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WiiBox3 on 27 February 2013
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pezus said:
JayWood2010 said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:

i hope that's not a regular occurrence. you may want to get that checked.

ok this is what happened. i read the op, got distracted, took to long to post wht i was going to say, didn't want to read the op again, so i knew the thread was about east, west, and eastern games selling  witht the majority of western gamers wanting/liking eastern games, but sales not reflecting that.

COD is the reason for this. or am i still missing it cause i didn't re-read the op!


No no no no.  The thing is, I do notice a lot of people on the internet liking eastern games, or at least on forums.  Not just this website either.  But the thing is, even though they are vocal they still represent a very small number of gamers.  Beyond Nintendo published games eastern games dont do good at all while the games that get trashed on these type of forums are the ones people love.  

JRPG gamers are the definition of "hardcore" gamers. In pop culture, on the internet, and even in real life.


The problem with JRPGs is that they have become bloated. In porely writen over complex story, padded gameplay and boring sidequests. Of course there are exceptions to this rule (Tales of Vesperia for one). I use to be one of the people in the west that ate up JRPGs, but that has fallen off a cliff for me. They don't cater to me anymore, since they are written more and more for the Anime crowd. This is not a bad thing, but it is not what I desire.

I also use to look forward to the awesome cutscenes in JRPGs and now I find them boring, not because they are not beutifully animated, but because the stories cater to much to the Japanese teanage angst that I can not relate to. Or maybe I am just not playing the right JRPGs.

To the OP, I'm not sure you are correct about more forums being focused on Eastern games, but the ones I visit are. Those are the ones I want to see and talk about. Though I do love the modern WRPG as well now. I keep hoping for JRPGs to advance, cut the bloat and clean up their stories so that I can be interested once again.