/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Late '80s was truly the golden age of videogames for Japan. Lots of videogame companies, regardless of their size and budget, competed against each other to bring out the funnest yet more innovative games on the market. During that era, lots of games were churned out and I do believe each one of them deserve praise for the potential they held.
Now, just imagine what would've happened if ZUN (2010's ZUN, I mean) found himself in those years and decided to help Taito out with his advanced knowledge.

[Anonymous No.]

Go play gta.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775120
>IT CAN'T BE HELPED

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775120
ZUNSDAD.JPG

[Anonymous No.]

now japanese companies are shit

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775120
Dear god, that kid looks almost exactly like me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775142
>kid

[Magical Type-Moon Index !HIDOIXDjk. No.]

That guys arm is kinda big.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775226
Anyone younger than me is a "kid".

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775137
What happened, though? What caused them to stop being known for innovation and great games and drop to their current status of mediocrity?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775137
That's only because their top employee became conceited and greedy, they saw the laid-back life American programmers enjoyed and began imitating them while completely disregarding the Japanese work ethics. Back then everyone was willing to give up their privileges if this was for the good of the company.
Look at this, this was Shigeru Miyamoto's workplace in 1989.
Can you imagine how many people would want to make this sacrifice today, in 2010? I can assure you nobody would want to work as a producer unless he's given his own 10 sqm office. See, it's greed that ruined Japanese companies. Nowadays nobody sees them as an opportunity to make good games and turn their dreams into reality, they just think of them as the easiest way to live the good life and make big bucks.

[Anonymous No.]

>Late '80s was truly the golden age of videogames for Japan.

No, there are plenty of amazing games coming out and companies are still competing with each other.

Stop being a queer and go back to /v/.

[Anonymous No.]

>there are plenty of amazing games coming out
name a few

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775312
I don't remember any gaming programming company being laid back; except maybe Ion Storm...
Half of them work 10 hours or more and up to 16 hours a day at deadlines. They're given unhealthy snackfoods and energy drinks so that they won't leave their offices to stop working.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775406

If you can't find them yourself then you don't need to be playing video games.

Period.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775312
>Nowadays nobody has any money

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775422
Well, relatively speaking American programmers had it much better than Japanese ones.
Without going too much into details, have you ever heard of American programmers filling the unused ROM data with insults to their employers and other nasty shit to vent their frustration? Because back in the day, this was common practice among Japanese programmers.

[UNBAN CURRYBUTT PUT THIS IN YOUR NAME No.]

BRING BACK THE BUTT

[UNBAN CURRYBUTT PUT THIS IN YOUR NAME No.]

JANITOR IS A FASCIST TOUHOU AUTIST

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775701
[citation needed]

[Alicia Melchiott von Almadine Adamant !MuQGL65shc No.]

WON'T BE FRIGHTENED I'LL STAND UP TO ALL THE MODS AND JANITORS
JUST BELIEVE IN CURRYBUTT, WON'T RELY ON OTHERS
FREEDOM WILL BE WAITING WHEN CURRYBUTT IS UNBANNED
THIS IS MY BOARD, I SHALL NOT SURRENDER

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775740
You mean the insults thing? I thought it was common knowledge by now, there's many sites (even English ones) among the ones dealing with retrogaming that routinely report new findings.
Just take a look at this:
http://magweasel.com/2009/08/29/hidden-messagin/
http://magweasel.com/2009/11/03/hidden-messagin-part-2/

[Anonymous No.]

>>5775788
Huh that's pretty neat.