I have yet to satisfy my JRPG crave, help!

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Rob-Ot on 10 December 2010

Kyren said:

well the production levels are different and well FF13 had a less grindy leveling up system but it wasn't the same for the weapons. FF13 also had a long development time and a lot of money in graphics and sounds. The battles were boring but not horrible. In those other games there were just things that are horrible but had something fun so they sort of balance out but not everyone has patience to let go of those horrible things.

I disagree I found FF13 to have a very fun battle system (better than the other games I mentioned), music and art design. The story & dialogue was so bad though which ruined everything for me. In the end its a matter of opinion though which is very mixed for FF13.

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Zlejedi on 10 December 2010

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well, as bad as FFXIII was, WKC is much worse. Especially along the the storyline front (the bread and butter of any good RPG). WKC did have a somewhat interesting online component, but there is so much grinding involved that it would kill off your interest long before you could really do much with it.

I don't know if you are a multi system owner, but honestly, imo there hasn't been a JRPG this gen that can beat Lost Odyssey. Still the best out there. Demon souls was fun, but like you said, it plays like a WRPG (which isn't bad, but not what you are looking for).

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I forgot about Star Ocean 4 International has anyone played that?

Or even some Tales games?

I haven't played them too much due to lack of time but Eternal Sonata and SO4 look very promising after few hours.

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RageBot on 10 December 2010

Get Suikoden 1 and 2, I think they are on the PSN.

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Rob-Ot on 10 December 2010

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Get Suikoden 1 and 2, I think they are on the PSN.

Suikoden II is amazing that would be a great choice.

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Kyren on 10 December 2010

I guess? For me FF13's battles were like playing ff3 or ff5 simple job changes except less freedom by forcing you to have control over 1 character's skills while the other 2 are AI. Most of the strategy is preempted with the presets for Paradigm shift. It could've given us more freedom if we were allowed to change that while paused or even let us shift characters while in battle. What if I like using Death sometimes or change from Army of one to Highwind? The game certain took out a lot of freedom. The classes were also very basic which maybe this was because the AI would be harder to develop if there were hybrid classes. It felt like it had a great idea but fell short. The battles did look great though and I did like juggling enemies in mid air but there wasn't enough options in the battles. But that's just me ranting and I might not even make any sense to you.

What I want from a game.

Gameplay > Story > Content > Graphics

Visual Style > Graphics

Smooth Camera, Intuitive Controls

Friction! When everything feels right!