Well, Board 8 places too much priority on RPGs, and as a result other genres get the shaft.
Board 8 is a lot less RPG-centric than it used to be. Lately, the only RPG I've heard a lot of hype for is Xenoblade (possibly also Vesperia depending on your definition of recent).
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another place and time, without a great divide, and we could be flying deadly high