Japanese RPG's VS Eastern RPG's

Which one do you think is the best or more suited to you?

To me Japanese RPG's are the best because without them there wouldn't be such a thing called RPG.
They have some of the best titles:
Final Fantasy
Last Reminant
Xenoblade
Loads loads more.

Eastern RPGS don't appeal to me because of repetition, quests can sometimes be the same and repetitive. Literally they are too easy too. I beat final boss on skyrim with hardest difficulty way too easy. On Final Fantasy or xenoblade it takes forever to defeat a boss because it just gets too tough. Xenoblades last boss was so hard I had to be level 99 because I just couldn't defeat it at all.
When it comes to RPG's the Japanese ones are the best. Some "open world do whatever you want" is not going to change that.

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The fact that it's an open world makes it so you can do tons of side quests and get relly strong before main missions. If you did nothing besides main mission straight through, it would be more difficult.

It's not relly fun to play a non open world rpg anyway. Everytime you replay it you would have to do exactly the same stuff in the same order etc.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

Meh not really, even in liner RPGs there are always different paths to take. FFXIII-2 is open world in a way FFXIII was linear to begin with then once you got to gran pulse it was more free roam.
Xenoblade(BEST JRPG ON WII) is massively open ended. I would place a wager that it's maps are so much bigger than Skyrims. Last Remnant was free roam too.

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JRPGs are Eastern-style RPGs.

Catch my drift.

Final Fantasie games are also turn based attack style. Well, I played one that wasn't but it failed something hard.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

Final Fantasy VII is one of the most greatest RPGs in the world alongside Zelda, Japanese really know how to make an amazing RPG

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Zelda? Zelda isn't a RPG.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

In a way it Is.
RPG stands for Role-Playing Game.
You play the role of link therefore it is a RPG, plus it has loads of RPG elements.

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No. Role playing game does not mean you play the role of something. You make dice rolls. In games, the "dice rolls" are generated whenever you make an action. However alot of "RPG's" Don't do this.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

Dude. Zelda is an Action RPG.

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Zelda is not a RPG. It is a action/adventure game.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

I'd say Japanese, but then I realized that I've never even played an Eastern RPG before so I'm too biased to judge.
And Zelda is an action/adventure game with a plot. Not RPG.

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The distinguished Limxzero spake:

JRPGs are Eastern-style RPGs.

Truth in this quote.

Just think about it for a moment.

The button I carry around doesn't necessarily make things EASIER...

The distinguished Rainbow-Dash spake:

Dude. Zelda is an Action RPG.

LoZ is narrative adventure. RPG doesnt mean you play a role in the story, its more of RNG rolls. things like crits, hits, heals, mana regained, etc..

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The distinguished Rainbow-Dash spake:

In a way it Is.
RPG stands for Role-Playing Game.
You play the role of link therefore it is a RPG, plus it has loads of RPG elements.

By that logic, Pac-Man is an RPG.
Zelda is not an RPG, it is an Action-Adventurr game.

The distinguished Kion127 spake:

The fact that it's an open world makes it so you can do tons of side quests and get relly strong before main missions. If you did nothing besides main mission straight through, it would be more difficult.

It's not relly fun to play a non open world rpg anyway. Everytime you replay it you would have to do exactly the same stuff in the same order etc.

It's not fun playing an open world game where most of the missions are the same, which seems to be a clichè in western rpgs. And jrpgs aren't nessassarily non-open world, they just have a more emphasis on stories and developing your characters. Going around shooting enemies with the same fire ball over and over again can get terribly boring.

We don't have time to do things right the first time. But we have time go back and do it again. Why not do it right the first ti

JRPG's are too slow and aren't open world so you arn't free to do whatever the heck you want. Western RPG's (East is Japan -.-) Let you do whatever the heck you want, No stupid grinding, And you don't go Linear. So I say WRPG's

COLESLAW.

And I was heavily referring to Skyrim. Best RPG ever. And the sidequest all mostly differn't. Oblivion on the other hand....ewww.

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Triple but whatever. YOU DON'T PLAY SKYRIM FOR THE STORY! The story is bullcrap! It's just an excuse to do cool things. It's an open world. You don't play Minecraft for its Godawful find-the-end-kill-dragon now do you? Ugh. And if you think Skyrim is too easy...Wait. There isn't a hard option! Have you even played it? Anyways. They don't make a huge world filled with secrets and explorations and think you would just play the story which is litterly a mountain, Whiterun, and Riverwood?

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The distinguished Tom633 spake:

JRPG's are too slow and aren't open world so you arn't free to do whatever the heck you want. Western RPG's (East is Japan -.-) Let you do whatever the heck you want, No stupid grinding, And you don't go Linear. So I say WRPG's

There are many jrpgs that aren't linear, they just put a more emphasis on story. You can do whatever the hell you want, but you won't get the most out of it. Western rpgs, like Skyrim, are the opposite. There are games where you play the game for the story, and some don't. Generally, the ones for story has a lot more replay value than you'd think.

We don't have time to do things right the first time. But we have time go back and do it again. Why not do it right the first ti