 7716261" data-attributes="member: 6756765"><p>I'm having a hard time with this article.</p><p></p><p>1. Record of Lodoss War appears to have launched it's novel series in 1988, the same year that Dragonlance launched its comic book series, and four years after Chronicles was released.</p><p>2. Forgotten Realms comics appear to have launched in 1989.</p><p>3. Record of Lodoss War appears to have it's first "Manga" in 1991.</p><p>4. All of the video games were released between 1988 and 2000 based on Wikipedia, so there hasn't been a video game in 17 years and the last game was on a dead platform.</p><p>5. The MMORPG, as near as I can tell, is a free-to-play game commonly described as a stand-alone browser game.</p><p>6. Doom is estimated to have sold between 2 and 3 million copies according to Wikipedia, Doom 2 a similar number, Doom 2016 sold 3.6 million copies, and that's before we add in Doom 3 and Quake.</p><p></p><p>So I'm struggling with the premise that Record of Lodoss War is more popular than Doom and Quake combined given that it hasn't had a video game made in 17 years, and I'm struggling with the assertion that it did anything new since it seems to have been riding the coattails of successful TSR projects like Dungeon (Since it's really just a transcript of a dungeon in a magazine) and Dragonlance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rygar, post: 7716261, member: 6756765"] I'm having a hard time with this article. 1. Record of Lodoss War appears to have launched it's novel series in 1988, the same year that Dragonlance launched its comic book series, and four years after Chronicles was released. 2. Forgotten Realms comics appear to have launched in 1989. 3. Record of Lodoss War appears to have it's first "Manga" in 1991. 4. All of the video games were released between 1988 and 2000 based on Wikipedia, so there hasn't been a video game in 17 years and the last game was on a dead platform. 5. The MMORPG, as near as I can tell, is a free-to-play game commonly described as a stand-alone browser game. 6. Doom is estimated to have sold between 2 and 3 million copies according to Wikipedia, Doom 2 a similar number, Doom 2016 sold 3.6 million copies, and that's before we add in Doom 3 and Quake. So I'm struggling with the premise that Record of Lodoss War is more popular than Doom and Quake combined given that it hasn't had a video game made in 17 years, and I'm struggling with the assertion that it did anything new since it seems to have been riding the coattails of successful TSR projects like Dungeon (Since it's really just a transcript of a dungeon in a magazine) and Dragonlance. [/QUOTE]
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