a definitive guide of japanese vs western game design. some of the difference are:
- japanese vs western
- anime style vs real life
- storyline based vs action based

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3155815

japanese game more nicer than western game la......
any nice games lately?

Japanese excel in racing simulation, aircraft/spaceshooter, RPG and arcade actions. Westerners on the other hand excel in first person shooters like Fear, FarCry, etc and Real Time strategy games

You forgot about the creative/humorous shit they manage to produce from time to time. Katamari, God Hand, Ouendan, Trauma Center, Okami, etc.

ditto. japanese made RPGs are better than their western counterparts. as for FPS games, its the opposite.

and their CGs and FMVs are also a lot better than western games (excluding blizzard's).

i must say each has their own specialty.

This post has been edited by fazco85: Jan 27 2007, 01:02 AM

well Japanese more into Animation n RPG...
but sports and 1st or 3rd person shooting will be Westerns...

WE pwns FIFA

ermm.... i would say not that big difference....
i played both of them on PC...
no thing much lo...
I would like to try it on XBOX... now waiting for it...
after that maybe i'll change my mind...

I guess it depends on the market as well. It's not like western studios cannot make good RPG games or eastern studios cannot make great FPS but the market that determine it.

US people prefer FPS and sports titles so the demand for these type of games is high. So game studio like EA allocate their resource to make these type of game. The same thing occurs in Japan. in the end each studio speacialize in diffrent type of games

well you are correct too..

From my opinion, I guess japanese games is more to fantasy-type while the western more to real type games.

Japanese games' main char are usually cool and more fantasy while western games' are more brutal, mature, not-so-handsome.

that depends on which side of the fence you sit lor... go se kopitiam thread on la-la-chais for more details

Personally, i think the last few FF heroes a bit gay lor... gimme Marcus Fenix any day!

I dunno... too generalized BTW.

I hardly get excited about Japanese anime-based games- all the pretense is there for who? Mad otakus who cosplay every 2 days and are crazy about every detail of characters?
(Plus, we all know metro men and butch women go on perfect. )

There are more simulators (IL82, FSX, GTR, FM2, Virtual Skipper) that aren't from Japan then the ones that are BTW. Unto the topic of FMVs, most people obviously didn't play Myst IV. That blows away every goddamn FMV that any Japanese developer ever made.

1 is anime-nish and 1 is warner brother-nish? =/

did you guys know there is alot of Japanese and Korean Gaming Software companies which sub their FMV sequence job over here to Malaysia?

I didnt think they would do such a thing until i met a guy over here who actually design and created video games introduction and FMV sequences for ppl like Sony and etc.. hillarious..

here man power cheaper mah...

western create technologies in gaming (game engine/physics), while japan more focus on artistic (more to anime style art direction)

i dun agree on 'Japanese excel in racing simulation', ie. Forza physics is far better then GT4 and there's a bunch of western racing sims out there.

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Added on February 2, 2007, 4:37 pmnot only fmz lah, game it self also lot of people do here

This post has been edited by eone: Feb 2 2007, 04:37 PM

Playing a game that lets you controll a character that runs around killing shit with guns doesn't make it any more mature than, say, playing an Italian plumber who runs around stomping giant mutated turtles and punching bricks that float around the air.

Japanese make better 2d games than the americans or the westerners .. theres no doubt about it that street fighter was the turning point for 2d fighting games and thus comes all the great street fighter games such as sf3 3rd strike, Kof games and a hell a lot of great 2d . japanese also good in making great 2d action such as Metal Slug series, shoot n umps games ( Raiden fighters, Espgaluda, Ikaruga ) .. and also the facial 3d ness that japanese make is so good and better than the westerners ( example the facial face of characters in final fantasy, resident evil series, silent hill series, tecmo fatal frame , ninja gaiden ) .. so in conclusion i love japanese games than the westerners/americans game ......