In your opinion, have Japanese games as a whole fallen in quality in this gen?

[Jazz2K]

Monges79 said:
I think that the Japanese devlelopers(for the most part) are stuck in the past. When I played FF XIII, I couldn't believe how corny the dialogue was. If I was 10 or 15 years younger, I might have been able to handle that. I am of the generation where the NES was my first gaming console. I've matured, but many of the Japanese developers haven't. They are either putting out the same thing they have been for 25 years, give or take, or they are trying to copy western developers. I want a mature story. I'm still all about fantasy, but the over-the-top characters should be a thing of the past. I think all gamers want most of the core mechanics to be a part of the new iteration of their favorite gaming franchise, but we would also like to see innovation. Most of the Japanese develpers seem to have a case of lost identity, or remaking past games that were successes. Most of us want more.

QFT

I'd also add that most japanese games cater to japanese people, japanese people don't buy the 360 hence why there are fewer jp games on the 360. In America, where the 360 leads the HD market, these jp games are too japanese centric to please to this market so they sell too few copies to warrant a localization and/or a port to 360.