Cactus on 18 February 2009
| mrstickball said: I think the main issue is that WRPGs have spoiled reviewers. It's hard to really make good comparisons when the best JRPGs have paled in comparison to the best WRPGs. I mean, we're comparing: Lost Odyssey Tales of Vesperia Valkyria Chronicles To: Mass Effect Oblivion Fallout 3 Fable 2 Kind of hard to argue, given the 4th best WRPG is better than the best JRPG, so far this gen. |
Well, that's purely subjective. Even if wRPGs have "spoiled" reviewers, does that mean that they have the right to mark down jRPGs? When a person is reviewing Star Ocean, should he have at the back of his mind: "I wish the story branched out more like Mass Effect" No. Because that would be an unfair comparison. When Western reviewers stop wishing every jRPG released were more like wRPGs, then we may start to see reviews which are more fair, and not clouded with bias.
