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Here Are The Top 30 Games Japanese Gamers Are Looking Forward To In 2013

Toshi Nakamura: ''2013 is only 1/12th over. With 11 months left and new console news on the horizon, Weekly Famitsu asked its readers what games they were looking forward to for this year. Here's a list of the top 30 anticipated upcoming games for 2013.''

Irishguy954108d ago

6: Lightning Returns Final Fantasy XIII

Facepalm. No wonder SE keep making dreadful games.

classic2004108d ago

You think this is bad.

Well ask majority of americans what they are looking for and I bet its the another call of duty.

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Batzi4108d ago

Glad to see some love for Rising in Japan.

jc485734108d ago

The Last of Us is the only Western game that made it to the top 30 and there is a reason for that. Out of many Western developers, Naughty Dog is the only one that seems to have a style that Japanese gamers are ok with: 1. Characters don't look like they are on steroids. 2. characters look like actual people. 3. better proportion so easy to relate with. There are also other things, but I don't want to get into them. i bet if god of war wasn't that "brutal," then maybe Ascension would've made it to the list.

grailly4108d ago

so reason 1,2 and 3 are the same reason?

also GTA is on the list.

jc485734108d ago (Edited 4108d ago )

yea, just noticed that. GTAV also looks great in comparison to most western games. 1, 2, and 3 are exceptions because one is anime and the other 2 are highly stylized games. GTA5 just looks like a major improvement from previous games, so I really don't see why Japanese wouldn't be interested this time around. For Rockstar, I think it started off with Red Dead Redemption and not GTA4.

miyamoto4108d ago (Edited 4108d ago )

Hirokazu Yasuhara (also credited as Carol Yas) (born October 12, 1965) is a Japanese video game designer and Sonic Team's 2nd Assistant President.

He then joined Naughty Dog, working on the Jak and Daxter series and 'Uncharted', collaborating once more with former Sega employee Mark Cerny.

Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) — Director, Game Planner, Project
Fatal Labyrinth (1991) — Director, Game Planner
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) — Director, Game Planner, Object Placement, Project
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994) — Director, Lead Game designer
Sonic & Knuckles (1994) — Director, Lead Game designer
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles (1994) — Director, Lead Game designer
Sonic 3D Blast (1995) — Playfield Design, Saturn Enhancements
Sonic Xtreme (1996) — Head Designer
Sonic R (1997) — Map Design Director
Sega Smash Pack 2 (2000) — Special Thanks
The Floigan Brothers: Episode 1 (2001) — Game Designer
Jak 2 (2003) — Game Designer
Jak 3 (2004) — Game Designer
Jak X: Combat Racing (2005) — Game Designer
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007) — Game Designer
Afro Samurai (2009) — Special Thanks
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009) — Game Designer
Pac-Man Party (2010) — Lead Game Design
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (2011) — Game Designer

jc485734108d ago

I think he left ND after U3.

ApolloTheBoss4108d ago

Surprised GTA's in the top 10.

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin2638d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905083d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5083d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905083d ago (Edited 5083d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5083d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5083d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5083d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495083d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5083d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5083d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2674d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One