It makes me want to become an hero.Worr Monger said:The question "Is Mass Effect an jRPG?" just makes me want to cry...
By virtue of the fact that it wasn't made in Japan, it is not <color=red>a JRPG.
It makes me want to become an hero.Worr Monger said:The question "Is Mass Effect an jRPG?" just makes me want to cry...
Haha, you played Persona 3. I feel sorry for you.poppabaggins said:Wow! Someone's a presumptuous asshole fanboy! I've played Final Fantasies 1,6,7,8,10; Tales of: Eternia, Symphonia; Shin Megami Tensei 1; Xenogears; Xenosaga 1; SMT Persona 2: Original Sin, and Persona 3. Some of these games are good, but none provide a proper role playing experienceDefense said:It's a crappy linear waifu simulator-slash-generic space marine third person shooter, but it's not a JRPG.
I bet you're the kind of person who thinks every JRPG is like Final Fantasy.poppabaggins said:Mass Effect actually lets you develop a personality for your character via dialog choices. JRPGs lock you in to what the designers want you to do. There really aren't any RPG elements in JRPGs, so the term is definitely a misnomer.
And, for the record: stats do not equal role playing
And for the record: You don't know what you're talking about.
Mass Effect does the same thing though, that game just requires a full Paragon/Renegade meter.Of those games, only the SMT let you make choices that influence the game. But the thing about SMT1 is that if you choose anything other than the "neutral" path, you miss out on some of the best parts of those games (it was released on SNES, though so I can't really fault it).
Congratulations, you posted something irrelevant.And the Persona games do offer more choice, but all of the characters are based off of tropes, and they rely more on what you know about that type of character as opposed to the characters themselves to do the actual development. And the Persona gameplay is so drab and repetitive, I could barely bring myself to continue playing it (solely because I was promised that the story "gets better". SPOILER: the story does not get better at all).
It's called a joke, and you're just spouting stupid bullshit like I assume you always. Oh well, I guess I'm a presumptuous asshole.Based on your use of the term "waifu" and your adamant defense of a stale genre that not even Atlus can save, I can tell that you're more than a little bit of a weeaboo. This colors your reason-free argument a shade of the most unconvincing and embarrassing color possible.
No, believe it or not, you're wrong. RPGs were based off of Dungeons and Dragons, and I'm sure you know what that is. Computer RPGs were called what they were called because their mechanics came from D&D and they were focused on exploration. Console RPGs were called what they were because they were more user friendly and were more like interactive novels. It has nothing to do with your "lol role playing" crap.RPGs are about playing a role in a game (enlightening, isn't it? It's almost like an acronym <--sarcasm). JRPGs are about thrusting the role into your face like an unwanted crotch. Sometimes the crotch is kept at a distance (e.g. SMT), but I prefer to play my games without a threat of rape, thank you very much.
I also feel sorry for myself for playing Persona 3. But you also failed to mention any good JRPGS. You must consider some of them good since you mentioned that they're not all Final Fantasy games.Defense said:-Snip-