When did you give up on the JRPG?

[.jayderyu]

chocoloco said:

I loved final fantasy seven. It caused me to go from a Nintendo only player in N64 days to a playstation player. I sold my gigantic N64 gear to play final fantasy seven.

But, now after years of gaming I have changed and can no longer enjoy Final Fantasy. As the series has gotten worse and worse since seven. In fact,  I would say the game has become boring its game play makes you feel like a baseball manager who gives orders and doesn't actually participate in the action. You use the same techniques over and over to win, basically it is redundant and boring. The story of final fantasy remains good yet, you keep playing your boring manegorial duties to advance an only average story.SHIT I might as well watch a movie.

 

Perhaps modern games have changed me, I used to mostly play only JRPG's during the PS1's late and the PS2's early years. I used to laugh at my step-brothers playing of games like Rachet and clanck because they were so fast paced. Now every game I love is fast paced.

 

Little did I realize that fast paced Games that actually requiire skill verses endless, repetitive, manajorial duties. AM I ALONE ON GIVING UP ON THE JRPG OR DO YOU  STICK TO WHAT IS KNOWN AND COMFORTABLE ONLY?

 

For me FF7. I loved FF6 I still enjoy an occasion JRPG where the story is more philisophical like The World Ends With You. However I've been claiming this declaration that is the "problem" with JRPG. The normal JRPG is not actually a game in any sense of the word. Games are by nature a competition where you can lose. In a JRPG you can't lose you move from fight to fight with not intention of losing in the game design. Why have a fight simulator when the designer knows that you have to win. JRPG are a train of fights that are typically not exciting. So why do people play. Simple the story is fun and overall entertaining. That's reason enough. So honestly JRPG should have less fights, but make them very exciting.

Pokemon isn't so much an RPG as it's a excellent power combat simulator. It's combat simulation and strategic elements are top notch. It's just a combat simulator surrounded by a story. Where as JRPG are a story wrapped in a combat simulator.