Survey Says Japanese Dislike Shooters

[Brognus]

Compare 'No-one shall possess a fire-arm or fire-arms or a sword or swords' to "the right of the people to keep and bear arms." and it's pretty obvious which culture is more gun-inclined.

Oh, I'd it's safe to say the amount of Illegal American guns outstrips Japanese guns.

and I said they don't have a lot of guns, not that they have 0 guns.

Per capita gun ownership in the US is FAR larger than japan.

(Oh, and I'm pretty sure Yu Aida doesn't own a FN P-90 just because he draws one.)

 

[Brognus]

Oh and the western RPG, May I direct you to D&D, Gurps, Shadowrun, Warhammer, ect, ect, ect.

 

[tendo82]

I'll be the first acknowledge that Americans love their guns. I went to junior high in a fairly rural area and had two classmates who shot themselves by accident because they were 13 and didn't have proper supervision.

But really, we should be talking about the Swiss and Swedes. They should be making incredible FPS's assuming rates of gun ownership somehow correlated to quality in FPS's.

 

[UpInSmoke]

Yeah and all Americans are Gun-Toting freaks who get off from violence.

Isn't Stereotyping other cultures fun, kids?!

On the Escapist, it's absolutely OK to stereotype Americans while at the same time condemning Americans for stereotyping others. If you can do both in one sentence, you get a gold star and a seat in the parliament of whatever silly little country you're stuck in.

 

[Brognus]

I think you need to replace your sarcasm detector, because yours is obviously broken.

 

[bluemarsman]

This explains why I see so few Halo 3 players from Japan.

 

[UpInSmoke]

I think you need to replace your sarcasm detector, because yours is obviously broken.

i was agreeing with your sarcastic remark and adding one of my own. Now who's got a broken detector?

 

[slaygore]

Although I hate to say it I have to agree with UpInSmoke that japanese people are xenophobic dicks. They say they dislike shooters, but resident evil and metal gear solid are consider shooters as well. Aren't they selling well in japan? Sure american shooters are more violent and have stories that are bs, but does that really prevent you from actually liking it?

 

[Brognus]

Really? Because I found it to be inline with your previous posts.

 

[Brognus]

Metal Gear is more stealth than shooter, and I'd argue that resident evil is more horror, but alas, I've never played the franchise.

 

[Brognus]

Oh and just because a couple games from a particular have been successful does not make the entire genre popular, if anything it highlights how little games from the FPS genre there are in Japan.

 

[UpInSmoke]

whether resident evil is horror or shooter, you still spend the entire game running around and shooting people/things in the face with guns. The reason they accept RE is because it is Japanese. If Resident Evil 4 was designed by valve, they would not buy it. period. It's not about gun culture, it's about automatically dismissing anything non-Japanese.

 

[Brognus]

A couple of exceptions does not make the shooter genre mainstream.

 

[Jake Lockley]

Let's get realistic, it's a culture that revolves around the group and fitting in, not the individual and standing out. It's called Gesellshaft vs Gemeinshaft. I don't think FPS's are the problem, just they way they are designed. Make something along the lines of Ratchet and Clank with Hello Kitty Characters or cars and see how it measures up.

 

[Brognus]

No, it's more like western companies automatically assuming a game will do well in Japan just because it sells well state-side, likewise certain Japanese genre's fail to make headway into us mainstream. (Dating Sims spring to mind.)

 

[UpInSmoke]

A couple of exceptions does not make the shooter genre mainstream.

Well there are no exceptions to the "Don't buy American games because they aren't Japanese" rule.

 

[Brognus]

If it was just that FPS games were disliked in japan just because they're all western I wonder why there aren't more Japanese versions of GTA or Halo running around.

 

[Brognus]

Hey guys, how about I make a rape-game and sell it to women, if they don't like it, they're obviously sexist. That sound about right to you?

 

[UpInSmoke]

If it was just that FPS games were disliked in japan just because they're all western I wonder why there aren't more Japanese versions of GTA or Halo running around.

Those are considered foreign genres, and any Japanese developer who tried to make such a product would be mocked, ostracized, and doomed to financial failure.

 

[Brognus]

Instead of actually doing market research, and try to design games to the their taste, let's continuously port games targeted EXCULSIVELY for westerners to Japan, despite the huge cultural difference.