[ SECRET POST #2406 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2406 ⌋

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Comments

[ariakas]

Nope.

Noooooooooooope.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Japanese characters designs, but that shit is everywhere in Japanese games these days, and if Western games did it too there'd be no variety left. (Similarly, I hope Japanese games don't start featuring the 30-something Brown-Haired Grizzled White Guy protagonist.)

[sootyowl]

This. I like that character designs vary. Never the twain shall meet, in a large capacity, I can only hope.

[ill_omened]

We could really do with some thirty something black haired grizzled japanese guys tho

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[ariakas]

Never happen.

They are not kawaii. Or moe. And sexually frustrated shut-ins don't want to fuck them.

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[insanenoodlyguy]

Gatz does okay for himself as far as interested parties go. Of course unlike most grizzled protagonists, he's actually an emotional mess and even the one sucessfull sexual encounter we've seen him have had him was pretty fucked up, so not a lot of follow through.

And he thankfully has no interest in the lolis. (though some of them got interest in him)

[(Anonymous)]

Yes!. Though I'd like more variety within the 30-something grizzled guys, those guys are my type. I have a coworker who, while not as buff as most game characters, is relatively fit but looks like he's had a few too many bad nights in his life. He looks sexy as hell and I'm pretty sure he can do 300 points of damage on anyone who messes with him.

BTW, I like the cute anime characters too so more of them as well! Fuck it, I like all of the character tropes. I really do. Let's smash them all together so everyone can have a character to fan over. It'll be fun.

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno I kind of want to see what a modern military shooter would look like if made by a totally Japanese team, I can't help but think they would need to hire someone just to smack the entire development team every time they tried to insert bat-shit crazy elements like Metal Gear Solid does. I am imagining a Call of Duty clone, where you keep seeing where the developers have to stop themselves from adding aliens, superpowers, and blatant anime tropes, in order to try and tell a cliche Western gritty war story with a generic western white soldier protagonist. I like to think that's how Valkyria chronicles started out and then just spiraled out of control from there until we somehow got cute anime cliches in a World War 2 story.

To be fair to the west, they do have some cute as hell stuff, it's just usually more often non-human characters (I.E. the MLP ponies), the west just doesn't have a moe equivalent; which depending on who you ask, could be seen as a good thing.

[ariakas]

The problem with that is that the Japanese team will add those elements because those elements sell to Japanese (nerd) audiences. I'm friends with a whole bunch of Japanese players of Western FPS games, but when they make their own fan characters and talk about what they'd really like to see instead of the grizzled Shootan Mans, it's inevitably bug-eyed moetastic 10-year-old girls with watermelon tits wearing miniskirts or just panties on the battlefield. (Basically, they want Call of Strike Witches.)

I love some of these dudes dearly, don't get me wrong, but I'd never buy that game, and neither would 99.9% of the core Western audience, and international players outnumber the Japanese audience by tens of millions.

I could write a whole essay about how most Japanese gaming companies have doomed themselves in terms of broader international appeal by targeting the core audience of extreme uber nerds at home, but hell several professional industry analysts have already done it for me.

THAT SAID. From Software has proven that your dream is possible, if extremely unlikely.