| Senlis said: So, am I getting this straight that JRPG fans do not want any innovation? That they want the same JRPG cliches over and over again? I am also getting the impression that the only way to fix the JRPG cliches listed is to make the game more like an WRPG. |
Clearly you didn't listen to my posts. As I said, both JRPGs and WRPGs have their fair share of popular generic titles that everyone points to as being the pinnacle of their genres. It just so happens that this generation, people are getting tired of playing the same JRPGs and looking for something new. So they're jumping onto stuff like Fallout, Mass Effect and the recent Dragon Age. And in the process, they think they're 'brand new'. When in many ways, they're not, just like Final Fantasy VII-XIII wasn't brand new for its time.
The point is, there's JRPGs that do unique things in every generation. But most people just focus on games like Final Fantasy or Tales because they're popular and have good graphics/advertising. And as a result, when some of those games fail to impress them or end up being 'more of the same', they get angry and look for something else to play and blame all JRPGs for being 'generic junk'. Instead of actually looking for a different JRPG series that does better.
It also doesn't help that this generation, nearly all the best (and almost all of the) JRPGs are going to the handhelds. Leaving the rest of the JRPGs that would otherwise be 'high risk' to be put on the Consoles.
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