Why have Japanese games been killing it this year?

Death spasm before mobile gacha shit takes another chunk out of the market. Japanese games as a whole are on the decline. That FFXV mobile game will probably make more money for SE than the actual real one.

>>382967694
Mobile gaming is a cancer.

>>382967812
It is, and the Japanese """ gamers""" love it more than tentacles porn and school girls, combined, apparently. It's a pity since the devs there can still clearly make good console games.

Japanese games kill it every year.

They finally unfucked themselves and learnt modern hardware. Gen 7 was an anomaly of retarded shit.

>>382969743

Shut the fuck up Onsokumaru.

>>382967298

But they are every year since Souls games became a thing.

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>>382967298
Because Neir finally brought /ss/ to the mainstream

>>382967298
its not that japanese games suddenly became better, its that everything else that released in the west became progressively worse

Japs never really lost their touch. People only realized this now since the west kind of shit the bed this year.

>>382971209

Would be interesting to see a world where only Japan makes video games. Might probably bring us back to the early 90s era of gaming where only Sega and Nintendo were competing with each other, but this time it's Sony vs Nintendo

>>382971279

Please. The west shits the bed every year. The only year where everyone was fawning over a western game was 2013 when GTAV came out. 2014 doesnt count since that year was so bad that DAI won by default.

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>>382969743
>>382970316

>>382969743
Kys you fucking faggot and chew on my dried cum

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>>382973614
>Playing eroge
>Currently at a pretty good H scene
>See this post pop up in the desktop notifications
>Laugh hard
>Boner is lost
Goddamnit, bastard.

>>382967298
I was really anticipating Automata to be on par with P5 and BotW.
Shame.

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>>382967298
>Kat isn't with them
o-okay

>>382974184
no-one gives a fuck about Gravity Rush

>>382967298
Western games have really stagnated, every recent big budget western game has ranged from mediocre to forgettable. There just hasn't been anything new or interesting.

We're getting skyrim for like the 5th time later this year.

>>382974184

Gravity Rush 2 did mediocre sales plus the Raven DLC was trash, so no

>>382974398
>We're getting skyrim for like the 5th time later this year.
We got Resident Evil 4 ported for the 8th time this gen, it's ok when Japan does it?

>>382974521
In RE4's case yes because that game is awesome.

>>382974521
not him but did that take up a grand total of at least an hour of presentation time at a single E3?

>>382974602

How dare you reply to me

>>382974184

I'm sorry, anon. Kat deserves some love, too. Maybe she can be in a different picture with Velvet from Berseria and William from Nioh.

>>382974184
Your new game sucked.
I will never not be mad about that awful and halfassed ending.

>>382974409
I have yet to play any Gravity Rush but I bought GR1 remastered when it was on sale for $20. I've seen lots of gameplay clips from 1 and 2 and I really dig the style of the game even though I'm not typically into anime. I'm surprised Gravity Rush and Kat haven't become Sony icons akin to Mario albeit not nearly as famous. Gravity Rush totally seems like it could be Sony's modern version of the 3D Super Mario's if only it was more popular.

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>>382975452
I got the first one because I saw it was worth a lot on Amazo and it was $45 at GameStop, played through it and it is the most inoffensively mediocre game I've ever played. The epitome of a 5/10 game, meaning the most average thing I've ever played.

Even Sunshine and 3D World are leagues above Gravity Rush in terms of fun, can't speak for the sequel because I wasn't going to drop $60 for what looked like more of the same.

Good fap material though.

>play one or two good games that happen to be made in Japan
>omg Japan is the fucking best
Fucking weeaboos.

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>>382974184
Here, you sewer rat

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>>382975797
>try the most popular western games out at the moment
>they're fucking shit
really gets the noggin joggin

>>382975926
>katfags latching themselves onto the success of other series
just like shantaefags, they like to pretend they're friends with all the hotshots but no-gives a shit about them

>>382967298
Western games haven't been up to par in a very long time anon.

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Does the West have anything over the East? All I can think of is Racing games since GT sport is looking like trash.

>>382976340
Shantaebros never piggybacg on anybody.

>>382976356
Was Deus Ex the last good western game?

>>382970797
>soulsfag once again with the delusion that their shitty series with bad mechanics is the center of the universe

Don't you have a to post "crash became dark soulsxdddd " somewhere?

>>382967298

Actually putting out a few games this year where the whole world could see the development team clearly applying themselves helped stop the death shudder of them for now but killing it remains to be seen and could many different things by years end. It's definitely been a good run from about Nioh to Stormblood though. Like every month has had at least one Japanese game release that I look forward to which is more than I can say for 2016 or really about the last 3 quarters of Gen 7 dating back to at least 2010.

It's hard to believe just a year before that we were getting games like Bayonetta and the first Souls game (when it was actually still fresh) though and 3 years before that arguable masterpieces like Okami.

I'm still highly skeptical but Japanese devs do seem to be figuring out their place with Gen 8 and what works for them and how. The ability to get crowdfunding and the option for digital release, budget titles and not needing a big physical publisher expecting everything to do Call of Duty in it's prime type numbers opens a lot of doors again. The Switch may open still more yet.

>>382976424
fuck up Onsokumaru, they did it with shovel knight, they did it with MN9, and when that train crashed they went back to Shovel Knight and went all "h-hey, remember me? that MN9 was some funny stuff huh?"

>>382976365
FPS's, CRPGs, Strategy, and immersive sims like SS2 and Deus Ex.

>>382976503
Their golden age does seem to be around that time.

>>382976365

For a place like /v/ that's full of ironic weebs that are fixated on things like race and sex appeal of characters over seemingly all other things that might go into a game probably not. For the other 99.9999% of the world absolutely.

Cause America has gone to shit and the left dominate all forms of media

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>>382976702
>TFW there will never a studio as good Looking Glass or Ion Storm again
Are Arkane's games any good, never played any of them except Dark Messiah.

>>382976686
(I'm sorry for telling you to shut up I just did it cos evryone else does ;w;)

>>382976628
They are pretty popular. I can understand your dislike perfectly.

>>382976892
Justin Bieber is (or was?) also popular, it doesn't mean it's good.

>>382977004
I didn't say they were good. I just said I understand why you don't like them.

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>>382967298
Are indie games the only good games that the west produces anymore? I can't think of a single American made game I've enjoyed in the past 5 years, other than indie games.

>>382976628

Dark Souls invented gaming. Fuck off

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>>382974409
>>382975112
Hopefully the GR manga won't be as disappointing as the sequel

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Take Automata away from that. It's good but not on the level of Persona and BOTW

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>>382977136
Platformers. Not including indie, you got stuff like the DKC Tropical Freeze, Rayman Legends, Crash-N-Sane Trilogy, and Sonic Mania (which looks to be better then every 3D Sonic by Sonic Team).

>>382976831

And rampant alt-right paranoia dominates all forms of internet discussion on games essentially creating a dynamic not unlike the U.S Senate. The thing is though I'm pretty sure left wing social justice crusading doesn't actually dominate Western games nearly as much as alt-right rhetoric dominates online punditry them in 2017. Literally all I hear about from supposed video game fans anymore which if were really that big a deal and bother them that much begs the question of why they don't just focus on another hobby or possibly kill themselves instead of whining about it every day and turning the internet into one giant salt mine of lies and paranoia.

>>382967298
That's normal.

Western games industry just got lamer recently with all the propaganda

>>382977460
Imagine being this much of pancakefag

>>382976863
Not sure about Prey, but Dishonored I & II are both fucking great.

>>382977359
>Crash-N-Sane Trilogy

Doesn't count and it's not even good.

>>382977331
It has a better soundtrack, better gameplay and a better story, of course it should be there.

>>382977331
I'll never understand why there's wierdos that hate that game this much.

>>382977136
DOOM?

>>382977760
Are they like Thief at all or are they more their own thing? Metal Age is a top 10 game for me.

>>382977925

Because it has forced romance. Either make that shit optional or get rid of that shit entirely.

>>382977992
Yes. They are the closest thing to a modern day Thief game you'll ever get.

>>382977869
It is good.

>>382977889
>BETTER SOUNDTRACK
Nah
>Better gameplay
Nah
>Better story
>Muh transhumanism
Alright.
>>382977925
Did I say I hate it you fucking retard? I just said it's not on the level of BOTW or P5

>>382977331

Japan seems to put it in about the same category, but it left by far the least impact of any of the three with me and arguably wore out it's welcome sometime towards end of the 9S portion but I still finished it for completions sake where it picked up a bit again at the start of the next one before just kind of falling off into another redux of repetitive dialogue, grimdark themes and spinning the wheel on which character from a previous route it could fuck over next. It's just the sort of stuff that wears thin after a while and is really simplistically written (a classic example of a writer trying to write about subject matter that shows flashes of potential and even brilliance for the most part is evidently far beyond his means to actually come up with and fill out a compelling narrative from start to finish), especially when you essentially have to replay the exact same arc with one minor gameplay tweak in hacking.

Abroad only hardcore weebs really seem to think of it as a top tier game anymore if anyone else ever did. It's audience is basically teenage anime fans and whatever "Undertale is the greatest game ever made" hipster fans it managed to pick up almost exclusively along with weird fuckers like me that'll try anything at least once. Granted it clearly hit it out of the park with that demographic big time, but so did Persona 5 which seems to have gotten critical acclaim beyond just the weeb market and "in spite of being so Japanese" as some mainstream reviewers put it in the local newspaper.

I wouldn't put either of them on the same level as BOTW which has the appeal of a legendary franchise to effortlessly hit up the mainstream.

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>>382967298
I think this picture is better , the absolute best of the year

>>382978148
It's nowhere near as good as P5 or BotW but the OST is better than both.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaFHG5tqaFQ

Where's Kiryu?

>>382978148

>abloo bloo bloo

someone call the whaaambulance

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I think Japan does well because they don't have the same kinds of constraints western games have.

Big studio means you have to pander to the largest audience which means diluted shit.

Also SJW shit that marketers think is important so you end up with ugly ass characters to appease people that don't even play or buy games, when in reality waifus are proven to sell.

And honestly I think its just looking at a game as a way to turn a profit instead of delivering an interesting experience.

So you might get a game like DOOM that is actually pretty good because they wanted to make a cool as Doom game and not another call of halo, we need to sell a billion copies or bust, game.

>>382978148
It's still a really good, really japanese, game that came out in 2017, which was the point of the image. I don't see why it matters that it was less good than the other two.

>>382978354
Not him but that pales in comparison to even Sunset Bridge, let alone Last surprise.

>>382978605
I'm a big fan of all three games but Automata's soundtrack is on another level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMTEfT9NatM

>>382967298
Recently a lot of long awaited projects finally finished around the same time and they turned out to be good, that's all. Either the Japanese are finally getting their shit together or this is their last hurrah, who knows.

>>382978830
I wouldn't say another level, but it is excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYbskCdDR3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXUIdurUgA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X1pOds2Ejs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn3eC0NThY0

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMTEfT9NatM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsXNjkRdXpY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GobTfc8L3Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5Jmfmkgx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn3eC0NThY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vfv3iVQ0MA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHlE7tCzUSs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf-OSg1lkQw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_0GdN_iBmw

Anyone else just love video games or is it just me?

>>382979404

Only you

>>382979404
>(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

>>382971209
I think it's both. All 3 games in the OP image are fucking fantastic. Blows 2016 out of the water. Meanwhile, western devs are too busy spewing out turds like Andromeda and microtransaction nonsense.

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>>382976863
Their boner for Looking Glass/Ion Storm cannot be contained, but they never really reach the heights that said studios reached. They should try something original again. But yes, their games range from decent (Dishonored) to breddy gud (Prey)

>>382979623
This made me realise that recently the odd numbered years have had way better games than the even ones.

>>382979404
At least link the best P5 song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KukSVxgsQkg

>>382967298
Because people seem to forget that most major western games come out Nov/Dec

>>382979770
I was already typing to chastise you for saying anything besides Rivers In The Desert is the best P5 song, just in preparation of it not being that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzXUQYZOOTs

Solid runner-up, though.

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>>382979770
I was going for /comfy/ though.

>>382979853
Name one (1) major western game coming out in November/December that looks promising.

>>382979853
Looool it's not gonna even scratch all the big boy weebshit that came out at the start of the year. The West is legit finished.

>>382980087
Red Dead Redemption 2

>>382980221
Delayed until 2018

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>>382980063
>OST 69

>>382979770
I like how this is thematically appropriate whether it plays for Shido or Yaldaboath, despite how dissimilar they are. Benjamin Franklin did a good job with this soundtrack.

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>>382979770
>not this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QFx3xMQ-eA

>>382980314
That song isn't HYPE AS FUCK though. Plus the sad piano music meme has already been perfected:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_O2zAbZYeg

>>382979853

Well, starting from September, the biggest western heavy hitters are:

>Destiny 2
>Middle-earth: Shadow of War
>AssCreed Origins
>The Evil Within 2
>Wolfenstein II
>Call of Duty WWII
>Crackdown 3
>Battlefront II

Now, out of all of those games, which one will have the quality of some of the games posted in the OP? Meaning which of these games will deliver on gameplay, soundtrack, story, and even memorable characters? Don't think we have to worry about presentation or voice acting. I left out titles like NBA 2k18, Forza, Need for Speed, and Fifa for obvious reasons.

>>382980453
Agreed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHrQitKjS3I

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>>382977946
It was kinda fun, but i really wish there had been more than 5 enemies at a time, maybe some actual mod support and maybe a game that lasted longer than 6 hours. I will also never be able to fully forgive it for having the fucking brass to call itself DOOM (even though i know this was probably 100% the decision of ZeniMax)

>>382980453
>anything persona 4
>good
Wew laddy

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>>382980542
>The Evil Within 2
>Western

>>382980568
Damn, that is good. I need to get around to playing Nocturne soon.

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>anything that isn't japanese is western

>>382980627
Name a comfier song from P5 than this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9CDfMhq6dM

>>382980453
I dunno. Alone gives me vibes of sitting on a ledge looking at the sun rise, contemplating. Swear To My Bones feels more like mourning music.

>>382980453
>that shit
>better than Swear To My Bones
plus StmB isn't even sad, it's hopeful and bittersweet sounding.

>>382976365
If you are counting indie shit, then there's a lot. Anyone who cares about east vs west garbage are underaged posters anyway

>>382980727
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYbskCdDR3U

>>382980727
the feelings I get in my chest and throat from this song are not normal.

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>>382980829
WITHERED FLOWERS

>>382980705

Name a major non-western publisher then

>>382980783
It is pretty sad though. Nothing in P5 is sadder than coming going home to an empty house and not hearing "Welcome home, big bro!" because Nanako and Dojima are in the hospital.

>>382980727
Inferior to neverfeltlike yadadadadada. The overworld themes have just been getting less catchy while the battle themes have been getting better.

>>382980650

My bad, man. I only remembered seeing it at Bethesda's conference. Never actually bothered to play the first one to know the Japanese worked on it.

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>>382980914
How's it feel to be objectively wrong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nueV34Z6SQI

>>382980542
the only ones i see having a chance are Crackdown 3 and AC:Orgins otherwise Japan wins again this year

>>382981053
When does this even play? I don't remember it at all.

>>382981145
When Morgana disappears after you get the public's treasure, which is why I posted a picture of Morgana before he disappears.

>all these quality jap games
>mario, splatoon 2, xenoblade 2, MHXX arnt even out yet

>>382981227
Oh. Well Morgana is an asshole, so that's probably why I didn't remember it.

>>382981064
>Crackdown 3

you... haven't been following that game's development very closely, have you?

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>>382980542
Wolfenstein (European), Crackdown and The Evil Within 2 (Japanese) are the only games that you listed that might be decent

>>382974398
They are more focused on saving the world with their obvious political shit than making good games that people want.

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>>382981279
>Well Morgana is an asshole
He was humanity's last hope though.

Seriously though. In the next 2-3 years, what are even some western games worth looking forward to?

There's GoW and Spooderman but they're so painfully formulaic.

>>382981414

"people" here is a broad term though, since /v/ isn't the entire gaming community.

>>382981443
Wolfenstein II looks fucking awesome.

Besides that idk.

>>382980542
From that list i'm only excited for Wolfenstein and Destiny.

Wolfenstein because I played New Order when it was on sale, and was pleasantly surprised.

Destiny because I havent played the first, it's coming to PC, and I'm in the mood for a loot shooter.

I finished Shadow Of Mordor, it was cool, but It was like the Batman games without the charm of an urban openworld or enthralling lore. I don't know, It wasn't really challenging, and the open world was boring.

>>382981262
But mhxx is out

>>382979404
I like anons like you. Good stuff

>>382980914
>The entire game after "You're going to turn yourself in to the police, as the sole Phantom Thief" isn't sad as shit, seeing everyone struggle mostly in vain against an uncaring society to clear an innocent man's name, hearing that the trial against Shido won't be easy and might not even end with the justice that you've been fighting for and that your actions might end up being for nothing

I really wanted an S-link to have a full breakdown with the works, sobbing and anguish, and I never got one. I thought Shiho would've been a Link for sure, and there would've been a big emotional moment with her, but it just wasn't to be. It's something I've always felt is missing in Persona, even bizarrely in 3 with its themes of loss and death.

>>382974184
gr2 was pretty boring sorry

>>382981443

I guess Red Dead Redemption 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 if you want to count that as western.

>>382981443
Not trying to be confrontational but what jap games are there to look forward to? We've been waiting on mgsv, ffxv, zelda, p5, last guardian, and nier automata and now we've got them. What now?

>>382974521
The difference is, they're still making new RE games. They aren't even working on a new Elder Scrolls game right now.

>>382981712
Xenoblade and Odyssey

>>382981613
Everyone in the Phantom Thieves knew what was really going on though

>>382981712
Kingdom Hearts III? idgaf about it, but it fits in with your list of Japanese games that took fucking forever to come out.

>>382981712
The new FromSoft project pls be Bloodborne-themed but not be a direct sequel and Itsuno's project which may or may not be DMC5, off the top of my head. If you want to get into more conceptual stuff, there's been big teases of new Bayonetta stuff, though that might just be a Platinum Collection on the Switch. Death Stranding also looks promising. Dragon Ball Fighters Z looks dope. Yakuza Kiwami is shaping up pretty good too.

>>382981809
Forgot to add Xenoblade X to that list I was disappointed.

>>382981712

The next Fromsoft game of course. There's also the whole mystery behind Death Stranding. Not to mention a whole lot of potential sequels like DMC5, DD2, Bayonetta 3 and so on.

Meanwhile in the west, there aren't any franchises looking forward to at the moment, especially that TESVI probably wont be out for another 5 years.

>>382981903
That games still never ever in my book.

>>382981506
I obviously didn't mean the stupid unwashed masses. They piss away their money on F2P mobile games

>>382981712
There's that new Earthbound-type coming out on the PS4 and Vita.

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>>382981946
>DMC5
Not happening, Dante has better things planned.

>>382982182

DELET THIS

>>382982182
For fuck's sake, Uncle Dante's model from DMC4 still looks phenomenal. Why couldn't they use that?

>>382982182
This image makes me depressed

>>382981712
Metal Gear Survive

>>382978428
>SJW shit
ok can i ask what games have sjw shit in them

>>382982182
This party is pretty dull. Let's stop.

>>382982182
First Ken, now Dante. Why does Capcom keep making my favorite characters have weird faces?

>>382982139
You have my attention, please elaborate

>>382982505
Is it not obvious that Mass Effect Andromeda would have been a good game if only it had waifus?

>>382982650
they're talking about Undertale.

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>>382981443
Red Dead Redemption 2 is the obvious one, but you also have
>Mount & Blade II
>Metro Exodus
>Serious Sam 4
>The Last of Us Part II
>System Shock 3 (granted we don't know anything other than Warren Specter, Shodan's VA and some other Looking Glass employees are on the team)
>Sea of Thieves (doesn't look like a complete disaster)
>Beyond Good and Evil 2 (We haven't seen gameplay so hold your fucking DEUS VULT /pol/)
>Cyberpunk 2077 (Probably not in the next 7 fucking years though)
I'm probably forgetting some other ones, but fuck if i can think of em.

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>>382982650
:^)

>>382978281
Man something about their faces in that style just seems off.

>>382967298
>breath of the wild
If by "it" you mean me, because it's so repetitive and easy that it's boring me to death

>>382982768
Sea of Thieves was probably my least favorite part of E3. The presentation lasted way too long and the animations were awful.

>>382982768
ok do most of these games just go over other idiots heads or something

>>382982768
Sea of Thieves looks like a complete disaster.

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>>382982678
>>382982770
well don't I feel silly

>>382980913
cdprojekt

>>382983069

Poland is still in the western hemisphere when you compare it to Japan. Just like how the Russo-Japanese War was declared a war between the West and the East, because by all accounts, Russia is a part of the western world.

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>>382982505
Dishonored 2 makes me play as a cute girl.

>>382967298
Japs did as they always do. Its western devs ruin they own games.

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>>382983234
how is that sjw

>>382983213
I've always understood the "western world" to basically just be Western Europe, North America, and (I guess) Australia. It's more of a political or colloquial definition than it is geographic.

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>>382983309
ok fag weeb baby

nippon is slowly but steadily realizing the advantages of the master race

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>>382983475
Because /v/ told me so.

>>382983309
They're also sort of filling that missing low-mid budget gap that's been missing ever since western pubs decided to either go AAA or indie exclusive.

>>382983741
Is it still uncracked?

>>382983574
>master race
implying, there's nothing cogent or ascetic about a console market. i'll buy what I want and validate my concerns only post purchase like a good boy. Don't you try and stop me, we share the same fate!

>>382983492

Eh I don't know. I'm just basing it on how history refers to political powers, so it's pretty much US+Europe+Their Colonies being the Western World, Africa, the Middle East, and everything from the Himalayas to Japan being the East.

>>382983852
Yeah

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>>382983741
/v/ is stupid

>>382983874
>implying, there's nothing cogent or ascetic about a console market.
Yet you immediately identified PC gaming as the master race. There's no need to fight it, in 20 years Sony will be a controller manufacturer for the PC.

>>382984060
There's simply nothing believable about that.

Stop making up nonsense.

>>382984004
Blast

Denuvo is the bane of my existance

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>>382983574
Publishers are. Devs still only concern themselves with consoles, because thats what all other tojo play on.

>>382984060
>Yet you immediately identified PC gaming as the master race. There's no need to fight it, in 20 years Sony will be a controller manufacturer for the PC.

This was being said 20 years ago about Nintendo.

>>382984231

It's been out since June anon.

https://www.skidrowreloaded.com/dishonored-2-steampunks/

>>382984231
Isn't it cheap af right now though?

>>382984402
Sales ended yesterday, so probably not.

>>382984402
$40, Steam sale is over.

I do wish people would buy it though since Arkane are the only studio keeping the immersive sim alive.

>>382984390
June is not a long time

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>>382979404
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWluPwyQWEA
posting the most underrated Automata track because it's actually the best

>>382984456
Ah fuck.
>>382984503
I'd buy it regardless of the steam sale but there's a JRPG sale on PS4 so I'm stuffed with games to play.

Nier Automata for cheap on console when

>>382984941
Yoko Taro needs your support so he can trick Square into funding his weirdo projects again, anon, don't skimp on him.

How did Automata sell, anyway? Well enough to get that creep a third game? I hope so.

>>382985221
1.5 million copies on console and 500,000 on PC I believe.

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>>382985221
But I'm a NEET

>>382985262

>>382985262

1.5m is the combined sales actually.

>>382967298
Because they're more focused on actually making games instead of some half assed political message?

>>382985581
Ahh ok my bad, still pretty good for a Taro game though. I don't even think Nier passed one million and it had an install base of 160+ million.

>>382974184
bad ragdoll physics the GAME

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>>382985648
name all the games that do i hope you can or im going to call you a stupid fuck

>>382977992
They're basically Thief if you had the Plasmid powers from BioShock. It's a really neat combination, lets you get really creative about how you infiltrate an area.

>>382978281
As much as I'd like to include them, Persona 5 is a 2016 game and Yakuza 0 is a 2015 game.

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>>382970896

>>382967298
Don't post Link next to those two. He doesn't deserve it.

>>382988629
Explain

>>382984635
This and Birth of a Wish are so fucking hype

>>382988726
he's not as hot as the other two

>>382988726
He's a NAUGHTY boy. He needs a spanking.

>>382988939
>>382989020
Stop posting

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>>382988939
Disagree.

>>382989052
sorry

>>382978225
Nier was a pretty big dissapointment. Especially when comparing the combat of Bayonetta to Nier, it's incredible how much of a step down Platinum made. Even the story didn't keep me all that interested, honestly Bayonetta's story is more entertaining because they didn't try so hard. If I cared about deep storytelling I'd go read a book by a dead author, and if I cared about gameplay I'd play almost anything else Platinum has made.

>>382988726
BotW fell into the open world meme and just by this it should be prevented from any GOTY ever.

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>>382989606
Nier is also open world though, does P5 win by default?

>>382989606
Nier Automata fell harder imo

>>382967298
They all got delayed till this year.

>>382989606
>I didn't like it so nobody should
kys

>>382989831
It's not really "open world" so much as it's a series of smaller interconnected zones, kinda like STALKER or a Souls game

>>382976863
Top tier games but not as much as LGS, also the founder of Arkane left few days ago so.. their games will probably decline now.

>>382968154
Because that's all Japs have time to play. When you spend more time on a train than in your own home like they do, you'll want some shit to play on your phone.

>>382978281

It would be good if the art was any good.

>>382970896
thats cute as fuck let me buy those shirts.

>>382967298
Western games were never good
Japan was western pandering HARD for years then they realized they were being retarded and began making Japanese games again so they began slaughtering the competition like the old days.

Japanese games have been better for years you're just a normalfag who needed IGN to tell you that NieR and Persona are worth playing

>>382970896
I refuse to play a game that draws in incestuous faggots.

>>383001203
What?

>tfw Ever Oasis is in my Top 3 for this year so far
Didn't expected that.

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>>383001282

>>383001584
Yoooooooooooooooo
what the fuck? MY FUCKING DICK, TELL ME THAT ISN'T REAL

Even and I'll start Persona 5, odd Nier Automata.

>>383001714
Fuck it I'll play Nier anyway.

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>>383001584

>>383001584
I checked out his twitter and that video was fucking hot. But the rest of the shit on his twitter is absolute degeneracy and the guy behind it should be lynched.

>>382975926
yay!

>>383002506
Link of the videos?

>>383003181
Twitter name in the picture, you lazy faggot.

>>383003492
Don't reply if you won't contribute, retard.

>this year
That's only true if you only care about graphics.

>>383001584
Wait is that actually Melonpan doing the kissing? The fuck that's not true

>>383003694
>Nier Automata
>Good graphics
Pick one

>>383003792
But at least it's not on handheld.

>not conquered by feminists
>allowed to make games without sociopolitical commentary
>make games because they think the game will be fun or interesting
>no funny le reddit memes unless the localisation team decides to ram them in

Western games can't compete because they've stopped caring about making good games and are more concerned about inserting their own personal politics into the game.

>>383003849
Handheld """"""""games""""""""" shouldn't even be mentioned.

>>382970896
The be/ss/t

>>383003928
Casual.

>>383004106
Exactly, only casuals play handheld games.

Look at like NieR. What is NieR: Automata about? Death in a world where everyone is machines, self-actualisation, the concept of the ego, prejudice and the impulsive instinct to love but to also kill. About the reasons people live and die, finding reasons to live when previous reasons vanish unexpectedly or finding reasons to die. About evolution and sapience. I'm not very good at reading between the lines on these sorts of things, so I'm just mentioning things I noticed while playing.

Also NieR's game play is somewhat limited in scope but also fun, engaging and fast.

What themes do most western games have going on?

>stronk independent womyn
>group of culturally diverse people taking back America from not-trump
>shoot da bad guys cos deys bad

The west is bankrupt for original ideas and subtle or clever writing. And of course the gameplay is usually just TPS, FPS or a Far Cry clone.

>>383004328
t. casual

>>383001584
>>383003181
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6srqtPfA4

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>>383001584

>>383005273
Man it is a surprise that China has such a high population considering they can't even figure out how to fucking kiss properly.

>no Nioh
>shitty 2deep4you fanservice game with shit gameplay

btw both Nier and Persona 5 are not that good.
Only Nioh and BOTW should be considered GOTY.

>>383005730
what is wrong with those games? it sounds like you're bitter nioh doesn't get as much attention

>>383005730
BotW isn't even the best or even 4th best Zelda game.

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>>383001584

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>>382973774
>Boner is lost
たいへん、よみがえなきゃ

>>383005817
Persona 5 combat system just sucks dick and the whole game and gameplay was done better in Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE 2bh. Nier is bland as fuck and the only thing it has going for it is muh story and the ass.

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>>382980542
japan shits out indie titles that look more interesting than this list, save the evil within 2 mistake

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i miss when western games were good

>>383006096
>I've never played SMT
>I've never played Nier
Ahh, Soulsfags. What a delight.

>>382977331
>nigger lover
>shit taste
Goes hand in hand I suppose.

>>382981443
battle chasers
the guild 3
cyberpunk 2077
div OS 2
Squadron 42

>>382981712
Code vein
xenoblade 2
Ni no Kuni II
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
MH world

>>382970896
>Nier
>Berseria
>Xenoblade 2
>All releasing in the same year in the west


Year of the /ss/

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>>383006334
WAT GAME
is there anything more to it than making rice cakes?
seems comfy

>>382967298
Why is Link wearing both a belt and suspenders? That's not how it works

>>382970896
>2
>5

Always knew Nines was a little cuck.

>>383006987
>is there anything more to it than making rice cakes?
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
and yes some side scrolling bashing goes on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gI93jQUDuw

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>>382989086
>trap maymay
plseasse stop

>>383007117
that's not a belt buckle its just a decoration on his pants

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>>383007198
>cuhrayzee 2d combos
>comfy minigames of rice
>loli protag

>>382975452
The games are comfy and decent amounts of fun but they're not really near good enough to be shown off as the icons of Sony. Sony doesn't want to show off anything that looks remotely anime to the west anyway. GR2 didn't even get a proper trailer at E3 2016, just a brief clip in the trailer reel that has dozens of games in it.

>>382980542
>>Destiny 2

I'm sure it won't be an unfinished pile of shit full of microtransactions and grinding this time, guys!

>>Middle-earth: Shadow of War

Shadow of Mordor again, already an Assassin's Creed clone and now it's going to be the same game all over again. Enjoy going through the whole game to get abilities you had at the end of the last game back plus 2 or 3 new ones.

>>AssCreed Origins

Oh boy another Assassin's Creed. I hope it's as good as the last 40.

>>The Evil Within 2

Like anything Bethesda touches it will turn to shit. Just like The Evil Within 1. Because Bethesda are incapable of letting a developer make the game they want without inserting their own shit into it.

>>Wolfenstein II

Last one was a bland and boring shooter, this will just be the same.

>>Call of Duty WWII

Can't wait for them to do the "alternate history" bullshit so they can shoehorn in a bunch of fully automatic rifles that didn't exist at the time.

>>Crackdown 3

Mite b good.

>>Battlefront II

Has potential but then again

>EA

>>383007556
>Sony doesn't want to show off anything that looks remotely anime to the west
fucking retarded business and marketing plan if you ask me

>>383007198
aww I was expecting it to be a not grid-based harvest moon game
looks cool though thanks anon

>>383007628
please, fucking never ever again make that post format with one line between each phrase

>>383007706

Please, learn how to use capitalisation and periods before you fucking go all autismo because "MUH REDDIT SPACING MEME".

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>>382974184

>>382970896
WHAT ABOUT LOLI GAME?

>>383008067

Loli is dead man. It fucking sucks.

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>>383007528
is that a good thing or a bad thing

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you cant resist

>>383008067

Fucking this. Japan has been making the young boy/older girl stereotype since Cloud and Aeris, but we barely get an older guy/loli game outside of some shovelware by third rate studios.

>>383008487
>>383008405

This is coming to PC right? I hope it has a selling system like Recettear. Selling your hard grown rice would be comfy.

>>382976824
>For the other 99.9999% of the world absolutely.
You mean normies that like
>games that try to be movies
>heavily scripted railroaded events that look flashy on screen but the player input is extremely minimal and are almost impossible to fail anyway, some times even if you fail them you don't get punished in any way
>clunky unrefined gameplay
>FPS games that are all the same fucking shit with a different coat of paint

And other atrocities in gaming?

>>383008587
PS4 and PC
http://gematsu.com/2017/05/sakuna-rice-ruin-ps4-pc-coming-north-america-2018

>>383008701

Well that's nice. With CodeVein also in 2018, I hope it's going to be the year of Lolis.

>>382967298
Who is the right one? I know the other 2 are 2butt and potter-kun

>>383008864
Link.

>>383008864
That's Zelda

>>382978148
>Muh transhumanism
Can't tell if you are baiting or severely retarded

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>>383008864
look at the ponytail

>>383008864
Zelda.

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>>383006334
>>383007198
>>383008405

>>383008405
>>383008487
good

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>>382976365
as much as /v/ loves to dump on them, wRPGs are a great genre that the East doesn't deliver at all. Only example is Dragon's Dogma and even that's debatable.

>>382976365
1st and 3rd Person Shooters.

>>383004804
Iunno, I actually liked Shadowrun and DouchEx:HR for attempting noggin-joggin

>>383012006

The plot of Shadowrun Dragonfall was pretty neat.

>>382978148

>transhumanism
>nobody in the story is even remotely human
>humans have been extinct for over 8000 years by the time Automata takes place

Don't throw around words you don't understand the meaning of, you just look like a fucking retard.

>>383012006

Yeah and then Mankind Divided sucked ass and Shadowrun barely gets any attention because it's not about smashing duh cishet white patriarchy.

>>383012229

> Shadowrun barely gets any attention because it's not about smashing duh cishet white patriarchy.

It kinda is. But the only twist is that he's actually an Elder Dragon who's pretty reasonable.

>>382977460
I wish it was legal to hunt the alt-right like wild game. It might give some of these fat white excuse of a human being a chance to exercise for once in their lives before they get gutted like livestock by actual people.

>>382989376
Nier never had good gameplay. Taro's earlier games, the Drakengard series, had even shitter gameplay.

>>382983970
Russia and the rest of the slavs haven't been part of the west since Communism, which reimagined the whole "East vs West" bit.

>>382969743
This, it's just that lots of big names released this year so people are paying more attention.

>>382974184
She's below the cut-off sucking Link's feminine penis.

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>>382967298
the west is to busy with the overpriced VR and virtual singling black people.

>>382974184
I LOVE KAT!

>>382979404
you forgot the most hype song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfmhkq7RYsE

>>383001584
i would be ashamed if it was my mother

no matter how hot it would have been..

>>382974184
This. Best girl of the year. I can't stop playing GR2 at the moment, and Kat deserves more love.

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>>383016707
>afro chicks
At least these devs have good taste.

And that Lawbreakers chick actually looks pretty cool. Exaggerated, too ugly to be fapbait but not ugly enough to be obnoxious, looks like just the right amount of no-bullshit without being edgy, but hey. I'm just going by a single frame and I'm too lazy to look up the trailer.

Still refreshing, though. Way better than generic white chicks with emo streaks in their hair wearing slutty clothes and "hurr I'm a tuff gurl I can handle anything you men can xD" attitude like most western women characters.

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>>382980727
it's all subjective because they are totally different styles of music but I personally liked P5's overworld music way better. It wasn't as "catchy" but it was more atmospheric and comfy and it didn't get annoying after a while like P4's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFFOXwniVKw
I just strongly prefer chill jazzy music over the poppy stuff of P4 or the hiphop of P3.

>>383005549
kissing is not part of the baby making process.

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>>382982182
I see they modeled it after the NECA figure

>>382982182
I miss Donte

>>382967298
They learned HD deving. They're not going to suddenly drop all the mobile shit they turned to last gen to have something to do but the ratio should be better between that shit and AA and AAA as we enter the next golden age of vidya.

>>383017675
>At least these devs have good taste.
are you black or stupid?

>>383017675
>but not ugly enough to be obnoxious
It's fucking Ernie Hudson in drag and this motherfucker says it's not ugly enough to be obnoxious. SMDH Familia myth.

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>>382979664
This.

I appreciate that they try, though.

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>>382967298
Why do you think?

>>383005038
Are you retarded?

>>382976863
Arx Fatalis is pretty damn great.

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>>383019235

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>>382967298
Japanese games are always the best. Check this shit out.

https://youtu.be/q_N72EBYRpE

>>383020224
Is that the new disaster report? I was gonna buy it anyways because I loved that shit but that's just awesome if they went full on ridiculous for the plot of the disaster.

>>383021334
Yes. Since BamCo is publishing it, I bet we'll see some kinda Asian English version at some point. I think it'll be too much of a hassle for them to localize it with all those IPs in it.

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>>382974184
>Kat is cute CUTE!

Why is this thread still up?

>>383013767
>I wish it was legal to hunt the alt-right like wild game.

What goes around comes around. The alt-right would probably love to be able to hunt the idiotic left. Problem for the lefties is that most gun owners and people who hunt game tend to lean conservative.

>>382970896
>2B is the equivalent of a 17-18 yo
>9S is the equivalent of a 16 yo

That's not /ss/

It is if you replace 2B with A2, tho.

>>383024307
You don't need women that are much older for /ss/
Shota+loli also falls to /ss/ territory

>>383024269
We own guns too. We won't hesitate to turn them against you if you turn yours on us.
Most of us are begging for a civil war because we can't wait to get rid of you backwards-thinking religious nutbags out of our society. We'll either kill you off or make you form your own country, which we'll bomb and poison to eradicate the survivors. You don't deserve to live in a modern world, so fuck off and die.

>>382978148
Spoken like a true nigger.

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>>382976204

>>382981712
dragon's dogma 2/DMC5

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>>383025978
>being this bluepilled

>>383007193
it's a 9 and S you cuck.