Rahnzan said:
If you had JRPG up there I'd have hit it. It's not because of the turn base or the andro-males (though both certainly help it along) but the fact that all of the stories are exactly the god damn same. It's like having a space marine in a shooter. Screw that.
Anyone who says "All Jrpgs have the same story" are just plain wrong, here's a perfect example why:
Persona 4: Persona 4 takes place in the near-future, fictional, rural Japanese town of Inaba, which lies among floodplains and has its own high school and shopping districts. Unexplained murders have taken place in the small town, where bodies are found dangling among television antennas and their cause of death unknown. At the same time, rumor has begun to spread that watching a switched-off television set on rainy midnight's will reveal a person's soulmate. A group of high-school students decided to investigate the murders on their own, and discovered a fog-shrouded world accessed through television sets infested with monsters called Shadows.They also discovered each of their Other self, symbolizing their suppressed personalities. Confronting their Other selfs awakened their ability to summon beings known as Personas. Using Personas, the students formed the Investigation Team to investigate the connection between the TV world and the murders, and possibly capture the culprit...
Final Fantasy VII:Final Fantasy VII begins with Cloud joining AVALANCHE in a series of raids against the Mako reactors surrounding the city of Midgar. Although the first mission is successful, AVALANCHE is trapped at another reactor during a subsequent raid. The reactor explodes, launching Cloud from the upper levels of Midgar into the slums below. He lands on a flower bed, where he is formally introduced to Aeris. Prompted by the arrival of Shinra's Turks operatives sent to capture Aeris, Cloud agrees to be Aeris' bodyguard and defends her from the Turks. After the Shinra discover the location of AVALANCHE's hideout, they destroy it by demolishing the entirety of Sector 7, killing its population and three members of AVALANCHE. The Turks also capture Aeris, who is revealed to be the last surviving "Cetra", a race closely attuned with the planet and previously thought extinct. President Shinra believes Aeris can lead him to the "Promised Land", a mythical land of fertility, where he expects to find Mako energy...
Thats just the opening few hours of both those games, they are completely different.
(Thanks wikipedia)
