Fallout 3 Is Doing My Head In.(No Spoilers involved).

[heruamon]

sc94597 said:

reask said:

PullusPardus said:
its a WRPG. WRPGs are all about exploration and discovery.
you probably first played JRPGs right? those are limited to the exploration part but are more character based. (im not going to say story driven cause both got good stories, it just a matter of taste.)

What is a jrpg?

What is a wrpg?

I am not been smart btw.

Jrpg= Japanese role playing game

Wrpg=Western role playing game

The main difference is that Jrpgs didn't change as much as Wrpgs from their ancestor(Console Rpg.) In the  80s the two genres were pretty much the same. What happened though, was that Jrpgs headed toward a strategy route while Wrpgs headed toward Action-Adventure. Lately though Jrpgs have been getting into the Action genre.  So basically WRPGs=Action Adventure, Jrpgs= Turn Based Strategy or Action game. This is only gameplay we are talking about though. We can get into other areas such as story, but that doesn't matter when distinguishing genres.

It goes deeper, imho.  There is far more flexibility in WRPG than the few JRPGs I've tried to play.  It's strictly a playig style thing, but I jsut can't get into it for JRPGs.