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Anonymous02/26/26, 02:03No.3935180
RPGs peaked in the early 90s and it's been downhill ever since. RPGs didn’t start out story heavy. Early console RPGs like Dragon Quest or Wizardry had simple “save the world” plots or "find the special item" and dark souls style "lore" and that was more than enough.
Story existed, but it was sparse due to hardware limitations, and localization constraints. The focus was gameplay, engaging with systems and fun battles, not cinematic storytelling!! not narrative! and dialogue info dumps! The shift toward long cutscenes and dense dialogue and heavy-handed storyshite really took off in the mid to late 1990s once CD storage made bigger narratives possible. And RPGS/jrpgs have never (ever) recovered ever since. This is why a true rpg fan is someone who is also a retro gamer first and foremost. Full stop, I don't care if this offends you!
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Anon02/26/26, 02:07No.3935183
Bot thread
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Anon02/26/26, 04:02No.3935225
I mean this is obvious. JRPGs were perfected on Super Famicom. PS1 brought improvements but also some elements of decline. PS2 was where things got truly bad.
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Anon02/26/26, 05:23No.3935238
We've had this same thread posted like three or four different times in the last day or two.
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Anon02/26/26, 05:43No.3935242
Autistic boomer
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Anon02/26/26, 13:29No.3935386
Story Bad is contrarian faggotry.
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Anon02/28/26, 00:08No.3936481
Hate to admit it but OP is not wrong
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Anon02/28/26, 04:17No.3936590
jrpgs and wrpgs have always been shit.
the sooner you discover this the better.
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Anon02/28/26, 09:23No.3936787
True.
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Anon02/28/26, 09:29No.3936790
Problem is industry has basically started thinking production values can carry a game. JRPGs got impacted hard by this. What would once be a ten second dialog box exchange now has to be a choreographed cutscene with full VA, for example.
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Anon02/28/26, 09:31No.3936792
The gameplayfags of /vrpg/ have successfully opened my eyes and redpilled me.
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Anon02/28/26, 10:00No.3936798
I've had people beat me over the head with their game recommendations solely based on the perceived merit of their "stories", especially when it comes to the RPG genre. I've played through a sizeable number of their games. My verdict is, do not listen such people. They don't read books. They lack media literacy. None of the stories they continuously overpraise are worth your time.