East vs West: Sun No Longer Rising

The POW Block says: "Oh Japan, why have you fallen so far? You saved the home video game market after we westerners screwed it up with the Atari. You created the first real console war amongst yourselves between Nintendo and Sega. Westerners didn’t even have a real entry into the console war until the Xbox, so how is it that everyone seems to think you’ve lost your touch by the next generation?"

[crispinantista]

Japan really has been falling behind. I feel like the El Shaddai reviews are speaking to this as well.

[Stealth2k]

yeah and dragon age 2 killzone 3 were brilliant right?

Come on

these articles are nothing but generalizations

best to ignore

[newleaf]

any relation? http://n4g.com/user/home/st...

[Why o why]

peaks and troughs

There are still great games coming from asia so im not sure about all this 'no longer rising' or 'fallen off' talk. They were the top. The west had to catch up and have done so in many ways. No need for this tbh, peaks and troughs

[fluffydelusions]

I think part of the problem is that the majority of Japanese game developers are trying to cater more towards westerners and moving away from traditional game play we have to come to know and love from Japanese games from past generations.

[Hitster]

I'm not sure that is right because jrpgs are all the same just with different flavors of suck.

[Stealth2k]

its sad you troll what you dont know...........

you mean like wrpgs are all single player fantasy action rpgs right?

[Hitster]

Yeah like Fallout, Borderlands, and Mass Effect... It's sad you troll what you don't know.... Especially with bad grammar.

[Venox2008]

I still prefer japanese games more than west ..sure, there are some exceptions, but not many..

[jc48573]

I blame it on the rise of FPS games. They are messing everything up.

[caseh]

Funnily enough I was thinking about Capcom. Thinking back to their earlier games, Capcom came out with so many amazing games:

Strider
Willow
Final Fight
Alien Vs. Predator
Ghosts 'n' Goblins
UN Squadron
Commando
Black Tiger

I could probably list like another 50 I grew up loving. Shame considering the rep they used to have and the rep they have now due to releasing 'Street Fighter 76 - Hyper Turbo Arcade Ex Plus ++ Revision 2.1.0 Edition' and then a week later releasing DLC for it. :/

[CrescentFang]

Black Tiger! What a game! Sadly I only played it in one of Capcom's arcade collections, I had a great time even if it was hard. The only Capcom game I'm looking forward to is Asura's Wrath, but only because CC2 is developing it.
I can't believe Capcom just ignored one of their oldest IPs, Breath of Fire, which was their main RPG series and just go ahead and make Dragon's Dogma, but I won't judge until I play the game.

[zerocrossing]

I blame the devs who feel they need to westernise their games in order to compete in the market.

Resonance of Fate

Atelier Rorona

Blaz Blue CS II

Demon's Soul's

these are just a few Ive played this gen that are great, and you'll never find a wester game like them.

I play Japanese games because I like the style, weather that be the story, graphics, gameplay or whatever else. I don't want them to change =/

[CrescentFang]

The guy up there was right about generalizing, it's no good in any situation, but then he goes and brings up Dragon Age 2 and Killzone 3...
Japanese games are great, if you know what you want/like (there are SO many of them, so getting the popular ones or the mainstream games may not live up to you're expectations/wants...)
I was playing Catherine and God Hand at the same time and I think those two games are very unique that no other has yet to copy them. Nier was awesome as well (RIP Cavia, at least you're part of Acquire now... who is part of Marvelous...)
I don't play many western games that much so i can;t comment on them, but WRPGs are looking cool. My cousin loved ME2 and he can't stand (cliche) Japanese games anymore). He keeps telling me to play it but I'm not too sure I can get into to it haha. I may try someday though...