Distractionwolf

Its a genre that to be honest I have always WANTED to like but could never leech onto. I have terrible ADD for things like that. I've, in truth, only ever beaten 2 JRPGs. Pokemon Red Version, and Grandia II. They were both excellent, Grandia II is one of my faovorite stories period, but every time I try another JRPG, even another one in the Grandia series, I can't stay connected and interested. =( I always feel like I'm missing out but I just lose interest when I have to start grinding.

In a way, arcades are still alive here; there was House of the Dead 4 and Street Fighter 4, as well as mobile games getting arcade versions. Not to mention Dave and Busters is still big. They aren't dead, but they are on Life Support. But this is me trying to be optimistic.

lol indeed it is. I wish they were truely big here. But I've worked for a Dave and Busters and I can tell you its a business model thats only JUST working right now in a lot of ways. Even with them though its nothing like Japan, have you been? Its insane how much they are thriving and how communities build around specific games in arcades over there, it blew my mind. I loved it. I wish we had that here. I honestly feel its a culture thing, we are very individualistic and isolationist in the states - we are completely antisocial. Kind of makes me sick. There is a weird akwardness here like...how to escribe it. There you get on street fighter, and some other dude will pop in a coin and play against you without a word. The game was designed for this. I got to meet some really cool people this way. Here there is like this akwardness about it. Your expected to ask first, nervously, and you usually think twice about doing that. There are deffinite down sides to our "everyone mind your own business" attitude. Down sides to the community over the individual mindset too but thats to deep a debate for this topic.

The JRPG has been changing and adapting things from the western RPG genre, espicially in western ported games but even in Japan the standard everyone stand in a line and fight one at a time model is dying. I don't feel that means JRPGs are dead, the genre is just evolving as all genres do. This is nothing to get upset about. I've been there. One of my favorite genres is the beat em up and for a long time the only thing close to it we had was stuff like God of War. But you have to realize there are hundreds of these games per genre and more ways to play than ever - even if you don't like how the genre has evovled I'm almost 100% certain you haven't experinced every classic JRPG. There is still a lot of content, and this is one genre the indie scene is very keen on. The Sega Genesis got like four or five new JRPG style games in the last few years. You read that right, its not a typo. The Sega Genesis.

Depends on what you need to be a JRPG. The genre has been eithier dying or evolving for some time. At least in the west. Consider the differences though in how the two nations play. The arcades never really died over there, they have here.

That's fine, it's just making a vector like those isn't that easy. You have to spend time designing it to make it look cool but fit in with the overall design of what your are trying to match. Then you have to do texturing for the background and the vector but you have to figure a good texture for the design. Then there is the typeface which is something you can wrack your brain on for awhile.

I wonder if we could make it any easier somehow... Like I've seen other projects where people posted and were like "What font is this?" for something crazy. Like I am not sure what he was doing, but one guy wanted the font used for the words "Stage Clear" on the Sega Genesis game "Streets of Rage". I wonder if we could actually find that font...

No. I don't know. But I imagine a lot. I've got some handicaps that prevent me from having any skill in the graphic arts and I have nothing but respect for people who can do it. If there is any way I can compensate let me know...is what I've been trying to hint at without putting to much gravity to it. This forum isn't a market place so I am just trying to use a bit of discretion but I know there is great talent here.