Nestled within the covers of the March 16th issue of Weekly Famitsu is a feature article explaining the current rage that is "Western" gaming. Whether by poor marketing, poor localization, or perhaps just personal bias, the majority of Japanese gamers still maintain the opinion that games developed in America or Europe have nothing to offer them. In an attempt to dispel the myths, Famitsu arranged for several interviews with top Japanese development talent to get their take on games made outside of Japan, but due to space restrictions, many of the developers' comments had to be cut.
However, the magazine has preserved these candid interviews, and will be reprinting them in a five part series to be presented all week long on Famitsu.com. Monday's interview was with Sega's Toshihiro Nagoshi, who, in addition to working on the Daytona USA series, was also the producer behind Yakuza. In this article are his thoughts, translated by GamePro.
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Sure buddy... You're trying to tell me it has a deeper story than goat 🐐 simulator 4000?!?!?. I wanna give bg3 a shot but my brain is burnt out on long games
The long-awaited sequel to the 2013 narrative adventure is currently expected out sometime in 2024.
Oh hell yeah! I feel like this was one hell of an underrated game, and I'm glad to see that a part 2 is coming.
This was my favorite Telltale game. I’m definitely going to play this. Hopefully it has less jank than the Telltale games had. I didn’t think it would happen but I’m happy it’s coming
Great, loved the first game and happy a sequel is coming but after such a lengthy development, are Telltale gonna be releasing it episodic with non specific time delays between episodes? If it is episodic, they need to have a full set of dates laid out for every episode so we know what we are getting & when like Resident Evil Revelations 2 did, buying episode 1 and not knowing when the rest will come is just unacceptable in 2024.
I always loved Telltale games. They were like those old choose your own adventures books.
Good Interview.
If these Japanese gamers give some of the western style games a chance, they may end up liking it. I know for a fact that Chinese and Taiwanese people love their western PC games.
This was a waste of time to read.
the people saying "no one else makes game we like", are the same people who love games with monsters, games about cooking, horse racing games, and games with young girls barely wearing clothes plus just childish games.
i mean not everyone is going to like western/asian games, but for a country the size of montana who likes things other countries/continents aren't interested in to be confused about it is dumb. maybe the western games arent as creative, but you cant expect them to want to target an audiance who would only make a small percentage of profit.
Bring out any game, one from the past another just recently released and you might still get a totally different set of opinion particularly from Japan as it is from the West... All good to hear, plus gives us more variety to choose if we wanted to accept/try out their sort of games and them with ours.