• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    To me JRPG describes a particular style of RPG game - basically the old final fantasy games and everything that uses similar mechanics

    CRPG is games in the Dungeons and Dragons lineage - 3/4 perspective, characters moving around a 2d landscape for tactical advantage, classes, soemwhat free-form character levelling, whatever

    ARPG is diablo and it's successors.

    FPSRPG is Deus Ex, EYE.

    There's one for games where you have a first person perspective with all your party members represented by little boxes and it's turn based but I can't remember it.

    Roguelikes are Rogue, Nethack, Angband, etc, though that's gotten complicated because so many games are using roguelike as a descriptor and all they really have in common is a fail forward, perma-death but you unlock stuff mechanic.

    And there's lots of stuff that doesn't fit in anywhere. But if someone says "JPRG" I expect a turn based game where your dudes stand on one side of the screen bouncing on their toes, the bad guys are on the other side, and you take turns using different moves, attacks, spells, and items.

    I never attributed any other meaning to it except a set of game mechanics.

    • invo_rt [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Same here. I've used that vernacular for years to describe a set of mechanics that was popularized by games like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. They're too different from games like Baldur's Gate to just be called "RPGs" without having to add in a dozen qualifiers.

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      There’s one for games where you have a first person perspective with all your party members represented by little boxes and it’s turn based but I can’t remember it.

      First person dungeon crawler.

      though that’s gotten complicated because so many games are using roguelike as a descriptor and all they really have in common is a fail forward, perma-death but you unlock stuff mechanic.

      Those are roguelike-likes.

      There's also SRPGs (Fire Emblem, FF Tactics).

      • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        There’s one for games where you have a first person perspective with all your party members represented by little boxes and it’s turn based but I can’t remember it.

        First person dungeon crawler.

        Damn it, and now I kinda want to fire up an SNES emulator and play Arcana. Or an NES emulator for The Bard's Tale.

    • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      There’s one for games where you have a first person perspective with all your party members represented by little boxes and it’s turn based but I can’t remember it.

      Isn't that just a dungeon crawler RPG like Legend of Grimrock?

      I'd agree that at this point I associate JRPG more with the style of gameplay than the origin since most JRPGs I play are made outside of Japan these days since RPG Maker is such an accessible engine to create games as a solo dev.

    • TylenolJones [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      There’s one for games where you have a first person perspective with all your party members represented by little boxes and it’s turn based but I can’t remember it.

      Blobber.