Final Fantasy was my first favorite and continues to be. I couldn't happier with its current state.

Definitely.  I don't think Japan Studio have submitted to the "AAA or not at all" model yet so there's plenty of hope.  Freedom Wars/Soul Sacrifice/Gravity Rush/Oreshika, though being handheld titles, are games that are somewhere in between being massive games and being niche games.

Final Fantasy will always be my favorite RPG series, but it is rather a mess. I am looking forward to FFXV... whenever they decide to release it, that is. Bravely Default has turned out to be a nice offshoot of FF though.

Dragon Quest seems like it's stuck in Japan forever and only gets released if Nintendo decides to publish it here. I keep hoping Dragon Quest VII 3DS will show up, and while it might, I'm not holding my breath for it.

Right now, Tales is the most reliable RPG series out there, and I do support it heavily.

I was the same as your whole story explained but I f ell in love with the series when my parents got me and my brother Final Fantasy for one Christmas but not until I got a SNES and FF4 did I actively tried to seek the genre out.

I don't think you were becoming burnt out on JRPGs, just that the newer RPGs weren't as good.  If you can go back and play the other games and still play for long periods of time, then it's the game, not the genre.

I didn't like Final Fantasy 10 either, which is why it's not on that 100 good RPGs list I made.  When we got to this gen and I played some really bad JRPGs like the Hyperdimension Neptunia games, Final Fantasy 13, 13-2, or Ni No Kuni.  Or there were games I thought were decent but not very good like the Atelier games or Star Ocean the Last Hope because of its gameplay.  I did like some JRPGs I've played though, like White Knight Chronicles 2, a lot of portable games,  I was thinking that Final Fantasy 10 wasn't so bad of a game and that everything else around and before that time was just so good, that I never truly played a bad RPG(outside of Monster Seed and Eternal Eyes which are awful.)  So once the HD version released I've been replaying it.  Guess my opinion on Final Fantasy 10 HD?  I didn't go in thinking it'd be a bad game, I just played it and just like the original Final Fanatasy 10, there were a lot of glaring problems that just make this game so boring.  My opinion on the game was the exact same as when  played it so long ago.  At that time I actually finished it though.  Now, it's really hard for me to force myself to push through because I know how much further I have to go.  I'm at Guadosalam and really have no desire to finish the game.  I haven't touched my PS3 lately simply because I'd rather finish the game before starting another one, but I don't want to start another one without finishing it, so my PS3 has just been sitting there.

Same with Final Fantasy 12.  I've actually gave t hat game four chances, playing it around six to eight hours each time.  The game is such a grind fest for money.  It really wasn't enjoyable to me.  Maybe if I go back to it give it enough chances I'll eventually beat it,but I doubt my opinion will change.

Instead of playing new RPGs, why not play older RPGs you may not have played yet?  Breath of Fire 4 isn't as good as Breath of Fire 3, but it's still a great game.  Breath of Fire 5 is disliked by a lot of people, but another great game imo.  If you want to play some really amazing games, go to that list I made, start from the top, and every game you haven't played, download and emulate it(because some are too expensive) or purchase it   The closer to the top they are, the closer they are to 10/10 imo.

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Final Fantasy was my favorite RPG series since the very first one and how I'll still purchase every title despite disappointment after disappointment means that I still haven't completely given up on the series even the my words might state otherwise.  After Final Fantasy 9, the main series has been bad, but their sub series have all been great.  Final Fantasy 10-2 has a horrible storyline, but the gameplay more than makes up for it.  Dirge of Cerberus is hated by most Final Fantasy fans, most who probably haven't played it, but it's an incredibly smooth controlling and well developed third person shooter, even ecompared to a lot of todays tps games.  Dissidia and Dissidia Duodecim may be pretty when it comes to fighters, and the storyline and single player might be a complete borefest, but there's something that makes those games fun to play, just as long as you're playing with friends.  

Breath of Fire is one of the few RPG series without a bad game and the first was merely good.  Starting from the second onward, the games were great or amazing.  It's been a long  time since a new one and I thought the series was dead, but yay, we got a new one.  For mobile :(.  So yeah.  The series is pretty much dead.

Wild ARMs is another RPG series where there's yet to be a bad game in the series.  The series started out great and with Wild ARMs 4 and XF they're just good.  Haven't played the fifth though.  I have to collector's edition or limited edition, whatever people like to call the versions with extra packaging.

Arc the Lad.  To be fair, I became a fan of this series after playing a single release which included all three games.  The first one?  Just good.  The second one though is the reason I became a fan.  A good example to how it felt going from the first to the second is like playing Final Fantasy on the NES t hen playing Final Fantasy 6.  Such a huge jump, the game was literally amazing, and it's in my top three games of all time.  The gameplay is excellent, so much worthwhile content, etc.  Arc the Lad 3 was then a major drop in quality from the second, but the sections that it does well, thanks to Arc the Lad 2, it still does very well.  Then Arc the Lad Twilight of Spirits, which I rated lower on that top 100 than Arc the Lad 3 is actually better in terms of gameplay, storyline is a bit worse, but still a good game.  I'm finally at where I'm getting to in the story.  Arc the Lad End of Darkness, end of the series, and one incredibly boring action  game.  It takes the world Twilight of Spirits, takes it to where yyou can use all the Arc the Lad characters as long as you acquire their cards I think, takes the quest system from Arc the Lad 2 which t's not good this time around, and adds some really stiff repetitive action gameplay to it.  I quit playing this game within an hour.  Tried playing one more time, but quit during the first mission.  This game single handedly killed the series.

  Legend of Legaia.  Two great games and the series dropped off the face of the planet. 

Shin Megami Tensei.  Persona 1 is a spinoff, but was the only game I've played in the series prior to SMT Nocturne, and I liked the game, but also didn't really like it much because of how slow combat was because casting personas couldn't be skipped on the PSX version and a few other things that bothered me.  SMT Nocturne made me a fan though.  It's still the best out of any game in the franchise I've played since, including any spinoffs like Persona 4.  Every game in the series I've played since has been pretty good though.  SMT4 is a great game, Persona 4 is a great game, and Devil Summoner Soul Hackers is good, but that was originally a PSX game anyways.

Star Ocean Second Evolution is arguable my favourite rpg of all time.I could go on for days how many JRPGs I have played.I love FF,Tales of series,Valkyrie profile,Chrono Trigger,Xenogears,Grandia these are just a few I love.

Your back in my good graces, everyone else is dead to me. 

Final Fantasy: well... i'm enjoying FFXIV and have high hopes for FFXV

Tales: That series is doing well and I'm happy I'll be getting TWO titles this year with Xillia 2 and Hearts R

Suikoden: I'm afraid i wont see that series make a return, such a big loss

Wild Arms: I miss this series, hoping to see a title this gen at some point

Atelier: So glad I discovered this series this gen, it's a favourite and it keeps getting better with every release, very happy that it doesnt seem like it will go away anytime soon.

I have always been a big fan of JRPGs. I loved Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Dragon Quest, and Final Fantasy. I think particular series are in the decline and sadly by force of the company to expand the franchise to a larger audience. I don't like how Dragon Quest in Japan has turned into a MMORPG. Luckily, neither has Japanese fans so they will likely will make a single player title in the next installment. I also don't like where Final Fantasy has went being very linear with personally a ridiculous story. I love JRPGs for exploration and epic story tellng.

I never was into tales but Bandia Namco swooped in with Tales of Gracies f and Tales of Xillia (still playing). I think Tales of Gracies f has an incredible story with nice twists. I also enjoyed Eternal Sonata. I have Ni No Kuni its gorgeous what I have played, still need to get back to it. I also really enjoyed Lost Odyssey. I am ashamed I never got around to beating that game.

Ill rebuy Skies of Arcadia Legends in a heartbeat.

I first started playing Japanese role-playing games during the SNES era. Titles like Secret of Mana, Breath of Fire, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, and Final Fantasy VI (III as it was known where I lived) were some of my favorite games of the genre at the time. I did play some Japanese role-playing games earlier during the NES era, but I think I was too young too appreciate them, like Dragon Warrior (still have the cartridge, lol) or the first Final Fantasy.

Since then I've played various other franchises like Grandia, Suikoden, Xenogears, Xenosaga, Star Ocean, Arc the Lad, Skies of Arcadia, and so on (far too much to keep track of), so I consider myself a fan of the genre.

As for recent titles in the past generation, I've enjoyed Lost Odyssey, Valkyria Chronices, Xenoblade Chronicles, Demon's Souls/Dark Souls, Dragon's Dogma, the Tales games, Resonance of Fate, Nier, Final Fantasy XIII, and I'm sure I'm forgetting several others, and have enjoyed them all to certain degrees.  I personally don't see a huge decline in the genre, but I do feel that many of the developers in Japan have shifted to handheld development for a variety of reasons (install base, poor economy, etc.), and for console-only gamers, it may seem like there have been fewer RPGs, but for people with a PSP and DS, there have been a ton of games.

I also think that Western RPG developers are a bit more in-tune with western consumers, and as those developers moved from PC to consoles in the past couple of generations, we've probably seen a lot of RPG gamers gravitate towards that direction.  I personally enjoy RPGs from different regions and developers, because hey, variety is the spice of life.