| darthdevidem01 said: Exactly my thoughts.....I will happily support a "Epic space Opera" JRPG more than a "medievel" JRPG anyday. Medievel is for WRPJ's (Fable, Oblivion, witcher)....I think JRPG's are done best as Space ones....or Mixed ones (all our post FF6 FF's except for FF9) There are obviously exceptions such as the best WRPJ is actually a space one (SW:KOTOR) & the best JRPG's are medievel (FF6, Chrono Trigger) Maybe the 360 exclusive to turn me over is finally arriving |
Eh. I don't know. Both sides of the ocean and landmasses have done good and bad jobs at fantasy and sci-fi based storytelling and game areas.
The West has Mass Effect, KOTOR and Fallout. The East has Star Ocean, Shin Megami Tensei (at least the old ones were futuristic) and Phantasy Star.
Fantasy-wise, the East has Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, while the West has The Witcher, and Oblivion.
Honestly, I don't think, in classic settings, either side has a real advantage in terms of storytelling. Most of my favorite RPGs are all futuristic in someone way: Chrono Trigger, Mass Effect, KOTOR, Phantasy Star, Fallout, and the like all have various elements of sci-fi, as opposed to the traditional "Magical/Industrial" theme that Final Fantasy overplayed, and many adopted (as well as the classical LOTR worlds of Western design).
Having said that, I do agree that the East excells at sci-fi writing. Looking at even the quentessential classic Final Fantasy, contained an endgame (spoliers).........That involved time travel. Even in J-pop culture via movies, they prefer their sci-fi more than what a Western observer would consider "tradtional" fantasy storytelling. Movies like Akira hopefully don't steriotype Japanese storywriting, but define where they excell at as such a technologically advanced culture.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
