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Wright said: D Dragon's Dogma. It is considered an JRPG indeed. |
I consider them JRPGs, however, JRPG is a poor term for these games. The original JRPG was Dragon Warrior.. Your standard WRPG is Ultima, Wizardry, or Might and Magic. Either overhead style games like the Ultima titles or in the future games like Baldur's Gate, etc, or first person dungeon crawlers that were influenced by JRPGs.
WRPGs and JRPGs have grown to have different styles of gameplay though and a game like Dragon's Dogma I don't just call an JRPG. The Elder Scrolls isn't something I'd call a WRPG.
Games like Dragon's Dogma, The Elder Scrolls, Demon's Souls, Borderlands, etc, I filter them into the Action Adventure genre. They're not your traditional JRPGs, they're not your traditional adventure games, and they're not your traditional action games. They're more Action Adventure than anything else.
I define TRPG as grid based strategy RPGs while SRPGs as strategy RPGs.
With as diverse games have become, people just generalizing everything as "RPG" is bad for the genre. Someone happens to see a game and then they see the generalization "RPG," they might now like one style of RPG that they think is the RPG genre and they don't even bother with what might an interesting game for them. RPG is becoming so generalized that people are calling games that aren't even RPGs as such. Zelda, Darksiders, etc.
Just a pet peeve and it'd be nice if people would try to differentiate what type it is rather than does it come from Japan or come from the west?
