Please stick to the thread and any weird unfinished buisness you have with me can we take on mail or msn if you like.

Why? It's not only relevant to this thread, it's relevant to every thread you make.

No, they won`t take over the world with war, but in my opinion they hunger for money to control the world.

Do you know how many people died in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan?

Do you really think that germans should be less proud than us citizens because you feel that more people died under nazi-regime?

Germans are very embaressed over the nazisism. Are us citizens embarresed over wars usa have created? But in my opinion it weren`t the germans we see today that created the war, but still they are very embarresed. It makes them a proud and noble people in my opinion.

They are not even forced to cry on reality tv.

You still consider usa as the west? Didn`t you know west consist of europe too?

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lol, i agree with this

Nationalistic pride in Japanese created software. No philosphy necessary. The Japanese also don't typically care for American made games that cater to the Japanese like Forza and Need for Speed since they're made by EA and Microsoft, but they will buy something very American like Lost Planet or Resident Evil 5 since it's made by Capcom.

Honor, less mixed cultures, less children etc. Also their are crimes who almost not get punished.

Oh c'mon, there is not one country not built on blood.  The British Empire wasn't exactly squeaky clean, Spanish, French and England all have massive colonial pasts, USA was built on near genocide of Native American Indians, and every Eastern country I know of has plenty of skeletons in their closet included Japan.

There are few (if any) countries that have a squeaky clean history.

OT - I have no idea.  I figure it is somewhat down to taste and the history of games in the region, I think kowenicki is somewhat correct to wonder at past Japanese history (I'd note Germany has given us Crysis, etc. and FPS on PC is very, very popular there).

If I had to guesstimate from Japanese games I've played I'd say it's the inherent gameplay.  The Japanese seem to like either 'pure' games like Mario, etc. (i.e. no real plot etc just pure gameplay mechanics for fun) or strategic, story driven games like RPG or games like DMC4 which are more focused on 'style'.  Few FPS would seem to offer quite that combination of mechanics.

I'd also note that this generation a lot of Japanese seem to be very focused on portable, fun titles or Wii 'pure' games - again this leaves FPS out in the cold.

One thing I really dislike are when people quitting discussions with excuses of what other thinks of people. In this scenario what someone thinks of me.

I have to say one thing which I hate, but you got owned by me in this discussion since you quitted on a faulty excuse.