Originally Posted by
Fugsnarf
What you said is all-encompassing for any genre today. Every new console game seems like more-or-less a polished turd. There's some gems in them, as with any generation and console, but it's mostly the same principle you just mentioned of doing the same stuff over and over, minus the character building, minus the story, plus the tedium. You cannot stick that label on only JRPGs. Everything's shallow these days. Handhelds seem to be the only systems where there's been actual innovation, being that they can't just have shiny graphics due to the lower capabilities of the systems.