Game is called an rpg

*blocks your path*

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I can see why someone who only plays JRPGs would think that

>I intend on paying 60 dollars for a product that I could get for free on youtube

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Yes, the meanings of words are often divorced somewhat from their origins. That's how language grows and evolves. You should have learned this in school.

>Talk to my brother years ago
>Tell him kh2 (a game we both played) is my favorite jrpg
> He says wtf kh isn't an RPG
> I say it is cause there's stats, amor, equipment, builds, etc.
> He says jrpgs are strictly turn based (i.e. ff7)
Who's right Yea Forums?

>it's another "we completely ignore the history and convention behind game genre names and focus entirely on the semantical aspect of it" episode

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I don't like weebshit.
WRPGs or bust.

>buying games

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Kingdom Hearts is a JRPG
Kingdom hearts 2 is an action game

Apparently games turn into unplayable garbage if they're given an inaccurate label. Does this apply to other things or is it just limited to video games?

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You take the role of Pac-Man in the game Pac-Man so it's an rpg. You take the role of the character you picked in the character select screen, so Street Fighter 2 is an rpg as well.

don't you play a role in every game?

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To be fair video game rpgs have always been based around table top rpgs. In Japan ttrpgs tend to be played with premade characters and story modules from table top developers due to the lack of free time the Japanese have for hobbies. This means characters tend to fall into categories so players don’t have to act as much, instead focusing on combat and character optimization. To them choosing what weapons, skills, armor, charms and classes to use is far more important than playing an actual role, because in the end you are still going to be the good guy that banishes the Demon King.

Literally the only RPGs, western or eastern, with good gameplay are Dark Souls and Dragon's Dogma.

>You can play as a thief in this JRPG, bro XDDD!
>Okay, let me try to sneak on this NPC and pickpocket him...wait, there's no option for both.
>You can only steal 1 random item from enemy during combat, bro XDDD!
This is why JRPG a.k.a cinematic shonen anime experience will never ever be good in terms of gameplay.

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>paying for videogames

>Play a WRPG
>Not one single cowboy
What the hell

what was with the part where you're closing pot lids and Toki starts pissing her pants?

Dragon's Dogma's gameplay is murdered stone cold by how stat dependent it is

To bad baulder’s gate’s gameplay sucks ass too. You have to save scum your way through the first 5 levels before you even start having characters that can do anything but wiff 8/10 attacks.

All the name means is that the genre was rooted in table top rpgs, in most cases it just means the game has a reliance on stats and number based character progression, where the characters stats are just as important if not more important than your personal skill as a player.

New Vegas has cowboys. And cowboy blackface.

does ninja gaiden have bad gameplay because you're limited to fighting through enemies instead of sneaking around like a ninja?

buzzwords

your comparison makes no sense, how does a platformer's action gameplay have anything to do with measuring RPG tropes?

Imagine being too retarded for even turn based combat.

Ninja Gaiden is ARPG. That genre focuses more on action oriented combat. Please don't group it together with JRPG turds like Dragon Quest, Dungeon Travellers, and whatever shonenshit we have nowadays.

Menu simulators can't even qualify as gameplay.
Turn based games are visual novels by another name.

It's a JARPG

protag looks like he takes it up the butt, what the fuck is that on his head?

>ARPG

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This. Tactical Turn Based are actually great, but "choose strongest attack and watch battle cutscene" combat system in most JRPGs like Pokemon, Bravely Default, and DQ are lazy as fuck and braindead as hell.

I never had that problem with DQ or at least the DS ports of 4-6, the power of buffs/aliments and with how AoE healing/buffs didnt show up till near the ends of the games while also weaker than the solo versions kept it fresh for me. Loved how you can swap out party members mid fight for free and that AoE heal spells effected inactive party memebers

>Game is labelled a "Role-Playing Game"
>Never have to commit to a role or character build I chose
>Can switch entire play-style despite being more than 5/6 into the game

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I have seen stupid shit on this website, congrats user, you made it to top 10.

Why does the name of the genre matter? You said a game is bad if the player's options are limited relative to what a real thief could do, why would that apply to final fantasy but not to ninja gaiden, mario bros, doom, or anything else?

It's a legitimate equivalence though. You are applying something in the broadest sense of the term, completely ignoring all context that goes behind the reason we use the term in the first place. That's exactly what that user is doing.
GTA V has you play as someone else, therefore it is a role-playing game.
Fallout 1 lets you perform actions, therefore it is an action game.
Doom has you play as someone else, therefore it is a role-playing game.

Starting to see the pattern here?

"Role" and "Character" are not necessarily synonyms. A character is a specific person in a narrative. A role is a specific job in task. Jean Valjean is a character in Les Mis, but the ROLE of Jean Valjean (the duties of completing the task of memorizing lines, rehearsing, and performing them) belong to the actor.

Zelda is not a role playing game. You play the character and there is no gameplay around establishing Link's role. Newer Final Fantasy is a very light role-playing game. The characters are there, but what you decide to make them do (what roles you assign them) is part of the game. Elder scrolls is very much a role playing game because you are creating both a role AND character from the ground up. That's the distinction.

Oh. You were only pretending to be retard. Well memes, got me friendo

Shame that the game is way to easy.

>Elder scrolls is very much a role playing game because you are creating both a role AND character from the ground up.
No, you are Dragonborn when you do the main quest, then you are an assassin when you play the darkbrotherhood questline, then you go to fighters guild and you are a fighters and so on.
The game does not care for the role you play. There is no influence or interaction with the simulation. Your role is not an input that the game recognise and insert into the narration.

If the role is not the subject of the game how could it be a role-playing game?

>videogame """roleplaying"""
>hurrr me play mary sue good guy or mary sue bad guy
go play with the big boys at /tg/ or shut up fag