KylieDog said:
adriane23 said:
KylieDog said:
adriane23 said:
KylieDog said:
Demon's Souls isn't a JRPG. |
Yes it is.
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No, it isn't. J/W RPGs are not determined where they were made, but the style of the game. It is modelled on the WRPG game type.
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Whoever told you that should be slapped in the throat. If that was the case, then I guess the Penny Arcade RPGs are JRPGs and games like The Granstream Saga and Dark Cloud are WRPGs. And what is the "WRPG game type" exactly?
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WRPG are generally more realistic in design of both worlds and environments, the 'RPG' side of things are very deep routed in character building with a focus on individual stats for characters and usually armours and weapons too. There tends to be a lot of choice in the story as well as progression of the world also.
JRPGs tend to be very anime or cartoon styled, aside from a general level up the RPG side of things tends to be very light and while can get new weapons or armours sometimes the focus isn't on individual stats of a character or equipment and offers little to no choice in character build. The story has little and often zero choice for the player and the world opens up along with story.
Where a game is made doesn't matter. WRPGs are named so as that style has been championed by western devs and is found mostly in western made RPGs, JRPGs because it is mainly Japan who make that style (especially due to Final Fantasy's popularity boom in the 90s).
What would you call an Australian made RPG? Using your logic it certainly isn't a WRPG, Australia isn't in the west, it isn't JRPG because it isn't made in Japan either despite being so close. The real answer is you base it on the actual game, not where it is made.
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You're not making any sense. Just because a region makes games a certain way doesn't justify a label like that. God of War play differently than Devil May Cry and has a different style, but that doesn't mean we classify them as W-Hack and Slash and J-Hack and Slash.
I would call an Australian RPG whatever it's play style dictates, be it tactical/PC style RPGs (what you define as WRPG), turn-based RPG, strategy RPG, action RPG, or whatever. If Australian devs started "championing" a specific style of RPG, it doesn't make a new style of RPG called ARPG or some other similarly stupid moniker.
