Posted by Kalisiin Kumaki
on 7/16/2009, 10:51 am, in reply to "Re: Dragon Quest IX"
but Americans ARE stupid.
If they weren't stupid, they WOULD like DW/DQ...and not like the crap we get here in the States.
In short, if America wasn't stupid, the average American opinion and taste would match mine.
Only in America (specifically in NYC in this case) can a woman be so absorbed in texting on her cell phone that she walks right into a freaking open manhole!! Only in America!!
--Previous Message--
: In Japan, cellphones are required by law to
: make a loud, un-mutable click when they take
: a picture because there was a serious
: problem with people surreptitiously taking
: shots up women's skirts in subways.
:
: I'm just saying.
:
: We don't see it as much because we're
: insulated from the Japanese media, but
: really, a lot of JRPGs really are pretty
: formulaic, heavily-focus-group based, and
: driven by corporate media interests, just
: like games made in the US. Look at the
: recycled plot points and the increasingly
: common moe-licious character designs
: calibrated to generate maximum fanboy
: appeal.
:
: It seems a little hyperbolic to me to pull
: this "zOMG AMERICANS ARE STPUID! JAPAN
: IS SUPERIOR!" routine because your
: preferred series of mediocre JRPGs isn't
: popular enough.
:
: - HC
:
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: --Previous Message--
: #### FF and KH.
: Just goes to show most Americans got no
: freaking taste or intelligence. No WONDER
: Japan tends to keep it's best stuff for
: themselves.
:
: Compared to them, we are semi-evolved APES
: here in America. We will like whatever shit
: sandwich we are handed, because we are TOLD
: to like it, and that is it.
:
: We have lost the capacity to think. We only
: know what we are told by the corporate
: media.
:
: What a sad ####ing society we have anymore.
: I'd love to leave America some day, and go
: somewhere where there is still some
: intelligent life.
:
: Preferably a society that speaks English,
: though (which is becoming increasingly rarer
: here in the U.S. incidentally) because I'm
: flat out too damned lazy too want to learn a
: new language...plus I'm too scared of
: looking stupid for not knowing the other
: language.
:
: I have a damn good vocabulary in English,
: and it reflects well on my intelligence. I
: do not wish to have to learn another
: language - and look like a retard because my
: vocabulary in said new language would suck.
:
: --Previous Message--
: Meanwhile, on the other side of the Pacific,
: it will likely take two years to sell a
: tenth of that amount of copies. Unless, of
: course, it comes with a playable demo of a
: game with FF or KH in the title.
:
: --Previous Message--
: Apparently Dragon Quest 9 was just released
: across the Pacific, and made an insane
: two-and-a-quarter-million sales in the first
: two days of release.
:
: I figure everyone here is probably already
: aware of this, but I just felt I should
: mention it.
:
: - HC
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