MontanaHatchet on 09 February 2010
| rocketpig said: Wow, I managed to disagree with over half the things he said about JRPGs. - Square makes DS games because they're cheap to make and PROFITABLE. To see why they don't make many console JRPGs anymore just take a look at Last Remnant, The. JRPGs are not a huge genre so take your portable games and enjoy them or shut the hell up. - He blamed Sony for the lack of JRPG games this generation and even went so far as to say the 360 "is not a JRPG console". Just stupid. Consoles do not dictate what games are made for them, developers do. And devs are pretty split this generation on EVERYTHING. There is no PS2-style dominance this generation and there will never will be. - He made an incredibly asinine comment about "fake decisions that do not affect the end game". He even mentions BioWare in the next sentence. If you're going to blast a company, at least PLAY THEIR LATEST GAME before doing so, especially when that game is being touted as a revolutionary RPG experience. In short, the guy is a moron... mostly. I did agree with his sentiment about retaining towns in FF and that JRPGs don't have to create an open world environment to be "next gen". |
I love ya, and I agree with you on your second and third points, but I disagree with your first one. Square-Enix never took a half-decent attempt at home console RPGs. No mainline Dragon Quests, and not even a mainline Final Fantasy until now. They've hardly tried on home consoles at all this generation. They have no excuse. But I do see their reasons for developing on handhelds.
