Prepare to get Motivated

[Replicant]

SegataSanshiro said:

BraLoD said:

This can go both ways, tho.

Yeah Mighty No 9. Most AAA western stuff is pretty trash tho and at best mediocre. Pretty visuals but bad mechanics but if it's made to be more "cinimatic" (a bullshit term to cover bad game mechanics and bad frame rate) all is forgiven in reviews often. Yes as long as it;s big name Japanese can get away with a lot as well like FFXV a bunch of missing story and characters and a shitty combat system a big vacant boring world. FFXIII games are putrid but were forgiven because FF. Still the point is lately the best games coming out recently are mad ein Japan.

There are still great games coming out of Western developers (just look at Europe) but I agree with you that many Western AAA's are mediocre and boring.

I don't however agree with bolded. For me, a game that is too cinematic is a game that has too many and too long cutscenes. Not necessarily bad gameplay. For instance, current Naughty Dog games are very cinematic but I still enjoy the gameplay. It's just that some of their latest games take away player control too often. I prefer when the story is told through gameplay, environments, characters, video logs, notes, etc.

When Valve still made games (pre Dota 2) they were so good at this with Half Life and Portal.

 

LMU Uncle Alfred said:

Replicant said:

There are exceptions of course but roughly speaking I agree with you. And my biggest complaint about them isn't even the microtransactions and season passes. It seems like the majority of Western AAA games nowadays are built around MMO-like structures and I really find them boring and soulless.

If we make Western developers know how much quality decline we think their games have seen, maybe that'll motivate them to improve just like the Japanese developers were motivated by the criticism

 

OT: Shout-out to Capcom as well. Like Sega, they still struggle a bit but I really enjoyed Resident Evil 7.

RESIDENT EVIL 7: BIOHAZARD

86

Metascore 98 critics

7.8

User Score 1523 Ratings

 

The west for the last two gens was ahead in terms of technology and had a better grasp on the PC infrastructure of gaming.  But now that the Japanese are catching up the creative blocks that Western studios run into are showing more and more.

Yeah. That sounds right.

And I did enjoy many of those story-focused Western games in the last two gens. Before we got games as services :-/