richardhutnik said:
jammy2211 said:
JRPG are repeating themselves and need to innovate. I used to love the genre, they were amazing as a teenager with a PS1. I could buy one for under £20 and the games would last me AGES, which for someone with little to no money, was awesome.
Nowadays they're the exact same thing, and it even feels like alot of them draw more from the cliches then before as if that's kind of what is expected. I think the developers in the east are kind of realising this now, but getting anyone to back a JRPG which defies convention is a difficult task - I think Resonance of Fate looks like it's trying to break the cliché mold somewhat though (Surprise Surprise that Square Enix avoided it).
I do really enjoy WRPG's too but they're all feeling pretty similiar nowadays too. I've probably not played enough of the genre to be it's most reputable critic but what they boast as multiple web dialogue tends to be a question of "Are you a ****head?". When I first played WRPG's (After growing up on the JRPG) they were incredibly fresh and new and innovative, nowadays I don't get that feeling from any WRPG, it again feels like a been here done that. |
What we know as "western RPGs" is mostly stuff by Bethesda and Bioware. So, what you are likely running across is similar styles when you go from one Bethesda game to another, or one Bioware to another. I am speaking in terms of console WRPGs. Beyond that, they tend to treat Tolkin as gospel, and reference them a lot.
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I played the Might and Magic games from VI to IX and even then it doesn't feel like they've moved on a great deal, just become bigger, while doing the exact same thing. I played a few other, what I would call, WRPG's along the way too, albeit obviously my main experience has been Bioware and Bethesda.
I'm pretty sure it's a genre wide thing, it happen with any genre though. Once it becomes popular and starts selling the imitators come along in their droves, and sooner or later repetition occurs. It's take 2 years for every WW2 shooter to become a modern warfare shooter, off the success of one game.
