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AiddonValentine wrote:

animehermit wrote: It's really hard to get excited about what the Japanese developers are making when so much of the stuff that comes out is garbage. Pretending as though games being garbage is ONLY endemic to Japan. Sturgeon's Revelation, people.

It's certainly worse in Japan, that's for sure. There was nothing at E3 from Japanese developer that looked interesting.

Watch Dogs, The Last of US and Planetside 2 all look fantastic.

animehermit wrote:

AiddonValentine wrote: animehermit wrote: It's really hard to get excited about what the Japanese developers are making when so much of the stuff that comes out is garbage. Pretending as though games being garbage is ONLY endemic to Japan. Sturgeon's Revelation, people. It's certainly worse in Japan, that's for sure. There was nothing at E3 from Japanese developer that looked interesting. Watch Dogs, The Last of US and Planetside 2 all look fantastic.

GTA clones and FPS

I can see why you don't like Japanese games. They actually have variety.

GTA clones and FPS

I can see why you don't like Japanese games. They actually have variety.

It makes me wonder why people are so hard on JRPGs all being the same while being okay with Western action games all being the same. Honestly if anything, JRPGs are more different from eachother since their battle systems are always done differently, while every FPS plays the exact same way: Aim and shoot.

It just comes down to personal preference I guess. Japanese like their RPGs and don't like the shooters since they're all the same.

RyanSaotome wrote:

It makes me wonder why people are so hard on JRPGs all being the same while being okay with Western action games all being the same. Honestly if anything, JRPGs are more different from eachother since their battle systems are always done differently, while every FPS plays the exact same way: Aim and shoot. It just comes down to personal preference I guess. Japanese like their RPGs and don't like the shooters since they're all the same.

JRPGs have so much variety, it's so hard to walk down a hallway and press the "a" button(or x button).

How is that any different from some Western action game outside of combat? You run down the halls and click the action button on important things, too.

lostrune wrote:

animehermit wrote: AiddonValentine wrote: animehermit wrote: It's really hard to get excited about what the Japanese developers are making when so much of the stuff that comes out is garbage. Pretending as though games being garbage is ONLY endemic to Japan. Sturgeon's Revelation, people. It's certainly worse in Japan, that's for sure. There was nothing at E3 from Japanese developer that looked interesting. Watch Dogs, The Last of US and Planetside 2 all look fantastic. GTA clones and FPS I can see why you don't like Japanese games. They actually have variety.

It makes me wonder why people are so hard on JRPGs all being the same while being okay with Western action games all being the same. Honestly if anything, JRPGs are more different from eachother since their battle systems are always done differently, while every FPS plays the exact same way: Aim and shoot.

It just comes down to personal preference I guess. Japanese like their RPGs and don't like the shooters since they're all the same.

You think The Last of US is a GTA clone?

Meh, I feel I'm getting too old for those types of games anyway. I used to like those action games when I was younger and had better gaming skills, but nowadays I would rather just play slower paced stuff thats turned based or story heavy. I remember loving the original Assassins Creed and then trying to play the 2nd and couldn't get more than an hour into it because of not being interested in the action gameplay.

Was Tiger & Bunny a success? I can't tell because I'm used to successful anime series inspiring a horde of fans demanding that everyone they know must watch the show, which in turn inspires other fans to claim that said series is overrated garbage. That never happened on a large scale for Tiger & Bunny, but I suppose it must be a success, because now it's getting a PSP game.

I mean no offense, but you do know that the game isn't "inspired" by Nobunaga's Ambition, right? It's a full-fledged crossover between Pokemon and Nobunaga's Ambition. In fact, the game is only known as Pokemon Conquest in North America. In Japan, the game is actually called "Pokemon + Nobunanga's Ambition".

Not enough guns and shooting I guess.

Story is important for me, so I do tend to favor Japanese games.

Cover-based third person shooter. Seemed a lot like Gears of War in that demo.

I guess Japanese games don't have shooting. Or guns, or killing people, or even enemies.

Story is important to me too. I won't defend Gears of War, mostly because it's garbage. I will defend the better western made games though. The Witcher and Mass Effect are really good examples.

Yes, because every cover based third person shooter is Gears of War. It must suck to live in your world, where Uncharted and Mass Effect don't exist. Hell, Vanquish is a cover based 3rd person shooter by a Japanese developer.

People seem to have incredibly strong opinions about what other people like. Maybe the people who actually enjoy genre X should handle explaining what it is they like about it.

RyanSaotome wrote:

Thats mainly because E3 is focused on Western developers. Tokyo Game Show is what you want if you want the best of Japanese games... I'm looking a lot more forward to that, since they'll cover the JRPGs and other stuff I prefer to the murder simulators the West constantly puts out now.

They'd have to make a JRPG that's worth playing in order to keep my interest.