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Shadowblind on 08 February 2009
Xen said:
Khuutra said:
Xen said:
memory2zack said:
Xen said:
The problem is the westernization of JRPG's. Even little, like SO4. Hopefully this won't become a trend.

 

I don´t see any westernization of SO4, tbh.

CG instead of Anime. It's not too big, but it's there.

 

CG is not inherently more Western than anime style. Final Fantasy attests to this pretty blatantly.

Like I said: if this is the biggest complaint you have about the game....

CG is more popular in the west than Anime. Which is why I'm saying that's westernization...

But yeah, it's my biggest (and probably, only) complaint... here comes the game that'll dethrone Lost Odyssey as the best 360 JRPG.

 

 

BLASPHEMY! VESPERIA IS TEH KING!

Lost Odyssey is the prince.  But I will say that SO4 does look better then both of them, and seeing s Vesperia is my favorite game this gen...SO4 looks fantastic. WAITING FOR THE DEMO HERE ENIX!

 



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Khuutra on 08 February 2009

Also: this complaint would make more sense if their in-game models were in an anime-style, but they aren't. In Japanese this actually creates an incongruity. It's not like a Tales game where their in-game models look "anime-y" too. Now their portraits look like their in-game models, and it results in greater visual consistency.



MOmO_X on 08 February 2009

reserved it already ;)



Xen on 08 February 2009
Shadowblind said:
Xen said:
Khuutra said:
Xen said:
memory2zack said:
Xen said:
The problem is the westernization of JRPG's. Even little, like SO4. Hopefully this won't become a trend.

 

I don´t see any westernization of SO4, tbh.

CG instead of Anime. It's not too big, but it's there.

 

CG is not inherently more Western than anime style. Final Fantasy attests to this pretty blatantly.

Like I said: if this is the biggest complaint you have about the game....

CG is more popular in the west than Anime. Which is why I'm saying that's westernization...

But yeah, it's my biggest (and probably, only) complaint... here comes the game that'll dethrone Lost Odyssey as the best 360 JRPG.

 

 

BLASPHEMY! VESPERIA IS TEH KING!

Lost Odyssey is the prince.  But I will say that SO4 does look better then both of them, and seeing s Vesperia is my favorite game this gen...SO4 looks fantastic. WAITING FOR THE DEMO HERE ENIX!

 

Vesperia is breaking a certain rule...

You see, LO is similar to FFX. Everything that's close to FFX is Auto-king... Vesperia being better.. is.. against the law. LOL.

Yay for derails! =P

 



Seraphic_Sixaxis on 08 February 2009

USA VERSION... i like anime... but CGI rendered by tri-ace = win in my book.



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Shadowblind on 08 February 2009
Xen said:
Shadowblind said:
Xen said:
Khuutra said:
Xen said:
memory2zack said:
Xen said:
The problem is the westernization of JRPG's. Even little, like SO4. Hopefully this won't become a trend.

 

I don´t see any westernization of SO4, tbh.

CG instead of Anime. It's not too big, but it's there.

 

CG is not inherently more Western than anime style. Final Fantasy attests to this pretty blatantly.

Like I said: if this is the biggest complaint you have about the game....

CG is more popular in the west than Anime. Which is why I'm saying that's westernization...

But yeah, it's my biggest (and probably, only) complaint... here comes the game that'll dethrone Lost Odyssey as the best 360 JRPG.

 

 

BLASPHEMY! VESPERIA IS TEH KING!

Lost Odyssey is the prince.  But I will say that SO4 does look better then both of them, and seeing s Vesperia is my favorite game this gen...SO4 looks fantastic. WAITING FOR THE DEMO HERE ENIX!

 

Vesperia is breaking a certain rule...

You see, LO is similar to FFX. Everything that's close to FFX is Auto-king... Vesperia being better.. is.. against the law. LOL.

Yay for derails! =P

 

 

 Never! Vesperia can break any laws it wants, as it 'tis the king. It has jurisdiction over the laws, and decided to change them once it rose to power. So-yah.



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Millennium on 08 February 2009
Xen said:
Westernized?

I swear to God, if this starts becoming a fuckin' trend I'm gonna go mad. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TO MY JRPG's?

Imagine Tales of... like that... maybe do CGI instead of Anime too?

Bleh. Bleh. Bleh.

Are you mad? Good. Be mad. But I don't make games like this; I just know the formulas they use. If you want to be mad, then be mad at the game makers who treat you as though these stereotypes applied, because rest assured: this is how they see you.

Perhaps even be mad at yourself for being so hard to distinguish from the stereotype from a sales perspective that things like this actually work. But be careful on that score: your habits are something you can actually exercise control over, and so you can do something about that one. Getting game makers to start preserving their games in the original form will be much harder, and it is probably too late to do anything for SO4 in particular, but the market has to change if you want this trend to stop, and there is a part you can play in that process.



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Xen on 08 February 2009

LOL?

This wasn't directed at you, this was directed at the topic!



MrBubbles on 08 February 2009

the last one wasnt a cartoon...so whats the problem now



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pbroy on 08 February 2009
memory2zack said:
Tales is a Anime RPG, Namco says so. It will never change. Many JRPGs are not anime-style, I don´know where people get this idea of JRPGs necessarily having a anime-style.

 

Didn't Tales of Legendia break that trend with their character models?

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