I feel bad for Japan and the Japanese

I feel bad for Japan and the Japanese.
They wanted to please the Western public and unfortunately chose the Americans.

This resulted in a drastic drop in quality despite the financial resources available.
Square Enix's Forspoken fiasco... At what point did they think it was going to work?
They also followed the American DEI policy.

They targeted the wrong audience; they should have chosen Europeans, who are an audience of fine connoisseurs and art lovers.
As Hideo Kojima learned the hard way with Death Stranding, French and Italian audiences were there, but American ones weren't.

I hope Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is great and they'll free themselves from the American burden. Look more towards Europe, Japanese friends.

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i don't feel bad for them at all

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It's because Europeans are more refined. We are tastemakers. We appreciate beauty and subtlety. Americans are the descendants of hillbilly cowboys who drunkenly shot eachother for sport, and now are an IQ-stunted race that drinks neon green "mountain dew" poison.

They just follow American DEI policy. Hence your pic

unfortunately chose the Americans.

It's a matter of numbers = sales
Muttrica was the biggest market.
Now it's China.

Nobody forced them.

OR, they could have simply kept doing what they always did.
Games where going to sell regardless of the focus on america.

euros only buy fifa. the people buying expedition 33 are mostly americans. SE hired consultants and pozzed their games up for an audience that doesn't exist. Expedition dev made a game from the heart and their sincerity was repaid.

No one told them to follow this retarded shit.

Wtf are you talking about?
Europeans have been proven time and time again to only buy sports games, FPS and Farming/Trucking Simulators.

You have to understand, japs are like really stupid children. When SBI told SE americans want more ugly people and niggers in their games, they believed them without question.

Another example from today :
Basically, a website tests a Japanese game.
Google (American company) doesn't like it.
They take away the advertising revenue.

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Google is lead by an Indian inmigrant, they are notoriously retarded

Rebirth was great, much better than E33. The problem with E33 is that it works its way backwards from a what-if premise. You can feel the story straining for poignancy as it drags on because the gimmick is underdeveloped and doesn't dovetail with its bedrock misery-porn themes, which are straight out of The Walking Dead.
Ironically (because it's a remake), FF7R actually has strong first principles about what it means to reconstitute oneself. It's centered around themes of grand-narratives, aspiration, renewal, spirituality, nihilism, and more. These themes aren't arbitrary; they unfurl from, yes, the original game, but also the way the Remake series frames events like the Gi and Seto reveals, Dyne's death (foreshadowing Cloud/Zack's), Aerith's consignment to fate, and so on. The series' status as a remake is the vehicle for its central ideas, not the other way around, as many midwits calling it "meta" would have you believe. Just from this structural foundation, the Remake series beats E33. That it is effortlessly funny, charming, and captivating without the need to bombard the player with convoluted imagery makes it exponentially better.

They should just ignore commie retard westoids entirely.

Forspoken was honestly a good game besides DEI and bad performance desu. The sheer amount of spell variety and how you can just use all 48 or something of them at the same time is something that no game has done before.

isn't google getting buttfucked by antitrust laws right now

Are we now pretending USAID never existed and the US wasn't pressuring nations across the world into being pozzed?

What the fuck even is the story of nu ff7?

... and other fictional stories

Anon Babble is all about supporting monopolies because they see the left cry about hating monopolies. It's not until shit like pic related that this board suddenly acts like they were always against it

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The rest of the world is starting to push back on DEI shit but japan is still chugging that shit down because they're just a suggestive and malleable people.

Nothing but idle threats, if they simply ignored them they would be in a much better place now.

The US has a huge draw but I want to live in the timeline where Japs are obsessed with Italy and France as much as they are with Japan.

They're still all in on DEI.
Don't pity those retards.

That was the 80s
Then the Paris Syndrome hit after they realized France was really shitty.

they recently signed themselves into essentially being burger slaves, and speedrunning their natives going extinct much like south korea, it's over, don't expect them to course correct any time soon

More like Japan is behind on everything, so now that other places are pushing back, Japan is embracing it, expect them to push back in like 8 years or so.
That is unless they start going scorched earth on tourists.

In the short run that is fine but in the long run choosing America destroyed them.

Did you forget ff lightning returns ends with lightning in france? japs love france. they love it so much, a term was coined for japs that go to paris and learn it's not like what they dreamed it is.

Such observations made in hindsight are worthless, you have to consider what people knew at the time. When the most powerful country in the world starts threatening you, you tend to listen

But all of Squares best games sold the most in the US.

nta but why the fuck are you talking about it like propaganda outlets were threatening war on jap companies? What could they do, get game journo pros to spam hit pieces on them? It doesn't fucking matter.

It's because Japan is a conquered vassal state. Cucks, if you will. The sooner they cut ties with jewmerica the better.

Epic games store sucks though

Such observations made in hindsight

It was very obvious from the start that these campaigns were politically motivated.
All they had to do was listen to the fans.
They did not, now they pay the price.

American's can't make vidya their own people will buy for shit

Yes we should follow their example

???

Japan gets what they deserve.

And cozy up to who? All the asian nations hate each other.

There are a few key expansion on the original idea:

Sephiroth wants to transcend "One Winged Angel"

Sephiroth knows that if he uses Meteor in infinitely many worlds, Holy is also cast in infinitely many others. That makes him, in the grandest of schemes, half-complete. His whole motivation is driven by his inherent antagonism, being a demigod, so he needs a superordinate scheme to win across the board. This involves elevating Cloud to the position of a Christ-like figure, then toppling him to pull the rug out from under humanity across all worlds.

Cloud is half-dead, like the player

Make no mistake, I'm not saying this is meta. However, the theme is not arbitrary because it echoes the change between the OG player in 1997 and whoever he/she has become today. The intervening years have made the player stronger and wiser; Cloud is now able to hop between worlds. The intervening years have made the player older; Cloud is now more profoundly plagued by SOLDIER degradation, which is a form of half-death, like ageing.
These are the two main narrative threads I think are holding together NU FF7.

How did this reality get started even?

Good question. A cynical, but totally legitimate answer is that the devs decided to cash in on nostalgia. However, I think the original ending of FF7 is intriguing enough to lead into the Remake series.

Red as The Watcher

If Red has always been in-tune with the deeper reverberations of the lifestream, it could be that he's the one looking into these realities.
Of course, this is contradicted by the focus on Zack, which suggests the remakes are using the compilation series as a framing device. I wouldn't be so quick to make this judgement, though, since the overarching and central themes are all expansions of what was in the original.

europoors don't buy games

So wait you guys are doing this to yourselves on purpose?

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Credit card companies push hard against japanese stuff constantly, that is pretty much a declaration of war.

japs can't write

Google is lead by an Indian inmigrant, they are notoriously retarded

It's owned by kikes. Indians are just a middle manager mercenary race.

Japan has never produced anything worthwhile that wasn't American.

Pokemon? American invention, pocket monsters was never a thing in Japan.

Mario? Again, only popularized by westerners.

Japanese japanese art is pretty much just hentai tentacle porn.

As Hideo Kojima learned the hard way with Death Stranding

Highest sales in USA.

It's always funny to see their music. It's so incredibly terrible absolutely artless dogshit. If you can believe it I think this shit has less artistic merit than trap music.

they singlehandedly raped your entire car industry

I hope Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is great

I hope so too but it will not be. Perhaps they can do a remake of FF8 that is not absolute cancer. I predict they are going to go under, however.

the biggest car brand on earth is american lol

Lune Supremacy.

hentai tentacle porn.

be japan

country of pseudo-autistic maniac zealots

get defeated in war and occupied

flooded with bizarre porn

turn from the greatest warriors of all time into a bunch of pathetic worms

what a cohencidence

They wanted to please the Western public and unfortunately chose the Americans.

They were pushed to do this by american cultural imperialism.

They also followed the American DEI policy.

This is what killed Japan's creativity by in large. That right there is 90% why they fail. The other 10% is their skill and washed has-been old tired and senile directors.

who told you that, some indian right wing grifter on twitter

Can we all agree that E33 trannies are quickly becoming one of the most insufferable fanbase in the gaming industry? Just a bunch of normalfags subhumans that don't play jrpg

E33 trannies

You can just call them Anon Babblecels. Whenever something european is released, Anon Babble spams the everloving fuck out of it until people cant stand it anymore.

Learn English retard

More like Japan is behind on everything, so now that other places are pushing back, Japan is embracing it, expect them to push back in like 8 years or so.

This, they're always around 5 or so years behind everybody else on trends.

So you think a scenario where SBI goes to SE and says, put niggers and gays in your next FF game or we'll get the major credit card companies to refuse transactions to your company is realistic?

Italy. We are cool, promise

Italy. We are cool, promise

Has betrayed every single ally it ever had

You really aren't. I don't have anything against the italians as people but nobody can trust you and for good reason.

some italian chad stole your gf lol

Where can I find an asian hag GF, bros?

Lmao get mogged

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posts Tesla meme stock as an example

KEK

any lune sfm out yet ?

but more clothes on or we cut your AIDS program!

i dont understand market capitalization

you also don't understand how to breed either with that dropping birth rate kek

his measurement is stock price

fucking lol, that's a measurement of elon's wealth, not the size of the company, dumbass

In a rational world, Bungie would sue Firewalk Studios for doing catastrophic damage to the Bungie name (moreso than they themselves did) by advertising Concord as having ex-Bungie devs.
This is retarded obviously since Sony owns/owned BOTH studios, and Firewalk is scrapped.
No matter how good/bad/shit/amazing Marathon turns out to be, it will get fewer sales solely based on the name association.
Japan Studio died for this, then got rez'd and made a GOTY platformer in their free time.
America and California specifically IS the problem.

How do I get her to start dealing damage? What skills, which parts of the tree? I went with lightning, and she started off well early game, then dropped off like a fucking rock - meanwhile if there is a problem I want gone, Sciel will absolutely obliterate it. Am I playing Lune wrong, did I specc her wrong, or is she meant to be more of a support character?

Stocks have very little to do with real world. It's just a casino.

Holy fucking shit. What is Meiji Restoration? The Japs abandoned their feudal traditions to adopt Western systems.

They modeled their military forces after the French. Even their ranks. Even the law and legal systems. Officials and people around started wearing French suits. Postman hats, female sailorfuku, even the male gakuran are combination of different Western formal/military suits. French cafe, maid cafe. Bakeries, french pattiseries etc. French culinary as a whole, the French started the restaurant system. Restaurant is French.

Even fucking anime. Animè isn't derived from English or Latin. The Japs directly took it from the French. One of the earliest if not the earliest works of animation was French.

Tezuka was inspired by Disney/Fleischer and Hergè, a Franco-Belgian comic artist, who made TinTin. Bandes-dessinées (Franco-Belgian comics) was a HUGE inspiration for the Japs in their art evolution.

if this was an american game

LMAO SO UGLY LOOK LIKE A TRANNY

When Les Humanoïdes Associés created their fabled Metal Hurlant anthologies, it was so phenomenal that when it was localized in NA as the Heavy Metal series, it inspired a bunch of Western creative minds, like Ridley Scott and James Cameron, Paul Verhoeven, John Carpenter etc.

Starlog SF Magazine Japan started localizing the NA Starlog content, with also ogirinal localized content. They started bringing in all the creative works news and entertainment from the Western hemisphere into Japan. Starlog publication is a HUGE culture in Japan. That was their internet back in the day. A handful of legendary Japanese creators even kickstarted their career from this magazine series.

When Starlog brought in Humanoides works from MH/HM into Japan, they were fucking blown away by the works of Moebius, Druillet, Enki Bilal etc. Moebius single-handedly revolutionized the entire Animanga industry with his signature linework.

Tezuka himself started copying Moebius linework and strokes. Even Otomo. At the time he didn't admit it, but other veteran mangakas knew Otomo looked up to Moebius. When Moebius passed away a bunch of legends gave him a tribute and made heartfelt comments and interviews saying how much of an enigma Moebius was to the Animanga industry.

Starlog is where the Japs learn about upcoming Hollywood movies, about PKD's novels etc. They also started reading more Western works, from mythologies to the esoteric occult works, even Jungian and Freudian works. That is why there's a sudden influx of 3deep5u, mostly SciFi, some psychoanalytical anime in the late 80's and early 90's. Even games started getting deeper and darker with Kabbalistic references. Heavy Metal is the reason why there's sudden change of tone from the cartoony/childish fantasy of Tezuka (and Ghibli now), to the darker stuff that nu-wave artists like Otomo and Shirow were pushing, both in visuals and narrative.

It's ironic because unlearned weebs thought the Japs were original all these time. It's ironic when the Japs were hugely known for being homegenic, and gatekeeping their nation/culture from vultures at one time (back in feudal era, and some time in late-90s to early 2000's). Yet the truth is the Japs are biggest culture vulture around, absorbing the most cultures and loaning words from Western nations lol. They've looked up to the West since forever. They're Westaboos themselves, they made Western wannabe stuff then, and are still making Western wannabe stuff today.

I love it when Euros act like their countries' histories weren't just hundreds of years of Europeans getting drunk and stabbing each other with swords

thank you trump-sama

tranime victims on suicide watch

That's what sad really. Most of LGB tranny queer faggot shit happening today are directly caused by Animanga culture. Most of the LGBT folks are fucking weebs. It was weeb materials that turned them. Capcom was HUGE, back in early 90's. Street Fighters was an influential IP and culture that sparked the weeb phenomenan. People started cosplaying, even crossdressing as their favorite street fighters. Even the official tie-in yonkomas had queer shit like Zangief secretly simping over Vega, with his picture in his closet. Or male fighters checking out each other's muscles in the yonkoma. Queer jokes amirite? Don't forget all the genderbender queer faggot shit characters that Capcom and SNK had. A whole list of them. Don't forget Crayon Shin Chan too. Queer faggot agenda. It's a fucking toddler cartoon and a household name, it's even worse with the manga.

All the queer cartoon shit like Steven Unifag etc they're all derived from anime fandom. Earthbound was riddled with queer shit too. Earthbound itself spawned a bunch of queer copycat shit.

Animay culture, hentai culture, yuri yaoi futa etc and the fact that it's pushed around over and around to normalize them in public, is what made people come out of their closet. Animay conventions are full of LGBT queer furry faggots around the world. Okama culture is staple of animay lol. One Piece had an entire arc for it.

Pretty ironic lmao.

what does that even mean

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That hair makes her look 10 years older

Not nearly as insufferable as the deluge of ESL schizos taking advantage of complete anonymity of this site to shitpost for years on end without being exposed in broad daylight for the same group of colossal retards that they are. If this was any other place, I'd take a quick look at the username, go "Oh, it's that fucking retard again." and then promptly discard anything you wrote after that into the trash where it belongs.

Japs were forced by woke faggots, Cali and payment processors

American DEI is international, it's literally world bankers, are you from Iran which is not under the world bank? Then you are under DEI regime (which will be rebranded next year).

Indians are the scammer race, which makes them able evil henchmen, a good person would report Google, for Indians it's a "magic trick" to get ahead.

But GCJ Plebbitors say that greedy capitalism and CEOs are the source of all modern gaming woes, and then we are all too retarded to see that.

Silly me. I thought capitalism existed back in the 90s when we got a golden era of games, and the only thing that changed between now and then is the rampant faggotry and message pushing by the neon hairs and their assorted male feminist allies who wormed their way into game development - but I guess I was wrong. Thank you dear tankies - I got outsmarted again! Zamn.

We going to pretend Ubisoft isn't French?

The problem is western society and first world whites. You faglords are a bunch of trannies and kikelovers.

The Japanese were bamboozled by the Muttmerians and their gays ways.

I don't. To feel bad would imply they have the option to not pander, and by how many consoles and whatnot exist in Japan, they don't have the choice of they want to be profitable

This is ESRB overreaching and if they didn't do it they would have to make AO and not be able to sell in retail.

market cap fake jew numbers

instead of cars sold

No I remember specifically there was astroturfing campaign that Japanese games stink or something and that made Capcom to become westernised first and sell their beloved IP like Devil may cry to Ninja theory. That was when everything began going to hell. Now all these westoids forget that and act like it's not their fault. So typical.

That would have sparked a scandal that would put the ESRB as organisation in question and potentially crushed them.
FF is big enough for them to risk it.

Sephiroth realizing what's going to happen in the actual FF7 timeline and dimension hopping to try and create a new reality leading to anomalies like Zack being alive and actively participating in the main story years after he should be dead. Basically, both Sephiroth and the FF7 cast are fighting against fate in different ways, with Sephiroth doing it out of his own selfishness while the FF7 cast are sort of just breaking out of it and going with the flow.

as much as i hate the time janny shit i bothered checking II for zack and realised he had 20mn of screentime.
thank god i didn't buy that shit

got infiltrated by DEI American activists trough their Canadian branch

LOL i am glad that Canada is pulling away from the USA, the USA was destroying them.

God will never forgive the Japanese

They got worse than the US on their own tho, same as the brits

Rebirth was great, much better than E33

FF7R isn't even finished. It being a remake of an existing game and being split into 3 parts on top of that for maximum profit is very telling.
It's a commercial product first and foremost, any artistic integrity be damned.
Didn't read the rest of your post.

Are you going to hide behind metaphor next, Xenobladefag? It's the only game that never gets attacked

Xenobladechads don't even think about Final Fagtasy.
Xenobladefags are occupied with their own in-fighting to care about shitposting other Jarpigs.

The Brits kept trying to be closer to America and further away from continental Europe. Maybe that is changing now.

Is Japan the most defeated nation on the planet?

Forespoken

Kek. That's op I needed a laugh

Based of you to notice

Japan's Queen Tifa finally dethroned by the French

Didn't see that coming.

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why did you reply to yourself
why are you on an anime website if you hate anime

They Yakuza franchise is genuinely fucked as well.

changes the 'Yakuza' name which has already become a popular, recognizable name deeply rooted within the foreigner audience to "Like A Dragon" , to more closely reflect the JAP name, but this results in no one fucking knowing these are the Yakuza games

changes the setting from Japan to fucking Hawaii, America, in order to cater towards "Western Audiences" and "bring the game close to a place they're familiar with" , majority doesn't like this since the main draw of the series was that it took place in Japan, showcased Japanese culture and basically acted as a Virtual Tour of that place.

the new director tries to damage control over the issue of localization, but instead exposes the fact that Foreign Localizers have a had to play DIRECTLY into the creation of the Japanese script itself by basically telling him what would be considered "inappropriate to Westerners" and instead of having the changes just take places in the Localized dialogue, they change the way a scene plays out entirely at the very based level of the Original writing process.

story just keeps getting shittier and shittier, latest mainline entry being legitimately one of the fucking worst

they're also using Western e-celebs, vtubbers and YouTuber faggots to try and advertise this game to the wider American audience