What is the appeal behind JRPGs

[Khuutra]

WereKitten said:

Khuutra said:

ShadowSoldier said:
Awesome Story, Intense Battle Systems, Characters Music. So many reasons. Also its classified as an RPG due to how the battle system is set up.

This last part is silly. That's the strategy game roots of the genre, not the role-playing roots.

Pencil-and-paper role playing basically brought both the concept of impersonation into an interactive narrative and a whole bunch of conventions about the mechanics.

Levels, stat profiles, saving throws, bonus and malus, ailments, turns of combat do not make "role playing" in the literal sense, but they certainly do historically.

Yes, but all of those things are holdovers from the strategy games that preceded P&P RPGs - they only provided the system in which roleplaying actually occurred. The system itself is from strategy games - roleplaying happens quite independent of that, and taken in a literal way it could be argued that what we think of as "JRPGs" are actually strategy games with structured narratives.