What would JRPGs need to do to get you to care again?
>>334660376
Parkour and pvp
>>334660376
Be good. And not conform and bend to the will of a few offended twats who never had any intention of purchasing the game in the first place.
But JRPGs are my favorite genre and I'm getting Sophie and Star Ocean 5 when they come out in english. I'd assume the left one is Digimon?
Please...let status effects affect bosses...
If I change a weapon on a character I want it to be seen in battle
>>334660898
This
One of my favorite parts of the SNES Shin Megami Tensei games is how i can charm, shock, etc, the bosses.
Have shotas and male robots that looks like robots
as playable characters or party member
>again
JRPGs have always been second-rate linear snorefest LOLSTORY bullshit.
Go play classic CRPGs where even the story is just another part of the fucking GAMEPLAY and you don't have to sit through endless goddamn cutscenes.
This year has already been great for JRPGs. Cyber Sleuth and Nights of Azure are really fun and I'm looking forward to Setsuna and World of FF.
>>334660376
Stop trying to have mass appeal, make status effects and buffs/debuffs matter, stop being literally nothing except waifu/moe trash, bring back a sense of exploration, stop having garbage MMO-tier sidequests.
>>334660898
play more Atlus games
>>334660898
Why did games ever stop doing this? I mean, yeah, poisoning a boss kinda kills any difficulty, but holy fuck if it isn't great.
>>334660728
JRPGs anon, not WRPGs
>>334661932
I think Final Fantasy started and popularized this trend. Result being that status effect moves and buffs/debuffs became worthless in every game.
>>334660898
wait...is that nigga wearing mascara?
I just ordered the Digimon game for when I have time off from work. How is it?
If Yasumi Matsuno made one with actual budget.
>again
I never stopped!
We need more cute girls doing cute things!
even more cute girls
>>334662128
Dungeon design is pretty boring, there's tons of errors in the script, and combat is basic turn based jrpg, but the collecting and digivolving is really addicting.
>>334661932
I like how Etrian Odyssey does it.
You can apply status effects to bosses, but every time it wears off the boss's resistance to that effect gets stronger. So they're useful enough to help you reach the final stretch, but you can't cheese the entire fight with it.
>>334660376
be about middle-aged losers in a world without hope
Cease being designed for Japanese Otaku and instead be designed for people of taste.
>>334662321
>design games for my western piggu taste instead of the people of japan who actually buy the games
>>334662321
"People of taste" being your Steam-using friends on Reddit?
>>334660376
>again
I didn't stop. JRPGs are my favorite.
>>334662437
>who actually buy the games
Haven't seen SO5's sales?
>>334660376
More games like EO. SMT is still pretty good, too.
Though now that I think about it, Atlus is pretty much the only dev I still care about.
>>334662260
>there's tons of errors in the script
Such as?
>>334662579
Spelling mistakes, weird dialogue, it's like one guy worked on the translation and no one managed to look over it after he was done.
>>334662128
Good. I really enjoyed it. The combat could be better balanced (some abilities make some Digimon near mandatory and some worthless) but the story/characters are fun and I got a bit choked up at the end.
I wanna see more games with a more sophisticated approach to the cast and story. Write characters as actual characters and not just check marks for tropes.
More lesbians.
>>334662710
Oh, I misunderstood.
I saw ''script'' and my mind went to ''game code''. Yeah I remember some errors here and there but nothing really painful.
Romanceable shotas.
>>334660376
Be on PC;_;
>>334660376
I'm getting sick of this retarded "almost every jrpg has to be an action-jrpg now" trend.
>>334663042
This
All animu games need lesbians
>>334663415
Atelier has stayed turn based after all these years at least
>>334663415
Me too. I lost all interest in the FFVII remake because of it.
>>334663415
I'm only really looking forward to SMT IV Final and Persona 5 because of this.
>>334663415
100% agreed.
>>334663415
this is why DQ is cool in my book. It might have done spin-offs in different genres, but it almost always stuck to its guns through the decades.
Story wise:
Make some god damn new characters. Its fucking pathetic that after 20 years of jrpg experience, I could describe every single significant jrpg character using a as many character archtypes as I have fingers. For fucks sake just think outside the box japan.
Secondly, enough with these beat around the bush bullshit love interest plot lines. I'm tired the the tsundere bitch that finally warms up to the protagonist by the end of the game. I've had enough of the cute/innocent girl that is finally ready to be in her first relationship after a 50 hour fucking journey. This isn't the 19 fucking 00's, people fuck. I don't give a shit if it ruins some weebfag's self insert fantasy. And none of this implied bullshit bullshit either where you just kind of get hints that in the ending they "get together". Show me them fucking getting somewhere, and by the mid way point in the game.
>>334662005
JRPGs has scenes and Gameplay element no matter how stupid they are removed for english release.
In the case of SOV they gave a character Granny panties Preemptively before Japanese release because the obvious backlash they would get later from the western audience.
I already do care.
Don't put them on a censored and region locked Nintendo console if you want me to buy them.
>>334664106
No actually you. You've likely only played a handful fo the popular stuff and not tried the niche games.
It's pretty typical of idiots around here. No on has a fucking clue beyond the mainstream.
>>334660376
Exploration.
It's what made older Final Fantasy games good: the ability to just wander around and find stuff. It's what made Grandia great. Dungeons being about figuring out how to progress, and not just following the path forward. Also, about tying events to character growth rather than just forcing the player to stop and watch some mandatory cutscenes.
>>334660376
Take time to develop instead of releasing them like CoD installments (Tales, Atelier).
On that note, how would Kemco RPGs rank in terms of kusoge? Are they worse than Compile Heart/Idea Factory?
