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Gamers: We need to retvrn to old games with only male and female gender options! Old games:
(hexbear.net)
Trying to explain to my parents that undead is an umbrella term, encompassing multiple genders such as skeletons and agender ghosts
Oooh, the weird fake Final Fantasy for Xbox 360! I've honestly never played that one - for some weird reason I really fell off Japanese RPGs after the PS2 era.
I guess a lot of people did, too, but it's still strange. I assume other RPG dorks were also delusional and thought Mass Effect were good games back then
ITS NOT FAKE IT HAS HIRONOBU SAKAGUCHI AND NOBUO UEMATSU
Mostly I think studios in Japan had greater trouble adapting to HD development pipelines, Idk why. From 2006 to 2008 though, PS360 JRPGs was like Enchanted Arms -> Blue Dragon -> Lost Odyssey -> Folklore -> Eternal Sonata, lol
I think this was the same era where people like Phil Fish were saying stuff like "Japanese games suck" or whatever. You're onto something, a lot of the Japanese studios weren't quite hitting as hard during that console generation.
I'm like 0/5 on those - bordering on fake weeb status lol. At least I know a well I can dig if I'm wanting to play a bunch of RPGs I've never touched.
Yeah! Idk why, but devs in Japan were more happy to make smaller scope, smaller budget games, not just on big consoles like PS2 but also on handhelds. You still see this today, like the Nintendo Direct was full of smaller weeb games. AAA is reactionary burger thought.
Tbf only like two of those games are certified classics, (Lost Odyssey and Folklore) they are all good but for JRPGs probably digging into the PS1 or Saturn stuff would be as productive.