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Are games made by Japanese developers generally less buggy and/or janky?
- Thread starter Fiery Phoenix
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In my experience? absolutely, regardless of the level of game that is made. "Ambitious" shouldn't factor into whether your game is buggy or not when you could, ya know, actually test the freaking thing. Cyberpunk isn't a case of being overly ambitious (which it is) it's a case of not making a quality product, pushing it out before its ready and outright lies and misrepresentation.
Also because the PC ports often aren't handled by the dev themselves. It's a pretty known quantity about KT ports being trash, usually, but they're also typically after the original version has been released, so it's kind of that weird area of where the initial game release is fine to great and the later port to PC is just blah.
Nintendo games are less buggy/junky or rushed out the door and patched later after a 'we're very sorry dev post'
so there's that.
Can't speak for all Japanese devs but many seem to still treat release date versions as boxed final games even if there's a way to patch things, and the patches are legit fixes for things missed and not a way to rush a product to market.
so there's that.
Can't speak for all Japanese devs but many seem to still treat release date versions as boxed final games even if there's a way to patch things, and the patches are legit fixes for things missed and not a way to rush a product to market.
I think those notoriously un-janky Deadly Premonition games are hard and fast proof that all Japanese games come out perfect and don't have any flaws ever.
Deadly Premonition aside, PC ports are a crapshoot quite often with Japanese games. From bugs to performance issues to textures to missing graphical options, there is a wide gamut of issues with PC ports of Japanese games. SE and Bamco have had plenty of issues and they are large publishers.
Yes. Far less buggy because they won't really accept buggy games the way the west will. The standard is far higher in that regard.
I played those games at launch and XVwas in much better shape than those games, Skyrim achieved 0 fps on ps3, XV did have some frame pacing issues on base ps4 but the framerate was stable.
The standard is far higher that's why we got Deadly Premonition and Drakengard games
Final Fantasy has had numerous bugs through its run from the Relm sketch bug that could destroy your save & was easy to run into during normal gameplay to having entire stats do absolutely nothing.
Both of these games are perfectly playable on PC. Resolution/framerate/texture quality issues aside, neither of those games had any issues that affected gameplay on PC.
Remember when Platinum nearly went bankrupt while trying to develop an incredibly ambitious dragon hack and slash RPG that also was meant to have four player co-op.
Lmao at say in g this unironically
i don't think so, at least not when the slightest effort is made to compare games with similar scopes
TBF, it says alot that japanese devs tend to know what they're capable of and not overshoot.
I don't know if PC is a fair comparison. A lot of games seem to suffer from PC bugs like crashing/poor performance/etc soon after release. Which is mostly true for console ports. You could argue something like Dark Souls was running as intended with 30fps cap. Unless I'm misremembering some bigger bugs. Many console ports also notoriously suffer from poor optimization on PC.
That said, I don't see Japanese games as less buggy unless we are talking big Sony/Nintendo games. In that case, I'd argue single platform games, in general, tend to be better in terms of quality for obvious reasons.
That said, I don't see Japanese games as less buggy unless we are talking big Sony/Nintendo games. In that case, I'd argue single platform games, in general, tend to be better in terms of quality for obvious reasons.
I've never had to worry about things being broken in FFXIV as part of the general experience. To date the only bug i remember significantly impacted my regular play was when the PVP daily roulette didn't award any bonus XP. It's happened a few times though lmao.
People also seem to be conflating bugs that lead to interesitng exploits to just janky messes we get for so many AAA western launches.
The latter is definately not as common with JPN games. It goes back to how they treat the initial release of the game as a complete boxed version and patches as bonuses that allow them to fix up things missed. The goalposts have moved so much with western releases you pretty much get Beta builds of games with a promise to fix things later.
But we're speaking in generalities of course. Some western devs don't suffer from this, and some Japanese devs release buggy ass games, but there you go.
The latter is definately not as common with JPN games. It goes back to how they treat the initial release of the game as a complete boxed version and patches as bonuses that allow them to fix up things missed. The goalposts have moved so much with western releases you pretty much get Beta builds of games with a promise to fix things later.
But we're speaking in generalities of course. Some western devs don't suffer from this, and some Japanese devs release buggy ass games, but there you go.
