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Seeing a lot of people kinda write off this genre in the wake of E33 sweeping the game awards. Sayin...
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I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't JRPG stand for Japanese role-playing game?
But in this case it's French, so it's a FRPG
Je'RPG
J’RPG
Le’RPG
Jieux'RPG
C’estRPG
Yes 🤣
It’s actually just RPG but you have to say it really smug like.
Arr-pey-jey.
Arr-Pey-Gee
Awr-Pei-ji
It's a jrpg. Jrpg is a style of the genre. There are American made jrpgs as well. The J is for Japanese because they created the genre.
I made this joke once and got massacred lmao
You know what, I think it does.
That’s exactly what it stands for. Expedition 33 is French, but it follows in what has become the ‘jrpg style’ which pretty much started with final fantasy.
Only called that because japan started it with games like dragon quest, final fantasy, etc. Not all rpgs from Japan are jrpgs and not all jrpgs are from japan
Dragon Quest was inspired by games like Wizardry. The distinction came when Computer RPGs became more complex and console RPGs mostly stayed in that Dragon Quest format, and were typically made by Japanese developers. They aren't actually different genres, they're all RPGs.
Yup American RPG’s started gravitating more to action elements while Japan sticked with the classic formula.
The divide was not about action mechanics, it was more about complexity and interactive storytelling. Compare Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy to Fallout and Baldur's Gate.
The shift towards action mechanics in the west was a later development, due to RPGs coming to console and trying to appeal to that audience. See Bioware's games over time, going from Baldur's Gate, Kotor, and Dragon Age: Origins, to Mass Effect and Anthem. Compare classic Fallout to current Fallout. Hell, Final Fantasy is also an example of this. They shifted to action mechanics as the series gained popularity.
Yeah true, I was just giving one early example where they split off a bit.
What Japanese rpg is not a jrpg?
Easiest answer is like dark souls or elden ring
They technically are JRPGs, just not what we normally associate as a JRPG because it isn't turn based combat
See when you have to use the word "technically" you probably have a better genre than jrpg for those games
The confusion lies in what the actual definition of JRPG is. It's easy to call Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest JRPGs, but Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3 is more difficult, because the former isn't turn based and the latter wasn't made in Japan. I prefer to just use the simplest definition. It is an RPG made in Japan. The most common JRPG is a turn based kind but it doesn't have to be. It's similar to tokusatsu, which is a specific genre of film/TV in Japan that is just live action special effects, so things like Godzilla, Super Sentai, and Kamen Rider are tokusatsu because they are made in Japan using practical special effects, but Marvel movies are not because they aren't made in Japan. Then you have the oddities like Power Rangers, which adapts tokusatsu footage but also films its own material to supplement it thereby creating a new story, and the most recent Godzilla films, which use a tokusatsu character but are wholly made outside of Japan.
Yes they are lol
That’s kinda why the term means almost nothing. Sometimes I swear people just label stuff JRPG’s based on vibes.
Most gaming terms mean nothing and are just based on vibes, lol
That’s pretty much it. To a lot people, JRPG means anime and/or turn based. The constant debate on what makes a JRPG and the many different criteria from different people makes my head spin
That is a big component to what a jrpg is though, and expedition 33 fits it easily. It’s not just turn based, but the specific turn based style and things like the overworld mechanics (running around until you run into something, turns into a turn based battle).
There has been plenty of JRPGS that wasn’t turn based and historically, ARPGs are what early JRPGS were. Turn-Based was never a requirement for being an JRPG
The correct term is Japanese styled rpg. We had these arguments 20 years ago. Lots of old school websites like gamefaq labelled them that way to this day