| BMaker11 said: Because if it weren't for JRPGs (God I hate the fact that tossing a J in there is the norm now), there'd be no other RPGs. (The ones we now call JRPGs were the original genre....why it has to be changed by adding a J is beyond me...it's like saying Native American. They're the original Americans, but now since everyone moved to the US, they have to have "Native" on it. /rant over lol) |
Um, no.
Even if one were to believe that tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons weren't the direct inspiration for JRPGs, Western computer RPGs like Rogue (1980), Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (1981), Akalabeth (1980), and Ultima (1981) predate by far Final Fantasy (1987) and Dragon Quest (1986). The West was making electronic RPGs years before Japan.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
