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Goatseye on 18 June 2015
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Dusk said:
Goatseye said:

If you compare genre to genre Western devs stomp'em in every way possible.

Sports, FPS, sandbox, TPS/A, RPGs, etc... every genre that Western devs have focused on, have taken a big quality leap compared to their Jap. counterparts.


I actually generally disagree. I think the point you are trying to make of games being fun, or good ect, actually falls pretty even between Western and Eastern. What I was talking about was quality, bug free experiences. Games generally run the way they are supposed to without game breaking bugs. This is of course a generalization, but from my experiences with both, that's just how I see it.

EA mostly does Sports, they are in many was doomed because of this.

FPS, it's a complete tie, although Western generally do more of them, and they tend to be pretty solid on the bug side of things.

Sandbox, I cannot agree with at all. The western Sandbox games are some of the worst bug filled messes. You might prefer the likes of FO3, elder scrolls, AC or GTA (mostly the exception) better, but Yakuza and Dragons Dogma from a technical stand point are far superiour. They don't contain nearly as many bugs that can completely destroy the games. The worst offender with this is of course Bethesda, but they are also the main developer of these kinds of games in the West. Of course the west releases a lot more than easter for these kinds of games.

RPG's well, some of the sandbox games mentioned earlier fall into this catagory as well, but the Japanese counterparts again are far more stable. But since JRPG and WRPG are so dissimilar it really just comes down to personal preferance as to what someone prefers.

It really is your issue if you think everything Western stomps everything Eastern and you likely need to expand your scope of view because you are really missing out.

I'm not talking about bugs. I never found a gamebreaking bug in any games you mention there.

Japanese games have smaller scopes in terms of ambition compared to Western games in the genres I mentioned.

The games that push gaphical and other technological performances are mostly in the West. They're most likely to find bugs than say a Tales of type of game.