.Pennywise
Banned
NOTE: because I know some people, lovers of the Japanese and their culture and games, will jump on my throat. This thread it's not to discuss if you like the stuff they do more or less. I don't care how much of a weeb you are, this is a discussion about Japanese gaming/technology and their footing into the XXI century.
There was a time in the '90s and very early '00s where looking at Japan was like looking through a window right into the future. You would see all this new technology only them would have and you couldn't believe how advanced they were compared to the rest of the world. It was dreamlike to just think of this country.
Consoles? All Japanese, SEGA, Nintendo, PlayStation. Each with their own take on videogames.
If you wanted to play new innovative stuff you'd better be playing some Japanese game.
All good arcades where only Japanese of course. And they would make awesome ports from arcades despite consoles not being powerful enough like the former (at least until the SEGA Dreamcast arrived).
More than an excuse of a story you say? Japanese games please.
New innovative combat systems? Japanese games.
Graphics that pushed the boundaries? Japaan bitch.
This in no way detracts the work of the western companies that did a good job also, but most of the good and new stuff came from Japan mostly.
Fast forward 20 years and here we are. 2022.
What the hell happened to Japan and their "keep pushing the limits" culture?
Seriously, it's the Tokyo Game Show right now and all you see are rehashes from the '90s. Like they couldn't get past and stood still, frozen in that era.
Just a ton of "remakes and remasters" (I'd be more comfortable calling them re-releases to be honest). No graphical pushing games (maybe less than a handful that just are on par with the times).
Absolutely zero innovation in combat systems. It's like they cannot get out of the turn based stuff, even if the game it's an action game.
Consoles that cannot run anything else but anime/cel shading stuff above 20fps. And looking at PlayStation you could see this difference clearly with Nintendo since PS "westernized" itself while Nintendo remains as Japanese as it could. PS has the best graphical games while the other... Ughh...
Why's that now the Western is pushing new technologies so hard, like VR, while Japan remains in their '90s bubble of little toys, childish storytelling, same art style everywhere, same old tropes, and zero innovation in every scenario.
And don't get me started in online play and internet adoption because oofff...
What happened to the Japanese?
There was a time in the '90s and very early '00s where looking at Japan was like looking through a window right into the future. You would see all this new technology only them would have and you couldn't believe how advanced they were compared to the rest of the world. It was dreamlike to just think of this country.
Consoles? All Japanese, SEGA, Nintendo, PlayStation. Each with their own take on videogames.
If you wanted to play new innovative stuff you'd better be playing some Japanese game.
All good arcades where only Japanese of course. And they would make awesome ports from arcades despite consoles not being powerful enough like the former (at least until the SEGA Dreamcast arrived).
More than an excuse of a story you say? Japanese games please.
New innovative combat systems? Japanese games.
Graphics that pushed the boundaries? Japaan bitch.
This in no way detracts the work of the western companies that did a good job also, but most of the good and new stuff came from Japan mostly.
Fast forward 20 years and here we are. 2022.
What the hell happened to Japan and their "keep pushing the limits" culture?
Seriously, it's the Tokyo Game Show right now and all you see are rehashes from the '90s. Like they couldn't get past and stood still, frozen in that era.
Just a ton of "remakes and remasters" (I'd be more comfortable calling them re-releases to be honest). No graphical pushing games (maybe less than a handful that just are on par with the times).
Absolutely zero innovation in combat systems. It's like they cannot get out of the turn based stuff, even if the game it's an action game.
Consoles that cannot run anything else but anime/cel shading stuff above 20fps. And looking at PlayStation you could see this difference clearly with Nintendo since PS "westernized" itself while Nintendo remains as Japanese as it could. PS has the best graphical games while the other... Ughh...
Why's that now the Western is pushing new technologies so hard, like VR, while Japan remains in their '90s bubble of little toys, childish storytelling, same art style everywhere, same old tropes, and zero innovation in every scenario.
And don't get me started in online play and internet adoption because oofff...
What happened to the Japanese?