The Death of JRPG’s

This week I had an itch for a certain genre of video game that couldn’t be quenched. This disappointment drove me to write this piece. My itch wasn’t for an action game or adventure and not for the overly abundant FPS. It was for the very rare and dying breed of Japanese Role-Playing Game (JRPG). So as I browsed the PS3 and Xbox 360 titles to satisfy my addiction a clerk came up and asked me if I needed help so I told him what I was looking for. I described how I wanted a modern day JRPG that was long and had characters, which have ridiculous over exaggerated emotions, some chick putting up the peace sign for no reason, and some animal mascot that can talk. After I was done describing the game I was looking for he informed me there was nothing like that for both systems but that the DS had some games like that. Is it me or wasn’t there plenty of JRPG’s that fit that description for the PS2. Was it just a fad for that time if so then what happens to those people who enjoy that genre we are left out to dry while FPS games are becoming to ridiculous in number? Whatever happened to games like Kingdom Hearts, Persona 3-4, and Arc the Lad. I just don’t want to settle for something that is subpar and should you?

This week I had an itch for a certain genre of video game that couldn’t be quenched. This disappointment drove me to write this piece. My itch wasn’t for an action game or adventure and not for the overly abundant FPS. It was for the very rare and dying breed of Japanese Role-Playing Game (JRPG). So as I browsed the PS3 and Xbox 360 titles to satisfy my addiction a clerk came up and asked me if I needed help so I told him what I was looking for. I described how I wanted a modern day JRPG that was long and had characters, which have ridiculous over exaggerated emotions, some chick putting up the peace sign for no reason, and some animal mascot that can talk. After I was done describing the game I was looking for he informed me there was nothing like that for both systems but that the DS had some games like that. Is it me or wasn’t there plenty of JRPG’s that fit that description for the PS2. Was it just a fad for that time if so then what happens to those people who enjoy that genre we are left out to dry while FPS games are becoming to ridiculous in number? Whatever happened to games like Kingdom Hearts, Persona 3-4, and Arc the Lad. I just don’t want to settle for something that is subpar and should you?

Demon's Souls. Go play it.

Final Fantasy XIII, Resonance of Fate, and Shin Megami Tensei:  Strange Journey were all released in the U.S. last month alone.  Dead genre?  What?

Dude. If you like all that there are so many games for you. Star Ocean 4, Tales of Vesperia, Blue Dragon, Lost Oddysey, Infinite Undiscovery. To name a few.

Nothing happened to Persona. Persona 5 has been more or less announced.

Strange Journey is pretty damn good.

You might want to look up 
Tales of Vesperia 
Record of Agarest War 
Star Ocean: The Last Hope 
 
Haven't played em personally, yet, but I intend to some day.

" @Akeldama: I'm not sure if one could consider Demon's Soul's a full fledged JRPG. It was published by Atlus, but the gameplay feels like a hybrid of western and japanese rpg concepts.  "

Resonance of Fate.
 
Lots of goofy stuff going on. And it's long. 
 
Tales of Vesperia is totally what you are describing though.

Whatever happened to Persona? It was released December 08, give it a break, not like that's an age ago.

" Dead genre?  What? "

" Whatever happened to Persona? It was released December 08, give it a break, not like that's an age ago. "

" @animateria: I remember playing tales of symphonia is the combat the same as that and is it for x360 or ps3. "

" @animateria: I remember playing tales of symphonia is the combat the same as that and is it for x360 or ps3. "

" @animateria: I remember playing tales of symphonia is the combat the same as that and is it for x360 or ps3. "

You're clearly not looking at all. Im not looking for Polka songs, and since they can't find me I guess Polka's dead. No dude no. Infinite Space, Strange Journey, Resonance of Fate, and FF13 came out within a 2 week span. Sakura Wars came out like 2 weeks ago. Meanwhile, how many FPSs came out?

ff13 sounds like the perfect game for u.

FFXIII and Resonance of Fate just came out last month. But yeah, if you only want them on PS360 then you're out of luck since they're the worst selling systems in Japan this generation. Now that MS has given up on funding JRPGs you're not going to get as many decent HD efforts. Hopefully Atlus reveal what they've been making for HD consoles soon. Hope Namco has some more plans for Tales worldwide on HD consoles. tri-Ace said they'll be continuing on HD consoles this generation, but RoF was the first good effort from them out of 3 so far. FFvXIII sounds like it'll take a while, but there's that too. Honestly though if you want more then you'll have to look to the handhelds, or maybe Nintendo will be able to get some more JRPGs on Wii with their own efforts (Xenoblade and The Last Story) and DQX. Having all 5 systems is the only way to get the best.

Yeah, JRPGs are dead, and you killed them. 
 
I hope you're happy! 
 
/trolling because for fuck's sake -- can NO ONE do research any more before making some stupid "this genre is dead" claim? Hell, you could do a thread search for "JRPG" + "Death of" and come up with a hundred of these same threads all with a ton of answers from the same people responding here.  
 
Grrrr! 
 
And yeah, what some others have already said -- You described Tales of Vesperia, so go play it.