In terms of RPGs, do you prefer Western or Japanese aesthetics?

Some of the lower quality JRPGs have disgustingly cutesy aesthetics, but the best Japanese art design in RPGs is far more visually interesting and beautiful than Western art design IMO. It has a certain lush, ornate, and feminine quality that I love.

Some images and screens that showcase what I love about Japanese art design:

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Pug-Nasty

lol, it wasn't a yes or no question. Are you sure you're in the right thread?

Depends, i prefer the best JRPG art to the the best WRPG art

But there are JRPGs that look terrible, like the horrid Neptunia etc

For example i like Withcer 2 art 10.000.000x more than Ni no Kuni or Naptunia or WKC art

I can appreciate both.

Although I'm not a fan of those anime looking rpg's.

Depends on the game. I prefer japanese style over most typical western fantasy. On the other hand, the first Fallout is more aesthitically interesting than anything I've ever seen from jRPG

I think some of those screenshots are very good, care to tell me the name of the games.evildead6789

The first four images are from Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii, the next three images are from Final Fantasy X for the PS2, the one after that is from Baten Katos for the Gamecube, the image after that is from an upcoming untitled Monolith Soft game for the Wii U, the last one is also from Baten Katos.

Western of course

Depends on the game, really.

japanese especially final fantasy

I generally prefer JRPG aesthetics. The FF10 tropical islands in this thread,the Garden in Final Fantasy 8 and Alexandria from FF9 really is the exact kind of stuff I like. I like it bright, colorful and preferably lots of water, I like cheerful stuff, my favorite media is Gintama(anime), Psych(tv series), Final Fantasy 8/9/10...

However, that's older generations. Now many (NIS-America mostly... (/sigh)) jrpgs are a bit too anime-ish for me to truly appreciate them. I liked Rogue Galaxy and DQ8 from last generation but this generation there is too much about the ecchi, sexualization and trying to appeal to nerds that just want to see girls in skirts thinking "There there Kona-chan~ don't be afraiiiid~~~~ mmmm moeee mmm /nosebleed" (NIS-America (/spit)).

So basically... Real jrpgs from last generation and earlier (yet still in 3d) is what I like.

Western by far.

Western.

I love RPGS so I love both of them.

I dislike most of the Asian styles. Particularly how men look like young girls and the over abundance of scantily clad young female humanoid characters. It's borderline paedophilia at times.

Just give me pandas and I'm happy.

Japanese art.

I like both Western and Japanese RPGs.

I don't like anime. So it's pretty obvious what I like.

I love Japanese art, but I can't stand what localization teams do to the stories and voice work.I'm not a fan of the cheap multi colored spiky hair character designs that run rampant among the more standard titles, but I love the grander scale stuff that Japanese artists put out. I love the attention to detail.

Western games I can take it or leave it as far as art goes. Too be honest I really don't care if it's Western or Japanese, just as long as it's good/interesting.

Prefer western and korean.

Depends what mood I'm in; I find Japanese to contain more stimulating in terms of location variety. Western perhaps for character development. They both excel when at their best, so win either way really.

I like anything colorful I hate a dark greyish brownish depressing environments which most of western games use.

I'm glad you posted a couple from BK:O, because imo the BK games have a gorgeous artstyle. Really wish we'd get a new game :(

Anyway, I vastly prefer JRPG aesthetics.

Japanese for art and Western for gameplaylamprey263

[QUOTE="lamprey263"]Japanese for art and Western for gameplayDeadMan1290

Yet the WRPG which had the best gameplay came from Japan.

[QUOTE="DeadMan1290"][QUOTE="lamprey263"]Japanese for art and Western for gameplayKashiwaba

Yet the WRPG which had the best gameplay came from Japan.

[QUOTE="Kashiwaba"]

[QUOTE="DeadMan1290"]DeadMan1290

Yet the WRPG which had the best gameplay came from Japan.

Nah my opinions are facts this is SWs.

[QUOTE="DeadMan1290"][QUOTE="Kashiwaba"]

Yet the WRPG which had the best gameplay came from Japan.

Kashiwaba

Nah my opinions are facts this is SWs.

Western for sure.

I sometimes wonder if japanese concept artists (if they have them at all) even put any thought in to their designs...

Japanese for art and Western for gameplaylamprey263