"I can't stress enough how often I'd hear a retail rep declare a genre/style/look was dead with zero supporting data."

“I can’t stress enough how often I’d hear a retail rep declare a genre/style/look was dead with zero supporting data.”

  • MudMan@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    It means people wanted a way to separate JRPGs from western fantasy RPGs and tabletop or pen-and-paper RPGs.

    Off the top of my head I’m struggling to remember if the term caught up per opposition to pen and paper being the default RPG or to JRPG first, because JRPGs didn’t get popular everywhere at once, but CRPGs were big in all Western territories pretty much right away.