No. This is stupid. Dick-jokes? Fine. That's not so bad. I'm not into it but it doesn't bother me. But low camera angles and panties? Not fine. That crosses a line for me. I say Japan can keep their creepy sexism. I want none of it in my games and I will stay far away from this one.
"I say! Ironic low-brow humor is fine, but sexuality? In MY video games? Why, sir, I never! How dare you belittle these defenseless video game females, Mr. 'Suda 51?' I'll have you know that I have no intention of purchasing your product due in large part to the egregious crimes you have committed against the art of video games, and my contributions to our common organization will end forthwith. You and your cadre of troublemaking Orientals have forgone the accepted hyper-male norms and have sought to bring your twisted Yellow perceptions of the female form to bear, and I will not stand for it! This is America, sir!"
" OMG! Hahahaha, is that the fucking weeaboo anime with the fucking tops?! Oh god, I'm dying right now picturing two kids doing this. HAHAHAHAHA! Wow, kids should be watching real anime like Bleach instead of that Naruto and weeaboo shit. "
Yeah, why don't they learn to stop acting like kids and watch real anime!
" "Maybe it's time to let a Western studio take a crack at this hallowed franchise."
I've been rather agreeable with most everything said in the awards this year, but to this statement, I can only say "Fuck you."
This whole eastern vs. western game development debate has gotten too out of hand. As much of a piss poor effort that Final Fantasy XIV was (and let's not forget, as an MMO it has little in common ground with any game in the series other than XI), I enjoyed the hell out of Final Fantasy XIII. It's one of my favorite games of the year. I'm perfectly fine in seeing what Square Enix cooks up for FFXV.
But more than anything, the suggestion that it would take a western studio to do better strikes me as nothing more than foolish rhetoric. Final Fantasy games are always a venue for experiments from the nature of combat to character progression to narrative structure. The series is, while still traditional, an antithesis of Dragon Quest, which is unapologetic about clinging to its origins, and yet remains a high quality series to this day.
When western studios make traditionally Japanese-style RPGs, there are typically two ways that the developers go about it. They either build it completely out of irony (lol, see how dated and pointless this is? lol!!1), or they rip off gameplay from established games almost point for point (I'm looking at you, The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age).
And then there's just the way that western RPG development has progressed over the years. Most western games put no true focus into the narrative or the primary character. Oblivion and Fallout 3 are two of the worst RPG narratives to come out of the past decade. Sure, they have some fine set-pieces, but Oblivion plays the generic western fantasy card far too often, and Fallout 3's ending was marred by the inability to allow the player to make the intelligent decision (send the super mutant into the highly radioactive environment) only to be retconned later.
And don't give me any of that "But Keiji Inafune says Japanese development is dead" crap. It seems more to me that Inafune's mind has been spiked with westernophilia. The grass-is-greener mentality that the better development is occurring elsewhere. Fat lot of good that did for Dark Void and Bionic Commando. (And on the non-Capcom front, Obsidian couldn't code a game that wasn't fucking broken if their lives depended on it.) This has veered crazily into rant territory and I apologize for that. However, this has been a subject that has bothered me for quite some time. People seem to think that Japanese development is on a decline, but they can't smell the shit that's being slung from the western side of the ocean. Leave the development of Final Fantasy to the people at Square. If westerners really want to make a decent Japanese-style RPG, let them try with their own original ideas and leave the ironic humor at home. "
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