What happened to JRPGs and will the Genre ever dominate again?

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bonkers555 said:

Max King of the Wild said:
I like the simplified JRPGs, I liked wild arms on playstation. Earth Bound on nes. Final fantasy VII and VIII on playstation. I played for the story not game play. When they started all this realtime action nonsense or ridiculous overcomplicated stats and stuffs is when i fell out of liking them.

EarthBound was on the SNES.

I agree with you though. What make's JRPGs great was great story telling and simple gameplay. Reason why I love Lost Odyssey and can't stand the Tales series.

Yeah, Lost Odyssey is legit.  It's spoiled me for other JRPG's this gen.  Nothing comes close to it.  'Course it's real slim pickings, but still.