I’ll cop to it, it’s me. I hate JRPGs. I think it was Final Fantasy 3 (Technically 6, but I knew it by the US numbering system) which got my hate started. Start a spell or attack, and then go fuck off for half an hour while the attack animation played. This was finalized by Valkyrie Profile. It’s over two decades later and I can still hear Lenneth saying, “It shall be engraved upon your soul. <pause> Divine Assault. <big pause> Nibelung Valesti.” Ok, I get it, it’s her thing, but do I need to hear it three dozen times in every combat? I eventually just stop playing the game, I couldn’t take it anymore.
It’s not turn based RPGs I hate. I’m, currently playing through Baldur’s Gate 3 again, and loved the Divine Divinity series. It’s mostly the mindless repetition of JRPGs that gets to me. Having a 100+ hour game, because 90+ hours are spent grinding random encounters, just isn’t fun for me. Especially when that combat is just click a button in the menu and maybe have a timing button to hit as well to extend the attack. Oh and lets not forget the over blown animations where a character needs to spend 90 seconds winding up his dick, screaming like a idiot passing the largest shit of his life, to maybe make the enemy health bar move down a pixel or two.
And the writing, I get that I’m probably too old to be the target demographic. But, the melodrama is thicker than Ishtar’s left tit. Maybe it’s a translation issue or cultural thing. But ya, not my thing.
I played through skies of arcadia last year on an emulator. at the end the difference between in-game playtime and actualplay time was 8 hrs (out of 45 hrs total in-game) due to me fast-forwarding battle animations 🫠
I’ll cop to it, it’s me. I hate JRPGs. I think it was Final Fantasy 3 (Technically 6, but I knew it by the US numbering system) which got my hate started. Start a spell or attack, and then go fuck off for half an hour while the attack animation played. This was finalized by Valkyrie Profile. It’s over two decades later and I can still hear Lenneth saying, “It shall be engraved upon your soul. <pause> Divine Assault. <big pause> Nibelung Valesti.” Ok, I get it, it’s her thing, but do I need to hear it three dozen times in every combat? I eventually just stop playing the game, I couldn’t take it anymore.
It’s not turn based RPGs I hate. I’m, currently playing through Baldur’s Gate 3 again, and loved the Divine Divinity series. It’s mostly the mindless repetition of JRPGs that gets to me. Having a 100+ hour game, because 90+ hours are spent grinding random encounters, just isn’t fun for me. Especially when that combat is just click a button in the menu and maybe have a timing button to hit as well to extend the attack. Oh and lets not forget the over blown animations where a character needs to spend 90 seconds winding up his dick, screaming like a idiot passing the largest shit of his life, to maybe make the enemy health bar move down a pixel or two.
And the writing, I get that I’m probably too old to be the target demographic. But, the melodrama is thicker than Ishtar’s left tit. Maybe it’s a translation issue or cultural thing. But ya, not my thing.
I played through skies of arcadia last year on an emulator. at the end the difference between in-game playtime and actualplay time was 8 hrs (out of 45 hrs total in-game) due to me fast-forwarding battle animations 🫠