Topic: Complete Upcoming JRPG List and Discussion

Another JRPG :
1. Earthlock: Festival of Magic (created by Western developer, inspired by JRPG style)
2. Lost Sphear

All great looking rpgs!Don't forget..
1.Battle Chasers Night War
2.Nights Of Azure 2

The unannounced 'Tales of' game.

Oh, and if it follows the same track as the main game, Persona Q 2. Right now it's only announced for 3DS, but keep an eye on it.

Of all the ones you guys listed that battle chasers peaks my interest, i have not seen this yet.

I was sure that'd just be a port of one of the last 2 but it seems like it would've been announced by now if it were.

@Dezzy
I have not played any of the tails games so I'm definitely excited for this. I hope it's a new one... are these connected to the trails games?

Also dragon quest XI I'm really excited for.. the only one i played was viii on PS2.

I will update the op a little when i get home from work

@Dezzy I mean Tales is practically annual. The only reason we haven't heard of it by now, I assume, is because Nintendo commissioned an exclusive one that'll presumably take a couple years or more to make.

@Inertiacreep

Totally different series to Trails. You should go back and play Tales of the Abyss on the 3DS. That's a good place to start.

@Haru17

Would that really be financially productive? It's hardly the kind of series that's gonna move consoles. Seems more likely they'd just ask for a port of the next PS4 game?

@Dezzy I don't know their numbers, I just know that consoles need exclusive games to compete. Nintendo specifically needs more third-party series to be exclusive to Switch since the Monster Hunter contract ran out and the crossplatform MH game is looking soooo much more ambitious and exciting than any of the recent ones on 3DS.

Snagging a longrunning JRPG series wouldn't be the worst deal to maintain that audience. SMT and Tales are two series never known for their graphics for which it may be mutually beneficial to release on Switch. They shouldn't have to compete with that much more visually impressive games on the platform. They could just polish themselves up a little bit like SMT 5 seems to be doing with Unreal 4 and compete on a relatively even playing field as opposed to having to close the seemingly impossible distance to games that look like FFXV.

@Dezzy
I will have to put that on the back burner, currently playing through Xenoblade then maybe Xenoblade X before the new one drops on Dec 1st

There's also I am Setsuna which is already out, and Disgaea 5 Complete if you're including strategy RPGs.
Other upcoming RPGs:
Indivisible (2018)
Pokémon (currently untitled)
Fire Emblem (currently untitled)
Dragon Quest Builders 1 & 2 (not sure if those count as RPGs)
Dragon Quest X (maybe)
Dragon Quest XI
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings (early 2018)

@Haru17

It might work with Japan I guess.

@Inertiacreep

Good luck finishing both of those before December 1st. Depends how much free time you have I guess. But each of those games took me about 6 months to finish.

@Dezzy
Dag 6 months?
Well i heard some people say they put in over 200 hours into X.. but how many hours is XBC for a 100%? I have like over 30 into it after having 4 days off work so I'm pretty sure ill complete it within a month.
I'm not too committed to beating X before XBC2, i mostly just want to beat XBC.

:/

I mean, it's more of an RPG than Zelda so...

Yeah, anyone looking at all of this useless tat can clearly tell Breath of the Wild is some kind of WRPG spinoff /s

@Inertiacreep
Yeah there's a good 200 hours of playtime in XCX. Although less motivation to play it for that long as the story's shorter.
I'd say XC1 has maybe 130-150 hours for a completionist. I got fairly close in XC1. Probably got to around 90% completion.

@Haru17

Is that really sarcastic though? That's the sort of thing people would say.

BotW definitely didn't feel like an RPG to me though. Not enough of a focus on story and not enough focus on character statistics.

@Dezzy There's truth to what I said, I just wanted it to be read in the context of a joke. And RPGs aren't always stats, levels, and abilities — just look at Monster Hunter.

Breath of the Wild's genre probably is 'open world action RPG' because it plays almost exactly like The Witcher, Dragon Age, and all the others modern open world RPGs in terms of how you interact with characters and objectives. However, Breath is like an RPG lite-lite-lite-lite-lite, and obviously it's story isn't worth anything.

@Dezzy @Haru17 Damn the story really sucks??

@Haru17

Yeah it's not a huge gap between Zelda and the Witcher. Or Zelda and Dark Souls.

Very hard to come up with definitions that have clear borders.