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Anonymous01/28/26, 15:08No.3917087I have RPG fatigue
At what point do you stop and say,
>fuck this I'm just going to watch a youtube playthrough
>I've been playing this genre for 20 years.
>I just want to experience the game without the tedium of playing it.
On one hand I'm very interested in games like Atelier or (old) Persona that I missed out on at the time. On the other hand, I don't want to actually spend 50 hours playing them and dealing with time limits or missables.
Atelier Thread I guess
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Anon01/28/26, 15:13No.3917089
I don't play tranime. The last game I started and somewhat disliked was cp2077. Had to beat it as it was corona jail and I had nothing else to do and paid full price for it. I usually do research before I play something.
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Anon01/28/26, 15:15No.3917091
You’re supposed to grow out of JRPGs after your teens, anon. It’s normal. They’re children’s games.
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Anon01/28/26, 16:35No.3917116
There are more jarpigs with good gameplay than their are jarpigs with worthwhile stories. There are more than enough decent VNs you could read instead
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Anon01/28/26, 17:00No.3917131
Watching a playthrough of a game sounds a lot more tedious than actually playing one to me. If I don't care enough about a game to play it, I sure as hell don't want to watch it.>dealing with time limits or missables
I think you would have more fun if you managed to dial down your completionism or fear of failure.
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Anon01/28/26, 17:01No.3917133
>>fuck this I'm just going to watch a youtube playthrough
6 years ago and never looked back. Got into shmups, arcade games, run n guns, and that sort of thing.
I still watch Resonant ARC from time to time, and I watch HCBAILLY and a couple other guys who like old school jrpgs, but I can't be bothered to play modern rpgs anymore given how easy they are, how stale the writing is, and how BLOATED they are just to expand playtime for the sake of playtime -- yet they basically play themselves and ask so little of the player.
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Anon01/28/26, 21:53No.3917311
>At what point do you stop and say,
I stopped playing new JRPGs around 1999 after realizing that the strict storage limit on the SNES cartridge had been preventing all the worst impulses of writers to indulge and that there was no hope for improvement as the tasteless storyfag audience was just slurping it all up uncritically no matter what so long as anime girls were involved
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Anon01/29/26, 00:20No.3917394
Never, I actually like video games.
The worst part about Atelier's time limits isn't the "time" management (which is easy) but the fact that there's no post-game overtime, so any extra content that you don't even have to do also has to be done within the limit, and even THEN your save remains transient, so you can't fuck around indefinitely.
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Anon01/29/26, 02:42No.3917438
I'm autistic and like time management sims
But yes most RPGs are overrated unfun garbage
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Anon01/29/26, 04:59No.3917478
I want to call you stupid, but I feel kinda similar in a way. I still enjoy the gameplay, and think that stuff like grinding and complicated systems are just part of the way these games are supposed to be. But recently I get tired and drop them after I feel like I'm not having fun anymore. I get this sunk cost feeling that I should beat it and get over the slump I'm in, but it becomes tiresome when it begins feeling like work. Then I feel this trepidation before starting a game, wondering if I should bother if I'm just gonna drop it like the last one. But sometimes I don't, and it's worth it to find ones that I really like enough to finish.
I think the problem has a lot to do with newer RPGs, and new games in general, being way too damn long. A long time ago Persona 4 was CRAZY long, but now it's kind of the average. Length creep is real and it's turning games into an ordeal to finish.Also Atelier is a series where I've never actually finished an entry, but I didn't have any negative experience that made me drop it aside from the game design being the type that makes you feel like you're always playing it wrong.
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Anon01/29/26, 05:35No.3917487
I obey my feelings when that happens. If I stop enjoying something, I stop doing it immediately unless my welfare depends on it.Games have no bearing on my welfare, so either they entertain me or they're out. No wasting twenty hours trying to find fun. The worst feeling with games is trying to give them time to 'click' when you're already bored of them, and denying the sunken cost/time fallacy until you finally admit you're onto a loser (the whole time knowing, of course, that you are)
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Anon01/29/26, 05:37No.3917489
I don't. That's fucking retarded.