Is there any examples of pandering to the west resulting in a better product?Or is modern western culture so corrosive that every time the east tries to lean into it things are always made worse?
Demons souls/dark souls
>>737830287There are plenty of interviews where devs admit many high quality games of the 90s were developed with an American audience in mind.
>>737830287Pandering never results in a better product. Most of my favorite games are western but eastern devs should not be pandering to the west. People play eastern games because they relate to eastern sensibilities.
>>737830287Forspoken is actually a funnier story then that because the story that the game ended up with is exactly what Square Enix wanted over what Gary Whitta originally pitched. Then when they did their mid-dev reboot and wanted him to make an Isekai story he told them he wasn't availableAmy Hennig wasn't even there before the script was finalized. Yoshinobu Okushi had this as his narrative director debut and chose this direction. After that they focused tested and consulting firmed the narrative of that game into nothingness and was a pretty big example of why designing around consulting firms is a fucking disaster.
>>737830365Yeah, Demon's Souls was conceptualized as a competitor to Oblivion during development and wouldn't have existed if not for that attempt to get the American audience.
>>737831354>consulting firmsjewish extortion rackets
>>737830459worked well for Fist of the North Star, but this was before modern woke decided to censor the milquetoast male gaze.
