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Who want's more Japanese RPG games to come over here?
Monkeyfinger:
I marked NO MORE. I really enjoy the building up 1 character type of RPGs like Diablo and WoW, especially online play. I'm willing to admit I'm a Blizzard fanboy, I pretty much play FPS games in between Blizzard releases.
So I may be a little biased because my JRPG gaming experience doesn't expand much beyond the Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Persona, and Star Ocean series. Sure they've got superior story lines, but I began to hate having to manage teams of 10 different superfluous characters in Final Fantasy type games and a single player setting only made it worse. Seems like those are the types of JRPGs we get. I watch anime for story lines, anything that gets in my way of spilling the blood and guts of armies of demons for more than 3 seconds ruins my gaming experience.
1000mAh:
Well, they sure have started to publish more japanese games here in Finland :/ dunn about other countries xD
I even went to a game store just to notice they were selling gundam game...
But yeah, (click to show/hide)
--- Quote from: lazarus626 on November 01, 2011, 05:45:47 PM ---It's kinda sad when most you see from game review sites like gamespot,ign,etc are western games.
It feels kinda biased. I just wish reviewers start to look at games more objectively.
Besides, why do we have to view every game created and base it on the western standards?
Most westerners prefer the immersive type of games with realistic graphics anyway.
While some people really appreciate the stylized art of anime and the quirky and oft times absurd yet epic plotlines
of jrpgs. And there are some who actually appreciates both kind of games for what they are..
I mean, what the heck.. since when is it better to isolate yourselves from external influence unless reviewers think it
might actually pose a threat to the sales of their domestic produced games? You might think that game reviews have very little to
do with the commercial success of games, but knowing that there are actually very few people out there who aren't swayed by well publicized opinions and that reviewers can be bribed by gaming companies to write favorable or disparaging reviews, and you realize it doesn't really take much to sway the gullible masses to hate something that is unknown or foreign to them than to make them like something that they don't.
Case in point, some people like 2d over 3d. Some people like both. Some people only like one over the other.
But I just don't get why those people would bother trying to deprive the rest by repeatedly saying "NO" to what
the others would enjoy.
Discrimination is a b1tch.. especially when it doesn't make sense..
--- End quote ---
I has to agree with that :P + I like both 2D & 3D games :P
SeventyX7:
When realistic graphics become as easy and as often as in real life, people will start comparing 2d more favorably.
fohfoh:
I swear I've said this before in some other thread...
GIVE ME SOME FUCKING SHIT YOUR PANTS HORROR GAME GOD DAMMIT! FUCK THE JRPGS! (For now)
Maxis2K:
--- Quote from: lazarus626 on November 01, 2011, 05:45:47 PM ---It's kinda sad when most you see from game review sites like gamespot,ign,etc are western games.
It feels kinda biased. I just wish reviewers start to look at games more objectively.
Besides, why do we have to view every game created and base it on the western standards?
Most westerners prefer the immersive type of games with realistic graphics anyway.
While some people really appreciate the stylized art of anime and the quirky and oft times absurd yet epic plotlines
of jrpgs. And there are some who actually appreciates both kind of games for what they are..
I mean, what the heck.. since when is it better to isolate yourselves from external influence unless reviewers think it
might actually pose a threat to the sales of their domestic produced games? You might think that game reviews have very little to
do with the commercial success of games, but knowing that there are actually very few people out there who aren't swayed by well publicized opinions and that reviewers can be bribed by gaming companies to write favorable or disparaging reviews, and you realize it doesn't really take much to sway the gullible masses to hate something that is unknown or foreign to them than to make them like something that they don't.
Case in point, some people like 2d over 3d. Some people like both. Some people only like one over the other.
But I just don't get why those people would bother trying to deprive the rest by repeatedly saying "NO" to what
the others would enjoy.
Discrimination is a b1tch.. especially when it doesn't make sense..
--- End quote ---
I fully agree. But as much as I used to blame sites like IGN and GameTrailers for obviously downscoring games that had 'Anime Graphics', I grew to realize they're just following the trends of western taste. Even up till the PS2 days, Western gamers still seemed to like Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Capcom/SNK/Sammy Fighters, Mario, Zelda and etc which all clearly had character designs that looked 'Anime'. And even at this time, certain niche games like Dragon Quest VIII or Suikoden III got high marks. But it was near the end of the PS2 days, when games like KOTOR, Grand Theft Auto and The Sims started outselling everything else, that suddenly reviewers jumped on the 'Japan sucks, West is God' train. And every game that came from Japan seem to automatically get a one point reduction simply because of its design.
But again, I can't really blame them. While games like Dragon Quest, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Osu! Tatake! Ouendan! and Valkyaria Chronicles are some of my favorite games of this gen, they weren't selling 5 million copies each and western gamers clearly preferred to pirate them over buying them. And reviewers took notice. How else can we explain games like GTAIV getting perfect scores on the avg review site, when even fans say the games have massive problems? Its because reviewers follow hype and money, and no longer judge a game by its quality.
The last time I saw IGN give a favorable review to a Japanese game was Muramasa, and I still feel they gave us a kind of slap in the face by giving it an '8.9'. Its like they were saying 'Definitely one of the best games on Wii, but because it looks like Anime, it can't be a 9.0'. And don't even get me started on sites like Gamespot and Gametrailers. I don't think I've seen any Japanese game except Mario and MGSIV get above an 8.5 on those sites.
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