/vr/ - Retro Games

All normalfag shit that sells in the west sells there too
Except maybe sports

>>7891585
It's not retro, but Undertale is really big there.

>>7891660
FIFA and other soccer games sell well in Japan

>>7891702
I rest my case

Another World was relatively big there iirc

Not retro but inexplicably Days Gone sold more in japan than god of war and horizon zero dawn. I think it had the best frist week sales of all playstation exclusives

>>7891585
Western RPGs are the sole reason the JRPG "genre" exists so yeah.

>>7891804
not retro

Minecraft

Define "well." Mortal Kombat was probably not setting any records but it was popular enough in Japanese arcades to get a shout out in High Score Girl.

>>7891585
Minecraft, Donkey Kong Country, GTA V.

Lemmings

>>7891585
Lode Runner and Spelunky still have a following.

>>7891585
Witcher 3.

>>7891585
>and that GTA from 3 onwards was popular too

I wonder what Japanese players think of CJ and Niko.

The wwwwww laughter thing came from Diablo 1. You can find the source on nico dic.

Ultima IV specifically had a bunch of ports for 8-bit Japanese machines of the time, even after Dragon Quest arrived.

>>7892567
they're thought of as funny and strange characters, generally

>>7891660
Japan hates first person shooters.

>>7891660
>>7893031
First person shooters haven't sold too well, historically, but the Bethesda Fallouts, Skyrim, and Doom 4 has had some success there, so I think they're warming up to them. I think a big reason is that first person shooters are best experienced on PC near exclusively, and barring few examples, only became good enough in 7th gen, and you know the Japs prefer consoles over gaming on PC by far.

Those who did play Doom back in the day, either on the Playstation and Nintendo 64, or outright on the PC-98, did enjoy it quite a lot, and it's regarded as kind of a cult classic in that sense over there.

>>7891818
Plus some of the ports were released in Japan, even Trilogy. Doom had multiple Japanese releases. Primal Rage even had a release in Japan, in fact the arcade PCB even has a Japanese language option.

>>7894828
CoDs are (were?) pretty popular over there too

>>7891585
Brøderbund's Lode Runner was really popular on the famicom. Not sure if it counts though, since by that point it was being programmed and published by the Japanese.

>>7891585
I don't know if it sold well but Postal 1 had a Japanese version with two exclusive levels and a Japanese dub.

Xbox, Xbox 360 all failed in Japan.

>>7891585
They love the DKC games.

>>7895020
Thanks for the breaking news.

>>7891585
They fucking love Morrowind in Japan

>>7894882
Oh yeah, forgot about that, there was even a Psikyo Lode Runner arcade game.

>>7895035
I know Oblivion and Skyrim are popular, but Morrowind? they don't play PC and XBOX games.

There was some weird shit.

>>7891818
>>7894841
Always found extremely puzzling that Killer Instinct was never released in Japan, at least in consoles, not sure about maybe arcade cabs.
Out of all the western fighting games KI is the best one that plays the most like SF, plus it had Nintendo backing and Japan tends to like Rare games. It's a real mystery. Even shit games like rise of the robots had japanese reléase.

>>7895028
Thank you for crying piggu.

>>7891585

Dead Space was pretty big in Japan, and it didn't even have a release there

>>7895035
Really?

I think they like the GTA series.

>>7895065
>great stuff which would have worked in the west stays in the east
>great stuff which would have worked in the east stays in the west
The world is a little bit dumb.

>>7894841
The PS1 version of MKII is actually a Japanese exclusive. It never came out in the west.

>>7895035
Morrowind and other TES games are far more popular in slavic and balkan countries.

>>7895027
who doesn't? they sold close to 10 million copies of them... I think DK64 moved about 2 million copies.

>>7896052
>Morrowind and other TES games are far more popular in slavic and balkan countries.
Is there an essay on this, or an explanation of why certain regions prefer specific games?

>>7895065
It wasn't? I guess I just took for granted it would have been. That's just crazy. It was a giant release by Nintendo. Its not even a game that would have required much of a localization so you can't even say it was a time constraint issue. The only thing I can think of is that Nintendo of Japan went even more hardcore with trying to transition to the N64 and didn't want any more Super Famicom games, tying it in with Star Fox 2's cancelation.

>>7895020
I too love asian cum.

>>7896053
pic related sold only twice as well as blast corps (1m to 2m copies)

>>7896061

>>7896056
Slavs, like any other third world population, love PC games because they're easy to pirate and building a PC is cheaper than buying a console.

>>7896056
One possible explanation for Japan's lack of interest in FPSes is that there might be a greater predisposition for motion sickness in east Asian ethicities. There have been some studies and I don't know if its been firmly established but if its actually true the lukewarm response to the genre would check out.

>>7895047
>>7895582
Yeah, really. Some diehard fans even imported Xboxes just for Morrowind.

>>7896067
Koreans, chinamen, and SEA monkeys love FPS games so much though.

>>7895060
The male protagonist looks like a 13 year old boy.

>>7891585
Apparently The Neverhood was really popular in japan for a while, it was so popular it managed to get itself a line of keychains and an air hockey spinoff game that was exclusive to the country.

>>7895020
Like hell you say?!

What's popular over there in general these days? I've heard the markets shrunk a lot with mobile stuff replacing a lot of stuff.

>>7891585
Crash did well iirc

>>7896058
Considering they were releasing super fami stuff over there until 2000, i doubt it

>>7896058
Well, KI Gold was a huge player early in N64 life and still no japanese release. I'd love to know the reason KI was kept out of Japan, especially because those japanese fighting players (and even devs) who played it loved it.

>>7895065
print magazines were kino

>>7891585
Minecraft

>>7892570
Huh? "w" comes from "warota" which means I laughed and seen as saying lol

Like how Koreans use "k" instead. Same thing

They seem to love Zombie stuff. A Japanese model/actress I know plays Dead By Daylight all the time and posts stories of her playing/her results. She's not very popular but I only know her because she's a very close friend of Moa Kikuchi AKA Moametal. She's also a Based Lightning enjoyer.

>>7895035

It's not a household name there like Skyrim is, it's closer to the American fanbase for Gothic 2. It got a boost after a fan translation was released ine arly 2006, but there was a cult following predating that point (this site is from 2005): http://len.s71.xrea.com/morrowind/