US Retailers “Don’t Want Anime Games”

How do you Show what you actually want, when you can't buy what you want?

The Problem is that Retailers look at Salesnumbers and not at what a "few" People on the Internet say, or are you suggesting to Import Games from now on?
Like... Millions of People Import Idolmaster now, and ditch Gears of War 3 for it D:

And then the Millions who bought Idolmaster spam the Epic Forums with: "WI DUN' WAN MANLEH SAUSAGES GIEF UZ ANIMEBEWBS!!!oneleven1"

holy shit my heart stopped when i saw that OP pic and thought that would be the next Gears of War

It's sad that retailers don't cater to everyone, but I'll admit that the anime loving gamers don't make up the biggest market share. It's the "bros" who shoot up some halo during a party or something. Money talks.

Holy shit they did that with Ys !!!!!!!!!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

But if they do hentai games it would sell like gas on fire!

"retailers aren’t too crazy about the cutesy graphics"

BUT THE PLAYERS ARE!!! We need some updated retailers that know what games are good and what are bad, not biased by where it was made!

@ Aliaus

I'd so play Gears of War if that was the mnain char.

@10:48

As would I... the only game I can deal with beefy space marines in is Starcraft 2, and that's mostly because they're caricatures of the common stereotypes mixed with a dash of the wild west.

Games like Persona 3, 4, BlazBlue, and even Street Fighter, Tekken, Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry, Disgaea, and Kingdom Hearts beg to heavily differ. All of these have anime influence.

All of these games have had critical acclaim, and have been very successful in the US market. And "Macho" protagonists? Oh so Vaan all of sudden grew a pair out of that pansy ass?

@Ray the point of this article is that they don't want "games based on anime". That doesn't include those you mentioned because they're not based on any anime. They might have some influence but that's not even near anime based.

Vaan growing a pair? Dont be ridiculous. Laharl and his female aversion is more manly than Vaan.

@ray

when you mention kingdom hearts, i began to imagine donald duck with muscles

Guilty Gear, Street Fighter are exceptions in that they have manly protagonists. Or what do Sol Badguy, Ryu and Ragna the Bloodedge look like you? Pansies? Devil May Cry is another good example.

Then again, they are games made with a much wider scope. They have something for everyone.

Manly men: There.
Pansies?: There
Cute characters: There (Street Fighter doesn't, unless you go for Sakura)
Good music: There (Mixed package in Street Fighter 4's case by some opinions)
Hot females: There

I fail to see what was so manly about mario brothers and zelda. How about super smash brothers?

Makes you wonder what they think is 'manly' when being on the computer or console isn't exactly something a woman can't do. Oh wait, crime for killing intangible human.

HATE THE PART WHERE THEY WESTERNIZED Nier... SHEESH

19:20 uhm i wonder what could possibly be manly about Mario... hmm he is a plummer which is the manliest job right after LUMBERJACK and he is italian which in america is synonymous to being womanizing asshole. Yep I can definitely imagine mario crying after each turtle he brutally disembodies.

like systems and televisions to play them on

and I think most are good, but i'm not a japanophile either.

like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pD83hmKjr0

God, voice acting for dubbed games must be an easy paid job. They're not even trying.

At least pick the right people for the work.

Dub quality depends on the game, and the actors. They are not universally horrible things.

I've found that most portable games have pretty bad dub va, persona 3 an obvious exception, it started out on a home console but they have added a lot to it and maintained the standard.

All down to the studios responsible and expected sales I guess.

I would rather have no va than bad va, especially if you can't turn it off.

It must be cheaper to not dub and just keep the original voices.

Key in Point:

David-Fucking-Hayter.

The Metal Gear Solid series is the only series that I know of that has great dubs...

The .//hack games weren't that awful either...

You know, since the originals are in japanese, and they are going to do dubs (if they sell it here) anyhow, why not just add english dub, english sub to the options that you can turn on and off? They can probably charge an extra 10 for it or so.

Trinity Universe has the option to have Japanese voice acting and English subs. It's the first JRPG I've seen to do that in America.

I wish they would all do that, BluRay has enough room.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=8pD83hmKjr0
Holy fucking crap,wtf is this?Cant they notice how bad the VA was after?Seems they pick random people on street,pay some bucks and record in 2 3 days and call a go...
Tales of eternia had a terrible dub too with the main character talking with a mood of a zombie,but this chaos head,is just wow...

"Trinity Universe has the option to have Japanese voice acting and English subs. It's the first JRPG I've seen to do that in America."

if thst is the first game you've seen with dual language VO options, you haven't been paying attention. Almost ALL NIS america games have dual audio options, and they've been doing this since the Original release of Disgaea.

SquareEnix should have been doing this since Final Fantasy X was released, but apparently someone implanted the idea in their heads that any trace of Japan in a JRPG will destroy sales, and so they've done their damnest to scrub any signs of Japanese culture or language from their games.

And then of course we hit the era of blu-ray with Final Fantasy XIII where they really have no excuse, at which point they create one saying the XBox 360 and PS3 versions have to be identical. Since the XB version already uses multiple DVDs, they can't afford the space, and thus no extra language track on either. Seriously, fuck that shitty port. You really have to wonder what other compromises they made to the PS3 version to get that game looking and working even remotely close on the 360.

They've got one last chance with FF Versus 13 to make a decent game, and if they fuck it up, I'm done with their company.

It would seem that outside of those who have an interest in anime or Japanese culture, the remaining majority almost seem to have an aversion to such things.

that's because david hayter is one bad mofo.

KISS isn't a game design thing... it's a general design thing that goes back a long way. Wherever things are being designed, KISS is a rule you'll hear. Unneeded complexity isn't a good thing for design unless you're trying to create Art instead of designing something for use. And even in Art, too much complexity can ruin what you're doing.

Simple solution. Make the games cheaper. Fuck graphics, go for gameplay. Games don't need to impress for a few seconds, they need to be fun for years to come. *goes playing some zelda for n64*

that's why i love blizzard games

23:22 blizzard games are made in tens of years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars... at least the latter ones do.. :P

Another solution would be to just release the game source together with the game so that fansubs can translate and subtitle them and upload them on isohunt and piratebay

It's the middle of the road people that have it bad with stuff like this. I, for one, am overweight (not like 500 lbs, but still) and would like to have more muscle as well, but I prefer games with good looking graphics and a good story. That said, I'd much rather look at a cute girl than 500lbs of pure muscle -_-

Yeah, I figure that if I'm going to be looking a character for an entire game, give me a pretty woman (and not the "sexy" types you typically see in American games... a woman that's not an oversexed piece of skank)... cute will do as a second choice (loli isn't really my thing, but it's better than many other options). The irony is when you see players that refuse to play with those characters out of some homophobic fear that they're not manly enough... so they precede to play with characters that are huge pieces of homoerotic beefcake instead. Which, I suppose, is fine if you're still a prepubescent boy.