Keiji Inafune says Japanese developers need to learn from overseas devs

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Esquoret said:

LilChicken22 said:
He's only saying that because he knows we want to hear that and earn our respect. I don't want to play interactive movies and glitchfests every day. Japanese games are the only games I play (Dark Souls, Bayonetta, Ni no Kuni, Monster Hunter, Nintendo games). His lastest game Soul Sacrifice doesn't look like any western title out there. It looks like a good polished game focussed on gameplay and I would like to play it more than any western title I can think of. Unfortunately I'm not going to buy a PSVita.

I agree on the technical finess of Japanese titles. After all, I'm Asian too and very meticulous in my work.

However, in terms of storytelling, you are missing out if you avoid western titles. And I'm not talking about those that simply want to imitate film (such as David Cage). There are those that understand that games and films are very different mediums. For example, Jonathan Blow makes this observation:

My biggest problem with most Western is the storytelling.

All of the big titles have very bad to mediorce stories.