Agreed. 100%. I'll take my ballsy Gothic/Elder Scrolls/Baldurs Gate/Wizardry/Ultima over the sissy JRPG's any day. ESPECIALLY the over abundance of lame RPG Maker games. But some of the ealry games like Phantasy Star and Shining Force were pretty good, too bad the genre has been totally bastardizedsirdilznik wrote:I, like most here, also generally dislike jRPGs. However, like anything else, there are exceptions. I find Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Seiken Densetsu III, and many of the Dragon Quest games to be quite excellent. Pretty much all the rest of the jRPGs out there I more often than not can't be bothered with. I'll pass on the teen angsty stories of feminine emo guys with spiky hair that carry swords one and a half times the size of their body.
Not to mention linear game pattern that works more like an adventure game with turn based combat and levelling up (not to mention that in most games theres NO character buildng so levelling up is totally uselesssirdilznik wrote:Japanese RPG as opposed to Western RPG. Generally speaking spiky haired people, 3 or so person party, combat system where a menu pops up and you select from: "Attack", "Defend", "Magic", "Item", etc..., wacky stories where the main villain winds up being your brother... who misses his mommy... and he's somehow a demi-god... and wants to destroy everybody so he can become the greatest of all gods (or similar such craziness).KarlXII wrote:uhh...what is jRPG ?
Although I think Bioware's latest Dragon Age Origins has a lot of JRPGisms (at least on the console version, on the PC version you can zoom out and play it like you'd play Baldurs Gate - to an extent), and I've grown tired of the same general game mechanics theyve had since KOTOR (supposedly huge world but you cant really 'walk' everywhere like in Gothic or Elder Scrolls and shit, more of a focus on story - heck, sometimes the game gets so boring but you want to continue to find out what happens next), they're still way better. The stories are compelling for one thing, and combat is ALWAYS a fun affair - especially in Mass Effect (not sure about 2, I heard they turned the combat into a dull action game style??). I guess Bioware does a good job of bridging the 2 styles - bringing the best of both worlds. Wait... I'm rambling XD
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