Yes. Zero doubt about it. THe only question is how long it will take, but it will come.

Sure they have. It;s the fault of how industry works there nowadays. Everything is switching to mobile, which isn't exactly a place where new ideas or technologies are born.

What's worse, the whole corporate culture of Japan is deeply flawed. They put focus on how much hours you spend in office instead of what you actually do. Because of that those devs don't really have time for themselves to enjoy wide selection of games by other developers at home. The most they can get is some time on mobile/handheld when traveling to work.

And third, Japan has weak indie scene. It's caused by the fact that the digital distribution is behind times there compared to the west. Untill recently most of the sales of indie games came from sales of physical boxes during fan conventions like Comiket. As you can imagine, those sales weren't high and because of that the games were forced to be extremely cheaply made. Now it's changing, but it will take a long while before the indie scene blooms the way it did in the west, especially since indie is healthiest on PC and that's still not very popular platform in Japan aside from visual novels, altough that's changin too.

I wouldn't say eastern europe is part of the west, at least not all of it. But most older PC gamers consider wRPGs to be a genre, not a determination of where the game was made. Moany would even consider Dark Souls a wRPG too.

It's all because before Xbox the distinction was between cRPG and jRPG, with cRPG being computer-style RPGs. Only when devs started to port their titles to consoles en masse the need for new term was born and we got stuck with the very weird wRPG, which doesn't really make sense when it comes to PC games, as planty of the supposedly "western RPGs" were clearly made in the east. Even if you would consider Poland as part of the west, you're still stuck with RPGs from Turkey or Russia. So the only way to interpret wRPGs is "western-styled RPGs", not "RPGs made in the west"

Damn..I remember Chrono Trigger ws pretty trashed back in the day, because of how weak the characters and story were compared to FFVI

No. just different, especially with the current cRPG reneissance happening on PC.

Not surprising. The game was actualy lead on PC. Even half a year before release of console versions when you went to some event with playable Dragon Dogma they actually sat you in front of a PC with hooked console pad. It switched to console development only shortly before launch, so it makes sense that when they later got back to PC code finishing it up to full release wasn't a big problem.

Nice. Getting Ground Control 1 vibes from it.

Yeah. Origin is easily one of the most influential developers in history. Ultima alone (the most influential series of all time, easily) is enough to secure that position and they did far far more

I;m shocked nobody has posted Mafia yet :(

Xbox happened and MS like an idiot sabotaged their whole pcgaming division.

Now it's starting to recover, but unfortunatelly Mechwarrior Online might have the exclusive rights to multiplayer battletech simulators.

But at least there's Battletech tactical RPG incoming.