Western RPGs vs Japanese RPGs

It's true that many of Bioware's game share similar mechanics among them, but how can you say Fallout is even REMOTELY similar to a Bioware game?

About the only similarity is that they're RPG's...

not nearly as much weeaboo retardation as i thought there would be here....kinda disappointing really.

Lol, JRPG's better keep being stale.

I still have several decades worth of money to give them.

I fail to see where the "RPG" comes into play in "JRPGs." Cut scenes don't make a role playing game, your character and the choices he or she makes does! Not that I have anything against "JRPGs," I just think it's a mistag for Action/Adventure.

Square just should make games like Dragon Quest VI
and stop all the final fantasy madness....its time for something new with less "emoness" i allready get depressed when i think of FF

anyways i hate that western RPGs always have to be so "ughhhh! Manly western man ugh realistic style uugh how about new graphic methods"?

Some of things in that ad are also true about JRPGs. “When did games become something you watch?” Are you serious? Most JRPGs are five minutes of gameplay then switch to 30 minute cut scenes, its more of a movie than a game.

someone else thought about ff13 now?

Lots of JRPG fanboys in here...

One common complaint I have with JRPGs and WRPGs is that they all idolize your figure for the most part and generally makes the rest of the game tailor to the actions you make. I prefer what I've been seeing in a lot of Eastern European games in general where they have you as some average person pretty much no random person will care about, where the odds are completely stacked against you if anything. It's a really fresh perspective to see in an RPG, and it can make the game quite challenging.

It's funny how the comments really rack up when it concerns weeaboos and their "lifestyle."

Allot of you waste your life on petty arguments that won't change another groups' minds.

But yet, that sad fact doesn't stop any of you huh...

Because WRPG developers totally aren't regurgitating old PC rpgs with shiny new graphics and horribly dumbed down everything for mass market appeal. Nope.

WRPGs have been the reigning king for a decade now. Any naysayers are just weeaboos. I'm aware of the site we're now, but I'm only here to fap to delicious 2D & some 3D as well as read funny articles, I wouldn't talk to the disgusting 95% of the site's viewers.

Regardless, we got some decent JRPGs like DQ, Pokemon along with new IPs like TWEWY but overall the genre is an ocean of urine & feces.

Although I enjoy most JRPGs I have to say that they really are becoming too focused on creating more realistic graphics, I personally enjoy the game more when the graphics are less realistic and actually look like their manga drawn forms. I agree with the concept that they have become too repetative, perhaps in an attempt to create another RPG legend on par with ff7 and 8 and perhaps Chrono trigger. Perhaps they should take aspects from both western and japanese RP games like combining the fantasy and designs of the final fantasy/ dragon quest series and combining it with the free roaming and path choosing capabilities like Fable etc

wrpg art is shit

i cant take it, even its only 3minutes

Flame war...

Flame war never changes...

i don't think it's portray the whole Japanese game market. looks at the people holding the placard. they looks like people that only play casual games and never tried rpg before

some people still enjoying the old style jrpg that's why dragon quest series is still a hit there

It's sad, JRPG used to be king. And a highlight in all of gaming, in which you really felt like you got your money's worth to see those amazing graphics on the SNES, well laid out levels and battle systems, good storyline/plot, multiple endings, new game+, 60+ hours of gameplay, and the like.

Now most of them have just become something plain and stale. It's just like what happened with Rareware and Sonic games, why does everything good have to die?

Even some of the best that is still left within the genre right now, Tales of games, are becoming completely isolated from the fans and even the ones in Japan are being betrayed.

I've practically given up on the RPG at this point, aside from my desire to see if Square ever fixes itself, an interest in maybe trying out Fallout 3, Tales of games I'm never going to get a US release for, Pokemon, and just having a variety of gaming in general. ... My gaming life has pretty much shifted to STGs and other type games at this point...
And I used to play mostly JRPGs.

miss games in the past...

Super Nintendo was the golden age of RPGs. (In particular JRPGs) Where series such as Breath of Fire, Lufia, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger all got their starts. That time is long gone. As an avid gamer who loves RPGs I now have difficulty finding ones I want to play, I'd rather just replay Earthbound or Final Fantasy III (Japan's FF6) than buy a new one. The cinematics, story rehashing and plain lack of originality leaves me wanting.

As a westeren gamer, I must say I vastly prefer JRPGS. Planscape:Torment, System Shock 2 and Arcanum are among the very few WRPGs that I like.

We need more JRPGs like Demon's Souls.

suck on it japan, America is better.

“The player is weak, the enemy is weak. That’s way too convenient.”

soooo.... do you want to keep getting murdered by strong ass monsters? yeah that sounds like a fun game

seriously why are people complaining about this shit. It's tradition to have JRPG's cliched like this. if you have a problem then fucking ditch it and play some WoW or some shit.

“The player is weak, the enemy is weak. That’s way too convenient.”

sooo... do you want to keep getting murdered by strong ass monsters and not progress in the game? that sounds like a fun game, definitely.

like come on people, this is the style and tradition of JRPG's, i wouldn't like JRPG's to be convereted to WRPG format, it would lose its value in my opinion. i mean, that's why we have two different genres right?? so people can choose?

"I think it would be good if the hero had missions that weren't only about destroying evil."

Duh! That's what 'heroes' do, Dude! If they had missions like 'Steal milk money from 3rd grader' or 'Knock over liquor store', they would be called 'villains', But maybe it's different in Japan?

I feel as if JRPGs have become so mundane and frankly obselete. The only reason Final Fantasy XIII will become a success is because of the fans undying loyalty, but where does it come from? The FF series has become a hype, and thoigh this may also be true for WRPGs like the Fallout series, Fallout is a lot newer with fewer titles yet has really risen in the competition and declared itself a vital componant to gameplaying. I for one am tired of the Final Fantasy series after XII came out, and I think that after FFIX, maybe the series should have stopped. Fallout however does offer a more satisfying replay. When the story doesn't get so defined and the players actions matter more, that means more, instead of levelling up the right way or the wrong way.

I am a huge fan of FFIII, FFVI, FFIX, but after that, the series died. X and XII were utter emo let downs.

Fallout however, is still new, and has kept me interested in the post apocalyptic future, and I can't wait to decide to play good guy/bad guy in New Vegas!

Let's face it, Japan is starting to suck...

I've always thought JRPG's like Final Fantasy were lazy, because your always on rails. Why can't there be a JRPG that is open ended like Zelda or Oblivion? That way you can create your own stories and it rarely gets boring.

No comments about Metal Max 3?

i've never liked a wrpg...

How about you all STFU and play the games you like and ignore the ones you don't. Unless you like getting into arguments, then carry on.