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okr on 01 March 2009
GooseGaws said:

There have certainly been Japanese "style" RPGs from Western developers... Secret of Evermore? Penny Arcade Adventures? Black Sigil? Others?

Something?

Sudeki on Xbox/PC.

 



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GooseGaws on 01 March 2009
okr said:
GooseGaws said:

There have certainly been Japanese "style" RPGs from Western developers... Secret of Evermore? Penny Arcade Adventures? Black Sigil? Others?

Something?

Sudeki on Xbox/PC.

That one always throws me, because it's another developer who shares their name with a noted Japanese developer (like Monolith).  Why must they do this?  :)



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The Anarchyz on 01 March 2009
scottie said:
Ok, I'm just going to throw some things out there.

Japanese people did not create these labels. Notice how the labels are using English characters - A-Z. Note how Japanese people use entirely different characters.

Clearly, these labels were created by English speakers, not the Japanese.

 

Exactly, and even when we write the sounds of this characters in our alphabet (we call this romaji), we get "nihon-jin roru pureingu geemu" (NRPG)...



Man on 01 March 2009
Rei said:

No. Fable is a BRPG (Boring RPG)

lol QFT!

Never have truer words been spoken.

 



The Lurker on 01 March 2009
Soriku said:
HappyPerson14 said:
Soriku said:
Fable 2 was made by a European company...

American RPG and Europe RPG just sound stupid. It's best to categorize them as Western since many are similar while Japanese usually have a different style to them.

so when china comes out with an rpg one of these days will it be called a eastern rpg, i think not!!!!

 

 

Then we'll just call that a CRPG.

 A CRPG is a computer RPG. Going with NRPG for Japan, we could have ZRPG for China.



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FaRmLaNd on 01 March 2009

I think they should all be called rpg's.

The Japanese developers aren't anymore distinct then western developers. They just have different cliche's.



Kasz216 on 01 March 2009
scottie said:
HappyPerson14 said:
Soriku said:
Fable 2 was made by a European company...

American RPG and Europe RPG just sound stupid. It's best to categorize them as Western since many are similar while Japanese usually have a different style to them.

so when china comes out with an rpg one of these days will it be called a eastern rpg, i think not!!!!

 

 

If it is similar to WRPGS, it ill be called a WRPG

 

If it is similar to JRPGs, it ill be called a JRPG

 

If it is something new entirely, it will be considered a game that is of no one particular genre

 

If that last one happens, and then many Chinese devs start making similar games, then we need a new label

But the first "JRPG" I ever played was Ultima.  Those games which were "Japanese styled" first existed on western consoles.

 



Bitmap Frogs on 01 March 2009

Ah, Ultima. Great games.

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Bitmap Frogs on 01 March 2009




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