JRPG Discussion

Why do you play JRPGs? Why do you play individual JRPGs? Which JRPGs do you enjoy playing?

No console war bullshit. Just report and hide the blatant J- vs W- fights that shitposters want to start. I'd just like to start a conversation and find out what different people enjoy in the genre, why they play them, which ones they prefer, and what they'd prefer to see more of with JRPGs. So let's ignore the shitposting, ignore the terrible attempts at speedrunning, and have a discussion over something for a bit.

I love them, they are my favourite genre, I love the feeling of adventure, the attention to detail, the nice story, characters, atmosphere, ost, etc..., sadly tough, japan these days is too concerned about making pretty things instead, my all time favourites are dragon quest VIII, chrono trigger, final fantasy, persona, terranigma, and pretty much all the classics

Some people do prefer the pretty.

It does seem a bit like you might be biased towards the larger studios, especially Square and Enix. Not every developer can devote as much time to the OST and the details, after all. What are your thoughts on, say, the Dragon Quest remakes on DS/3DS?

Any interest in the upcoming Persona 5 game? (I've not been following it, but from what I remember, it didn't seem to be messing things up too much.)

started cause I saw some FE statues in smash

Which Fire Emblem games have you tried out?

Any other titles which you've tried, or been interested in?

I guess I play RPGs in general because of the long term stories. I like the sense of adventure that having a massive bloated world gives you.
As for JRPGs in particular, I unabashedly love the adolescent high I get from cheesy anime bullshit. I fucking love Inuyasha, and I don't give a fuck. Tales especially hits that for me, TotA was my goddamned life when I was 13, and I actually grew my hair down to my ass in middleschool because I wanted to be Luke.
You're on the money. I can probably hum the majority of the Chrono Trigger OST, and to my musically untrained ear, SNES soundtracks were absolute magic that haven't been topped. Something about them having to be a) catchy as hell, and b) repeated frequently because you have an hour and a half of music across a forty hour game.
Have you tried I am Setsuna? I was smiling the entire time I played that game because it captured almost everything I loved about the classics.

I like grind.
Doing the same shit over and over as long I get new things.

They're fun. Some of them have decent stories and gameplay. I like playing a lot of different ones, but the first that comes to mind is SMT.

>I guess I play RPGs in general because of the long term stories. I like the sense of adventure that having a massive bloated world gives you.
I did like that, but it just felt like most JRPGs sort of gave up on that idea after awhile. A lot of them either felt incredibly empty, or just didn't have a large world anymore. I mean, I can be fine with a story which takes place in even a small location, but a lot of JRPGs just seem to leave the cities as uninteresting places for a few NPCs to repeat their same dialogue.

PS1 had some pretty good tunes, too.

>I like grind.
What are your favorite games to grind on?

This is, I admit, one of the things that Bravely Default did well. Giving you a bunch of new jobs, and new abilities with each job, at least made exploring the jobs and skills interesting.

Are you just interested in a wide variety of video games in general, or a wide variety of JRPGs specifically?

JRPG/SRPG games are my preferred genre, but I can dig platformers, roguelikes, and puzzle games. Only FPS I'm really good at is TF2, and that's a fucking dead game nowadays.

I would say I have pretty wide tastes in JRPGs, but you might have to be more specific with the question.

Alright, fair enough.

What specific SMT games do you prefer? Do you go back and replay some of them, or just play through each one and like the series in general?

Dragon Quest if fun

>but a lot of JRPGs just seem to leave the cities as uninteresting places for a few NPCs to repeat their same dialogue.
I can see that being a problem, especially as the worlds get bigger and more spread out, because giving new inconsequential lines for NPCs is a lot of work. That is one of the things that I loved about I am Setsuna, every event that happens changes the dialogue for every NPC in town, and once you've been away from a town for a while, when you come back NPCs have new dialogue greeting you and asking how the journey is going.

Story, characters and grinding.
I love branching story, missable content/characters.
I love the Growlanser series, but I can't stand Tales of for some reason, which is funny because I managed to finish Mimana Iyar chronicles and that games blows

>Specific SMT games
Out of the whole series (spinoffs included), it'd be the Devil Survivor series. Nearly every game in the overall series has multiple endings, so the replay value is typically pretty high.

If you love NPC dialogue, then Dragon Quest and the Trails series are for you.

I picked up one of the Growlanser games (for PS2, I think) but didn't get far into it. About the only thing I remember is that you learn skills form equipment, sort of like Final Fantasy 9, and that was about it. I only played for an hour or so and I still have the game, so I'll give it another shot when I hook up that machine again.

oh yeah I cant wait to play DQ7 remake, I dont have a 3DS tough, also I love the Ys saga and breath of fire IV is one of my all time favourites

>Why do you play JRPGs?
They're diverse and can be very fun
>Why do you play individual JRPGs?
See above.
>Which JRPGs do you enjoy playing?
DRPGs and Neps are pretty fun currently. I've been playing Moshous more but they get really repetitive.

I haven't enjoyed a JRPG since Tales of Vesperia. JRPGs have become such shit since then.

I enjoyed Magna Carta 2 but that's Korean.

If you have a psp or can emulate I suggest you start with 4. It's one of my facorite jrpgs of all time.
And yeah, you get learn skills/knacks/passives from your equipment.
Make sure to get 'Mission Complete'(instead of aconplished) if you are going to play 2.

>breath of fire IV
Huh. It looks like it is available on PSN as well, although that doesn't list PS4 for whatever reason.

>DRPGs and Neps are pretty fun currently.
What specifically do you like about these? There are a lot of DRPGs which all look very similar, and Neptunia doesn't seem like it has changed much through the series. What are some of the more interesting DRPGs you've run across lately?

>Huh. It looks like it is available on PSN as well, although that doesn't list PS4 for whatever reason.

No PSOne Classics titles are available for PS4.

Because Sony are shitters and don't run PSN worth a fuck.

>No PSOne Classics titles are available for PS4.
...what?

That is one of the most stupid things I've heard. PS3 had the whole "no games" meme but with a big chunk of the PS1 library, there's certainly something to check out. I would've assumed that transferring all that over to the PS4 was a big factor in keeping that system alive.

It's a damn shame what happened to the FF series. A really damn shame.

The PS4 at least got some PS2 Classics, I guess. But the selection isn't that great.

Hopes? Desires?

Bravely Second seems like it didn't live up to the desires of people who liked the first game, but the series isn't necessarily dead. World of Final Fantasy shows that Square is still fine with making games referencing older titles and more in the style of older FF games.

WoFF shows that it's better to let FF not be touched by modern Square again

srpgs are my favorite type. But I enjoy the standard turn-based/ATB stuff too. Not really a big fan of drpgs or most arpgs. For arpgs I prefer the classic stuff like Mana, Ys, Terranigma, etc. This modern meme wave of painfully clunky hack-and-slash/character action games with rpg elements slapped on does nothing for me.

>Why do you play JRPGs?
I don't really play JRPGs specifically, I just play any game that looks interesting. Most JRPGs sadly aren't really my thing despite being a huge weeb because they tend to take a long time and lose steam somewhere halfway through, at which point I often drop them. The same goes for most classic CRPGs.

>Why do you play individual JRPGs?
Usually for either the interesting art style/character designs or for interesting systems. Some for both, like Vagrant Story, Tactics Ogre and so on.

>Which JRPGs do you enjoy playing?
Those mentioned above, also SMT and Persona, Rance games, Yakuza series if they count, Disgaea and Phantom Brave.

>Any interest in the upcoming Persona 5 game?
It's probably my favorite "classical" JRPG in the sense that it has instanced, menu based combat that isn't on a grid, but then again I haven't finished very many of those besides other SMT and Persona games. It is at least the best SMT game I've played.

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>Why do you play JRPGs?
The Adventure and lighthearted atmosphere.

Fun and nostalgia.
For me even the newest JRPGs can evoke a nostalgic feeling, I don't know why for sure but I attribute it to their lighthearted atmosphere's and stories.

I like a game that doesn't take itself too seriously and just focuses on delivering that experience.

Also the sense of adventure I've gotten in JRPGs I have never found anywhere else.
Even open-world games fail to do it well because most of the time you're dropped into a generic city/island sand box.

Meanwhile in JRPGs the story, characters and a unique world are crafted to give you that feeling that you're going on a grandiose adventure while unraveling at a set pace.

>Which JRPGs do you enjoy playing?
I beat Xenogears over the summer and loved it, easily one of my favorite games.

I also got into Tales of with Zestiria and despite what many anons have said I actually liked it.
I know the game has some major problems, but overall I still felt that I enjoyed my experience with it.

I've been building a huge backlog of JRPGs from over the generations and am hoping to get through them all during the following years.

Is the PC demo not working for anyone else?
I open and shit crashs on start up.

>I've been building a huge backlog of JRPGs from over the generations and am hoping to get through them all during the following years.
Depending on the size, that can easily take you more than a couple of years.