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Kids in Japan must of thought America was a crazy place!

>> No.4723823
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4723823

Crazy and stupid.

>> No.4723836

DID

>> No.4723851
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4723851

Kids in Japan did and do still think America is fucking awesome. This threatens the weeb mentality though so they have heavy cognitive dissonance about it.

>> No.4723906

>>4723823
>americans literally invent the RPG genre
>lol americans are too stupid for FFV let's put out this shit game instead
i will NEVER understand square for this

>> No.4723964

>>4723906

PC and console audiences were very very different

>> No.4724143

>>4723805
I always loved the retro mario art

>> No.4724145

>>4723964
Not in my experience.

>> No.4724150

>>4723906
hi underage

>> No.4724231

>>4723805
>must of

Kys

>> No.4724240

>>4723851
I think this hasn't been the case since 9/11, though. USA is seen as a dangerous place by the japanese.

>> No.4724270

>>4724145
>my experience

Is most definitely different from what most people experienced in /vr/ times and irrelevant in the bigger picture.

>> No.4724284

>>4724150
how didn't they? D&D?

>> No.4724289

>>4724284

Americans did invent the RPG. What he was saying is that Square chose not to localize complicated RPGs for consoles because the console audience in the 90s was primarily kids who were not perceived to be interested in RPGs (this was pre-FFVII). In the West RPGs were a PC thing which had an older average audience.

>> No.4724294

>>4724289
but FF1 was popular enough to warrant a planned release of 2 (never done because the SNES was already out) and a release of 4

>> No.4724295

>>4724294

Yeah, and for every RPG that was localized 5 were left behind, including FFII and III and V

>> No.4724316

>>4723805
>must of

>> No.4724319

>>4723836
YOU

>> No.4724326

>>4724240
>USA is seen as a dangerous place by the japanese.

Japan, and the world, has always thought of America as dangerous, thats part of the allure.

>> No.4724419

>>4724289
>RPGs don't do well in America. Could it be our horribly glitchy games and our poor translation?
>No, it is the Americans who are wrong

>> No.4724435

>>4724419

To be fair, it must have also felt pointless to put the work into translating all the text of your average JRPG when an action game with 1% of the text is likely to sell more.

In the 90s the video game industry was not very sophisticated at marketing (it still isn't)

>> No.4724518

>>4723805
>must of
Must have.

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4725568

>>4724289
>take the time to accurately explain the reasons for 3rd & 4th gen RPGs missing localizations
>still get replies like >>4724294 and >>4724419 despite official localizations having been released before they were old enough to even buy those

>> No.4726754

>>4724145
The console/PC divide was much stronger in the days of DOS. While now usually the PC version's better as long as you mod out the mess left by the dev's Montenegrin backup D-team who ported it, back in the day the cheap IBM clones people owned couldn't handle action games with the same finesse as consoles but could handle a lot more data thanks to floppies being a sliver of the cost of cartages to produce so games which were more complex but didn't require speed were preferred.

>> No.4726932

>>4723851
Said like a true American

>> No.4726973

>>4723823
>Mega Man 2 has easy baby "normal" mode added cuz 'Muricans are casuals.
>FinFan MQ was made by Murican casuals, so Nippon used a babby manchild as the cover and called it FinFan USA

They weren't wrong. It's why Western plebs never get danmaku; too much shitposting about it being an EZ pattern gaem by casuals trying to meme.

>> No.4728442

>>4724326
mass shottings covers by media, and almost any idiot can have a gun like in the wild west, doesn't help a lot with the stereotype!

>> No.4728490

>>4726973
>Mega Man 2 has easy baby "normal" mode added cuz 'Muricans are casuals.
That wasn't indicative of a trend though. Mand 2D platformers were made more difficult on their western release:- Ninja Gaiden series, Dynamite Headdy, Ristar etc. and Battletoads was made easier for Japan.

>> No.4728509

>>4724240
>UBL:2 Godzilla:>9000
>USA is seen as a dangerous place by the japanese because 9/11

>> No.4729204

>>4726932
>implying

>>4728442
The wild west image is fine but there needs to start being much graver consequences for mass shooters and their accomplices (ignorant or not) for the media to document

>> No.4730420

>>4729204
>people need to start being held accountable for their actions
Top kek kid. You think this is the 50's or something?

>> No.4730786

>>4730420
Waffle House shooter's dad better do for real prison time. WTF