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

[adriane23]

KylieDog said:

adriane23 said:

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.

The terms were created to identify a style of game, people used to call them western style RPGs and Japanese style RPGs, this just got shortened to W/J RPG.

People who try an use location are just wrong and completely miss the original point of the terms.

No they didn't. People called RPGs from Western developers PC RPGs because that's the only place they were popular. It wasn't until games like Oblivion and Mass Effect, where people started differentiating the two by region.

 

OT: Xenogears will always be number 1 in my heart, but I'm glad it's rated so high.