chuckdee
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Now, but not then.I mean, you can disagree all you want but in video gaming industry and fandom, CRPG, JRPG, ARPG, and Action RPG are all distinct genres..
Take a trip down memory lane:
1982-1987 - The Birth of Japanese RPGs, re-told in 15 Games
A look at the roots of Japanese RPGs – from the hardware to the early proto-RPGs, the Ultima-clones, the first Action-RPGs and genre landmarks like Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and Ys.
See how they intermixed and moved with the same ideas. I'd say in 1986 was when they started to break off and become their own thing with Dragon Quest. But it is definitely a subset of CRPG, just with a distinctive style rather than a completely different animal as you posit. Even ARPGs descended out of CRPGs as shown in that history.
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