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Which type of RPGs you think is the best/more fun to play?

JRPG 237 69.91%
 
WRPG 100 29.50%
 
Total:337
BossPuma on 09 July 2013

I wonder if Zelda games count as JRPGs, if so then hell yea.

I dont find enough emotion in Western RPGs, as i have from Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, or Mother 3. 

Games like Fallout 3 or Skyrim, while good, lack personality imo.



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Xenostar on 09 July 2013

I used to say JRPGS, in the 90s they were the original open world games, FF7 was ground breaking moment in gaming for me, but since 2000 onwards they see to have turned into linear and bore fests in terms of inovative gameplay on the whole with very few exceptions.

WRPGS have come on a lot since then, showing massive open world games like skyrim and dragon age, although i find the characters in western ones to be a lot more forgettable as they let you design your own charcter from scratch and no matter what you do there just bland featureless faces.



BloodyRain on 09 July 2013
BossPuma said:
BloodyRain said:

WRPG
1. I like the more open world approach. You can go wherever you want at the beginning of the game.
2. I like have choices that influence the story(mass effect style)
3. I prefer the overall feel of freedom that wrpg have.
4. I hate the turn based combat of jrpg's. Wrpg have more of an immediate control action approach


You might like Dark Souls

I actually love demon/dark souls. Wait those are jrpg's?



BossPuma on 09 July 2013
BloodyRain said:
BossPuma said:
BloodyRain said:

WRPG
1. I like the more open world approach. You can go wherever you want at the beginning of the game.
2. I like have choices that influence the story(mass effect style)
3. I prefer the overall feel of freedom that wrpg have.
4. I hate the turn based combat of jrpg's. Wrpg have more of an immediate control action approach


You might like Dark Souls

I actually love demon/dark souls. Wait those are jrpg's?


Well they are RPGs made by japanese developers.



BloodyRain on 09 July 2013
BossPuma said:
BloodyRain said:
BossPuma said:
BloodyRain said:

WRPG
1. I like the more open world approach. You can go wherever you want at the beginning of the game.
2. I like have choices that influence the story(mass effect style)
3. I prefer the overall feel of freedom that wrpg have.
4. I hate the turn based combat of jrpg's. Wrpg have more of an immediate control action approach


You might like Dark Souls

I actually love demon/dark souls. Wait those are jrpg's?


Well they are RPGs made by japanese developers.

Weird, they don't give off that jrpg's feel like ff does.



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HoloDust on 09 July 2013
BloodyRain said:
BossPuma said:
BloodyRain said:

I actually love demon/dark souls. Wait those are jrpg's?


Well they are RPGs made by japanese developers.

Weird, they don't give off that jrpg's feel like ff does.


I think most people don't see them (for a good reason) as JRPGs. If only more Japanese devs would follow their example.



BossPuma on 09 July 2013
Xenostar said:
I used to say JRPGS, in the 90s they were the original open world games, FF7 was ground breaking moment in gaming for me, but since 2000 onwards they see to have turned into linear and bore fests in terms of inovative gameplay on the whole with very few exceptions.

WRPGS have come on a lot since then, showing massive open world games like skyrim and dragon age, although i find the characters in western ones to be a lot more forgettable as they let you design your own charcter from scratch and no matter what you do there just bland featureless faces.


 Fire Emblem: Awakening, Skyward Sword, Ni No Kuni, and The Last Story are some recent examples of good jrpgs.

Most of the really good jrpgs nowadays just dont get enough recognition



BossPuma on 09 July 2013
BloodyRain said:
BossPuma said:
I actually love demon/dark souls. Wait those are jrpg's?

 


Well they are RPGs made by japanese developers.

Weird, they don't give off that jrpg's feel like ff does.

Probably because they are less cinematic and story focused.



UltimateUnknown on 09 July 2013

JRPGs, hands down, eyes closed. No WRPG I have ever played has ever hooked me in like games such as Persona, Pokemon and many others.

I get that WRPGs let you build your own characters, but by the end of Persona 3 and 4, I actually CARED for the characters I played with. I felt like I actually truly knew and understood these characters as I knew my friends in real life. I may not have decided where their story went, but their story just grabbed me and made me a part of it. There's just nothing that compares to it. Nothing.



 

HoloDust on 09 July 2013
UltimateUnknown said:
JRPGs, hands down, eyes closed. No WRPG I have ever played has ever hooked me in like games such as Persona, Pokemon and many others.

I get that WRPGs let you build your own characters, but by the end of Persona 3 and 4, I actually CARED for the characters I played with. I felt like I actually truly knew and understood these characters as I knew my friends in real life. I may not have decided where their story went, but their story just grabbed me and made me a part of it. There's just nothing that compares to it. Nothing.


Just curious, what WRPGs have you played?