If Japanese developers started making RPGs like Skyrim or Fallout...

[Albicant]

zarx said:

AshKetchum1992 said:
And why did the clasification of RPGs based on the country of origin appear?

Because back in the SNES to PSX days Japan made a very distinct brand of RPGs defined largely by Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. With a few veriations such as Secret of Mana and Tactics Ogre etc. Where as Western developers branched off in a seperate direction with games like TES, Fallout, later Ultima and eventually Infinity engine etc. And the labels just kinda stuck, even tho even back in the day their was some overlap especially in the dungeon crawler sub genre.

Ultima came out a long, long time before Fallout/TES.

I've only really noticed the term 'jrpg' this generation. It's not like we didn't have enough ways to classify a genre in a medium which doesn't easily lend itself to genres in the first place..