Cmon developers, where are the JRPG and Fighting PC games?

[Pia]

Ok... I'm TOTALLY wrong and I COMPLETELY lied about the fact that I got 60fps maxed at 1920x1200 on an 8800gt because I have nothing better to do.

Yup, we totally got caught bro.

I briefly considered making the additional claim that the original version of SFIV runs at a solid 60FPS on a Taito X2 board that features a Pentium 4 and a 7900GS, but then thought better of it as OILFIELDTRASH is just too good to fall for that and would see through it in an instant.

 

[gothamhunter]

Cmon guys...back on-topic.

Maybe I'll pick up SF4 PC when it's on sale again through Steam.

 

[Borealis7]

yeah Last Remnant was great and IIRC its supposed to be the first of a trilogy so here's to hoping it gets released on the PC as well.

meanwhile, i'm playing PS2 JRPGs on my PC with an emulator. right now playing Persona 3 FES

 

[gothamhunter]

yeah Last Remnant was great and IIRC its supposed to be the first of a trilogy so here's to hoping it gets released on the PC as well.

meanwhile, i'm playing PS2 JRPGs on my PC with an emulator. right now playing Persona 3 FES

Yeah, that is what I've been doing too. Nothing quite like forcing AA and higher res textures to some of those old games. They look amazing!

 

[TheSlamma]

JRPG's.. you might as well just watch an Anime. click buttons and read text from some guy who couldn't make it as a movie director so they made a game instead.

 

[gothamhunter]

JRPG's.. you might as well just watch an Anime. click buttons and read text from some guy who couldn't make it as a movie director so they made a game instead.

Yup, that's all they are considering some of the best games of all time (per reviews, not personally [although personally as well]) are JRPG's. Go back to your Halo, troll.

edit: this is for you - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXasCjUTNpE

 

[Zenoth]

I can't care less about JRPG's, but I'd like to see more fighting games on the PC. I wanted the new Mortal Kombat, but it's only on the 360 and PS3, so obviously since I don't own consoles anymore since I sold my original XBOX years ago I can't play it nor will ever buy a new console for just one game, not to mention that I already have not one but two USB gamepads for my PC one of which is the Street Fighter 4 one by MadCatz and I love it, I could totally play a MK game on it... but no, not for the PC, which sucks.

 

[Pia]

I'd pay $150 for a good PC port of Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown.

 

[Sureshot324]

I can't care less about JRPG's, but I'd like to see more fighting games on the PC. I wanted the new Mortal Kombat, but it's only on the 360 and PS3, so obviously since I don't own consoles anymore since I sold my original XBOX years ago I can't play it nor will ever buy a new console for just one game, not to mention that I already have not one but two USB gamepads for my PC one of which is the Street Fighter 4 one by MadCatz and I love it, I could totally play a MK game on it... but no, not for the PC, which sucks.

I'm the same way. The last Jrpg I played was FF7, which is supposed to one of the best jrpg's ever but for me was just a good, not great game. Amazing story but gameplay was meh.

I love fighting games though and I think it was a very bad business decision by Capcom to stop bringing their games on PC even though SF4 sold very well. Fighting games are still a niche outside Japan and building a PC community could do so much to popularize the genre in North America/Europe. Even if some people pirate it, they still are still potential new fighting game fans, some of witch will eventually want to play online, building the overall popularity of the genre. This is kind of like how Microsoft doesn't do anything to stop the piracy of Windows in poor countries. They'd rather people pirate Windows than use Linux.

 

[NoSoup4You]

JRPG's are a relic of times past. I loved them on SNES and PSX back in the 90's but there were so few options back then. Give me a western RPG any day.

SF4 - I played that at max settings on my old E8400 @ 3.6Ghz and GTX 260 896MB at max settings at 1080p with a constant 60fps. Max settings means 4xAA, anything over that and it's barely noticeable.

 

[kamikazekyle]

I remember playing Septerra Core back in the early 2000s on the PC. JRPG developed specifically for the PC with some pretty awesome graphics. I did enjoy Last Remnant, even if it did get a bit repetitive. They also released FF12 on the PC I think, but I only got halfway through the game before it started playing itself (yay gambit system).

I really do wish there were more JPRGs and even fighters on the PC, even if they were ports. I've noticed with each console generation I personally haven't been as pleased with most of the games. With this generation I found myself buying almost exclusively JRPGs, some TRPGs and fighters, and the occassional odd game out (ie: Katamari, Little Big Planet -- only played LBP uhh twice ). Even then, JRPGs have been hitting a bit low on the mark as of late. Resonance of Fate is pretty awesome and quite a new take with some strong emphasis on tactics and positioning vice the usual active turn bar > Attack > repeat method. Would have been great on the computer with mouse placement of the endpoints and faster camera control.

Oh, and do get BlazBlue if you can. Great game, and can be played either button-mashing or technical depending on what you want to do with the game. IE: to complete all the endings I just button mashed with some idea of what I was doing for most characters. For time attacks and the like, I picked a few characters and learned moves/combos.

 

[Monster_Munch]

I think JRPGs will be quite successful on smartphones in future. But I wouldn't play one on PC when I could be playing Elder Scrolls or something instead.

 

[gothamhunter]

I remember playing Septerra Core back in the early 2000s on the PC. JRPG developed specifically for the PC with some pretty awesome graphics. I did enjoy Last Remnant, even if it did get a bit repetitive. They also released FF12 on the PC I think, but I only got halfway through the game before it started playing itself (yay gambit system).

Negative.

 

[gothamhunter]

I think JRPGs will be quite successful on smartphones in future. But I wouldn't play one on PC when I could be playing Elder Scrolls or something instead.

I don't mean to have JRPG's take over the western RPG market, but moreso to compliment it. I mean I LOVED Oblivion, but it's a market in its own right (open world RPG?) and the two can't really compare. And even if they are considered the same market, that came out years ago - I need some filler between the next one!

 

[12andy]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've found a trend where west-RPGs are usually centralized around a medieval/ post apocalyptic setting... dark, and very gloomy. I can't play them for very long without feeling depressed.

JRPGs on the other had have more of that feel-good, adventurous theme.

I would align it to the culture differences between North America and Japan, really....

 

[Ross Ridge]

I remember playing Septerra Core back in the early 2000s on the PC. JRPG developed specifically for the PC with some pretty awesome graphics.

Strictly speaking Septerra Core wasn't made in Japan so it's not a Japanese RPG. The graphics weren't bad for when the game was released in 1999, but nothing we hadn't seen before in PC RPGs. The big problem with the game was that the combat system was slow and tedious. I eventually gave up on it.

Another old game available on the PC that's technically not a JRPG but might appeal to fans of the genre is Beyond Good and Evil. Plays like a Zelda game in many ways. It's been recently released in a HD version for download for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and you can download the PC version of it as well. The old retail version though doesn't work on 64-bit versions of Windows however.

 

[kamikazekyle]

Negative.

Whoops. I played in on the PS2, but thought I read about it/saw it being ported. Guess not Wonder where I read that though? *shrug*

Strictly speaking Septerra Core wasn't made in Japan so it's not a Japanese RPG. The graphics weren't bad for when the game was released in 1999, but nothing we hadn't seen before in PC RPGs. The big problem with the game was that the combat system was slow and tedious. I eventually gave up on it.

Another old game available on the PC that's technically not a JRPG but might appeal to fans of the genre is Beyond Good and Evil. Plays like a Zelda game in many ways. It's been recently released in a HD version for download for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and you can download the PC version of it as well. The old retail version though doesn't work on 64-bit versions of Windows however.

True, it wasn't a *native* JRPG, but followed the traditional JRPG style, especially when compared to Western RPGs which at the time were fairly D&D centric. Graphically speaking it was relative to 1999, and when compared to like console titles it was a step ahead in my personal opinion. When compared to other PC games, it wasn't anything earth-shattering. I do agree with you in that the combat did get kinda tedious.

BGE was a good game, but definitely nowhere near a JRPG in any fashion. Adventure game in the vein of Zelda certainly.

 

[gothamhunter]

Thread revival.

Finished through Last Remnant, and am still playing some classic PS2 JRPG's (International editions of FF's and KH's FTW). Really, REALLY wish I had a new JRPG to play though; maybe I'll play through some DS ones :-\

Bought SSF4:AE for the PC. Love the game, and love online, but I get so pissed because it's pretty damn obvious when people are using macros. It really skews how well you're able to play because I'm quite good at the game w/Dudley and Ken but when someone using Macros, and you can tell who those people are, gets a hold of you, it's just a worthless fight.

 

[wpeng]

There are some JRPGs that I love (Chrono Trigger), but with the technology we have nowadays, there's no reason to be so rigid in format. Western RPGs seem to be more creative somehow. One JRPG-styled game that I found was absolutely brilliant (mostly for the script) was Anachronox. Wish there was a sequel.

Although it is not nearly the same as a JRPG, I'm glad Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to the PC. Probably won't play it, though, as it will be pay-per-month in all likelihood.

 

[-Slacker-]

I just wanted to post and confirm that turn based jrpgs generally blow donkeys, but it's funny that someone mentioned septerra core, because that one was actually good.

 

[blackened23]

I used to play SF4 on a PC with an Intel C2D E8400 and an Nvidia 8800gt. I ran it at 1920x1200 at a perfect 60 fps with everything maxed out. I'm not sure why you had problems with it, but it worked perfectly fine for me.

Same here, SF4 was flawless for me maxed out at 1920. Awesome game, i'm going to pick up SSF4 AE.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I think JRPG belongs, exclusively, on consoles. They were built and styled for controller-driven console play.

I don't agree with this. They're perfect for PC as you can pretty much just point and click, wouldn't even need the keyboard. ()

Even on consoles though, JRPGs have really fallen though.

RPGs actually are some of the most beloved PC games, and I think bridging the gap between say Baldurs Gate (depth of story characters) and Final Fantasy (production values more action oriented) would be pretty great. The problem is, anytime they do something like that, they just pump out sequels and dumb each one down more than the last (Mass Effect, Dragons Age, KotOR).

 

[gothamhunter]

I just wanted to post and confirm that turn based jrpgs generally blow donkeys, but it's funny that someone mentioned septerra core, because that one was actually good.

Your opinion is never confirmation, because I generally enjoy turn-based JRPG's; FFVI and FFX are two of my favorite games ever.