oniyide said:
ryuzaki57 said:
Nope. I play Japanese games with the same enthuthiasm as ever.
And if you observe closely you'll find that an increasing number of Japanese productions come West. Some years ago, who would have thought that games like Hyperdimension Neptune, Atelier Totori or Xenoblade could hit our shores? Those games obviously found an audience (however limited) because they keep coming. Figthing games also achieve far bigger numbers in the West than in Japan (look at Tekken 6!) and last time I checked there was no western fighting game on the market... I should also mention the success of Professor Layton and Naruto games that are a big hit in the west for example....
No the reason why there is that feeling is because big Western games are just TOO big : look at any GoTY article there's Call of Duty, Skyrim, Mass Effect, God of War, etc. everywhere. Western games are now so important that the industry itself (and the press by the way) acts like it can do without Japan and its games, like they don't exist anymore... and that is sad. |
um what, first off, there is this game called Mortal Kombat and it IS a western developed fighting game and it is damn popular.
Xenoblade, Atelier?? Please in the PS1 era we were getting JRPGS right and left on a regular. Alot more than we get know, and that was because a liitle game called FF7 came and blew the damn door off, these days, we dont have an equvilent to that and they just dont make that much JRPGs on consoles as they used too, numbers dont lie.
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I overlooked Mortal Kombat, sorry...
