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kain_kusanagi on 14 March 2013
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ethomaz said:
kain_kusanagi said:
I think the genre either needs to change or it will die. Xenoblade is a great example of a Japanese RPG for the 21st century. It has all the quirkiness and story tropes of a JRPG without the tedious random battles or turn based nonsense that only Japan seems to prefer in great enough number to warrant further releases.

I don't think the traditional JRPG will die completely. I do think it will shrink to the naturally small niche genre that it was before Final Fantasy exploded it's popularity. WRPGs have taken the place of JRPGs and I don't see that changing any time soon.

I think what people really like about JRPGs is the Japanese style in character design, plot, etc. I don't think that the majority of JRPG player that came into the genre with FF7 are totally in love with the JRPG gameplay. Japanese devs need to fine a balance between Japanese content style and Western gameplay.

The genre will never dead... JRPG was never made to west gamers... weat gamers that like JRPG import from Japan (like me).

I like the NIS games because the gameplay... the battlesystem and the full numbered stats... it is so fun to make and grow up chars.

The problem with JRPG is just that you said they are trying to do... westernize to try to have more sales in west... so because that the FFXIII is considered the worst FF ever made (I never played)... if FFXIII was like FFVII the world could be small for this franchise with sales and hype over any other JRPG ever made.

The big JRPG developers like Square Enix needs to back to the roots to create again game enjoyable.

PS. JRPG today is so strong with more than two titles launched per month.

FF XIII was not made to appeal to western gamers. It was made even more Japanese style than past ones. The battle system is still turn based and the game follows all the Japanese RPG tropes that appeals to the Japanese. Western RPGs are nonlinear and western gamers love big worlds like Mass Effect and Elder Scrolls, FF XIII is linear just like all JRPGs. The problem with FF XIII was it wasn't a great game. It wasn't a bad game, it just wasn't a great game. The only major difference between it and past Final Fantasy games is its lack of towns. All you do in towns is talk to people and buy/sell stuff and you still get to talk to people and buy/sell stuff in FF XIII.