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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9582214" data-attributes="member: 467">Yes, in the days of yore before the video game industry had really found its footing outside of arcades, the RPG genre was a wild west -- like all genres. That is hardly relevant to the discussion about the genre differences after that point, where CRPGs coalesce around (wait for it) computers, and JRPGs form specific tropes, when action RPGs emerge in the early 90s and so on until now when we have roguelikes and soulslikes and others. With a few exceptions, console players played different kinds of RPGs than PC gamers, and that is one mechanism by which those early genres metastasized.Near as I can tell, &quot;TTRPG&quot; entered the regular parlance in defining themselves against MMORPGs, because it happened about the same time. I am sure people have used &quot;ttrpg&quot; from the dawn of the hobby, but its regular use seems to be from the late 90s and early 2000s under that particular context.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 9582214, member: 467"] Yes, in the days of yore before the video game industry had really found its footing outside of arcades, the RPG genre was a wild west -- like all genres. That is hardly relevant to the discussion about the genre differences after that point, where CRPGs coalesce around (wait for it) computers, and JRPGs form specific tropes, when action RPGs emerge in the early 90s and so on until now when we have roguelikes and soulslikes and others. With a few exceptions, console players played different kinds of RPGs than PC gamers, and that is one mechanism by which those early genres metastasized. Near as I can tell, "TTRPG" entered the regular parlance in defining themselves against MMORPGs, because it happened about the same time. I am sure people have used "ttrpg" from the dawn of the hobby, but its regular use seems to be from the late 90s and early 2000s under that particular context. [/QUOTE]

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