Yes. NDS has the best JRPG line up, but console wise it seems 360 has a nice line up. I myself bought Infinite Undiscovery.

Next gen JRPGs getting less and less attractive to me.. I still think 16/32 bit era had the best line up

I totally agree.
The 16 bit era we saw birth or expansion of legendary JRPG (Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG...)
the 32/64 bit we have Zelda Ocarina of Time, Final Fantasy series...

Could it be the shifting of market focus from Japan to US by game companies,
that has caused the declining JPRG line up? I wonder....

console wise 360, handheld nds has the most

I think too much focus now on the system for newer JRPGs.. I prefer the old school style JRPGs, basic leveling up and few jobs to choose from

they need to change in order to survive

True enough.

Especially now that western RPGs has taken charge, its absolutely boring. Western RPGs, no offense here IMO they are just too darn boring to play.

Yeah dude, western RPG is overated.

Western RPG=no cool/beauitiful characters=no turn base battle=no story=no plot(hero save the princess or world=no beautiful ost and background music=booooringgg!

Why would the westerner want to make an RPG?Just leave it to the japanese to build the game and they should just concerntrate on FPS,SLG,Action. etc.RPG are meant to be made by the Japanese only.

"Its not weird for a Japanese to make a shot gun but its weird for an american to make a samurai sword"

The problem is even Japanese developers are making JRPGs to play like WRPGs these days.. and the lost quite a bit of JRPG lovers and couldn't reach most Western audience. Both head couldn't reach a shore

the conclusion is stick with DS ?

Don't put it that way. Because in that case its like saying western devs shouldn't even be creating games in the first place.

As much as I despise western RPGs, you need to give them due credit. What you got out of JRPGs in the first place was all drawn from the very first Dungeon and Dragons board game, which is a western RPG. Western games do get more publicity because of the deep pockets western publishers has. Japan still sticks to their own country, but its a beginning trend now that Japanese devs and publishers has realised they have been overtaken by the west.

The problem with western RPGs now a days is that they tend to think creating your own character and giving him/her the stats you want will make it a very customizable game. Problem is that in order to alleviate leveling up issues, side quests need to be implemented. This does make things very tedious and it makes the story confusing. Something which many JRPG enthusiasts hates, we just want to get along with the story and level up like no tomorow with random battles.

i'll stick with JRPGs franchises like, tales of,
recent games like Eternal Sonata, Tales of Hearts, Shining Force Feather are all using anime RPG systems.

And I still support them, currently i think Namco still did the best JRPG till today. Just my opinion though, FF series is just getting too overrated sometime.

Really?

I think Atlus does a better job. Their Persona series is more than enough to speak for themselves, and I'm not even going to go into their either SMT spin-offs.

Both Atlus and Namco did very well.............but why still no Persona at PS3, i have sold off my PS2 after i have finish the Digital Devil Saga 2, damn regret after saw the Persona 4 came out at PS2 only.

you want handheld or console? if you are outgoing people that keep going out, nds is not a bad idea, but if you want to view it in stunning graphic, 360(current game)/ps3(future game) is your way to go

I wonder how do Valkyria Chronicles and White Knight perform on the PS3. Many people were poking on 360's JRPG's sales Don't mean to start a war ya, just curious

number 1 sales in Japan

but you never online with your ps3, so you lose half of the content of white knight!

A good J-RPG is not about on which console it is played.It is about the good gameplay, storyline and the sidequest. I can still say that Lunar series(Silver Star & Eternal Blue) is the great rpg that I ever played compared to the 2nd and 3rd gen console's rpg even though the graphic is very outdated and lame. The battle system is simple yet sophisticated.Wide exploring area i.e. dungeans and world map, good, well composed and romantic storyline,great soundtrack(be it in japan or english) and of course the anime cutscenes are beautiful especially the character design is done by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto(Neon Genesis Evangelion)

This post has been edited by Brian O'Connor: Jan 7 2009, 02:04 PM