Where Politics And Video Games Collide

@thomas

There is tons of media about the japanese falling behind in innovation. I mentioned there are some shining examples of the exact opposite, but guess what? Around 90% of the games they make are crappy rehashes of final fantasy or dragon quest or devil may cry, with the same pointy haired character, the same amnesia, the same morality that just goes beyond corny, it's the same game and plot with a different look for the most part and I am just tired of it. I don't deny that the greatest games ever have prolly come out of japan. I don't deny that great games still come out of japan. But be honest, when was the last time a japanese RPG didn't have same basic plot lines and morality that every other one has mostly had.

Don't drag the fact that I took a 360 into this. I was trying to explain and prove a point using a largely western system, don't lose all credibility by turning this into a stupid console wars discussion.

@ GRLGMER

Thanks for actually being polite, what I was trying to show was that yes these two are improvements off of old games. That's the point though because they are mostly that game, but in a lose sense, the plots changed and the gameplay was improved tremendously, I cnt say innovative as something entirely new because there is no such thing. I was trying to show how new systems in the game play and improvement on the gameplay, but with different story lines is the point. It's nest to impossible to have something totally new, but the point is to improve upon the system you are basing a game off of, not to make the exact same thing. There are great Japanese game developers like team ninja for instance, but its just mostly remakes of the same thing with little or no innovation and I for one(not to mention many other gamers and communities) am getting tired of it.

Keep it serious, if you want games to be taken serious as a form of media you can't squabble about which systems better and discredit an argument because I used the 360 as an example, fanboys are bad for the industry and obsession is what makes the media at large consider gaming a child's activity.