Incline Poll: Western Blobbers After 2000 That You Played

[Doctor Sbaitso]

LoX is a blobber in every way that counts.

 

[Excidium II]

LoX is a blobber in every way that counts.

The first person maze navigation is the most important aspect of blobbers.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

I dunno about most important but OK. Should be on the poll IMO.

 

[Lady_Error]

What about Realms of Arkania HD? In exploration it's a blobber, but not in combat.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

I think combat is the most relevant criteria. POR for instance is definitely not a blobber.

 

[V_K]

There's a super obscure Czech game Gods: Lands of Infinity. Not terribly good, but for the sake of comprehesiveness...

 

[pippin]

There's a super obscure Czech game Gods: Lands of Infinity. Not terribly good, but for the sake of comprehesiveness...

 

[Lady_Error]

Hmm, blobber exploration and non-blobber combat - just like Realms of Arkania HD.

 

[V_K]

Hmm, blobber exploration and non-blobber combat

Combat in GLOI is third-person in perspective, but blobber in mechanics, kinda like many JRPGs - you can see your characters on the battlefield, but there's no movement/positioning involved apart from the front row/back row thing.

 

[Baff]

Since you have DS and Android games, here is an iOS blobber: Silversword

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Strange that you included more niche japansese titles such as DarkSpyer and Stranger of Sword City but didn't include SMT:Strange Journey/SMT:Nocturne or any of Etrian Odyssey since those game are probably one of the more popular dungeon crawlers in recent years in the world.

 

[Lady_Error]

Animu weaboo crap has its own subforum: http://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?forums/jrpg-weeaboo-discussion.60/

 

[pippin]

Well, you have to give the west some way they can compete with japanese blobbers. Japanese blobbers end up being better mostly because they are the only ones who care about the genre.

 

[Lady_Error]

Japanese blobbers are basically stuck in Wizardry 1-5 mechanics with no intention of going beyond that.

 

[pippin]

Not all of them. However it's fun to realize most people want games which play like what the genre used to be, and when they get it, they invent artificial excuses to not play them

 

[Lady_Error]

The biggest downside of JRPG's is the anime weaboo crap though. When all characters look like schoolgirls out of some comic book, it's difficult to get into a game.

 

[pippin]

Again, not all are like that. Although a different artsyle is sometimes refreshing imo. You can only have warrior #8432432432 so many times.

 

[Modron]

The biggest downside of JRPG's is the anime weaboo crap though. When all characters look like schoolgirls out of some comic book, it's difficult to get into a game.

The biggest downside of JRPGs is an over reliance on stereotypes and tropes and a cultural inability to understand the benefit of brevity which means you end up having tons of generic dialog that is a chore to slog through in the average jrpg. It would be one thing if stories were up to par with PST or something but usually I get to the point where I am just skipping through dialog left and right and wondering why I am not reading a book or anything else really.

 

[YES!]

I really don't understand why playing is the criteria. Why not liked? I've played them all but if the data I pick is going to be used to somehow incorrectly correlate how good a game is I'd rather not even participate over just selecting the games I've played and liked.

 

[Lady_Error]

Here's a crazy idea: You can create any kind of poll yourself. So if you want a vote on the best liked blobbers, do it.

But as we've established before, you're too much of a lazy bastard to do anything other than whine.

 

[V_K]

Again, not all are like that. Although a different artsyle is sometimes refreshing imo.

So what are the non-anime puzzle-heavy non-grindy Japanese blobbers? Preferably with full party creation/customization?
Not a trick question, really curious.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

Again, not all are like that. Although a different artsyle is sometimes refreshing imo.

So what are the non-anime puzzle-heavy non-grindy Japanese blobbers? Preferably with full party creation/customization?
Not a trick question, really curious.

I tried asking that on the jRPG forum and got hounded off my thread.