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I remember when it was "console style rpg" and "pc style rpg". It just so happens that "pc style rpg" games started getting released on consoles too, and someh
by jdlyga 3y ago
I remember when it was "console style rpg" and "pc style rpg". It just so happens that "pc style rpg" games started getting released on consoles too, and somehow took over the RPG label.
- entropicdrifter 3y agoThose are some especially confusing labels since the classic subgenre called "CRPG" correlates to "pc style rpg" as opposed to "console style rpg"
- cubefox 3y agoAdditionally, the C in CRPG stands for computer, which technically would also apply to consoles, yet "computer" again stands only for PC.
- cubefox 3y agoTook over? Weren't they always called RPGs, at least since Ultima 1?
- deaddodo 3y agoI've never heard these terms. You had either "western RPG" or "computer RPG" for technical/system-focused games like Ultima, Baldur's Gate, Diablo, Fallout, etc or "Japanese RPG" for story-focused games like Final Fantasy, Dragon's Quest, Terranigma, Star Ocean, etc. RPG originally referred to the former, as they came first. JRPG was an offshoot of it, from Japanese developers influenced by the genre but putting their own spin on it. So there is no "take over"; just the offshoot fading.