Why japs cant write a decent story?

Uh, which Gaben designed character are we talking about here? Or any westacuck character?

>>389828415
Japs make games to be fun, West makes games to justify the fact they'll never make it in any industry where writing matters.

>>389828415
>HE'S LIKE A TOP SCIENTIST BUT SOMEHOW MORE PHYSICALLY CAPABLE THAN MOST MARINES AND HE ALSO IS LOVED BY EVERYONE AND HE IS MUTE AND CONTROLLED BY A SECRET GOVERNMENT GUY BECAUSE AMBIGUITY IS EASIER THAN CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

>Western dev
>Character being gay/trans is main selling point and needs to be the main focus
>Eastern dev
>Character being gay is only a minor thing that you only find out by either sidequest, reading a random ingame item mentioning a husband, or something like that

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>>389828415
They can, it's just the West can't translate them.

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>>389828415
Japs write better stories than westerners, what are you talking about?

We all know slavs make the quality games

>>389828729
Name one game where the mc is gay without there being an option for him/her to be straight.

>>389828729
second example pisses me off more than the first one
at least I know to avoid the first one on sight

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>>389828661
some japs do both

>>389829409
I've no way to know if your translation is better or not, since I don't do moonspeak, but the dialog is still pretty retarded on both sides.

>>389829409
opinion discarded. don't give a shit game and a shit localization team as an example

>>389828415
THE CORRECT POST IS "WHY JAPS CAN'T WRITE GOOD CHARACTERS" YOU IDIOT THE IMAGE IS TALKING ABOUT CHARACTERS NOT STORIES
MAKE A IMAGE TALKING ABOUT STORIES IF YOU WANT TO BITCH ABOUT JAPS NOT BEING ABLE TO WRITE STORIES

>strong, but practical

That sentence doesn't make sense. Practical is not opposed to strength. Why not just use "and" instead of "but"?

>heroic, but realistic

Once again, that doesn't make sense.

Cultural differences. The mundane slog of cradle to the grave work that Japs live makes things where the protagonist is young and spunky and extra ordinary very popular, its an escape from the gray that is their lives.
You give an example of the west but western writing but its just just as trite, the stories are empty and made by a committe around what people THINK is popular, not with an actual vision, such as the main character is a badass soldier who is badass, the badguys are badguys because they do bad things. Its always safe and generic because western audiences do not like to think a more introspective thought than "is my superhero going to beat that supervillian?", this is how all western media is made, jap stuff is escapism, western stuff is a product. Thats just how it is.

>>389831548
INB4 someone points out exceptions in western writing, if you are willing to do that for Western games then why arent you willing to do it for Jap games.

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>>389828415
This is such a bad troll. All you need to do is play a JRPG, and realize that it's worse than that because in JRPGs everyone's 15 years old.

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>>389828415
gabe is so hawt!

Guts is better written character than any WRPG character

Hilarious how the whole "heroic, but realistic" and "strengths should be balanced by his weaknesses" thing was completely dropped from HL2 onward.

>>389828415
the japanese hate god. they really, really hate god and need him to die. painfully if possible.

>>389831841
Anyway, OP, the answer to that is because that's what sells (anime has the same problem but with otaku). Vaan is a perfect example; shoehorned in to replace Basch not because anyone thought it'd be a better creative decision but because the last time Square had a protagonist like him in Vagrant Story the sales tanked. Japanese developers don't write out of a sense of artistic integrity or write what they want to but instead follow a lucrative template. And this template is made to appeal to their demographic of high schoolers. If Western developers operated that way we'd see nothing but Eragon and Twilight clones.

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>>389828415
japs focus on character design instead