Fallout: New Vegas Japanese Ad to Respond to the Classic “JRPG-Syndrome”

For those of you who were upset with Final Fantasy XIII’s “on-rail” approach to role-playing games, Bethesda’s Fallout New Vegas may be the answer for you. At least according to their Japanese advertisements anyways. In the poster below, gamers have taken up arms and have begun protesting against their genre of choice and the problems that they see:

Says one, “A game where you just follow the scenario is like living life on rails.”

Another: “What’s the point of playing again if there’s no change to the story.”

The girl to the left: “When did games become something that you watch?”

The tall one in back: “I think it would be nice if the main character had a mission aside from just wiping out evil.”

Suggests the one sitting in front: “The world has been prepared. After that, you’re free to do as you please!”

All growing symptoms of what I like to call the “JRPG-syndrome” and were complaints that people had on the aforementioned Square RPG. Now, while I love JRPGs and WRPGs as much as the next guy, Fallout 3’s scenario didn’t exactly ‘set the world on fire’ with its ununified narrative structure and storyline. Although that’s a different story for another day.

Fallout New Vegas is due out in the United States on October 19, 2010 with a Japanese date set for November 4th.

[translation via AndriaSang]