| Michael-5 said: Well..... I'm still waiting on a great Final Fantasy. So far Lost Odyssey was the only good JRPG from Square Enix and the people who left it (Mistwalkers). Everything else is good, but nothing special. WRPG's seem to be taking the show. |
Hmm. For me Final Fantasy XIII was the best game of this whole generation. Its storytelling reached another level of intensity and I am really looking forward to FF XIII-2. Even if FF XIII is getting harsh critics it is well regarded in Japan and most of europe... It was game of the Year in 2009 in Japan and in Germany it won the overall Game of the year 2010 on Animax (fan polls).
On the other hand I have yet to play a single WRPG that I could like even a single bit. Oblivion was one of the worst games this gen for me... The lack of a good main story made it the most boring game I have ever played for more than 30 hours.... and sidequests are mostly repetitive and meaningless ways of stretching the game length...
Dragon Age was the next heavy dissapointment. My wife fell asleep during the first origin story because it was simply not very exciting. And this dialogue system just ruins the pace of the game... everytime a dialogue starts you are interrupted and have to choose an answer without actually knowing what will happen and I always feared that I could miss something important by chosing the wrong dialogue option and I would have to play through the game again... so I always felt stressed and couldn't enjoy the story (that wasn't told in a thrilling way anyway)... and what where the developers thinking about your characters armor covered with blood after fights...simply disgusting.
Mass Effect 2 was the next hyped game that I couldn't enjoy a single bit. It played more like a Shooter than like a RPG and I hated that dialogue system again.
I could go further into detail but i don't want to ruin the games for their fans. I just wanted to point out that many features of WRPGS can also be seen as really awful game design choices.
Well, and even if Pokemon is selling millions of copies... I personally do not regard Pokemon as true JRPG because of the lack of story, character development and moral dilemmas... its more its own genre... monster training simulation or something like that.
