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

[adriane23]

KylieDog said:

adriane23 said:

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.

You think WRPG/JRPG are current gen created terms?   Question speaks for itself.

I know they're terms made popular in this gen. I wasn't on gaming forums before 2007, so they could be decades old for all I know. I never heard of either term before this gen though, so they definitely weren't used regularly in gaming magazines or media sites. Going by the sorting choices for RPGs on Gamefaqs (an old enough site), these probably evolved from the terms "Console Style RPG" and "PC Style RPG."