The Last Wizard
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Plot? Yes, plot is really great in Japanese titlesBased on my observations, I think the certain something is called boobs.

Plot? Yes, plot is really great in Japanese titlesBased on my observations, I think the certain something is called boobs.
Believ me ain't no western dev giving us Nier.
Excessive nudity on female characters
Japan is not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole.
some of these responses are a mess of shitty rationalizations and the umpteenth regurgitation of an oversimplified braindead assessment.
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I think it's the more elaborate gameplay mechanics and systems, and the attention to detail.
Also this. Plays a big factor in generating preference.It is what I grew up playing.
More homogeneous. You can find things repeating in them often enough that you know where to find them, in the West games can be so different from one another that there is only one title that ever tried that one particular thing you liked.
This narrative is so weird because we like to ignore that tits and ass alongside blood and gore use to be the western game bread and butter for a good while there, especially in the early 2000sExcessive nudity on female characters
The biggest western games are now analogous to transformers movies or similar focus tested tripe. Not for me.
If this is becoming a general "Japan is better" thread, I'd like to add that generally these Japanese games that feel "better" really only feel better than the biggest AAA western games in terms of focus of design. I don't think that really applies to all western games, just the ones with design that's focus-tested and copy-pasted to death.
Within the context of consoles that may mean most western games, but I think within the context of just consoles we're also seeing western developers sort of out of their true element. Many of the biggest and most influential western developers in the console space today came from a PC background and have had to adapt to consoles. That means adapting to standardized hardware and and a game pad. Along the way I think these developers realized action games with pretty graphics do better in the mainstream marketplace and started making a bunch of those, sacrificing things like smooth controls as well as some of the things that made their PC predecessors great. Old PC franchises and genres got "consolized" with less player freedom and generally less of the "simulation-driven" approach PC games are known for. As such, a lot of western console games lost a bit of their identity.
Japanese developers on the other hand come from an arcade and console background. The ones that didn't go mobile stayed on consoles which is their natural habitat. Their games tend to feel better to play on a controller. I think the people here just suggesting that "Japanese games are better" haven't seen many western games other than the generic big-budget ones being released on consoles now.
I mostly prefer Japanese games and despise this aspect. (I don't think it's limited to Japanese games but that's a whole other topic of discussion)Yeah, don't kid yourself. For most of these people it's boobs. See the amount of bitching about "censorship" that happens when a character is even slightly covered up.
Yeah, don't kid yourself. For most of these people it's boobs.
You forgot to generalize and argue about the horrible culture and how it needs to westernize.Yeah, don't kid yourself. For most of these people it's boobs. See the amount of bitching about "censorship" that happens when a character is even slightly covered up.
ok hipster.
Nah, but nice bait. That's not even remotely what I was even alluding to, nor is it something I believe, but great attempt at character assassination. It's possible to criticize the motives of people who like games that overwhelmingly feature scantily-clad, often young, women.You forgot to generalize and argue about the horrible culture and how it needs to westernize.
Take a look at the most critically and commericially succesful Japanese game and tell me there's aNah, but nice bait. That's not even remotely what I was even alluding to, nor is it something I believe, but great attempt at character assassination. It's possible to criticize the motives of people who like games that overwhelmingly feature scantily-clad, often young, women.
Nah, but nice bait. It's possible to criticize the motives of people who like games that overwhelmingly feature scantily-clad, often young, women.
Nah, but nice bait. That's not even remotely what I was even alluding to, nor is it something I believe, but great attempt at character assassination. It's possible to criticize the motives of people who like games that overwhelmingly feature scantily-clad, often young, women.
I'm not claiming that Western games are perfect. But comparing how likely a AAA Japanese game is to have a very overt emphasis on male fanservice to how likely a Western AAA game is in 2017, there's very clearly one that outweighs the other. The entirety of this industry and culture has a problem of bigotry of all kinds, including sexism.Are western games not full of over the top sexualization and objectification? I mean, bikini armor is a traditional Western fantasy concept.