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xenogears and chrono should switch places
the breeziest RPG and the most sluggish
Seems like the opinion of Famitsu readers is that JRPGs are the best genre but they don’t make good ones anymore. Whereas in every other genre, the best exemplars came out just recently.
Interesting to compare to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEDEC_Awards which has some overlap but seems more thoughtful overall. The least cliched picks there are in the “sound” category: including Korg DS-10, Idolmaster, and Rhythm Tengoku Gold.
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Final Fantasy did a lot better then Dragon Quest on this list. It got me a little curious as to how popular they were comparatively so I looked up sales numbers.
Seems most of the Dragon Quest games sold around 3 million, and then 3 million again when remade, which could have easily been a lot of the same people.
Final Fantasy VII and X crushed Dragon Quest, with 10 and 8 million sales originally.
It’s a reminder that even popular titles barely touch the 7.7 Billion people on the planet. Makes me wonder how popular/niche other mediums are. It’s a lot harder to get an estimate of how many people have read a book or seen a movie.
Even today, Pokemon Go still has 150 million monthly active players. Mobile phone games are in a totally different league of playerbase compared to console/PC games.
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Pretty dismal list, but you have to wonder what an anglosphere version would look like
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Pretty impressive that Nier 2 did that well
Okami is a better Zelda game than everything between OoT and BoTW. I’m not surprised at its placement.
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So is Shadow of the Colossus but that’s not in there for some reason.
A lot of other Japanese-made games critically acclaimed outside the country ( Katamari Damacy, Persona, Souls games) are nowhere to be found either; although I don’t know how much of that is Famitsu respondents being unrepresentative of the Japanese playerbase.
Pls tell me this survey was conducted via mail in form.
The inspiration for this list is sparking my imagination. I’m thinking, what are the games that best represent the Clinton era? Are they meaningfully different than those that represent the Bush era?
Grist for the content mill, I guess.
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playlist relevant
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Deus Ex <<>> Modern Warfare
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Oooh, thinking in terms of bookends is really illuminating. Ok, I guess Modern Warfare isn’t exactly the end, nor is Deus Ex the beginning, but I’m gonna stick with my first thought. Doom<<>>Counter-Strike or Ultima VII<<>>Baldur’s Gate II
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Obama era: Demon’s Souls to Dark Souls 3
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The Obama era is defined best by Mother 3, which is all about neoliberal capital taking over a village and preparing them to accept fascism while queer leftists on the margins slowly build solidarity to eventually remake society for the better.
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I’m interested in how foreign media could have more resonance here. Despite coming from a different culture and being intended for that culture, Mother 3 tells truths about America that are more specific than the universality of shared human experience.
Oh yeah absolutely.
I’m not sure it does, actually? I’d be curious to hear your take on this, I can’t think of much about it that’s uniquely American
Uh-oh, I don’t think I have recent enough memories to back my thoughts up. Even if I had a more recent memory, I’m not sure what I said is provable. First, there’s the problem with how I said, “more specific than the universality of shared human experience.” I think I was overlooking the extent to which much of the world has been experiencing the same trends: more familial distance, personalities being defined by consumption, alienation caused by labor, etc. Second, I may have been leaning on superficial details inherent in a series set in a fantasized America.