Japanese shooting game. Which is best? Which is worst?

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#1 Aquaunitpatrol
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For those who don't know, japanese devs have tried there hand at third and first-person shooters. (Tried should be taken literally.) A lot fail miserby, some are ok, and some just are words you would say. Now most of this is because a lot try to mist Jrpg like elements in their or a popular one is trying to put a decent compelling story with debt in it. That's fine and has been done before, but would you try that in a game as linear and narrow as Uncharted? Except like no actual world so every cutscene telling the story is rushed bull **** and the like. There are other issues as well. So list the best and worst J-shooter you have ever played. if you played any. Tps, Vertex, FPS, whatever. The best and worse on console or PC. Mindjack come to mind.
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#2 AcidSoldner
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Lol @ J-shooter :lol:
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#3 vashkey
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There are only two Japanese shooters I can even remember playing and Vanquish was significantly better than Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII. But Vanquish was just okay.

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#4 Tikeio
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Isn't House of the Dead a J-shooter?

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#5 Joedgabe
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What's with this regional thing going on in gamespot recently? :| are people that closed minded?

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What's with this regional thing going on in gamespot recently? :| are people that closed minded?

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you make a lot of close minded posts as well though, you and quite a few other Weabos/Sheep.
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#7 HyperWarlock
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When I read the title, I thought you meant a game where you shoot japanese people.

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#8 glez13
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Isn't House of the Dead a J-shooter?

Tikeio

Oh yeah.

Most of them must suck since I can't remember anything besides Vanquish.

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#9 mrmusicman247
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Vanquish was pretty fun.
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#10 Aquaunitpatrol
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When I read the title, I thought you meant a game where you shoot japanese people.

HyperWarlock
Racism in SW is allowed? lol No J-shooters. There are quite a few of them. Most cuk though but I know some people like them. Even Square publushed a TPS. Called Mindjack. You should definately not play it.
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#11 Swift_Boss_A
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In Yakuza of the end you can shoot Japanese people but they're already dead. Can still shoot them though.

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#12 deactivated-57ad0e5285d73
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Isn't House of the Dead a J-shooter?

Tikeio

Judging by their RPGs, I'd have to say yes.

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#13 Joedgabe
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[QUOTE="Joedgabe"]

What's with this regional thing going on in gamespot recently? :| are people that closed minded?

rasengan2552

you make a lot of close minded posts as well though, you and quite a few other Weabos/Sheep.

oh.. so now you can define my life as someone who loves Asian culture because I believe games shouldn't be judged by region? :| Make yourself useful and go scrub my kitchen's floor, expressing opinions when they're clearly misinformed is definitely something you're useful for. Such racism :|

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#14 deactivated-57ad0e5285d73
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[QUOTE="rasengan2552"][QUOTE="Joedgabe"]

What's with this regional thing going on in gamespot recently? :| are people that closed minded?

Joedgabe

you make a lot of close minded posts as well though, you and quite a few other Weabos/Sheep.

oh.. so now you can define my life as someone who loves Asian culture because I believe games shouldn't be judged by region? :| Make yourself useful and go scrub my kitchen's floor, expressing opinions when they're clearly misinformed is definitely something you're useful for. Such racism :|

Sounds like you should take your frustration out in a game of American Football.:D

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[QUOTE="Joedgabe"]

[QUOTE="rasengan2552"] you make a lot of close minded posts as well though, you and quite a few other Weabos/Sheep.Heirren

oh.. so now you can define my life as someone who loves Asian culture because I believe games shouldn't be judged by region? :| Make yourself useful and go scrub my kitchen's floor, expressing opinions when they're clearly misinformed is definitely something you're useful for. Such racism :|

Sounds like you should take your frustration out in a game of American Football.:D

Lawl, I like Hockey better. Never had much endurance for Football. And I'm not frustrated :| takes a whole lot to frustrate me ;) I however like to get on people's bad side that is always a joy :cool:

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[QUOTE="rasengan2552"][QUOTE="Joedgabe"]

What's with this regional thing going on in gamespot recently? :| are people that closed minded?

Joedgabe

you make a lot of close minded posts as well though, you and quite a few other Weabos/Sheep.

oh.. so now you can define my life as someone who loves Asian culture because I believe games shouldn't be judged by region? :| Make yourself useful and go scrub my kitchen's floor, expressing opinions when they're clearly misinformed is definitely something you're useful for. Such racism :|

My wasn't an attack ... it seems like you took it a bit too personally. boo... **** ... hoo.
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#17 Riverwolf007
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the vast majority of j-dev is in the toliet no matter what genre you care to talk about.

sure i guess you can say the same thing about w-dev too but w-dev has only been recycling stale ideas and out of steam for a few years as opposed to j-devs 10 to 15 years.

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#18 Tikeio
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Shadows of the Damned is a J-shooter as well. It was developed by Japanese devs in Japan, but published by EA.

I think it's only a third-person shooter though.

Dat azz :cool:

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#19 rasengan2552
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Shadows of the Damned is a J-shooter as well. It was developed by Japanese devs in Japan, but published by EA.

I think it's only a third-person shooter though.

Dat azz :cool:Tikeio

typical sexual innuendo themed cover art.

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[QUOTE="Joedgabe"]

[QUOTE="rasengan2552"] you make a lot of close minded posts as well though, you and quite a few other Weabos/Sheep.rasengan2552

oh.. so now you can define my life as someone who loves Asian culture because I believe games shouldn't be judged by region? :| Make yourself useful and go scrub my kitchen's floor, expressing opinions when they're clearly misinformed is definitely something you're useful for. Such racism :|

My wasn't an attack ... it seems like you took it a bit too personally. boo... **** ... hoo.

That wasn't an attack either :| that was an order. Go scrub the kitchen floor slave.

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#21 locopatho
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RESIDENT. EVIL. FOUR!
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#22 rasengan2552
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[QUOTE="rasengan2552"][QUOTE="Joedgabe"]

oh.. so now you can define my life as someone who loves Asian culture because I believe games shouldn't be judged by region? :| Make yourself useful and go scrub my kitchen's floor, expressing opinions when they're clearly misinformed is definitely something you're useful for. Such racism :|

Joedgabe

My wasn't an attack ... it seems like you took it a bit too personally. boo... **** ... hoo.

That wasn't an attack either :| that was an order. Go scrub the kitchen floor slave.

Im not even gonna report you ... its not worth it. but for the record I am Japanese ...
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[QUOTE="Joedgabe"]

[QUOTE="rasengan2552"] My wasn't an attack ... it seems like you took it a bit too personally. boo... **** ... hoo.rasengan2552

That wasn't an attack either :| that was an order. Go scrub the kitchen floor slave.

Im not even gonna report you ... its not worth it. but for the record I am Japanese ...

You took a joke way too serious, and I don't even know what does you being Japanese have to do with anything but I'll take it as a cue to drop the whole matter :|

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All of them are worst.
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#26 Renegade_Fury
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House of the Dead, Virtua Cop, and Vanquish are all awesome. I can't think of any bad ones that I've bothered to play.

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#27 1PMrFister
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Isn't House of the Dead a J-shooter?

Tikeio

All of them except for Overkill. That was made by a Western dev team.

On-topic: Sin & Punishment: Star Successor is my current favorite Japanese-developed shooter. It's basically akin to combining the Contra games with crystal meth.

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#28 HyperWarlock
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[QUOTE="HyperWarlock"]

When I read the title, I thought you meant a game where you shoot japanese people.

Aquaunitpatrol

Racism in SW is allowed? lol No J-shooters. There are quite a few of them. Most cuk though but I know some people like them. Even Square publushed a TPS. Called Mindjack. You should definately not play it.

I don't consider that racist.

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There are only two Japanese shooters I can even remember playing and Vanquish was significantly better than Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII. But Vanquish was just okay.

vashkey
there was also quantum theory for the Ps3/360 and outrrigger for the dreamcast
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#30 turtlethetaffer
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Vanquish was fun as hell... the RE Chronicles games on Wii were also very enjoyable.

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#31 deactivated-57f6810aefea1
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Lost Planet 1 was pretty good. Lost Planet 2 was a mess. Didn't even get through the first level before putting it down it's so bad.
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EDF 2017 is amazing. Pretty much Japan's own Serious Sam.
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#33 nameless12345
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Vanquish is pretty good or so I hear.

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#34 Master_ShakeXXX
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Resident Evil 4 and Vanquish are the two greatest shooters ever made. Western shooters bow and tremble at their glorious feet.

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#35 turtlethetaffer
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Resident Evil 4 and Vanquish are the two greatest shooters ever made. Western shooters bow and tremble at their glorious feet.

Master_ShakeXXX

I would have said RE4 as well but I don't know if I can call it a shooter in good faith. Yeah it techncially is but it doesn't feel like one.

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#36 Some-Mist
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do shoot-em-ups count? If so I'd definitely say akai katana shin.

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[QUOTE="Joedgabe"]

[QUOTE="rasengan2552"] you make a lot of close minded posts as well though, you and quite a few other Weabos/Sheep.rasengan2552

oh.. so now you can define my life as someone who loves Asian culture because I believe games shouldn't be judged by region? :| Make yourself useful and go scrub my kitchen's floor, expressing opinions when they're clearly misinformed is definitely something you're useful for. Such racism :|

My wasn't an attack ... it seems like you took it a bit too personally. boo... **** ... hoo.

Not sure how you can take blatant personal insults too personally.

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The 3rd Birthday is very good.

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#39 chaotzu
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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the reason there are no JFPS's is because a lot of Japanese gamers (trying to be as PC as possible) get motion sickness from playing them? This could be the reason FPS's don't sell well in Japan. I guess they can stomach (pun intended) TPS's to a point but that's where it stops.
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I think Vanquish is the only J shooter i've played.

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#41 lamprey263
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Japanese shooters... well about the only one I really liked was Vanquish, and I really liked that, the Lost Planet games were pretty decent, even though Lost Planet 2 got a bad rap for having a broken single player campaign I thought it was still lots of fun to play online cooperatively. Competitive online was also kind of fun.
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#42 edo-tensei
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[QUOTE="Riverwolf007"]

the vast majority of j-dev is in the toliet no matter what genre you care to talk about.

sure i guess you can say the same thing about w-dev too but w-dev has only been recycling stale ideas and out of steam for a few years as opposed to j-devs 10 to 15 years.

Well it's true that they don't have a big precense in the home console market anymore, but saying the developers in japan are down the toilet is definately "your" opinion.
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#43 DerpyMcDerp
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They all suck and you should feel bad for making this crappy thread, idiot.

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#44 NeonNinja
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Vanquish is one of the best shooters I have played, ever. But there aren't too many shooters that come from Japan so it's hard to say. Maybe if we count Resident Evil as a shooter, particularly with the last two installments.

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#45 campzor
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vanquish? armored core 3? MGS4?
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[QUOTE="Tikeio"]

Isn't House of the Dead a J-shooter?

1PMrFister

All of them except for Overkill. That was made by a Western dev team.

On-topic: Sin & Punishment: Star Successor is my current favorite Japanese-developed shooter. It's basically akin to combining the Contra games with crystal meth.

Still a J-shooter if the gameplay is still simular, this isn;t region based it's style based.
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#47 Aquaunitpatrol
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Vanquish is one of the best shooters I have played, ever. But there aren't too many shooters that come from Japan so it's hard to say. Maybe if we count Resident Evil as a shooter, particularly with the last two installments.

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Yes there are. Problem is you probably never though about it until this thread. There's quite a selection.
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#48 bobbetybob
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RESIDENT. EVIL. FOUR!locopatho
Thank God, I was beginning to think everyone in this thread had gone mad. I think Japan has made some pretty amazing TPS's (ok so mainly Mikami) but I don't know what a Japanese FPS would be like.
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#49 nismo8000
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[QUOTE="Tikeio"]

Shadows of the Damned is a J-shooter as well. It was developed by Japanese devs in Japan, but published by EA.

I think it's only a third-person shooter though.

Dat azz :cool:rasengan2552

typical sexual innuendo themed cover art.

this post taught me that you don't know what "innuendo" means.

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#50 Aquaunitpatrol
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[QUOTE="locopatho"]RESIDENT. EVIL. FOUR!bobbetybob
Thank God, I was beginning to think everyone in this thread had gone mad. I think Japan has made some pretty amazing TPS's (ok so mainly Mikami) but I don't know what a Japanese FPS would be like.

http://uk.gamespot.com/zeno-clash-ultimate-edition/reviews/zeno-clash-ultimate-edition-review-6263229 Zeno Clash http://uk.gamespot.com/rocketmen-axis-of-evil/reviews/rocketmen-axis-of-evil-review-6187863 Rocket man although it's not really a FPS and yet GS lists it as such. These are just the ones that did not get below a 6. the others are all below 6 unless I m missing some. now TPS and OS style there are a lot of Jshooters 6 and over but below 8.0 with the exception of vanquish and I think 2 other games.