Is JRPGs dying?

[lestatdark]

Crystalchild said:

Mr Puggsly said:

AOvechkin08 said:

Home Console JRPG's are dying unfortunatley. Japanese developers just don't seem to be making them very much this gen, I blame all the shooters.

I blame JRPG developers for not creating innovative or interesting JRPGs. Graphics aside they are basically the same old crap we've been playing since the 16-bit days.

Deveopers of shooters have greatly raised the bar in that genre.

well, shooters are like they were in the 90ties also.. the only thing that has maybe changed is physics (=Destruction of Buildings, etc.) and Graphics (sick looking things n sequences).

they are the same shizz too, except for online multiplayer...

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Destructible environments have been around in shooters since the 80s and 90s. The first recorded case of a shooter having Fully Destructible environments is a shooter made by Enix in 1983 called Kagirinaki Tatakai. 

The first FPS to have fully destructible environments was also made in the 90s, for the Sega Saturn, called Ghen war.

Also, if you take in account the fact that most FPS always had some sort of environment destruction, be it in some objects or pre-set locations, games like Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Blood 2 and so on, also had that system.