Zeschuk: JRPGs suffering “lack of evolution”December 18th, 2009 @ 19:50
By Patrick Garratt
BioWare boss Greg Zeschuk has claimed JRPGs are stuck in a rut.
“The fall of the JRPG in large part is due to a lack of evolution, a lack of progression,” he told Destructoid.
“They kept delivering the same thing over and over. They make the dressing better, they look prettier, but it’s still the same experience.
“My favorite thing, it’s funny when you still see it, but the joke of some of the dialogue systems where it asks, ‘do you wanna do this or this,’ and you say no. ‘Do you wanna do this or this?’ No. ‘Do you wanna do this or this?’ No. Lemme think – you want me to say ‘yes.’ And that, unfortunately, really characterized the JRPG.”
The studio founder said there were obvious exceptions – Demons’ Souls being one of them – but added that the western RPG has simply evolved further than its Japanese counterpart.
Every single one of those is a BioWare trait :lol
Prove me wrong prove me wrong PROVE ME WRONG
Every single one of those is a BioWare trait :lol
Prove me wrong prove me wrong PROVE ME WRONG
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JRPGs haven't changed because when they do try something new, weeaboos throw hissy fits.
JRPGs haven't changed because when they do try something new, weeaboos throw hissy fits.well last time ff12 happened :-\
Ehhh, it's a bit of the pot calling the kettle black but trolling JRPG fans is pretty awesome.if everybody is a loser does it mean there is no winner? :wtf
I don't think JRPG developers are even trying unless they're getting funded by Microsoft or something like that. They've pretty much just bailed out to the handhelds, where they can rack up millions of dollars releasing (or re-releasing) SNES and first gen PSOne era shit.here's what i think,square is picking it's nose,konami is in coma,capcom wants only to do game featuring zombie,who remain to make JRPG beside atlus and N1?
JRPGs haven't changed because when they do try something new, weeaboos throw hissy fits.
So true, the devs for BoF DQ freaking APOLOGIZED because their games was so awesome the wacky jappy set wouldn't play it.
I don't think JRPG developers are even trying unless they're getting funded by Microsoft or something like that. They've pretty much just bailed out to the handhelds, where they can rack up millions of dollars releasing (or re-releasing) SNES and first gen PSOne era shit.here's what i think,square is picking it's nose,konami is in coma,capcom wants only to do game featuring zombie,who remain to make JRPG beside atlus and N1?
i can't really talk since i don't really care about WRPG but i only see bioware rpg around so the situation is even worse than those of JRPG
I don't think JRPG developers are even trying unless they're getting funded by Microsoft or something like that. They've pretty much just bailed out to the handhelds, where they can rack up millions of dollars releasing (or re-releasing) SNES and first gen PSOne era shit.here's what i think,square is picking it's nose,konami is in coma,capcom wants only to do game featuring zombie,who remain to make JRPG beside atlus and N1?
i can't really talk since i don't really care about WRPG but i only see bioware rpg around so the situation is even worse than those of JRPG
WRPGs aren't much better but at least the WRPG developers are trying.
Porting Dragon Quest IV is not much of an effort. Porting Final Fantasy IV and slapping extremely crude graphics as a new coat of paint is not much of an effort. Yet those games are cash cows, probably bringing in more money than if they were to release two new $5 million PS3 JRPG that, after marketing, packaging, etc. requires 500,000 copies to break even, which it would be lucky to get.
I'm guessing the only way higher tier JRPGs will be developed is if it is surefire hits (Final Fantasy) or funded by the console manufacturer (Microsoft). Otherwise, it's off to handhelds and once those get too expensive, they'll probably just start porting to smartphones.
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bioware needs to shut the fuck up and get back to shining bethesda's shoes
KOTOR was fucking awful. What is wrong with you people?
huh? you are just as forced to visit the origin stories.
All Bioware games have the exact same game structure where after the intro mission the game gives you three or four major story locations that can be visited in any order prior to the final mission. Dragon Age appeared to change this with the "Origin" intro, but as soon as it was over it was back to same old same old Bioware.
KOTOR was fucking awful. What is wrong with you people?
OH REALLY BIOWARE well obviously they haven't played Xenosaga 3 :greenshinobi:drake
huh? you are just as forced to visit the origin stories.
What I meant is that the origin story is different for each race...so there's some variety there.