How did Atlus get the top seat of king of JRPGs?

because square enix made the mistake of taking the KH series handheld, recreating a series of dogshit sequels with terrible combat

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>>717530332 (OP)
Everyone else decided to shoot themselves in the foot. Atlus just did exactly what they've always done.

>>717530332 (OP)
Who else even is there? Which major developer is there that could muster any claim to that title? Squeenix has no idea what the fuck to do with FF, they keep trying to reinvent it as some wacko action title, and DQ has never been particularly popular outside of Japan, so they're barely even in the running.

by making actually fun games such as persona 5 (Royal)

>>717530332 (OP)
faglus shovelware sells like shit. Thats why they got bought by sega.

>>717530332 (OP)
Every other major JRPG producer decided to self-destruct or abandon the genre entirely.

it's still square. nips still love dq, westoids still love ff.

They just kept making games that their audience wanted, and then that audience grew
I wouldn't say they were Compile Heart tier, but they sure as shit were b-tier. Rhapsody was a meme joke everyone laughed at at the time.

Hi, Larry

poor as shit company owned by another poor as shit company.

>>717530865
retard

i accept your concession faglus cult member

what is this sales faggotry being spammed by someone is likely brown and sure as fuck owns zero stock in any company at all.
>hurr hurrrrrrr Atlus doesn't sell popular RPGs because they don't make as much money as Nintendo and Activision durr hurrr de durrr
it's nonsense retardation

>>717531003
Square fanboy schizo retard
>t. someone who liked FF 7 Rebirth but doesn't want to associate with the mental decline of a neglected young adult

>b-but square enix!
your shit company will never be independent.

did you cut yourself when a game that cost 1/50th to make as SE turds sold 2 million?
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how many of these images are on the archive?
Oh, all of them. MANY times.

Larry melty

>>717530332 (OP)
Simple, really. It was vacant.

>>717530472
I still don't get why they decided to make so many handheld and mobile games from the series instead of going to 3.

I mean Birth by Sleep: Okay
382/5 days: Alright
Re:Chain of Memories: Eeeh, fine

Unchanined, Union X Re:Coded, Dream Drop Distance, 0.2, Back Cover and so on: You can fuck yourself, Square Enix.

metaflop took twice as long to make as rebirth. and spent more on advertisiing then rebirth.

>>717530332 (OP)
By pandering to people that don’t like the genre. It’s an inherently niche genre, and you have to shave off every edge to make a mainstream JRPG.

>>717530332 (OP)
The competition:
>Falcomshit
>Compile Heart slop
>Monolith Cringe
>Shartenix slop
Atlus could release only Trauma Center and would still win.

>>717531702
>By pandering to people that don’t like the genre
But enough of Sandfall with Excremation 33. Their entire fanbase are retards who hate JRPGs.

>>717530332 (OP)
they simply made good games

>>717530332 (OP)
Everyone else killed themselves.

>>717530472
KH was always very small compared to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest, how is this series at fault for anything?
Japanese people all want to relive their high school years and fuck their teachers, that's why Atlus is so successful.

>>717530332 (OP)
By doing this

>>717530332 (OP)
square enix made the mistake of catering to younger players and westerners for their flagship titles

>>717530332 (OP)
Square shooting themselves in the foot over and over and over.

>But enough of Sandfall with Excremation 33. Their entire fanbase are retards who hate JRPGs.
>they simply made good games

raped out of the top 30

>>717530332 (OP)
I want to say P4G because it's really good but the answer to your question is P5 sales figures.

>>717530332 (OP)
square didn't want to make turn based games and started catering to westerners all of sudden

Falcom fucked up.

>>717530332 (OP)
>had a franchise in SMT with long history and a cult following that built up their experience
>when the franchise started being less profitable, started throwing out a bajillion spin-offs to see what sticks, at a time when it was viable
>added social sim elements to Persona 3 which were incredibly popular
>this reduced friction and allowed them to break up the fatigue of constant turn-based battles without having to make them completely braindead for retards
>had a genuinely involved combat system which was refined over literal decades of trial and error, which appealed to people who thought Final Fantasy was too braindead and for retards
>did a lot of small UI changes in Persona 5 which helped reduce the menu navigation and make it more "exciting"
>have good artists and composers to make the games look "cool"
>manage to produce games that weren't complete fucking shit, at least usually
A lot of it was just reducing friction while producing solid games. The biggest problem JRPGs had was that they weren't "exciting" for normalfags. Atlus managed to ramp up the excitement while still keeping the core game at a decent level for core JRPG fans.

>>717531837
This
Turnbased JRPGs aren't unpopular, it's just that the games in that genre has been shit for quite some time now.

>had a genuinely involved combat system
kek

>>717534431
>The biggest problem JRPGs had was that they weren't "exciting" for normalfags.
Because for some reason, japs started to inflate the stories and slowed down the games.
The games start with exposition dumps and it just goes on. Compare that to PS1/PS2 era JRPGs, those had interesting stories and it didn't take 5 hours to finish the intro
I'm playing Refantazio currently and it's boggling my mind that they still have cutscenes where I just open a chest or pull a fucking lever. Fuck off

>>717531003
Mentally ill person substituting human interaction with internet attention, tale old as time, very sad.

>>717534968
It is, you are just retarded and don't see how much goes into it.
The battle in the webm is a generic mob battle after you already beat them a couple times with advantage, which SHOULD be fast and simple. There's no point in dragging it out.
You forget that:
>on first battle you don't know any weaknesses so you have to just fire blindly
>you have to get Persona/party composition that has all the elements the enemies might have
>you have limited MP for a dungeon, and managing it is a major part of fighting
>if you start battle with disadvantage or do something retarded, it is entirely possible for a generic mob to wipe you out, since they get all the same benefits from elemental weaknesses that you do, this would be impossible in many other games
>fusing good personas is a fairly involved activity that makes your life a lot easier
>bosses exist and they often either don't have weaknesses or it's assumed that you're hitting weaknesses every turn in their moveset and health bar
It's not like it's the most involved combat system ever, and it's noticeably simplified from Press Turn, but saying it's not involved because there are weaknesses just misses everything around them.

>>717530765
retard
>>717530865
legendary levels of mental retardation. impressive.

GBF raped metaflop.

>>717530713
>famitsu numbers in big 2025
mental illness
physical is dead

>>717532065
>he remade this without Cloud because he was so butthurt
LOL

>>717530332 (OP)
they just keep giving jrpg fans what they want, visual novel dating sims with cute waifus and tacked on turn based combat

>>717530332 (OP)
-Combat where you actually have to prepare your party, and then pick the right commands and can't just hold down the attack button.
-In order to level up, tedious grinding/combat was replaced with a Social/life simulation, where you actually get to hang out with your party members and do fun stuff, see them develop. (this has now been imitated by everyone from Falcom to Intelligent Systems, but they have no idea how to make it work like atlus does).

>>717530332 (OP)
Making one competent JRPG with a memorable visual direction and music, while >>717530738 happened around them. Persona 5 really just felt like the first big budget JRPG in years where the developers actually seemed to give enough of a shit, so it won by default.

>>717530679
This is a big one, especially with square enix, who have completely lost their minds and burned all their bridges with their legacy in an attempt to appeal to what they imagine western audiences might like.

>>717532065
why that blie haired tranny from the SMT flop there? he games sucked and flopped worse than Final Faggotry 7 Demake

>>717530332 (OP)
Monolith is better. Atlus hasn't made a good game since P5R

I wish jannies could orbital laser strike the two or three autistic faggots that shit up every atlus and/or squenix thread

>>717540264
More like Monolith of Shit