can anyone decribe or link me to some gameplay that shows what the difference are? this is about the upcomming ff games. on wikpedia it says ff13 is a console rpg and ff versus 13 is a action rpg. i never liked fruity asian games like ff but versus loooks sick.

An action RPG is an RPG with action.

A console RPG is an RPG on a console.

FFXIII and FF Versus XIII are action console RPGs. But both of those articles were not written by the same person.

@bRoKeN

Action RPG usually means real-time battle system, RPG - some kind of turn-based (ATB, if you consider it turn-based, often used in main FF games), the latter is more traditional for console RPGs.

@bRoKeN - Mai is pretty much hit the nail on the head there.

Here are 2 examples for you game play wise to help you get an idea.

LO/ToV - RPG
Mass Effect/FF7: Crisis Core - Action RPG