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Is Valkyria Chronicles a JRPG?

Yes it is. 102 46.15%
 
No. It is not. 68 30.77%
 
Just let it go, d21. Just let it go. 50 22.62%
 
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lestatdark on 22 March 2010
g-value said:

The "J" in JRPG means Japanese. We call games like Kingdom Hearts or Tales of or Demons Souls JRPGs because they were made in Japan. Valkyria Chronicles is an SRPG from Japan. So I would call it a JSRPG.

What would you call Secret of Evermore then? :P



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Boutros on 22 March 2010

Nope.



g-value on 22 March 2010
lestatdark said:
g-value said:

The "J" in JRPG means Japanese. We call games like Kingdom Hearts or Tales of or Demons Souls JRPGs because they were made in Japan. Valkyria Chronicles is an SRPG from Japan. So I would call it a JSRPG.

What would you call Secret of Evermore then? :P

A WRPG for "Western Role-Playing Game" since it was made in America by the American Squaresoft developers.



lestatdark on 22 March 2010
g-value said:
lestatdark said:
g-value said:

The "J" in JRPG means Japanese. We call games like Kingdom Hearts or Tales of or Demons Souls JRPGs because they were made in Japan. Valkyria Chronicles is an SRPG from Japan. So I would call it a JSRPG.

What would you call Secret of Evermore then? :P

A WRPG for "Western Role-Playing Game" since it was made in America by the American Squaresoft developers.

Yes, because Secret of Evermore isn't like the carbon copy of Secret of Mana, in which it has the same battle mechanics, same UI, same inventory management, pretty much same everything, except the story :P 

But it's a WRPG, just because it was made in the west. I see. Thanks for confirming how skewed that classification really is xD  



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sapient on 22 March 2010

VC is a strategy RPG like Fire Emblem, Tactics Ogre, Final fantasy Tactics etc. It is however still a JRPG because it IS a Japanese SRPG and SRPG is a sub-genre of RPG.



 

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g-value on 22 March 2010
lestatdark said:
g-value said:
lestatdark said:
g-value said:

The "J" in JRPG means Japanese. We call games like Kingdom Hearts or Tales of or Demons Souls JRPGs because they were made in Japan. Valkyria Chronicles is an SRPG from Japan. So I would call it a JSRPG.

What would you call Secret of Evermore then? :P

A WRPG for "Western Role-Playing Game" since it was made in America by the American Squaresoft developers.

Yes, because Secret of Evermore isn't like the carbon copy of Secret of Mana, in which it has the same battle mechanics, same UI, same inventory management, pretty much same everything, except the story :P 

But it's a WRPG, just because it was made in the west. I see. Thanks for confirming how skewed that classification really is xD  

Yes, that is correct. There is no such thing as a genre called "JRPG". There is only "RPG". People put the W or J in front of the "RPG" because it tells where it was made.



lestatdark on 22 March 2010
g-value said:
lestatdark said:
g-value said:
lestatdark said:
g-value said:

The "J" in JRPG means Japanese. We call games like Kingdom Hearts or Tales of or Demons Souls JRPGs because they were made in Japan. Valkyria Chronicles is an SRPG from Japan. So I would call it a JSRPG.

What would you call Secret of Evermore then? :P

A WRPG for "Western Role-Playing Game" since it was made in America by the American Squaresoft developers.

Yes, because Secret of Evermore isn't like the carbon copy of Secret of Mana, in which it has the same battle mechanics, same UI, same inventory management, pretty much same everything, except the story :P 

But it's a WRPG, just because it was made in the west. I see. Thanks for confirming how skewed that classification really is xD  

Yes, that is correct. There is no such thing as a genre called "JRPG". There is only "RPG". People put the W or J in front of the "RPG" because it tells where it was made.

I wish that separation wouldn't be used in a derogatory way, unfortunatedly it's not so. That's why I think it's more correct to use the actual gameplay separations between genres and not localizations.



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g-value on 22 March 2010
lestatdark said:
g-value said:
lestatdark said:
g-value said:
lestatdark said:
g-value said:

The "J" in JRPG means Japanese. We call games like Kingdom Hearts or Tales of or Demons Souls JRPGs because they were made in Japan. Valkyria Chronicles is an SRPG from Japan. So I would call it a JSRPG.

What would you call Secret of Evermore then? :P

A WRPG for "Western Role-Playing Game" since it was made in America by the American Squaresoft developers.

Yes, because Secret of Evermore isn't like the carbon copy of Secret of Mana, in which it has the same battle mechanics, same UI, same inventory management, pretty much same everything, except the story :P 

But it's a WRPG, just because it was made in the west. I see. Thanks for confirming how skewed that classification really is xD  

Yes, that is correct. There is no such thing as a genre called "JRPG". There is only "RPG". People put the W or J in front of the "RPG" because it tells where it was made.

I wish that separation wouldn't be used in a derogatory way, unfortunatedly it's not so. That's why I think it's more correct to use the actual gameplay separations between genres and not localizations.

It really doesn't matter what you think. It is what it is.



lestatdark on 22 March 2010
g-value said:
lestatdark said:
g-value said:
lestatdark said:
g-value said:
lestatdark said:
g-value said:

The "J" in JRPG means Japanese. We call games like Kingdom Hearts or Tales of or Demons Souls JRPGs because they were made in Japan. Valkyria Chronicles is an SRPG from Japan. So I would call it a JSRPG.

What would you call Secret of Evermore then? :P

A WRPG for "Western Role-Playing Game" since it was made in America by the American Squaresoft developers.

Yes, because Secret of Evermore isn't like the carbon copy of Secret of Mana, in which it has the same battle mechanics, same UI, same inventory management, pretty much same everything, except the story :P 

But it's a WRPG, just because it was made in the west. I see. Thanks for confirming how skewed that classification really is xD  

Yes, that is correct. There is no such thing as a genre called "JRPG". There is only "RPG". People put the W or J in front of the "RPG" because it tells where it was made.

I wish that separation wouldn't be used in a derogatory way, unfortunatedly it's not so. That's why I think it's more correct to use the actual gameplay separations between genres and not localizations.

It really doesn't matter what you think. It is what it is.

Ha, it's what it is right? Then I guess when RPG's are categorized in Action RPG, Turn Based RPG, Strategy RPG, it's just flights of fancy then? Bah, we were having a perfectly good conversation till you tried to force opinion as fact. Anyway feel the way that you want to feel.



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g-value on 22 March 2010
lestatdark said:
g-value said:
lestatdark said:
g-value said:
lestatdark said:
g-value said:
lestatdark said:
g-value said:

The "J" in JRPG means Japanese. We call games like Kingdom Hearts or Tales of or Demons Souls JRPGs because they were made in Japan. Valkyria Chronicles is an SRPG from Japan. So I would call it a JSRPG.

What would you call Secret of Evermore then? :P

A WRPG for "Western Role-Playing Game" since it was made in America by the American Squaresoft developers.

Yes, because Secret of Evermore isn't like the carbon copy of Secret of Mana, in which it has the same battle mechanics, same UI, same inventory management, pretty much same everything, except the story :P 

But it's a WRPG, just because it was made in the west. I see. Thanks for confirming how skewed that classification really is xD  

Yes, that is correct. There is no such thing as a genre called "JRPG". There is only "RPG". People put the W or J in front of the "RPG" because it tells where it was made.

I wish that separation wouldn't be used in a derogatory way, unfortunatedly it's not so. That's why I think it's more correct to use the actual gameplay separations between genres and not localizations.

It really doesn't matter what you think. It is what it is.

Ha, it's what it is right? Then I guess when RPG's are categorized in Action RPG, Turn Based RPG, Strategy RPG, it's just flights of fancy then? Bah, we were having a perfectly good conversation till you tried to force opinion as fact. Anyway feel the way that you want to feel.

If you want to call it those, then it will have to be "JARPG" for "Japanese Action Role Playing Game" or "JTBRPG" for "Japanese Turn Based Role Playing Game" since they are either Action or Turn Based RPGs made in Japan. If you want to discribe RPGs in a manner in which you call them Action RPG or Turn Based RPG, then what exactly is a JRPG to you? If you call them JRPG to show the "actual gameplay separation between genres" then wouldn't you call them either a Action RPG or a Turn Based RPG? How exactly does calling a game a JRPG discribe the kind of gameplay an RPG presents when the " J" in JRPG means Japanese? Is there a kind of combat system or gameplay mechanic called "Japanese" that I am not aware of?