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combat looks half decent this time around though. bit like kingdom hearts.
Also i hope you can play it with japanese VOs and subtitles.
I can appreciate certain aspects of the JRPG genre, but the overall style has always been a major turn off for me. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed FF 7-10 back in the day, but even way back then I found them to be very cheesy.
I can appreciate certain aspects of the JRPG genre, but the overall style has always been a major turn off for me. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed FF 7-10 back in the day, but even way back then I found them to be very cheesy.
I played FFXIII for about 10 hours and it was the worst game I bought in the entire span of the Gen. Yes, tube levels and a very shallow fighting systems were bad enough, but those were not the main reason my stomach grumbled in anger.
The cheesy lines and the ridiculous stances and moves in the cut-scenes made me hate EVERY character of the game.
No matter how sad or dramatic they tried to be, I couldn't take none of it seriously.
jRPGs just need to simplify their stories and be more straight forward and bam, the genre would be revived. That's why i still love a lot of older jRPGs. Phantasy star, Lunar, Chrono Trigger and Suyikoden. They have a simple focus; telling an adventure story. That makes them easy to like. How are you supposed to like a game that makes a David Lynch film seem coherent?
Yeah, it doesn't look natural to me. They look like they were designed as a group, not as characters. If that makes any sense to you. If you want to make the comparison with FF7, just look at the characters there. They really look like a rag-tag group that just kinda happened, whereas these guys look like they are ready to do a dance number to a pop song. Compare Cloud, Barret and Cid to well...guy in black, guy in black with tattoo and guy in black with vest. It's like if the entire cast of FF7 was Sephiroth, only with different hair and shirt (though still black mind you).
FFI-IX and Tactics, Suikoden I-III, Chrono Trigger and Cross, Xenogears, Grandia I and III, Valkyrie Profile, Tactics Ogre, Breath of Fire III-IV, Vagrant Story, Persona 3-4, Xenoblade Chronicles, Tales of Vesperia, Dragon Quest VIII, Lunar: Silver Star Story, Rogue Galaxy, Dark Cloud 2, Fire Emblem, Earthbound and Dark Souls, just to name a few of many, many more.
There are a lot of JRPGs with extremely bad story, sure - I will never forget Star Ocean: The Last Hope, specially in recent times, but a lot of the old JRPG games have incredible stories - and gameplay.
I believe GamesRadar's "Best JRPGs" article describes it best:
"There was a time that Japanese RPGs were the pinnacle of game design, with developers constantly one-upping each other with better storylines, combat systems, and mechanics. Now, the art of the traditional JRPG is all but dead".
Just because Lolita Fantasy 13(x3) and Gay Fantasy 15 - sorry for the jokes if it offends any fans - didn't or doesn't seem it will, respectively, live up to their heritage, doesn't mean they all sucked, like a few people have pointed out.
I know the JRPGs' genre is not what it used to be, but that's why if someone is looking for great JRPGs, you can never go wrong by going backwards/retro.
Below is a list of links to articles and forums' threads that recommend a lot of great JRPGs, be it overall or story and gameplay wise (also, a nice discussion on NeoGAF about what makes a good JRPG story):
The Top 10 JRPG Stories:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/17/the-top-10-...
The 20 JRPGs You Must Play:
http://kotaku.com/the-20-jrpgs-you-must-play-12222...
Ten Modern JRPGs Worth Playing:
http://kotaku.com/5984618/ten-modern-jrpgs-worth-p...
Best JRPGs:
http://www.gamesradar.com/best-jrpgs/
Top 25 Best Japanese RPGs of All Time:
http://www.gameranx.com/features/id/16096/article/...
NeoGAF - NeoGAF's Essential RPGs - 2015 edition:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95176...
NeoGAF - Which Ps1 RPGs have the best storylines?:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85772...
NeoGAF - Best Scifi JRPG's:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10013...
NeoGAF - What Makes a Good JRPG Story?:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61056...
NeoGAF - Your Top 5 JRPGs of this Generation?:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44732...
NeoGAF - Best Story in a PSP RPG?:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43677...
Giant Bomb Forums - Recommend me a JRPG with an excellent story:
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion...
Giant Bomb Forums - What's the best story you experienced in a JRPG?:
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion...
The Best JRPGs For Beginners:
http://kotaku.com/the-best-jrpgs-for-beginners-157...
The Escapist Forums - Recommend the two best JRPG's in history:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.3962...
That said, i think storytelling in games in general is pretty terrible. Most games dont do it well, not just jRPGs.
I will stress again, this is nothing more than a PS3 developed game at full 1080p.
@Nietzsche That is just the way the world is today. Gamers complain about the most mundane things that weren't even looked at as much years ago. Even down to the combat of the game. It was announced way back in 2008 that this would play more like Kingdom Hearts but tomorrow some moronic gaming "journalist" website will still run an article about how shocked and completely caught off guard they were with the combat in this game.
Best example is Telltale's The Walking Dead series, the story is superb, but as much as I love it, it doesn't offer much gameplay wise - though it's very popular and sold very well.
The contrary is also true, a lot of games with great gameplay mechanics and game design have terrible to average story/narrative, i.e. Star Ocean: The Last Hope.
So there's this very thin balance zone between these areas that is very easy to miss in games of any genre, not just JRPGs. And it seems mostly indie games are getting it right nowadays.
Still, if a lot of RPGs - which are best known for their story and lore - in recent times are lacking in the story department, what does that say about the state of story telling in games in general?
There are some great articles, video panels and discussions about story telling/narrative in games, story telling vs gameplay and etc. I really recommend Ken Levine's, Sony's, and Bethesda's ones - drawing a blank on any others right now.
Some great articles on the subject:
IGN - The Future of Video Game Storytelling:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/13/the-future-...
Kotaku - Storytelling and Gameplay in Video Games:
http://tay.kotaku.com/storytelling-and-gameplay-in...
6 Storytelling Problems Video Games Still Can't Fix:*
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-video-games-...
*Sociopathic Heroes; Cartoonish Villains; Inappropriately Mute Heroes; Lore Spiraling Out of Control; Padding the Missions Just to Make the Game Longer; and Introducing Big Thematic Ideas, Then Ignoring Them
PS. I also hope Link never speaks, because hearing some of the dialogue in a The Legend of Zelda game in English wouldn't be any better than those cheesy dialogue in Final Fantasy XIII.