Why Sony, why?

[Lagduf]

They're also almost all the exact same story, that's what really bugs me. How many times do you need go through the same generic little cliche hero story?

Oh you're a generic 14 year old boy from some bumfuck village with a mysterious scar. You set out on an adventure and assemble a party of equally generic character types. The bad guy wants to rule and/or destroy the world. There's a magical tower or giant tree. You learn that you're actually the descendant of some mythical hero. The bad guy is defeated with the power of friendship. Press X for 30 hours to trudge through insipid dialogue boxes and turn based combat. Rinse and repeat with incredibly minor tweaks.

Really thrilling stuff.

There's a reason they all have excellent soundtracks. If they didn't you'd turn the game off after 4 hours.

At least action-rpg's have some actual gameplay.

Yeah I just can’t really get through a JRPG these days for many of the reasons you’ve listed.

The only JRPG that has held my interest at all has been Yakuza: Like a Dragon, but that game has a lot open world type bloat (mini-games, farming, party relationship building etc.)

My interest in first person American RPGs (Bethesda, etc) has also waned greatly.

Baldurs Gate 3 was the last RPG to really grab me and even then it was nothing new, just really well done with multiple ways to solve quests or interactions that (at least on a first playthrough) made it feel pretty organic.

I’m not including Action-RPGs because as you said, at least they have gameplay.

 

[b-blanco]

They're also almost all the exact same story, that's what really bugs me. How many times do you need go through the same generic little cliche hero story?

Oh you're a generic 14 year old boy from some bumfuck village with a mysterious scar. You set out on an adventure and assemble a party of equally generic character types. The bad guy wants to rule and/or destroy the world. There's a magical tower or giant tree. You learn that you're actually the descendant of some mythical hero. The bad guy is defeated with the power of friendship. Press X for 30 hours to trudge through insipid dialogue boxes and turn based combat. Rinse and repeat with incredibly minor tweaks.

Really thrilling stuff.

There's a reason they all have excellent soundtracks. If they didn't you'd turn the game off after 4 hours.

At least action-rpg's have some actual gameplay.

I wasn’t sure if it was just me that finds RPGs boring AF these days Tactic RPGs & Action RPGs are still good money but those soundtracks still slap.

 

[Hazard_747]

A PS5 Pro only makes sense for a chosen few. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to us, but Sony knows what its doing.

 

[terry.330]

Yeah I just can’t really get through a JRPG these days for many of the reasons you’ve listed.

The only JRPG that has held my interest at all has been Yakuza: Like a Dragon, but that game has a lot open world type bloat (mini-games, farming, party relationship building etc.)

Yeah, Yakuza: LAD, Persona 3,4,5, the Neirs and a couple others have enough going for them that I enjoy them but most traditional old school j-rpgs just can't hold my attention. I can still play some of them in short bursts on a handheld or tablet but there's no way I could actually sit down and be engaged by the story, characters or anything like that. Only as occasional nostalgic time wasters, as a lot of them do have comfortable vibes but that only goes so far.

 

[2Heed]

RPGs are pretty much gay little teenage animes that we like when we're gay little teenagers. Maybe it's OK to like them when we're big faggot 40s? Guilty pleasures for sure tho. Out of the blue I put on a longplay of Lunar SSSC last night so I have authority to speak on this subject.

The only way you could have torpedoed your own argument further is if you sang along to its intro FMV. Please don't post if true.

 

[LoneSage]

Oh bro I one hundo percent sang along to it. I haven't played it in over 20 years by now but have real fond memories. So watching and skipping through the longplay it was a shock to see how gay it was. Ramus is still the best character though.

 

[2Heed]

Oh bro I one hundo percent sang along to it. I haven't played it in over 20 years by now but have real fond memories. So watching and skipping through the longplay it was a shock to see how gay it was. Ramus is still the best character though.

I remember Ramus having a cap to his stats, so even though he still gains levels he doesn't actually get better in any way.

Also, I remember the sound test had a massive spoiler in its title for one song: Magic Emperor Ghaleon.