Hey all. New to the kikizo forums but have been going here for my video game needs quite often lately specially for PS3/Xbox/Revolution news and videos since the console wars are back again and it' s the best time for them to show their guns. Anyways I to get to the point this post is about RPG' s..

I started playing Zelda as my first rpg(Some people argue it' s not an RPG. Just put action before rpg and you got zelda.) Liking the flow of the game I went to pick up Chrono Trigger. Awesome story, great set of characters, fighting system, almost everything was perfect with the game. After that came Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy series and so forth leading to Suikoiden, Wild Arms and such. Today I picked up my copy of Kingdom Hearts 2.

Anyways enough history.

My main point is after playstation...RPG' s in my point of view have been going down. Stories are mediocore, I either stop in the middle of the game not engrossed by it and not really feeling the need to continue the game. Fighting systems are soo bland with no unique skills per character and such in most new games. Everybody can learn EVERYTHING and no uniqueness is brought to the character not to mention since everybody can learn everything that means that no backround story could be made about their fighting techniques and styles nor how they came about learning that, no room for improvement either, no masters out in the world to teach the character or lessons learned. They are just good from the beggining they pick up a sword...What? . No striving to learn certain skills and the stories make it so linier now that there is no side story to get a certain armor piece, skill, or weapon that really makes you strive for it.

Remember those big maps in Xenogears and Final Fantasy 7 where there were soo many places to go and the map changed as you progressed in the story? No more of those because of the linier systems they have now. Sure the games have become more beutiful but there' s nothing that makes you go " WOAH!" story and gameplay wise or cinematic scenes. The stories have seemed to be good at the beggining then let you down at the end or let you down in the biggining and hype it up towards the end but never leaving you satisfied. The flow is not smooth, too bumpy.

Mostly every RPG I' ve played now, I have been left with a hunger for better and more old school type of approach on RPG' s. Even old school games can be made better in new but then we get the flamers that go " This game is like that one! it' s just copying it!" Then the game, even though it' s good, get' s lost in the noise. Like Legend of Dragon....Soo final fantasy 7 right? But was it good? I liked it, great story, it held itself respectively. Remove your bias and enojoy all the games! :P

Also bad guys and good guys. Getting into the bad guys and good guys story where you actually ended up liking one side or another, sometimes even both. Now I actually find myself hating both sides because of their stupidity. What happened to the Bad Ass Mo Fo Bad guys and the Good guys they messed around with in the story? Or the Good guy that was actually falling towards evil and wasn' t a goody goody with reasons to back everything up and how you would agree if he fell towards evil or the ones that made you feel bad for killing the bad guy even though he had a good reason to do what he was doing. Every character now seems to be a little 12 year old going through ' drama' . It' s annoying. No maturity in these characters. Also what' s missing is story for both which either explains why they do certain things and such. No..." I' m gonna rule the world!" or..." I' m gonna let out this evil" ....geez...do you even have a reason why you are doing what you are doing? And a good story to back up your damn reason!...

Last but not least is....What the hell is up with all the games sorrounding islands and water...soo much water...Travel here by water...travel there by water. It get' s annoying when there are no sights but nice blue wavy water....yay. Geez. I' m sick of all the RPG' s having to do with boats and small linier islands where the dungeon or whatever place you are exploring is soo damn small. One is enough.

Ok so my explantions on why I' m getting mad at the new RPG' s might take a bit to read through all that junk writting (Sorry I' m not a great writter) But for those mad out there from not getting that hunger satisfied with a good RPG hopefully understand where i' m coming from. I just wanted to share because it' s been bothering me for a bit now. Also the discussion is open to dissagreement, but please give me good reasons, not..." You suck, this game is good and better then any game out there." But please hold spoilers to games that are as good as claimed. Can you really convince me that some games now are as good as before? Please post.