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Otakumegane on 15 April 2013
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BaldrSkies said:
Otakumegane said:
Man the Japanese market is so much more interesting than the western one.

Wonder if it's because it's a more 1v1 situation than a 3 person free-for-all.


More like because it's not clogged up with bloody shooters and shooter variants. The genre is just overloaded to tediousness in the West. That and sports games.

Japan has a very healthy RPG and adventure type market, where fantasy is cherished over gritty realism. It really helps that CERO only gives the infamous Z rating, which restricts sales to adults, to explicitly violent games. Even (non-explicit) sexual content only gets a D rating, which is still purchaseable by anyone. It's a huge difference in values from the West. And it results in a very different game industry atmosphere.


Would you say the same for overused tropes and RPG elements in Japan? Like is there a single dominating genre like the shooter in the U.S?

 



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