📖 What's your favorite RPG?

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Hi,

It has been a while since I've created a discussion, but to be honest, I've wanted to take a bit of a breather. Anyway, in today's discussion we're going to take a deep dive in the Role Playing Games. Role Playing Games are divided in subcategories, so I'm curious to know what has been your favorite games from decade to decade. They don't have to be in the year of release related, so you can be like me and play Diablo III a decade later. So, let's get on with the list and remember that you're free to add as many games from that period as you like.

After going over this I noticed I've not played any JRPG's. It's not that I've not liked them, but I've had little connection with them as a kid and grew to never try them I guess. If you have recommendations feel free to drop them.

Update: For those confused of what is what, I'll place an explanation:

WRPG

Western role-playing video games are role-playing video games developed in the Western world, including The Americas and Europe.
WRPG are heavily influence by lore from Western culture. You'll often find medieval influence, fantasy like Warcraft and Lord of The Rings.

JRPG

Japanese role-playing games tend to have a more linear story and a set cast of characters. They generally have a large number of enemy encounters and may require grinding in order to progress further into the game. Examples of this genre include Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VII.

SRPG

Some people known them as TRPG - don't confuse them with Simulation RPG, which may be a sub-genre mix of itself.

The tactical/strategy role-playing game subgenre principally refers to games which incorporate gameplay from strategy games as an alternative to traditional RPG systems. Like standard RPG, the player controls a finite party and battles a similar number of enemies, but this genre incorporates strategic gameplay such as tactical movement on an isometric grid. The genre has its origins in tabletop role-playing games, where each player has time to decide his or her characters' actions.

ARPG

The action role-playing game or action RPG is a type of role-playing video game which incorporates real-time combat as opposed to turn-based or menu-based, often borrowing elements from action games or action-adventure games. Some of the first action role-playing games were produced by Nihon Falcom in the 1980s, such as the Dragon Slayer series and Ys series. Later so-called "Diablo clones" are also part of this genre. Although the precise definition of the genre varies, the typical action RPG features a heavy emphasis on combat, often simplifying or removing non-combat attributes and statistics and the effect they have on the character's development. Additionally, combat always takes place using a real-time system (hence the "action") that relies on the player's ability to perform particular actions with speed and accuracy to determine success, rather than mainly using the player character's attributes to determine this.

This is my personal choice and only serves as example, so what's yours?

GAME TYPE	2000-2009	2010-2019	2020+
Western Role Playing Game (WRPG)	Elder Scrolls Oblivion	Elder Scrolls Skyrim	None
Japanese Role Playing Game (JRPG)	None	None	None
Strategy Role Playing Game (SRPG)	Not Played Any	Dragon Age Series & Mass Effect Series	None
Action Role Playing Game (ARPG)	Diablo II	Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen	Diablo III
Mass Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG)	Aion	Guild Wars 2	None

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Strategy Role Playing Game (SRPG) Not Played Any Dragon Age Series & Mass Effect Series

Dragon Age and Mass Effect are TRPGs (Tactical RPGs). X-Com and Ogre Battle are generally considered to be the most visible examples of the SRPG genre. The strategy genre is generally exemplified by resource, political, overworld, or similar external management of logistics, while the tactics genre is exemplified with positioning a limited assortment of units within a limited battlefield. (These associations following the definitions and real world usages of the words "Tactics" and "Strategy".)

As a more straightforward consideration on the matter: If it seems similar to a Real-Time Strategy game, but has RPG elements, then it's probably an SRPG (regardless of whether it's real time or turn-based).

Your confusion on the association may actually be coming from something specific- in Japan, the SRPG label is instead used for "Simulation RPG", their equivalent to our TRPG label. In short, the acronym association is confusing, and could be argued, but the specific association of the word "Strategy" would be incorrect for Tactical RPGs either way.

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