JRPG's are dead

[SmoothCriminal]

dtewi said:

SmoothCriminal said:

It is connotation, but only because you (you being everyone that calls them RPGs) say so. If you didn't say so, then they wouldn't have been called RPGs in the first place. That's my entire point. Connotations are "made-up" definitions that are designed to clarify or to better define what one means, not to change the definition entirely.

I don't get what the hell you're trying to say!

People don't go by definitions, but connotations.

Therefore, YOU saying FF isn't an RPG isn't correct in the colloquial sense.

I'm saying that the only reason JRPGs are considered RPGs is because they've always been classified (incorrectly) as such. If they had been known as Japanese Adventure Games, then we would barely even see the RPG elements, as they would be known as adventure games. 

 

I'm not saying that FF isn't considered an RPG, I'm saying that it isn't an RPG. These are two HUGELY different things.