I like many different genres, but I like RPGs the most and it's pretty disheartening to see that there are next to none in the foreseeable future for the 3DS. Normally, Nintendo's IPs are enough to get me to buy a portable. Because I played Ocarina of Time 5 years ago and everything else coming from Nintendo this year is very iterative, I'm waiting for the first good RPG (or a 3DS redesign) to take the plunge. The only RPG I can think of that is even announced is the SMT: Devil Survivor remake/port, and despite my love for the Persona games, I don't like grid-based SRPGs. Is there a reason why so few RPGs are being developed for the 3DS?

It's new? Give it a year and there will be so many awful JRPGs, you won't know which one to waste time on first.

Dude, the 3DS has only been out for a few months. Quality RPGs take time to develop. The original DS didn't start seeing good RPGs until over a year out, if memory serves correctly.

I'm sure Nintendo knows that most of their audience like those awesome RPGs they released on the DS so I'm sure that with time they will release more. Though you are right I'm surprised nothing amazing was announced to come this holiday. So far its just some N64 ports.

Dude, the 3DS has only been out for a few months. Quality RPGs take time to develop.

@MrKlorox said:

It's new? Give it a year and there will be so many awful JRPGs, you won't know which one to waste time on first.

Nope, no obvious flame bait in this statement.

@Hailinel said:

@MrKlorox said:

It's new? Give it a year and there will be so many awful JRPGs, you won't know which one to waste time on first.

Nope, no obvious flame bait in this statement.

I'm sorry you're offended that I dislike JRPGs. As if there's no genre you think is garbage.

@MrKlorox said:

@Hailinel said:

@MrKlorox said:

It's new? Give it a year and there will be so many awful JRPGs, you won't know which one to waste time on first.

Nope, no obvious flame bait in this statement.

I'm sorry you're offended that I dislike JRPGs. As if there's no genre you think is garbage.

There's no reason for you to come into this thread to make such a statement in the first place if the thread is about a genre that you don't like.

Go pick up Radiant Historia, you now have a quality RPG that works on your 3DS.
 
You're welcome.

@Hailinel: There are other forms of RPG that I love. But after reading the post, I gathered he was talking about the J variety; and since there wasn't an answer, I left one. If it was flame bait, you're nibbling pretty hard.

Tales of the Abyss is coming to 3DS and it is an excellent jrpg if you havent already played it. Odds are high it will get an english localization.

Dude, the 3DS has only been out for a few months. Quality RPGs take time to develop. The original DS didn't start seeing good RPGs until over a year out, if memory serves correctly.

@MrKlorox said:

@Hailinel: There are other forms of RPG that I love. But after reading the post, I gathered he was talking about the J variety; and since there wasn't an answer, I left one. If it was flame bait, you're nibbling pretty hard.

What kind of RPGs were you expecting to be on the 3DS, given what was produced for the DS? You're like an Elder Scrolls fan walking into a Final Fantasy discussion just to say how much their games suck.

@Hailinel said:

@MrKlorox said:

@Hailinel: There are other forms of RPG that I love. But after reading the post, I gathered he was talking about the J variety; and since there wasn't an answer, I left one. If it was flame bait, you're nibbling pretty hard.

What kind of RPGs were you expecting to be on the 3DS, given what was produced for the DS? You're like an Elder Scrolls fan walking into a Final Fantasy discussion just to say how much their games suck.

Right, except not. Keep ignoring the fact that I answered the OP because I have a bias you disagree with.

@MrKlorox said:

@Hailinel said:

@MrKlorox said:

@Hailinel: There are other forms of RPG that I love. But after reading the post, I gathered he was talking about the J variety; and since there wasn't an answer, I left one. If it was flame bait, you're nibbling pretty hard.

What kind of RPGs were you expecting to be on the 3DS, given what was produced for the DS? You're like an Elder Scrolls fan walking into a Final Fantasy discussion just to say how much their games suck.

Right, except not. Keep ignoring the fact that I answered the OP because I have a bias you disagree with.

You walked in and called the genre he was referring to "awful" without provocation. The phrasing would be just as baiting if you replaced "JRPGs" with "FPS games", "strategy games," or "western RPGs." There was no reason for it.

@Hailinel: The majority of the genre actually being awful was my provocation. I didn't just pull it out of thin air. What's going on without reason here is you taking it like a personal insult.

Paper Mario

@MrKlorox said:

@Hailinel: The majority of the genre actually being awful was my provocation. I didn't just pull it out of thin air. What's going on without reason here is you taking it like a personal insult.

Pure opinion. Not provocation.

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

A Mario and Luigi game will come in good time i'm sure

Dude, Paper Mario is a pretty damn good RPG.

It's new? Give it a year and there will be so many awful JRPGs, you won't know which one to waste time on first.

not many coming apart from this it seems:
 
  

Tales of the Abyss is coming to 3DS and it is an excellent jrpg if you havent already played it. Odds are high it will get an english localization.

Give me Paper Mario or Pokémon. 3DS sales will exploooode!

This thread is pretty funny. Like 20% topic, 80% a dude defending himself for telling the truth. :D

The sequel to that last Golden Sun game will probably come out for the 3DS sooner or later so tere's that. Hopefully it'll have difficulty settings this time around, in which case I'm putting that shit on Hard.

Then there's always Pokemon, but that's not so much an RPG as it is Pokemon, meaning you can like one without giving a damn about the other.