| MontanaHatchet said: The Japanese are unwilling to change? Aren't they the home of Nintendo and the casual gaming revolution? |
I should have specified my comments, Montana. Yes, the Japanese are willing to change drastically to adopt new ideas. But, their old stayed-and-true formulas still run rampant while the western world is going on to bigger and better things. Look at the RPG world; 10 years ago, the WRPG was a joke. Now, it's the becoming the standard. Meanwhile, FFXII and Blue Dragon are doing the old-school thing. Are they wrong? Not necessarily, but you have to admit that western gaming has been slowly bleeding into every genre that you formerly accepted as being Japanese-only.
The Japanese are doing a great job of changing the face of gaming, but the western world has done a great job of improving on the genres that the Japanese created back during the NES days while the Japanese developers have sat on their hands and not done much with their original creations.
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