Improvements in the JRPG genre

Not enough console wars to get /v/'s attention, huh?

>>377374327
No, fuck you.

>>377374327
/v/ sure likes to be contrarian, but they do love their weeabshit. Fuck off.

>>377374327
There are no serious story-driven JRPGs left unless you mean trash like FF15 and Type 0

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>>377378253
>There are no serious story-driven JRPGs left

>he hasn't played Automata

>>377378491
Not really story driven. It's a set of sparsely connected quests with a narrative thread rather than the typical FF moviegame.

Inciting discussion on this in /v/ (nostalgia central) of all places won't do you much good.

But I agree. Older pre-FFVII JRPGs were especially very shallow in every way with just a gimmick or two in both combat and characters to try to make it interesting. For example people pretend to act like Kefka is some amazing villain, but take away the colorful surface gimmicks and what do you get? Generic "he's cuhhraaaaazzzeeee" cartoonish evil villain. Or how broken FFVIII's Junction system was for a combat one.

But ever since, the level of customization and depth available from systems like SMT's Press Turn, Dragon Quest IX's class system, Final Fantasy XIII series' admittedly weak start but mid-endgames that further upped the intensity on the series' unique strategic yet quick thinking gameplay, etc. that make perviously braindead, straightforward grindy JRPG gameplay into something much more engaging.

>voice acting
>good thing

>>377378253
>xv is trash even though I havnt played it@
kys

>>377378817
>but take away the colorful surface gimmicks and what do you get? Generic "he's cuhhraaaaazzzeeee" cartoonish evil villain.

>Kefka: Embrace your destruction... It is the fate of all things.
>Party: To be destroyed? Maybe it is! But people can always rebuild, and new
> lives will always be born!
>Kefka: And time will destroy all of those as well. Why do people insist on
> creating things that will inevitably be destroyed? Why do people
> cling to life, knowing that they must someday die? ...Knowing that
> none of it will have meant anything once they do?

u wut

>>377378253
There's someone talking about Trails in the Sky in this very thread. You've also got Xenoblade, Persona and stuff like that. Story-driven RPGs are in a better place than they've ever been. Sounds like you're just stuck in the past and refuse to branch out if you're focused on Final Fantasy like that.

>>377380531
Purse Owner is character focused rather than story focused. Xenoblade was alright until X and they destroyed the story in that. Trails games are from like 2006 unless you're talking the PS3 ones which one should play through the previous titles before jumping into, and they're 100+ hour behemoths if you want to talk to everyone and do everything, so forgive me for not being able to get through them fast enough

>>377380927
Have you played P5? There's a lot of character stuff, yeah, but they made the story much bigger and more exciting this time.

I understand if you didn't like XCX, but what little story there was managed to be pretty enthralling. X2 looks like it'll have a bigger story focus like the first one anyway.

I'll pay the age argument on Trails in the Sky, but that doesn't change the fact that the the rest of the series is planned to continue telling the biggest story video games have ever seen for another seven or so games.

If P5 is anything to go by, kys.