Why are JRPG's still being built the way they are? ( long read)

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KylieDog said:

Alphachris said:
I am all about Story.

The point of an RPG is to Role-Play.  Carve your own story with your own character.  You cannot role-play if the developer decided everything about the main player character and story.  Story is why most JRPGs are poor RPGs.  What you want is any game not an RPG.

That's just one way to look at it. RPG also mean you get to choose the class  of your character through leveling up certain stats, choose the preferable weapons / skills / spells in battle while telling a good story ( or any story at all ).  Carve your own story with your own character are just words really, most if not all player driven RPGs are absolutly shallow in term of story and depth of characters. Different aims, different styles .. not "poor" or anything like that.