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Role-playing

Western RPG

A role-playing game in the American and European tradition where you create and customise your character and develop them your own way while freely exploring a large world. Your choices and stats open or close paths, quests and endings.

Also known as: WRPG, Western role-playing game

This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.

History

  1. 1981
    Origin

    Ultima and Wizardry (1981), role-playing games for home computers, set the Western model, which later served as the blueprint for Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. The split between Western and Japanese RPGs came afterwards.

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Reference games

1998

Baldur's Gate

BioWare. Windows

You lead a party of up to six characters under Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules, which the game computes for you, in real-time battles you can pause to give orders. It revived the Western computer RPG.