Chrono Series Coming to 360?

[jonas]

Anyone who hates on Chrono trigger is downright gay.

And that's that.

[Frogacuda]

jonas, do you have to train to be this bad at TNL?

[Advocate]

holy shit

Yeah I fucked up.

Kind of like how your body mutates itself to digest cows milk.

Fuck you.

I still get motion sick but not to the extent I was in the beginning. Its true though alot of Asians can;t play FPS's due to motion sickness. And if they do its for a short amount of time. And if their not playing they will not watch. Hence why it was a shock for a Japanese company to make a FPS (Breakdown).

[Frogacuda]

Yeah, but Japan also avoids the western games that are popular in other countries. They all play FFXI because they're afraid of World of Warcraft. They won't play RTSs or other predominantly western genres that completely dominate the Korean market. It goes beyond motion sickness.

[mollipen]

That doesn't say anything for the quality of the games. Even if that does happen, I think that Chrono Cross proved only one thing. Chrono should stay right where it is; In the past, when it was wonderful, rather than be bastardized by another shitty future series.

Cross was better than Trigger.

So what is it then? The 360 has more titles geared to the Japanese than either the Wii OR the PS3 right now...yet look where it sits.

Have you been to Japan anytime lately? It took me all of five seconds of looking at the Xbox 360 section of any of the game shops I walked in to to understand why Japanese gamers aren't buying it: because there AREN'T many games on the console made for them. It amazes me that Microsoft had such gigantic failure with the Xbox in Japan, and didn't learn any sort of lesson for the second time around. Work out more deals from the beginning, get off their ass and develop more of in-house titles, whatever they need to do. The 360's failing in Japan is squarely on the shoulders of MS.

The PS3 has less software geared towards Japanese gamers because, uhm, wow, it just came out. As for the Wii, just don't even try.

Yeah, but Japan also avoids the western games that are popular in other countries. They all play FFXI because they're afraid of World of Warcraft.

Or it could be because WoW hasn't been released in Japan. But hey, why let a little detail like that get in the way.

[Frogacuda]

Yeah, Chrono Trigger really doesn't hold up at all. Cross wasn't bad.

[Joust Williams]

I don't understand this whole "Let's make excuses for Japan" crap. It's always "iPod" and that's it. It'd be like, "See, we like Japanese games too, Mario sells well here!"...and then nothing else would sell. That's not the case though. Why not? Because we're not closed-minded people that can't get over some insecurities.

[StriderKyo]

I don't understand this whole "Let's make excuses for Japan" crap. It's always "iPod" and that's it. It'd be like, "See, we like Japanese games too, Mario sells well here!"...and then nothing else would sell. That's not the case though. Why not? Because we're not closed-minded people that can't get over some insecurities.

Have you left America or something?

[Joust Williams]

Hell no, why would I do that?

[sethsez]

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I'm not saying that Japan isn't incredibly picky compared to Europe or America. I'm saying that it's hard to pin that on xenophobia when other pieces of western culture (like music and movies) go over relatively well there. It could just be that they don't get FPS and RTS any more than we get train games and dating simulators (don't western developed platformers, a genre Japan likes, do well in general? I know Crash Bandicoot was a success). Blaming the failure of the Xbox (which was pretty much the first worthwhile western console since the Colecovision) on xenophobia just seems like an easy excuse.