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If the Japanese made an FPS...
emnmnme
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Lord knows why FPS games haven't penetrated the Japanese market more. Some well-known professional gamers are Japanese but, generally, Japan just doesn't care for the genre. So what would happen if any large Japanese publisher went a little crazy and both funded and pushed a new FPS project hard? What would Japanese minds bring to the table?
I haven't played Maken X or Breakdown so I can't comment there but I think that if the Japanese created a big FPS, they'd go down the path of innovation instead of the standard 'shoot it 'til it dies' gameplay. Remember TRON 2.0, where a big part of the game was deflecting enemy attacks with your disc? Well, the Japanese would take it a step further amd say you have no ammo and can only attack enemies at a distance with their own projectiles. Maybe an archer fires an arrow at your character and you're required to catch it mid-flight and then fire it back...I dunno. Something different, at least.
And yes, there is a difference between third-person and first-person shooters.
I haven't played Maken X or Breakdown so I can't comment there but I think that if the Japanese created a big FPS, they'd go down the path of innovation instead of the standard 'shoot it 'til it dies' gameplay. Remember TRON 2.0, where a big part of the game was deflecting enemy attacks with your disc? Well, the Japanese would take it a step further amd say you have no ammo and can only attack enemies at a distance with their own projectiles. Maybe an archer fires an arrow at your character and you're required to catch it mid-flight and then fire it back...I dunno. Something different, at least.
And yes, there is a difference between third-person and first-person shooters.
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In addition stats for every part of your gun, how well you aim, etc that gain experience as you shoot guys. All of this has no real impact on how you play the game, only making the early parts that you have to backtrack through incredibly easy and tedious.
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You have given me a great desire to use a BFG on a group of giggling school girls.
Interesting, my best friends girlfriend is Japanese and she literally got sick watching him play an FPS.
But she's only one.
Only problem I've had with motion sickness in a game was HL2s airboat levels. But I do work a gaming lan where FPS are being played all the time, and it doesn't seem to bother me much anymore.
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The Shin Megami games did switch from the first person perspective because of complaints of motion sickness.
Ryan Payton actually spoke of this on a Kojima Productions podcast. Since the genre never really blossomed overseas, the culture isn't used to the syncing, screen-shake, and point-of-view, so they're a bit more uncomfortable with the displays on-screen.
It's a bit of circular reasoning, though: FPS never got big in Japan, because the average Japanese gamer isn't used to the genre, so that's why the FPS isn't big in Japan.
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Yeah, I think that's why they don't. Navigating space is just as important to the fps as shooting things.
Coded Arms suggests otherwise.
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And that one Ghost in the Shell PSP game.
Well I didn't perform research, and I haven't even played the game. Ever.
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but it sure looks neat.
Because Japan is crrrrazy?
I mean, I dunno.
The best way I could illustrate this is juxtaposing Breakdown and Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. Slightly simliar in premise and functionality, both have you escaping a facility by use of small arms and hand-to-hand combat. Riddick's gameplay is intuitive and visceral, while Breakdown is full of disorienting and awkward. I can lay waste to aliens and guards with ease with Riddick's aim...while in Breakdown I use a dogshit locking-on mechanism that makes killing multiple enemies an exercise in futility. Keep in mind that there is quite a span of time between the two games, but the execution of both in terms of gameplay starkly contrast.
just what i was thinking!
seriously i think they just leave the genre to the west. kinda like an import to the ones who do like them in japan.
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