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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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calling it JRPG sounds goofy though because it's still an RPG it's just made in Japan, we don't call other forms of RPG KRPG or CRPG, redundancy type things. It's like people talking about animated media in Japan and keep saying Anime when that's literally the same word but in Japanese. Weebs are so weird with there need for separating Japan thing from not Japan thing.
But there are other forms of RPGs though, for which they're referred to by abbreviations. I'd argue that JRPGs are referred to as such for a similar reason as to what op says others are complaining about. That JRPGs are different in a significant way that makes some people feel that they're not RPGs. I don't think its terminology has anything to do with "weebs."
It's still dumb because you refer to it by its ethnic group and not by why it's a different game style, there is many branches of RPG but simply putting a region it's based in as it's differential is kind of silly.
The term "JRPG" has moved beyond geographic borders, it's really used more to describe a style than where it came from.
Expedition 33 is like a textbook JRPG besides being French. Meanwhile, nobody calls Dark Souls a JRPG even if it was made in Japan.
Style doesn't make for a genre of game, though, that's more mechanics. Like how E33 is turn based RPG that's the defining factor of the type of RPG, calling it JRPG has no relation to what the game is fundamentally other than creating a category that a demographic is sought after.
By style I meant mechanics/gameplay loop, not visual style/art direction (in that case, E33 doesn't follow the usual JRPG visual design), its gameplay design is very JRPG.
"Turn-based RPG" would encompass a much broader range of different things, like Baldur's Gate 3/CRPG turn-based is usually much different from Expedition 33/JRPG turn-based, which is much different from traditional roguelike turn-based, etc.
damn that bot 69'd you, lool, but you just explained what the type of game they are without the use of saying JRPG, that's exactly why it's a redundant term that's more about catering to a group than about anything fundamental. I am struggling to be convinced.
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