lestatdark said:
Funny, Square makes VG movies? Give me an example of a Dragon Quest game infested with so many cutscenes that you need to call it a movie. Also, an average FF game, when played for it's full content, it's over 80 hours (all sidequests). A typical WRPG with all sidequests take close to 40 hours. The FF with the largest amount of cutscenes is FFXIII, at about 5 hours of cutscenes. FFXIII is a 40-50 hours main quest game, which takes the % of cutscenes to 10-15%, less than 10% if you factor the duration of sidequests. |
As with any of these threads, they ultimately turn into a battle of stereotypes. And in this case, its the perception that all WRPGs are unique, good and 'pure' while all JRPGs are old, evil and 'full of the same old junk'. And as with most people who use stereotypes, they are grouping all games of each company under the generalization of one or two major successful games (BioWare with Mass Effect and/or Dragon Age, Bethesda with Fallout 3 and/or Morrowind and SquareEnix With Final Fantasy and/or Kingdom Hearts).
I will wager that the majority of the people here haven't even played a Dragon Quest game, but will still claim that SquareEnix is 'ruining the RPG market and focuses too much on CGI cutscenes'. Frankly, I can't fault them too much because in America, they have pretty much focused 99% on only on Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts while not even trying to advertise the Dragon Quest titles. But as for their statements being truthful that 'all SquareEnix games are the same' or 'all JRPGs are generic trash and inferior to WRPGs', yes, this is pure opinion and mostly just built on the stereotypes of them only playing Final Fantasy games.
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