Is it just me, or is the number of japanese games appearing on the PC growing, at least in the West? Pre-2010 there was what? Recettear and maybe some older games?
I'm not counting VNs or MMOs, though official localization for VNs wasn't that big until recently either.
I think it was Dark Souls that kind of started it however Capcom was doing it for years beforehand since they were trying to be western devs.
Gabriel Gray
Oh yeah, also forgot
James Ramirez
I don't think it's that since most of the Japanese PC ports actually aren't even released in Japan like a lot of the xbox versions of Japanese games.
Benjamin Campbell
It only really blew up with Valkyria Chronicles thought
Benjamin Johnson
Yeah that was another one that did really well Sega, like Capcom though were doing PC ports for a long time now just not with every game like Capcom.
John Stewart
Well steam was around in the 2000s and Japanese games were almost never ported to the PC.
I'm personally waiting for consoles to go under $300 on sale.
Brayden Davis
That only happens with certain cases nowadays. Most recent releases haven't seen this issue. archive.is/WCgbO
Michael Sullivan
That article is about esports what does it have to do with ports?
Austin Jackson
I wouldn't consider ports of decade old games the same as CapCom. CapCom has been porting pretty much all their games to PC on a timely manner since 7th Gen with some exceptions.
Read the article
Isaiah Hall
And did it have the degree of popularity it has had since the start of this decade? It keeps growing
Just buy a handheld
Cooper Wright
Sega still did stuff like Binary Domain and Sonic Generations, Sonic 4, All-Stars Racing and I think they put out some Tennis games too. Like I said it isn't every game like Capcom was doing but they put out some ports with new releases here and there.
Carson Thompson
All I want is Kingdom Hearts and Dragon Quest on PC. I'd have no reason to invest in anything other than PC upgrades and handhelds ever again.
Misc stuff like pic related would be nice as well but it's not essential.
Jayden Foster
Nope we're too busy winning to bother with that.
Eli Cruz
It's the most overrated piece of shit ever.
Colton Flores
What the fuck? You've never heard the term "doujin game" before? Is steam your only experience with PC games?
Brandon Hernandez
that mindset is why hillary lost fam
Michael Hernandez
Now evangelion is a strong contender, but not only it wasn't around for as long, but neither it gets away without criticism like berserk does. Nobody seem to notice how badly berserk is written, while NGE gets all the shit it deserves.
Jeremiah Lopez
I can never hear Kill La Kill and not hear Kek le Kek
Gavin Lee
I'm not counting that shit since I'm not a slanty-eyed jap you autist. I didn't think I'd have to specify doujin games when I already mentioned VNs and localization.
Luke Miller
Oh man you haven't seen Evangelion yet, have you? People were telling me that if there was something I needed to see before I died, it was Evangelion.
Do yourself a favor and send Evangelion to your worst enemy. I guarantee they will hate you even more.
Dylan Sanchez
Nge is babby's first super robot show, that's why it got popular. Berserk isn't even the first really well drawn gore fest, I have no fucking idea how it became this big.
Ethan Stewart
its not even a robot show
Jayden Brooks
sage/downvote for not video games
Grayson Gonzalez
How fucking new are you?
Nolan Wood
Fuckoff
Jonathan Smith
:^)
Jaxon Walker
Isn't the whole point of NGE to kind of poke at and turn the whole Super Robot Show on it's head? Like what Madoka is for magical girl shows?
Xavier Evans
There we fucking go. Evas are functionally robots. They are treated as ones, they used in story as ones, they are depicted as ones. And little shocking "they are actually alive lol" reveal has jackshit to do with anything. Shin Getter is alive too, what now, getter is not a super robot manga?
Become janitor first, maybe then at least some rules of this board will be maintained.
Christian Long
weebs sicken me
Jaxson Richardson
No that's what Getter did, it turned Super Robots from heroic tools of justice into horrifying weapons of death, and did it really fucking good. NGE is a fuckfest without aim or direction.
Madoka is just edgy for the sake of being edgy. I dropped it after episode where boob girl got chewed up. I couldn't take it seriously anymore.
Liam Powell
Enjoy your ban /a/ shitter
Easton Cruz
You posted on here though so now you're a weeb.
Jack Smith
Sure will captn
Wyatt Miller
NGE gets the praise it does because it was the first anime a whole lot of people watched that was more complex than DBZ. It got insanely popular in Japan and because of that it was heavily promoted when it came to the west right when that first anime boom was starting up.
Jeremiah Taylor
No one is getting banned rulecuck
wew
Jayden Rodriguez
I'm not sure when exactly things changed for the better, but here's how I see it:
Lucas Hernandez
I wish something better was in its place.
Meguka set itself up as being serious take on the genre and it was interesting. Then it went to fail at it miserably with over edge shit.
Jayden Collins
Yeah, this seems right.
Luis Harris
>>>/freech/
2007 drove us to the bottom, but things seem to be getting better after a whole fucking decade.
Ryder Brown
Yeah but that's how shit happens just support the nicher shit that's better. Tell people about it but don't bad mouth the big thing that's popular you'll just make the fans ignore you. Instead NGE is shit Getter is way better you're stupid. Say hey if you liked what NGE did to Super Robot shows watch Getter it's pretty good too. Not everyone who likes the big dumb popular thing has shit case in some cases they just haven't seen what is better.
Matthew Jones
The reason why this is happening is a combination of stagnation, both from the hardware and from the games themselves. Think back to just 15+ years ago and all of the different franchises you had competing. Then think of how the dozen or so games that are played are on today's market. Games fluorished when you had 1 or 2 major quarterly releases, 5-6 secondary but major releases, and dozens of tertiary games that had a few entertaining gimmicks.
Each console manufacturer and the developers they influence are at fault. It should have been perfectly obvious this would happen but it's like they want to crash and burn under a pathetic ember of their own making. The next fault is of the publishers for constraining and acquiring so many IPs and ruining or never doing anything with them.
The final fault is from the ideological poisons and failed marketing exercises. All of the gimmicks, both ideological and for "entertainment" do nothing but hamper development through a pretentious facade. Before the SJW craze there was the Games as Art craze, before the Art craze was the Violence craze, but through all of that was the gritty realism craze that did nothing but water down games to dull paltry and poorly crafted simulations.
Things need to return to the varying freedom of randomness and variety. If things don't change soon, we'll see a stagnating death that never ceases until people forget what games were like before the mid-2000s. The ones who bet it all on a great crash and reset will never see it come because everything is on life support. The only silver lining I can see is that the entire market is so vulnerable and audiences are so starved for something new and different that a third-party can swoop in and deliver what people have been wanting for years. Whether it happens immediately or gradually or at all is a mystery, but it can happen. The old players have set themselves up for an insurgency the likes of the last presidential election where the outsider can play against all of them and condemn the old players for being the same, bundle them together and impale them, and succeed where they failed. No matter what happens, I will say: Video games deserve better.
Carson Allen
Rulecuck btfo
Cameron Evans
Oh by the way So yeah all of it is relevant to video games.
Juan Nelson
How many years has the latest generation been out? I figure I'm not the only one to have not buy a new console, but it shouldn't be as big of an issue now.
Kevin Sanders
Since 2013.
Matthew Nelson
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Zachary Collins
Offtopic And you were not talking about the vidya. NGE is barely in any vidya, and barely included in SRW. Shit mech for plebs
Zachary Reed
3 years of no games Aside from the WiiU which saw 2 years with no games and was released in 2012
Cameron Murphy
I'm going to find you and murder you and your whole faggot family. Your two days, your two uncles, your faggot brother. ALL OF THEM.
Christian Sullivan
You are pathetic. Get fucked just like the garbage you posted, bitch boy.
Dylan Young
No, not counting because they're not localized. This thread is about Japanese games being localized.
Anthony Turner
Wasn't evangelion originally a show poking fun at the people who watch bad mecha anime, and everyone didn't get the joke?
Nathaniel Russell
Everytime
Nicholas Cruz
Furry detected
Tyler Gutierrez
Since we are all talking about crappy mech games, are there any good zoid games? I tried a zoid game before, and while the novelty was enough to make it slightly enjoyable it was still shit.
Wyatt Hill
No, a ton of games with an 'anime' artstyle are getting memed into steam by hipster weebs. By volume from japanese developers it's around the same rate per capita of nip games being on pc. Although, they are a little easier to find.
Chase Harris
Aren't you sick fuck?
Jonathan Watson
Definitely a furfag
Brandon Bailey
You're wrong Just because theres are indieshit niggers who make Filipino VNs and the like it doesn't mean we haven'tseen more shit on PC from console focused devs.
Ryder Cooper
Man, I remember like a few months ago Bandai or whatever was hyping a new Zoids game, really neat looking concept art. And the reveal is a fucking phone ASSFAGGOTS.
Ian Ward
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Lucas Nelson
Recettear and other niche titles tested the waters for this, but it was mainly Dark Souls and Valkyria Chronicles that proved to publishers that Jap games can sell well on Steam.
Hudson Garcia
I mean, there are a bunch of shitty RPG maker games but there were like 5 localized PC games prior to the 2010s if you didnt include capcom games.
Sebastian Morgan
I'm off topic and so are you Definitely an /a/ shitter, likely banned by the hotpockets there for not having enough shit taste or doing a minor hiccup by accident.
Samuel Johnson
This has been slowly changing recently though, Dark Souls 1 recently got an update to add a Japanese store description to the steam page as well as a Japanese localization option.
Lincoln Ortiz
This looks pretty spot on to me, just also that there were a reasonable amount of Japanese console titles like Dead Rising, Dragon's Dogma, or Dark Souls that also printed free money when the devs realized they could just make PC ports.
Nathaniel Cook
And its full price too Based BamCo
Right on the mark >>>/a/
Xavier Bell
Just digging yourself deeper
Samuel Morris
Don't reply /a/utists thrive on attention and shitposting.
Jacob Allen
It's time to stop pretending weebs are an essential part of imageboard culture.
Dominic Green
Only in the west. Japan still sees PC as a platform for porn games and browser trash. All those Japanese games you see on Steam? The only one on the Japanese Steam store is Dark Souls, and they only just now got it.
Matthew Flores
Gee, it's almost like he's doing it on purpose.
Angel Powell
Thousands of years ago, before reddit existed, before you were born, and even before the catalod was an option, we sagebombed shitty thread on Holla Forums to keep them off the frontpage and away from the eyes of most people. I realize you think it's real fucking worldly of you to yell 'le ebin downboat XD' every time someone sages, either out of disgust for a thread or for the whitewashing of implied japanese politeness on the internet, but it really just shows that you're an eternal newfag and fucktard.
Sage for pure spite.
Isaiah Scott
I will never forgive hotwheels for rolling out the red carpet for reddit. Good post but you know that newfag will never listen.
Jeremiah Rodriguez
I wonder how I'm playing with nips on EDF then.
I hated /a/ way before this shitter user. 8/a/ is only slighly better than cuck/a/ and thats due to the fact that its heavily moderated and the OPs are of better quality. The quality of the posts on those threads and the overall taste is fucking awful though and no different than cuck/a/
James Cruz
When japanese console gaming dies to cellphone gaming, the japanese console games shall walk the PC marketplaces.
But seriously I've also noticed the burgeoning trend the past few years and enjoy it. I remember when Jet Set Radio hit steam. Bought it day 1 and OLEV'd every minute. Got Ys: The Oath in Felghana when that hit steam and was charmed by how vanilla a JRPG it was leading me to buying the others.
I divide the games in my library by publisher mostly, but I had one simply marked "Japan" until it grew too large. I've had to add new publishers like and They have put up so much of their shit in the past 2 years or so. There is others
This steam sale I got Tales of Symphonia which I tossed under Bandai Namco and Dragon's Dogma (currently playing and loving) that went under my now very Japanese Capcom category right next to a bunch of Resident Evil games I got in a humble bundle.
MGSV while unfinished was still my personal GOTY for 2015. Because there isn't that many Konami titles it is in the Japan category next to Ground Zeroes, Revengence and Killer is Dead.
I just want Bandai Namco to stop making PC ports of Naruto shit and instead make PC ports of .hack// 1-4 and G.U. 1-3.
Lucas Powell
You are ignoring the metric shitting dickton of independent games from japan. A lot of which is free ware, unless you want to make arbitrary distinctions for the sake of your argument rather than the actual statistics.
Aiden Harris
All you need is a Wii U and PC. Anytging worth a shit on the PS4 is on PC.
Lucas Ortiz
Not everyone likes Nintendy games though, but the PS4 is pretty shit.
Thomas Phillips
I'm not Doujin games are still being released with those console ports. There is more volume
But I don't or do Read my post, lots of weebs are idorts who own both and double dip constantly.
Sebastian Green
Outside of games to play when hosting a party is there anything of interest on the Wii-U other than Bayonetta 2 and DKC:TF? I have one for parties and those are the only two games I play on it otherwise
Logan Price
Censorblade Wonderful 101 Censored Frame 5 Mario 3D World and Maker
Just fucking buy a 3DS
Cooper Long
Oh yeah, Splatoon
Liam Ortiz
I also have a 3DS that I got as a gift that came with Pokemon X and I bought Link Between Worlds. I didn't like Pokemon and LBW was alright, what am I missing on the 3DS? I'll look into those wii-u games, even the censored ones because 日本語を話す
Asher Fisher
Monster Hunter Etryan Odyssey Star Fox Zelda Pokemon spinoffs Animal Crossing Kirby A shitton of older game ports A shitton of other 3rd party exclusives Shitton of DS games Shitton of Emulators if you want to FlashCard that nigger.
Brody King
And since you know Nip and want to import get some Super Robot Taisen on that bitch and other licensed/Nip games.
Oliver Perez
Thanks, I will repay you with my favorite webm
Justin Sullivan
"Fucking nips make the strangest ads"
Samuel Butler
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Tyler Collins
That's cool and all, but when will they actually start releasing physical games on PC, on Blu-Rays or something, again? I bought a PS4 because I still like having physical copies, not some shitty digital license.
Jonathan Hill
Never ever.
Lucas Barnes
burn one yourself
Sebastian Ortiz
I'm a weeb and I'd rather not be a part of the same culture as you, assburger.