Famitsu Readers All Time Favorite Games in Japan

[Joust Williams]

No one wants to take the time to translate stuff that won't sell to xenophobes anyway.

I hope next generation we don't release games over there and MS doesn't even bring the XBox 3 at all.

[Othello Harrington]

ugh, joust.

I think Japan just favors it's style of gaming as neo said. Nobody can doubt the western influence on RE4 though, and it's on the list, which suprised me really.

[Thief Silver]

Yeah, that list only going back a few years is ridiculous.

My point is that labeling games from one region as stale retreads isn't valid when game developers around the world are making the same games over and over again. There are great games being made in both the US and Japan, as well as many other countries, but there is also a ton of the same old crap. No single region is worse than any other.

I dunno, what has Korea done besides samey MMOs?

[Shou]

This is regularly run feature in the magazine, it's not truly representative of what people think are the top games. It's just what people with a lot of free time vote for. Obviously, mainstreamers are more likely to vote for recent titles.

[Frogacuda]

I'm sure Korea doesn't get much stuff translated from English for them either but they have still taken to Western games.

This has a lot to do with the long standing bar on Japanese consoles (save for Korean-made clones) that led to the dominance of PC gaming in the region. Couple with the popularity of internet cafes, online gaming is very popular there, and so Korea seems to have as much in common with Europe as Japan as a result.

[Melf]

My point is that labeling games from one region as stale retreads isn't valid when game developers around the world are making the same games over and over again. There are great games being made in both the US and Japan, as well as many other countries, but there is also a ton of the same old crap. No single region is worse than any other.

You can call Western games as generic as you like, but you cannot deny that Japan, once the bastion of all that was innovative and holy to so many gamers, is producing far less than it used to. Remember when Japan was the #1 region? Tastes have changed and Japan has not.

And how many years have Western developers been making "WWII shooters" and "generic RTS" games compared to the tired random battle RPG shit that's been clogging Japan's gaming arteries? Shit, just look at that list.

[Othello Harrington]

I agree Melf for every classic game from Japan we get 15 "Rogue Galaxy's" which are pretty much palette swaps of Final Fantasy.

[Melf]

Lol, even Miyamoto agrees with me!

[Thief Silver]

lol, that's awesome.

[Anal Kaboom]

What no fucking Pokemon?

Now that you mention it yeah, wtf's up with that.

There's way more piracy in the west so everyone's played the old stuff.

Really? In Japan they have retail stores that sell R4's...

it's just too much fucking work to try and make people like Splinter Cell.

Shouldn't be too hard. He's a ninja. I think the real reason is most western devs just don't care.