| MontanaHatchet said: Japanese RPGs are RPGs made in Japan, and Western RPGs are RPGs that were made in the west (or sometimes Europe, but it's the same style). To my knowledge, both of these strategy RPGs were made by Japanese companies, so they are in turn Japanese RPGs as well. Unless I'm missing some sort of nonsense here. |
That's a oversimplified view on the subject. I'm pretty sure that the traditional definition of a jrpg has nothing to do with where it was geographically developed, but instead with a number of common features found within games of the genre.
I think your discussing the derivations of the phrase "japanese role playing game" rather than the object said phrase describes.
By your definition, if we took a large group of Japanese people, and put them in a boat, 6 miles off the Japanese coast, it would cease to be a jrpg, and instead be an...oceanic rpg.
RTS games, would cease to be a genre.
Deeper thought is required. Specifically on generally accepted opinions of what classifies a game as a JRPG or SRPG, and if the SRPG genre even exists, and by implication, the RTS, or ARPG, and what genres really are. I've stated my very astute opinions, if I do say so myself, earlier in this very thread.
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