What do you enjoy about JRPGs?

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I dont understand how people can enjoy JRPGs,iv never played one that iv actually enjoyed, so why are they so popular? And what do you personally like about them?

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

Plot, Game Design, Unique Battle System, Memorable characters, and funny tibits.

I really don't like run of the mill JRPGs ( Almost anything made by NIS, Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile)

But do people really need a good reason to enjoy the games they play? They just do. Can you explain why you like the games you like?

 

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I like the art design and stories mainly, even though the majority of them revolve around teenagers trying to kill God.

Thats what really gets to me about them your always whinny teenagers and it just ruins the story and the immersion for me.

 

[MisterShine]

But I like all RPGs really, so JRPGs just slot in with all the others I enjoy, even if some people would skin me alive for mentioning Mass Effect and Shin Megami Tensai in the same sentence.

And some people would high five you for it.

Like FargoDog said above, I enjoy RPG's because they are, 9 times out of 10, the best gaming medium for good storytelling and good characters. Also, JRPG's I have to tip my hat too, as they are, more often than western developers, willing to try totally off the wall shit, and I respect anything that tries to be different, either for creativities sake or just because they think it works. This is especially a nod to the MegaTen series, there is really nothing at all like it elsewhere.

Like everything else in life, you have to sift through the bullshit that society hands you to find the good stuff, and this is just as true for JRPG's as it is for everything else.

Thats what really gets to me about them your always whinny teenagers and it just ruins the story and the immersion for me.

What about the JRPGs where you're NOT a whiny teenager? (Nocturne, Digital Devil Saga, Lost Odyssey, FF.. er, all of them before 10.. etc?)

 

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But do people really need a good reason to enjoy the games they play? They just do. Can you explain why you like the games you like?

Yes i could but it would take forever to explain why, i just want to know what you think are the good points of JRPGs

 

[Latinidiot]

I don't know, I generally enjoy the absolutely gigantic collection of different monsters, the surroundings (art in general, I guess), The combat is for when I'm not feeling like adrenaline (it can be exciting, though).


I guess I 'just' like it. Seems enough to me.

 

[TheSupremeForce]

Hysterical plots and crazy characters, ie pretty much anything from NIS.

Also, some JRPG's are just epic... such as the Suikoden series and some of the Final Fantasy games (typically the SNES ones).

 

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For me its the character( annoying teenagers) and the combat systems that generally dissapoint me, although i happily admit that JRPGs generally have a really amazing arty feel to them.

 

[Optimystic]

I don't consider JRPGs to be a ubiquitous, amorphous blob of a genre that so many others do. I mean, the combat systems of Disgaea, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy differ widely from each other, yet they are all JRPGs.

Having said that, I don't think I was ever really a "fan." I loved the ones that were class/job-based, like FFV and Seiken Densetsu 3 (Secret of Mana 2) - but even back in my youth I recognized how linear they all were and how little control I actually had over my character's decisions.

Western RPGs - Ultima, Exile/Avernum, Mass Effect, Morrowind, et al. - blew that door wide open for me, and I have never looked back.

 

[Marter]

There's a story. There is a fun battle system. I care about the characters.

Those are the top three I can think of. The art style is usually pretty interesting as well.

 

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There's a story. There is a fun battle system. I care about the characters.

Those are the top three I can think of. The art style is usually pretty interesting as well.

Well i guess it depends on what kind of gamer you are i cant stand the combat system but then alot of people(you) enjoy it

 

[Dapper Ninja]

Mostly it's the art design, characters, story, enemies, blah blah blah stuff everyone has already said. I also like some of the truly bizarre imagery in some JRPGs that you'll never see in any other type of game, like, say, the protagonist shooting himself in the head in order to summon a Norse god to drop lightning on a giant shadow blob.

For me its the character( annoying teenagers) and the combat systems that generally dissapoint me, although i happily admit that JRPGs generally have a really amazing arty feel to them.

If all of the characters are annoying, whiny teenagers, it's a pretty good sign that you're playing a mediocre JRPG riding the FFVII bandwagon. What have you played before?

 

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Mostly it's the art design, characters, story, enemies, blah blah blah stuff everyone has already said. I also like some of the truly bizarre imagery in some JRPGs that you'll never see in any other type of game, like, say, the protagonist shooting himself in the head in order to summon a Norse god to drop lightning on a giant shadow blob.

For me its the character( annoying teenagers) and the combat systems that generally dissapoint me, although i happily admit that JRPGs generally have a really amazing arty feel to them.

If all of the characters are annoying, whiny teenagers, it's a pretty good sign that you're playing a mediocre JRPG riding the FFVII bandwagon. What have you played before?

ill admit that i havent played many JRPGs which may explain alot but some of the ones i have tryed are obv the final fantasty series, blue dragon and lost oddesy

 

[migo]

JRPGs are actually creative. They have a mix of fantasy and the modern world that you never see in WRPGs. You'd never see something like Persona 3 where you shoot yourself in the head to summon a persona to do battle for you, and you get more powerful by strengthening your social relationships. You'd never have the world of Spira mixing steampunk with more classical fantasy, where the fiends are the coalesced spirits of dead people (in a WRPG the best you'd get is a ghost) and

Spoiler

where Sin is the last Final Aeon used to defeat the previous Sin

. You wouldn't see a game mechanic like the junction system in Final Fantasy VIII which is purely a game mechanic rather than something that tries to simulate a fantasy reality. JRPGs are where all the innovation is. WRPGs are boring, the only good ones are the ones that are polished and developed. No WRPG with a small focus or scope will ever be good, it's only the highly polished sandbox WRPGs that ever have a hope of success.

 

[Dapper Ninja]

Mostly it's the art design, characters, story, enemies, blah blah blah stuff everyone has already said. I also like some of the truly bizarre imagery in some JRPGs that you'll never see in any other type of game, like, say, the protagonist shooting himself in the head in order to summon a Norse god to drop lightning on a giant shadow blob.

For me its the character( annoying teenagers) and the combat systems that generally dissapoint me, although i happily admit that JRPGs generally have a really amazing arty feel to them.

If all of the characters are annoying, whiny teenagers, it's a pretty good sign that you're playing a mediocre JRPG riding the FFVII bandwagon. What have you played before?

ill admit that i havent played many JRPGs which may explain alot but some of the ones i have tryed are obv the final fantasty series, blue dragon and lost oddesy

Blue Dragon is, quite frankly, not a good game. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

I'm surprised Lost Odyssey gave you a negative impression of JRPGs, considering most its cast really broke the mold (except for those two kids, but everyone hates them, anyway).

What Final Fantasy games have you played? They vary a lot in quality.

 

[Macheteswordgun]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySGMnmiqlss The last thing nathan says is what i feel jrpg's contribute