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?
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.
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.
That’s like asking what’s better: Chicago or NY-style pizza?
NY-style! Because that is actual pizza, not a fucking casserole.
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.
JPEG is better than JPG 🤷
My main issue with games as a whole currently is that they often don’t respect my time. J-RPGs are probably the worst genre for that with the expectation of grinding being baked in. Take persona 5, I loved the style and the characters were engaging but the gameplay was very repetitive and grindy. I didn’t feel like I was making progress. After I beat the first dungeon I felt like I’d seen everything the game had to offer and turned it off.
I enjoy western RPGs more because they often (not always) respect my time better. I replayed Dragon age Inquisition recently and that game was right on the borderline of not respecting my time. I played it way closer to release and burned out by spending 40 hours in the starting area doing fetch quests. On this play through I focused on the story and only did side quests I found interesting. It was much better but still right on the limit of wasting my time for a decent chunk of it’s runtime.
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.
