What a surprise considering how sluggish Namco-bandai's been to get on the Steam express. Though it doesn't help ToZ has BL2 levels o DLC.
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Well, at least the ones brought to the western world already. It would only make sense.
Then again, if they are really bad ports, maybe it's not such a good idea.
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If this is true and it is coming to the US on steam, then I will kill the first person in line to be the first to preorder the game.
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just when im starting to save for ps4 and this is for the sake of jrpg. i know but later on, all the game from ps3 will be able to play on ps4.and for upcoming jrpg on ps4 but hey, if not i still have my pc. yes, pc might be the best but the availability of jrpg on pc... nope. i was born with jrpg until ps2. now i want to have that back.
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You are thinking of software emulation for downloadable titles, right? Chances are that there will be large gaps in the library, as some licences are expired, some companies don't care about their back catalogue and some games simply did not sell well enough to warrant a re-release.
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I guess it could be considered a sub-genre of RPG.
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It's a term signifying a style of gameplay that originated from a region. You hear people talk about RPG-maker games being JRPGs, even though many of those are, in fact, not from Japan. On the flipside, you have Japanese-made CRPGs that are more like their western counterparts, and those are not called JRPGs.
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It's a term signifying a style of gameplay that originated from a region.
What people consider a traditional jRPG gameplay did not originate from Japan at all, it's all based on early western RPG designs that influenced Japanese RPGs (regional term)
You just said Tales of Zestiria is a jRPG, turn-based RPGs, and strategy RPGs like Agarest are tagged as jRPGs.
That's 3 genres that are lumped as jRPGs, and what does that tell me about a game from a genre/gameplay mechanic? Nothing. It's such an idiotic term to use to describe games. If a game is turn-based RPG it's a turn-based RPG, if a game is an Action RPG it's Action RPG, and if a game is a Strategy RPG it's a Strategy RPG, it's that simple.
On the flipside, you have Japanese-made CRPGs that are more like their western counterparts, and those are not called JRPGs.
So? People who misuse roguelike all the time, that doesn't mean they're right.
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The term JRPG is applied to the style of games that evolved out of games like Dragon Warrior/Quest & Final Fantasy. These in turn were heavily influenced by games like Wizardry & Ultima, but around this time we see a split appearing, with "Western RPGs" evolving in one direction, and "JRPGs" evolving in another direction. The early JRPGs were actually quite different from the Western RPGs that influenced them, as the developers tried to make them more approachable and easily playable with a controller, while the western games were quite comfortable with having an interface mainly designed with a keyboard in mind. The split grew during the 90's, and here we can more or less talk about two different genres, with some surface similarities.
JRPG is a useful term, as it denotes a certain playstyle that is quite different from the turnbased CRPGs of the west, like Might & Magic, Wizardry & the D&D-based games.
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The term JRPG is applied to the style of games that evolved out of games like Dragon Warrior/Quest & Final Fantasy
So how is Tales of Zestiria a "jRPG" if it's not even the same genre as the games you listed??
The early JRPGs were actually quite different from the Western RPGs that influenced them
No they weren't.
It mixed turn-based RPG mechanics that were already established in the turn-based RPG genre, that doesn't make it a new genre.
the developers tried to make them more approachable and easily playable with a controller, while the western games were quite comfortable with having an interface mainly designed with a keyboard in mind
Since when does control layout make a game a certain genre?
JRPG is a useful term, as it denotes a certain playstyle that is quite different from the turnbased CRPGs of the west, like Might & Magic, Wizardry & the D&D-based games.
If you're honestly going to nitpick about how countries/regions develop games you're going to see differences but that does not make them genres, but wait it doesn't stop there, even games within the same (sub) genre that were developed within the same country can have different mechanics should this make them new genres as well?
And again, you used jRPG as a genre to define Tales of Zestiria but what does an Action-RPG have to do with western turn-based RPGs?
And of course Might & Magic and Wizardry are going to play differently than Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy compare it a game within the same genre, as in other first-person dungeon crawlers such as Class of Heroes or Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy or are they now considered "turnbased CRPGs of the west"?
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It's a shame that people have been saying this is the worst Tales of game yet.
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