I haven't enjoyed a modern turn-based rpg in forever.

I just think dev's are scared of it. Lost Odyssey was the best jrpg theis gen (my personal fav tied with ffx). Real time battles work for some like xenoblade, last story, and infinite undiscovery (which had up to 18 teammates battling together EPIC). They think that real time sells better in the west but theres a huge number of turn based fans if the game is good. Most jrpgs have switched to handhelds also due to the cost of making a big hd world also. Theres still squareenix, tri ace, namco, atlus, mistwalker, and level 5 who make jrpgs so there might not be as many but it wont ever die.

"I would love to see a modern RPG which uses today’s graphics, an involved plot, and with profound character development."
Lost Odyssey (or... the real FF13) worked... now if they were to put that on a console that the Japanese would buy then it would have sold enough for them to make more.

When they showed the first trailer for White Knight Chronicles - the very first - it was the blocking parrying and use of a spell during the fight that got me excited. Then the game actually came out and it was the usual enemies whacking each other. That was my first real disappointment for "next gen" gaming.

I cant agree more with the author of this article, who say that u cant make a next generation JRPG with awesome graphics and turn based battle system? why they stop making those kinds of games? I really miss them next generation was the doom of the genre for me personally my once favorite genre erased from the map and that was traditional turn based JRPG's this genre is non existent in current generation u see one once in blue moon sometimes but that's not enough I really miss the old days there was so many awesome games to play all with awesome stories that kept u glue on the screen I miss this feeling like when u read a good book and want to see what happens next.

R.I.P. Traditional JRPG's :(

Even though my favourite RPG was turn/time based i prefer action RPG's because they're more realistic and i don't think they're even at their peak yet.

Type-0 is looking great and Versus would probably be even better. I don't want turn/time based games to be phased out, i'll rather have a mix.

I think there are pro's and con's to both turn-based combat and real-time combat in RPGs. Turn-based combat may be slower paced and less realistic, but at least there is an element of strategy and (most importantly IMO) the ability to control more than one party member. I feel like having total party control increases the player-character bond more so than controlling one character while the rest are AI.

My question is why can't developers create a more action oriented version of turn-based combat? Stream line the clunky menus, have the party move around while they are waiting for the player to input commands, increase the rate of attack to add speed and tension to battles - all of these things can be done while still making the system turn-based.

I think the key is to disguise turned-based combat (to a degree) so that the player doesn't immediately realized they are playing a version of the "same old" battle system. Doing so could potentially win over proponents from both sides of the aisle.

I miss turn-based RPGs they are probably my fav genre of games

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau