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Fiz

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I guess my point here is, JRPGs won't change as long as people keep buying them. Simple economics and anthropology, I know, but sad nonetheless.

But people aren't. They are not doing well in the Western market in general, and Japanese gaming culture isn't nearly as console focused as we are. They elect to spend time with portable games and in arcades.

It's why there are so few JRPGs being developed for 360 and PS3.. and why they're still coming out for PS2.

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Zelda Ocarina of Time

Zelda A Link to the Past

Goldeneye

Batman Arkham Asylum (New, but incredible)

Final Fantasy 1,2,3,7,8,9,10 (yes I thought 10 was a great game)

Super Metroid

Super Mario 1,3 (2 was garbage)

Super Mario World

Super Mario RPG (Great game, underrated)

Legends of Dragoon (Lets see who knows this one)

Resident Evil 1,2,3

Max Payne

Medal of Honor: Frontline

Zombies Ate my Neighbors

Chrono Trigger<---GREATEST RPG of ALL TIME

Those are the ones I can think of that really nailed it. God.... All this talk about the greatest video games makes me want to get out my old systems and call in to work for a week. NERDDOM FTW!

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Fiz Newbie

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It's ok for there to be recurring themes in games that come from deep rooted things in a place's culture. What's not ok is when every game has the same characters with different names.

i mean yeah every single FF main character is the same person. I get that and don't disagree.

but you just said your favorite game is mass effect

gruff marine

sassy female

wise cracking pilot

british doctor

fighting rebelling robots

hmmm where have we seen this before (everywhere)

Would you be ok if every show on television had the same plot, characters, and jokes, but the characters just had different names and the titles were different?

as a theatre and performance studies major as well as a working actor, that's exactly what they are.

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Oh they're still coming out.. but they're not any good. You said yourself that FFX was bad, and FFXII was just a really awful JRPG version of Star Wars... but at least it made strides with the combat system.

World War 2 FPS is definitely something that's so abundant that I'm basically numb to it now... so point taken there.

The genre of JRPG is dying because they have done nothing to push the genre along into the future. It's been the same crap rehashed over and over again. Same exact characters with different names. Same story with a different bad guy. Same combat system.

There's been a few that I found interesting, but for the most part, the genre is really going nowhere. Everyone seemed to think that Blue Dragon would be some kind of new greatness.. but it was awful for the reasons mentioned. Lost Odyssey? Last Remnant? Infinite Undiscovery? Even the new Star Ocean was mediocre at best.

When japanese developers come out and say that they need to take a hint from western developers.... it's pretty telling. Atlus tried with Demon's Souls, and I haven't played that yet. But, it's a lot more interesting than anything else that's come out in years.

really interested to try demon's souls. However I'm only 60 hours into oblivion and I just picked up dead space so it's gonna be a while.

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