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Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya thinks Japanese devs should be proud of 'JRPG' (www.gamesradar.com)

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[-] gunpachi 12 points 1 year ago

Wait... they were not proud of JRPG's before ?

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

There is some contention around the terms "JRPG" and "WRPG" in Japan.

In Japan they don't really make the distinction and just call both "RPGs". However in the west there is a distinct genre difference between the character-focused, often anime-themed, story driven games that we call JRPGs and the more world-focused, free-form, choices-matter games we call WRPGs

There were a surprisingly large amount of Japanese developers that felt slighted because at a glance it seems like there are a ton of people that profess their love for RPGs but don't like RPGs made in Japan.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 7 points 1 year ago

They’re called CRPGs, not WRPGs.

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've always heard CRPG as a genre in reference to the more tactical, top-down RPGs, like NWN, Baulders Gate and the first 2 Fallout games. Whereas WRPGs refer to the more action-oriented games like Elder Scrolls, The Witcher, and Dark Souls(this one is especially relevant as it was also made in Japan)

[-] Kichae@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

Those are action RPGs.

[-] Elohim@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

“Action-RPG” or ARPG is a moniker more closely associated with games like Diablo and Path of Exile, really.

[-] goobermembson@mander.xyz -5 points 1 year ago

WTH is a wrpg. Nobody says that. I can kinda understand why they might be upset about being stereotyped or whatever

[-] Jo351@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Western RPG is terminology I hear all the time.

[-] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Yoshi P, game directory for FFXIV and FFXVI, famously decried the term. Which is probably why FFXVI has basically no RPG elements.

[-] MolochAlter@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

There was a pretty strong niche of Japanese devs who were decrying the genre pretty heavily. I remember hearing about that after (notorious asshole) Phil Fish made some pretty harsh comments on japanese games something like 10 years ago.

So happy he disappeared from game dev, could not have happened to a nicer guy.