Are console JRPGs a dying breed, or will they make a comeback next gen?

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Marucha said:

I don't know. I really love them, I hope they will come back, but even if they do, the storylines have changed some in tone to fit more of what's popular thesedays... more and more RPGs take a serious tone. For me, I don't play games to read novels or to engage in serious thinking... for me, gaming is very much a relaxation sorta activity. I do it in-between things and I like the occasional RPG where the art is inspiring and beautiful and I have the power of suspense of disbelief, so being taken into an imaginary world is really nice... it doesn't have to be super serious all the time and I just like the scenery and the gameplay to take me into another world, not worry so much about the obvious non-sensical stuff.

My husband loves the Disgaea series, but it's all humor and it's confined to mini battlefields, so not enough depth for me... even though yeah, the system itself--I see it has a TON of depth... but as much as I like gameplay, I need a rich scenery and something to escape into. It's hard to do that with a strategy game... though I loved Final Fantasy Tactics... it's a little weird to compare the two though.

That's what I like about JRPGs too. What I've never liked are random battles and heavy state/turn based battle systems. That's why I like games like Xenoblade. It has all the qwurkiness that Japanese games are known for as well as an imaginative world with interesting, although cliche, characters but the battle system is active.