Top 10 Ways to Fix JRPGs

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Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Pristine20 said:
you know, I walked into this thread ready to hate IGN for insulting my fav genre but after reading through, I have to agree with them though I'd say that the fans are perhaps one of the reason that JRPGs are somewhat stagnant...they don't want change. Many want FF7 remake instead of new and improved versions of FF.

Part of the reason (western) fans obsess over and crave a FF7 remake so bad is because Japan has done little to show them there's other better JRPGs out there.  Take Drago nQuest for example.  How can a series that is even more popular and enjoyed by all audiences in Japan have absolutely no attach rate in the west?  Its not because we 'hate turn based battles (look at Final Fantasy).  Or because we 'hate old school RPGs' (Look at Persona, Pokemon....Final Fantasy).  Its simply because SquareEnix has done little to market the game to the west to make it popular.  And its a similar story for most JRPGs in the last 10 years.  The few JRPGs that have gotten popular in the last few years (Disgaea, Tales, Persona) were just from dumb luck or word of mouth.  There was little or no advertising.

SO you can partially blame the fans if you want, but I would also blame the companies for not actually telling the people the games exist.  You have to advertise the games and make them available for people to buy them.  I mean, on the flip side, you can't turn on the TV without seeing 10 commercials an hour for Dragon Age or Mass Effect 2.  Not that this is bad, its just good marketing for BioWare.  That's what the JRPG companies should be doing.  And what are the only JRPGs which will get this kind of marketing?  Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts.  Games which have no trouble selling.

It might also have to do with the anime style of a lot of JRPGs.  A lot of gamers hate anime from what I can tell.