PaRappa Creator: East And West Should Not Be “Too Separate”

@Solertia: I think I can understand you, but The point is not that those games dissapear, instead have the option to have more global games, what I really hate are localized games that lose all their real plot and not having access to some games because they are "too japanese" (I would love to play yakuza 3).

In the case of J-Rap influencing Western Rap to create PaRappa, I'm afraid I'll have to make an exception. Sometimes the clash of cultures doesn't always turn out well.

@Lainface: It's pretty amazing that most people here go with the assumtion that mixing different cultures during the creative process will result in some sort of grey, acultural, game... Amazing and depressing...

As far as I am concerned, if you mix cultures you get sparkles, you get an explosion of potential, you get ideas that would not have come up if people stayed in their little boxes.

Yes to cosmopolitan gaming!

Mix those creative juices into a cocktail of gaming awesomeness! Let us sip from the chalice of gameplay a plenty!

Grind_Axis

@Lainface: Just don't make my Pretty Japanese characters over muscular.

I agree. I love the art style and story of Japanese games and the gameplay and graphics of western games.

runandgun

As someone that lives in a western culture, I'm not 100% content with the current paradigm of games/media here but, I enjoy more of the cultural aspects on this side of divide and appreciate that I have a choice as to what culturally influenced products I play. Homogenization is a BAD idea.

The separation isn't going to harm 'gaming.'

Video games are a medium that reflect cultures and I prefer not to play games that reflect cultures I dislike and do not live in.

Cartoon-rape porno games, 'dating sims' and androgynous/tranny protagonists don't fly (for the most part) in the west as mentally-challenged, macho-lummoxes and steroid-injected psychopaths don't fly in the east (more or less).

Asian and western gaming isn't the peanut-butter & chocolate combination these delusional game developers think they are.

Something like this is possible . . . you gotta believe!

paintstevegreen

@(zombie) PeteyCoco: Same here...

kyteki

@Solertia:The East and the West have game characteristics that get pretty dull. Not everything has to be mushed together to create a horrendous lovechild.

Each side can take a trait from the other and mess around with it or simply build upon a fundamental idea.

@Source

spannu

Fantasyland? Hmm...

@Solertia: What if you're in the average man with superhuman arm tendons and a knack for getting closer to major treasures than any real life archaeologist, and the ability to take down men that take 10 bullets to kill, as well as zombiesh creatures? I'm in that mood sometimes.

I'm also in the mood sometimes to play an overly girly cell shaded trip into a world supposedly inside Frederic Chopin's head...

Variety is a good thing.

Says the guy who made a rap game without bitches, blunts and guns...

dry-roasted-peanuts

@Solertia: I'm never in a bald space marine mood, so I'm glad they're seperate. ^_^

I agree, we all need to work together to--KICK, PUNCH, IT'S ALL IN THE MIND

Lebensengel

Man, I thought he was talking about East and West side rap... I'm so disappointed.

(zombie) PeteyCoco

I actually like the separation. Sometimes I'm in a bald space marines mood, while other times I'm in an androgynous world-saving orphans mood. If they were combined...well, that'd just be a big mess.

Solertia

West SIIIIIIIDDDEEE!

He says this, but his game is so East that it hurts. And by hurts I mean forever lives in our hearts as "KICKICKCICKCICKICKCICKICKCICKCI... PUNCPUCHCPUCHPCPHCPUH
CHOPCHPCHPCHPCHPCHPCHPCHPC"