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outlawauron on 27 June 2015
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Acevil said:
spemanig said:
No, it's because Japanese culture is extremely alien to western culture, and some people find that unfamiliarity unappealing.

Also, most JRPGs today fall under the new "Anime-RPG" subcategory, which is frankly generally of a lower quality to classic JRPGs.

So it has nothing to do with suspension of disbelief. Nothing to do with justification. Just the age old tale of cultural barriers, lest we forget how niche western games are in Japan.


This is the number one reason, most of my friends would never play a JRPG, and the main reason the quality of JRPG has gone drastically. 

I find this a very poor reason and not really ingrained in reality. Anime JRPGs always existed, you just don't have the open mind you did when you were younger. Chrono Trigger, FF4, FF6, etc. all would be considered an Anime JRPG if they were made today.



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