Actually video games originated in the United States, not Japan. Though Japan has long been a big player, even before the video game crash of 83', and it was Japan that breathed new life into the hobby and is largely responsible for how most games are today.Ishal said:JRPG's... because JRPG's.
Yes video games came from Japan. Yes the first game I ever played was a Nintendo Mario game. There are some good ones... but 90% are garbage. This seems to be a trend from Japan, since 90% of anime seems to be crap as well.
I do like my share of Japanese games tho, and some are even JRPG's. Chrono Trigger, Skies of Arcadia, Dark Souls, Ace Combat Series, Megaman(X), Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Various Nintendo titles..
But c'mon man, Kingdom Hearts? Final Fantasy? Those kinds of games? The characters are just painful, actually painful to behold. The way they dress, the way they talk, what they actually say when they talk, the godawful college dropout existentialism plots. Its just too much. I guess I get why some people like them, they like being completely saturated.. no, drowned by all that stuff but it just ain't for me.
Oh and Sports Games. Not a fan of sports outside of games so don't care for them in videogames.
This is one thing that has come up a lot and it's not really the best excuse to say that they are a pointless genre. I'm not a fighter because I don't like hurting people in real life but I enjoy playing UFC or fight night games because it's fun to play them. Then there is also the fact that there are not to many places around me that do MMA stuff and if so I doubt they would be open at times when I play games. Other sports can be accountable as well, most of my friends only enjoy watching basketball but I love playing it and watching it so it's not as simple as going and playing it because it would be just me and that's not really as fun.A.A.K said:They're the only genre that you can safely/easily/legally do - physically.
Why the hell would you play a sports game when you can actually go out and train in MMA, actually go out and play Football or Gridiron.
I just never understood it, and never cared for it.