Seriously, even though I love RPG, I couldn't stand to have such an unbalanced portion of the genre. Hell even I get tired of JRPG (or WRPG for that matter).
-RPGamer-
I never really like the "typical RPG's" for either side of the genre.
The Traditonal JRPG genre is usually just a snooze fest. I mean it's not the concept that puts me to sleep but how they are usually executed. One has to look at the Shin Megami Tensei franchise. Things like fusiing, negotations, alternate dungeon level ups, and explorative design (is that the word?) was made standard for the series 2 decades ago. Sure they executed it horribly but in later years it became far more polished.
What I feel distressed with is that it seems that the traditional JRPG hasn't evolved in design or core mechanics since the SNES era. Now this is obvious because until very recently the genre was "mainstream" thus a lot of developers wanting a piece of the pie jumped in. We see this now with the Shooter genre. We see many shooters out today but the majority are just corridor shooters with minimum innovation. I'm not saying that the JRPG sub-genre doesn't get it's fair share of original games because it does (this year alone = Mana Khemia, TWEWY, Fragile, Oboro Muramasa Youtoden, Persona 3: FES, etc.) but the regular games (example Tales series) just don't do it for me because they just lack "meat" for the lack of word.
The WRPG genre to me more so is the opposite. I really loved the whole Deus Ex first person vibe and the Black Isle isomentric board game. But they've all seemed to be abandoned.
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