Poll: Which do you prefer JRPGs or WRPGs?

[Mr Pantomime]

I play more JRPGs, but dont really have a preference. I do however, abhor Tolkienesque RPGS.

The one thing I really look for in a game is the world setting, so most Western RPGs are like this for me. "Oh im in the medievil ages, I can choose a class, Warrior, Thief or Mage? Brilliant, ill be a Mage. Oh im in a town. Ah a monster, seems to be an orc, ill click on it. Oh its dead. Is this Baldurs Gate? It feels like Baldurs Gate. Im pretty sure someone there should sue."

While my experiance with JRPGs is more like " Ok, im on some sort of walking highway in a city. Seems pretty big. Everyone is going on about some game, apparently im in it. Seems cool. *gets to arena* Holy shit its a giant water sphere! What that for? I play a game of water polo in it? Awesome." And then a portal comes and sucks the city into oblivion, and my guy wakes up on the shore. I have no idea whats going on and am loving every minute of it.

Thats probably why I liked Mass Effect so much. It was a new interesting world that could be explored, rather than an orcpit.

 

[Gaiseric]

I don't know anymore.

It feels like every time a big WRPG comes out, I end up disappointed in some way(Looking at you Oblivion, Fallout NV, Mass Effect 2).

On the other hand, there hasn't been any new JRPGs I've been interested in at all. When I do play JRPGs they are older titles on the PSP.

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

Turn based combat got boring 10 years ago. So I'm gonna have to go go WRPG.

(And I like playing as someone whose not a brooding teenager)

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

I must admit I prefer JRPG's to WRPG's on the basis that, and feel free to correct me, but a lot of WRPG's I have seen tend to be set in the middle ages and that doesn't really interest me that much. However if there are WRPG's that are not like that, hey, I am willing to play something new, just let me know.

Fallout.

1&2 if you enjoy more "classic" Turn-Based RPG style gaming.

3&New Vegas if you like more "modern" Action-RPG style gaming.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Can't do JRPGs. 10 year old characters with pink and blue hair, annoying voices and more cutscene than gameplay. Oh and the turn based action *shudder*. And the whole Dante/Thanatos/Bayonetta style of game I can't bring myself to even try. I did try Devil May Cry 4, and remember firing hundreds of bullets at a guy right at the start (in a church I think) and it did practically nothing. It was all cutscene and obscenely massive swords.

Saying that, there have been great RPGs from Japan in the past, though I have to go back a really long way to come with examples right this moment (Secret of Mana/Evermore). Even Japanese games that aren't JRPGs like Ninja Gaiden, Vanquish and Metal Gear are...odd. It's clearly the cultural thing that lends those games a certain style, stories a certain slant, characters certain traits. Saying that Sega and Capcom are less full-on Japanese and their games tend to be a little easier to relate to.

But back OT, JRPGs, no.

 

[Xirema]

My only real problem with JRPG's is their pacing. Either they run cutscene after cutscene, or they spend too much time on static, monotonous combat.

Deal with that, and I'd probably prefer JRPG's all the time.

 

[Knight Templar]

I prefer JRPGs.

Let's be fair, only games like Baldur's Gate and Heroes of Might and Magic are "technically" RPGs.

Wrong way around. Technically they are not the only ones, you just consider them so.

 

[Artina89]

I must admit I prefer JRPG's to WRPG's on the basis that, and feel free to correct me, but a lot of WRPG's I have seen tend to be set in the middle ages and that doesn't really interest me that much. However if there are WRPG's that are not like that, hey, I am willing to play something new, just let me know.

Fallout.

1&2 if you enjoy more "classic" Turn-Based RPG style gaming.

3&New Vegas if you like more "modern" Action-RPG style gaming.

I keep forgetting about Fallout. I have Fallout 3 but I couldn't get into it. I promised myself that I would try it again when I have a bit of time, but so far, to no avail.

 

[Aesir23]

I like both pretty much equally. Sure, each variety has its flaws as well as its perks (and even the flaws and perks can change depending on who you talk to).

What really irritates me is when people bash one or the other, especially if they haven't touched a single game of that variety. Not every game in any given genre is the same, so to say every game in that genre is bad is simply an ignorant generalization.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Just that style of combat where everyone lines up and takes turns one character against the next. Bob uses flare. Orc crossbows Bob. Shiela heals Bob. Bob uses flare. Orc dies. *shudder*
Saying that, I did enjoy LotR: The Third Age which was just like that. But perhaps not so much for the combat as the jaunt through middle earth.

Pseudo-turn based a la Baldurs Gate II, KotOR or Neverwinter Nights (eg. turn based behind the scenes, pausable, queue up party orders, they execute in real time) is great.
If you can leave combat in the middle without pausing the game and know you will be fine when you get back (because there is no risk or threat), it sucks (unless you know you'll be fine because you're awesome and a killing machine and know you'll return to a screen of dead enemies).

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I used to like JRPG's a lot back in the old days of NES and SNES but they quickly went downhill for me. I played a couple beyond playstation but that was it.
I think I've always preferred WRPGs. Especially nowadays, JRPGs I see look so beyond bad I don't think I could ever get back into the genre.

 

[SadisticBrownie]

Generally WRPG for me, but my favourite RPG (and game) of all time is FFIX.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

I like WRPGs quite a bit more. In JRPGs I just got tired of killing Satan again and again

Really though, I find WRPGs more involving, and I care a hell of a lot more about the characters. I also like to be able to create my own character, rather than play one the dev team came up with.

 

[AlternatePFG]

I've played games in both genres that I really love but in general I play more WRPG's because I find that they are released more often and easier to find (It's easier to find an old good PC RPG like on Good Old Games, than say find an old SNES classic)

 

[Hagi]

I find myself curiously lacking any and all desire to roleplay androgynous angsty teenage boys, underage girls in lingerie or women with breast enhancements and/or fractured spines.

So instead I will roleplay as commander Shepard in a thousand different settings. It's not ideal but it beats the alternative.

 

[LiquidGrape]

I love a roleplaying game if it has Isabela in it.


Shut up, it's a perfectly reasonable standard!

 

[AlternatePFG]

Spoiler

FFXIII was my favorite interactive movie tho!

I find it hilarious that BioWare says this right after making ME2, which is the probably the least RPG like game they have ever made.

 

[Don't taze me bro]

I have liked JRPGs in the past. I haven't played anything since Persona 4 on the PS2 that I've really gotten into though. Nothing this generation so far has really 'caught' me like many of the PS2 RPGs have.

 

[Bostur]

Spoiler

FFXIII was my favorite interactive movie tho!

I find it hilarious that BioWare says this right after making ME2, which is the probably the least RPG like game they have ever made.

It is a bit ironic yes, but I don't think they meant for Mass Effect to be an RPG.