Some PS3 fanboys here are just crazy. "Tri-Ace used to make AAA games only!!!!11 What happened to ye?????? fk you Microsoft!!!111"

Tri-Ace games:

Star Ocean: First Departure - metascore 74
Star Ocean: The Second Story - metascore 77
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time - metascore 80
Valkyrie Profile - metascore 81
Valkyrie Profile 2 - metascore 84
Radiata Stories - metascore 74

Tri-Ace has never ever made an AAA title. Not even once they were close.

After over a decade, you would have guessed that tri-Ace would've made atleast one AAA game.  There must be something wrong with Tri-Ace games if there hasn't been one that has gotten AAA scores.

Here are GI´s latest JRPG reviews:

Blue Dragon - 9
Lost Odyssey - 8.5
Persona 3 - 8.5
Valkyria Chronicles - 8.5
Eternal Sonata - 8.25
Persona 3 FES - 8.25
Persona 4 - 8
Enchanted Arms - 6
Infinite Undiscovery - 8
Tales of Vesperia - 7.25
The Last Remnant - 7
Dragon Quest IV - 7
Dragon Quest V - 7
Chrono Trigger - 9

You can judge by yourselves.

Look up a few posts, Zack

The problem is that the term "AAA" is bullshit. Everyone will have varying opinions on what they like, and a website telling me that game "x" is better than game "y" doesn't mean anything. Most jRPGs do not make it to "AAA" status, which gives the indication that with this genre, fans have to really base their assessment of the game on the review itself and not the score.

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Same for Level-5 - no AAA games since the company has been estabilished in 1998.

I guess some people still dont get it that neither PS3 or 360 is a platform of choice for the genre this gen. There is no fight between the two for the future jRPG games. This fight only exists in fanboys minds. People should be happy that some studious still bother making these games in HD instead of switching to DS/Wii. But instead we have this ridiculously high level of expectations for every exclusive HD jRPG and if scores dont match it then the game is getting trashed (by people who have not played it, of course)

You're right. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that review scores are utterly useless. Reviews should be limited to text only that possibly includes what general audience the reviewers recommend the game for. Scores not only potentially ruin a game's sales, but they incite hate and malice within the gaming community.

Level 5 done Dragon Quest 8 and that's AAA. It's one of the best JRPG's of all-time.

And the Wii still has years to go before it builds up a decent JRPG library. The 360 is the JRPG console ATM.

Oh dear.

Meh, I hate the genre.