Yes! This is something I really should have mentioned too. Games these days don't leave anything to the imagination, and that's a loss.

Jeffrey Osborn Amen

Exactly this. Final Fantasy VI is one of the deepest, most philosophical games ever made, and it's a fraction of the length of most modern JRPGs.

@@DigitallyDownloaded you probably won't like Persona 5.

Faidou I’m not the world’s biggest fan of Persona 5, no. It’s far too bloated for the story and themes that it’s looking to convey. Persona 4 was a much better (and deeper) effort.

Agreed, Xenosaga had me so hyped but it ended up putting me to sleep many times. Modern Jrpgs are bloated with unnecessary dialogue, technical limitations limited Japanese devs to get to the point. what we get now is a lot of Japanese dialogue tendencies, which simply do not translate well to Western standards.

This so much

Sylvie Rose I’m glad to see people like you.

RS were not the norm back in the day. Yes SaGa series focused on combat. But other jrpgs? Do you even think that ff6 or Dq6 combat were great or fun? Nah. They were grind focused games based on hitting static monsters with the most "strong" attack you had to defeat them. Rs2 and 3 had its quirks (no random encounters, the spark system, the formations, the non linearity and the event triggers,etc) But that werent common man

Darlan Dos Santos Oliveira Junior No shit they weren’t common, I wasn’t born yesterday. But yeah, I understand what you mean. People say it’s the best just for the story and characters, not even focusing on the combat. It’s just an extra, but it does matter more than they remember. While I didn’t mind it that much, I do understand that it is not the best combat in rpgs (turn based or active time battle). Hell, I don’t go to look for the best, just good enough to make me continue to play said game.

@@crazymosby3079 i said that just because i really dont like some things retrogamers says like in those video. Idk its odd because people overhype some games for the exact same reason they say the modern gaming sucks. Ff6 for example: "its deep, fantastic storytelling and character arcs, phenomenal writting,etc" Thats the EXACT same thing people nowadays says about the last of us if we compare. People in fact seem as they never would care so much about the gameplay of a game. Nowadays we see people overshadowing titanfall 2's incredible level design and gameplay mechanics to praise games like The witcher 3 because Story seems to be the most important thing for them. In the same way SaGa frontier's masterfully crafted combat mechanics, Open sandbox world and infinite replayability were overshadowed by ff7. Its not so different because the games are all over the place, people just dont care about them

I would love for a loving remake of this game's standards. Unlikely given the pixel remaster series, but there's always hope.

That's what we like to hear around these parts! Really glad that you're enjoying it :-)

@@DigitallyDownloaded great video cannot agree more!

Or you could watch the video, in which I explain why I like both this game and retro JRPGs, and then accept that I'm fully entitled to hold my own opinions and preferences, and I don't have to "stop" doing anything.

I mean, thats what you're doing