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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 2074647" data-attributes="member: 22882">I'd rather watch a Japanese RPG than play the soulless, storyless tripe that comes out for the PC.  Especially since the gameplay in most PC-style RPGs (KotR is something of an exception, I'll admit) has gone so far downhill in the last five years that they're barely playable.If I want a decent American game, I know where to find it.  Warcraft, Doom, Half-Life, Unreal...  I love American action and real-time strategy games.  But modern American "RPGs" are little more than poorly-concieved real-time strategy games with stories vastly inferior to anything Blizzard has done (aside from its only sort-of RPG, Diablo) and stats.Japanese and Japanese-style RPGs set out to tell a story; there's a game involved, but in many cases it's secondary to the world, the tale and especially the characters.  If you want mindless hack and slash, or to uberize your character with race/class/stat-up combos, then none of that is important.Gameplay still should be.When was the last time an American company made a decent turn-based game?  New World Computing with Heroes of Might & Magic 3?  Or did Civ III come out after Heroes 3?  By contrast, Japanese RPG/turn-based strategy hybrids have since then included Final Fantasy Tactics, Vandal Hearts 2, Tactics Ogre, Front Mission 3, the Nippon Ichi games (like Disgaea).  Not to mention rereleases of older games like Tactics Ogre or Growlanser.  Any one of those is ten times the game any PC RPG has been since the last Gold Box game, or, MAYBE, Fallout.I don't have monstrous twitch reflexes.  I don't enjoy third-rate RTSes (Baldur's Gate) masquerading as RPGs.  I usually don't enjoy second-rate action-adventure games (Knights of the Old Republic, console versions of Baldur's Gate) doing same.</blockquote>

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