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nublet765:

--- Quote from: chikorita157 on March 01, 2012, 03:19:15 am ---Thinking about it yesterday, and of course with the earlier posts, it gave me the idea of another editorial, which you probably already noticed already. But here is a shoutout: http://chikorita157.com/2012/02/28/anime-and-the-perception-in-the-west/

So yeah, I don't think there is anything wrong with myself playing Idolmaster even though it's perceived as a girly game. For that matter, I stopped caring about what people thinks because I saw so many anime with cute girls that it's not funny... I prefer it to the number of war-mongling shooting games out there (although, Portal was great and all, which is the only real exception). The matter is, just be yourself and don't take other people's criticisms too seriously.

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Didn't see you move this post back in here!  I wanted that to happen which is why I commented to that effect.
But yeah ... as of now, western gaming ... all the violent games.  While I see the appeal of mindless and senseless death and destruction ... I'm not attuned for all that :/

chikorita157:

--- Quote from: nublet765 on March 05, 2012, 01:20:22 am ---Didn't see you move this post back in here!  I wanted that to happen which is why I commented to that effect.
But yeah ... as of now, western gaming ... all the violent games.  While I see the appeal of mindless and senseless death and destruction ... I'm not attuned for all that :/

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Aside from Portal 2 (which I really liked because of the story and character development), I didn't play much western games since they just didn't appeal to me. Too much violence and stuff, I'm not too big on killing stuff either.

Yeah, Minecraft is okay, but it gets rather boring after awhile, unless you have a creative mind... otherwise, it's Japanese Games that is the rage these days, especially since I'm studying the language on my free time.

SakuraMaxX:
I play a fair mixture of Japanese and Western video games, though I'm finding it kinda funny that despite buying a Japanese Xbox 360, I've been playing a lot more Western stuff than the games I originally intended to buy a Japanese system for (and if you account for my PC games, most of them are from Western developers too).



I don't think my parents really care about the games I play, but I don't like showing them off to them either.  They'd be confused if they walk in on me playing iM@S, but I think they've usually been seeing me play things like Forza Motorsport 4 (probably my favorite game of 2011, and by the way, it's a Western game that doesn't involve violence.  I'm pretty sick of that stereotype) or Battlefield 3 (by the way, I'm Asian and I love playing Western games, some of them I enjoy loads more than iM@S, in response to that one blog post).

One thing I will agree with, in regards to war games, is that there seems to be a slight difference in their focuses.  This point is still a little bit naive, but bear with me.  What I feel makes some Western FPS fun (Call of Duty probably applies to this point more) is that they badassify war to the point where it's outright obnoxious and fun to just run around and shoot stuff in.  A war game coming from a Japanese developer such as Ace Combat series (minus Ass Horizon) still badassified dogfighting and the such, but the story also told more than just killing faceless enemies.  They showed the causes and effects of putting the nation in war, and gave the player a little more of an emotional reason to fight than just for the sake of running around and being a badass one-man-army.

There are still some Western FPS that provide amazing stories though, I personally liked Medal of Honor 2010 (yes, the game sucked, but the story was a nice tribute to the troops still), Deus Ex: Human Revolution (the primary reason that science fiction exists is to expand and inform on a current-world issue in a futuristic setting), and of course, the Half-Life series.

blake307:
I played a combination of Japanese and Western games. But honestly I have been more aimed toward Japanese games such as im@s and a few JRPGs since lately I seem to have more fun with them than most of the modern western games out there right now. I think it's mainly due to the fact that I completely lost interest in military shooters such as COD over the past year. Though I still enjoy some western games once in a while such as Assassins Creed and Batman Arkham Asylum and City.

Anyway, my family never really cared about what I played. So I guess i'm lucky like that.

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