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oniyide on 21 December 2013
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Michael-5 said:
Jumpin said:

Well, I agree. There are two different crowds of RPG fans, the more mainstream RPG gamers that play games like Chrono Trigger, Pokemon, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, of which Nintendo has of abundance in their audience. Then there are the RPGs meant for basement-nerds which include stuff like the dungeon of dragons and Dark Soul.

The basement-nerd type RPGs don't really appeal to Nintendo fans. Basement-nerds usually hate Nintendo and would never by a Nintendo system.

So much wrong with this....

First of all you're over-generalizing. XenoBlade, Last Story, and Pandora's Tower are 3 JRPG's which are not mainstream, and also Nintendo. So with your category's no one wants these games, yet XenoBlade sold as well as a typical Tales of title.

Second of all, Dungeons and Dragons is a WRPG Board game. It has a completely different demograph then the JRPG fanbase, so if anything very few people would like both D&D & Dark Souls

Third, I think any truly hardcore JRPG fan is by definition also a Nintendo fan. Like I said above, many of the best JRPG's tend to be Nintendo or Sony exclusives. XenoBlade Chronicles for Wii, as well as Infinite Space for DS, Fire Emblem Awakening for 3DS, Baten Kaitos for Gamecube, Golden Sun for GBA, Tactics Ogre for N64, Chrono Trigger for SNES, etc, etc have been among the best JRPG of their respective generations. How can you be a real hardcore JRPG fan, and not a Nintendo fan at the same time? I fit into this category.

its actually quite easy if you started gaming in the PS era then that system had the best library for JRPGs period, nothing else came close. N64 had like a dozen titles in that category. That passed on to PS2, which had a better JRPG library. One could make an argument for GBA in those days but most of those were ports...which isnt bad.