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for thos of you who LISTENED to the 1up Podcast last week Their IMPRESSIONS MIRRORED IGN's..

I played the Blue Dragon demo and didn't like it either. I played the Eternal Sonata demo and enjoyed it thoroughly. I bought both games and now the opposite is true. I loved Blue Dragon and I have finished the game. Eternal Sonata is a different matter. The game isn't bad, but I just not having that much fun with it. Demo's aren't always good indicators of the final product. 

Blue Dragon is a very good RPG after the first 10 hours.  It's stupid that the developers made the beginning so crappy, but after that it's actually very good!

This game is on my list, but Im cautious about it. Reviews and some trusted peoples impressions are going to help decide.

Man, RPG for this next generation have been a HUGE dissapointment!!

Like the game starring the very person you named yourself after? And don't tell me that has changed because the formats have. Games don't flop because they are on more than one discs. That doesn't mean there are not multi-disc flops. It just means that being multi-disc, just by itself, is not one of the causes.

In other words, no, blu-ray on the PS3 is not a good idea soley because of no multi-disc games. There can be other benefits, but running one disc games is not it. 

 Ha ha,the irony, Squall from Final Fantasy VIII bashing a JRPG from Hironobu Sakaguchi for being 4 disks big. If getting your ass off the couch every 10 hours isnt a big deal. 

I think we are in a age where it should not take four discs to fit a game. I'm not saying that it being four discs makes the game bad, but it can be an inconvenience.

Its definitely an inconvenience to blue ray lovin early adopters that swear by it, the rest of the mass market, they dont really care.

When will everyone stop tossing a "J" on RPGs? When games like Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 7, Legend of Dragoon, etc came out, nobody said "This is the best JAYrpg ever", they simply called it an RPG. It should be undertsood that RPGs are Japanese, however, calling a game a WRPG (Western) is different as Westerners try and make RPGs of their own. But still, when it comes to Final Fantasies and Dragon Quests.....leave the "J" out, because those same games weren't called "JRPGs" 10 years earlier.

Oh how I miss the days of yore........

/silly rant over

 In my humbled opinion its been Jrpg's that have been a big dissapointment this gen. Oblivion and Mass Effect= awesome next gen Rpg's.