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First time you realized Japanese devs were GOAT?

Cre8

Cre8

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I grow up on Bio Hazard. Early Capcom years are the GOAT.
 
Bumblebeetuna

Bumblebeetuna

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Still waiting.

Loved some Japanese games when I was younger. Now that I am an adult I find them cringey and stupid, mostly. Gameplay sucks in most of them.
 
violence

violence

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FF7

The PS1 era had some bangers. I think Japan is less relevant now because they don't have the budgets that the west does. Blow Fish made those comments after the release of Skyward Sword, I only agree with them if they are talking about that game.
 
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deriks

deriks

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Everything I played was japanese back in the day

Capcom was THE arcade king. Nintendo and Sega launching hit after hit. Konami with a lot of shenanigans...

Good times
 
Astral Dog

Astral Dog

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well, i started gaming on the original NES, then N64 so i always been playing games made by Japanese developers

but when i thought 'this is so cool!' and understood they were on another level was with Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry 1 and 3
 
IAmRei

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Since 1994, I saw mostly western game as kusoge back then, and changes my mind when i saw halo CE.
then slowly welcome Western games ever since. but still with caution, because most of them has stupid gameplay or story decision. I might be too asian as well : )) but again, I mostly played Japanese games.

it has Best Game Design, Best Gameplay, More Tighter design, great controls, simple and efficient UI, among all their goodness,
the artstyle are my most loved features. I cannot stand ugly design, questionable taste of fashion and too simple and narrow minded imagination.
especially i dont like ugly video game characters. I feels like Demon Soul + Dark Souls are proper WRPG which lot of western dev want to be at the time.

Again, I'm still liking legends such as KoTOR 1, D2, TL2, FC2-3, CRY1-2, DA1-2, Neverwinter 1, Darksiders 2, ME 2, Halo Series, and Deus EXHR.
there are lot of western games that I like, but mostly I dont.

If I was asked though, I will still choose Japanese Games over all other Games.
 
ToneyJ

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Fatmanp said:
I didn’t really jive with Japanese games until th first few months of 2017 when Resident Evil 7, Yakuza 0, Nioh, Breath of the Wild, Nier Automata and Persona 5 dropped in consecutive months.
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This year is also when I realized Japan is just straight up better than the West. And I'll add in Gravity Rush 2 for 2017.
 
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mrpants

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SE Bravely Default & Kojima's Death Stranding both games made me realize Japanese game dev are at a whole new level
 
TerribleAtThisGame

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I mean I'm a kid of the 80s and 90s. Videogames just were a Japanese "thing" to us then. I remember it being crazy in my friend group that Doom wasn't Nintendo or Sega. Like wow, an inventive new thing not Japanese.

I mean we were kids though, of course we played the most mainstream stuff and arcades, hence this perception. It stuck though. I still view console gaming especially as specifically a Japanese thing somehow. Has nothing to do with the quality of non-Japanese games but more in the vein of that quintessentially they built what I love.
 
Futaleufu

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You could say that japan had the advantage making action arcade style games. However if you talk about simulation, strategy and rpgs the west always had and still has the advantage.
 
Frugal

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The first game i ever played was Sonic 2 on the Sega Genesis, ever since i've always had a strong preference for gameplay centric titles and japanese aesthetics. I don't play western games at all anymore, most of them outside of indies don't appeal to me in the slightest, also japan has cute girls in their games which is a huge plus!!!! Cute girls are one of my favorite types of characters to play as!
 
dmaul1114

dmaul1114

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I started gaming with NES and SMB and Duck Hunt….so then, at lest initially.

My tastes long ago shifted more toward western developers though. I still enjoy a lot of games from Japanese developers though, but as my interested went more toward narrative driven, action-adventure games, Japanese developers are long since no longer the GOATs for me.
 
cinnamonandgravy

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oh man eternal champions sucked so hard
but trying to best sf2 at that time was like trying to knife fight god

and sf2 still has the best music of any fighting game ever

anyway nippon #1 as long as i dont have to listen to anime sounds 24/7
just something about em... the good games are meaty in the right places
seems like the devs have a bit of fun making the games
 
consoul

consoul

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Early Capcom bros, unite.

I remember Resident Evil 1 blew my mind, but then Resident Evil 2 was just unbelievably fucking good.

You could play through all four main scenarios and then unlock Hunk and Tofu modes if you were good enough. Incredible.
 
NeoIkaruGAF

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I was a NES kid, so… right from the start, I guess.

Really didn’t help that at the time, Euro games had their very typical jank and American games were usually graphics first, gameplay (maybe) second. And they were mostly (American) movie tie-ins, Marvel (or Marvel-wannabe) games, or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games (I know most of those were made in Japan, but geez, half of all entertainment seemed to be about TMNT).
 
Business

Business

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If you are old enough it was always obvious. Maybe there could have been some doubts along the way, I’m thinking around the PS3/360 era, but that’s about it.
 
Cakeboxer

Cakeboxer

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Started with the NES and still love those games. But to be honest I'm not too much into todays japanese games unless they are from Nintendo.
 
GymWolf

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I haven't yet, they are both good at different things.

You are never gonna get a ff7 from a non-japanese devs and no japanese dev is ever gonna make something like rdr2.
 
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Lambogenie

Lambogenie

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Lean Asia, but I'm a weeb.

Western devs have far better choice based games and scripts, usually. From what I play anyway.
 
Ribi

Ribi

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When they kept making the same reskinned jrpgs, hack and slash jank, and the same fucking anime games with reskins at $60.

Fuck em
 
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plip.plop

plip.plop

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I enjoy Japanese titles. but I hate all the "uwu" and Weeb games they create. I think they were the catalyst for so many weirdos to enter the space (devs & gamers) that jumpstarted this DEI initiative we are seeing now.
 
Clintizzle

Clintizzle

Lord of Edge.
Japanese devs are not bad but far from the best. America/EU has the top devs for the games that I like and have released in my era. America/EU also simultaneously has the worst devs.
 
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RaduN

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I think it was summer of 92 when i first saw SF2, The Punisher and a vertical shmup (which i will forever NOT remember how it was called...i remember the bomb being your ship turning into a huge phoenix bird...maybe) on one side of the arcade, and Mortal Kombat and another somewhat similar title on the other side. I mean, you can guess which side i was glued to.

I was mind blown each time someone would land a Shoryuken..mind blown. No one really knew how to do it, so it was an adrenaline rush like never before (and never since) to see it come out. So simple, so perfect.

Now where's that damn time machine...? 😢
 
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