JRPGS vs Western RPGs. What's your preference? Pages PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 | |
That's pretty accurate, at least for most WRPGs in the last 6-8 years. It's like people forgot "fantasy" means you can basically dream up whatever you want and instead means it must be middle earth, complete with elves and dwarves. | |
It depends what I'm playing on. PC: wrpg, mostly because there are no jrpg made for pc that I know of (ports don't count) console: wrpg, though exceptions can be made if a jrpg does something I find refreshing. Though the last time that happened was Valkyria Chronicles. IMO it's one of the finest strategy rpgs ever made and it's rather disheartening not more people recognized this and, you know, bought it. handheld: jrpg, mostly because handhelds are rather lacking in wrpgs, but also because handheld jrpgs tend to focus more on gameplay than the console cousins. | |
I quite enjoy both, but I do get tired when there are angsty protagonists or when they are just sullen for no real reason, and that goes for both JRPG's and WRPG's. If the game and story are great I will enjoy them no matter what they are. | |
I obviously love both, but I find JRPGs to be much more creative with universes and aesthetics. Most WRPGs aren't nearly as imaginative and mainly stick to Tolkien, Real-life, and Star Trek. Anyone who wants to combat that, feel free to rec some games. | |
You can start with.. Planescape: Torment | |
>Plaescape: Torment I see a lot of grey and lack of creativity in setting. Sure it's a splendid game though, just not making my point. >Fallout 1/2/3/NV Yeah, these are exceptions. While still just a lot of brown and grey mainly, they were creative in story and setting. >Vampire: Bloodlines DEFINITELY not in the categories I mentioned above. Still, looks like a gothic and grey dream. And actually now that I think about it, it looks like a mod of the whole 'real-life' category. >Acaranum Again, no creativity in the world. First screen I see is just a brown and green plane. >Mask of the betrayer If I'm wrong about any of these, show me some screens. But really, yes, I'm looking at color palette and creativity of areas. You got something bonkers? Great, lemme see. | |
The setting is amazing in Planescape. It's not the typical Tolkien type stuff AT ALL.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planescape And Arcanum is fantasy mixed with steampunk. Where else has that been done ? What's with all the talk about colors ? Are you looking for Rainbow Bright: The RPG ? Trying to think of some different settings.. 2 Shadowrun games (sega genesis and snes), Dark Sun: Shattered Lands, Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession.. | |
You seem to have a different definition of creativity from the rest of us. The general definition of a creative setting would be something that either presents us with original concepts or genuinely original reimagining of/takes on/deconstruction of concepts that we're more familiar with. Example: a world in which alleyways give birth to younger alleyways, an enigmatic, god-like being will do horrible things to anyone who thinks of worshipping her, a protagonist with genuinely original uses of death and RPG mechanics in his character arc, and so on. You appear to have defined "creativity" as "color palette." Please fix this. | |
>Clearly ignoring the definition of the word "and" and how it's meant to separate thoughts. I don't want JUST a color palette. I want a creative world WITH a good color palette. | |
Wow, this thread is from 2011. And lives! I bet it was bumped once before, too. Because I could have swore I posted in this thread. Anyway, I'm much more fond of jRPGs because, like most RPG fans, I grew up on them. And I tend to be more fond of the themes and aesthetics. I like playing games about friends. And I'm not as fond of dark, gritty, and musclebound. And I don't like how they tend to make me feel lonely like MMORPGs do. And I've got to admit, I like my melodrama, female characters with backstories, pastel colours, androgynous guys, and the East Asian culture present in jRPGs. I like how in wRPGs you can choose to be male or female. Though with advertising you'd be fooled easily. How often have Elder Scrolls and and Mass Effect games been advertised with female characters? No, instead, they seem to lay along the idea, "you can be a bald and badass space marine!" or "you can be a muscular badass viking dude!". Like, one of the things I like so much about the Tales games, is that I like the characters and the way they interact so much. The interaction is just so incredibly fun. Maybe I'm just an overly lonely or social person who always needs someone around. But my real life friends can't be around all the time. And it is fun to play a jRPG and get a nice warm friendship feeling. People sometimes use friendship and corny jokes and all that as a negative of the jRPG. But that's not really an insult to me. I like games to give me a warm feeling. Guess I'm pretty "girly" in many ways, according to the gender role. But I like like stories of "love and friendship". And the epic fantasy part comes in, that it's fun to see such people stand through strong adversity and stick together. | |
Mess with the color settings on your monitor, play Planescape: Torment.
Oh, and speaking of color palettes, > doesn't turn text green here. Just FYI. | |
Funny how people keep thinking I'm from 4chan because I use their bullet-points idea... I've honestly never posted on 4chan in my life. Too much porn. And I'd love to play Planescape Torment, but I hate D&D and the universe of D&D, soooooo that's out. | |
+1 Out of the Tales games, I've only played Symphonia, but it absolutely nails the feeling of camaraderie that most party-based RPGs go for with varying degrees of success. They really do an excellent job of establishing the relationships between the characters in the game. Plus, it has local multiplayer, so you get to defeat evil with The Power of Friendship both in-game and IRL. I'm very surprised that more RPGs haven't gone the local multiplayer route, because it's an absolute blast. | |
It's the Planescape universe, which is very far removed from standard D&D. Nary an elf in sight. | |
Don't really have a preference between the two. | |
Explain. As for your Tales post above, ignore the haters and play Tales of Legendia. DAT OST!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e95HO7Jc-lA&feature=bf_next&list=PL6812E46CC30B40BF | |
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i like both but the story worlds in jrpgs seem to be more interesting to me since i think this is a generalization but most of wrpgs are medieval fantasy or such style. I'm sorry i hate to make generalization like that so correct me if I'm wrong