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scottie on 27 July 2011
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Lostplanet22 said:

Meh that is bullshit, it is just the J-gamers who are in a state of denial, a lot of them complain about those reviewers and at the same time they complain that the new J-games are not the best ones in the franchise...

This is basically what a lot of J-gamers said:

Tekken 6 not the best in the franchise, same for Soul Calibur, Same for Star Ocean the Last Hope,  Same for Beautifull Katamari, same for the latest Silent Hill games, same for Final Fantasy XIII, Same for Dead Or alive 4, Same for Virtua Fighter 5, Same for the latest Ace Combat, Same for devil May Cry 4, Same for the latest Castlevania, Same for the latest Sonic games, Same for Final Fantasy XIV, Same for Ridge Racer, and I could go on but when a reviewer doesn't give a good score to J-game it basically comes down that Western Reviewers are biased.  Their are simply not that many Japanese game franchises that got a sequel this generation that ended up better than his prequels... especially if you wouldn't count Nintendo games...    Without looking it up the only game franchises that improved (and that I remember) are so far Dynasty Warriors 7, Tales franchise (Tales of vesperia) and Metal Gears solid 4 (but that one depends who you ask I guess)

Why would we do that.

 

Sure, Japanese games may not have improved much if we ignore the best Japanese gaming company, which co-incidently is also the best improved this generation.

 

TBH, it's pretty much just Capcom and S-E that have turned to shit. The rest of Japan, led by Ninty, Sony, and in their own small way, level 5, are producing some of the best games Japan and the world have ever seen.

 

OT, Rol is right.

 

A mediocre game that almost qualifies as an RPG and had incredible brand loyalty and hype outsold a slightly above mediocre game that almost qualifies as an rpg and had a small amount of brand loyalty and hype. That is not unexpected. FFXIII was always going to sell better. The only weird thing is the metacritic scores for the two games (although that too can be anticipated by consideration of the glaring flaws of reviewers)