What's the best JRPG of the last decade?

Xenoblade has generally won every face off against Persona 4 that it has had on this board, which was one of the reasons that I wanted to play Xenoblade so bad.

I beat Persona 4 right before I got into college... sooo, that would make it 3 years. I tried giving it another shot with golden. Which turned me off so hard, I would never even touch the game again.

What parts exactly did I miss about Chie's and Naoto's character development, you cant just say I am wrong without providing reasoning, just use spoiler tags to remind me of this oh so character development I so forgot. I even checked the wiki as a reminder and they more or less repeated what I just said. Characters in Persona 4 lack depth. Especially compared to Black Isle, Tr and Obsidian characters as well as characters from actual literature or visual novels (such an underrated genre). Persona 4 characters are literally (and figuratively speaking) high school anime characters, equally shallow, equally dependant on 3 traits or so.

Oh, I did criticize the terrible dungeon designs as well as the combat (see the SP).

Just because you can set the time when you hang out with people doesnt change the fact that in the first 4 social link events ammounts to very little. The interesting stuff usually doesnt have later on in the S. Link line. That is why I call the pacing bad. How many pointless clues for S. Link events that ultimately ammounted to nothing, did you have with Naoto before you got to anything actually interesting with her?

But go ahead, prove me wrong, just send me a link to the scenes either through a PM or a steam message to avoid spoilers :) If evidence you provides proves me wrong, I will admit my mistake.

Edit: And I did criticize the combat and level design. But in the previous post you only commented on the one concerning the characters, so that was the only thing I touched upon there.

@Maroxad:

FF12 is definitely a game that has been looked back on more fondly than at the time of release. I enjoyed going back to it years later(didn't enjoy when it was released) and hope for an HD remaster of it soon.

Anyway.... for me it would be a 3 way tie between Persona 4 Golden/Xenoblade/World Ends with you though if I had to choose I would go Xenoblade for the sheer interest the story gave me even when I got spoiled on 7 .

If this question had been asked last year it would of been Star Ocean 3 the perfect difficulty with optional content significantly harder than the main story with decent overall characters(unlike 4)

Glad you actually responded intelligently instead of replying with logical fallacies, unlike some fanboys I had to argue/debate with in the past...

It appears, I did not give the characters enough credit. It is a definite improvement from what I remembered. But yeah, I remember about the inheritance thing now, and Chie's jealousy. Would I say it is as good as New Vegas, based on what you said? Hell no. Most visual novels? Absolutely not. But it is not bad by any means.

By the way, where was it implied that Chie joined the police force? Was that in Golden?

See, whether it is as good as something else or not is ultimately a subjective argument, it comes down to opinions instead of hard facts, and those I will not argue you on, yours are as valid as mine. But do I argue that the characters and character development were not two dimensional? Yes, and inasmuch as it is possible for something like this to be a fact, this is a fact.

As for your question, Chie tells Narukami that at the end of her social link. I'm pretty sure it was in the vanilla game as well, but I have not played that since, what, 2009? So I don't remember for sure.

Ahh, ok thanks. I might check a social link video to remind myself.

But yes, it all comes down to opinion in the end.

I didn't play too many of them, but from what I played the best was Ni No Kuni. If SRPGs count, then Valkyria Chronicles.