They're both good. I really like Troy Baker but Nolan North's Penguin in Arkham City is almost as good if not better than Mark Hamill's Joker.exiledsnake
I think they are just as good as Crysis 2. They are amazing. But of course you are going you have the PC naysayers. But I've never listened to them. I wouldn't pay as much to play on a PC as I would on a console just to get a little bit better graphics for games that already look great as is on consoles. So I think the trade off is more than my monies worth. I still need to play Crysis. I've only dipped my feet in and played it just to see what everything looked like and wasn't playing seriously. So I got to go back after I'm done with a few other games.
It looks as though Troy Baker has another big role in Resident Evil 6. I could hear his voice on one of the characters after they switch to Chris Redfield's perspective in the trailer. He seemed to need to be protected because it sounds like his blood might be a cure. Anyway, I just thought this was relevant to topic. Like most of you I love Troy Baker's voice and voice acting abilities. He makes any game he is in a little bit better. I just realized that he was also in the Brothers in Arms games as Sargeant Matt Baker. The lead character in most of those games. Anyway, I just wanted to say kudos to him for scoring another good character position in one of my favorite franchises that is Resident Evil.
I would say it's not relevant in terms of sales outside of Japan. Western gamers like different types of games by a large margin than Japanese gamers. So what sales well there may not sell well here and vice versa. It is relevant in other areas of gaming though. Such as how different a game made by a Japanese company is to a game made by Westerners. The cultural gap must make the way of thinking of how a good game should play be very different than what we are used to in the West. Which in my opinion is a good thing, because it makes their games have a certain feel to them that Western games don't because they are being made by people from the same culture as I and I would think most people on gamespot are from.
[QUOTE="rilpas"]Didn't final fantasy 13 sell 3 or 4 million in the west? Didn't DOA 4 sell 1 million? Didn't Ninja Gaiden 2 sell 1 million? Didn't Gran turismo 5 sell 5 million? can you name me a western game that sold at least 1 million in Japan?p4s2p0
That's a bit of a stupid argument seeing as "The West" has infinitely more inhabitants than Japan.
He's got it about right US is 300mil to japan 100mil, he pointed out FF at 3-4mill so japan should have at least 1 close to a million if they try ours as much as we try theirs.
I would have to agree. As for who tries out foreign games more? Eastern gamers definitely stick more to Eastern games than Western gamers do. I've never heard of a Western franchise doing as well, if not better in Japan than it does in the West. I know a lot of people are going to trash me for saying this, but I mean no disrespect. But Japanese society has a kind of inherit xenophobia or anti-outsider mentality to it. For example Japan has a strict immigration policy. And if you meet all of the criteria you always have to carry a "foreinger" ID card and you're never the exact same as Japanese born citizens. Also, you have to change your surname to a Japanese surname if you want to be as much of a Japanese citizen as possible in the eyes of Japanese law, if I remember correctly from the documentary I watched on CurrentTV. I could be completely wrong though. Just to make it clear, that isn't my opinion of Japanese people or their society. It's just what I know of it from a documentary on CurrentTV that showed me how they deal with immigration. I love Japan, I watch anime everyday and love their society and culture.
are they even owned by a large publisher like Pandemic was?
probably has something to do with it.
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They are independent. It just seems with the amount of bad games they have made that, especially with this generation being so unforgiving to good developers, you would think that the same would have to be so for developers that make mostly bad games, like Rebellion.
No, I wouldn't. I would hate to have the boomerang as the default controller. Sony heard gamers cries when we all first saw it. I'm glad they went mostly with a DS2 design. I would like the PS4 to give me the choice between using buttons or triggers. For me, the Dualshock 2 was the best controller I'd ever used. The DS3 is basically the same, the only thing is they made it have two triggers instead of regular buttons, which I think felt better. Now they feel like buttons that give when you press them, I hate that feeling. But the DS3 controller is still a good controller overall.
It's unfortunate, but it's the same reason why Japanese gamers keep playing their Japanese games over Western games. It's a cultural thing. I personally love my Western games, but playing Japanese, or Eastern games are a great way to get something that Western games don't have & vice versa.
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