| Who makes better games? Japan was the dominant force in the beginning, now America and its shooters are swarming with dollar bills. |
| You're going down, punk... |
| If we are talking about the current state of gaming on one side you have you have crappy mobile games with lootboxes and coomer bait artwork abd on the other you have fps with battle pass, third person shooter with battle pass and even goddamn Diablo with battle pass. Both occasionally make things that break the mold and don't entirely suck. I feel like in the case of Japan these games may often come from big developers while in America it's usually smaller developers that make the more unconventional stuff. coolyfruity said: Japan was the dominant force in the beginning It depends on when you define "beginning", the place and even the platform. 1987 console gaming in America: Japan was dominant 1987 PC gaming in America: America was dominant 1982 console gaming in America: America was dominant 1986 computer gaming in the UK: The UK and West Germany were dominant |
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| Depends on what game you want I suppose? If it's something Anime-related than most likely Japan would be better at it. If it's something War related, maybe US or a European studio? But it's kinda difficult saying Japan was the dominant force, since in many Soviet & South American (and African) Countries, Nintendo & Sega never gave out their licences, so China could be a major contender also by supplying all these countries with bootleg consoles & games lol (idk if there's any real stats, just sayin' things i know). I know my Country was late to be taken over by the console bug, as we were still gaming on computers made in Britain & the US until probably the early 90s. |
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| I've never been interested in American games. |
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| Japanese games, it's nice they aren't spamming the 100th FPS or "movie game" (too many cutscenes or walking simulators) like American games are. |
| "Well, she's flatter than a pancake" -Mimi Alpacas |
| Japan/Asia Unless someone has been missing out whats happening these times. Most American/West games rely heavily in the overstimulation to cause dependancy, thats why we see players bitching if there is no new content on 3 months, they need something new. Or if a game is too complex and doesnt have positive feedback in form of big numbers, flashy things and progress. This is incredibly notorious in looter games like Destiny or Diablo that constantly give something for the player with special sounds. And btw, I aint making this up, iirc Destiny has one guy dedicated to see the best way to hock up people this way. Japanase/Asian games have focus more on their own stuff, kind of like always |
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| My fav game series are Kiseki (japanese) Ys Tales of Persona Zelda All japanese |
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| Even though Japan made a lot of awesome video games, the US made even more of them, so they win. |
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| I mostly prefer and enjoy japanese games more so, but I've also enjoyed a bunch of western games too more along the lines of SSX, Tony Hawk, Skate and Timesplitters and Mass Effect. |
| "Tentacles! Why did it have to be tentacles?!" |
| japan has fromsoft and america doesn’t |
| Probably 90% of games I play are by japanese devs. |
| Good non-Japanese games aren't even made in America to begin with, especially as of recent. |
coolyfruity said: Who makes better games? This is a very easy answer.  |
| HACKs! 🤢🤮 |
| The entirety of modern gaming is carried by Japanese devs. Western devs pump out a few good games here and there, but when looking at the best games of the past several years, they're Japanese. It's actually a sight to see how badly western games have fallen behind. Especially if you look at AAA slop. Mediocre games that take years to develop and rehashing husbando gacha sports games. |
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coolyfruity said: Who makes better games? Indie game developers... regardless of the nationality of the people making the games. It's just that most of the good ones are on PC, so console players are missing out a lot. |
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coolyfruity said:
Who makes better games?
Who makes better games?
Indie game developers... regardless of the nationality of the people making the games. It's just that most of the good ones are on PC, so console players are missing out a lot.
| @Alpha-Nine cheers to indies. I think Nintendo and Microsoft, on different levels, realize the potential and capability of indies nowadays, that's why the Switch has so many games, and why Microsoft bought and then killed so many studios. The unfortunate part about indie games (roping in Doujin games here as well) is that they often don't have the resources for translation, so only certain groups can play certain indies, usually English-speakers and Japanese-speakers, unless they have a big enough fanbase to breach the walls one way or another. |
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| Ameirka bad, japane good. GAME? Same sitch. Serious answer: It's a toss-up. 80%+ of what I play is Western-made, but of the JRPGs, and etc Japanese games, they've all been of higher average quality. Probably, because I play bad Western games sometimes, but shoot for good Japanese games almost always. Or it's because they are just better overall. I'm going with the former for now, but if the latter is true, I'm sure I'll eventually be unable to dismiss it. |
| Lol. Apparently, it's going to be any foreign developer that can withstand twitter mobs. https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/steam-37m-user-milestone-wukong The only resilient industry left in the US and perhaps the western world is the MIC. Doesn't care what you or Pierre Sprey thinks just cooms out more Reapers, HIMARs, F-35s, and Bradleys.  |
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| I'm a mobile gamer, so already I opinion does not hold value. |
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| my fav games are all from japan so yeah and American games are second |
| I think it's by far and wide japanese devs making the better games. They just make good games, no shitty political or social statements like with american devs. I would even say korean and chinese devs are becoming better than american ones. |
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| @Old_School_Akira damn the japanese have better waifus |
| I'm a big Nintendo fan, but you can't really say that one country makes better games than the other. Especially if your argument is weaboo bait over realism. Nintendo is a pretty reliable company when it comes to quality and I like that they feel motivated to basically revitalize every franchise they've got while also moving forward with new games in older and less popular series. It's still a business and all businesses have (similiar) flaws, but I don't think any american video game company is as reliable. But as a western woman I do enjoy to see western values represented in video games. On the flipside the business sense is of course also so much stronger and that interference really sucks a lot of soul out of AAA video games too. So I do agree with a previous answer that said they prefer indie games. That term is a little bit more fluid to us, but I like seeing people do their own thing and come up with more original concepts. A greater variety of games is always more fun to me, I do respect companies that do one thing and move on. Kinda the opposite of Nintendo in a way, but I feel like american video game company really love to do the same concept five time for the same series and it's so unnecessary. At least Nintendo has the excuse of having different types of consoles that have different types of functions. |
| I mean...whats America's saving grace? Like Valve and GoW devs. The only thing they do better is FPS games and I dont fw FPS games. I guess the indie scene is better here. The only indie stuff I see from Japan is RPGmaker stuff. |
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| I like games from different nationalities, so both. "Who makes better games?" Both. |
| @deg Well yeah, that's what happens when don't intentionally make ugly characters. I'm convinced it takes more effort to make an ugly character than a pretty or hot character, some of those characters on the right I would mistake for men if someone didn't tell me they were women. |
| "Well, she's flatter than a pancake" -Mimi Alpacas |
| Ugh!!! Listen, you dork. There WAS a time when American publishers released good games. That time no more. The Japanese on the other hand still make good games, and they dominate the gaming industry. Now thanks to ESG (DEI) investments, they ruined Japan. APPARENTLY the Chinese and Korean time/era is on the horizon. |
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| The quality of a game doesn't really depend on where it's from. And those aren't the only two countries which make games anyway. Old_School_Akira said: This is a very easy answer. But you haven't answered it. I don't know which you prefer just from that image. Also, the second means "overseas" not "American". "American" would be written in katakana. I also don't know why you think "games" are purely about pictures of females. Have you ever actually played a computer game? |
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The quality of a game doesn't really depend on where it's from. And those aren't the only two countries which make games anyway.
But you haven't answered it. I don't know which you prefer just from that image. Also, the second means "overseas" not "American". "American" would be written in katakana.
I also don't know why you think "games" are purely about pictures of females. Have you ever actually played a computer game?
Old_School_Akira said:
This is a very easy answer.
This is a very easy answer.
But you haven't answered it. I don't know which you prefer just from that image. Also, the second means "overseas" not "American". "American" would be written in katakana.
I also don't know why you think "games" are purely about pictures of females. Have you ever actually played a computer game?
| @logopolis Japanese games = hot 3D waifus |
| HACKs! 🤢🤮 |
| Omg can u kidz stop tryna b edgy af. |
| You're going down, punk... |
| I will choose Japan. |
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| Historically speaking they were both good but maybe the US, in the last 6-7 years however Japan has become a little stale and the US basically produces only movie games There's South Korea which is releasing great stuff lately like Stellar Blade and Lies of P I also like eurojank games, they are fun. |
| Steam's top games for the year and their main country of origin. Black Myth: Wukong - China Palworld - Japan Banana - 'international' Helldivers 2 - Sweden Sons of the Forest - Canada Last Epoch - Devs are all over, mostly NA and Europe Once Human - China For Honour - Canada Warhammer Space Marine 2 - America Games I'm personally most looking forward to Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 - Czech Republic Football Manager - UK Path of Exile 2 - New Zealand Whatever's next in the Yakuza franchise (Pirate Majima....sure) - Japan That one Kickstarter game with the Daggerfall devs - America For me we're no longer in an era of Japan vs USA when it comes to games. Some of the institutions are obviously based there but I hardly think Rockstar games or Nintendo are overall markers of quality for the entire nation's industries. Which do I prefer, Japanese or American games? I'd probably say Japan shade it, although I am on MAL so am naturally a weeb. |
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| Japanese games are better. If I have to come up with good games that are not Japanese I have to reach back to the 1990s and say Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D, Lotus 3, ... And it's not even like those were overshadowing Japanese games at the time. They were just great games that didn't come from Japan. |
| Depends on what you like. I like fighting games for example, but the only main fighting game in the west is Mortal Kombat, unless they finally do another Killer Instinct or Injustice game. Or a fucking Marvel fighting game. Doesn't need to be Marvel vs Capcom, which I also want another one of. Just a fighting game with Marvel characters would be great. Preferably similar to Tekken, so there can be a side step. I have no idea why they haven't done a modern fighting game, shit's a no brainer. I also prefer JRPGs because I'm not really a fan of the medieval setting a lot of western ones have. But on the flip side, I also love games like God of War and the Spider-man games. |
| the only shooter that i play and enjoy was counter strike. i didn't even try any shooter with special abilites, not even team fortress. many single player titles for me came from japan going back to ps2 era. not really sure about total amount of money gain but obviously dollar holds more weight. denpasoft getting banned should say something about how good japan stuff is. |
| If we're talking who makes more money, then yeah, of course American companies. Btw, my fav game of all time comes from Poland and the best series from Japan. |
| Japanese games definitely. I always felt they tend to go for more unique stuff than from what I see in western games which tend to copy each other and seem to run out of ideas much easily these days than Asian games. |
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| Japanese Since I'm hardcore Jrpg player mosty play PS1 PS2 and PS3 era of rpg. |
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| In general, I've played more great Western games than Eastern games, so as I am right now, just getting into JRPGs, I'd say Western games are better. |
| i thought my fav games are americans but i realised later that most of the games i enjoyed as a kid and my current favs are mostly japanese |
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