Is this Japan's comeback year?

@ConanTheStoner: Maybe you should compare what you are playing now to each year before? I have been playing a substantial amount more of Japanese games. For the most part I've had all systems for a while now and can definitely see the difference. While you and Champ tend to stick more to your PC/fighting game community. I have not much else to really add dude. On top of 2017 being a huge year for gaming, most of it is coming from Japan and I see that as a renaissance for those developers/companies.

Sick burn

Ys 8 coming soon too, probably won't be played by most people here though.

Japan has always been there delivering quality experiences but this gen they have been kicking most of big western devs' asses I gotta admit. Except for a handful of big western devs that are on par and many great indies from the west, the western offerings seem outdated and tiresome with repeating formulas over and over and little imagination.

Hmm, I thought I already mentioned it one of my earlier posts, maybe I scrapped that point, but yeah. A large chunk of my gaming diet is Japanese games. Has been for 30 years now. That never changed.

Even if we're just looking at this gen, my favorite games of each year (If we consider 2013 the starting point of this gen) were Japanese games. And that's even if we don't count fighting games, which really makes no sense, as all of the fighting games I like are also Japanese lol. Not sure why those would be excluded. Not sure why PC would be excluded either as I enjoy a large chunk of Japanese games on that platform as well. And it's not like Champ and I don't game on consoles. As a matter of fact, now that I look at it, I bought my current consoles strictly for Japanese games lol.

So no, it's not like @jg4xchamp and I exist in a bubble where we don't pay attention to games from that region or games on consoles. On the contrary, Japanese games are almost consistently my favorites and I believe Champ has similar opinions on the matter.

I'd definitely be willing to admit that 2016 was a weaker year in Japanese games for my tastes, but that's about it. Still, my personal tastes aside, 2016 had Dark Souls 3, Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Street Fighter V, Dragon Quest Builders, etc.

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Anyways man, we could argue in circles forever, obviously we don't see eye to eye here.

I believe it's a combo of two things going on. Like I said before, a lot of studios just happened to bare fruit this year. Aside from that, you personally happen to enjoy the Japanese games that dropped this year. As far as quality and volume goes though, I think you could have just as easily made this argument for 2015.

I'm not seeing a shift here. You are. Is what it is mang.

@ConanTheStoner: lol that's ok I appreciate you analyzing my arguments although I didn't realize you were going to dissect them that way lol. I'm definitely pumped for this holiday, I mean, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Ni No Kuni 2, Ys 8, Danganronpa 3, Yakuza Kiwami. Holy hell. That's already on top of Persona 5, Yakuza 0, already being out, and then remaster of Final Fantay 12 HD. Metroid 3DS and Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga remaster. Legends of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel 3, Gundam Versus, Marvel vs Capcom. I'm also going to love me some new Sonic, Mario and Rabbids, and Mario Oddysey, what an insane year. Can't forget Zelda even though I beat the main game. I'm collecting the amiibos now and have the dlc season pass lol.

@SolidGame_basic: Hey, are they not going to review Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age? It comes out in 4 days and I still see none. They reviewed FFX when it's remaster was released so I don't see why they wouldn't do the same for FFXII.

@valgaav_219: Ya, yea they are reviewing it.

lolwut?

Lemmings will say Japan isn't making a comeback since Japanese developers abandoned the Xbox brand.

people should have bought a Wiiu instead of spending $200 on limited edition night vision goggle call of poopy

On PlayStation or Nintendo. On Xbone.. .....naaah

This might be true. This year seems to be much better for Japan than 2015 was.