Scoobes on 12 January 2010
| Mr. sickVisionz said: The cliche argument is one of the most bogus ones. You guys love cliches. The only thing is that you want JRPG cliches switched to WRPG cliches, such as the over reliance of knights in armor with mages fighting demon hordes that have crossed some boundary to over throw the land. Even when they take it into space it's just some machine horde or alien horder that's crossed some boundary and must be defended by space knights people with tech abilities identical to what a mage can do. JRPGs don't need fixing. Especially when your "fixes" are just a check list of what WRPGs do. There are genres for a reason and not everyone wants every game to play to the same. Maybe JRPGs just aren't for you. |
Did you read the list? It isn't just a list of what WRPGs do; as you've already pointed out the cliche argument can apply to RPGs from both East and West. They even highlight JRPGs that have been original and implemented what they are talking about to iterate there point (point 4 & 2). And take point 7 for instance, yes they mention Fallout 3 but the actual point they're trying to make is a return to the World Map screen of past JRPGs that seems to have been reduced recently.
To me it reads like a list made by an RPG fan that wants a little more originality and evolution from the Eastern games.
