Does anyone else here like JRPGS?

[Fidelias]

I hate most jrpg's, but I find that the ones that I like end up being some of my favorite games of all time. I'm kinda picky though.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

There's a bunch of us who do like JRPG's. It's just that we don't have any reason to shout it out. The haters on the other hand feel like doing it fairly often for some reason.

 

[DarkRyter]

Love those JRPG's to bits yo.

Can't really get into wrpgs. Except Fallout, but fallout's special.

 

[OtherSideofSky]

no...jrpgs are linear shit for people who lack independent thought, much like the entire japanese race.

Whoa, way to initiate an intelligent discourse there, big guy.

Sorry but i'm unrepentant, the japanese are excellent at taking other people ideas and improving them enormously but they lack innovation! seriously what did they ever discover or invent!

JRPGs reflect and idiotic mindset where everything needs to be signposted and players are discouraged from attempting to use inititive or independent thought and the characters are guided through the well crafted plot... sure they can have great stories but the gameplay is often more shallow than the imperial bloodline, this is why I rarely play jrpgs anymore and stick to watching anime, all the excellent storytelling without the mind numbingly bad "gameplay" random encounters and boring turn based combat. It's time to realise that the jrpg is japans equivalent of the FPS... dead and in need of burial so we can find new types of gameplay and the jrpg will only be missed in the west by munchkin morons who seem to think this kind of crap is worth playing.

The second paragraph is a valid criticism of problems common to many (but by no means all) JRPGs (and, I would argue, a couple other genres as well) up until the insult at the end (they just don't make for any kind of useful discourse). If you are using such a narrow definition of "JRPG" that you can imagine it dissapearing entirely, then you may well be correct. I, for one, would be quite sad if Japanese game companies just stopped making RPGs of any kind, because then there would be quite a lot fewer games I would actually like.

I would hazard a guess, however, that you have never engaged in a formal study of Japanese culture and are quite unfamiliar with quite a lot of its literature, film, theater and other cultural achievements, to say nothing of technological innovations. I highly doubt you could be familiar with the work of authors like Akutagawa Ryunosuke, artists like Katsuhika Hokusai, or directors like Mamoru Oshii (especially his experimental work) and still call the entire nation uncreative. If you said a lot of the game developers have gotten stuck in a rut, you would be on much more solid ground.

Also, what the Hell is a "munchkin moron"? Are you saying that JRPGs will be missed by stupid short people from the land of Oz, mentally deficient children, or sentient donut holes that are to be congratulated for thinking at all, however badly?

 

[BlumiereBleck]

What are you talking about? Practically everyone on this site is a huge anime jrpg fan.

 

[Mr. Eff_v1legacy]

Not really.

 

[trac]

Grrrrrrrrrrr i agree jrpg's rock!

 

[chuckman1]

Yes we're just not that vocal.

 

[Zhalath]

I'm a fan of JRPGs. Final Fantasy, Tales series, Pokemon.

 

[Fightgarr]

No. No I am not. I am not a "fan" of any genre in particular. I will say that I like certain JRPGs. I've enjoyed many of the Final Fantasy titles. I enjoyed a few miscellaneous titles, mostly from Square. On the other hand, I've had bad experiences with JRPGs which has led me to distrust the genre. It's come to a point where I usually like the gameplay (yes I do like turn-based combat much of the time) and I generally hate the characters or story or both. Most recently I played through all of Final Fantasy X, a game in which I hated every single character I encountered. On the other hand, I think the overall story was pretty cool and thought that the system was the coolest I've encountered in a while. But you know what my biggest problem with JRPGs is? The sidequests. JRPGs seem to think of sidequests and secrets as some kind of 'bonus challenge' wherein you have to be very lucky to find them without a guide and psychotic to be able to finish some of them, they being either incredibly difficult, incredibly time-consuming or both. That is not good game design. I should not have to waste 5-6 hours of extra game-time just to get a third of a final weapon of a character...

 

[Ultress]

Definitely yes as you can tell by my avatar and Username. Mind you there are some I don't like but that's a fact of life with any genre. I like the FF series but it's not my favorite(The Tales series holds that honor).

Some great ones to me: Persona 3/4,Wild Arms 1-3, FF4/6/9,The Tales of Series,Lost Odyssey, Dragon Quest 8,etc...

 

[Ultress]

Definitely yes as you can tell by my avatar and Username. Mind you there are some I don't like but that's a fact of life with any genre. I like the FF series but it's not my favorite(The Tales series holds that honor).

Some great ones to me: Persona 3/4,Wild Arms 1-3, FF4/6/9,The Tales of Series,Lost Odyssey, Dragon Quest 8,etc...

 

[CyanLink]

Occasionally, but most of the time they just make me roll my eyes.

 

[Lim3]

I love JRPGs - Tales of Vesperia is my favorite.

 

[hazabaza1]

I think they can be okay. I'm never normally completely against one genre, so yeah, I can enjoy them.

 

[Kiju]

Hmn...I view it as this:

There is no such thing as a JRPG. There are only RPGs, and the ones that have a certain artistic flair and gameplay-design to them.

With that said...I like Breath of Fire IV, otherwise...not entirely impressed.