Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic View Post
JRPGs were amazing in the 90's. Now we have Skyrim, Fallout, Mass Effect, Deus Ex, Witcher, Dragon Age, etc. etc. and JRPGs are still back in the 90's. Yes, they need to evolve, but can they? Adding multiplayer to a JRPG just wouldn't work. How the smurf would you even do it? Genres die - look at Platforming games. They were a huge smurfing genre but what has happened to them now? Sorry JRPG your time is up.
I'm not really sure if you are being sarcastic here, but this is a blatently silly statement. Not evolving? Look at all the advancements to the older RPG's in games like Persona 3 and 4. The Strategy RPG Subgenre does quite well for itself too, titles like Disgaea and Devil Survivor for example.

Hell, even Hyperdimension Neptunia is doing well enough for itself to be making the company money,and a third game is already in production.

Is the Genre the top of the charts? No. Do they still get a lot of well recieved, well selling games? Absolutely.

To slightly steal your comment in the 'eoff is dying' thread, 'I guess RPG's have been dying for the past 10 years then!'