| Riachu said: The problem Japanese developers seem to have is that JRPGs are still primarily aimed at teenagers and unforunately, the average age of gamers is 33 in the West. Also, the stories tend to be cliched and writing also tends to be embarrassingly poor with Star Ocean being the most recent example. |
Even though Lost Odyessy got mixed reviews, I found it refreshingly mature. The dialogue and voice acting was among the best I've seen in a game. Too bad the play mechanics were the same old same old.
Western RPGs are moving twoards single hero first person, while the jrpg are multi-party with a heavy emphasis on inter party communication. Or as I put it, they like to bolt on a dating sim onto ever jrpg they make.
Which makes me think, Bioware titles such as KOTOR and Mass Effect should have appealed to the Japanese.
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