It's just another of the tired shticks that gaming analysts pull off on a regular basis to appear edgy and cool, and attract clicks at the same time. 

Then forumers with more attitude than critical thinking lift the war banner from the analyst's hands and make his cause their own. 

Ravenprose said:

I dislike JRPGs because of:

Turn-based battle systems; I find them tedious, boring, and they hurt my head trying to figure 'em out. Give me hack 'n slash/button-mashing gameplay over strategy and menu navigation any day.

JRPGs also tend to be heavily story focused, and I just don't care for video game story lines (I skip most cut-scenes if I can). That's primarily because I find 99.9% of all video game story lines to be lame; not just JRPGs either. Besides, I play a video game to actually play a video game, not scroll through tons of text dialogue or watch hours of CG cut-scenes filled with bad voice acting. This probably stems from my youth when video game stories were nothing more than a paragraph of text in a two-page manual. When I want to experience a good story, I'll read a book or watch a movie instead. Video games should be about killin' stuff, racin' stuff, and jumpin' on stuff. Period.

 Get Yakuza 3! You can even skip the cutscenes.

aspro said:

Rave, turn-based battles can be a component of JRPGs but there are also action JRPGs.

You mean like Super Paper Mario? I did enjoy that one. I could have lived without 90% of the dialogue, though. Someday I will finish it. Same with the only other JRPG that I own, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. I've had this game since its release, and I fully intend to finish it . . . someday (maybe).

Ravenprose said:

they hurt my head trying to figure 'em out.

Avast! Demon spawn!

I'll pass on this topic as I have no other means to participate but ad hominem attacks on a stereotype.

gamingeek said:

It means your opinion is irrelevant. I use Norton, so imagine what he thinks of me

I just found why nothing works on your computer.

It's only certain vocal groups who condemn them to promote WRPGs because they're gaming noobs who think WRPGs are doing something new when in fact they have been in decline and getting progressively worse (and less RPG really) for the last decade, they just don't know that because WRPGs were few and far between on consoles before this generation and PCs were too complicated for them. It's the same reason for this whole Eastern devs suck, Western devs rule sentiment that we see lately, even from Japan sadly (fuckers, just do what you do best, don't try to become Americans or something). Also, I take it they don't even play JRPGs, they just look at FFXIII and pass everything, when in fact plenty JRPGs have been quite unique or at least damn good in their mechanics, both on consoles and on handhelds. Hopefully by next gen people will get tired of space marines, military shooters, and generic D&D wannabe fantasy and will call out both West and East for their failings, as well as not ignore the things that either of them do well due to just skipping the games altogether out of xenophobia/racism or whatever else.

The difference is that with many video game RPG's, the actual roleplaying is taken away and you're told what character to play as and what his goals are. After that, all that's left from the classic pen and paper experience is the (sometimes) slow, boring, and limited turn based combat systems. These are video games, and some people would rather just do away with the numbers and attack menus, much like the general FPS player doesn't want to deal with having to clean and maintain a firearm-- or anything remotely resembling real world combat, for that matter.