Who do you believe is the most over rated developer?

[naznatips]

shio said:

naznatips said:

shio said:

Fallout 1 & 2 have more personality than 99.9% of jRPGs (actually make that 100%); The Witcher, based on a polish novel, shows how well a open game can tell a story.

I agreed with the rest of the post that open-endedness doesn't have to kill story, but these 2 lines at the end bothered me.

You haven't played 100% of JRPGs. You don't like JRPGs, and are a PC gamer. You haven't even played 10% of JRPGs. So please don't make a claim like that.

As far as The Witcher, it probably would have told the story better without so many translation issues. Still a reasonably good game, but man the story was just gratingly awful sometimes.

I've not played all them (nowhere near that), but I have played almost all of the so-called great jRPGs, so I have a pretty good idea. I love all types of RPGs, but from my experience Western RPGs are mostly superior to the Japanese counterparts. I don't think there would be a jRPG in my modern top10 (I mean despite the year it came out)

I've actually started playing RPGs because of jRPGs. My first experience was on Megadrive playing one of the Wonderboy games, and FF8 was the game that trully made me a RPG fan and was my favorite RPG for awhile until I played Diablo 2, Fallout 2, Baldur's Gate 2, Planescape: Torment, Arcanum. Western RPGs easily took over my favoritism and jRPGs just seem flawed by design.

I'm a firm believer that a non-linear RPG can have a better story than a linear, because interactivity has a serious hold on immersion.

FF games hardly consititute the greatest JRPGs, and they certainly don't constitute the best stories. Especially not FFVII or VIII. If you really want to see a great RPG plot play Persona 3, Breath of Fire 4, Fire Emblem (GC and Wii games), Xenosaga, Odin Sphere, and Xenogears. Out of the FF-style games VI, IX, and Chrono Trigger have the best plots. These games excelled at creating atmosphere, style, and storytelling.