chopt jerk-RPGs and cousins

[creep]

@doolittle

Man, what if JRPGs acknowledged that you’re probably not going to finish them and substituted several complete stories of a reasonable length for one epic? I already like how each town in EB or DQ has its problem that you solve, but it’s always in service of the grand narrative I lose when I put the game down. It’s easy enough to remember to check out the castle or tower full of ghosts, but it’d be neat if a game was content telling you one story about the ghosts, finishing it, and then telling you the story about the slave monkeys in the desert.

-Live a Live
-SaGa Frontier
-Lesser degree Romancing SaGa I(Minstrel Song)-II-III
-Legend of Mana
-Dark Law (& Dark Lord afore it?)
-Half-minute Hero & 2
-Kimi no Yusha

???
-Dragon Quest IV. IX?
-Game you hunt of monsters
-MMOans by definition
-Strategical Tactictaccers by also definition
-Some Ateliers?? Don’t know Ateliers
-Nu-Type Duncrawls are ++missions
-Many modern JERK-pgs also ++missions

[Gate88]

Witcher 3 sort of does this. A lot of quest lines feel like complete stories (like the Bloody Baron or the island with the tower). Even single quests can feel like complete stories sometimes. Shame that I sort of got bored of the mechanics of the game, cause the story and the tone/setting are pretty alright.