Western Culture vs Eastern Culture, as exhibited in contrasting game design philosophies

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Beware game journos making wide cultural pronouncements, but the piece does raise a few interesting ideas.

(e.g. defined save points vs save wherever, fixed- vs free-cameras)

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

"It's easy to see why the Japanese might enjoy a farming game -- the nation has a strong agrarian tradition."

hmm.

― Zachary S (Zach S), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

"To put it simply, Japanese people feel uncomfortable with the unknown and not understanding the future."

Hmm.

― Zachary S (Zach S), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Westerners, on the other hand, seem to be excited by the unknown. For instance, as a hunting and trapping society, an American may go deer hunting and encounter a bear. Japanese would be scared by this encounter, whereas the American will probably shoot the bear and go back excited that he got a bear instead of a deer."

Hmm.

sorry, I'll stop.

― Zachary S (Zach S), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

Eastern game designers make the heroes look like 10 year old girls and Western ones make ones where you have to shoot arabs.

― Darramouss! (Darramouss), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

for some reason i can never access 1up from this computer, but from the joystiq summary on this:

"The right to bear arms and a strong military influence could be the reason Americans prefer FPSs more than the Japanese where a military presence is almost non-existent"

because japanese people never put guns or other military themes in their cultural outputs (have these people ever seen anime)

also, one of the comments:

"Japan is a smaller country geographically, so taking a risk and making a game that might sell well is exponentially less of a risk than in the USA. The extremely high population density of Japan over the US has a similar effect."

hmm.

― webber (webber), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

These read like some of my cutting analysis about "censorship" in the 8th grade paper.

― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

it was good for a few bits, since i didn't know game rental was illegal.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe people get paid for this shit

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if it'll take like 20 years or so, til we have game-saavy editors finally with enough status to improve the new games language, as it were.

― kingfish moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

I really wish 1up was worth reading. :/

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

I generally like Jeremy Parish's stuff.

― kingfish moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

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