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zexen_lowe on 13 June 2009
makingmusic476 said:
I excluded the Persona titles because I'm looking at the current gen.

If Persona 5 is announced, then we'll talk lol.

Still, it's a game that was released last year that eclipses everything. It could have been released in any next gen console just as it was now, it would have been exactly the same.




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Torillian on 13 June 2009
leo-j said:
Torillian said:
Well ok, how bout this then, what were the amazing and technically impressive JRPG's of the last gen?

Persona 4, Persona 3, Kingdom hearts II,  Final fantasy X, very good JRPG's!

And none of those have seen a current gen iteration in the series.  So the answer for why this gen haven't seen any of those was pretty easy.



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leo-j on 13 June 2009

Would you consider ICO an rpg?



 

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Torillian on 13 June 2009

No I would not. Ico has no stats, no stat building, no leveling, no experience, nothing that would define it as an RPG.



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g-value on 13 June 2009
zexen_lowe said:
I think your problem is that you excluded Persona. Not every JRPG back then was great, only a few were. There was always crap. If FF7 shined back in 1997, Persona 4 shined in 2008. One only needs to look at that game to see how the genre is constantly evolving. Yeah, maybe some devs are lazy, maybe they got a bit behind, maybe the next gen surprised them. But, as long as there are companies like Atlus, JRPGs will be fine


Are you serious? One game (or one company) can't carry a whole genre. And no jrpgs are not crap. I can name a sh*t load of great jrpgs.



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zexen_lowe on 13 June 2009
leo-j said:
Would you consider ICO an rpg?

No, I don't think anyone except megaman thinks it's an RPG. Of course, there are some people that think Zelda is an RPG, so go figure




Torillian on 13 June 2009
zexen_lowe said:
leo-j said:
Would you consider ICO an rpg?

No, I don't think anyone except megaman thinks it's an RPG. Of course, there are some people that think Zelda is an RPG, so go figure

oh I know, drives me crazy.



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reaver_x on 13 June 2009
g-value said:
zexen_lowe said:
I think your problem is that you excluded Persona. Not every JRPG back then was great, only a few were. There was always crap. If FF7 shined back in 1997, Persona 4 shined in 2008. One only needs to look at that game to see how the genre is constantly evolving. Yeah, maybe some devs are lazy, maybe they got a bit behind, maybe the next gen surprised them. But, as long as there are companies like Atlus, JRPGs will be fine


Are you serious? One game (or one company) can't carry a whole genre. And no jrpgs are not crap. I can name a sh*t load of great jrpgs.

uhhhh didnt final fantasy do this???




 

 

                     

zexen_lowe on 13 June 2009
g-value said:
zexen_lowe said:
I think your problem is that you excluded Persona. Not every JRPG back then was great, only a few were. There was always crap. If FF7 shined back in 1997, Persona 4 shined in 2008. One only needs to look at that game to see how the genre is constantly evolving. Yeah, maybe some devs are lazy, maybe they got a bit behind, maybe the next gen surprised them. But, as long as there are companies like Atlus, JRPGs will be fine


Are you serious? One game (or one company) can't carry a whole genre. And no jrpgs are not crap. I can name a sh*t load of great jrpgs.

Huh? Who said they were??. And read my post again. I said "as long as there are companies like Atlus", not "as long as there is Atlus"




g-value on 13 June 2009
zexen_lowe said:
g-value said:
zexen_lowe said:
I think your problem is that you excluded Persona. Not every JRPG back then was great, only a few were. There was always crap. If FF7 shined back in 1997, Persona 4 shined in 2008. One only needs to look at that game to see how the genre is constantly evolving. Yeah, maybe some devs are lazy, maybe they got a bit behind, maybe the next gen surprised them. But, as long as there are companies like Atlus, JRPGs will be fine


Are you serious? One game (or one company) can't carry a whole genre. And no jrpgs are not crap. I can name a sh*t load of great jrpgs.

Huh? Who said they were??. And read my post again. I said "as long as there are companies like Atlus", not "as long as there is Atlus"


Read the bolded.