Yeah, gotta catch 'em all!
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Depends on what site youāre on.
Now that i own an Xbox series X, i truly wish there was a PlayStation equivalent of series S to buy
it is easy for PS players to enter xbox ecosystem but not for xbox players to enter PS ecosystem
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Everything on the xbox side is just so easy to access, GP, Series S hell even just cloud if you donāt want a console
A Series S style PS would be cool to see but even then, I still wouldnāt have interest until they have an actual GP equivalent and not just some slightly improved PS+
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So the most loved people on earth are Jack Black and Susan Sarandon
Donāt ask why 
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Itās spiraled into digging up old G4/Xplay clips where the hosts made fun of JRPGs or Japan as a whole because Yoshi-P said he thinks of the term āJRPGā as derogatory (he realizes itās a positive term now though) because of the way the Western media used to treat them. I will just say itās extremely crazy what they were allowed to say on those shows back thenā¦
Now as for FF16 being a JRPG, Iād personally say it is one. It can be compared to one of the older Ys games in a way, which were also action combat and had just the one playable character. āARPGā is a popular term for this subset of JRPGs, and thatās where FF16 falls under.
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PS5 all digital edition is $400 USD, not too bad of a price.
My thought is that JRPG isnāt a very useful term because the nation of origin is not a meaningful differentiator for a genre.
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Yeah, it might have made some sense back in the olden days. Now not so much.
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I actually stumbled upon them just today. The thing is and I know not many donāt like it, but it was the thing at the time. Sort of like non-heterosexual jokes in movies, mainly from Adam Sandler movies. Then again, I canāt really keep up on whatās offensive or not in internet sphere anymore. That South Park episode about Christmas being offensive aged well, which is wild and perhaps sad. Honestly, I believe itās just an internet thing and if so, stay that way.
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They really do need a sensible sized console, bonus for us if its cheaper too.
Itās an option, but too bad. Sony doesnāt make much of them to be available
I can agree. That āhumorā is what was āinā at the time so they more or less had to do it to be popular. Although even then some of those clips I thought went too far even for the time (the one talking about nukes especially). Nonetheless I donāt condemn the hosts or writers of the shows or anything, thereās people elsewhere saying āthese people need to be tracked down and shamed!ā.
I guess the thing thatās making it worse is that it doesnāt feel like jokes, with how the Western games media really did feel like they wanted Japan out of the industry then. Weāve certainly come a long way, nowadays we have stuff like Xbox executives on stage more or less saying āJapan, please, PLEASE put your games on Xbox!ā 
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There was definitely a lot of Japanese hate in the 360/ps3 days
It certainly didnāt help that they seemed to completely lose their way in terms of good games in that gen, Capcom, Konami and Square went to complete shit and major series like Resident Evil were at all time lows
3 top tier pubs who were at the very top of the industry fell so far and genreās that were once the top of the industry like JRPGs in the ps1/2 gens were getting destroyed by western RPGās and shooters like Oblivion, Mass Effect, Bioshock and CoD
For some it was just sad seeing how they were falling from such high heights but there were definitely some real shitty people with an agenda, not to mention salty devs who were tired of Japanese devs being considered the best
Itās a weird thing because Iāve seen a few games that are called ājrpgā despite not originating in Japan and on the flip side games like Elden Ring , Demon/Dark Souls have never been to my knowledge referred to as ājrpgā despite being rpgs that originate in Japan. I think jrpg refers more to a style of game more than the country of origin at least these days.
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I actually have seen the From games called JRPGs, but itās normally in the context of these discussions. It is such a meaningless genre that people instead defer to calling games soul-like or monster hunter style games.
I think you could probably come up with some meaningful characteristics of what we used to call JRPGs, but it should probably be its own genre.
Actually, let me expound on this. How a genre is titled is ultimately not important, Yoshida was more concerned that some devs (white dudes) made some disparaging remarks about Japanese games 20+ years ago and he has a chip on his shoulder about it.
I wish he was more concerned about including a more diverse cast of characters in FF16, something he has control over then what some people said over 20 years ago, but thatās just me.
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Iāve been following this on Twitter. It makes me sad, I like Sessler but he is completely self-owning with this. All he had to say was, it was 15+ years ago, we were dumb, those jokes were dumb. End of story. But instead heās dying on that hill for some inexplicable reason.
What he ended up saying instead? Itās rather odd how many people thinks a long explanation isnāt necessary when it can be done in few words.
Heās like, super defensive over it, trying to hit back and generally having a big meltdown. Like if he had just said āYeah, haha, that edgy humor from back then sure looks stupid nowā that would have been the end of the whole thing. Poor Morgan Webb, I bet she wishes he would just stop feeding the fire.