In my opinion BG3 is the best non-From RPG of all time. Its certainly up there in the top 5.
I'd place it behind Disco Elysium (which I believe is still the highest rated PC game ever), but the two are pretty strong arguments for "WRPGs" being superior.
Disco Elysium is seriously amazing, definitely better writing than any JRPG ever made. Really hope the devs behind it will do something similar again some day, if they aren't already.
Poll is kind of surprising so far, I wouldn't have expected so many people to be placing modern Final Fantasy games and Octopath Traveler over The Witcher 3 and Baldur's Gate 3.
WRPG of course. Even tho fromsoft is from Japan, their games don't feel like a Japanese game whatsoever (have you ever seen a Japanese rpg without cheesy cringe and half naked chicks? I haven't), so with them being also a WRPG, JRPG's have no chance. I mean, just look at FF16, they don't even know what the game was supposed to be.
There are multiple definitions of JRPG, and for this thread I'm focused on the games that fit the stereotypical definition of JRPGs, which is why I left out FromSoft games. I've also asked people this question before on JRPG related boards and included FromSoft games when I did - half the thread just turned into people complaining that I included them under JRPGs.
15 years of AAA budget Square Enix flops and a director who is responsible for some of the worst games I have ever played, and still people hype up their nonsense. At what point do people get a fucking clue.
After XIII, KH3, and XV, why do people even care about this? As if the absolutely vile cash grab formula they have come up with by dividing it into multiple, full price games isn't enough. Add to it the fact that the director is responsible for some of the worst games I have ever played.
The Final Fantasy VII remake has a director who is responsible for some of the worst games I have ever played, while Cyberpunk 2077 is the polar opposite.
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