Gameranking's Top J-RPG's of All Time

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KylieDog said:

MDMAlliance said:

Honestly, you can't say that it isn't a JRPG.  No matter how much you want to say it, given the shaky definition of a JRPG, it is by some form a JRPG as it is made in Japan and still retains elements of Japanese culture.  To try and define JRPG or WRPG by its style, you'll find MANY games that break apart that definition and to that effect, that way of defining holds no water.  The only one that does is where it was made.

Except those games that 'break apart the definition' don't, only when you try to shoehorn them into a specific wrong definition.  If a game doesn't fit as a WRPG or JRPG, then it isn't either of them.

I feel like the whole misconception could be resolved with some kind of qualifier, like saying that Dragon Quest is a "traditional JRPG" because it's from Japan and sticks closely to the roots of the genre, whereas Dark Souls is a "non-traditional" or even "Western-inspired" JRPG. That way one can identify its country of origin and actually be specific about the content without generalizing too much.