Zim said:
brendude13 said:
I beg to differ.
Anyway, reviewers in general need to kick their reviewers into shape and completely change their scoring system. They also need to stop scoring games depending on the amount of hype it has, Skyrim and Mass Effect get seriously over-inflated review scores, while a masterpiece like Tales of Vesperia slips under the radar and sits at a 79 on metacritic. You guys can argue about Final Fantasy all you like, but almost every JRPG fan and gamers in general will tell you that Tales of Vesperia is a fantastic game, it's a shame it hasn't been localised on the PS3.
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I disagree about Mass Effect getting over-inflated scores. Those are 2 of the greatest games ever made.
However you are right about Jrpgs. Tales of Vesperia is easily the best this generation. FF13 got much better reviews than it should have because of hype and graphics. While Vesperia, Star Ocean, Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon got vilified in reviews simply for being Japanese RPGs. Reminded me of the Penny Arcade comic about Enchanted arms where reviews seemed to be attacking it simply because it was a Jrpg.
I actually think the biggest problem Jrpgs have this generation are the fans. The number of people who complain about their being no good jrpgs but you talk to them and they haven't played Xenoblade, Vesperia, Star Ocean, Lost Odyssey or Blue Dragon and it's like well there you go. I would say Vesperia and Xeno are two of the best Jrpgs ever. While Lost Odyssey easily has the best writing of any Jrpg by a long shot.
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A lot of those you listed are 360 exclusives. There's the problem. PS2 had a lot of great JRPGs so naturally many of these people upgraded to a PS3.
