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Originally Posted by Ginkasa
Its maybe the end of the "jRPG" era, but I think western RPGs have more than made up the difference.
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That's what I was going to say.
Western RPG's are
everywhere now. Nearly every game has to have an RPG element in it. Not to mention there are a lot of actual standard western RPG games. Hell, sports games even are half RPG's now. You can play as a person and 'level them up' through their career via XP. Even most FPS games have XP systems that make you level your character up/unlock boost slots/etc.
But I think the glory days of the J/RPG was up everything until 64 bits. When graphics became the main focus and gameplay took the backseat, (The developers who make) J/RPG's (seem to have) lost track of what made them fun.
But RPG's are still going solidly.
Fallout, Borderlands, Mass Effect, Star Ocean, Dragon Age, Neverwinter Nights, Fable, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Dragon Quest.