WRPG's VS JRPG's who is the best

I say that WRPG's blow JRPG's out of the water.Western Role Playing games have better character creation,Most JRpg's have no character creation.WRPG's have more depth you can be good,bad or in between,you can tell some one to kiss off,or sway a girl into liking you.Bastilla anyone?LOL!!! You can equip armor,rings,medallions,helmets,swords and more at the same time.You can build or make your own cool weapon or armor or items then enchant them and make em even better.

The story is also very good and you get to make choices that can affect the outcome beat that!

they are equal, they each have their strengths and weaknessesshadow_hosi

jpg have better games but wrpgs have better world and character creationinfamous_27

Japanese role playing games are the best JRPG's

Western role playing games are the best WRPG's

They're too different to ever be compared. I don't understand why people try to do it so often.

I just love a good RPG.

im currently playing tales of versperia and im real glad i picked this up.

Japanese role playing games are the best JRPG's

Western role playing games are the best WRPG's

They're too different to ever be compared. I don't understand why people try to do it so often.

Japanese role playing games are the best JRPG's

Western role playing games are the best WRPG's

They're too different to ever be compared. I don't understand why people try to do it so often.

Keep in mind that these are generalizations and that there are exceptions:

JRPG strengths: Deeper stories, more emotional involvement, better soundtracks, more cinematic

WRPG strengths: better character customization, more open-ended choices, better skill trees/leveling

[QUOTE="shadow_hosi"]they are equal, they each have their strengths and weaknessesfubbal

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

Japanese role playing games are the best JRPG's

Western role playing games are the best WRPG's

They're too different to ever be compared. I don't understand why people try to do it so often.

fubbal

No

Forza has RPG elements, are you going to add that to the list too?

I'm glad in your world anything with role playing elements can be compared

So what do you pick as a better RPG? Racing games or WRPG's?

JRPGs of course. I want a story with my game.Ragnarok1051

JRPGs of course. I want a story with my game.Ragnarok1051

[QUOTE="Ragnarok1051"]JRPGs of course. I want a story with my game.lawlessx

Japanese role playing games are the best JRPG's

Western role playing games are the best WRPG's

They're too different to ever be compared. I don't understand why people try to do it so often.

No

Forza has RPG elements, are you going to add that to the list too?

I'm glad in your world anything with role playing elements can be compared

So what do you pick as a better RPG? Racing games or WRPG's?

Your a funny guy. WRPG's are better though.fubbal

Keep in mind that these are generalizations and that there are exceptions:

JRPG strengths: Deeper stories, more emotional involvement, better soundtracks, more cinematic

WRPG strengths: better character customization, more open-ended choices, better skill trees/leveling

[QUOTE="fubbal"]Your a funny guy. WRPG's are better though.shadow_hosi

Jay arrh pee gees are clearly the best, BECAUSE of the better focus on the story and path to the ONE inevitable conclusion. LastRedMage

[QUOTE="fubbal"][QUOTE="shadow_hosi"]they are equal, they each have their strengths and weaknessesshadow_hosi

JRPGs of course. I want a story with my game.Ragnarok1051

WRPGs

Bethersda and Bioware >>>>> everything

[QUOTE="LastRedMage"]Jay arrh pee gees are clearly the best, BECAUSE of the better focus on the story and path to the ONE inevitable conclusion. JangoWuzHere

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"][QUOTE="LastRedMage"]Jay arrh pee gees are clearly the best, BECAUSE of the better focus on the story and path to the ONE inevitable conclusion. fubbal

Think about it, an actor plays a "role" in a play, he can't just change lines, other wise he would be just improving not playing any role at all, just doing whatever the hell he wants.

It depends. I would say older JRPGs are a lot better than most WRPGs, but the current day JRPGs are pretty bad. There's a few good ones, but most of them are just garbage. Honestly, I can't even tell if certain characters are men or women. I'm not saying Tales of Vesperia is a bad game, but everyone in it looks like a woman. Not to mention most current day JRPGs are full of cheesy, overly dramatic storylines and unbelievable Mary Sue like characters.LittleHands134

[QUOTE="LittleHands134"]It depends. I would say older JRPGs are a lot better than most WRPGs, but the current day JRPGs are pretty bad. There's a few good ones, but most of them are just garbage. Honestly, I can't even tell if certain characters are men or women. I'm not saying Tales of Vesperia is a bad game, but everyone in it looks like a woman. Not to mention most current day JRPGs are full of cheesy, overly dramatic storylines and unbelievable Mary Sue like characters.fubbal

[QUOTE="fubbal"][QUOTE="LittleHands134"]It depends. I would say older JRPGs are a lot better than most WRPGs, but the current day JRPGs are pretty bad. There's a few good ones, but most of them are just garbage. Honestly, I can't even tell if certain characters are men or women. I'm not saying Tales of Vesperia is a bad game, but everyone in it looks like a woman. Not to mention most current day JRPGs are full of cheesy, overly dramatic storylines and unbelievable Mary Sue like characters.LittleHands134

[QUOTE="fubbal"][QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"] You have no idea what a RPG is do you? in JRpg's you barely role-play at all. If you ask me thay are more like action games with very few RPG simularities.LastRedMage

Think about it, an actor plays a "role" in a play, he can't just change lines, other wise he would be just improving not playing any role at all, just doing whatever the hell he wants.

well every WRPG has sucked so ill go with JRPGmurat8

[QUOTE="LittleHands134"][QUOTE="fubbal"] Thats sad.How in the world can the older JRPG's even compete with the older WRPG's? Final Fantasy 4 VS Fallout anyone?fubbal

My nostalgia goggles are telling me the gameplay is far superior.

well every WRPG has sucked so ill go with JRPGmurat8

[QUOTE="murat8"]well every WRPG has sucked so ill go with JRPGfubbal

[QUOTE="murat8"]well every WRPG has sucked so ill go with JRPGshadow_hosi

well every WRPG has sucked so ill go with JRPGmurat8

There are definitely more crappy jrpg's than there are crappy wrpg's, but in terms of the quality titles that arrive here, I'd have to say they're pretty even. There are so many problems w/ the typical wrpg in terms of story it's not even funny. In this case, excessive freedom actually totally destroys role playing. In a lot of WRPG's, there are set stories that you have to go through, but at the same time, you can be black or white in terms of how jesus/satan like you are. Yet the story still plays out in largely the same manner?! One of the worst examples of this is Fallout 3. The story makes NO sense if you're an evil character. So what you're doing is just randomly interacting with the world in a ahole-ish manner and just plodding through the story because it's pretty nonsensical if you're evil.

The character customization from a gameplay standpoint is always sooooo superior in wrpgs, but from an rp standpoint? not exactly. You have a fair amount of freedom, but 99% of the time, even in great games like mass effect, you're choosing black and white choices of good vs evil. Lets be seroius, no one really finds a character they'd love to play if the responses possible are so black and white. There's often a "middle" response that's usually akin to not saying anything.

The advantage with jrpg's is that you're not really supposed to roleplay. You're seeing the story through a set character's eyes. It's more like watching a movie or reading a book, much less interactive, and therefore it's much easier for every piece to make sense together. If you find a character you really connect with in a jrpg, chances are you could never create a character with that much depth in a western rpg, not even close, without freakish amounts of out-of-game imagination. But then it's almost like playing dnd.

I think 99% of jrpg's have excessively tedious gameplay though, which puts wrpg's as a whole up by a slight margin in my book. I still am pissed off with every game going this good and evil route. ME was a step in the right direction for bioware from kotor and jade empire (bleeeeehhhhh), now if only the character actually says what you tell him/her to say, and some renegade choices are still a little too pure evil to make sense in the story.

[QUOTE="fubbal"][QUOTE="LittleHands134"] Fallout 3? If so, I'd say Final Fantasy 4 wins hands down. Maybe not in graphics, but in gameplay.LittleHands134

My nostalgia goggles are telling me the gameplay is far superior.

JRPGs are not games. They're movies which require you to press a button every few minutes and tilt a joystick at all other times. Remove the gameplay and you have pretty much the same thing only without all the pointless drivel between cinematics. A game shouldn't be passed off as interactive entertainment if you can remove the actual game from it.

I like WRPGs. Player choice which shapes the game world, character customisation, real time combat, less angst and the men can't be mistaken for women.

But to each their own.

JRPGs are not games. They're movies which require you to press a button every few minutes and tilt a joystick at all other times. Remove the gameplay and you have pretty much the same thing only without all the pointless drivel between cinematics. A game shouldn't be passed off as interactive entertainment if you can remove the actual game from it.

I like WRPGs. Player choice which shapes the game world, character customisation, real time combat, less angst and the men can't be mistaken for women.

But to each their own.

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