Is Witcher a JRPG?

No, The Witcher series (especially The Witcher 3) is a Western RPG (WRPG), not a JRPG (Japanese Role-Playing Game), despite its deep story and action elements that some mistakenly associate with JRPGs. It's a WRPG due to its European folklore setting, focus on player choice impacting a predefined narrative with Geralt, open-world exploration, and action-oriented combat, contrasting with typical JRPGs' focus on party-based play, turn-based combat (historically), and distinct character creation.
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Is The Witcher a JRPG?

The Witcher series is the ultimate mix of JRPG and Western RPG elements. The character development and narrative quality of JRPGs with the style and element of choice and consequence of Western RPGs.
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What type of RPG is The Witcher?

The Witcher (Polish: Wiedźmin) is a fantasy action role-playing game series developed by CD Projekt Red and published by CD Projekt.
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What classifies a game as a JRPG?

JRPG is a Japanese role playing game. That is really it. Basically the standard for Western Role Playing games is generally something like Mass Effect, Dragon Age or The Elder Scrolls. The standard for JRPG's would be stuff like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest.
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Is Witcher 3 bigger than GTA 5?

The Witcher's map is almost two times the size of GTA V.
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What is the #1 most sold game?

The number one selling game of all time depends on the criteria, but Minecraft is generally considered the best-selling individual video game with over 350 million copies sold, while Tetris often tops lists when all its platform versions (especially mobile) are combined, reaching over 520 million sales, and the Mario franchise leads all video game franchises. For current sales (2025), titles like Battlefield 6 and NBA 2K26 lead by revenue, though these lists often exclude some digital sales. 
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Can I not 100% The Witcher if I fail a quest?

This is right. Some of the quest objectives and even some of the quests in the game are mutually exclusive - completing objective A might lock out objective B, or vice versa. There's no way to complete every possible objective or every quest in a single playthrough. So don't stress about it.
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Is Elden Ring considered a JRPG?

No, Elden Ring is generally not considered a traditional JRPG (Japanese Role-Playing Game) due to its gameplay focus, but it's an Action RPG (ARPG) made by a Japanese developer (FromSoftware), leading to debate, with many calling it a Western-style RPG (WRPG) with Japanese elements or its own distinct "Souls-like" subgenre, rather than a classic JRPG with turn-based combat and linear stories.
 
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Who was the first JRPG?

Dragon Slayer released in 1984 by Nihon Falcom, which started as a clone of an older title “The Caverns of Freitag” developed in 1982 by Muse Software.
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What game has 36 endings?

All Witcher 3 Story Endings. When we say that The Witcher 3 has a large number of endings, we don't mean just 3 or 4 like in most games—in fact, there are a total of 36.
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Which is better, Elden Ring or The Witcher?

the experience of killing things is miles better in elden ring than Witcher 3. Harrier Du Bois Elden ring has the premium toppings in bosses and rewarding exploration while Witcher 3 is a deep dish pizza with far reaching choices and deep characters. Witcher 3 has better music though, no shame to the composers on ER.
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What is considered the greatest RPG of all time?

The best RPGs of all time often include classics like Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate II, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy VI, alongside modern masterpieces such as The Witcher 3, Mass Effect 2, Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity: Original Sin 2, and Skyrim, praised for deep stories, world-building, player choice, and immersive gameplay across fantasy, sci-fi, and JRPG genres. 
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Is Zelda considered a JRPG?

No, The Legend of Zelda is officially and generally considered an Action-Adventure series with strong RPG elements, not a classic JRPG (Japanese Role-Playing Game) like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest, though it borrows heavily from the genre, with some fans debating its classification due to its exploration, item progression, and puzzle-solving. The main differentiator is its real-time combat and focus on adventure/puzzles over traditional turn-based battles, party management, and deep character stat leveling, though newer games like Breath of the Wild add more RPG mechanics like skill trees and diverse playstyles. 
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Is Witcher 3 an AAA game?

Witcher is the best AAA implementation of a great story driving an otherwise decent game.
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Are JRPGs even RPGs?

So just because some RPGs don't have Tabula Rasa character creation, you can't exclude them from being RPGs. Not even mentioning the fact that by definition, JRPGs are a subset of RPGs.
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What qualifies as a JRPG?

It stands for “Japanese Roleplaying Game,” and is essentially, an RPG designed and produced in Japan. But it can also mean an RPG (made anywhere) that is made in the style of a Japanese Roleplaying Game. The standard look and feel of a JRPG was set by Dragon Quest in 1986 and Final Fantasy in 1987.
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Is Elden Ring bigger than GTA 5?

What is the Elden Ring Map Size? The total explored Elden Ring map size is 79 km² or 30.5 square miles. To put that into perspective, this is bigger than the maps of Skyrim and GTA V (shock horror!)
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What game takes 400 days to finish?

The Longing is a 2020 point-and-click adventure game created by independent developer Studio Seufz. Set in an underground kingdom, the player controls the Shade, a creature tasked with watching over a sleeping king for 400 days.
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What game took 25 years to make?

The game features an open world in the form of an area within the Milky Way galaxy, containing both fictional and non-fictional planetary systems. Starfield takes place in a space-themed setting, and is the first new intellectual property developed by Bethesda in 25 years.
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Is it worth killing the succubus in The Witcher 3?

Whether to kill the succubus in The Witcher 3 depends on your playstyle, moral compass, and whether you prioritize gameplay rewards (like the Succubus Decoction) over Geralt's usual non-lethal approach to sentient, non-aggressive monsters. Killing her yields a valuable mutagen for the Succubus Decoction, but sparing her (especially the one in Novigrad, Salma) aligns better with Geralt's character and can benefit you later in quests like "Skellige's Most Wanted" by proving you spare monsters. 
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What's the maximum level in witcher?

In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the maximum level cap is Level 100 when you have the Blood and Wine expansion; without it, the base game cap is Level 70, but reaching Level 100 is realistically achievable only in New Game+ (NG+) by playing through the expansions and focusing on quests and contracts. You'll hit around level 50-55 in a single, complete playthrough with DLC, so NG+ is essential for grinding to the true cap.
 
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Do you get in trouble for stealing in Witcher 3?

There are no quest specific consequences for stealing. No “shouldn't have stolen that” twenty hours later. But there are minor repercussions like being attacked by guards if you're caught in the act. If an object reads “Take”, you're good.
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