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HoloDust on 09 July 2013
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UltimateUnknown said:
HoloDust said:
UltimateUnknown said:
JRPGs, hands down, eyes closed. No WRPG I have ever played has ever hooked me in like games such as Persona, Pokemon and many others.

I get that WRPGs let you build your own characters, but by the end of Persona 3 and 4, I actually CARED for the characters I played with. I felt like I actually truly knew and understood these characters as I knew my friends in real life. I may not have decided where their story went, but their story just grabbed me and made me a part of it. There's just nothing that compares to it. Nothing.


Just curious, what WRPGs have you played?

Mass Effect (1st One), Skyrim, Kingdoms of Amalur, Fallout 3, Fable 2 and probably a few more I can't remember from older gens. I didn't like any of them too much and left them unfinished at some point since I personally don't see any point in playing a game that I don't enjoy.

As they say, different strokes for different folks, those are mostly all pretty good games, not so much as some older ones from cRPG golden age, but still very good in their sub-genres.

But, I do understand your point - for example, I really tried to play couple of FFs, Eartbound, Chrono Trigger and few others, couldn't make myself to play for more than 2-3 days each (luckily I have a friend who loves them, so I can borrow them whenever I feel like trying something new). I think it's probably cultural thing with me, I mostly dislike anime, and most of stereotypes it brings - well, except for Ghibli, so I'll definitely have to pick up Ni No Kuni eventually.

Other thing probably comes from classic pen&paper RPG tradition - while I care for stories and characters in RPGs (and there are a lot WRPGs with exceptional), I much more care for world and completely different ways you can play. Fallout 1/2 being great example how you can get through most of the game with talking/sneaking instead of fighting, if you've built your character that way - not to mention Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, where gameplay is very different depending on what character you decide to play with.