Why can't the japanese do weird, unique settings? I mean

I don't fully understand what you're trying to say. Wasn't megaman, at the time, a very unique setting? What about mario? Metroid? What about Xenoblades setting? Or devil may cry? Silent hill?

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I think you don't play enough Japanese games or are limited to the selection on PC or something, there are tons of gook games with unique settings.

you need to play more JRPGs

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is this a poorly disguised rec thread or something?

>>387083804
If you just wanted some japanese games with unique settings recommended, then you could've just asked. These semi-bait threads won't last long.

>>387083804
dumb pc player

>>387084645
Are you literally inside my brain?>>387084656

>>387083804
Xenogears, Xenoblade, Xenoblade X, Kingdom Hearts, Nier, Nier: Automata, Megaman, arguably a lot of the Final Fantasy games, Phantasy Star III, Phantasy Star Universe, Phantasy Star Online just to name a few on the top of my head. Are you retarded?

>>387084739
Zelda Wind Waker has a unique setting imo, I'm trying to think of games similar to the OP pic, it has the same vibe

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>>387083804

>>387084906
I don't think those are that weird though. I mean just look at something like Oddworld, there arent' even humans in that game. Planescape is a place were all types of reality meet together and Morrowind has sci-fi dwarves, lizardmen, crab-people, gods who can edit the game and cyborgs from the future fighting medieval-tech elves.

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others from the same guy too of course

>>387085705
>sci-fi dwarves, lizardmen, crab-people, gods who can edit the game and cyborgs from the future fighting medieval-tech elves.
sounds like your run-of-the-mill final fantasy game

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I get what you're saying, but you're putting it the wrong way.
It's not like the japanese can't do weird and unique settings, they obviously can. Shit, Japan is known for weirdness.

What you're actually trying to say is that the japanese don't tend to make settings that are very dark and grotesque, and they especially don't pursue those things with some level of realistic visuals.

For example, Dark Souls is a dark game full of grotesque things, but the setting itself isn't so much like that, with some exceptions it's basically just medieval fantasy.

Even the really weird developers like Suda51 make bizarre characters and bizarre circumstances but visually never go near the dark and grotesque.

I feel like it's a cultural thing, perhaps having a lot to do with modern art. The Japanese modern art pieces that get really famous tend to me these really orderly, perfectly aligned, sometimes outright geometrical things.
It's to be expected from a society full of taboos and ridiculous social pressure.

Then again, what they lack in dark and grotesque in vidya, they make up in manga.

>>387083804
Morrowind is the exception, not the rule. The vast majority of western RPGs are either straight-up Tolkien clones or set in an equally generic fantasy or sci-fi setting. Just look at all the recent major releases like Witcher 3, Mass Effect Andromeda, and Pillars of Eternity. All of them have generic as fuck settings

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>>387085286
This.

I'm not sure if its just because they're both copying Moebius, but Nausicaa is basically the same setting as Morrowind.

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>>387083804
Start playing better games or more games.

>>387086551
yeah, miyazaki has confirmed he was inspired by moebius

http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/miyazaki_moebious.html

>>387086931
He loves Moebius, the two even had a art exhibit together. Though to be fair you would have to lack a soul to not like the art of Moebius.

>>387085956

Gonna need sauce on that manga friendo

this is horrible bait thread, try harder.

>>387087149
Hellstar Remina by Junji Itou

>>387085705
>Xenoblade
Game world is the body of two giant gods

>Xenoblade X
Game world is a planet called Mira that's essentially purgatory and is super mysterious, for some reason all alien life can understand each other on this planet, mims somehow still have human souls attached to them despite the lifehold being damaged beyond repair, and a ton of other weird shit

>Phantasy Star III
Game world appears to be medieval times with strange mutant creatures and abominations, you live, get married, die, and play as your children and then their descendants. Turns out everything is actually on a massive colony ship that's been adrift in space for thousands of years.

>I don't think those are that weird though

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>>387083804
>implying implications
Xenoblade literally takes place on the lifeless bodies and weapons of two massive titans, whom were formed as the result of human scientists accidentally destroying the universe out of curiosity and creating a pocket universe with completely different laws.

>>387084175
>Moebius meets Ghibli

Toyama, you magnificent bastard!

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Dear Diary, today OP was a faggot yet again.

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>>387083804
>Why can't the japanese do weird, unique settings?

>>387083804
Play smt

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>>387087437
xenoblade games are fucking gorgeous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umwyql5c3Rk

>>387087149
Hellstar Remina
You should read everything by the author, you're in for a hell of a ride.

>>387083804
Except the exact opposite is true, Japan does way more unique settings and the west is generally a lot more generic. You posted the handful of exceptions. Hell your point falls apart immediately if you look at Morrowind's sequels.

>>387086551
I do love Nausicaa. I always thought it might have been the inspiration for Nausicaa, but I wouldn't say it's really the same weirdness level as Moebius or defenitely as Morrowind.

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>>387087257
>>387088161

Thanks for the delivery anons!

Is this a joke? The west has been overly enamored with generic medieval europe settings for ages.

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>>387083804
>Morrowind
>unique setting
It has strong worldbuilding, but its not very unique.

Also you don't know of enough Japanese games. Try playing pic related. Learn some Hinduism.

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>>387087386
I just have a bit higher standards for weirdness.
>>387085956
That is a bit of what I mean. But I'd go a bit further. You're right, a jrpg even if has some weird gimmick aesthetically will still most of the time look like something ranging between a battle shounen, realism or a cartoon. On the other hand games like Morrowind, Planescape or Zeno Clash just have their own odd style that doesn't fit into anything. You walk around Morrowind and these mesopotamian style buildings, with mushrooms instead of trees everywhere, flying jellyfish, people riding on bugs while the races besides humans are lizardmen, catpeople and elves which look more like aliens than pretty humans with pretty ears.
>>387084645
If FF VI looked anything like Amano's art then maybe you would be un to something.

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>>387084656
>semi-bait thread

>>387088314
>>387088626
That's why I mentioned Morrowind, not its sequels.

>>387083804
weird, unique settings are insufficient. you need to add interesting, amazing and it's difficult task

>>387084175
Floating objects and plots of land with generic anime humans has been a Japanese standard since NES.

Next

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I really enjoy Mother 3's setting, being neither highly realistic or fantasy.

>>387083804


what?

Being weird is why people prefer Japanese games. They tend to be more exotic.