OP: I agree with you wholeheartedly. What is happening now is simply the RPG and JRPG suffering the same fate as FPS, RTS, Sports games, Racers and most other genres have this generation; "casualization" as I call it. Games and genres that used to hold some depth and thought are being warped into unrecognizable lumps and mere shadows of their former selves.
I don't mind casual games, nor do I mind those that would wish to play them but I do mind seeing RPG's being torn apart and turned into action games or straight up shooters slowly but certainly.
The RPG was kinda my last bastion, the one genre I knew was going to keep me a gamer for many, many years to come but it just keeps getting dumber and dumber and everything is watered down into a soup entirely without calories and, thus, merit.
Unless FF Versus XIII surprises me a great deal or FFXIV turns out brilliant somehow (I hate MMO's) I really don't think I'll be buying any more FF games either.
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