People constantly say pic related was the cancer that killed JRPGs, but outside the FF franchise I never noticed any significant changes to other JRPGs. In fact before 1997 there were only a notable handful of JRPGs released in the west (and that's if you lived in the USA - if you were a yuropoor you were just fucked) and they rarely ever (if ever) sold at least a million. Yet FF7, regardless of your overal opnion of it, brought JRPGs to the mainstream and changed them from a low-selling niche genre to something that is enjoyed by everybody. Does it really boil down to just autists being upset that their sekrit club has been compromised?
>>321995848
FF7 was probably the single best thing to happen for the genre, you moron.
>People constantly say
"People" constantly say all kinds of stuff about all kinds of things, you need to work more on determining what's worth paying attention to and what isn't.
>>321995848
No, Advent Children was.
>>321995848
No, not really, every FF until X kept being a sales and critical success.
The genre killed itself by trying to evolve and now you can only see it in Pokemon and budget games.
>>321997434
how? It was just a movie.
>>321997537
Advent Children brought everything that is obnoxious to the ff7 fanbase.
Seriously I couldn't make it more than 5 minutes without cringing to death.
And I'm a die hard fan of the game.
>>321995848
JRPGs died because people got bored of them. When consoles were able to run games that allowed players to interact more with the game world, turn-based battles became obsolete.
>>321997847
So what does that have to do with jrpg's as a while?
>>321995848
FF7 was still pretty much like the other FFs in everything from style, presentation, humor, etc. Only difference was it was 3-d and had a few cutscenes.
If any final fantasy game was "cancer" that affected the industry on the whole, it was the pop-song commercialization of FF8.
>>321998168
*whole.
>>321998168
>ignoring the pandering to the newfags after Advent Children
bruh
FF13 is a direct result of AC
It's exactly the same shit. Obnoxious overdramatization and memes everywhere.
>>321995848
FF13 with its heavy burden of being the best FF ever back previous gen killed JRPGs popularity after it failed to deliver a good game, followed by the emergence and initial success of the 360, and the rise of console shooters. Blame SE for fucking the genre up that the west gained a significant foothold on the videogame trend that we can still feel the effect until now.
