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Topic	why does Japan have the best video game industry out of any one nation?
Solar_Crimson 02/08/18 12:41:21 PM #29:	Romulox28 posted... pulling this out of my ass: - better work ethic; japanese ppl work crazy hours - japanese ppl dont job hop as much and tend to stay with one company, so there's more experience and team synergy there - seems like japan has more auteur kinds of guys like Kojima/Yoko Taro/Suda 51/etc that have interesting ideas for games - more midsized companies like Platinum or From, unlike in the US where EA/Ubisoft/Activision seem to have gobbled up most of em - not restrained by western tastes; japanese ppl will play all kinds of weird shit instead of just cinematic shooters and sports games D-Lo_BrownTown posted... They (tend) to value gameplay over story Western Developers have been taken over by failed movie makers at this point. These. But also this: s0nicfan posted... Because unless you live in Japan you only get the stuff that's good, and completely miss the mountains of garbage produced that aren't worth localizing. --- http://i.imgur.com/wKOoZkP.jpg http://i.imgur.com/mipFVFw.png http://backloggery.com/SolarCrimson <cite>Solar_Crimson posted [p:895704295] in why does J... [t:76297268]...</cite> <quote><cite>Romulox28 posted...</cite> <quote>pulling this out of my ass: - better work ethic; japanese ppl work crazy hours - japanese ppl dont job hop as much and tend to stay with one company, so there's more experience and team synergy there - seems like japan has more auteur kinds of guys like Kojima/Yoko Taro/Suda 51/etc that have interesting ideas for games - more midsized companies like Platinum or From, unlike in the US where EA/Ubisoft/Activision seem to have gobbled up most of em - not restrained by western tastes; japanese ppl will play all kinds of weird shit instead of just cinematic shooters and sports games</quote> <cite>D-Lo_BrownTown posted...</cite> <quote>They (tend) to value gameplay over story Western Developers have been taken over by failed movie makers at this point.</quote> These. But also this: <cite>s0nicfan posted...</cite> <quote>Because unless you live in Japan you only get the stuff that's good, and completely miss the mountains of garbage produced that aren't worth localizing.</quote> --- http://i.imgur.com/wKOoZkP.jpg http://i.imgur.com/mipFVFw.png http://backloggery.com/SolarCrimson</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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