Riachu on 10 October 2008
| silverlunar777 said: I remember a conversation I had that somewhat relate to this, it went something like this. A guy in another site: "Hey they are making an anime of Tales of the Abyss, I can't wait to see it". Me: "Really, great, people say it has an interesting story" Guy: "you didn't play it before?" Me: "Nope, I watched the anime version of most of this series" Guy: "you should play it, the game is awesome" Me: "I really don't want to" Guy: "Why? I can't belive some one who valiue the games first and formost won't play the original, You would attack me if i told you to watch the Kirby anime first" Me: "these two are completely different" Guy: "why are they different? because you like Kirby more than the Tales series? >:/" Me: "it has nothing to do with what i like and what not, it is just that Tales has a battle system that i hate, I can get the same experince by just watching the anime, so why bother and play through the game?" Guy: "you can't be serious" Me: "JRPGs are just anime in disguise, really" |
Just because a JRPG has an anime art style doesn't make it an 'anime in disguise'.
Back on topic, I think this guy just has an arrogant opinion he likes to say is a fact. He says it like games have to use the same storytelling as Half Life or Portal in order for their stories to be true. However, contray to his opinion, I thought MGS and FF have great storytelling and there are many gamers and game reviewers that agree with me. I will not change my opinion just because of some stupid article.
