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10 Great JRPGs Released on the WRONG CONSOLE
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cireza
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Ok, so if I understand, anything that did not launch on Playstation launched on the wrong console.
Also, people should take note that Lost Odyssey, Infinite Undiscovery and Blue Dragon are playable on current gen consoles because they actually launched on the right console. And it is also the case of the FF XIII trilogy.
Also, people should take note that Lost Odyssey, Infinite Undiscovery and Blue Dragon are playable on current gen consoles because they actually launched on the right console. And it is also the case of the FF XIII trilogy.
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CLOUD_CR
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Well, many of those J-RPG's on Xbox 360 sold much better on PS3 when they were re-released there (Tales of Vesperia is the best example). Even that Blue Dragon was top selling game of X360 in Japan, its numbers were really bad..
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cireza
Member
Neo Geo games never made very high sales numbers, yet they were launched on the right console.
Topping the charts is not the only meter of success.
CLOUD_CR
Neo Member
That's why Mistwalker is still doing games for home consoles today, right?! Yeah, no.. Sales are very important, doesn't matter what everyone says.
PD: Still sad that Cry On got canceled..
a multicultural team of v
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Sakaguchi is wasting away his talents making mobile games right now, so there is absolutely no way you can call anything he did on the 360 a success.
mansoor1980
Gold Member
how good was lost odyssey compared to the top jrpgs of that era?
Danjin44
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It was really good with nice turn based combat but its biggest highlight was its 1000 dreams stories.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Maybe the best, it was great. Closest thing to classic FF.
CLOUD_CR
Neo Member
It is a beautiful and great game, I love it so much. I only have an X360 just for Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon.
cireza
Member
Mistwalker always was a very small company of creators/advisors. Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon were developed by other companies. Last Story as well.
Mistwalker, with the status it has and obviously wants to maintain, is without a doubt perfectly profitable with how it manages its projects, and this is why you saw them on mobile games, and now, on Apple.
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Hobbygaming
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Lost Odyssey was the first thing that came to mine when I read the thread title
I've never played Sudeki on the OG Xbox but I remember wanting to try it
kruis
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The biggest issue is not that exclusive JRPGs were released on the Xbox 360, but that they were never ported to the PC. I bought Infinite Undiscovery, Blue Dragon, Lost Oddyssey and The Last Remnant back in 2006/7. I haven't switched on my 360 since 2010 and I probably never will. But I'd have liked to have PC ports of those games. That would make it easier to dump my Xbox games.
Faithless83
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It also meant that it's very unlikely that we'll ever see a sequel to any of those games, due to the lack of sales.
I for one would prefer to see what else Mistwalker could have pulled off on consoles, instead of apple arcade exclusives.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
Exactly my thoughts lol. What a bizarre view.
eyesabitdull
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No, really guys, are threads like these just stealth self promo threads for video views? :|
Fbh
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On the Plus side I do think games like Infinite Undiscovery (god that name is dumb), Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey at least partially accomplished their purpose. They got people like me who previously had zero interest in Xbox to pick up a 360 over a Ps3.
On the other hand though, yeah, maybe if they had launched on a system with an actual audience for these games they could have sold enough to get sequels.
Since this will apparently be episode based I'm still hoping that once it is all out they'll port some sort of "complete edition" to consoles and PC.
Game looks great but I don't own any apple devices.
On the other hand though, yeah, maybe if they had launched on a system with an actual audience for these games they could have sold enough to get sequels.
Fantasian - Apple Arcade
Since this will apparently be episode based I'm still hoping that once it is all out they'll port some sort of "complete edition" to consoles and PC.
Game looks great but I don't own any apple devices.
sublimit
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We have had countless of similar threads from channels like Gamingbolt and others yet no one complained for "self promotion". I thought it was an interesting topic for conversation but if you don't like it don't post in it.
Derift
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So wait 15 years for it to have a bigger fan base... makes sense right
cireza
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All these games had a big fan base, otherwise nobody would be talking about them right now. They were on the right platforms and served their purpose. The exclusive RPGs from the Dreamcast, Gamecube and Xbox 360 were perfectly fine there, and only people who did not have these consoles are going to bitch about these games not being in the right place.
TheInfamousKira
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List is a bust for not including FFXII and FFXV.
The former was too far ahead of it's time, and the latter would have done better without the open world trend bogging it down with filler quests and vacant space.
Essentially both should have been PS3 titles.
The former was too far ahead of it's time, and the latter would have done better without the open world trend bogging it down with filler quests and vacant space.
Essentially both should have been PS3 titles.
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Indeed. People should be bloody thankful these gems released there. Otherwise they wouldn't even be playable in this day unless you dug up a 15 year old console.
Also, loved that part in Infinite Odyssey where something tragic happens and the main character gets really angry and it's conveyed through animations and sounds in combat. Underrated game. Buggy though.
YeulEmeralda
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Lost Odyssey sure but let's not forget
Kagey K
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This is a straight fact right here. Launching on any other console at that time, would have left them stuck in that generation instead of being fully playable and purchasable on today's machines.
dottme
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So many people won’t play this because it’s on Apple Arcade. On my side, I’m waiting for part 2 and enjoyed part 1 a lot.Fantasian - Apple Arcade
DeepBreath87
Banned
Yeah. Like others have said, it’s basically just some guy whining about every decent RPG that didn’t release on PlayStation. Not interesting at all.
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Rean no Kiseki
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Retarded list and obviously made by someone who missed the point of the choice of platform these games were on.
Tales of Phantasia was released on THE most popular 16 bit console and then ported to THE most popular 32 bit console with multiple enhanced ports coming out later on GBA/PSP/Smart phones, and no not being released outside of Japan shouldn't be a mark against a game, Tales of Destiny DC and ToD2/Tales of Rebirth also weren't released outside of Japan and they were on the most popular console of all time and it was also a JRPG paradise.
Suikoden and Onimusha are both spinoffs of mainline console games so naturally they'd be on the most popular handheld, Xenoblade X will be released soon on Switch mark my words, Nintendo needs to pad out 2021/early 2022 with ports and i don't think there are many games left on WiiU that haven't been ported yet, and it was intended for WiiU from the start and if the system didn't fail commercially it wouldn't be on this list, the others like Skies of Arcadia and Lost Odyssey wouldn't be as fondley remembered as they are today if they weren’t exclusive to the Xbox360 and Dreamcast since in many ways they were made as an answer to PlayStation's hold on THE most popular JRPG IP in the industry Final Fantasy.
Tales of Phantasia was released on THE most popular 16 bit console and then ported to THE most popular 32 bit console with multiple enhanced ports coming out later on GBA/PSP/Smart phones, and no not being released outside of Japan shouldn't be a mark against a game, Tales of Destiny DC and ToD2/Tales of Rebirth also weren't released outside of Japan and they were on the most popular console of all time and it was also a JRPG paradise.
Suikoden and Onimusha are both spinoffs of mainline console games so naturally they'd be on the most popular handheld, Xenoblade X will be released soon on Switch mark my words, Nintendo needs to pad out 2021/early 2022 with ports and i don't think there are many games left on WiiU that haven't been ported yet, and it was intended for WiiU from the start and if the system didn't fail commercially it wouldn't be on this list, the others like Skies of Arcadia and Lost Odyssey wouldn't be as fondley remembered as they are today if they weren’t exclusive to the Xbox360 and Dreamcast since in many ways they were made as an answer to PlayStation's hold on THE most popular JRPG IP in the industry Final Fantasy.
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jshackles
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The Last Remnant was out on PC and was infinitely better than the Xbox 360 version.
Weirdly, it got pulled from digital storefronts when The Last Remnant Remastered released... on the PS4 and Switch.
VictorVectors
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I read years ago that Lost Odyssey was the original concept for Final Fantasy XII before Spirits Within damn near bankrupted the company.
Captain Toad
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And one of those is a good game.
DonkeyPunchJr
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I blame xenophobic Japanese gamers for not buying Xbox 360.
lol remember when people were saying “Japanese gamers don’t like Xbox because it’s so big and they have small houses!!!” Then Xbox 360 came out and was much more reasonably sized, and had a shitload of quality Japanese games….. and Japanese gamers still ignored it in favor of PS3 (which has nearly identical footprint to original Xbox).
lol remember when people were saying “Japanese gamers don’t like Xbox because it’s so big and they have small houses!!!” Then Xbox 360 came out and was much more reasonably sized, and had a shitload of quality Japanese games….. and Japanese gamers still ignored it in favor of PS3 (which has nearly identical footprint to original Xbox).
YeulEmeralda
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More competition on PS2 it was the JRPG machine.
SkylineRKR
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Lost Odyssey was the first game that came to mind. I actually beat the game earlier this year and had an LTTP going on. Its a great game, at least on the newer Xbox systems. Absolutely murders FFXIII. But the combat though, its really really bare bones. But it didn't really find its userbase on 360. But was it released on the wrong system? MS wanted JRPG, Gooch was pissed off at Sony. It was an attempt by MS. Would it have sold better on PS3? Probably in Japan by default, but in the west idk. Back then there just wasn't high demand for these games. It wasn't a dudebro shooter.
I also have Infinite Undiscovery on my Series S, and never booted it up yet lol. Always wanted to try that game, should start with it some day.
I also have Infinite Undiscovery on my Series S, and never booted it up yet lol. Always wanted to try that game, should start with it some day.
xellos2099alpha
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Tales of Phantasia on psp is pretty good,
Griffon
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It was a really shit era. So yeah Lost Odyssey was the best, but not because it's good.
SantaC
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More competition and that symphonia moved over 1 million on gamecube.
Skelterz
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I don’t think that’s necessarily true there’s definitely an argument for the games having a much wider appeal on the PS thus selling more and being remastered later down the line, Possibly even a sequel…
Sakaguchi don’t like Sony no more can’t remember why but he’s not a fan.
This. 360 was the only xbox I owned.
Saint Boot
Banned
I wish those, Fable 1, and Infinite Undiscovery were on sony and nintendo consoles. Same for Magna Carta 2. The Xbox 360 version of Phantasy Star Universe ran better than the ps2 version and it was never on ps3. Phantasy Star Universe 2 was a psp only game and should have been on consoles. I also miss Jade Empire, and KOTOR 1 and 2.
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Ceadeus
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https://www.videogamer.com/news/hid...too-foreign-and-far-away-for-japanese-gamers/
It can't be otherwise when most JRPG fans are from Japan and won't buy the console that does not come from Japan.