Riachu said:
omoneru said:
>>Anime is millions of miles behind Hollywood
I agree.
I remember watching Cowboy Bebop thinking how Vicious who's fighting with a sword and a bird against Spike with a gun destroyed my suspension of disbelief, and how Japanese anime directors almost always had used a comicrelief-cute-kawaii character like Ed and had dressed female protagonists like uber-slut, in order to appease the great majority of immature anime audience, while completely eliminated its chance of being accepted as a mature artwork by the mainstream.
Part of the reasons why storytelling has been so undeveloped in both game and anime genres is that their target audience has been teenage male. It's a vicious cycle. Ridiculous in-game stories turn away adult, which in turn discourages developers from prioritizing story in their deign.
The only way to get out of this cycle I see is actually what Nintendo has been doing - make casual games without story and increase adult population. In the long term, the more adult gamers there are, the more incentive for developers to take story seriously. But it will take quite some time. |
Really? I am pretty sure that 18-34 year olds make the bulk of gamers
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But developers are trying to target the more immature group for a mass market appeal, even more than ever. That's why we most likely never see another Planescape: Torment, Fallout 2 or Grim Fandango again.
