the Japanese games...



and he's right about the mindless violent comment, there should be a purpose to all the madness... you hear Western developers talking about how everything is destructible, how many freakin weapons there are, how you'll be able to shoot this and shoot that... and you hear fanboys saying "this is fuc*kin cool!!! i'm getting this!!! look at the texture and it runs at 60fps!!! this is a AAA title" without even knowing what the damn story would be!!



they put in something new once in a while like that Nectar in Haze and people go "wow!! that's innovation!!! this is a must buy!!!" and that goes to all other games but the really is it's all the same...



japanese developers are more creative... and Pachter is wrong, western developers have a lot to learn from them and the entire gaming community will be very well-served if they do infact learn from the Japanese.



and let's not even talk about movie games.

buddy but there is a reason for that...



the japanese make games that cater to the taste of the japanese market and also could be enticing to the western market... it is in the game not the consumers.



now you say that the japanese don't accept great games from the west? well how many of such games are there that the japanese market would call "great"... you can't force people to like something which doesn't appeal to them, it doesn't make them bias... they just have their preferences... you can't force them to like Bioshock or Halo if they're not into that no matter how many A's you put in front of those titles... the japanese just has a different standard that doesn't make them biased... it is not because Gears Of War was developed in the west... it is because they don't like the game, i don't think that's hard to understand.



Americans diss them for liking pokemon and cutsey games and all those mecha games... now do i think Americans are biased cause they think that? No. They just have their own preferences.



and those movies you're talking about... they are being remade by hollywood studios...

you think that way but i wouldn't call you biased... i'd just say you have you're own preference.



and i wouldn't fault you for not wanting to get all those games you just mentioned above as much as i wouldn't fault the japanese for not getting Halo, Bioshock, Call Of Dut, Gears of War, Resistance, Haze etc...



now some japanese games sell well in the west (as we all know) cause the taste in games of gamers in the western market are more diversed but the japanese has more of a singular standard and it is not their task to adjust their likings to what the western developers produce (cause in the first place they have loads of japanese developers quenching their thirst anyway) but it is the developers who should make the adjustment if they want to sell to the japanese... they're the ones trying to sell their games anyway!!



so unless they do that let's not say that the Japanese are biased over western games.



and about my comments above such as this:



you hear Western developers talking about how everything is destructible, how many freakin weapons there are, how you'll be able to shoot this and shoot that... and you hear fanboys saying "this is fuc*kin cool!!! i'm getting this!!! look at the texture and it runs at 60fps!!! this is a AAA title" without even knowing what the damn story would be!!



you can't deny that THAT is true.

In the beginning the japanese were the force that drove the video game industry, but at this moment , I think europeans and americans are designing better games, Even Kojima & others japanese developers are accepting that. There is a niche market in Japan, and the consumers protect their local industry, but in most games the western counterparts are getting better results and innovating, and I mean in software. Even the rpg's, I beging to like more the western ones, (Kotor, Oblivion and the incoming Mass Effect are prove of this). In the end I think the market is going to separated, we are going to see only the really big ones of japan here, and Japan, because they tend to boycot anything western they will get only a few westen topsellers.

Interesting. When someone mentions video games, I think of Sony, Nintendo and Sega. Microsoft is an afterthought. It's probably because during the time I was into video games, the consoles were Playstation, Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast. Playstation 2 was released around that time, too. I also grew up with the NES, SNES, Genesis and Gameboy.



Personally, I like Japanese games more than I do western ones. For one thing, I'm not into sports so any game beginning with 'N' and ending with a year is an automatic no. While I do like my fair share of gratuitous violence, I'm not into FPS which seems to be what most US studios are producing.



Either way, there's a market for both. Game makers don't have to cater to just one set of tastes. Let them continue creating different games. It's the consumer who benefits from game diversity in the end.

In my honest opinion, I really go by quality of games and not where they come from. I find some American games really bad (though I'm American), but there are also good ones. Same applies to Japanese games; you'll find rotten apples along with good apples.



One of the games I played from Germany called "Games Tycoon", was pretty buggy and poorly executed (its for the PC). Another game I played from Germany, however, is very good. Anyone heard of "Darkstar One" for the PC?



Back on topic: No one should really be bias to their country. Just because most Japanese don't like a particular genre doesn't mean some of Japanese hate it. Its not by country, but rather by person who gets interested into the games or particular genres. There are also rotten apples in any genre. I've seen pretty bad strategy games or even first person shooters for that matter. Also seen poorly done simulation games (like "Games Tycoon" for the PC I mentioned above).



Remember folks, its personal preference counts and not where if it was made in your country or not. Besides, I like Japanese games as well as American games, German games, British games, and other places on earth.

Historically and culturally I can see why the Japanese aren't interested in giant explosions and ultra realistic violence. The biggest explosions that have killed real human beings happened on their soil. And most of their population knows someone who actually remembers it.