You didn't see me complaining when you picked an MMO...I never generalized all western games as being around 8 hours, I said most.  Most means 50.0000001% or more.

These days I give the edge to western developers, for the simple fact that gameplay-wise, many Japanese developers are still stuck in the 90's and early 00's.

GTAV alone drops its drawers and takes a massive dump on any Japanese-developed game released this year.

GTA is one game and you're making it seem like it represents all Western gaming.  Then you take a handful of Japanese games and make it seem like those represent all of Japanese games.  

I don't really think you know much about what Japanese games are being developed and more about the ones people complain about being this and that (even though there are still plenty of people ASKING for these things still).  

I believe Japan still has the top spot when it comes to game making.
In the last gen we've seen games like Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, Zelda Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, Bayonetta, and Xenoblade Chronicles demonstrate plenty of talent and creativity left in Japanese devs.

GTA is one of the pinnacles of western gaming over the past decade, and by far the most anticipated release of this year, so why not?

And there's more than just "a handful" of Japanese games that have the problem I mentioned, which is why many Japanese companies have been experiencing a struggle with sales of some of their biggest franchises over the last few years... Squeenix immediately comes to mind, as do companies like Capcom and Konami to a lesser extent.  Even the mighty Nintendo, which just a few short years ago seemed once again infallable is now also struggling again.

Tell me, what about GTAV is so much more innovative than any Japanese game has, that makes Western games superior?  What makes Japanese games supposedly stuck in the past?  Have you seen Youkai Watch?  Monster Hunter 4?  Pokemon X and Y?  Last year's Kid Icarus: Uprising?  Ni No Kuni?  Are you going to say all of those games are just copying old gameplay styles while GTAV is so different from its previous iteration?  If I recall correctly, the core gameplay of GTAV is the same as the previous iteration, but it adds other things to spice things up.  Well, the exact same could be said about the games I listed.  What makes GTAV so much better?  Also, there are a lot of Western games that are doing the exact thing you seem to claim Japanese games are doing.  Don't just start cherry picking the games to best suit your argument.  

I do not think Japanese games are superior to Western games, I personally think on average that they appeal to different audiences, but BOTH Japanese and Western games have seen changes.  How successful the games with these changes are up for debate.

Really, the way you're rating these, what Western games are doing anything new or original if you don't include indie games?
You're bad at this.

Truth ^^

lmfao, what a joke. I've never heard so much bullshit in my life. Especially the bolded -- have you played Mario 64 lately? Not bad for 1996. Shit has nothing on Galaxy. Calling SS a clone of OoT is the most absurd thing I've heard about that game; it certainly has flaws, but being composed entirely of recycled ideas from 1998 is not one of them. And Metal Gear Rising... you lost me. I loved every second of that game. Yet I couldn't even force myself past the halfway point of Bioshock Infinite, supposedly the big runner-up for Game Of Der Year so far, even though it's an all-around generic and uninteresting game.

Because I didn't play DMC and I wanted to compare MGR, an actually fun, new, interesting game, to the critical darling that I had the "pleasure" of experiencing myself.

By the way, with respect to your previous post, I see you rated GTAIV a measley 4/10. Care to explain why that is, considering what a vast improvement its more open and fully-featured world was compared to the PS2 games? Also a note on that post, you should be aware that GTA is one of the best-selling franchises in the industry, and that Rockstar has enough buget to do whatever the hell they want, while studios like Atlus don't exactly have Final Fantasy-level budgets to throw around. So yeah, sometimes you get 2D sprites talking to each other instead of a MGS cutscene. Is that a problem?

What does Skyward Sword do new in terms of game design? Uh, it implements 1:1 motion controls to the adventure game structure, which completely changes everything about the way it is designed. You played it, right? Did you notice how you weren't pushing blocks onto switches, redirecting light with mirrors, and shooting arrows into eyeballs the entire time? Completely new set of tools, completely new set of experiences. How about how the stamina meter and shield durability affect combat? The brilliant Silent Realm sections? I'm sorry not every single thing about the game completely blew your mind with how it revolutionized the medium -- for instance, pushing up on the analogue stick still moves Link forward. Man, what lazy, uninspired design.

I'm not even here bashing Western games. I don't think Japanese or Western games are generally better or worse than the other just because they're made in a different part of the world by people who were raised in different cultures. I just think your mindless bashing of good games for no reason is ridiculously silly.