ishiki said:
If you want RPG's made from the west, nintendo consoles have always had an extremely crappy amount even in the SNES days. If you want RPG's made from the east, handhelds have been the best place for them them the past generation). |
I have no national, linguical or racial bias, so I do not see games in such a way.
When I break rpgs into categories nationality never comes into question.
There are: turn-based rpgs, action rpgs, console rpgs, adventure-rpgs, strategy-rpgs, first person-rpg, MMORPGs, dungeon-crawlerrpgs, board game style rpgs, simulation-rpg. Then there are the various subcategories to those.
To me, WRPG and JRPG mean nothing. I mean, what exactly are they supposed to be identiying? What is supposed to come into my head when I heard WRPG and JRPG? What is the purpose of distinguishing western from japanese? The only differences are usually in the plot and art style. I only care that a plot is original and and deep, not which group of people made it. I would not limit genres by those two things because those same ranges exist in all genres from platformers to racing.
Saying JRPG and WRPG makes no sense to me. There are more accurate and less "bigoted sounding" ways to describe the games. Those abbreviations rub me the wrong way.