Any upcoming WRPG you look forward to?
Grim looking future for the genre. No new promising games on the horizon, is it unironically over?
Every month we are getting 3 amazing JRPGs
Every 3 years we get one amazing WRPG
How can Square Enix and Atlus produce 3 JRPGs/ a year? Meanwhile Bethesda/Bioware takes 8 years for a game and its a flop lol
Sadly, the only wrpg I am looking forward to is Dragons Dogma 2. The west has fallen.
>Dragons Dogma 2
Thats a JRPG though.
Hitler said Dragons Dogma is an honorary WRPG, so there.
God you are stupid.
reminder that anyone using the term "wrpg" is a weeb who doesn't know much about rpgs in general.
Exactly. I hate it too. The proper term is CRPG. Of course I'm 50 and was playing them when that kid's mother was drinking my jizz.
It’s a bad name because jrpgs are primarily on computers too now. It’s an anachronism.
You immediately understand what the person using the term is referring to, and therefore, it has accomplished its function as a word
nope, it doesn't describe any kind of rpg
>You immediately understand what the person using the term is referring to
I actually don't. I don't even consider the games bethesda makes to be rpgs, so I assume wrpg has similar connotations to jrpg which is to say a game that is too shit to be purely categorized as an rpg that only morons play, in which case why does the distinction between w and j even matter? I don't care what color your favorite turds are.
>You immediately understand what the person using the term is referring to
Not really.
Weaboos use that word to describe every single game made outside Japan and even some Japanesse games if they arent anime enought.
yeah, it's really weird to call russian rpgs "western"
What if I told you that Russians are a Western (European) people, and that the Russian homeland is west of the East?
it really depends on the context, if we are using western to mean organized under western values deriving from the greeks, then japan is western since it adopted so many of our values. also, their forest religion and love of honour, along with interbreeding with ainu cultural signals have left them very compatible with europeans. western is a very arbitrary designation.
>You immediately understand what the person using the term is referring to
I thought you were referring to RPGs set in the Wild West...you know as in Western movies?
A lot of people just use it now because its convenient since most people lump narrative/exploration focused ARPGs in there too as opposed to just what anons on this would consider to be CRPGs.
Currently on my wishlist:
>Alalloth: Champions of the Four Kingdoms
>Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
>Dustgrave
>Mystic Land: The Search for Maphaldo
>No Rest for the Wicked
>The Way of Wrath(honestly not impressed with what it seems to be shaping into)
>Archaelund(that's the exact opposite of the above)
Maybe in 3-4 years we'll start seeing some bigger investment in WRPG's in the future simply because the business side of it will look into BG3 and think that this is money better spent than whatever GAAS they're working on right now. As of now all promising titles are indies and it's been like this for about a decade now(lmao if anyone is excited for Avowed or DA4).
I was going to say Felvidek, but the dev claims it's a JRPG
>Felvidek
Thats not a JRPG because its was not made in Japan, its that simple.
Undertale and Sea of Stars are not JRPG
Most of the good new Square Enix games are second party type published games. Square doesn't make them in house. Bravely Default, Octopath, etc are made by smaller developers. Companies like Bethesda don't do that.
>Companies like Bethesda don't do that.
Bethesda does also publish games by other devs. Prey (2017) comes to mind
Broken Roads looks good