Current Events > What do you think about japenese games trying to "westernize'' themselves?

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Like how?

FF16

That's just Square Enix being what they are. They've had a boner for trying to turn Advent Children style action in to a game forever.

Like how?

FromSoft games feel like western RPGs to me. Except maybe Sekiro.

Square should make a THE QUIET MAN/Forspoken crossover with NFTs.
Or at least put all three in the next Kingdom Hearts.

Don't give them ideas

Forspoken really looked like an attempt of doing so.

How? Nothing about it was particularly western.

They were giving cringe teenage netflix show vibes

give us examples of how ff16 is westernised

*And*? Do you not get that Japan has cringy nonsense as well?

Yes, but even their cringy nonsense have a specific identity

Yes, but even their cringy nonsense have a specific identity

My dude. They brought the combat director of DMCV and Dragon's Dogma on board for FFXVI. How is that westernizing it?

Ok 16 might not have been the best example, but 15 did seem like an attempt on it

FromSoft games feel like western RPGs to me. Except maybe Sekiro.

My dude. They brought the combat director of DMCV and Dragon's Dogma on board for FFXVI. How is that westernizing it?

Fromsoft games are literally modern day, successfully 3D translated Castlevania games.

XV was a Japanese-style idol group/boy band going on a roadtrip. It was hardly western.

I wasn't talking about the characters look

FF16 isn't really a good example. They still look kind of anime-ish even though it's based on European styles. Like Berserk or Lodoss War. And the gameplay style is still very Japanese.

Forspoken and The Quiet Man are better contemporary examples. But this was more prevalent in the late 00s/early 10s because the design, gameplay, and region they were being developed in were all Western-based and outsourced.

The FF7 remake literally got NPCs that looked like people I have met in real life. I even went to a bar lately where the barmaid basically looked like a Tifa clone. I mean yeah, the game obviously got some typical anime stuff, especially Cloud's design, but they seem to try to make the characters look more like real people than anime characters

The FF7 remake literally got NPCs that looked like people I have met in real life. I even went to a bar lately where the barmaid basically looked like a Tifa clone. I mean yeah, the game obviously got some typical anime stuff, especially Cloud's design, but they seem to try to make the characters look more like real people than anime characters

This is a dumb thing to argue about, guys.

My dude. They brought the combat director of DMCV and Dragon's Dogma on board for FFXVI. How is that westernizing it?

I'm still not seeing these so called examples of "being westernized."

only one that comes to mind is ghostwire tokyo being made into something they thought western gamers would prefer.

Didn't they come out and say Dead Rising 3 wanted the Call of Duty audience a while back?

Ye, but they also didn't change it in any particularly "western" way. The same was why they had DmC made as Capcom had no clue WTF "western" meant so they kind of just threw crap around until throwing up their hands and giving something to a western studio.

Didn't Capcom get another team on Dmc though? A western team?

Didn't they come out and say Dead Rising 3 wanted the Call of Duty audience a while back?

Capcom: Make Dead Rising.
Vancouver: Make the Last of Us, got it.
Capcom: No, Dead Rising.
Vancouver: Assassin's Creed, will do.
Capcom: Dead Rising
Vancouver: Batman? Uncharted? You mean GTA?
Capcom: Make Dead Rising or you're all fired.
Vancouver: Oh, of course. Dark Souls!

Yeah, it was a western studio. That was why I said that they gave it to a western studio.

The FF7 remake literally got NPCs that looked like people I have met in real life. I even went to a bar lately where the barmaid basically looked like a Tifa clone. I mean yeah, the game obviously got some typical anime stuff, especially Cloud's design, but they seem to try to make the characters look more like real people than anime characters