| .jayderyu said: Europe loves RPGs. Just not console RPG's why?.. well it's what millions of gamers have been bitching at for the last decade. JRPG are linear stories. If you have fun with them then AWESOME. If you don't which is a fair amount of the population and seemingly including a steady increase in Japan with the exception of a few big brands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_(video_game) I could go search out for more, but that's on the situation. JRPG have already reached a stale point in Europe. They just aren't interactive enough nor provide any significant depth outside of a good story. There is of course a market, but it's not big enough for companies to feel that they should bother... yes they should, but that's another story. Yes there is a circlular cycle. Heck the Wii has faced that a couple months. Simple Game X sells loads, remake X as a shitty game and doesn't sell. Bitch about lack of sales. Make shittier game. If Japan wan'ts to make games for Europe then they need to not make JRPG or make something special about it to attract attention. Otherwise Europe still loves RPG's. |
Agree with much of this.
The thread titles doesn't specifiy JRPG yet nearly everyone in this thread is going on about them with barely a mention of traditional WRPGs which have always been successful in Europe as a relatively niche but popular genre.
Games like the Ultima series, Betrayal at Krondor, the Might & Magic series, Fallout series, Elder Scrolls series, Baldurs Gate and Quest for Glory, Neverwinter Nights etc. have all done fairly well.
Europeans like RPGs, but they have traditionally liked a different type of RPG to JRPGs. I think the issue for JRPGs is that they have difficulty marketing when their are so many different cultural tastes. Europe's a mix of cultures and unless you have the might and experience of Square-Enix (or SCEE in the case of FFVII), it's very difficult to market them appropriately to every country in the EU.
