A Western developer doing JRPGs?

[Premmy]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

- fuck tropes, I'm going to write complex and interesting characters with more depth than a teaspoon

Tropes aren't bad, you know.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Premonitions

Tropes are'nt bad, you know.

Oh, I know. To clarify that, I recognize that literally everything's been done before, so everything is a trope. On the other hand, I find writers often fall back on them too hard instead of actually writing the characters as people. I'm very strong on characters, so while I do rely on certain things as a base, I tend to mix them in interesting ways and fully flesh out the cast.

It's the difference between "this guy is a drunken skirt-chaser" and "this guy is a drunken skirt-chaser who's also a dog and doesn't discriminate much based on species when he's that far in the bottle, leading to comic mischief; also, he talks in his sleep about random stuff to great hilarity, snipes with the main character about being referred to as an animal, and tries to stand on his hind legs to increase his size during arguments while being totally oblivious to the fact it still leaves him comically short."



Edit @ RT: I have yet to hear anyone seriously try to classify Demon's Souls as a JRPG. Most call it a "Western-style RPG" which is as good as WRPG in my book.

[Regulus Tera]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Edit @ RT: I have yet to hear anyone seriously try to classify Demon's Souls as a JRPG. Most call it a "Western-style RPG" which is as good as WRPG in my book.

You are the first person I've heard that considers it a WRPG.