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Anonymous10/20/26, 18:38No.4135571
What are the strongest points of JRPGs compared to RPGs made in the west and vice versa?
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Anon10/20/26, 18:46No.4135588
What point in time
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Anon10/20/26, 21:20No.4135769
>What are the strongest points of JRPGs compared to RPGs made in the west
That you don't need any foreknowledge in order to play them
>and vice versa
Better story
Better characters
Better locations
Better art direction
Batter gameplay depth
Better replayability
Better dialogues
Better party customization
Better themes
Better moral dilemmas
Better side-quests
Batter in-game choices
Better weapon variety
Better race variety
Better nsfw content
Better localization
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Anon10/20/26, 21:26No.4135778
>strongest points of JRPGsAmazing aesthetics. Artbook fantasy game hit after hit. Final Fantasy. Xenoblade. Trails. Romancing Saga. Octopath. Granblue. Atelier. Etc. In contrast, the last high production value artbook fantasy WRPG of the last 20 years were WoW and GW2 expansions, and maybe Kingdoms of Amalur? Most WRPGs do not look good or something you want to look up a lot of fanart of.JRPG characters are *generally* pretty likeable (Kuon from Utawarerumono duology not withstanding). For WRPGs, I struggle to think of many party members that I actually liked. A couple Banner Saga characters, Garrus, and... ??? Definitely no one from Dragon Age, KotoR, Dragonfall, BG3, and so on.JRPGs absolutely nailed the audiovisual presentation of combat. The camera framing of the battles as characters dramatically pose on one side of the screen with the huge, detailed big bad monster in the back. Cutscene attacks that make characters look cool as they shout names. Cool spell VFX. Etc. Also memorable powermetal music playing.UI often looks attractive, or at least not hideous unlike WRPGs.Stories are generally heroic, WRPG stories are often very subversive or cynical.JRPGs like to depict lots of young people, whereas WRPGs almost exclusively focus on adults.JRPGs depict romance much better. They also often actually matriculate the relationship by the end of the game.1/2
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Anon10/20/26, 21:43No.4135797
Kek
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Anon10/20/26, 22:49No.4135874
>JRPGs
They're good
>WRPGs
They're fun
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Anon10/20/26, 23:11No.4135892
>RPGs made in the west
cuckshit, ugly women, The Sims character customization where you can create your own troon, pointless bloated choices and paths, unfun gameplay. fabric of pseudo-midwits thinking they're playing art instead of just boring janky shit
>JRPGs
for straight males who like having fun
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Anon10/20/26, 23:18No.4135896
WRPG
>mandatory homosexualityJRPG
>mandatory pedophilia.
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Anon10/24/26, 20:34No.4138987
>JRPGs compared to RPGs made in the west and vice versa?less fat chicks. anime grills sugoi. desu desu desu. that is all.
and i guess some of the game mechanics are more interdast than most westeros RPGs who kept milking DnD and Diablo 2.
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Anon10/24/26, 21:23No.4139018
>jarpig
Quite often has good musi, innovative and for the time incredible-looking graphical fidelity in the case of Squaresoft specifically.
>warpig
Literally everything else.
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Anon10/25/26, 05:32No.4139518
A good JRPG has an immensely better actual story compared to a WRPG which are more about their settings. I can't think of any WRPG whose story has ever impressed me as much as Suikoden II's. Also you don't get as bogged down in overly pointless stat and ability shit that's just a holdover from tabletop games.It really comes down to whether you value choice and builds more at the expense of overall story or overall story/characters more at the expense of things like choice and quests.
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Anon10/25/26, 12:20No.4139633
I can't get into JRPGs don't really know why never liked them WRPGs used to be about 60% good 40% bad not its 5% good 95 percent bad so I can't even get into those anymore.
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Anon10/25/26, 18:14No.4139773
lot of bitter rpgcodex fags itt
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Anon10/26/26, 01:41No.4140050
I actually haven't played much JRPGs while I've loved WRPGs almost my whole life. Maybe I'll get into them a bit some day
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Anon10/26/26, 03:37No.4140168
In my experience
>JRPGs
+ Better characters, music, art, stories. Graphics age well due to art style. More variety in character archetypes, locations, and gameplay gimmicks. 10x more cute girls.
- gameplay gimmicks are diverse but shallow. Overwhelming majority of JRPGs follow the "4 niggas in a row" or "grid-based SRPG" format. Sanitized to meet Nintendo's and Sony's console publishing standards (RIP Sega). Amateur translations result in extremely stilted/awkward dialogue. Localizations often censored and filled with added jokes/rewrites, making the games seem more childish than they already were.
>RPGs
+ More customization, more immersive, complex mechanics, choices that matter, balanced difficulty, blood and adult themes. (Mostly) made in English, so no localization concerns. Some very cool dudes.
- story typically suffers due to emphasis on player choice. Little variety in art style, all games pursue 3D realism. Focus on realism/simulation sometimes results in tedious mechanics like carry weight, hunger, etc. most women look like gorillas. In recent years, character writing and dialogue has gotten a LOT worse.
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Anon10/29/26, 20:15No.4143131
JRPGs are for children. If you play JRPGs as an adult you're a pedo