Was it ever used to make fun of the japanese though? I don't know about the US, but at least in my country, since the first time I've heard it, it was associated to the unique visuals, storytelling and gameplay. You had Fallout and Star Ocean, both RPGs but also completely different from each other. One of them would be classified as CRPG and the other, JRPG.
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Reply to According to Skill-Up's interview of Naoki Yoshida (Final Fantasy 14 and 16), the term "JRPG" was actually viewed as a derision in the Japanese game development space: by Gorotheninja
Was it ever used to make fun of the japanese though? I don't know about the US, but at least in my country, since the first time I've heard it, it was associated to the unique visuals, storytelling and gameplay. You had Fallout and Star Ocean, both RPGs but also completely different from each other. One of them would be classified as CRPG and the other, JRPG.