Posted by Kalisiin Kumaki
on 7/16/2009, 10:57 am, in reply to "Re: Dragon Quest IX"
Yes, Americans ARE stupid for not agreeing with me.
And because of it...I can't get hold of stuff I ACTUALLY ENJOY.
FF and KH are CRAP. they are over-hyped by our corporate media, and we are TOLD to like it...we are TOLD to like whatever shit sandwich they decide to feed us, and, like a bunch of stupid lemmings, mostly, we do.
Meanwhile REALLY GOOD games like DW/DQ get the shit-on-a-stick half-assed attempt at marketing, here in the States...and the FF and KH shit sandwiches get the royal treatment.
If Americans weren't so stupid, they would realize this. They would realize they were being TOLD what to like and what not to like by the corporate media monster.
--Previous Message--
: 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.
:
: Ha. You actually took the words right out of
: my mouth... I was gonna make a post
: remarkably similar to this one, but decided
: against it.
:
: I remember feeling, for the longest time,
: that we got the shaft regarding a lot of
: games not being released here... then I
: started *playing* them. Amazingly enough, I
: discovered we... really weren't missing
: anything at all. Very few Japan-only RPGs
: actually impressed me, with a number of the
: better ones being released here in some form
: eventually anyhow (FF5, DW5, Front Mission).
:
: Two big examples of this can be found in FF4
: Hardtype and Lennus 2. As a kid, I was
: totally intrigued by all the content cut out
: of the game I knew as FF2. All those items,
: extra commands, and even a few spells. Then,
: not long ago, I played FF4 Advance, which
: had all the cut content restored... and
: found that most of it was completely
: useless. *All* the extra commands were
: garbage (Dark Wave was all right early on;
: the rest, nope.), most of the items
: (everything except Apples, Soma Drops, and
: Alarms) were useless, and the extra spells
: were just kinda "there", and made
: no difference whatsoever. As for being
: "harder"... I didn't really even
: see much of *that*. Many of the changes for
: Easytype were to make the game less
: cumbersome, as I would discover.
: Remedies/Heal Potions "replacing"
: the individual stat items in Easytype/FF2
: US, for instance, made a lot more sense, due
: to the limited inventory; you could carry a
: stack of Remedies easily enough, but it
: didn't make sense to waste so much space
: carrying around a bunch of items to cure
: individual status ailments you may not even
: get inflicted with. Mercifully, later FF
: games removed the limited inventory, making
: such items actually *useful*.
:
: As for Lennus 2... I was a big fan of
: Paladin's Quest. It was a weird, quirky JRPG
: with vibrant colors, a quirky cast, and a
: setting that could've only been inspired by
: drugs. =P To say that I was eager to play
: its sequel would be an understatement,
: especially considering the kick in the face
: regarding the fact that there was a 100%
: complete translation patch many years ago
: that died in the testing phase when the
: translation group broke up. Then a patch was
: released not long ago, and there was much
: rejoicing... prematurely. Sadly, Lennus 2
: was several significant steps *backwards*.
: The graphics were significantly muted and
: less charmingly weird, the cast was bland,
: the gameplay was much more limited, and most
: damning of all, the whole game was one big
: fetch quest. I couldn't even finish it...
:
: So, yeah, rant aside... the *best* games
: actually usually *do* come here. If your
: preferred style of RPG doesn't get released
: here, Kalisiin... well, I'm sorry. But
: Americans aren't "stupid" for not
: agreeing with you; they just have different
: tastes than the Japanese. This... should go
: *well* without saying.
:
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