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Kasz216 on 14 June 2008
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mrstickball said:
ZenfoldorVGI said:
Diomedes1976 said:
Well ,if truth has to be told the best JRPG for the 360 is Lost Oddysey that is a solid 8 not more.

Its maybe too soon to say things as RPG king dont you think ?

Well, I liked LO, but the load times and slow pace ruined the end for me.

 

I'd say Eternal Sonata is much better. That's just my opinion though.

 

However, in Japan, it is getting a PS3 release also.


Ah. Thats the crux of the JRPG curse.

Turn based "traditional" JRPGs tend to do better due to the simplistic menu-based concept, and it seems that J-Gamers prefer that. Innovative (battle wise) titles like Eternal Sonata, Rogue Galaxy, Odin Sphere, and others langush in sales, while the "big ones" are almost always stale, and lack innovation...Yet do much better.

Kingdom Hearts is the last big JRPG I've seen that's broke the mold, and done well in it's native country. It seems that the west is far more favorable to said action JRPGs, and ones that wander away from the typical formula...It seems like the US got tired of Dragon Quest/Warrior after it moved from NES to SNES and further...While FF still maintains some sort of decent sales in the US at times.


 

That's the thing that i don't get though.  Why are turn based RPGs considered stale?

I mean look at just about any other genre... and it's different.  Turn based games often have differences... just the battle system stays the same.  Just how FPS often allow you to use different guns... but it still stays FP.

Look at Dungeons and Dragons, they change a lot from game to game... yet they still keep a LOT.  Those changes per edition are similar to the differences in various turn based RPGs... yet are seen as stale... while D&D is not.

I'd say the differences between turn based games are just as varied as any other genre... and just seen as stale by the west because the west didn't really like turn based RPGs in the first place.