MDMAlliance said:
sc94597 said:
MDMAlliance said:
Strange that no one in here brought up the point that JRPG and WRPG and very arbitrary terms.
I do know that a lot of people have certain things in mind when they say one or the other, but if you actually delve more into each of the genres you're referring to, you'll see that it becomes harder to differentiate unless you want to separate them by literally where they are made. Then it comes down to some exception cases with that. However, another problem presents itself where a game made in Japan resembles completely a game you normally associate with the West and vice versa.
Of course, with all that said, the majority of the RPGs I've played fit under what people would undeniably call "JRPG," so I don't really have a way of answering this question even if I did agree with using this terminology. |
JRPG ~ Console RPG
WRPG ~ Computer RPG
If you think of it it that way it's easier to differentiate them into two different genres based on the history of the games found on their respective platforms (they diverged in the 90's.) For that reasons, there are Japanese developed WRPGs, and Western developed JRPGs.
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I'm not saying I don't know how to differentiate them based off of what people THINK they are. I am saying that there's clear overlap over people's definitions and not everyone defines them the same way. As I said already, it's arbitrary. I am not going to, at the same time, deny that there is something here that does need to be differentiated. However, the way we're doing it right now isn't really the best way to do it. We're already seeing people arguing over whether Dark Souls is a JRPG or WRPG.
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I see. I think that is true for any genre though. People argue whether Metroid Prime is an FPS or "FPA." The difference between Survival Horror and Action Horror. What constitutes an Action-Adventure rather than an Action game. So I think it is a pre-requisite when speaking of any genre.
