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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
Son1x said:
d21lewis said:
lestatdark said:
d21lewis said:
See what happens when video game genres are allowed to breed with whatever they want to! Now, nothing makes sense anymore. It used to be so simple when all we had was Pong.

Pong was too complicated. It's a frigging stick that has to hit a dot! What do you think we are, nuclear physicists? >_>

You know, now that I think about it, what the hell was Pong?  Puzzle?  Sport?  JRPG?  I  guess it was never simple.

Its a shooter. Those round things flying around are obviously bullets of some kind.

Nahhh, it was an obvious Simulator. You simulated some flying round thingy hitting a long stick thingy. It doesn't get more real than that



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Tallgeese101 on 22 March 2010

If you recommend VC as an alternative to FF, Tales etc the person buying it will not get what they expected.

By the same token if you recommend it to fans of FF Tactics, Disgaea etc they will be delighted at finding this gem.

So it is a SRPG



ps3_jrpg_gamer on 22 March 2010

Japanese doesn 't necessery means action or strategy but japanese
it is not a GENRE
JRPGS and WRPGS have nothing to do with genres like Action to Shooters



Kasz216 on 22 March 2010

No. It's a SRPG. Furthermore, it's a Western Strategy RPG.

Second in it's kind only to Future Tactics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahuEBJJ2KGc



lestatdark on 22 March 2010
ps3_jrpg_gamer said:
Japanese doesn 't necessery means action or strategy but japanese
it is not a GENRE
JRPGS and WRPGS have nothing to do with genres like Action to Shooters

Classifying games based solely on the country of origin is a bit ridiculous. Why isn't there separation for other genres then? JPlatformers from WPlatformers? JAction-Adventure from WAction-Adventure?

There are inherent differences between a JRPG and a WRPG, differences from story-telling, character development, battle system, story setting, etc, etc. That's what makes them different SUBgenres

 



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nen-suer on 22 March 2010

Just let it go, d21. Just let it go.



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forest-spirit on 22 March 2010

It's a turn-based strategy shooter with rpg elements. From Japan.



CaptainPrice on 22 March 2010
lestatdark said:
Jumpin said:
lestatdark said:
It's not a JRPG.

It falls in line with common SRPG's like Fire Emblem and Shining Force, albeit the more action oriented layout when you're choosing the actions (which made the game much easier than the referenced SRPG's)

Fire Emblem and Shining Force are both JRPGs. Strategy RPGs like that are a sub-genre. "JRPG" is a term used to distinguish the Japanese made RPGs from the non-Japanese made RPGs. There is a difference though between games like Fire Emblem and games like Advance Wars (which is not a JRPG).

 

Some games from Japan, though, are listed as RPGs when they are in fact not. The most common of these is Zelda.

SRPG's are as equal a Subgenre as JRPG's and WRPG's are. There are intrinsic differences between the subgenres that put them completely apart from one another. That's like saying that Demon's Souls is a JRPG as well, when it has nothing in common with an JRPG.

I haven't seen Zelda being called a RPG, but I wouldn't find it odd that someone did. Heck, i've seen someone saying that Far Cry 2 was a RPG XD 

JRPG is purely a geographical term. The clue is in the 'Japanese' bit. So Demon's Souls is a JRPG. It plays a bit like a WRPG, but that doesn't change the fact that it was made in Japan.

The next bit will really blow the minds of half the posters on this thread. A GAME CAN BE MADE IN A PHYSICAL LOCATION, AND ALSO HAVE GAME PLAY DISTINCTIVE OF A CERTAIN GENRE. So Valkyria Chronicles is a JRPG and an SRPG.

People who have a problem with that should ask themselves how they would classify Oblivion or Mass Effect. Surely everyone accepts that they are WRPGs and Action RPGs. So why on earth does anyone have a problem with some JRPGs also being SRPGs?



Kasz216 on 22 March 2010
CaptainPrice said:
lestatdark said:
Jumpin said:
lestatdark said:
It's not a JRPG.

It falls in line with common SRPG's like Fire Emblem and Shining Force, albeit the more action oriented layout when you're choosing the actions (which made the game much easier than the referenced SRPG's)

Fire Emblem and Shining Force are both JRPGs. Strategy RPGs like that are a sub-genre. "JRPG" is a term used to distinguish the Japanese made RPGs from the non-Japanese made RPGs. There is a difference though between games like Fire Emblem and games like Advance Wars (which is not a JRPG).

 

Some games from Japan, though, are listed as RPGs when they are in fact not. The most common of these is Zelda.

SRPG's are as equal a Subgenre as JRPG's and WRPG's are. There are intrinsic differences between the subgenres that put them completely apart from one another. That's like saying that Demon's Souls is a JRPG as well, when it has nothing in common with an JRPG.

I haven't seen Zelda being called a RPG, but I wouldn't find it odd that someone did. Heck, i've seen someone saying that Far Cry 2 was a RPG XD 

JRPG is purely a geographical term. The clue is in the 'Japanese' bit. So Demon's Souls is a JRPG. It plays a bit like a WRPG, but that doesn't change the fact that it was made in Japan.

The next bit will really blow the minds of half the posters on this thread. A GAME CAN BE MADE IN A PHYSICAL LOCATION, AND ALSO HAVE GAME PLAY DISTINCTIVE OF A CERTAIN GENRE. So Valkyria Chronicles is a JRPG and an SRPG.

People who have a problem with that should ask themselves how they would classify Oblivion or Mass Effect. Surely everyone accepts that they are WRPGs and Action RPGs. So why on earth does anyone have a problem with some JRPGs also being SRPGs?

So... your saying that if Bioware suddenly moved to japan.  You would consider Mass Effect games JRPGs?  If so... why the hell does JRPG and WRPG exist as a genre?



Barozi on 22 March 2010

not really.
I always try to define the genre by its main features and in case of VC it's the strategic aspect.
I would just call it a strategy game, but SRPG is also okay. However JRPG misses the point.