mai said:
Noticeable, yes. There's noticeable japanese influence (through Chrono Trigger) on Anachronox and such games as Jade Empire entirely based on Asian (in this case Chinese) culture. But those are wRPGs. Here's the best analogy I could think of... imagine two nations and two different languages, each has own system known as grammar and each has own vocabulary known as lexicon. Two nations that live in neighbourhood are likely to adopt words from another language pretty easily and fast, but to adopt some grammar changes may require very strong and prolonged influence. The same goes for game genres if we look at those things like cultural anthropologists. Themes and storylines are likely to change, while core gameplay mechanics won't change that easily.
@sc94597 True, they're rooted from the early adoptions of paper-and-pencil RPGs into computer games. So it's safe to say that wRPGs and jRPGs (to some extent those are better terms than computer and console RPGs) are both dericatives from p'n'p RPGs. Those terms are relative, of course, as well as any other cultural phenomena, but from what I've learned playing Demon's Souls so far it definitely plays like wRPG though borrows a lot from what we know as japanese. But, you know, there's nothing in this fast growing world that could be considered pure, free from othet cultural influence. |
But Demon's Souls still has a focus on story is like Suikoden in some ways as far as getting characters to help and choosing which area to tackle first.
