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[Hitman]

I'm talking like a DIE HARD game or a Terminator game being developed by a Japanese company. Is there record of this happening before and when will Japanese companies do it? I think Japanese devs would treat it better than like Eidos or some shit.

 

[ksamedi]

Itcouldhappen.

 

[JonathanEx]

Capcom do some stuff like that, Dead Rising and Lost Planet match the "look western, but Japanese" bill.

 

[Phthisis]

I think Japanese devs would treat it better than like Eidos or some shit.

What's wrong with Eidos? Tomb Raider Legend was flippin' awesome.

 

[Aegus]

It happens with the Wrestling games usually.

 

[Hitman]

What's wrong with Eidos? Tomb Raider Legend was flippin' awesome.

I dunno... about half their library.
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/741/741586p2.html

 

[pswii60]

MGS4 looks far more Western than the former games in the series.

 

[sprsk]

Have we forgotten the NES?

 

[McBacon]

Capcom do some stuff like that, Dead Rising and Lost Planet match the "look western, but Japanese" bill.

Lost Planet maybe, but Dead Rising was steeped in Japanese style save/boss/structure - you'd never see an American game with that sort of save system (and if you did, GAF would call it a terrible game )

 

[akachan ningen]

Capcom made games like The Punisher, Aliens vs. Predator, Duck Tales, Marvel vs Capcom, blablabla and so on...

 

[szaromir]

I think Japanese devs would treat it better than like Eidos or some shit.

*Looks at Gundam games or other licensed crap by Japanese developers*

No, not really.

 

[Obaid]

I dunno... about half their library.
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/741/741586p2.html

IGN -> 3.0
IGN UK -> 7.5
User -> 7.0

Doesnt seem too bad to me, the rewiever just didnt like the game.

other wise would a western developer make one of those anime/manga dating games? It is a question of the culture in my eyes but theoretically there is no reason why they shouldnt/couldnt make a western style game.

 

[Pristine_Condition]

While it doesn't fit in with your scenario perfectly, from the new video trailer, Resident Evil 5 looks totally Western-styled to me. Some of those scenes/camera angles looked very influenced by movies.

Funny how circular the influence is with the RE series...the original game was influenced by horror/thriller movies, and those games influenced the Hollywood RE movies, and now the Hollywood movie influence seems to be back, adding polish to the look of the game.

 

[tehrik-e-insaaf]

Apparently someone hasn't played POPEYE the SAILOR by Nintendo for the Famicom

"Ah kyu kyu kyu"

He's POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN, TOOT TOOT

 

[dog$]

Is there record of this happening before

Have we forgotten the NES?

You can probably include the SMS too.

But yeah, this has been ongoing since the early 80's.

I guess it hasn't been as often lately, if anything.

 

[gconsole]

I would like to see the japanese developer handle western game not the western looking game that produced by the japanese.

Just imagine how Capcom handle Tomb Raider or God of War. It could be total different.

 

[pswii60]

I would like to see the japanese developer handle western game not the western looking game that produced by the japanese.

Just imagine how Capcom handle Tomb Raider or God of War. It could be total different.

I thought God of War felt very Japanese anyway.

 

[Android18a]

Well, we should see how Capcom handles its own version of GTA with No More Heroes. Still very Japanese, but the closest I'm aware of to a proper Japanese GTA.

 

[Defuser]

I dunno,most Japanese companies like European settings for their games,Only Capcom so far got the balls to do western settings.

I thought God of War felt very Japanese anyway.

lol what?

 

[D2M15]

ATLUS DOING WIZARDRY! CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER!

I'd pay good money for M.U.L.E 2 by Nippon Ichi, where the auction system is now an isometric platformer based on the Nikkei index and you outbid by fighting the gross national product of America.

 

[Salazar]

I would like to see the japanese developer handle western game not the western looking game that produced by the japanese.

Just imagine how Capcom handle Tomb Raider or God of War. It could be total different.

Tomb Raider needs to come out soon and kick the asses of all the games being described as 'Tomb-Raider meets -------'. The official messageboard is a heartbreaker, though. Threads demanding 'longer and more complex QTEs' and 'MORE vehicle sections plz'. Eidos can make it rock - they just need to concentrate. A 'totally different' Tomb Raider is not what I want, at any rate. They can't afford experiments.

 

[Haunted]

At least we know that it doesn't work the other way around:

 

[devilscallmedad]

Actually ANY good dev can make a good game based on licenses be it western or eastern ( Riddick, King Kong, Kotor, tons of other star wars games etc ) shitty devs are shitty devs no matter where they are. ( gundam, dbz etc )

 

[Obaid]

Funny how circular the influence is with the RE series...the original game was influenced by horror/thriller movies, and those games influenced the Hollywood RE movies, and now the Hollywood movie influence seems to be back, adding polish to the look of the game.

in RE4 there is this scene right after Krauser with that laser things. This part was taken from the first RE 1:1. And the second movie took some scene from RE2 1:1 just like 300, which riped the art style and some monsters of God of War 1:1

 

[i hate bees]

grind some more humans terminator-chan! soon you can use laser gun +4 ^________^

 

[Zynx]

You know what? By now I'm sure EA at least farms out some games to Tose, and other publishers as well. Tose did mention they did sign more contracts after that mini-"expose" that gamasutra had on them.

 

[leroy hacker]

I'm talking like a DIE HARD game or a Terminator game being developed by a Japanese company. Is there record of this happening before and when will Japanese companies do it? I think Japanese devs would treat it better than like Eidos or some shit.

 

[Tieno]

I thought God of War felt very Japanese anyway.

what?

I dunno,most Japanese companies like European settings for their games,Only Capcom so far got the balls to do western settings.


lol what?

What? Europe is not West?

 

[Woo-Fu]

I don't really want Japanese devs to develop games that look like they were produced in the West.

Diversity FTW.

 

[leroy hacker]

I thought God of War felt very Japanese anyway.

Fumito Ueda on God of War 2:

"Everything from the combat, to the programming, to the way of thinking is totally different from a Japanese game"

 

[Defuser]

I don't really want Japanese devs to develop games that look like they were produced in the West.

Diversity FTW.

Capcom says hello.

what?


What? Europe is not West?

I always seem to associate the West to America.

 

[ex0du5]

Capcom says hello.

*ex0du5 slaps Capcom around with a large trout.

 

[djtiesto]

Yeah, Japanese developing games based on Western franchises has gone all the way back to the NES days... remember all those fantastic Capcom Disney games? (DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, Rescue Rangers, Willow, etc) Or Sunsoft's Batman? Or Sega's Die Hard Arcade? Wish Japanese devs still did this, at least their licensed games were sometimes pretty good... most Western developers couldn't give a shit about licensed property so they make the game pretty terrible.

And Western devs have tried their hand at the dating sim genre - Sprung and Brooktown High anyone?

 

[Calcaneus]

MGS games are partly inspired by many western movies, so they generally have a western feel.

 

[Obaid]

Capcom says hello.


I always seem to associate the West to America.

why?