Leading western RPG developer Bioware has said that hit corridor crawler Final Fantasy XIII “isn’t an RPG.”
Commenting on the development of Star Wars: The Old Republic, Bioware’s Writing Director Daniel Erickson launched into an opportunistic salvo against Final Fantasy XIII:
“Well, before I address the main point I just want to take a slightly more controversial route: You can put a ‘J’ in front of it, but it’s not an RPG.
You don’t make any choices, you don’t create a character, you don’t live your character… I don’t know what those are – adventure games maybe? But they’re not RPG’s.”
Bioware has previously criticised JRPGs as being “stagnant,” so it is by now no secret that the company has a low opinion of a genre which in fairness has only a tangential connection to the original conception of a “role playing game” – “stats based dungeon crawler” might be a fairer description.
Yep, you never make choices at all. I guess whenever I switched paradigms and chose which roles to level up it must’ve been my whimsical imagination.
When Bethesda comments on making choices, they are referring to choices that lead to progression of the story and character development; Making choices in paradigm means nothing as the gameplay pertains nothing other than the battle mechanic.
You fail on understanding.
FF XIII needs more brown space marines
Bioware be trollin’.
True, JRPG’s are a bit stagnant….Jculture in general isn’t in the golden era it was a decade ago. I blame it mostly on not enough original artists and everyone trying to copy older styles.
But the US RPG market is just as bad, if not worse. How many times must we suffer through the whole D&D based fantasy world? I’m sick of WoW, I’m sick of D&D, I’m sick of everyone trying to be more “hardcore” than the last guy. There’s no sense of design, no sense of mirth.
Here’s hoping FFXIV is everything I hope it to be.
Bioware is not trolling, learn to know what “Role Playing Game” actually means in the first place. And no, I am not your fucking teacher to tell you, you c♥♥t.
Well if you say that reading a book is an example of rpg then I might as well lose hope to these new age JRPG fans.
man, i swear the god or to myself. I never ever, will not even look at the screenshot, not to mention buying your shitty game. I tired of bio-ass trash talking about j-rpg, rpg has a different representation. Who are you to decide that rpg should be “that” way? i don’t care, if rpg is being interpreted as pen or paper, or creating GENERIC character who DOESN’T has any personality, etc. I like j-rpg period. If i wanted to play free roaming around without linear story, and multiple choice, hell i’d play mmorpg. Its more fun.
So, why not stop your marketing propaganda, and let see 10 years from now, is your shitty company still live for its expectation or not. Until then, lets shut your fucking mouth.
If you like linear story, with you watching what happens then I rather stop playing JRPG’s and read a book, or watch a movie.
You have no say on what will happen in a JRPG story, the characters that you supposedly control acts by themselves and “you” have no say on what they will do or on how you want their story to develop. It is not a “role-playing” game, you are a spectator with the job of arranging stats and pushing the “attack button.
Congratulation JRPG fans, you are the extreme french maid. Your job is to arrange stats, buy the characters some clothes, buy them weapons, get them a fucking ship or fucking mascot and tell them when to attack or not. After all that, just go and sit in a corner and watch them on how they discuss about the weather.
Have fun with your “Role playing”!!
the only true rpg i know is sims
Oh my God, please tell me the reason why Sims is considered an RPG? The things that I know about Sims and how it is played, my lack of knowledge of its gameplay and the sentence that you wrote with a +4 approval combined makes my head hurt.
Or you could just tell me you guys are trolling so hard.