Unmitigated Hatred said:
Ok I can see first off to get an Art Degree you need to know nothing about English punctuation and spelling. By punctuation I mean paragraphs. I also see that you were not thought a single piece of BBcode. Bar bold and url links. Not to be a grammar Nazi(Ironic for saying it and doing it but) if you want to do something like this and have people take it seriously for the love of God make it easy to read. For someone with an Art degree you have no concept of the art of forum posting large blocks of text.
OT: I'll deal with what you said problem by problem stating what I thought of what you said in each problem.
Problem 1:
For starters you don't stick to the one point start off talking about story telling then move on to random combat and combat in general. This is stupid when you have it clearly marked as problems with story. Aside from that RPGs at least have inventively stupid stories compared to
Western[footnote]not American[/footnote]RPGs. Although I see the point you are making about graphics affect story telling it really has nothing to with it all. Especially since JRPGs have better stories and cut scenes/CGI sequences than WRPGs by far. WRPGs generally follow a general trail of what is in Oblivion or Dragon Age with a few twists to it. JRPGs generally have you evil empire destroy then a load of inventive and creative that makes no sense on its own but ties in as an over arcing story as a whole.
If you take piece of JRPG stories then yes they are bad and awful. If you take them as a whole then they are good and you see the merits of the stupidly intertwined plot twists and points.
In fact that is part of what makes a JRPG a JRPG. If you don't like it you shouldn't be playing them.
Problem 2:
First off your over use and continuing stating that you have an
[HEADING=2]ART DEGREE[/HEADING] makes you look very
very arrogant and self absorbed. Yes I think we saw you had one in the first eye melting block of text no need to continue to remind us. Stuff like this ruins the credibility of what was shaping up to be a decent argument turning it into a rant if you hadn't of had that atrocious topic title.
Ok I'm sorry but to go on to say a bullshit spectacle doesn't sell well and people enjoy just look at Modern Warfare 1 but more so 2(from what I have heard) this just leads back to my early point about JRPG stories. That is the point of the stories yes they are basically Kabuki. They are about the spectacle. They are about the fireworks. That is the best I can describe that is what they do that is what they are known for. The JRPG writers contrary to some other genres actually know what they are doing when it comes to stories granted some have been crap lately but there has been a lot of crap from every other genre lately so you can't just say this is JRPGs. Seriously going off your own topic with combat again? If you find it so bad add another portion to your increasingly bullshit rant about.
Problem 3:
At what I thought was starting about to be a decent rant to have an argument with and to try make some decent counter points by now I hope I am near the end of this. As I think my eyes might explode.
Once again this is something that makes a JRPG what it is. WRPGs are about extreme choice and freedom.
You can explore what
you, go where
you want, do what
you want. They are all about choice and doing what
you want to do.
You(ok I'm overusing it now but still) are the dungeon master basically. To go with DnD and the old pen and paper RPG taking a set scenario and putting your own personal spin on it.
In JRPGs you are the player and you do what the Dungeon Master tells you what to do. As JRPGs require a bit more imagination and constrictive role playing as you are supposed to role play into the roles set for you. This is a problem people have with them but it is the way they are and it works for a change of pace. It means you don't have to worry with all the bullshit stat development that goes on with WRPGs. It also means that you won't screw up your Character for the late game because you specialised in some bogus skills.
Problem 4: Thanks a link to a pointless period in Japanese history. Just so you don't feel left out I will also link to something completely off top and related here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake]. Also ever notice how American games are filled with explosions, scantily clad women and unnecessary testosterone out the arse? Really you didn't you should take your head out of your arse at this point and stop smelling your own farts(yes I realize this is ironic to my previous point of ruining a good argument with such things but you really make me want to hate you at this point).
The whole point of the cut scenes and the dialogue is to give you plot and break you from the pointless action that is the rest of the game unlike American and to a lesser extent the rest of Western games. They tell a part of the story and if you read dialogue you would come to like the characters in fact Star Ocean: Till The of Time has the best side dialogue I have seen in a game in a long time due to a colourful cast of characters.
Also a
lot of what you state here is just pure opinion and nothing more. You need to learn what subjective and objective mean. I'd like to know where you got your Art Degree because it certainly wasn't in an English speaking country and if it was it must have had minimum requirements for English.
