Dood, lool, geet yoorself suum weeabbo rpg leet 11!1! Rameeeen! No offense, but japanese rpg's stories are so cheesy they make my want to fuck myself in the ass. *You play RPGs for for the story->I'm continuing this conversation*. Arcanum had a good story. Fallout 1 had a good story. The BG series had a GOOD story. And Planescape had the best story you would imagine. SO don't bringing your asian penis story shit story on this forum. Even FF7 is out of league.
Dood, you do realize that Pokemon is a JRPG to the core, right? Congrats on calling yourself a weaboo
I do not dispute the claim the the story is cheesy most of the time, but IMO the Pokemon battle system is inferior to others I've seen around recently. On the one hand, it simply snatches the standard JRPG element-power relationship and modifies in a bit; on the other it's like a dumbed-down version of Yugioh or Magic.
(BTW notice how you're the first bringing up the JRPG story argument... Butthurt much?)
Arcanum had a good, albeit more or less standard story. BG is almost as cheesy as a Western RPG gets. Both FO1 and PS:T had pretty short and simple stories, nothing outstanding in terms of plot development (although PS:T had an innovative setting). The thing about Western RPG writing, it values sidequests of the linear story. Character interaction, dialogue writing, side-stories in great games like FO1 and PS:T is superb, but strip that and look just at the MAIN story, and you get something barely worth mentioning. In short, the scope and approach are just too different. Also, FF7 has probably the crappiest story I've seen in the history of FF.
Anyway, that's not why I mentioned FF. I mentioned it in terms of the classic FF battle system before ATB, with different classes and assignable skills (FFIII NES or DS being one of my favourites). Pokemon is like a simple version of that, except you get weird-looking creatures fight instead. Plus, Pokemon is a lazy game that has been rehashing the same exact damn system and idea for everandever. They should really think of something new in terms of gameplay (and not in terms of more weird pets).
want to fuck myself in the ass.
Do it =) Looking at your username, your level of fantardiness for Alexi is no better than that of typical American 12y.o. weaboos for Naruto. Being close-minded surely makes life easier.