Obviously in your opinion, which role videogame style is the best? Why you don’t like the alternative? How does this affects LeBron’s legacy?
I hate both of them, but JRPGs are worse. I am sure this is exactly the kind of answer you were looking for.
I don’t like most western RPGs because all the enemies are sponges. You can’t sell weapon upgrades if the weapons are already balanced.
Western RPGs often have interesting systems like speech and other noncombat abilities. This is what keeps me coming back to RPGs despite everything. But upgrades are done with the same currency, so investing in speech means underinvestment in the manditory combat making it even more unpleasant.
I would much rather play a game about combat, movement, or speech than a game that awkwardly tries to make all three sit comfortabky next to each other. JRPGs are often more focused, so I do prefer them, a bit.
That’s like asking what’s better: Chicago or NY-style pizza?
There’s no wrong answer. They’re different and great in their own ways.
Okay.
Gun to my head, I’d say: RPG, and it’s because I grew up on the incredible isometric games of the late 90’s and early 2000’s.
I’ve probably put something like 5000 hours into Neverwinter Nights, thanks to the game’s toolset and how it lets people build customized worlds. I still DM on a custom-built world that includes Waterdeep, Daggerford, Baldur’s Gate, and the Moonshaes to this day.
That’s like asking what’s better: Chicago or NY-style pizza?
NY-style! Because that is actual pizza, not a fucking casserole.
Chicago-style. Pizza isn’t a very good street food, and I like more than minimal toppings.
But OP’s question should probably be CRPG vs JRPG or something like that. A JRPG is a type of RPG. It’d be like asking “which is better, pizza or Chicago-style pizza?”
EDIT: Damn, now I want a pizza.
Quite a bit of what we think is a JRPG started as the RPG series Ultima, specifically Ultima III, and Ultima IV.
I think rating genres is generally not a useful thing. I feel as though pidgeonholing games, music, videos or other things into categories and judging them based on that could lead to narrow-mindedness. Each genre has great games and each genre has bad games.
Some genres are more interesting to some people, but I’d say that’s because hobbies are sort of random and not because some are better than others. If by chance you happen to get a deeper knowledge about a certain genre or topic you will become more interested in it naturally. That doesn’t mean other things are more boring by nature.
