JRPGs

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

It's funny the JRPG dialogue never bothered me when I was a kid but now that I'm an adult that stupid dialogue irritates the hell out of me. I still play JRPGs but now I play music over the goofy dialogue.

[Jessweeee♪]

Depends on the JRPG

[Yar]

What are you referring to when you say "JRPG"? JRPG is the genre, not the style of the story.

[Markus. D]

I was going to ask that yesterday... JRPG as a whole? if so... I feel sorry for ya, there are quite a few JRPG that lack this "stupid dialogue."

[DrDeath in Despair]

A tip for you: Mash your "A" button to Death.

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

I'm talking about JRPGs like Shadow Hearts: From The New World and Star Ocean: Till the End of Time.

[Dreddz]

Well your complaints seem reasonable if your talking about a game like Star Ocean 3. That game had one of the worst stories in a JRPG and had generally terrible dialogue. Made worse by the voice actors.

I think there are a handful of JRPG's that avoid this though. Vagrant Story was beautifully written and translated. Also the Final Fantasy games, on the whole, aren't too shabby either.

[DMKA]

Also the Final Fantasy games, on the whole, aren't too shabby either.

They got a lot better translation wise after VII, that's for sure.

[Madame Adequate]

Vagrant Story was beautifully written and translated.

I had assumed that level of pretentious 5th-grade shakespeare imitation wankery was a bad translation, not deliberate.

[NeoCracker]

If you want good dialogue, go play Persona 3.

That, my friend, has some amazing Dialogue, especially from the likes of Aegis and Takaya.

[DMKA]

If you want good dialogue, go play Persona 3.

That, my friend, has some amazing Dialogue, especially from the likes of Aegis and Takaya.

Whereas the first Persona is so hilariously bad it's actually unintentionally offensive at parts.

[NeoCracker]

Now I want to play it. XD

[Karellen]

Translations that maintain the Japanese honorifics rub me up the wrong way. I know, it's set in Japan so it's contextually appropriate but every time I play that game there is a voice in the back of my head screaming "The Wapanese have won".

[DMKA]

Translations that maintain the Japanese honorifics rub me up the wrong way. I know, it's set in Japan so it's contextually appropriate but every time I play that game there is a voice in the back of my head screaming "The Wapanese have won".

You mean all that "chan" and "san" and "kun" stuff? I'd have trouble sitting through that.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Translations that maintain the Japanese honorifics rub me up the wrong way. I know, it's set in Japan so it's contextually appropriate but every time I play that game there is a voice in the back of my head screaming "The Wapanese have won".

Fun fact: Persona 3's English translation apparently has more honorifics than the original Japanese version.