JRPG fans- are you a handheld gamer?

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

Given I own both a DS and a PSP, I've a few handheld jrpg games spread across my room. Can't remember their names right now granted and posting on the phone so yeah.... Always interested in finding new one's for my collection, but I admit I'm not all that knowledgable about these kinds of games due to living in europe and lack of localizations.....

I can feel you, I lived in Europe for 17 years, I know how it is with the lack of games. We didn't even get Chrono Trigger....


My solution was to learn Japanese and move to another continent. Comes highly recommended!

I had to use an emulator instead as I wasn't old enough to do either of those. If it works, it works though so can't fault it for that. Still I do wish europe didn't end up being boned so often when it came to these things. I guess the reason is because it's several countries with so many languages...?

Yup, it's either:

1)Learn Japanese and import, expensive and takes time and effort.
2)Play games in English aimed at American or sometimes British people (like Dragon Quest VIII for example, a game best played without any voice acting due to it's horrid accents), with humor and cultural elements completely foreign to you, sacrificing a lot of the enjoyment you'd have.
3)Don't play anything that's not a racer or a soccer game
4)Make your own games.


I ended up getting into anime when I was not old enough to do either thing, so it made deciding on #1 all that much easier .

 

[everythingbeeps]

I used to be a huge JRPG fan, but alas I just don't have the time nor patience these days to get into them.

But I've never been a handheld gamer. Can't really stand handhelds, so I've never bothered to really see what games they have, other than it seems a lot of them are just rereleases of older games.

 

[Okysho]

Absolutely. Maybe it's just because I'm a Wii owner so we don't really get ANYTHING (oh yeah, project rainfall too and all that shit) but just recently I found myself giving away all my hard earned pennies to buy a PSP. (dissidia 1 and 2 with it) suddenly my JRPG library options have trippled. It's good for smaller companies (I think it's a japanese thing too, since they're always on the go) You'd think a big epic Final Fantasy fighting game would come out on the big powerful console (hell even crisis core). But then again they've made 3 tales of the world games and only one has made it over here so who knows...

 

[Michael Hirst]

Yeah to play modern JRPG's pretty much means you're playing on a portable I can count a total of 4 RPG's from Japan on MY PS3 shelves, Demons Souls and Dark Souls (which look and feel more like western rpgs) Valkyria Chronicles (amazing game) and Final Fantasy 13 (What the hell Square?)

it's just you opinion, i have many j-rpgs on my PS3 and pretty much all of them i enjoyed.
here all my PS3 j-rpgs.

True there's a lot of JRPG's there I've tried some and forgotten about them but I have to say I didn't enjoy many of them, Disgaea, Hyperdimension and Agarest I couldn't enjoy much especially Hyperdimension. I like me some JRPG's but there's only so much "Kawaii" that can be put into a game before it puts me off.

I did enjoy White Knight Chronicles though, genuinely forgot about that game, borrowed it from a friend to play though instead of buying it.

 

[T-004]

Absolutely. Maybe it's just because I'm a Wii owner so we don't really get ANYTHING (oh yeah, project rainfall too and all that shit) but just recently I found myself giving away all my hard earned pennies to buy a PSP. (dissidia 1 and 2 with it) suddenly my JRPG library options have trippled. It's good for smaller companies (I think it's a japanese thing too, since they're always on the go) You'd think a big epic Final Fantasy fighting game would come out on the big powerful console (hell even crisis core). But then again they've made 3 tales of the world games and only one has made it over here so who knows...

You should check out Xenoblade Chronicles if you haven't already.

Excellent JRPG with a LOT of depth to it.

 

[Deathninja19]

I've had a DS for quite awhile but it used to collect dust until a few years ago. I didn't even own a PSP until a few years back either. But, this has changed as I am a huge JRPG fan. Seems consoles these days have to have gigantic budgets to compete in the JRPG department. For example a simple dialogue in FF13 requires voice actors and meticulous animation. The dialogue in a PSP or DS JRPG could simply be a few lines of text and maybe a character portrait.

It seems that for the most part JRPGs that are released on portables are a throwback to the 16 bit era. They have aged well in my opinion. These games don't require a huge budget and production values as their console counter-parts, but I feel they are just as good or better.

So, I ask if you are a fan of the genre have you seemed to be forced to migrate to handhelds?

I agree man all of my JRPGs or on the PSP now, it's a sad day really but if I'm honest the mechanics of the JRPG fit handhelds far better than consoles nowadays. For instance the occasional grind becomes a lot more fun if I can do it while on my commute or watching TV and bad voice acting which put me off the new Star Ocean is fixed because nearly all the dialogue is text.

You should embrace it JRPGs have become bloated and so being handheld has forced them to scale down and go back to what made us fall in love with the genre, I just hope the Vita will continue the trend of great JRPGs.

 

[Arina Love]

Hah, that collection almost mirrors my own with the difference of a few of them being imports.
There definitely is enough of em on PS3.

NMH isn't a Jrpg though, it's an action game .

haha yeah NMH and Basara got mixed in but other column is full so they stay in j-rpg column

Do you have a PSP and/or DS column? I'd like to see it if it isn't too much trouble.

yeh i have PSP one, DS is sister's so i only borrow games from my j-rpg loving friends. Note some PSP j-rpg are not available for my country so i do what needs to be done.

 

[TheGamerElite33]

Yeah to play modern JRPG's pretty much means you're playing on a portable I can count a total of 4 RPG's from Japan on MY PS3 shelves, Demons Souls and Dark Souls (which look and feel more like western rpgs) Valkyria Chronicles (amazing game) and Final Fantasy 13 (What the hell Square?)

it's just you opinion, i have many j-rpgs on my PS3 and pretty much all of them i enjoyed.
here all my PS3 j-rpgs.

I never seen so many bad games in one pic

 

[Arina Love]

Yeah to play modern JRPG's pretty much means you're playing on a portable I can count a total of 4 RPG's from Japan on MY PS3 shelves, Demons Souls and Dark Souls (which look and feel more like western rpgs) Valkyria Chronicles (amazing game) and Final Fantasy 13 (What the hell Square?)

it's just you opinion, i have many j-rpgs on my PS3 and pretty much all of them i enjoyed.
here all my PS3 j-rpgs.

i never seen so many bad games in one pic

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. troll harder muffin

 

[StorytellingIsAMust]

Due to the consoles I own, all of my new JRPGs are on DS. All the ones on the Wii suck, and I don't own a 360 or a PS3. Still break out the SNES and the GBA for the good old JRPGs though.

 

[l3o2828]

Nope, and im going to stretch this out so i dont get in a mods rage.
My problem is that handheld devices are only interesting if you are travelling a lot and have quite frankly some bloody massive time to waste, but otherwise i have consoles and a pc that fill my gaming neccesities frankly quite better than any handheld device could.
Yes it has some interesting titles but i don't think they are worth the extra investment on something i won't use as much as eerything else.

 

[l3o2828]

Yeah to play modern JRPG's pretty much means you're playing on a portable I can count a total of 4 RPG's from Japan on MY PS3 shelves, Demons Souls and Dark Souls (which look and feel more like western rpgs) Valkyria Chronicles (amazing game) and Final Fantasy 13 (What the hell Square?)

it's just you opinion, i have many j-rpgs on my PS3 and pretty much all of them i enjoyed.
here all my PS3 j-rpgs.

i never seen so many bad games in one pic

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. troll harder muffin

Still...no Shin Megami Tensei, No FF other than XIII?

I would consider you a lover of bad games if all the other games besides FFXIII weren't atleast decent.

 

[Arina Love]

Yeah to play modern JRPG's pretty much means you're playing on a portable I can count a total of 4 RPG's from Japan on MY PS3 shelves, Demons Souls and Dark Souls (which look and feel more like western rpgs) Valkyria Chronicles (amazing game) and Final Fantasy 13 (What the hell Square?)

it's just you opinion, i have many j-rpgs on my PS3 and pretty much all of them i enjoyed.
here all my PS3 j-rpgs.

i never seen so many bad games in one pic

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. troll harder muffin

Still...no Shin Megami Tensei, No FF other than XIII?

I would consider you a lover of bad games if all the other games besides FFXIII weren't atleast decent.

again it's your opinion i don't care what you consider i LIKED all those games and consider them at least decent some very good. Those are my PS3 games not PS2 do you even read posts? i only have 6 games on PS2. Valkyrie Profile 2,FFX,FFX-2,FFXII,Persona4,Dragon Quest VIII.

 

[Ando85]

Yeah to play modern JRPG's pretty much means you're playing on a portable I can count a total of 4 RPG's from Japan on MY PS3 shelves, Demons Souls and Dark Souls (which look and feel more like western rpgs) Valkyria Chronicles (amazing game) and Final Fantasy 13 (What the hell Square?)

it's just you opinion, i have many j-rpgs on my PS3 and pretty much all of them i enjoyed.
here all my PS3 j-rpgs.

i never seen so many bad games in one pic

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. troll harder muffin

Still...no Shin Megami Tensei, No FF other than XIII?

I would consider you a lover of bad games if all the other games besides FFXIII weren't atleast decent.

again it's your opinion i don't care what you consider i LIKED all those games and consider them at least decent some very good. Those are my PS3 games not PS2 do you even read posts? i only have 6 games on PS2. Valkyrie Profile 2,FFX,FFX-2,FFXII,Persona4,Dragon Quest VIII.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One example is Enchanted Arms. Heard so many negative things but I got it anyway and loved the shit out of it.

For only having 6 games on PS2 you do have pure quality! Hell, everyone also hated FFX-2 but I loved it. Invested about 125 hours 100 percenting it.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

I'm a JRPG fan and I prefer the handhelds of the genre more. Crisis Core is just amazing and it's a PSP exclusive. I'll be honest and say that the only reason I bought my PSP was for Crisis Core and Dissidia, and they are the only games I have for my PSP.

 

[Arina Love]

Yeah to play modern JRPG's pretty much means you're playing on a portable I can count a total of 4 RPG's from Japan on MY PS3 shelves, Demons Souls and Dark Souls (which look and feel more like western rpgs) Valkyria Chronicles (amazing game) and Final Fantasy 13 (What the hell Square?)

it's just you opinion, i have many j-rpgs on my PS3 and pretty much all of them i enjoyed.
here all my PS3 j-rpgs.

i never seen so many bad games in one pic

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. troll harder muffin

Still...no Shin Megami Tensei, No FF other than XIII?

I would consider you a lover of bad games if all the other games besides FFXIII weren't atleast decent.

again it's your opinion i don't care what you consider i LIKED all those games and consider them at least decent some very good. Those are my PS3 games not PS2 do you even read posts? i only have 6 games on PS2. Valkyrie Profile 2,FFX,FFX-2,FFXII,Persona4,Dragon Quest VIII.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One example is Enchanted Arms. Heard so many negative things but I got it anyway and loved the shit out of it.

For only having 6 games on PS2 you do have pure quality! Hell, everyone also hated FFX-2 but I loved it. Invested about 125 hours 100 percenting it.

Yep agreed ^_^ loved every second of X-2!

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I also loved XIII and X-2 was pretty fun as well. I really enjoyed X so getting the added story conclusion was amazing.


Btw, XIII-2 is shaping up to be pretty epic. I always wanted to use Serah and now I can, woot! :3

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

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Any from your collection you'd particularly recommend? I've already got FFXIII, and I've heard some good things about Valkyria Chronicles and Star Ocean, but what about the others?

 

[Ando85]

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Any from your collection you'd particularly recommend? I've already got FFXIII, and I've heard some good things about Valkyria Chronicles and Star Ocean, but what about the others?

I know you're not asking me, but I'll field this one from what I know =)

Valkyria Chronicles = Great take on a fictional WW2 setting. Deep strategy gameplay and highly addictive. Probably one of the better PS3 exclusives.

Star Ocean = great battle system, but the other elements like characters and story didn't really do it for me. I prefer Second Story and Til the End of Time. Even so, Last Hope is worth playing and its a solid game. But, be warned though it features one of the most annoying characters I've ever seen, kay? (I'm sure people who have played the game know exactly who I'm referring to, kay?)

Resonance of Fate = very unique steampunk setting with guns. Battle system is very unique, might watch some youtube videos or something it is difficult to explain in words.