When is the west going to catch up? 2019 has been a dire year for western games. Trash like Control, Gears 5 and Anthem - all the same basic TPS. Wow, very cool western devs
>Astral Chain >Azur Lane Crosswave >Animal Crossing Horizons >Babylon's Fall >Bayonetta 3 >Bloodstained Ritual of the Night >Collection of Mana >Code Vein >Daemon X Machina >Deadly Premonition 2 >Dragon Quest XI Definitive Edition >Dragon Quest Builders 2 >Elden Ring >Fire Emblem Three Houses >Granblue Fantasy Relink >Granblue Fantasy Versus >Catherine Full Body >Death Stranding >Digimon Survive >Final Fantasy VII Remake >Kill la Kill IF >Hatsune Miku Megamix >Luigi's Mansion 3 >Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 >Mary Skelter 2 >Judgment >Ni Oh 2 >Oninaki >Omega Labyrinth Life >Project Sakura Wars >Project Awakening >Project Re: Fantasy >Project Resistance >Pokemon Sword & Shield >Rune Factory 4 >Rune Factory 5 >Persona 5 The Royale >Persona 5 Scramble >Persona Q2 >Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin >Shenmue III >Samurai Shodown >Super Mario Maker 2 >Shin Megami Tensei V >Tales of Arise >Town >Trials of Mana >Trails of Cold Steel 3 >Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition >Yo-Kai Watch 4 >Warriors Orochi 4 >Yakuza Like a Dragon >YS IX Monstrum Nox >Zelda Link's Awakening >Zelda Breath of the Wild 2
Genres the West does or has at least done well and Japan does terrible, or not at all >FPS and TPS >turn based RPGs >FPS RPGs >RTS, 4X and Grand Strategy >point and click Genres Japan does well and the West does terrible >action RPGs >action games >adventure games >puzzle games >horror games
>>FPS and TPS >>turn based RPGs >>FPS RPGs >>RTS, 4X and Grand Strategy >>point and click
Funny that you listed game genres that haven't been good in more than a decade.
Nicholas Howard
The west does some things well and the east does some things well.
Western genres: > FPS > Roguelike > Racing > MMO > wRPG but those only come out once in a blue moon : ^ )
Both: > Platforming > Linear puzzle, E.G. point and click > Arcade puzzle, E.G. Tetris, Puyo
Japan: > jRPG > Horror > Beat em up > Fighting > Action
Colton Garcia
>puzzle games Puzzle Agent, TTP, Baba is you, Obra Dinn. >horror games Lost in Vivo,Dead Space, Condemned, Darkwood.
Adrian Martin
beyond casual. be more open minded bout jp games.
Henry Flores
>Obra Dinn Technically Japanese. Pope is American but he developed all of his games in Japan.
Jordan Thomas
Still counts as western game, he will never be japanese.
Landon Richardson
>People seriously thinking Japan and the U.S. are tied for Puzzle Japan's put out a metric fuckton of good puzzle game series. It's absolutely not a contest
Mason Parker
>The west makes good WRPGs and Japan makes good JRPGs Wow, amazing insight.
Grayson Cox
japanese racing games are much better. they just dont make it now
I didn't say they were better, but no way western devs are "terrible" at making puzzle games.
Asher Allen
Japan has made a lot of great "puzzle games" like Puyo Puyo and Professor Layton. The west has made a lot of great "puzzle games" like Tetris and Myst and even if the best versions of Tetris are made by Sega, it counts as Western anyway. It's not a perfect tie, but both have their high points.
Nolan Nelson
Closest game a WRPG Japan ever made was Dead Rising 1 and Dragon's Dogma, but still not even close.
Ryder Jenkins
Tetris was made by the USSR, is not a western country. You coul mention games like gabriel knight, Still Life and a lot of 90's adventure games.
Leo Campbell
Jap games are objectively easier than Western games on highest difficulty.
Caleb Roberts
>Genres the West does or has at least done well and Japan does terrible, or not at all >movie "games" >Genres Japan does well and the West does terrible >all other genres fify
Luke Brooks
When you're talking about games, it's "Japan" and "the West", with "the West" being literally everyone who isn't Japan. It's the only way it's fair
Aiden Bell
Reminder that FPS arena games and FPS mid 90s games like Doom were a mistake and the industry would be in a much better place (no dlc, no multiplayer) if those games had not existed.
Leo Howard
you forget dr. mario
Landon Turner
>is not a western country.
It counts in what I'm talking about in the OP. Nobody would confuse a Russian game for a Japanese game
Add all strategy games that aren't RPGs to the western genres.
Luis Morris
>Any of those games on JP >Needing a PhD in gaming Yeah if you're a fucking casual who's never been good at any game
Noah Reed
> Fire Emblem > Nobunaga's Ambition Nah, Japan has decent strategy games here and there.
Juan Myers
>Western Game Good/Bad >Japanese Game Good/Bad Fuck off. A game's country origin doesn't automatically determine the quality. The developers themselves do. Shit like this is why I left Yea Forums for Reddit.
Grayson Torres
Also Half Life has a more promising skill ceiling than any of the games in JP
Jeremiah Lopez
>Jap games are objectively easier than Western games on highest difficulty.
Bad games like Terminator 1 on NES by Bethesda is harder than Mega Man 1 on NES by Capcom - but I know which one I'd rather play.
I've played HL2 on hard, no it doesn't - unless you're a Jap who gets sick while playing FPSes.
Isaiah Fisher
>I've played HL2 on hard What exactly do you think a skill ceiling is
Eli Turner
>Fire Emblem I said non-RPG.
Grand strategy, RTS, 4X, tycoon and management games, are all genres that basically don't exist in japan.
Tyler Taylor
Oh, so in some fantasy world, there's a possible potential for Half Life 2 to be a complex FPS...
When we already have far more complex and better FPSes than HL2 known as Duke Nukem 3D.
Luke Williams
>Fuck off. A game's country origin doesn't automatically determine the quality. The developers themselves do. yeah, and japanese developers are just straight-up better than western developers. >Shit like this is why I left Yea Forums for Reddit. it shows.
nobunaga's ambition and romance of the three kingdoms existed way before your garbage westshit.
Ayden Lopez
you're a retard but nobunaga's ambition is good
Jordan Cooper
You're 100% right
But the west hasn't made a good one in decades. Hell, even when Civ 4 was out, you had to wait for the Beyond the Sword Expansion and all the patches before you could say it was a classic. Paradox games are just DLC simulators.
Oh those Koei games, yeah, but they're pretty fucking old. (I think they do make new versions but they're never in English)
Leo Hernandez
Being complex and having a skill ceiling aren't the same thing. Half Life being good wasn't even my point.
Bayonetta is complex from a technical perspective, but the actual skill you need to be good at the game comes mostly from memory (not the muscle kind). Which is normal for any game, but what matters is how that memory works in compound with other skills like accuracy, reaction, and so on. And memory carries so fucking hard in those games it's actually like your other skills might not matter.
Every JP game listed on OP's image has a terribly shallow skill ceiling in that regard compared to almost everything else in videogames. Half Life at least has the fucking decency to have a somewhat promising skill ceiling in terms of optimizing control and speed. And if you seriously think a skill ceiling is determined by how complex the system appears or by some arbitrary ranking you're a dumbass.
Gavin Barnes
>A game's country origin doesn't automatically determine the quality It does though.
Not him but no it doesn't. If that were the case then every game made in any country would be the exact same quality as one another. The specifics of how the gaming industry works in different countries absolutely has an influence on the quality of games, since there tend to be trends in the design process based on nation. But a game is more than just where it's made.
Lucas Martin
You keep saying Half Life. Why can't you be honest? HL2 is one of the most casual FPSes ever. Like Duke Nukem 3D introduces the jetpack, which makes levels HUGE and full of secrets. You can do things like jump off a tall building, hit the J key at the last moment and survive. The Gravity Gun is just a worse projectile weapon that you have to actively collect ammo for.
Duke 3D also has an array of inventory items to account for, HL2 doesn't.
HL2 has several situations where you have unlimited ammo (the helicopter fight, the ammo pack on the back of that shitty buggy thing). Duke 3D doesn't, and it's possible if you play like shit to run out of ammo.
Nothing about HL2 is complex. On any level. Hell, compare it to FEAR and FEAR utterly shits on HL2.
Connor Thomas
If Japanese games are so good, then why do you waste your time remaking this thread every day instead of playing them?
koei, known as koei-tecmo, has made a bunch of strategy games and shit since nes. i mean the company is for that. they havent been just localised. japan actually pretty much makes all genres. koei besides, a bunch of popular series have been released. front mission series, daisenryaku series, famicon war series, etc. theres a bunch of obscure ones as well.
Tyler Miller
Because he can't live without sucking chink dick every day.
Daniel Davis
>then every game made in any country would be the exact same quality as one another But this is true. Games made in Japan are all the same quality: very high, and games made in the rest of the world are of the same quality: shit.
Joseph Butler
I keep saying Half Life because my point has nothing to do with other FPSes, it has to do with the comparison on OP's list.
Camden Foster
I get you're shitposting but fuck off and apply some critical thought for once in your life
Dominic Walker
it's one button combat against AI that does 3 things: stand & shoot, run & shoot, stand & throw grenade. The game is a joke with how easy it is youtube.com/watch?v=e0WqAmuSXEQ
Justin Sanchez
And again, I don't buy your premise. Japs made Breakdown and did a pretty good job at an FPS clone. HL2 is not at all complex, and no, pressing WADS doesn't count as more than 1 button, because you can play HL2 with a controller like in The Orange Box version and it's 100% fine.
Dominic Jones
Mind explaining to me what my "premise" is then? Because I'm not convinced you even read my post right.
You keep insisting on points that are either already conceded or something I covered and are completely irrelevant to what I'm actually saying.
Jaxon Price
lmao what the fuck is this shit
Hudson Williams
your forgot fighting games. West still can't put good shit out there
Henry Thomas
the deep and cultured genre of first person shooters
Jason Cox
Sounds like something Jerry Seinfeld would say
Easton Carter
I swear westacucks think Smash Brothers is American too
Alexander Phillips
>they havent been just localised
Maybe they should be before we can even discuss them being relevant
Elijah Clark
why do westacuck faggots like you not even play re4 and vanquish. also i do not think the average western tps is better than re series and mikamis tps
Oliver Foster
Max Payne 1 and 2 are better than any Japanese TPS.
William Ward
>Shit like this is why I left Yea Forums for Reddit.
What a smoothbrain babybitch you are
David Reed
>action RPGs Japan's ARPGs have little to no RPG. Even far cry is more rpg than most of them. >action games Wrong. Pic related. >horror games They make amazing horror atmosphere. They have terrible gameplay though. The west has games like Condemned and The Suffering, that are both scary and fun to play, even though they're still not as successful as Silent Hill and Siren in delivering a horror atmosphere they're much more fun to play.
>this thread again god of war shits on all that weeb shit
Nathan Baker
>RE4 Had a bunch of good moments but overall full of boring padding and shitty QTE. >RE series They have shitty controls. >average western tps I think you haven't played enough of them.
Henry Taylor
Why the need for two Bamham games? Can't come up with any other ones?
Camden White
The Arkham games cast a long shadow in how they ruined western action games.
Nah just kidding. You're probably right, but it kind of feels like a MUD game with 2D graphics.
Jackson Gray
Lol, I don't even play weebshit, but God of War is absolute garbage.
Jose Bailey
Just like with Inception horns, the fault lies with lazy hacks who thoughtlessly copy popular shit because they have no ideas or vision for their games.
Matthew Anderson
dilate
Mason Sanders
>Kill la Kill IF >Oninaki >Mary Skelter 2 >Omega Labyrinth Life >Pokemon Sword & Shield >Persona 5 Scramble >Shenmue III >Shenmue III >Shenmue III >Zelda Link's Awakening Top kek, OP Also, like half of those games ahven't even been released yet
>Arkham Asylum sold more than 2 million copies in a year and sold more >Arkham City sold more than 5 million copies and still sells >Half Life 2 sold more than 6 million copies >God of War sold 10 million copies Meanwhile >God Hand flopped >Ninja Gaiden barely sold 2 million copies >Demon's Souls didn't even reach a million copies during the entire year it was released >Bayonetta barely sold more than a million copies and it's sequel FLOPPED in Japan. So much for the ''savior of video games''. Even garbage like Anthem sells more than half of the games mentioned combined, which btw is like 6 million copies. Gears 5 just came out, so before you claim doom and gloom over it like you faggots did with games like Days Gone and MK11, you might wanna wait a bit.
Bentley Allen
lol at your westacucked standards. if re4 is so shitty, then western tps games last gen were by far shitter than re4. like unchartard and all that shitty open world shooters. fucking terrible motions/animations with a garbage control.
its still mysteriously overrated and was merely all about media/journos pushing "we are superior because we love dudebro games. japanese games were gay" narratives. and you dont even play mikamis tps games. yet "japan is terrible at tps"? dont make me laugh.