JRPG Is NOT Discrimination and Why Genre Terms Matter (NOT POLITICAL)
512JRPG Is NOT Discrimination and Why Genre Terms Matter (NOT POLITICAL). All bad ideas seem to spring from RPGs, am I right ;-) Today I am discussing this viral topic of how Game Journalists are pushing for the genre term "JRPG" to be discontinued and why I think this phenomenon is happening. Additionally, I am making this video because I do think that accurate and objective genre terms are really important for communication, review, discussion, and especially discovery. Genre is how most players find new games that they like, and that having a natural network of games that share a core design is EXTREMELY important, no matter what my fellow hipster millennials say about living in a post genre world. So I am making this video because I find discussions of genre really interesting and how this trend of making regional based discussion of games some kind of taboo is very short-sighted and ultimately pointless. Also I explain that the term JRPG is not purely a regional description, it is an artistic movement just like German Expressionism. So a developer who is not from Japan can also make a JRPG, and a Japanese developer can make a western role playing game as well, it's about design composition, not nationality. Once again this whole discussion is mostly about giving people who consider themselves industry insiders some kind of artificial authority and credibility without having to discuss games and their actual game play mechanics or design.
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