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boilermaker11 said:
When will everyone stop tossing a "J" on RPGs? When games like Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 7, Legend of Dragoon, etc came out, nobody said "This is the best JAYrpg ever", they simply called it an RPG. It should be undertsood that RPGs are Japanese, however, calling a game a WRPG (Western) is different as Westerners try and make RPGs of their own. But still, when it comes to Final Fantasies and Dragon Quests.....leave the "J" out, because those same games weren't called "JRPGs" 10 years earlier.

Oh how I miss the days of yore........

/silly rant over

You think genre distinctions don't change in ten years? Ten years ago, Bioshock would be technically a Doom clone, since the term first-person shooter had not become distinct term by then.

Also, western RPGs were big on the PC, but a niche product on consoles. Therefore, JRPGs had little to contrast them with. Now we have western RPGs, action RPGs, MMORPGs, Strategy RPGs, JRPGs, etc.

So we are calling those games JRPGs now because we are AWARE of other sub-genres of RPGs.