Who makes better games?

Japan.

Japan comes next time.

Lol America what a joke of devs compared to Europe ^^

Canada

Isn't Rockstar an American Based company?

Should also add Blizzard to America with WoW, Diablo and Starcraft. Could also add Valve and Bethesda since you have games like games like Portal, Skyrim, Falluout 3. Heck speaking of Fallout you could add Obsidian too.

I Prefer European games, mostly because they in general seems more diverse. That causes more hit or miss games, but when they hit it big, they tend to hit really big.

the NA games tend to more alike, protagonists, stories, even settings often have an odd "samey" feel to them. THey ofcourse also hit big, but most of them (to me) is in some safe area of "above average, never failing never truely inspireing).

There are exceptions to both, in reality it comes Down to each induvidual developer and how they make games. But one can not dismiss that the diversity that Europe has, does bring out ideas and settings that would rarely if ever from an NA dev.

Aren't most game companies multi-national these days?

The company that created the GTA series was founded in Scotland but I'm sure like most other companies, they have people all over the world working on each game.

Some interesting stuff

They're are many references and stuff related to Scotland in the GTA games.

Haven't purchased any of the games under the European list, so I'll with USA because of Fallout, Skyrim, Diablo, and StarCraft. Will be picking up the Witcher 3 though.

way to pick and choose you biased prick

Very hard to choose one over the other... But if I look at my top 10 favourite games, most of them are made by American developers.

Let's see... Retro Studios is one of the greatest Devs of all time and they are based in Texas. At the same time Rocksteady has worked themselves to the very top and they hail from London. Then there is Michel Ancel (I have tremendous respect for him) and co. reside in France so I might have to give the edge to Europe right now.

A lot of my favourites come from Japan though

Like in everything else that matters, America wins pretty easily.

Lmao.

@YD_11: Yes, but Rockstar North is in Europe.

Killzone is europe, no? Also, the industry and has reached a point where people go all over the place.

However, the correct answer is Japan.

Out of Europe and the US? Go all the way back and it has got to be US.

europe and its not even close

to me it is japan then europe and in last america

Nice post TC but I think you should have made an U.K. section.

Europe, but I think it's close. And isn't Little big planet developed in the uk and not america? Also no Half Life 2 in the first picture where you compare shooters.

South Korea!

Ok, not really...

America sucks bro.

Either/or. Great games on all fronts.

No it's not. They're british

Yeah but Take-Two owns Rockstar and is based in America.

Japan

Yeah but it was formed by Brits and contains a quite a few of them I think.

But that's like most of the developers... they might be based in the US or wherever, but they contain people from around the world.

Then they are a US company.... pretty simple.

Just because they are owned by US company, doesn't make it american

Well Rockstar is comprised of a number of development studios. So Rockstar is a British company that has its headquarters in the US, and then multiple studios in the US and the UK. So Rockstar North is in the UK and responsible for GTAV while Rockstar San Diego made RDR

Japan shits all over the west.

Saved for the next praise of Naughty Dog

Europe

I chose America, but want to retract that after remembering some of the best euro stuff haha.

they are both pretty close but America has Bethesda Game Studios, Valve, Naughty Dog and Blizzard so they are top for me

Europeans all the way.

it's difficult but I have to stay true with valve

Japan !

King of MMO's

Hapanese.

Yeah that's kinda the point I was trying to make...

I of course enjoy games from both regions and others as well, but for this contest I got to go with the Europeans.

Japan destroys all but if I had to choose I choose Murica! But then again looking at all those games it seems like they all have a gun in their hands. I wouldn't be surprised if the characters inside the racing game covers were driving with a gun in each hand.

Knock it off with all the gunplay Western devs! Makes me sick.

america and its not even close

When i look America and Europe game, the big differences is that Europe developers usually makes story games, or open world games meanwhile America games are corridor shooters. Also we can see that Europe games has most new IPs meanwhile American developers milking games. Also funny thing is that Europe seems to have most horrror and racing games too but America less.

Stalker, Alien Isolation, Bad Company 2, Crysis has more hardcore gameplay and less milking than Call of Duty, Resistance, Medal of Honor, Titanfall.

If we compare action or third person games, Europe has Mafia, Batman, Alan Wake, GTA and Hitman. Look how different and uniqe games those are. If we have america side like Uncharted, Gears of War, God of War, Dead Space and Tomb Raider, those are all cover, shoot and boom games. Corridor shooter games that is mostly very scripted to have cinema action scenes. Not a mention that those games are very milked.

Looking upcoming games, almost all EU games are open world meanwhile America games are just a corridor shooter games. Too bad that America developers are too lazy to make something new.

american games are much more polished and have far better production values. european games are buggy as hell and are typically poorly optimized.

Too many Brits here

now action games:

I agree.

...out of the topic, that is.