Why do people play Final Fantasy or any other JRPG when SMT exists?
Coming from a FF and Tales background, I played and beat SMT3, SMT4, and DDS1, and I am convinced that the SMT series offer the best JRPG experience.
The SMT stories are more serious and mature in nature. The moral decisions posed are morally ambiguous and significantly affect the outcome of the story. Traditional plot devices including twists are all included as well.
The gameplay itself is far better in comparison to FF. The press turn mechanic is genius because it promotes shifting between different party members and skills to exploit enemy weaknesses and reduce getting damaged yourself. Even status aliments become useful because of some enemies having weaknesses to them which would otherwise take a long time to defeat due to their complementary affinities of having high HP and physical defense. Status boosts become useful as well in boss fights because of the introduction of half turns which cannot be used to earn an extra turn icon if your turn icons are maxed out with half turns. To contrast, in every FF games, you can spam your most powerful ability such as Trine and Beta to win battles regardless of the enemy elemental affinities.
Plus, the music and atmosphere has been consistently good throughout the SMT series and arguably better.
As much as I love SMT, sometimes I want a different system than a pokemon clone.
Mason Diaz
Because not everyone likes the shit setting, just like some FF fans love ivalice and others think it's a big prolapsed anus and can't stand it.
Joshua Myers
It's pretty different from Pokemon though. And MT started well before Pokemon. You usually have a party and the dialogue system isn't limited to just capturing demons.
>why do people eat mcdonald's when burger king exists
Jackson Gomez
Because different things are fun sometimes
Jaxson Williams
Why do people play SMT when Etrian Odyssey exists?
Christopher Johnson
>Why do people play Final Fantasy or any other JRPG when SMT exists? For the simple reason that one has a larger budget, more marketing, and the company that makes it actually cares about audiences outside of Japan.
Lincoln Fisher
>The moral decisions posed are morally ambiguous >Fuck you angels >Fuck you demons >Fuck you demons and angels >Fuck you all
Carson Taylor
Yes, let's play these 3 games over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
Christopher Wood
nocturne is fucking boring and shitty
Brayden Thomas
>collect monsters >make monsters fight for you It's not literally pokemon but it's a pokemon clone
Samuel Jenkins
An SMTxPokemon crossover would work wonders. Even a PersonaxPokemon would work pretty well
Grayson Rivera
Because every genre has entry level garbage
Brayden Allen
>muh SMT
Henry Cruz
>it's a pokemon clone The first MegaTen game came out in 1987. The first Pokemon game came out in 1996. How is it a clone?
Evan Williams
>instead of blizzard >it's some gay shit like fubu
Nathan Edwards
Bufu you cuck.
Nolan Ortiz
Hey man, that shit is fubulous.
Josiah Lee
Vi spezzo le catene
Dylan Gray
Just fuck off. Saying MegaTen is the end all be all of JRPGs just shows you know nothing. It's my favorite series but seeing people like you makes me sick.
Blake Adams
no soy su slavo
Anthony Cook
Is there a worse fanbase than SMT? And to preempt the obligatory, no, Persona isn't worse, they at least keep their waifufaggotry contained in their own threads.
Adrian Rivera
>instead of Light >Its some gay shit JoJo reference
Noah Jones
Based Jack Frost.
Easton Edwards
It doesn't matter which one came out first
Jose Rogers
Persona 1 is my favorite Megaten game tho.
Juan Carter
DDS1/2 are one of my all time favorite jrpgs but I'm not a fan of demon catching and breading. >The gameplay itself is far better in comparison to FF Not really.
