alternine said:
exdeath said: If all they have is Call of Duty, Halo, Gears, Forza, and Madden again and again, then it doesn't matter. Show me the RPGs, platformers, and adventure titles. Hell show me anything that doesn't have a machine gun or some macho looking dude on the cover. |
And RPGs have macho looking dudes on the cover but with swords instead. There's nothing wrong with it dude lol
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Western RPGs maybe. With 5 oclock shadows and blood and guts and a face cleaved in half scar and tatoos and all.
This macho man obscession is uniquely western.
I much prefer Japanese games.
The deep and serious ones mind you, I don't care for 12 yr old girls in bikinis jpop shovelware either.
The kind with lots of drama and tragedy and characters that are timid or unsure of themselves and who grow over time to take a leadership role they never wanted, etc. The sorts of games with cover art dipicting desperation and anxiousness or some sort of magical adventure waiting to d**k punch you with a 180 at the end.
Xenoblade Chronicles, Tales, Ni no Kuni, Final Fantasy (pre Square's "billy bad ass" era that started around FF7+) stuff like that. Square I'm leary of after Sephiroth, Cloud, Squall, Lightning, etc. They've been hung up on this western mainstream machismo hollywood crap as well since FF7 but they do manage a few gems here and there.