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A Look at Eastern & Western Gaming

April 03, 2010 in Blog comments 18

Recently both sides of the gaming cultures have been releasing some stellar AAA games. From the East we have games such as Final Fantasy XIII, Bayonetta, & Yakuza 3. Then in the north we have games like God Of War III, Mass Effect 2, and Heavy Rain.

But which one is doing better? Personal tastes aside, which culture is ahead of the market?

So far this year we have explored the glorious worlds of Cocoon & Pulse in Final Fantasy XIII. Took a four man squad across the globe fighting Russians, against their will, in Battlefield Bad Company 2. Explored huge galaxies in Mass Effect 2, while getting some softcore porn out if on the side. Slashed a lot of things into alot of pieces in Bayonetta, all while cringing from the sexual cringyness of it all. You maybe even stuffed the faces inside out of a few hundred Yakuza henchmen, while babysitting an orphanage no less, in Yakuza 3. More likely, however, you’ve been ripping peoples heads off and experimenting with a new breed of cinematic gameplay in God of War III & Heavy Rain. Regardless of what you’ve been doing, if you’re reading this, you have been gaming.
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  • 0
    ShadowGuard Apr 3, 10
    Who is winning? The West easily, but who has the better games? The East. Western games have no story, people who think Fallout 3 and Oblivion have a good story have not played a game with a 'real' story. Final Fantasy XII had a better story those two, but westerners are so focused on quests to collect useless stuff, that the devs forget about the story.

    That is my rant... Give me a story and innovative gameplay instead of gameplay and stupid side quests...
    • 2
      Paradox Apr 3, 10
      Have you looked into Fallout's story? You should go to "The Vault" and at least read the timeline, or play the PC games. It's one of the few games with a deep storyline, next to Assassins Creed.
    • 3
      Seeker X Apr 3, 10
      Are you *bleep*ing serious? Do you have any idea how fleshed out BOTH of those franchises are? They are basically UNIVERSES in there, not just simple storylines. There's a reason why there are hundreds of different people to interact with, books to read, and things to do. What in the hell are you going on about? Forget about the story???
    • 2
      Slumpy monkey Apr 3, 10
      Clicking through menus =/= innovative gameplay
      • 0
        ShadowGuard Apr 3, 10
        its sad when people actually think Fallout has a deep storyline... that is what gaming as come to i guess. Yes slumpy monkey, that is all you do... [/sarcasm]
        • 3
          Paradox Apr 3, 10
          Have you played the first two? Honestly? Really, go buy them, then come back and talk. Fallout has a remarkable storyline, Oblivions is good too.

          Seriously, read up on it. It'll literally blow you're mind.
        • 4
          Slumpy monkey Apr 4, 10
          Walk around to find more menus to click through?
        • 0
          ShadowGuard Apr 4, 10
          it has already failed to blow my mind Blade Runner...

          Slumpy Monkey, you should not bring up running around when trying to defend WRPGs, that is ALL that happens in them...
    • 3
      Spectre Apr 4, 10
      Try playing a game from BioWare if you want a Western game with a good story.
    • 1
      Paradox Apr 5, 10
      In my opinion Final Fantasy's storyline isn't that great at all...
    • 0
      Woudo Apr 5, 10
      Ohio Neo, I am nasuki-san of dumb old America . I wish to rive in grorious Japanese homerand, with trury innovative game developers and eat noodres all day XDXD! I watch Naruto and rove grorious master-race games rike Starcraft and Rapelay. One day, I hope to rive in grand Nippon and draw anime with arr my Japanese peers.
    • 0
      Xeros the Slayer Apr 5, 10
      FFXII's story was derived from Star Wars episodes 3-6. Which would explain a good amount of hate from the usual fanbase, it's a Western story in an Eastern game.
    • 0
      Hideo1 Apr 7, 10
      ... what?

      Seriously, what?!

      You've got be kidding me. Seriously?

      No, you're trolling. You have to be. That can't be what you genuinely think.
  • 0
    Province Apr 3, 10
    The point I trying to make was that Call of Duty & other western franchises will never be accessible to the cultures outside it's Western home. However Eastern games such as FFXIII are established and supported around the world.

    Also, In terms of game quality you can't actually say the East has better games when the West has games like Heavy Rain, God Of War III, Battlefield Bad Company 2, inFamous & etc.
  • 1
    Absolute Apr 3, 10
    Weeabos make me lol so hard.

    Of course the west is winning. Of course the west has better games.

    /article
    • 0
      Province Apr 4, 10
      Well...

      Business wise no they're losing in terms of national popularity & constant sales. Quality wise West is winning as they're more diverse in there games in counter to the East's near CONSTANT JRPG themes.
      • 1
        Absolute Apr 4, 10
        National is a strange term to use when referring to the west, seeing as "the west" consists of USA, Canada, Western Europe, etc. In terms of sales and popularity, the west has Japan beaten by a HUGE margin.

        Again, that is not surprising, as its quite a few of nations with similar tastes vs one.
  • 2
    Machienzo Apr 7, 10
    The Fallout series has amassed a large fanbase since Fallout 3's debut. Also, Final Fantasy is nice, but I've been a heavy fan of it. It just feels like it plays the game for you.

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