New XboxOne JPRG coming..."EarthLock"

Looks interesting

http://www.totalxbox.com/72807/previews/meet-earthlock-a-new-jrpg-for-idxbox-and-xbox-one/

Always nice to see ID games, have done a good job so far

( cant wait till I see how fanboys create another positive xbox news to a negative one)

"Wheres the 1080p at bro???? #xboxonegarbage"

Sweenix getting a ONE now?

+7 consoles sold in Japan confirmed.

LOL why why why?? Lems don't like JRPG and XB1 will not sale in JP so MS waste money for nothing!

Doesn't really look that good, but then again, I do not care for JRPG's. Turn based combat is only tolerable with strategy games, in my opinion.

Good title for an alien invasion movie.

EARTHLOCK

If you look at the gameplay video it looks like a low budget, dumbed down version of Blue Dragon. If this is the standard of JRPG on the Xbone.. Pathetic.

WTF, after looking into this the devs are actually Norwegian. Umm How the fvck is this a JRPG? Seriously no. Being turn based doesn't automatically make a game a JRPG.

False advertising and Description fail. This might actually be good news for xbox fans since a lot of them hate anything japanese.

Oh, no wonder.. It's a kickstarter funded game...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/171497873/earthlock-festival-of-magic

Also lemms, sorry to disappoint but..

• Release platforms*: PC/Mac/Linux, Wii U, Xbone, PS4.

Its also on PS4, WiiU and PC

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/03/06/indie-rpg-earthlock-festival-magic-resurfaces-brief-silence/

Im interested that for sure

Looks decent and refreshing.. I might put some money on the kickstarter... has a Ni No Kuni vibe with the art styles... kind of looks like a Chrono Cross battle system. Also with a Breath of Fire/Final Fantasy looking lineup of playable characters at least it looks like it has potential... will definitely keep an eye on it.

lol@people saying a game outside of Japan can't be a jrpg

Tell me, what makes a game a JRPG?

*prepares himself for sterotypes, generalizations and stupidity*

Before you even post I want you to konw I can prove you wrong in several ways but I want to hear what you are going to say.

It's also on PS4 ;)

< This is an English Muffin.

If I make this recipe in Sweden. It's still an English Muffin. (A game can be a jrpg even though it's made outside Japan)
If I make a regular muffin in England, is it an English Muffin? No. (and this is why games like Dark Souls are not jrpgs...)

For a game to be called a jrpg, it has to follow the "recipe", at least partly.. The recipe in this case, are artstyle, concepts and mechanics that people have related to the jrpg genre for about 20-30 years.

With that being said. The game in this thread is more of a jrpg than for example, the japanese rpg Dark Souls because this clearly looks similar to jrpgs (such as the turn based combat) while Dark Souls does not feature any jrpg traits, it's just a rpg made in Japan.

TC conveniently forgot to mention that.

Multiplat indie shit? Not the AAA billion dollar blockbuster exclusive lems are used to, like Lococycle and Crimson Dragon?

@xWoW_Rougex said:

@kinectthedots said:

@xWoW_Rougex said:

lol@people saying a game outside of Japan can't be a jrpg

Tell me, what makes a game a JRPG?

*prepares himself for sterotypes, generalizations and stupidity*

Before you even post I want you to konw I can prove you wrong in several ways but I want to hear what you are going to say.

< This is an English Muffin.

If I make this recipe in Sweden. It's still an English Muffin. (A game can be a jrpg even though it's made outside Japan)

If I make a regular muffin in England, is it an English Muffin? No. (and this is why games like Dark Souls are not jrpgs...)

For a game to be called a jrpg, it has to follow the "recipe", at least partly.. The recipe in this case, are artstyle, concepts and mechanics that people have related to the jrpg genre for about 20-30 years.

With that being said. The game in this thread is more of a jrpg than for example, the japanese rpg Dark Souls because this clearly looks similar to jrpgs (such as the turn based combat) while Dark Souls does not feature any jrpg traits, it's just a rpg made in Japan.

Just like I thought, stereotypes generlization and ignorance. *looks at the bold*

Also, way to dodge my original question. I ask again, What makes a game a JRPG?

you say artstyles, concepts and mechanics? like what? Defend your statement with something besides abstract words and non-specific descriptions like "artstyle".

It's an indie game that's also on the PC. Looks interesting to say the least. RPGs in the traditional JRPG style are rare today. Interesting to see any level of dev build one.

misleading title, game is coming out in different platforms

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/171497873/earthlock-festival-of-magic

• Volume 1 in the Earthlock™ series
• Release platforms*: PC/Mac/Linux, Wii U, Xbox One, PS4.
• Greenlit for Steam in October 2013
• Release date: Q1, 2015 on PC, Mac and Linux. Q2, 2015 on Wii U, Xbox One and PS4.
• Early Concept Demo available for download

That...does not look interesting at all.

Thank you Wasdie for identifying and correctly labling what this game is.

JRPGs have a very wide spectrum. Some people want to type cast what they can be but it is very hard to do if you anything about JRPGs in general.

Haha this.

Nobody wants an Xbone and especially Japanese.

Can you try harder to complicate things? Maybe we should make a thousand page book of standards? It's easy; we categorize things to make it easier for ourselves. Final Fantasy, Chrono Cross, this game, all have similarities. It's the same kind of game. Therefore, a game without those similarities like Dark Souls shouldn't be placed in that category.

So... what makes a game a JRPG, or any other category? If a game has the strongest resemblance of the games of a category, then it belongs in that category. If a game plays like Final Fantasy and the hundred of other games in the jrpg category then it's a jrpg.

For example...

Let's pretend there are no categories at all... Let's imagine this in a very basic manner...
- A game has feature "roleplaying". We call the category roleplaying.
- Another game comes out, and features racing. So we create the category racing.
- Another game comes out, and features roleplaying and adventure. It features roleplaying but not racing so we place this in the roleplaying category.
- Another game, featuring roleplaying, racing and adventure. So this game should be placed in the roleplaying category because it has a stronger similarity to games in the "roleplaying"-category. (roleplaying category matches 2 of the games tags, roleplaying & adventure, while racing category only matches 1 of the games tag)

And so it goes on and on. The jrpg have 30 years definition like this. Tags like "stats" and "turnbased". So if we are gonna place Dark Souls and this game in a category:
Should Earthlock be a wrpg or a jrpg:
Both wrpgs and jrpgs have stats.
Earthlock is turn based, do wrpgs have many turn based games? No. Jrpgs do.
In the end, as the video shows, most traits are similar to past jrpgs so it fits the jrpg category.

And Darksouls?
Darksouls have stats, both wrpg and jrpg have stats.
Do Darksoul feature a typical jrpg combat system? No.
What other traits from past jrpgs do Darksoul feature? Not many, if any at all?
But hey, it features plenty of common traits from wrpgs, such as the combat and artstyle among others. Therefore, it's a wrpg. Had it lacked stats & classes and other wrpg traits, it would end up in another category.