WRPGs versus JRPGs, or: My mis-adventures in KOTOR

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Scoobes said:

adriane23 said:

No it wouldn't. Most WRPGs of the past 6 years have generally sloppy play mechanics. The few that do have good gameplay mehcanics are the Mass Effect games, The Witcher games,  and Kingdoms of Amalur. The rest are just content to have you flail your arms wildly with a weapon in your hand.

EDIT: Dragon's Dogma, Demon's Souls, Dark SOuls, and even FFXIII have great play mechanics, because they've been doing that aspect of gaming very well for several decades now.

The only WRPGs this gen that I can think fit that description are Diablo III and possibly Dungeon Siege 3... which is because they're pure hack n' slash. Even the Elder Scrolls games aren't like that.

Well, if you play as a purely physical warrior (say, 2H swords) you can get away with brainlessly hammering enemys on Sjyrim, at least as long as you're not on the very high end of difficulty. Fable 3 (even though it's not much of an RPG at all) is even guiltier of that. Since that's a pretty popular way of playing I can see that people who are not so used to WRPGs would have that impression.