gaming journalism somehow manages to rediscover what "rock bottom" is

@mischievoustomato@tsundere.love It's true, I don't hold the term in the same regard as "anime", as JRPG already have Japanese in the name anyways, I usually just say a western JRPG, but in the end, most JRPG are still made in Japan and the rest are exceptions pretty much But this is total news slop indeed

@mischievoustomato@tsundere.love "There's nothing about Japanese Role-Playing Games that requires them to be made in Japan." this is a real sentence, uttered by real people.

@pettanko@varishangout.net @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love And it makes complete sense if you stop and think about it for more than 5 seconds. JRPG is a genre style customarily developed by the Japanese but it's not exclusive to them, it would be like saying Westerners can't develop danmaku shooting games or Japanese can't develop WRPGs which both can and obviously do.

@pom@spergia.net @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love is Dark Souls a WRPG

@coolboymew@shitposter.world @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love JRPG was a term originally created by journalists to stigmatize and other japanese made rpgs Now that rpgs in the west either suck hard or are barely rpgs anymore they are desperately trying to latch on to the term to avoid the negative connotations of western made ones

@xenodemon@varishangout.net @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love "Like, I play white guy JRPGs" "What does that mean? Like, shitty Tumblr art? What're you doing?" "Pretty much fat girls and blacks."