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Japanese Developers List their E3 2016 Games of Show

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Akiller

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The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu had an interesting spread on E3 2016, where top Japanese developers were asked to list the games or announcements that impressed them the most during the trade show.


  • Norihisa Kochiwa (Compile Heart Producer): NieR: Automata.
  • Takuma Endo (Acquire President): Days Gone, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
  • Kota Takano (Akiba’s Beat Director): Days Gone, Scalebound, Resident Evil 7.
  • Yasuyuki oda (The King of Fighters XIV Director): Watch Dogs 2
  • Motohide Eshiro (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Spirit of Justice Producer): PlayStation VR, Resident Evil 7 in VR.
  • Goichi Suda (Grasshopper Manufacture CEO): The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
  • Masachika Kawata (Resident Evil 7 Producer): PlayStation VR, Project Scorpio, God of War, Detroit: Become Human, Days Gone, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
  • Daizo Nonaka (Sengoku Basara: Sanada Yukimura Den Producer): Cuphead.
  • Minao Matsukawa (Dragon’s Dogma Online Prodicer): Final Fantasy XV, Final Fantasy XV VR Experience.
  • Kazuki Morishita (GungHo Online Entertainment President): The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
  • Yosuke Saito (NieR: Automata Producer): Horizon: Zero Dawn.
  • Hiroshi Matsuyama (CyberConnect 2 President): Horizon: Zero Dawn, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
  • Yosuke Hayashi (Dead or Alive Producer): The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
  • Shinji Hashimoto (Final Fantasy Producer): The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
  • Hajime Tabata (Final Fantasy XV Director): Sony’s press conference, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, God of War, Spider-Man, New Xbox hardware.
  • Horiyoshi Fujimoto (Dragon Quest Builders Producer): The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Detroit: Become Human.
  • Tai Yasue (Kingdom Hearts III Co-Director): Sony’s press conference.
  • Toshihiro Nagoshi (Yakuza Series Producer): Maturity of PS4 and Xbox One and quality of the western games as a whole.
  • Keiichiro Toyama (Gravity Rush 2 Director): ABZÛ, Bound.
  • Masaaki Yamagiwa (Bloodborne Producer): VR in general.
  • Nobuyuki Okajima (D3 Publisher Producer): The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, God of War, Gears of War 4.
  • Kazutoki Kono (Ace Combat 7 Producer): Mid-generation console upgrades.
  • Katsuhiro Harada (Tekken 7 Produceer): VR in general.
  • Jun Tamaoki (Summer Lessons Producer): Battlefield 1, Days Gone.
  • Atsushi Inaba (PlatinumGames Producer): Sony’s press conference, especially Days Gone.
  • Hideki Kamiya (Scalebound Director): Forza Horizon 3, Resident Evil 7.
  • Kenji Saito (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Director): Horizon: Zero Dawn, Days Gone.
  • Takahisa Taura (NieR: Automata Game Director): VR in general.
  • Yosuke Hashimoto (Bayonetta 2 Director): ABZÛ.
  • Masaki Yamanaka (PlatinumGames Designer): Days Gone.
  • Masashi Inoue (Xbox Japan Marketing Manager): New Xbox Hardware, Xbox Play Anywhere.
  • Yoshifumi Hashimoto (Marvelous Producer): The Unspoken (Insomniac Games), God of War, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
  • Taro Yoko (NieR: Automata Creative Director): The Last Guardian’s Release Date, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon: Zero Dawn
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Actual source is Dualshockers so i'll just post this instead: http://gonintendo.com/stories/261359-multiple-japanese-developers-name-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-game
 
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Ray Down

Banned
Taro Yoko (NieR: Automata Creative Director): The Last Guardian’s Release Date

Lol, also like how many like Tabata put the Sony Conference up.
 
Eolz

Eolz

Member
Honestly surprised by Suda51 and Hayashi's choices. Guess Zelda will start selling in Japan again? That'd be cool.
Lol at some other choices though (mid generation upgrade especially). Nice choices overall, but I prefer when they say their game of the year, a lot more variety there.

edit: seems that top 3 is Zelda with 11 nominations, Days Gone with 5 and Horizon with 4.
 
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Nibel

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Nirolak said:
I see there was a lot more love for Days Gone from Japan than on GAF.
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I think the key difference could be that the Japanese devs see the potential while most people on GAF see a product; I'm super excited for Days Gone as well since the crowd tech and the serious tone seem like a perfect combination for a worthwhile zombie game
 
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Nirolak

Mrgrgr
Nibel said:
I think the key difference could be that the Japanese devs see the potential while most people on GAF see a product; I'm super excited for Days Gone as well since the crowd tech and the serious tone seem like a perfect combination for a worthwhile zombie game
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Well three of them are from Platinum so I think we can write down what their next game is going to be!
 
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DriftingSpirit

Member
Nibel said:
I think the key difference could be that the Japanese devs see the potential while most people on GAF see a product; I'm super excited for Days Gone as well since the crowd tech and the serious tone seem like a perfect combination for a worthwhile zombie game
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Yep, that is what I figure as well. It is the stuff going on in the game that probably has them interested. The AI, the tech, etc...

I do like that the game is also approaching the zombies in this way. I've never seen the flood approach.
 
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Lord Error

Insane For Sony
Days Gone was easily one of the most impressive things I've seen displayed in gameplay, both technically and conceptually in terms of how you play. It was wild and intense as hell. I was seriously puzzled at the middling reception here on GAF.
 
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Abdiel

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Okay. I'll admit. I laughed at the Xbox Japan marketing manager's pick.

But overall, really interesting list, with some great choices. Lots of love for Zelda, and horizon.

Also Detroit with several mentions. I'm curious about that one too.
 
Eolz

Eolz

Member
Lord Error said:
Days Gone was easily one of the most impressive things I've seen displayed in gameplay, both technically and conceptually in terms of how you play. It was wild and intense as hell. I was seriously puzzled at the middling reception here on GAF.
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The crowd tech is impressive, the gameplay however, has absolutely nothing impressive.
 
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Bizzquik

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Akiller said:
The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu had an interesting spread on E3 2016, where top Japanese developers were asked to list the games or announcements that impressed them the most during the trade show.

Masashi Inoue (Xbox Japan Marketing Manager): New Xbox Hardware, Xbox Play Anywhere.
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c'mon, Inoue-san.
Pull a shocker; name God of War as your winner.
 
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Fushichou187

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AAK said:
Days Gone? Best of Show??? Really??
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I try to look at the choices in the context of the people choosing. In the case of Days Gone, I could see people from Platinum looking at the tech of getting those mobs on screen as being super impressive and a "how the hell can we do that in our games???" moment.

Same with Keiichiro Toyama (Gravity Rush 2 Director) giving his nod to ABZÛ and Bound. GR has such style and grace in its movement animation and I can see how those two titles would have resonated strongly with him.
 
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Nirolak

Mrgrgr
Lord Error said:
Days Gone was easily one of the most impressive things I've seen displayed in gameplay, both technically and conceptually in terms of how you play. It was wild and intense as hell. I was seriously puzzled at the middling reception here on GAF.
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I think it reminded people a bit too much of... well, a ton of other survival and zombie games that are popular right now.

Obviously it's best in class technology wise of any of those, but the air of familiarity is probably its biggest foe.
 
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Brian_FETO

Banned
Blackleg-sanji1 said:
To be honest there was alot more love for it everywhere but than I mean when is that not the case 50% of the Time
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Yeah Days Gone is the one game I've seen mentioned the most outside of "games enthusiast" areas

I'm definitely not in love with the Sons Of Anarchy/Walking Dead aesthetic but the idea of the game sounds awesome, just over the top chaos in an open world
 
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MetroidPrimeRib

Banned
Days Gone looked pretty poor outside of the zombies flow like water tech and even then it's a cool visual but they don't trip over each other when you knock the front one down or anything. gameplay wise it looks as bland as possible.
 
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nbnt

is responsible for the well-being of this island.
Taro Yoko (NieR: Automata Creative Director): The Last Guardian’s Release Date, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon: Zero Dawn
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Mah boy Taro knows best. Nier Automata is going to be GOTY 2017.
 
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Silver Arrows

Banned
Aters said:
While Persona 5 got none....
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Probably because like usual, it was MIA from everything but the most niche of Japanese streams that nobody except the hardcore gives a shit about. And it really goes to show how much Atlus cares for American press: which is fuck all.
 
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Asd202

Member
Looking at this it seems to me like Japanese developers are not happy with games from their own country minus Zelda.
 
bitbydeath

bitbydeath

Member
MetroidPrimeRib said:
Days Gone looked pretty poor outside of the zombies flow like water tech and even then it's a cool visual but they don't trip over each other when you knock the front one down or anything. gameplay wise it looks as bland as possible.
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Wouldn't it make more sense that they stand on each other? They don't care, they are zombies.
 
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