What Are you Playing Now & General Game Discussions

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(02-18-2022, 11:15 AM)XenoMorph Wrote: I would say Character Leveling mechanics is a huge important part of RPGs... for me.    Fallout Darksouls have more rpg like leveling systems than skyrim does. (skyim leveling is as basic as fable 1) 

Cause there are Western RPGs and JRPGs but developers from japan could make a western style RPG then what the hell do we call it lol

The new Assassins Creeds are definately open world RPGs...   The old style Assassin Creeds where Action Adventure games

That's why I'm in the camp that doesn't really differentiate JRPG and WRPG based on anything other than the developer. Though like Stewy said, there are those on both sides that will die on their respective hills. 

30 or even 40 years ago you could make the argument that western RPGs were more the D&D/pen and paper influenced, single character real time RPGs and JRPGs were the multiple party member, turn based save the world story driven games. But now? The RPG umbrella is so vast that the Western vs Japanese moniker doesn't really define gameplay too much anymore.