Anyone here into Japanese games? I just picked up Hyperdimension Neptunia Rebirth and a PS Vita to play it on. I'm kinda leaning toward console JRPG's these days due to being disappointed with all the dude bro shooters that people see as the go to thing for pc gaming these days. I digress, I grew up playing 90's and early 00's Pc games and my tastes for pc gaming never really changed from that.

The really good JRPGs tend to be on the consoles which is a downer. I can't remember the last time I had something like Star Ocean 2 on a PC, but then again I think the days of masterpiece JRPGs has been and gone already :(

still got my UMD by the way... now if only I had a system to play it on.

I thought dude bro shooters were mostly for consoles and people who used their PCs in Big Screen mode on Steam with controllers? Of course, I know nothing about dude bro shooters so that could be wrong.

If you haven't looked into Pillars of Eternity, Divinity: Original Sin, and Torment: Tides of Numenera (pre-orderable, out, and soon to be pre-orderable, respectively) then you might find some good late 90s-feeling RPG goodness there. Failing that, you've come to the right place to flesh out your PC collection of 90s and 00s games. Try Legend of HEroes: Trails in the Sky if you're looking for JRPGs. That one's here on GOG, and well worth a few bucks.

I love JRPG's, still have my PS2 and there are some great ones on PS3, also 360 has stuff like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, Last Remnant, Infinite Undiscovery etc.

The japanese games I usually play are on older consoles like the SNES or older handhelds like the Game Boy.
I do have a PS2, Wii and NDS but I rarely use those anymore.

Some time ago this year I had a periode of about two month where I mainly played Game Boy games. I finished 19 games, 18 of them from Japan.

Now I'm playing SNES games. I finished the first part of "Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei: Megami Tensei I-II" but got bored during the second part. After that I finished "Breath of Fire" and currently I'm playing "Breath of Fire II" (retranslation) and "Soul Blazer".

Go. Does that count?

O U T R U N !!!

<3 <3 <3

Artificial Academy 2 with mods

While the SNES was clearly the height of the genre, the GBA, DS, and PSP revived the genre.

I used to play mainly japanese games until 2000, when I completely switched to PC gaming.

From time to time, I came back to play some games on my old consoles. Sometimes games I already owned in the 90s because of nostalgia. And sometimes discovering other games.

I am still doing that, while I'd love to see more japanese games on PC.

I am more into Tactical and Strategical RPGs, but Trails in the Sky particularily surprised me in a good sense though.

I resent the rise of the dude bro shooters as well, it started with the first Halo and spread from there. Fortunately for me, I had stopped to play games around that time anyway so I didn't have to suffer the descent of AAA gaming and its capitulation to the lowest common denominator and pandering to the new demographics.
On returning to the world of gaming last year, I found there's a plethora of really cool indie games, many surprisingly decent freeware games and a TON of older games I haven't yet played or even heard about back in the day, more than enough to get me through the next couple years with ease.
Thanks to the internet and fast connections, there is now more choice and easier access to games than ever before and there's wonderful people who write patches for older games in their free time so I can't complain.

As for JRPGs, I've played countless of them but finished only a few. In terms of gameplay (not story), most of them are generic/formulaic to a fault and their challenge is virtually always based on soul-numbing uncreative grinding rather than in-game choices and creative problems - the grinding is true for most Western RPGs as well, but the generic formulaic feel is something I get way more often from JRPGs or more precisely, console RPGs in general. Console RPGs can't have too many options leading to wacky bugs that later get patched as in PC games, hence you won't see anything like Arcanum developed for consoles, ever. Arcanum being a complex and original game but an extremely shoddy release.

Of all the traditional JRPGs I played, only a handful were so memorable that I can still distinguish them from the rest:
Final Fantasy 6, Suikoden 2, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 7, also the Mother series which has a fun story but the gameplay is the same old generic formulaic stuff.
Valkyrie Profile is memorable because of the excellent concept art. The art book is one of the best, the Yoshinari siblings being absolute pros.
There's a ton of very solid and well made JRPGs like the Phantasy Stars, Dragon Quests, Xeno-whatevers, Tales of whatevers etc etc but they've all turned into a big muddle-puddle in my brain and I didn't finish any of those games.

If I ever play/replay a JRPG, it's only going to be the tactical ones where gameplay is more interesting: Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics etc.
Hoping to get Valkyria Chronicles sometime (never played before) but other than that I have zero Japanese games on my wishlist. Yume Nikki looks very interesting but I'm not sure if it's a good game or just a good art piece?

MONSTER HUNTER!! TACTICS OGRE!!!

:D

Exclusively Good Old Games. Yes, concerning Japanese ones, too.

Warriors Orochi Z PC
Castlevania Symphony of the Night (sega saturn emulation)
Various Visual Novels.

Of course, by japanese games, i mean in japanese language WITHOUT translation... Not even subtitles. Well, maybe some fighting Touhou game with an unofficial english translation patch, but other than that, english prohibited (i mean, nonexistent).

Only A-Train...