Why is there such an Asian influence present amongst gamers?

I'm just curious, there is such a strong Asian... umm, style to alot of posters here and I'm interested in knowing why.

I see guys with women in their sigs, everyone of them Asian (Japanese), not there is anything wrong with that but to believeasain women as the only beutiful figures you could find... and it's not a personal thing because a lot of users have this trait, they only have Asian women in their sig's/avatars. Are Japanese women the pinnacle of bueaty? Should women aspire to look like them?

Why does everyone display anime? What is so appealing? It's not one or two people, it's almost as if everyone has anime displayed.

Whats with the sales threads? Why does anyone care what sells in Japan? Does it matter? Why is it important?

Why is Square considered flawless, yet Bioware might flop Mass Effect? Can Final Fantasy possibly flop, or is Square vastly superior to Bioware.

You'll see these traits on every game-related website on the web. Users with Asian-only women displayed, Asian-only art/anime - people don't do this with European culture or American culture. It can't be because games come from Japan - there arehundreds of non-Japanese devs and I don't see users with German women proudly displayed etc.

Just curious.

SEGA, Nintendo, Sony, Capcom, Koei, Konami, Namco-Bandai, Square-Enix, and many other companies are based in Japan.

There may be a lot of non-Japanese companies, but the meat of the industry is based in Japan.

My Avatar (Tina from DOA) is an American, and my sig (Samus Aran) is clearly white.

Go fail more.

I'm just curious, there is such a strong Asian... umm, style to alot of posters here and I'm interested in knowing why.

I see guys with women in their sigs, everyone of them Asian (Japanese), not there is anything wrong with that but to believeasain women as the only beutiful figures you could find... and it's not a personal thing because a lot of users have this trait, they only have Asian women in their sig's/avatars. Are Japanese women the pinnacle of bueaty? Should women aspire to look like them?

Why does everyone display anime? What is so appealing? It's not one or two people, it's almost as if everyone has anime displayed.

Whats with the sales threads? Why does anyone care what sells in Japan? Does it matter? Why is it important?

Why is Square considered flawless, yet Bioware might flop Mass Effect? Can Final Fantasy possibly flop, or is Square vastly superior to Bioware.

You'll see these traits on every game-related website on the web. Users with Asian-only women displayed, Asian-only art/anime - people don't do this with European culture or American culture. It can't be because games come from Japan - there arehundreds of non-Japanese devs and I don't see users with German women proudly displayed etc.

Just curious.

HermitCommando

Well I like anime simply b/c I enjoy the manga style art and the relatively more serious (albeit still quirky) overtones with anime. As for my avatar being "anime", it's actually a character from a game (turned anime/manga) named Etna from Disgaea franchise. I mean I could display some more English origin art, but in all honesty besides maybe Avatar I don't find any of it appealing. I mean to me it's an obvious choice between an anime and say Spongebob.

Sales matter simply b/c they can help in predicting trends and where future support my aling itself. I personally don't care where it aligns itself, I'll get it if I'm interested regardless.

Square Enix and Bioware are equal to me.

Where's the frigging Jessica Alba POLL? I'm not posting another word until you fix this.

Meh. If you did a lot of gaming with DOS, Windows 95/98 and on the Amiga, Commodore, etc the influence has been mainly American and European. When everyone was nuts about Final Fantasy III and Chrono Trigger I was more into Doom and Warcraft.TekkenMaster606

My Avatar (Tina from DOA) is an American, and my sig (Samus Aran) is clearly white.

Go fail more.

Onoskelis

While "Tina is an American" the art direction of DOA is clearly not Anerican.

[QUOTE="Onoskelis"]

My Avatar (Tina from DOA) is an American, and my sig (Samus Aran) is clearly white.

Go fail more.

-RPGamer-

While "Tina is an American" the art direction of DOA is clearly not Anerican.

"I see guys with women in their sigs, everyone of them Asian (Japanese), not there is anything wrong with that but to believeasain women as the only beutiful figures you could find... and it's not a personal thing because a lot of users have this trait, they only have Asian women in their sig's/avatars. Are Japanese women the pinnacle of bueaty? Should women aspire to look like them?"

Sorry,but the TC was talking about race,not art direction.

[QUOTE="-RPGamer-"][QUOTE="Onoskelis"]

My Avatar (Tina from DOA) is an American, and my sig (Samus Aran) is clearly white.

Go fail more.

Onoskelis

While "Tina is an American" the art direction of DOA is clearly not Anerican.

"I see guys with women in their sigs, everyone of them Asian (Japanese), not there is anything wrong with that but to believeasain women as the only beutiful figures you could find... and it's not a personal thing because a lot of users have this trait, they only have Asian women in their sig's/avatars. Are Japanese women the pinnacle of bueaty? Should women aspire to look like them?"

Sorry,but the TC was talking about race,not art direction.

Sorry but iff you read his whole post you'll see he clearly talks about anime. The DOA girls are 3D representations of manga style art.

:|

[QUOTE="-RPGamer-"][QUOTE="Onoskelis"]

My Avatar (Tina from DOA) is an American, and my sig (Samus Aran) is clearly white.

Go fail more.

Onoskelis

While "Tina is an American" the art direction of DOA is clearly not Anerican.

"I see guys with women in their sigs, everyone of them Asian (Japanese), not there is anything wrong with that but to believeasain women as the only beutiful figures you could find... and it's not a personal thing because a lot of users have this trait, they only have Asian women in their sig's/avatars. Are Japanese women the pinnacle of bueaty? Should women aspire to look like them?"

Sorry,but the TC was talking about race,not art direction.

[QUOTE="Onoskelis"][QUOTE="-RPGamer-"][QUOTE="Onoskelis"]

My Avatar (Tina from DOA) is an American, and my sig (Samus Aran) is clearly white.

Go fail more.

-RPGamer-

While "Tina is an American" the art direction of DOA is clearly not Anerican.

"I see guys with women in their sigs, everyone of them Asian (Japanese), not there is anything wrong with that but to believeasain women as the only beutiful figures you could find... and it's not a personal thing because a lot of users have this trait, they only have Asian women in their sig's/avatars. Are Japanese women the pinnacle of bueaty? Should women aspire to look like them?"

Sorry,but the TC was talking about race,not art direction.

Sorry but iff you read his whole post you'll see he clearly talks about anime. The DOA girls are 3D representations of manga style art.

:|

That's like saying Halo is a 3D representation of disney art.

I'd say most people here are interested in Mangas/Anime basically because the influence in most games you see these days have a strong asian style due to most game companies being from Japan.

I think when you consider the origins of most iconic gaming icons, it's not hard to understand. Every influential game mostly came from a Japanese developer. It's not that anyone is more "superior" but it's basically because the gaming world in general is asian centric or Japanese influenced.

I hardly know anything on the anime side, I don't know where to watch them or how people get them. So I mostly never grew up with it. I like the style though, but you're just gonna see that a lot in gaming forums here because Videogames are heavily based around Japanese influence.

That's like saying Halo is a 3D representation of disney art.

Onoskelis

[QUOTE="Onoskelis"][QUOTE="-RPGamer-"][QUOTE="Onoskelis"]

My Avatar (Tina from DOA) is an American, and my sig (Samus Aran) is clearly white.

Go fail more.

Panzer_Zwei

While "Tina is an American" the art direction of DOA is clearly not Anerican.

"I see guys with women in their sigs, everyone of them Asian (Japanese), not there is anything wrong with that but to believeasain women as the only beutiful figures you could find... and it's not a personal thing because a lot of users have this trait, they only have Asian women in their sig's/avatars. Are Japanese women the pinnacle of bueaty? Should women aspire to look like them?"

Sorry,but the TC was talking about race,not art direction.

That's like saying Halo is a 3D representation of disney art.

Onoskelis

Oh please that's such a reach. :|

You want to pretend that the DOA girls aren't replicas of the over proportioned manga/anime counter parts? So be it :roll:

If recent trends tell us anything, the Japanese are mainly pumping out casual shovelware. They release the occasional great game every once in a a while.Onoskelis

Latest Japanese greatness I can recall would probably be Persona 3 or Metroid Prime 3. (Depending if you consider japanese developed.)

[QUOTE="Onoskelis"]If recent trends tell us anything, the Japanese are mainly pumping out casual shovelware. They release the occasional great game every once in a a while.yoshi_64

Latest Japanese greatness I can recall would probably be Persona 3 or Metroid Prime 3. (Depending if you consider japanese developed.)

If by greatness you mean a generic turn based JRPG and a game that was devloped by Texas based Retro Studioes, then sure.

[QUOTE="yoshi_64"]

[QUOTE="Onoskelis"]If recent trends tell us anything, the Japanese are mainly pumping out casual shovelware. They release the occasional great game every once in a a while.Onoskelis

Latest Japanese greatness I can recall would probably be Persona 3 or Metroid Prime 3. (Depending if you consider japanese developed.)

If by greatness you mean a generic turn based JRPG and a game that was devloped by Texas based Retro Studioes, then sure.

Anyways, I'd say MP 3 is western based, but I do know they and EAD (Mario and Pikmin house or Shiggy's house should I say) Also had some hands in with the development. So it's not entirely western based I'd say....

[QUOTE="Onoskelis"][QUOTE="yoshi_64"]

[QUOTE="Onoskelis"]If recent trends tell us anything, the Japanese are mainly pumping out casual shovelware. They release the occasional great game every once in a a while.yoshi_64

Latest Japanese greatness I can recall would probably be Persona 3 or Metroid Prime 3. (Depending if you consider japanese developed.)

If by greatness you mean a generic turn based JRPG and a game that was devloped by Texas based Retro Studioes, then sure.

Anyways, I'd say MP 3 is western based, but I do know they and EAD (Mario and Pikmin house or Shiggy's house should I say) Also had some hands in with the development. So it's not entirely western based I'd say....

Still, isn't Bioshock western based? How did that turn out? :?

Still, isn't Bioshock western based? How did that turn out? :?

Onoskelis

Some of my favorite arcade games are very American. Remember when Midway didn't suck. NARC, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, Blitz, The Grid...TekkenMaster606

What about Tekken ?

:o

Meh. If you did a lot of gaming with DOS, Windows 95/98 and on the Amiga, Commodore, etc the influence has been mainly American and European. When everyone was nuts about Final Fantasy III and Chrono Trigger I was more into Doom and Warcraft.TekkenMaster606

When is DOOM II coming to Xbox Live Arcade? We need that.

Up until MS entered the market with the Xbox, (and apart from Atari) the console-side of gaming was almost entirely Japanese. And so was the Arcades.Panzer_Zwei

[QUOTE="TekkenMaster606"]Some of my favorite arcade games are very American. Remember when Midway didn't suck. NARC, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, Blitz, The Grid...Forza_2

What about Tekken ?

:o

Tekken is Namco.

[QUOTE="TekkenMaster606"]Some of my favorite arcade games are very American. Remember when Midway didn't suck. NARC, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, Blitz, The Grid...Forza_2

What about Tekken ?

:o

That's very distinctly Japanese.

[QUOTE="TekkenMaster606"]Meh. If you did a lot of gaming with DOS, Windows 95/98 and on the Amiga, Commodore, etc the influence has been mainly American and European. When everyone was nuts about Final Fantasy III and Chrono Trigger I was more into Doom and Warcraft.hazuki87

When is DOOM II coming to Xbox Live Arcade? We need that.

I'll take Duke Nukem 3D and Heretic too.

That's very distinctly Japanese. TekkenMaster606

Duh ! Tekken is not one of your favorites ?

[QUOTE="TekkenMaster606"]That's very distinctly Japanese. Forza_2

Duh ! Tekken is not one of your favorites ?

It is my favorite. But outside of that there are not many Namco arcade games that I really like. Although I love a lot of Sega stuff. But Midway had a ton of games I played constantly, before Tekken was released. By the time it came out arcades were starting to decline a bit.

[QUOTE="Forza_2"]

[QUOTE="TekkenMaster606"]That's very distinctly Japanese. TekkenMaster606

Duh ! Tekken is not one of your favorites ?

It is my favorite. But outside of that there are not many Namco arcade games that I really like. Although I love a lot of Sega stuff. But Midway had a ton of games I played constantly, before Tekken was released. By the time it came out arcades were starting to decline a bit.

Some of my favorite TurboGrafx 16 games were Namco. Loved Galaga'90, Splatterhouse, Final Lap Twin.

I have anime in my sig/avatar? O: No wai!

Oh wait, the photographer is asian. I didn't know that until just now, I'm sure however that deep down in the core of my soul I knew it to be true which is why I like his photography. /ShockandAwe.

I'm an Asian (look at my sig) but even though, I have played more western games believe it or not. It's mostly because I'm a hardcore pc gamer. Now that I think of it, most if not all Japanese games are on consoles and most western games are on PCs.

BTW, I'm totally addicted to animes. My avatar is a picture album from blink 182 because I haven't changed it for years. I have never bothered to change it anyway. But now that you've mentioned about it I will be changing my avatar.

SEGA, Nintendo, Sony, Capcom, Koei, Konami, Namco-Bandai, Square-Enix, and many other companies are based in Japan.

There may be a lot of non-Japanese companies, but the meat of the industry is based in Japan.

SmashBrosLegend

As for the Asian women thing, that's just peoples personal taste.