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Weekend Confirmed 108 - Resident Evil 6, Lost Planet 3, Fez, Super T.I.M.E. Force
by Garnett Lee, Apr 13, 2012 11:00am PDTAndrea, the two Jeff's, and Garnett waste no time getting right to all the new info on Resident Evil 6, Lost Planet 3, and Devil May Cry coming out of Capcom's recent press event. They also have a few quick updates from a similar event held by Namco that unveiled a PC version of Dark Souls and provided an update on the status of a western release for Ni No Kuni. We also get a first look at FEZ and Andrea shares some of what she saw at PAX East, including the awesome-sounding indie, Super T.I.M.E. Force. There's much more along the way as well before putting the Finishing Moves on this episode.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 108: 04/13/2012
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Later on in the show, I again thought of this issue while Garnett and Jeff were having their "localization" debate. I very much agreed with Garnett's side of the argument, but I was thrown a little bit when Jeff started asking "Why do you assume this game will only have a niche audience". This got me thinking....
Jeff C, Jeff M, and Garnett had nothing but great things to say about the game in question. And yet I have absolutely no interest in playing it. The moment I hear "JRPG" I just assume I will hate it. (This isn't a completely blind assumption. I've tried to play several beloved JRPGs over the years and hated every moment).
Now I think most people have this reaction to something. There are people who hate shooters, or puzzle games, or sports games, etc. But I feel like JRPG's fall into a special category. Maybe I'm just imagining it, but I feel like there is a greater gap between people who like JRPGs and those who don't, compared to most other genres.
I don't as a rule like fighting games, but I'll still pick one up every few years and have some fun with it. I don't as a rule like racing games, but I've purchased Forza 3 and 4 and loved them both. Over the course of my life, I've become friends with many gamers, all of who have a similar tendancy to occasionally dabble into genres that they don't usually preffer..... except for JRPGs. On the flip side, I know people who LOVE JRPG's, and they are often reluctant to try ANYTHING else.
I wonder: Have JRPGs become their own little island in the world of videogames?
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Games like Resident Evil are the perfect example of what I personally dislike in game design: The idea of making things challenging NOT through intelligent enemy behavior or clever level design, but by "handicapping" the player's ability to do simple things. The zombies themselves aren't challenging.... it's the fact that you control like a tank and can't walk and shoot at the same time. (Don't get me started on the whole "needing to collect ink cartridges to save your game" thing).
The thing is, I do understand how the raw mechanics of Resident Evil can be fun and challenging, its just that the "metaphor" of a zombie/survival horror game is too detached from the mechanics for me to buy into it at all.... which is something I find very common amongst Japanese games. The mechanics are simply too disparate from the narrative scenario for my taste.
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