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Forums - Gaming - Do you generally prefer Western or Eastern games, and why

 

Which do you personally prefer?

West 13 41.94%
 
East 18 58.06%
 
Total:31

Eastern games were great when I was younger. Nintendo appealed to me, the cartoony anime style RPG's and their sappy stories were great. Now that I am older, I pretty much despise eastern style games. Don't care about Nintendo games as an adult, and the majority of eastern games have super sexualized young characters that are off putting, and trash stories imho. E33 was a JRPG actually done right for a mature grown up audience and surprise, it blew away any JRPG since like, SNES/PS1 days.

AAA gaming as a whole is kind of a joke right now, which imho hurts east more than west, since there is a huge wealth of superior indie studios that make western style games.



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Depends:

Arcades - mostly Japanese
Computer games - overwhelmingly western
Consoles - combined (though I count PC ports of consoles games here as well, so something like Souls or Crimson Desert would be in here as well)



East wins easily on average though a lot of my absolute favorites are from the west (Warcraft 3, WoW, The Witcher, Portal and Half-Life). But there's a lot of deeply unintersting games made in the west as well and much more of those at the moment.



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2025 OpenCritic Prediction Leagues

Looking at my top 50 best rated games

29 are Eastern. 21 are Western

I think estearn wins



Eastern, I enjoy a good Western game especially some of Sony's western studios. But Nintendo, Capcom, Square, and Atlus/Like a Dragon studio of Sega are usually my favorite games.