Then you live under a rock. It has been used for a couple of decades and used on all media platforms that talk about games. That said, the reason for it's origination is that they have a very specific style, tone, artwork, theme, and mechanics. They are distinctly different from the entire rest of the world and almost exclusively developed IN Japan. It is a specific genre.
Not specifically, but they are typically referred to collectively as Western RPGs.
Where did anyone say that there should be absolutely no diversity? Back when travelling the world was rare and racism was a common thing (where people weren't accepted in communities usually based on how they looked), how much diversity do you honestly believe existed in general? Y'know, besides in the poor/slave ("invisible") parts of cities?
I agree, retire all sub-genres that give more specifics for the genre! It's not "American Football" it's just "Football".
stereotypic ‘medieval’ Europe was never something that existed in the first place. 19th century poets invented it.
Sure, but cosmopolitan is an exception that has no bearing on the general question. What diversity across Europe would you expect (especially as you head more north)? 1:20? 1:50? Nobody's saying there wasn't any diversity. Seems like you are the one not understanding it.And not understanding it. If the game has anything like a cosmopolitan area there’s nothing weird in finding a good amount of North African, Turkic and Arabic people there
Where did anyone say that there should be absolutely no diversity? Back when travelling the world was rare and racism was a common thing (where people weren't accepted in communities usually based on how they looked), how much diversity do you honestly believe existed in general? Y'know, besides in the poor/slave ("invisible") parts of cities?
Tell me you know nothing about what you're talking about without actually telling me you know nothing about what you're talking about. Just because the truth is inconvenient doesn't mean you need to manufacture outrage about it
Japanese mono-culture , nationalism , you can never really be Japanese no matter how long you live there , not able as tourist to visit certain baths ( onsen ) etc is well known - but it will change over time - eventually they will stop bashing dolphins/whales etc - that should not stop some Japanese person raising an aggrievance - seems a weird of as stated - as seems a neutral term - plus Japanese studios do make western style rpgs
TBH, it didn't matter what he said, or how correct he was in saying it, it was never going to be good enough to people who want their perceived diversity quota's met. My initial point is that I'm glad he isn't trying to please those types of insufferable people. And then my next point was that no one said (or was pretending) there wasn't any diversity.
Guess we'll have to ban the usage of all the ?-POP styles as well. J-POP, K-POP etc. Perhaps instead of being offended over nothing we just consider it the origin of the style and adapt its usage that way? As we already are... because it makes sense. If something is like K-POP but not from Korea it will be called "K-POP like".
because the style originated from that place?
Yes we do. They are refereed to as "western RPGs" to differentiate between the two. We just don't use it all the time because most of us are in the west. They have two very different styles in a lot of ways. I can point out a JRPG within seconds of watching some gameplay.
lol...yeah for now on we will just call everything on every menu "food". We will have to use pictures I guess. People have gotten way too wrapped up in this crazy view.
