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Rant 06 JRPGs and their similarities (to other genres)

I for one, love Japanese RPGs, I love the fantasy world that you're put into, the depth of what the world actually is about, the characters, their developments, the story, the fights, the puzzles, the monsters, it's a fresh experience--to me anyways....

Not a lot of people agree with me however...

Just about everyone, including JRPG fans, disdain the genre, for it's repetition alone.
There is without a doubt a formula, there's one person, sword user, special trait in him that separates him from the others.
That's it in a nutshell, people have grown to bore of this. Understandable, but then they turn to the infamous shooter games to light up some hoes with bullets.

I'm a thinker, and believe me, it didn't take much thought, why are JRPGs hated so much?
It's true to why they are hated, so I guess my question is better rephrased to, "Why are JRPGs hated so much, when just about every gaming genre are guilty of the same crimes in their own way?"

Originality is a new weapon you'll find in the next anticipated shooter.
But it's not a story or character development that you'll find in a JRPG.

Originality is a new character you meet in the next fighting game installment.
But it's not a new magic spell that you can craft through customization.

Originality is being able to strap a grenade to someone.
But it's not a new puzzle you'll find in a dungeon.

It's all the same cake with different icing, with very few exceptions.
So what's the deal? It seems to me that a lot of people are high biased to other genres and then leave JRPGs to die in a cesspool of the same flavor as the other one these people have chose to immerse themselves in.
It's hypocrisy in it's most raw form. There are some people who say that JRPGs are the worst genre in gaming. Everyone has a right to their opinion, but it's viability will always be put into question when their favorite genre has the same equations of staleness and repetition.
One of many reasons that I do not like people.

I'm not going to go into detail that JRPGs have more originality than just about any shooter game, I just want to let you see how this is bullshit to hate a genre for one thing and not even acknowledge the other for the same flaws.

I asked to the many people who bought Modern Warfare 2, "Is there anything that sets this game apart from the other FPS'?"
Most didn't answer me, some didn't give any good reasons. So it's safe to say that this game, despite all it's hype is another run n' gun game.
That's nice, not that there's anything wrong with that, if you like it, you're gonna like it.

Now on the flip side, a JRPG will get shunned for having the main character dress differently from everyone else, a unique wardrobe.
So it's a cliche in the fact that it's original. That irks me more than you think, it seems like JRPGs can't win, they're automatically assumed to be the same as each other, even to those who said themselves that they could never get into the series or have even played the games.

Oh but the shooters!
People'll line up outside a motherfucking Gamestop to buy that game that's just another run n' gun game.
Oh but the fighters!
People hold tournaments over this shit! People spend hundreds of dollars to lose and get a variant of last place for these games.
Oh but the racers!
How Need for Speed is sooooo different from it's last installment, because Gran Turismo has so much spice in it now!
Oh but the sports!
Iverson owns in this game, didn't he own in the last game? Oh look a new player!

Oh, the jrpgs....
Just another emo git swinging his stick at a long haired pretty boy. stale characters with no development boring story looks all the same, blah blah blah....

*facepalms in real life*

I still think the gaming community is going into a decline, in fact, I think it already started. Everything is gravitating to shooters these days. It's nowhere near as bad as it was 2 years ago, it's much more subtle now, but it's still happening.
I'm glad some companies haven't given up. Too bad the gamers have.

You know these days, just about any kid under 18 will bandwagon something, and it's sad and bitter.
Some people can't get an opinion of their own and they dickride someone else's, because they wanna fit in.

This is probably where the bulk of the JRPG hate is coming from, from the kids who need their parents to buy their M rated game for Christmas.
What happened to our community?