I used to hate JRPGs and i had a hard time getting into them, but after a lot of attempts i've finally got it and i've been playing them constantly for the last few years:>Dragon Quest>Final Fantasy V, VI and VII>FF Tactics>Tactics Ogre>Fire Emblem>Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross>Grandia 1 and 2>Shin Megami Tensei 1-3>Persona 3 and 4>Romancing Saga 2 and 3and so much more. These games play similar and are easy to get into, they offer decent storytelling and setting, fun combat, responsive UI, great music (on average better than western games), and cool weird-but-original monsters design. Sure, gameplay wise most of them are not as complex as CRPGs, BUT they are FUN, snappy and quick to play and respect my time, simple as that.When i play CRPGs, especially pre-Fallout CRPGs i have to deal with slow clunky UI, games not working properly on WIN 10, bugs, reading manuals, bad pacing, cryptic puzzles and gameplay mechanics, drawing maps, slow or clunky combat system (real time blobbers, Ultima VII, RoA, TES), inconsistent difficulty... meanwhile i can just put any JRPG on emulator and eveything will run flawlessly and i am guaranteed to have fun, at least for a while depending on the game. Even bland shit tier JRPGs (FF2, SMT If, 7th Saga) are still enjoyable, meanwhile, shit tier WRPGs (Ishar, Lionheart, Ultima 8, Might and magic 9) are a huge nope for me.I can still play and enjoy Fallout, Baldur's Gate, Arcanum, Icewind Dale, Planescape, Might and Magic 3-8... those games are timeless, but JRPGs are more fun for me overall.
You've discovered why Dragon Quest did Wizardry and Ultima the best thing that could have happened to them by simplifying and broadening their appeal for a mass audience.
i have had a similar realization, as much as i like certain aspects of western rpgs, there's a such a gap in quality control and so many of them have such flawed core gameplay.
>>3694964JRPGs just have an easier gameplay loop to get into, WRPGs are good, but it takes a while to get going with them. It all depends on your patience.
>>3694964JRPGs are literally dumbed down versions of CRPG's made for consoles. There's no party building, no positioning, no meaningful choices to be made. I guess you just enjoy selecting "attack" over and over.>but muh storiesJust get a Crunchyroll sub.
>>3694991>There's no party building, no positioningsomeone didn't play final fantasy tactics. also>no meaningful choices to be madeKEK
so we've cycled back around to doing a bunch of these "jrpg vs. wrpg" threads? how exciting.
>>3694991They also tend to have much better art.You would never see something like the OP's image as concept art for a Westoid game.They would be 1/10 black trannies or something. Or they would be horrifically ugly and disfigured for the "grimdark god is dead nihilism" that westoids are obsessed with. It's like they are allergic to beauty because it reminds them how ugly their shit society is.
>>3695039what's a westoid?
>>3695050It's a combination of westerner and negroid, used to imply derision.
>>3695054i don't get how adding -oid makes something derisive. sounds more like a mental crutch to avoid specificity.
>>3695057Because it associates it with the word negroid. I just explained it. Whether or not you agree is irrelevant. That is why people do it.
>>3695060i don't that's true, because i've seen anti-racists use "rightoid". it just seems to be something you kids do because you don't understand the suffix.
>>3695065pretty much thiskids these days...
>>3695087kids any days. they dumb. that's why they need mocking.
all games have some inherent balance issue, one or few meta builds to rule them all.
Jrpgs gonna be popular in near future because they are dumbed down and zoomers are generation of cretins. Easy money
>>3695065>i don't that's true, because i've seen anti-racists use "rightoid".A lot of the "anti-racists" adopted "edgy" 2015 era right-wing humor to seem cool, it's the Destiny strategy. They have no problem leaning into casual racism, in fact that's what the entire modern liberal edifice is based on.
>>3695162these are memes, man, kids are following them without context or thought. they aren't leaning into anything, just reciprocating with playground "no u" to "leftoid". shit's just a lame way to label without calling out specific groups or behaviors. it's memetic thought termination.
>>3695050https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-oid
>>3695050It's like a mating call to attract other newfags. Anybody who adds -oid to any word in their post can be safely ignored.
>>3694991This.Jrpg is addressed to school boys who suffer from a lack of attention span and need a guiding hand to advance in either life or game. Jrpg have no depth, either nonsensical stories or overly complicated stories that are just there to add padding to give the impression that some effort went into the story department. The characters are bland, the game is linear, much or everything revolves around hitting the attack button. I have yet to see a JRPG that respects the player. If someone can prove me wrong with a title name, I will welcome it.
This thread is so high on sniffing its own farts kek
>>3695039Jrpg covers are ugly, same-type anime crap, character designs don't change, gameplay if it's fantasy and not tactics is the same crap, no original setting, spawned isekai slop
