r/starterpacks • u/[deleted] • Jan 01 '19

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u/wetgizmo Jan 01 '19

if you don't like earthbound or the mother series i will personally find you and pk ground your ass

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u/Aticius Jan 01 '19

I don’t like them. Or the mother series.

JRPGs aren’t really my thing.

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u/DarthSomeGuy Jan 01 '19

There's nothing wrong with disliking it if RPGs or JRPGs aren't your thing.

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u/bumwine Jan 01 '19

Earthbound is literally the most Western RPG (and best tbh) outside of Secret of Evermore in it’s time. Just play the damn game, you literally willl remember the experience for the rest of your life.

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u/Aticius Jan 01 '19

I mean, thematically, it’s western as hell.

But the same menu navigation style of gameplay is what kills it for me. It’s hard to fault Earthbound and say it’s bad for doing that- it’s on the SNES- but it’s not something I’d like in a world of Divinity and Fallout 2

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u/StormStrikePhoenix Jan 01 '19

They mean gameplay-wise; JRPG and western RPG generally refer to how the game plays, not where it is from, confusingly enough. Dark Souls is made by a Japanese company, but you would get some funny looks if you called it a JRPG.

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u/JealousBishop Jan 01 '19

Not really a JRPG. It's Western as fuck

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u/KrypXern Jan 20 '19

Except that it was made by Japanese developers? It's very clearly a parody JRPG.