USRPG vs. JRPG

[Bunny]

I don't really see the difference :)

You're seriously going to tell me that Fallout is the same thing as Dragon Quest?

Can we call them WRPG, for west, and ERPG, east?

Nope.

Seriously, US neither invented the RPGs nor do they produce the majority of them, so what the hell?

Yeah, actually, the US did invent RPGs (Unless Gygax et al. were not of the University of Minnesota?) and the term is useful, even if not capable of encompassing the entire range of RPGs made.

And good 90% of what you call USRPG are produced in EU anyway...
Now common, seriously, how on bloody earth can you call a game taking place in the classical medieval, or ancient, fantasy world (all of which oddly resemble the French Province) a USRPG?!

Because it originated in the United States, was made popular in the United States, and the majority of things to do with the whole area - from Shadowrun to Elder Scrolls - are made and played in the United States. If we start labelling things based on their settings, then your earlier suggestion of WRPG and ERPG is completely daft as well.

Eh... no. That's not entirely correct, since you've limited it down a little too much.

RPG, i.e. Role-playing Games, existed quite a bit before Shadowrun and Elder Scrolls. The very first ones were the legendary pen-and-paper RPGs. Now, the fact that someone someday implemented the system on silicon doesn't mean that he invented the genre. The RPGs as a style of play come from UK, from where they've spread to France and US, later to Germany, later to the rest of the world. While US were one of the first to take up the style, they were not the pioneers.

Man, what? Mr. MILF said that. About the pen-and-paper thing anyway. Which is right. Gygax created Dungeons and Dragons which was the first commercially successful RPG. Role-playing may have come from Europe and whatnot, but we are not talking about that kind of medium. We are talking a strict gaming sort of thing.