Siliconemelons
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Should we start the convo that Zelda and Castlevania are not JRPGs?
Heheh
Jk jk
…about the convo…bc they aint
Heheh
Jk jk
…about the convo…bc they aint
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
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jrpg's is one of the many many genres that the industry has tried it's best to abandon. whenever a youtuber goes down the rabbit hole of playing jrpg's he dives right into the SNES-PS1 era JRPG and not so much the shit that came after. it's sad.
i've been consistantly annoyed that jrpg's, RTS (including a campaign or PVE stuff), side scrollers, metroidvanias were largely abandoned in favor of more realistic graphicked beat-em-up style game play. fuck all that. it's sad we had like a 20 year lul in some of these genres really flexing again.
I STILl want another overhead-with-deep-mechanics style zelda game. where you get more tactically useful items and abilities rather than just a "lol wacky" item to beat the dungeon you're in and never t ouch again. and breakable weapons can eat a dick.
I've watched a few podcasts that deep-dived the making of and development of some old jrpgs (state of the arc podcast, they do like FF games, and other jrpg's). one thing they kept commenting on is that the early devs of jrpg's , like the FF6 era loved theater. so their games are like stage plays. then the next generation fancied themselves movie makers. t hey didn't care so much about systems or versitility of interaction, they wanted bombastic set pieces. and it's like that for a number of other genres
and the thing that baffles me the most is that for jrpgs, (and most of the other genres that are dead and abandoned) they were obsessed with making a new fucking game engine each time. any one of us would ahve played chronotrigger sprites, or ff6 sprites over and over, or FF7's materia system in more g ames. but t hey don't. death by not-invented-here
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i've been consistantly annoyed that jrpg's, RTS (including a campaign or PVE stuff), side scrollers, metroidvanias were largely abandoned in favor of more realistic graphicked beat-em-up style game play. fuck all that. it's sad we had like a 20 year lul in some of these genres really flexing again.
I STILl want another overhead-with-deep-mechanics style zelda game. where you get more tactically useful items and abilities rather than just a "lol wacky" item to beat the dungeon you're in and never t ouch again. and breakable weapons can eat a dick.
I've watched a few podcasts that deep-dived the making of and development of some old jrpgs (state of the arc podcast, they do like FF games, and other jrpg's). one thing they kept commenting on is that the early devs of jrpg's , like the FF6 era loved theater. so their games are like stage plays. then the next generation fancied themselves movie makers. t hey didn't care so much about systems or versitility of interaction, they wanted bombastic set pieces. and it's like that for a number of other genres
and the thing that baffles me the most is that for jrpgs, (and most of the other genres that are dead and abandoned) they were obsessed with making a new fucking game engine each time. any one of us would ahve played chronotrigger sprites, or ff6 sprites over and over, or FF7's materia system in more g ames. but t hey don't. death by not-invented-here
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Khane
Got something right about marriage
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Utnayan
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Zindan
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I never played those games, never had a SNES or PSx til PS4. I think the first turn based rpg I ever played was Honkai Star Rail. That game made at least think about playing others, thought about trying Metaphor ReFantasio, but haven't yet.
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Siliconemelons
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Caeden
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Man, I didn’t have a pc capable of playing EQ in 99. And when I did get one, I ended up mainlining d2 and unreal. Then wow found me. If I’d have found EQ I doubt I would have done as well as I did in college.
Consoles were cheap, comfortable then albeit with expensive software.
Consoles were cheap, comfortable then albeit with expensive software.
ronne
Nǐ hǎo, yǒu jīn zi ma?
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The idea that this dude never played Chrono Trigger but has played Honkai Star Rail ?????
This is a fuckin pod person pretending to be human or something
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ronne
Nǐ hǎo, yǒu jīn zi ma?
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The problem with JRPGs, almost exclusively, is how weeb-shit the genre became over the last 10-15 years.
It's not a mechanics or genre problem, it's that a huge chunk of the western audience just doesn't give a fuck about anime highschool protagonists or whatever the fuck.
It's a big part of why this game is so refreshing, as it's the first time in a long time there's been a game like this that isn't just pure weeb trash
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RobXIII
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I've gotten a bit fatigued with some JRPGs (I gave up and youtube'd the ending to Metaphor after the 9th cookie cutter ""DUNGEON""), but this has both my attention and curiosity.
Chimney
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Agree 100% and I watch anime. I played Granblue Fantasy Relink towards end of last year and while I had fun with the game overall, the art/characters are just so cringy to me, but if it released with a more mature art style it would have been so much more popular and enjoyable.
Zindan
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More like Bards Tale / Various Amiga games / Doom / Quake / EQ / WoW / Various MMO's / Various other stuff. ;p
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Qhue
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Where the fuck did this come from?!? Absolutely no 'Basil Exposition' and you have to figure out everything via context in a good way. It has lots of 'systems' without being confusing and a top notch story.
I didn't even have this on my RADAR and now it's a GOTY contender for sure.
I didn't even have this on my RADAR and now it's a GOTY contender for sure.
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TJT
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This game does a really good job at making the characters play completely differently. Most JRPG suffer from menu based combat just being lame and repetitive. Dodging, parrying, and interesting combat interactions and synergies with the various characters just really freshen it up.
Qhue
What is Basil Exposition?
Qhue
What is Basil Exposition?
Cybsled
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