Just curious to know, is anyone interested in seeing an JRPG being developed? Of course being of something that can bring JRPG’s back to the current market. With me being interested in RPG’s (obviously), I want to know if your thoughts on both JRPG’s and WRPG’s and what would it take for you to be interested in the development of the product itself?
Thanks for reading and responding.
Define a JRPG first. And no, having a turn based combat does not make it a JRPG. There’s plenty of Japanese RPGs with realtime combat.
I define a JRPG as an RPG with the highly favorable animated style art that is seen for the most part.
Should’ve said so. Cartoony RPG or Realistic(western) RPG I assume? In which case I’d say cartoony as they’re much easier to make them look nice.
Overall RPGs are hard to make, maybe even the hardest genre.
Though JRPG is an rpg that comes from Japan.
Exactly! Do you think a breed between both would be interesting, for say something more realistic in aspects of Final Fantasy? Which I think would make a perfect cross over, but adding something different from such and such developer. I’m interested in doing something that is borderlines between both, but I’m going to have to start alone before I can even get any interested partners in wanting to develop such a game.
To get something inbetween you first need a list of characteristics that describe each.
im making a JRPG with a western cartoon aesthetic
Good for you
I would not hold that as a J-RPG.
A J-RPG, to my mind, is a variant of the role-playing game where the player controls the actions of a hero, but where the majority of the hero’s decisions are not made by the player.
Example: Final Fantasy IV. The Dark Knight Cecil, after plundering the Water Crystal from Mysidia, questions the King of Barons’ authority and is removed from the captaincy of the Red Wings, Baron’s airship unit. Cecil is then tasked with delivering the Bomb Ring to the village of Mist. His friend, the dragoon Kain, attempts to intercede but is sent along as well as a result.
Nowhere in this does the player have any say over what happens in the story - Cecil does question the King of Baron’s authority. After this initial sequence, Cecil delivers the Bomb Ring to Mist, causing the destruction of the entire city. When they find Rydia, a little girl whose mother was a Summoner, Cecil opts to save her, despite it being easily inferrable that the King wants the Summoners eliminated.
Non-J-RPGs, such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic or Fable, give the player much more lattitude over what happens in the story. There are specific story points that the player has to hit; the game dosen’t care how they hit those points, so long as they do.
In the end, J-RPGs are a strongly-guided experience. Non-JRPGs, while still guided, provide much less guiding than a JRPG; the player has more lattitude to choose how they accomplish the goal that the game provides them.
I had entertained the idea of making a JRPG style game for android, yes. Something along the lines of FF7. Then again, I entertain a lot of ideas.
Regardless, I’ve noticed that Square remade FF3, gave it a hefty $15 price tag, and easily broke 100,000 sales. Not bad for what I assume was a months work and a small team.
Square has nostalgia on their side though. But it shows that the market is still out there.
I’ve been looking to do a FF7 also and of course “a lot of ideas” too
I’ve worked on a popular JRPG made with Unity in the past. Here’s a link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bensteele/kitaru
What’s with the lingo? What the hell is a jrpg or wrpg?
Japanese Roleplaying Game
Exactly. If the game is not made in Japan or by Japanese people, it’s not a JRPG.
Maybe it should be “style that started in Japan but is no longer just in Japan” role playing game.
Or maybe just stick to term RPG
Seriously stop abusing terms and thinking your own meanings for them. It’s like “next-gen”. It means something different to everyone. The whole point of words is that everyone knows what they mean and the meaning is the same. JRPG is a Japanese RPG, it’s not a turn based rpg, a specific style rpg or some other kind of sub genre. Even in this thread the term seems to translate into something different for every person.
