| areason said: I think the problem of most japanese games is their style, it's hard to take them seriously, they are or overly over the top in a bad way, or like most jrgs have a style that many people dislike. |
See my mention of Star Ocean 4 above. I think I stopped play when some random over stereotype military woman was laughing with awful voice acting and sound in general. Character interaction was sometimes dire in that game.What changed though, JRPGs have always had a certain amount of 'comic relief/cute' characters but are our attitudes changing or are they jsut more noticeable as games 'improve'?
I was saying to someone the other day (in real life!!) that a character like Steiner in modern FF games would never work. It's kinda sad, he is a fantastic character.
| Anfebious said: Japanese devs are just as good and even better in some cases to western developers. If we are guiding ourselves by Metacritic, The legend of Zelda Ocarina of time has a 99 and is the highest rated game of all time. This gen there where 2 super mario games with a 97 score on metacritic. That, is quite impressive if you ask me. Also they deserve it far more than GTA 4, seriously 98 on metacritic? That game was really bad compared to the older ones. |
Edge Magazine reviews might be a good example, they have given 9 tens this generation, more than the last 2 gens combined (are games getting that much better?) but out of those 9 four were japanese made. That's good, although 2 were Mario Galaxy (1 and 2). GTA5 will get another 10 based on their recent obsession with giving high marks.
On the subject, here is an example of my idea that studios/publishers are abandoning known franchises. http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/interest/2013-04-06/producer/new-star-ocean-valkyrie-profile-romancing-saga-not-being-made-now
Sad as I'd love to see a new Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile. I just hope Drakengard 3 gets localised.
Hmm, pie.
