Yeah, in the 80s. Not the 90s or 2000s. And I was saying that was natural, considering the state both genres were in at that time. If we were to question anything about there being little crossover influence between the two at the time, it would be why Western RPG devs were keen to ignore JRPGs and not take any influence from them despite those being more successful at the time.
But even when the WRPGs were making a comeback and eclipsing JRPGs in popularity in the late 2000s, the Japanese devs continued to turn a blind eye. That only changed when Skyrim made a billion dollars, and all of a sudden, they changed their tune and started copying Todd Howard's homework after Skyrim made Bethesda a billion dollars with a single title.
Yes, you've said that. And I wouldn't say that's exactly true. Because for one thing, all those JRPGs are became open world didn't copy Skyrim's structure or gameplay mechanics at all. They continued doing the same things, but in a big open world. And second, it wasn't just JRPGs, dozens of series across every genre of gaming have had their devs trying to make them open world. Skyrim was influential, but only for being the most visible open world game. Nothing about it as an RPG was copied, it's just the beacon of a general trend of everyone trying to make everything open world.
And why did they do that? Because Skyrim's open world was a big selling point that got gamers to dump a billion dollars on a single game. That trend caught on because Bethesda used the open world as a marketing gimmick and got a billion dollars in return.
Sifu
The settlements are shit, and I don't bother with them. Sim Settlements 2 is a mod that makes them actually fun and what they should've been.
There's a lot in this post where I can't quite tell if you're still just talking about singleplayer games like Sifu, because it sounds a lot like you're ALSO talking about... how fighting games work in general (or rather, a misunderstanding of how they work). I have a whole spiel that could go here, but meh.
Please do.
I have them on Gamecube, but yes, great games. It's a shame that one guy who wanted his special move to be his dragon tattoo comes alive and attacks the opponent never got that move implemented. It's been a while since I played, but I remember the story modes being fun too. I don't even like rap music.
Autism. The game, the thing that makes it a game, is shite. The mainstory line, and everything about the game, is shit.
Tried the 40K mod that replaced zombies with orks.
Binary Domain was Sega Japan's response to Mass Effect.
I could barely get past the tutorial.
One game. Meanwhile, the amount of Skyrim-derivatives from Japan range from Zelda games to FF games. Like I said, almost no one in Japan gave a shit about Mass Effect. Almost. Sega was the exception that proved the rule.
Also, Binary Domain was not an RPG, but a pure third-person shooter like Gears of War or Warhammer 40K: Space Marine. And commanding squadmates is not unique to RPGs either, lest we start counting Republic Commando as an RPG.
The sandbox, loot, skills, and leveling are all part of the game. Main stories are practically an afterthought in Bethesda games; they know the most fun people have are fucking around with the world, and so they put most of the effort into that.
Saars, you did a racism saars.
Isn't that more of an RPG? Battlesector is a skirmish-level strategy game where you typically have around 20 units or so.
There were many attempts by japanese devs at making various different rpgs, and you know it. From Vagrant Story and Shadow Hearts through Valkyrie Profile and Star Ocean. All of them were much better than Ff7, but most of the customers didn’t care.
Voice acting is the biggest cause of size bloat especially when it's stored in uncompressed formats, it's probably one of the biggest sources of development bloat overall. Textures that look good at 4K resolution also take a hell of a lot of space and compression makes them look like ass. Games have always pushed the limits of what hardware is available at the time, the biggest resource hog now being ray traced lighting and shadows. You turn that shit off and you'll double your FPS. At the end of the day most games are still tuned to be how much impressive bling you can make run at 30FPS. Movies are tuned to be how much bling you can reasonably render at 24FPS on a server farm. Only enthusiasts with eagle eyes and huge wallets seem to give a fuck about getting 60+ FPS for smooth motion and upscaling + frame gen are quick hacks to achieving that. Tens of millions of plebes still buy Pokemon that chugs at 2 FPS at times with ugly jagged ass pixels because Nintendo doesn't know what anti-aliasing is. Optimization is not rewarded by the market.
The video game industry is shit tier to program in. The pay is complete ass, there's negative job security, and the crunch mentality is absolutely insane. No intelligent programmer works in gaming unless they have a serious passion for the field, you make 3X+ more hourly doing entry level webshit. It's the tech equivalent of being a scenic painter for theaters: you smell like shit all the time, make less than minimum wage, get treated like a slave, and are fucked off every season to find a new job. I absolutely love the idea of working on a video game but I would NEVER take the pay and quality of life cut to work in the field. With the 3D chops and low-level knowledge needed to make an optimized game you could go work for Raytheon making bombs skewer shitskins for 10x the effective pay. Only idiots and fanatics work in video game programming.