For many years I have enjoyed several JRPG outings, look at my games collection and that doesn't even cover half of what I am talking about. But, something seems to be coming out from the woodwork, this something is NARPG's (North American RPGS). Games like Fallout 3, Bioshock, Mass Effect 1 and 2, Dragon Age Origins, and so on so forth. Granted, none of these games are traditional RPG's, but that is what makes them so appealing to their current audience. I think that North American consumers are looking for a new feel to an old genre, and let's face it, JRPG's have that tired and reused laundry list of cliches. Not to say that JRPG's have nothing going for them, the Persona series of games seems to have a great grasp on a new implementation of the norm, and there are several others that have been trying for quite a while (Tales of Vesperia, and Star Ocean 4 for instance). However, it is a market that is beginning to open to outside influences more and more with each new title that is made. With the game industry as it is now, where North American developers are tackling japanese franchise games (Bionic Commando, Silent Hill Homecoming, Dead Rising 2 etc), it seems safer to have it done and done well in North America. Let's hope not all of our RPG-esque outings are about apocalyptic wastelands (Fallout), outer space (Mass Effect), or both (Borderlands).