Game Informer's poll gives interesting results about RPG's.

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Riachu said:

Rei said:
Is that really surprising? The 'j' in 'jRPG' clearly suggests who are these games are targeted at. They arent meant to appeal to westeners.

A lot of people somehow are under the impression that because Final Fantasy and Pokemon are popular in the West then that means that the jRPG genre as a whole is popular and appealing to western people. It is not.

Not necessarily.  JRPG is not even an official acronym.  The J is just used to tell us that that specific RPG was developed in Japan.

 

 

 

Japanese RPG's or JRPG's are RPG games that take the Western turn base style of WRPG's (The originals) and put a make a linear storyline out of it. Instead of it being based on being personification roleplay, it adds the action game vantage point of helping  a character meet his obvious destination. That is the Japanese style. In that sense you're not really role playing. A Japanese developer can create a Western style game any time they want, but it wouldn't be called a JRPG, now would it?.