arbiter099
Since: Jan, 2011
#2: Oct 26th 2018 at 2:01:48 AM
RPGs are a special case, similar to the distinction between Western Animation and Anime, where the Western RPG and JRPG diverged significantly enough as to typically represent wholly different genres. I've seen then lumped or split in examples pages on tropes, usually based on if there are enough examples of each to warrant splitting them out into two folders. RPGs as a whole is a big umbrella with a lot of subgenres that we can dedicate folders to if there are enough examples, like your example of the ARPG.
Edited by arbiter099 on Oct 26th 2018 at 2:02:49 AM
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I am the creator of Game Gourmet, and this morning, I checked the page and found that someone had merged various folders together. I'm all for some of the changes that were made, but after the Action RPG and Mons RPG folders were removed, the standard Role Playing Game folder got way overblown. (I know there's the option to create new pages for such folders, but I would rather be doing that later than sooner, there are not that many folders yet for RPG subgenres, and there are still distinctive differences between such games as Earthbound, Dark Chronicle, and Pokémon that they all respectively share with numerous other games.
I reverted them back, but this afternoon, the same person came along and re-merged them, but divided them this time into eastern and western, citing that as standard for the wiki. The latter still has a total of 32 examples (including one misplaced), while the former only has eight.
I thought the point of video game genres is to distinguish between types of gameplay. If there is in fact a rule for classifying any particular genre between where they were developed, then can someone please specify where that is stated? (I have just googled "rules for video game tropes", and nothing like that has come up for me.)