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Originally Posted by nec1912
Can you elaborate.
What is wrong with the Japanese RPGs ?
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They're fine for what they are, but the point is that they are not by en large "Role Playing Games". They just took the name RPG (because they had "stat improvement at best, but more generally just loot getting better") and ran with it.
PCs had the kind of third person, top down perspective games that you refer to once (Ultimas come to mind, as well as the magnificent Faery Tale Adventure), but they have evolved since into the hack and slash/ adventure games ala Diablo 1-3, Dungeon Siege 1-3, Torchlight, etc.
Those also sometimes are listed as RPGs, but again, it's very "lite" on the role playing aspect
Faery Tale adventure (1989)
evolved into
Torchlight (2009)
