Western or Japanese games - which do you like more?

@superbuuman: lol, same here, but surprisingly, fallout 4 is probably the 1st first person game that didnt give me motion sickness, I wonder how did bethesda do it

japanese up to ps2 era western last gen to now

Japanese.

haha...nice! yea Fallout 4 is awesome. Yea some first person games I am fine...but many others I am not..Half Life 2 is probably the best example of really bad motion sickness..have the game Part 1 & 2 but can never play it more than 5 mins before feel like vomitting...tried changing fov and all sorts still nada. :P

Western because most Japanese games are boring

Western easily.

In my favorite genres (adventure, simulation, strategy) japanese devs are vastly inferior to western ones and I prefer wRPGs over jRPGs, as well as prefering shooters over slashers.

I don't mean to come off as xenophobic in saying this, but I tend to enjoy Western games more because I can identify thematically which stems from cultural differences. As I've grown older, I've tended to seek out more narrative driven experiences and Western development focuses on this more.

Not to say I don't like Japanese games or don't appreciate their quirkiness or predilection for mechanics-driven games, but my preferences lay elsewhere at this point.

Historically: Western.

Contemporary: Japanese.

Unfortunately, western game studios are picking up far too many bad habits and going too far with the dumbing down of gaming, and pandering to ideologues. This has gone to the point where a lot of western games are merely a shadow of their former selves. Well, the AAA industry at least. But even the indie industry has massive problems. Far too many games with piss poor production values, mediocre game design and the only thing to justify their existance is a gimmick or two. Of course, this doesnt mean all indie games are bad. But for every Age of Decadence, we get several games like Her Story, Fez and Five Nights at Freddys. For most of the part, I only care for AA western games nowadays.

Japanese games do fare better. Japanese game studios are still loyal to their strengths and design, and do not pander to petty ideologues like western studios have. They occationally beat western games at their own game now as well (Dragons Dogma and Xenoblade X vs Dragon Age: Inquisition and Fallout 4, Final Fantasy 14 ARR vs Wildstar). While technologically behind western studios, I feel like japanese AAA devs feel a lot less cookie cutter in the actual game design.). While Japanese games were terrible 10 years or so with the localization, they have improved a LOT now. Steam is being filled with some of the best visual novels ever made in japan, allowing westerners to play them in english for the first time. A lot of Japan's indie games hwoever, are still stuck in japan, and that is really unfortunate, because some of those games are really damn good.

I will say that generally Japanese games are better nowadays, they're more varied, put much more emphasis on gameplay and don't suffer from gameplay/cutscene disparity like most western games do. But personally I have to go with western games. My favorite genre happens to be RPGs and I have to say The Witcher 3, Planescape: Torment and New Vegas > any japanese game, by a landslide.

I like both Japanese and Western games, I'm not picking one over the other.

You like games all about weird Japanese pornography.

Japanese since Western are mostly FPS and a good RPG like Skyrim comes once in a blue moon. More variety with Japan too.

@ultimateimp: So what's your point?

Read the comment again as you clearly need to, then look at your avatar and past avatars that consist of almost exclusively little girls barely clothed, then read the comment I originally replied to. Do you still need me to spell it out for you?

No particular preference. If it's a game I like, I will play it.

But if we're talking numbers, I play more western games than Japanese ones. Many of the Japanese games I like also have more similarities to western games than Japanese ones ( Souls games, Metal Gear). My favourite Nintendo game is also Metroid Prime. Which was made by a studio in Texas.

@ultimateimp: You are trying way too hard. But whatever, I'm not getting into your crap today Ultimate. Have a nice day.

Same here.

Edgy.

I fully respect Japanese games but I have to go with western for me.

Western

Overall western, I find that they do tend to try more and different things. There is one issue here however (AAA industry only).

The western games I like and love, are being killed off for more mass market friendly versions, meaning that for every year that passes I tend to get more alienated, obnoxious main characters, gameplay as flat as a piece of paper (yeah you still call it streamlining?). And too focused on cultural movements rather then artistic vision(also see: focus group development (most likely a case of most games not having one lead with a clear vision more then anything else)).

So the western games do feel like they are losing the majority of their gameplay, a lot of potential identity and character, and more often then not feels like convayer belt productions and not a creative drive.

I always did have a love for Japanese games as well, and while they were seen stagnent through most of last gen, they generally did tend to stick with what made them unique, series had and held their personality, while the new and unique games trickled through at a decent pace. In the bigger sense, it seems that the Japanese Devs and Publishers, overall remembered what they were making and why, fostering a sense of identity to characters, games and series.

So while I in general prefer Western games, it is fading fast, fascinating worlds, and awesome gameplay swapped for militery shooter (now in a slight sci-fi setting) nr. 88 bland boring assassin nr. 32 and uninspired gameplay loop collection nr. 44 Nothing surprising, nothing thrilling, nothing impressive (and before you claim "nostalgia" it is worth noting that games like Satellite Reign, Original Sin, and many other AA games Still does bring that feeling of love, care, direction and vision to the table).

If it continues I will likely end up preferring Japanese games more on a whole, not that it matters to me where they are made.

Don't matter as long as the game is good!

Once I finally get around to playing Pathologic, it will probably be Russian games.
I guess they count as Western though?

A good game is a good game and I don't care from whence it came..........

I seem to play more Japanese, but play a fair share of Westerns. Ex. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Mass Affect ect.

At the end of the day, I play more Japanese RPGs than anything so. Japanese it is.

Western.

I can't believe how many unpatriotic traitors are in this thread, gtfo of america if you prefer weabo garbage