Hours. I said 20 hours.
@Adrian_v01 You're straight up wrong. I even gave an example, countries that aren't america make westerns not set in the american west and they're no less westerns. It's equally true of JRPGs. Sorry, but JRPGs are not a magical stand alone genre somehow defined by their country of origin unlike every other genre in existence. It's a set of attributes the game has, not where the game is from, like every other genre.
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I didn't mention Rogue Galaxy because I'd already played Skies of Arcadia. Got maybe 20 hours into Rogue Galaxy, not exactly enamored, called it quits. I forget it because it's a pirate themed JRPG with an incredibly transparent/cliche/idealistic plot but instead of being a deliberate throwback to what makes that type of thing fun but with cool thematic twists, it plays everything straight, wastes the fact that they're ****ing SPACE PIRATES by having you do absolutely nothing ...
Dark souls isn't a JRPG. JRPG doesn't really mean Japanese RPG any more than a Westen refers to a movie made or set in the American West (Cowboy beebob is a western.) It's a set of writing styles and tropes typically associated with and originating in a location, not a label to slap on everything that comes from the location.
Just because it's an ARPG doesn't mean it's not a JRPG_
No they aren't, and I'm sick of people say...
Batman. Remember when those were mostly linear stealth games instead of batman themed beat em ups with stealth bits attached?
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Remember Lost Oddessy, Valkyria Chronicals, Disgaia, Ni No Kuni, The World Ends With You, Fire Emblem Awakening, Radiant Historia, Xenoblade Chronicals, and Shin megami tensei 4? Persona 4 Golden (The highest rated vita game ever released and one of the best reviewed games of all time) if you want to count the re-release.
How about the upcoming FF 15, Star Ocean 5, and Persona 5?
Either you think some of the best and/or weirdest) J...
Lampshading your clickbait title doesn't make it OK.
It drops playing Dragons Crown too. I love my vita, and you guys can hurl all the disagrees you want but if you think more demanding games don't run into slowdown you're straight up wrong.
I don't like the Tales series combat (it's like star ocean, but crap) and the characters I've dealt with (I haven't played them all) are torn straight from the big book of anime tropes and pasted in almost entirely unaltered. Also worthy of note: The reviews don't agree with you. Tales game consistently score between 7 and 8 where every main series Persona title save one has consistently scored 8 or higher.
If I had to just throw a "must play" ...
Reach is better. Especially the with the DLC or re-release or whatever that came with the remastered halo 1 and let you play it's multiplayer but with reach graphics. 3 is ok. I recognise what it contributed to the series and it's better than 2 but it isn't stellar. The multiplayer is significantly better than the single player.
P.S. Golden Eye, Twisted Metal and Super Mario 3 were the very height of their respective genres (Golden Eye being a special case as P...
Tell me, how did that line of thinking go for Castlevania or Suikoden? What about Dark Souls 2 selling less than half what Dark Souls did?
Maybe some series don't need the initial creator, either by nature or with a sufficiently skilled staff to take over, but if you think MGS and it's notorious eccentrics isn't one of them or, even if it wasn't, that Konami has the brains (or is willing to spend the money) to hire people who might be able to do it justice you...
No, the ability to look anywhere during a scene don't sound good. Maybe in TES, not in SO which is pretty focused on telling a specific story and looking anywhere just means you miss important stuff.
No, all the battles being on map doesn't sound good for the exact reasons you mentioned and the JRPGs rely on the players level/gears/skill for advancement so unless you change EXP values you need the same number of fights to progress regardless. (and items to reduce or...
It looks like Tony Hawk. No particular reason it needs to be another reimagining instead of the best of things they've already done.
Because a name is more than a name, especially for established series. They carry expectations and desired products with them based on previous titles. Brand identity is a thing for a reason. I didn't play DMC for some vulgar, trailer trash idiot in oversimplified spam happy combat. I play for an over the top, flippant, wise cracking Dante with absurdly complex (and difficult combat and light puzzle solving. It's a big ****ing dissapointment and pretty ****ing shady to use a fimiliar ...
Indie games backed and/or produced by major publishers are by definition not indie. Indie is short for independent, not a synonym for small. Further, as Square was recently reminded and as Pokemon and Persona never forgot, westerners will buy JRPG. Sometimes a ****ing lot of them,
Atlus has been making a profit on games selling under 1 million copies for decades and namco-bandai has figured it out as well, No matter what EA tells you, you actually don't need to sell 5 ...
I did read the blog, that's why I responded to several specific points. The fact is that you've proposed your own formula based on what you think an open world should when it's simply not true and a poor fit for many experiences that use open worlds.
Dragons Dogmas open world is fine, it just doesn't fit your stupid little formula. It's not about laziness, it's about the intended experience. DD doesn't want you collecting cheese, juggling plates o...
This is a really obnoxious list.
Red Dead and TES do not define what an open world game can or should be, space sims (evochron) are almost entirely empty space with very little content compared to the size (because it's ****ing space) and have extremely limited interactivity because your ability to interact is usually limited by your ships ability to interact. Are you going to tell me they're not open world, that they're doing it wrong or that they aren't s...
No, they aren't. Season passes are pre-paying for content that doesn't exist of unknown quality that you may not even care about by the time the content releases. They're even worse than pre-ordering non-collectors editions games. It's ****ing stupid, don't do it.
If you think that's too much never play an mmo. Or a space sim.
They can win. Stop making games always online for no reason. The servers won't be up forever and it isn't an mmo, there's no excuse to make the game unplayable if you can't jump through EAs stupid hoops, now or in the future.
I'm not buying it either, not unless they kill the always online requirement.