Why is it nearly all JRPG games with a modern or futuristic sci fi setting depicting of that said setting to be ultimately bad or the cause of misery eventually? Xeno series, Phantasy Star, Metal Max, granted that’s post, Mother series, etc. They have much less optimism for advancement than Western games per se.
Provide examples.
>>4005493Again scraping the bottom of a barrel for topics
>>4005498How so? I find it better than most threads here.
>>4005498Sorry janny. Didn’t know it’s a unwritten rule for people to think instead of bitch and turn every thread into something that is current interest drama
>>4005493>They have much less optimism for advancement than Western games per se.lol? western media is completely doom-obsessed. who even is not in 2026, the chinese?
>>4005523Fallout isn’t gaining anymore popularity
>>4005493what a braindead shit thread
>>4005592What a brain dead shit anon you are
>>4005493>modern or futuristic sci fi setting depicting of that said setting to be ultimately badinterwebz kulture and socials cellphone addiction had a terrible effect on gaming and IRL things.the nippongoese were right! also Desu Sex 1 was right.
>>4005493I'd think its because a lot of JRPG settings are focused around fantasy and magic, which are seen as connected to natural elements. Technology and development is then portrayed as a wholly human creation, and at odds with nature and resulting in the destruction of the fantasy elements.as for why, its probably for a similar reason as to why highschool settings or isekais have been so popular for ages, its a desire for something different and more free than a soulless salaryman existence.
>>4005493Huh?>Megaman Battle Network>Yokai Watch>FF13They were ok for 1300 years after the first.>XenosagaWhat are you getting at my guy?
>>4005496He literally named four.
Which western futuristic games are optimistic? Fallout? Deus Ex? Cyberpunk? Shadowrun?The issue is that without conflict there is no story, and making a negative setting makes for easy conflict
>>4005741Xeno a shit
>>4005493I disagree with your premise, but I think it's interesting and worth pontificating on why the Japanese might be distrustful in this situation. The Japanese have a cultural history of nature religion via Shinto and technology is often at odds with nature. Even if the devs themselves aren't necessarily practitioners, that might be one aspect of cultural baggage that informs their designs. Plus, post-WW2, Japan isn't really a completely sovereign country, having had its constitution redrawn by the allied powers and being denied full state autonomy via military restrictions and US occupancy. Given that most technological innovation until recently has come primarily from western nations, perhaps a strain of distrust for what is essentially the output of an occupying force weighs on them in a sort of unwritten way. I dunno, just spitballing.
>>4005867No that makes sense
