Does anyone else here like JRPGS?

[Arcane Azmadi]

There are actually quite a few JRPG fans, they just don't talk much because we know they're good.

Actually, we don't talk much because haters are such an irritating breed and we don't want to provoke them.

I Love me some Mother.
That should tell you everything.

The Mother series is truly one of the best RPG series of all. I know people that dislike JRPGs that still love the Mother series. Goes to show you don't need sex appeal and pretty graphics to make an excellent game.

Even Yahtzee has admitted to liking Earthbound on the SNES. Yeah, surprised the hell our of me too.

 

[SonicWaffle]

Fallout and Mass Effect are the obvious exceptions, but from what I played of Oblivion (~5 Hours), the first person hacking was a minor improvement at best. It still didn't help that most of that time was spent wandering around a sewer killing rats and watching my 360 glitch (happened twice). I've got nothing against them, I just don't enjoy them...

Fallout is built on the same engine as Oblivion. The controls are mapped pretty much the same, too. When using a melee weapon in Fallout you need to pull the trigger every time you want to swing it, the same as in Oblivion. Just like Fallout, Oblivion has ranged weapons too, except that they take the form of magic spells or bows & arrows rather than guns.

Having said that, I can concede that Oblivion's first few hours are terribly dull. The first time I played, I got about 4 hours in and just quit. Too many caves, sewers, dungeons etc. Once you get past that though, you find an incredibly immersive gameworld with so very, very many things to do.

 

[Sakurazaki1023]

No kidding, I've given up playing any Fantasy WRPGs because I find the one click combat to be even more boring then even the worst turn based one. They also tend to use the "Tolkien" setting way to much...

Although Fallout 3 and Mass Effect have interested me...

Western-style RPGs which (off the top of my head) I have played on my 360 within the last year;

- Fallout 3
- Mass Effect
- KoTOR
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Oblivion
- Mass Effect 2
- Penny Arcade: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness episodes 1 & 2

Now, of that list, games which use one-click combat;

- Dragon Age: Origins. Kinda. Unless you use magic or talents. I guess you could play the game only using one-click combat, but be prepared to die a lot.

WRPGs have plenty of reasons to rag on them; the recurring Tolkien theme doesn't really count as the man pretty much defines Western fantasy nowadays, but I get your point. It does get repetitive. However, one-click combat is not really a major problem of the genre.

One click combat hasn't been a problem since the mid 90s, where have these people been?!. I think JRPGs need a real kick up the arse if they are ever to evlove past their achetype, i hate to sound like all those other doucebags but... well i am one of them. They are stuck in a rut, they are more focused on spectacle, pomp and genrally taking themselvs WAY too seriously for games with (genrerally) such silly stories and themes.

Maybe it's just Final Fantasy syndrome but every time i try to play a JRPG i run into the same walls. Those walls being the characters, the combat, the plot and especially the dialog and tone. It's an aging format and one i hope we can soon resign to the histoy books of roleplaying much like one click combat (although torchlight is an awful yet addictive game)

Way to sound exactly like Yahtzee...
Final Fantasy is a JRPG, but all JRPGs are not Final Fantasy...

 

[tzimize]

I used to, but I think I've just outgrown the stupid storytelling and idiot characters. FF9 was the last FF I enjoyed (Vivi was AWESOME).

Relatively dull gameplay with ENDLESS inventory lists...its just not entertainment.

 

[Logic 0]

I'm a JRPG fan to my favorite is FINAL FANTASY TATICS.

 

[ethan22122]

i like jrpg's, I find that they are a pleasant change from fps and rts.

 

[The_Decoy]

Yeah, I have much love for RPG's, both J and W.

On a separate note, am the only one who doesn't care if a game is linear? Games that go down a straight path tend to have tighter narratives I've found. (Bioware being the exception.)

I can see your point, but I much prefer the freedom of being able to wonder off course, it adds alot to games for me. Creates the feeling of a living, breathing world rather than a large series of corridors.

 

[yankeefan19]

Yes and my favorite is KH2

 

[tklivory]

I love RPGs (although, oddly enough, only Jade Empire from the BioWare side). Give me anything based on the D&D rules (which even the FF games are based on, albeit in an obscured fashion) and I'll go there.

Fave games:
Wild Arms
Magna Carta
Lost Oddysey
Shadow Hearts (1 more than 2, but I love 2 as well)
Various FF installments (and anyone who says they are all alike obviously hasn't actually played all of them)
Various Tales installments
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga & Devil Summoner (not so much the Persona series)

On the western side, i love me some Baldur's Gate, Dungeon Siege, Might & Magic, and Diablo.

BTW, has anyone tried out Resonance of Fate yet? Looks intriguing...

 

[Theron Julius]

I like to play the occasional final fantasy in between the hours and hours of sniping terrorists or the endless time spent in MMOs. It reminds me that I'm an actual gamer, instead of a shooter crazed idiot like the majority of my peers.

 

[Bloody Crimson]

I'm getting a bit tired of this sites hatred for jrpgs. Are there any jrpg fan here including Final fantasy?

I love JRPGs. Even more now because I tried to play Oblivion and honestly was not impressed. Now if Fable or Fallout can change my mind it'd be a balance...

 

[The Heik]

I'm getting a bit tired of this sites hatred for jrpgs. Are there any jrpg fan here including Final fantasy?

I generally don't mind, them, and some of them are among my all-time favourite games. But I'm a trigger-happy dude, and I'm rarely satisfied without something being blown up repeatedly.

 

[oppp7]

Well, Pokemon is a JRPG, so yes. I'm pretty sure most of the people on here like them because of that.

 

[Siegreich]

I love JRPG games.

JRPG is easily my favorite "genre".

Persona 3, greatest game ever...

What he said.

 

[Xerosch]

I really, really like JRPGs, even though their storytelling has gone a little stale in the past years. I've especially got a soft spot for the JRPGs from the PS1 era. That's when technical execution and crafting of storylines hit the high mark of corelation (yes, mostly done by Squaresoft, but anyway).

But with the PS2 came great games, too. Shadow Hearts 1+2, Digital Devil Saga, Persona 3+4... hell, I even like the three Wild Arms games on the PS2!

 

[tklivory]

Relatively dull gameplay with ENDLESS inventory lists...its just not entertainment.

Ironically, that's how I feel about most FPS games. The only one i've enjoyed (and actually bought at a $10 sale) in yonks is Bioshock 1 (never interested in the second one), and it was mostly the story that intrigued me, even if it was obvious too early on who the real villain was.

And even then, If i try to play it more than once a year I get bored more quickly than if I hold out longer before trying to replay it.

And yet I absolutely adore Demon's Souls. (Mmmmmm... love me some Demon's Souls), which is one of the best RPGs I've ever played. I guess most people wouldn't call it a 'JRPG'. (action RPG?)

Of course, I am willing to try almost any RPG Atlus brings over here. Now that's a company that tries to innovate!

 

[Iron Gix]

i havent like too many jrpg's for awhile, but on a side note i really dont labal too many things and a rpg is a rpg to me

 

[SideburnsPuppy]

Kingdom Hearts and Crisis Core are my favourites because they feel like action games, followed by Final Fantasy XII because it almost feels like an action game, and all the rest are more or less equal to me. I'd go so far to say that Action/RPG is my favourite genre, but I don't hate turn-based games. I've been playing the original Final Fantasy lately and having a swell time, and Dragon Quest VIII looks great, too. Oh yeah, and Chrono Trigger. I want to try that.

What really turns me off of JRPGs, and all RPGs for that matter, is their obnoxious length. If it manages to add some gameplay variety and story progression along the way it can be forgiven, like Kingdom Hearts and its numerous Disney-themed worlds, but in games like Okami, where it's just a seemingly endless stream of "He was just a pawn of a greater evil power," it feels really forced.

 

[Xerosch]

And yet I absolutely adore Demon's Souls. (Mmmmmm... love me some Demon's Souls), which is one of the best RPGs I've ever played. I guess most people wouldn't call it a 'JRPG'. (action RPG?)

I'm a single player through and through with a definite need for a good story. I don't know why but 'Demon's Souls' oozes addiction whenever I pop it into my PS3. There's something about this horrendiosly hard game that makes me come back for more regularly. Well done, Atlus, another excellent title!