American Games in Japan?

Gaijin, while you may have met idiots like this in real life in Texas, I have never seen someone like that around where I live in Arkansas, which is pretty close to Texas, almost on the border. Most people around here are careful with firearms other than going "Hey watch this!" and doing something stupid with one. It could be that most of the Hunters around here are all sort of old and past their "wild" days, but still. There are idiots all over the world. I could just as easily say that all of Iraq is full of idiots who aren't careful with firearms because insurgents fire AK-47s into the air, but I digress.

How many Western games have you actually played? Do you judge them from their cover, review sites, or whatever? Some of them may have bad graphics or have a generic art direction (or just a classic D&D look), but can still have fun gameplay. Morrowind is slow to start but a pretty fun game later on. There are some really good UK developers, too, like Free Radical, who have made some really good FPS games and some of their FPSs were some of the first truly innovative ones, like actually having drivable vehicles (Tank and airplane) in Goldeneye.

Yes, and you do it publicly and state it as fact, which is what I don't understand. I don't like sports titles or racers, but I don't go around saying they suck or they aren't any good, because I know my opinion would be incredibally biased and not have any basis in fact, which would make me look like an arrogant and/or ignorant jerk. Or maybe even a huge fanboy of some game company or something else entirely.

 

Either you misread, or I mistyped. "lawsuit trigger-happy" is all supposed to go together... a poke at the "sue the fuck out of everyone" culture of America. The gun thing... well, I wouldn't say trigger happy, but it's still an issue with me. I went to school with people who loved to go hunting and/or patty-blasting. Hunting I can understand, although I think it's pretty unfair. These are the same guys that would go "fag bashing" on the weekends. Something I never understood. The irony is that statistically at least a handful of them have at least experimented.

Lately not many. I tried GoW at a friends place. I've not had a Region 1 system for quite some time though. I would play an FPS from time to time for a change of pace. I played HL2 & Halo most recently. I almost failed my last semester of college due to Diablo. One of my fondest memories my first year in Japan was smoking a pack of cigarettes on rainy Sunday afternoons, fighting a hangover, playing Descent 3 online... a habit that cost me a good $150 or so a month, as there was no broadband in Japan back then.

Uh... no. I made a snide joke that you got sand in your clit over. I've never said "western games are shit". Personally, I don't like them. Right now, I really only care about a couple of kinds of games, "ones I can pop in, play, score, and put down". That's basically puzzle games and scrolling shooting games... not some interactive movie called Final Fantasy whatever, definitely not some bullshit music-related game, and if I can help from it nothing that involves a touch pen. The only people that are still making thes games somewhat regularly are a handful of Japanese companies, even though they are few. There's always the doujin community to fall back on, although these games aren't nearly as endearing to me.

I have openly said that I think handhelds are a waste of games, and my DS (even though it has some decent old-style games) was pretty much a waste of my money. (Don't get me started on the PSP). Hardly goes with your stereotypical view of me, no?

 

I don't think this debat has any relation with the original subject

Because,whatever you think of the superiority/inferiority of american/japan games (personnally I think both are excellent,japanese games would not be what they are without american games and the opposite is true too,it's the same thing for movies,music...etc...People are always influenced each others),Gaijinpunch is right anyway.
It's not at all the same thing to love japanese games when you're from western countries than to love american games when you're japanese!It's much more unusual.
So yes you can completely say that the japanese people who love others american games than the most famous like GTA and some FPS are totally lost if you compare with the classic japanese way of gaming.

 

chuhai:lol:

 

I always kind of though if I lived in Japan, I'd be one of the dudes collecting Xbox stuff, lol. I guess there really are people who do it.

Gaijin Did you like Gears of War? (or did you mean God of War....)

 

1/3 of 150 million people live in the greater Tokyo... or at least Kanto (the region in which Tokyo is in). There's probably a group that likes just about anything. One of the benefits of having such a concentrated population.

It was Gears of War. It seemed fantastic graphically, but 1) too realistic (I play games to escape reality, not relive it; and 2) too much going on. As stated in another post, right now I'm really into games where you can only move in 8 directions, and have 2 (maybe 3) buttons right now. This is the absolute polar opposite of that. Mushihime-sama Futari in the arcades is getting a lot of attention from me now.

 

Ah yeah, the simple games! Some of the funnest there are, usually there what started people into games too! I think everyone keeps thinking of stuff you say in a "All US games and stuff suck" way because a lot of people and collectors do that. I always thought there usually suppose to be humorous. Obviously your not a pompous "import gamer/collector" as you said you own an Xbox!A lot of US stuff does suck, mostly box art I think. I've never gotten into import games though because lately a lot of Japanese games look as dumb as a lot of new US ones, we usually get them anyway, and I can barely afford local gaming, let alone import.

 

One of the main reasons I have only NTSC-J games in my collection (well under 100 games at any time...usually around the 50 mark for 4 or 5 systems) is b/c when I got back into gaming (been in and out a few times) I was coincidentally living in Japan. I had a few US PC games, but that was it. A guilty pleasure I should say, as they're nothing like what I usually play. But again, most current Japanese games aren't either.

 

I really love that drink...;-)

 

What's up with the last 4 posts? I mean, I've seen these types of posts randomly around the forum. Anyone know what it is?

 

Looks like someone forgot to turn off guest posting in this forum section. I've seen it as well.

 

spambots all the way!!:-(

 

So do you think I would make a killing on PAL games/consoles :lol:

 

I'm aware of the fact that western games / editions are practically non-existant in Japan, however, a game like The Secret of Evermore (SNES) was a straight US release (if I remember correctly) was that ever of interest of the japanese public? Since Square games were very popular to the SNES in Japan, one would figure that an Square produced game like The Secret of Evermore would get it's share of popularity in Japan.

I could be wrong, as the game itself didn't live up to high standards due to the fact that it was produced and developed in the US and not in Japan. But Seiken Densestsu 2 (Secret of Mana) had it's similarities with The Secret of Evermore in terms of graphics and gameplay. So at least hardcore Square fans in Japan would most likely wanted to have checked out The Secret of Evermore? It seems like logical. But for some reason, I think that japanese gamers probably had no interest in the game?

 

as you could read in some of the last posts, there are some shops which selling western games in akiba. one shop called Messe Sanô is specialized to western games only and if you check out the super potato, there are a lot of vintage consoles and games from oversea (jaguar, atari 5800, intellivision, collecovision, lynx etc,) as well some oversea games for mega drive, SNES, jaguar etc.