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Five of six top rated games of the year so far are all Japanese.
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They're working on a fourth character at the moment, so I think they plan to support Slay the Spire for at least a while longer.
This. Western and Japanese games are just on a "tick, tock" schedule right now. Both are fine and doing well.
Oh, I didn't know that. I'll take it. I wish they'd tweak ascensions. They just aren't fun to me. Nothing but hindrances and lowering chances of possible wins.
What? It's already "stopped" and started again several times in the past few years.
Just last year, the five games that were awarded GotY most often were God of War, Red Dead 2, Spider-Man, Celeste, and Return of the Obra Dinn - all of them Western. This year, the pendulum is swinging back the other way and we're seeing a ton of great Japanese games. But don't pretend Japan had a streak, or that it will necessarily continue. Everyone gets their time in the sun, and quite frankly it's kind of silly to root for either "side" in the first place. Good games are good games.
For me Japan development is/was always king.
Love west indie though, they take a lot of Japan dev cues
Love west indie though, they take a lot of Japan dev cues
Real talk though, it's not just Japan making great games, it's everyone. There's never been a better time for games than now.
You see bro shooters and brown games from western in current gen????????????? What
Nice. I think the list will be super interesting by year end. I expect to see Borderlands 3 and DOOM Eternal for Western games and Death Stranding + Astral Chain up there for Japanese games. I don't really like doing the whole West vs East thing, especially considering 2020 seems to be where big Western developers like Naughty Dog, CD Projekt Red (?), 343 Industries, Crystal Dynamics and Ubisoft Toronto are releasing flagship titles. It's a good time for games overall.
I agree, both Japanese and non-Japanese developers have been taking cues from one another for a long time now, and when it works well you get great games that satisfy many audiences at once. Creativity is not determined by geography.
I'll be honest there hasn't been hardly any Western games that have interested me in ages.
I really can't remember the last one.
It might of been Spider-man. But that was ages ago now.
I really can't remember the last one.
It might of been Spider-man. But that was ages ago now.
But I do think its inarguable that Japan and the west does things very differently in terms of business strategy and game design. Its not about where they are from its about how the culture and people around developers affects how they make games.
This man speaks the one truth. A Herald of Tzeentch indeed.
I guess I'm just not convinced that one can easily divide the business strategies of the world into "Japan" and "Not-Japan" once you step outside of the AAA sphere into mid-budget and indie studios, which is where most of my attention is these days.
I'll give you the point on game design though. Some genres are certainly more prevalent coming from Japan than other countries and vice-versa, which is partly platform driven. I primarily play on PC and it's taken a while for some of the bigger Japanese publishers to commit more to the platform. Sega's been pushing a for that a lot lately which I'm grateful for.
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Brown as in the color scheme of realistic samey looking bro games. It's something people talked about all last gen. Never heard of a brown game before.
I like seeing years like these, it's really nice since I love Japanese games. I also fully expect Fire Emblem to be put onto this list (and maybe Astral Chain too?).
This is basically me as well. Many indie devs take cues from Japanese games, which I think is great.
Yes, rockstar, cdpr, naughty dog, insomniac, Sony Santa Monica are losing their way and taking the L.
I won't tolerate this implied slander of Return of the Obra Dinn.
Well ok I might. But I reserve the right to grumble a lot.
sorry for the bump, just noticed that fire emblem has gotten into the top 6 of the year (top 5 if you don't count nier automata goaty)
Looking forward to Iceborne joining the ranks next month.
Gonna be wild having 3 Capcom games in the top scores.
This is an expensive year.
EDIT: would be nice if Teppen also had reviews lol
Gonna be wild having 3 Capcom games in the top scores.
This is an expensive year.
EDIT: would be nice if Teppen also had reviews lol
sorry for the bump, just noticed that fire emblem has gotten into the top 6 of the year (top 5 if you don't count nier automata goaty)
Astral Chain will be there too in 20 days. #believe
The biggest travesty here is that Conquest isn't the best reviewed version. Then again, i think Revelations only has half the reviews going for it compared to the other versions.on meta it's lower than some versions of fates, higher than others
oh yes, def. Witcher, Hitman, Dishonored, Prey, RDR, , life is strange , wolfenstein, divinity, hollow knight, hellblade. It is very clear that outside of Sony output Western devs are in a creative rut.
Not one of those games are from this year, and the closest one to this conversation is RDR which is divisive to say the least. I mean Witcher 3 came out 4 years ago.
Dark Souls came out 8 years ago but god forbid we go a day without hearing about that fifteen times an hour.
Fortunately great games are being made all over the globe but gaming forums are such a sad place that even the country where a game is made can serve as pretext for fanboy wars. It's amazing.
It is kinda funny that it's "This tiny island in the pacific vs. THE ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD"
Fire Emblem, MHW Iceborn and Death Stranding should be fine additions to this year as well.
Phil Fish was right when he made that comment, last gen was a dark time for Nipponese games.
Phil Fish was right when he made that comment, last gen was a dark time for Nipponese games.
Not one of them was great last gen, Square and Capcom made mediocre games, barely anyone heard about From before Dark Souls, and Nintendo was very risk averse last gen.
