Quote Originally Posted by Grinenshire View Post
As said before D&D were not the first there to begin with and if you just consider the video game version of RPG, US is quite a bit behind when it comes to development of PC RPG games. Sorry, but that's just how it is.
The PC games I'm not actually in a position to debate, but I am going to have to ask for some comment on what games, recognizable as RPGs in the modern sense, preceeded Blackmoor/D&D?

Why on earth do you insist on calling it US-RPG anyway? US did not invent it, they do not lead the market in that regard, and even if they did would putting the label "Made in America" so crucial for their existance. Seriously, people, get a little more modest. There's a difference between being proud of your origin and nazilike fanatism. US wasn't even there when people still wore plated armor and ran at each other with hatchets. Once they dedicate a series of games that feature the events in the modern Northern America, feel free to call it USRPG all day long, but the medieval RPGs don't have a slightest link to US at all!
Because, as I do believe I previously stated, but as apparently needs heavy emphasis, the location, setting, time period, mis en scene, etc. of a game have absolutely no bearing on this particular classification. It doesn't matter if it's mecha sci-fi set in 3247, or if it's swords-and-sorcery in some mythical land roughly equivalent to the 12th century, the clarification point between JRPG and ... USRPGs is in the gameplay. Although everyone seems to have gotten confused, because the actual distinction is generally taken to be between cRPGs (Consoles; "JRPGs") and CRPGS (Computers; "USRPGs").

Quote Originally Posted by Grinenshire View Post
There's a difference between being proud of your origin and nazilike fanatism.
I'm hereby invoking Godwin's.