Riachu on 26 July 2008
| Zucas said: Man that's short. What's with all these current gen RPG's being so short. The point of an RPG is to have 30 and 40 hrs of gameplay. That's why it's such a hardcore genre... because you have to put time in it and complicated gameplay. |
The big JRPGs take 30-40 hours or more just to beat the main story. WRPGs on the other hand, aren't as story driven as JRPGs and expect you to do more than the main story and that explains the short length of the main story in WRPGs. Only casual RPGers play RPGs for the main story alone.
@Torillian
I should remind you that there are WRPGs with compelling stories i.e.Mass Effect, Planescape:Torment In fact, it is argued that the best stories in WRPGs are better than the best stories in JRPGs.
