Demon HunterX posted...
MGS4 is pretty damn close to the best console game of the gen. The only ones id put ahead of it are Demon's Souls, Valkyria Chronicles, and maybe Arkham. I havent played Vesperia yet though and Ive only heard good things, so here goes nothing.
The problem is the amount of power the western culture has on gaming now. The "i have the attention span of a dog" group in particular.
I wouldn't put MGS4 in a top 30 for this gen! There is so much better out there.
It's easy enough to avoid the "lowest common denominator" games, though. Western devs have made some amazing things these past few years, games every bit as good as the ones that have come from Japan over the past twenty years. I can understand not liking the FPS oversaturation, but it always happens, and there are always much better alternatives. First it was platformers, then RPGs, now FPS, and then we'll move onto something else eventually - or genres will converge further than they already have.
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