American Games vs. Japanese Games: Clash of the Cultures.

[Namae Nai]

I stumbled onto kinda a neat article while searching for stuff on the Vanguard fiasco.

It's about the difference in attitude Western gamers have in games versus our friends in Japan. Or more simply, why DOOM is popular here and why Final Fantasy is way more popular there.

Read here!

[Jasyn]

An interesting read.  Thank you, Namae.

[Corsair]

That is pretty interesting eh?

The philosophical difference from a designers standpoint makes sense, but I never really thought about it so much as a culturally driven thing, as opposed to s corporate management style for how projects got developed.

Thanks!

[Namae Nai]

Kinda puts us MMO players in the Japanese catagory though, since the games we play involve a lot of character building and artwork as opposed to more plain cleaner lined point-click-n-shoot games.

Though I do notice a trend towards that in gaming, with the space combat in SWG and some newer games, like Tabula Rasa.

[Trevian]

Heh, I thought the opposite.  Since MMOs give players a tremendous amount of freedom both in camera angle and in the ability to roam freely.