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How The Last Generation Changed JRPGs For The Better

Kotaku - "When Team Kotaku first started planning out our Last-Gen Heroes feature, I started thinking about how JRPGs have evolved over the past generation—a generation that some would argue has been disastrous for the genre. Between a polarizing thirteenth Final Fantasy, a number of forgettable slogs like Infinite Undiscovery and some alarming ventures in the world of free-to-play, the Wii-Xbox360-PS3 era seemed more than a little scary for JRPG fans."

Cueil3840d ago

Lost Odyssey > all other JRPG

baraka0073840d ago

Yeah I agree. Back in 2007 there was folklore on ps3 and lost odyssey on xbox. I thought those two were the start of something good for both consoles but it wasn't to be I guess.

HelpfulGamer3840d ago

ARM Architecture Softwares (Source-Code, Plugins, Game-Engine, Tools) is more readily available, at far cheaper price that make Game development much easier than Wii-Xbox360-PS3 PowerPC architecture.

Its not Hardware that makes game development easier, its Software, just as Sony's PhyreGameEngine did to solve the Complex Cell Architecture that scares away many JRPG developer to mobile.

Its Software, that makes the difference. I hope Sony PhyreEngine 4.0 is a key to revive JRPG on Playstation.

Hicken3840d ago

For me, Valkyria Chronicles and Tales of Xillia top it. It's a close race, though.

Despite common notions, there were quite a few standout JRPGs on consoles this gen. many of them just didn't get the exposure they deserved.

Cueil3840d ago

neither of those are traditional JRPG either and none have immortal characters or the same kind of emotional story telling... the dream notes were some of the best writing ever to this day

Hicken3840d ago

"Traditional," you say, but JRPGs come in so many varieties, that hardly has meaning. Plus, you didn't specify it had to be a "traditional" JRPG, anyway. And how would Xillia not count?

Furthermore, what do immortals have to do with anything? I mean, do games with immortals score more points?

Don't get me wrong, I think Lost Odyssey is awesome. It's one of two games I own for 360(which I don't actually have one of). But the story in VC, in particular, gripped me like nothing has since Persona 3.

Cueil3840d ago

still think story and story background in LO was heads and shoulders above... especially the background story and how it was told... at times I got dust in my eyes because of it >_> .... <_< .... ah eff it I teared up...

Reaper99373840d ago

Xenoblade Chronicles is the best JRPG of this generation.

tiffac0083840d ago

Only if most of the popular ones are getting localized and not getting stuck in Japan.

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Tri-Ace still uses their old game engine from 2008

The gaming community lately makes jokes about companies making games that look like "PS3" or "PS2" games. While this is such a nasty dig, there may be some truth to this in the case of tri-Ace.

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GoodGuy09350d ago

Sad really. I used to love these guys but man...they just aren't what they used to be.

phallusitator349d ago

According to the this they are exactly what they used to be…

Noskypeno349d ago

The Cod games have been using an engine built in the mid 90s. Nothing wrong with using an old engine if they update it. Bioshock used UE2 and looked better than most UE3 games. Arkham knight used UE3 and looked better than most UE4 games.

Chriswynnetbh349d ago

I would give my left nut for an infinite undiscovery pc port

shinoff2183349d ago

Sh it does suck but I enjoyed star ocean 6 the most out of any game last year. I thought it was solid af start to finish. My favorite game that year.

I'd love for Sony to get ahold of them.

shinoff2183349d ago

To late to edit but I just wanted to add not every game that comes out needs to push a consoles boundaries. Star ocean 6 looked fairly good to me.

shammgod349d ago

Yeah. They definitely squeezed every drop out of that engine for SO6. It was a fun game

nitus10349d ago (Edited 349d ago )

I assume you are talking about "Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness" which I do have and am still playing. IMHO it is a good game but for some reason I still prefer "Star Ocean: The Last Hope" that I played on my PS3.

As a side note I have "Star Ocean: Till the End of Time" (PS2 version) which I played on my first gen PS3 but unfortunatly the Australian version of the PS3 did not have full backwards capability like the US version did. I got so far in the game and hit a bug (advancement to a new area between two mountains) that prevented further play.

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Xbox One's Last Batch of Backward Compatible Games & Rare's Enhanced for Xbox One X Shown in Action

During the Inside Xbox live stream today, developers from the backwards compatibility team announced that the program would sadly be coming to a close.

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mkis0071800d ago

Already? No more bc games to be added? This is huge news.

slate911800d ago

What a good run. Assuming every og xbox, 360, and One title will be available on Scarlett. Will make next gen transition easy. Hats off!!

Bigman4k1800d ago (Edited 1800d ago )

I'm not surprise at all I saw this coming

AK911800d ago (Edited 1800d ago )

As long as they continue adding more BC once the Scarlett comes out.

badz1491800d ago

so this partial BC program ended?

FGHFGHFGH1799d ago

well they're actually developing new games now so isn't that better?

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We're Still Waiting on these 10 Games to Come to Xbox Game Pass

The current game selection on Game Pass is impressive, but it’s still missing a handful of big games.Here are the 10 most dumbfounding omissions from Game Pass.

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xboxcult1859d ago

I can see most of these coming to gamepass sometime this year. Even some of them could make it GWG.

lxeasy1858d ago

Some of these are exclusives so I def see them coming to gamepass.