How come Japanese games do romance plots much better than Western games Sup Forums?

How come Japanese games do romance plots much better than Western games Sup Forums?

They allow their characters to still be portrayed in classic gender stereotypes, without trying to appeal to "muh minority group X".

Plus westerners love destroying shit more than making love.

Don't telll OP about Noct and Stellaluna

Because they let you skip past it and it can be totally ignored in the GAMEPLAY portion of the GAME. In western games you're forced to romance tranny x and slut y to advance the story or to have a partner character not be total garbage, or a number of other bullshit. Who fucking cares. I hate retarded romance subplots, in everything. It's always shoved in and never feels natural.

>tidus and yuna know each other for maybe a month
>decide they love each other
come on. 0 effort.

What happened?

>do romance plots much better than Western games

Are you serious? How many japanese games that aren't final fantasy have you played, you nigger? Mostly you play the game for freacking 80 hours, and the couple barely hold hands. If you forget final fantasy, it's actually hard to find a game where they go beyond a hug, while in western games they actually bang.

You gotta be fucking joking me. What is next? Why chineses make better romance plots in their kung fu movies because you watched fury of the dragon?

Do you think Tidus put it inside her?

You might like Xenogears.

whilst "alive" no, but Yuna mounted that dead body

And yet it's Japan that has the lack of sex and births problem...

I wouldn't call that a "problem" in a tiny island nation with 127,3 Million people.

That's a great romance story though. Their love transcended death.

Because westerners think "romance" is all about sex

See any western game that has romance in it, the couple does nothing but fuck like rabbits and it doesn't seem like they care for each other

In Jap games (excluding hentai games of course) the couples rarely have sex but they spend much more time getting to know each other and coming to care about each other

>posts X-2, a game that completely raped Yuna's character

Reminder that the japanese raped babies in WWII and still to this day deny doing it even though English missionaries that were in Nanking at the time SAW them do it.
Repost this and get those dirty japs to fess up to what they did to all the babies.

Is there that much romance in western games?

Can't think of that many off the top of my head that actually has romance.

Every FF romance plot is literally the same cliche

TRIGGERED

Uncharted comes to mind. Nate and Elena's relationship is basically the underlying story thread of the franchise.

With enough soon-to-be pensioners to bankrupt their society.

The west cant do AAA games with fairytale true-love romances cause thats sexist in thinking that the woman must be with a man to be considered right.

Any game with an actually realistic romance would probably be called sexist or get some bullshit criticism about the characters being "unlikable"

So it pretty much has to be lukewarm waifu bait bullshit

because the characters are all pretty and shit

like ridiculously good looking

The Darkness has one of the best romantic subplots in video games ever, especially because it ends with tragedy.

It's ironic because your post makes it seem like you yourself haven't played many games other than Final Fantasy.

I doubt any western game in the near future will top RF in the romance department.

>Uncharted

>Game

*sigh*

Just leave.

Cause unlike westerners they don't destroy that pussy.

pwahahahaha, no user no....
This was a terrible love story.

Only teenagers think this

There hasn't been a single good vidya love story.

You want romance, read a fucking book.

It's either moronic self insert garbage or poorly developed and written drama.

I'm so fucking sad I can't get this on PC.

Pic not related?

>You want romance, read a fucking book.

Every time someone says "just read a book instead", you know they're a pleb.

Japan likes melodrama.
Melodrama is shit but its a lot better than most "romance" attempted in games.
Once videogames have romance writing like "Carol" or "Eternal Sunshine" then Western game romance writing will be better.

Spotted the person who doesn't read.

I really did not give a fuck about the romance shit in FFX

True that, people have no idea what kind of shit is being written. Those poor trees.

"read a book" can mean anything from fucking Twilight to Anna Kerinina, you need to be specific or its just bullshit

what's funny about that image is that the central theme of the relationship quest with her sister (or was it her cousin?) in the sequel is the crippling fear of that exact shit

Honestly, even most harlequin romance garbage is more developed then video game romance.

A video game really can't devote THAT much time to a romance. You have silly stuff like gameplay to deal with.

I mean, you have VNs, but most of those are unilaterally terrible.

I read and i can say for certain that i liked FFX's love story better than say, anything neil gaiman has written so far, from neverwhere to graveyard book, it's not any deeper just because it's relegated to just a book

I liked the prince of persia 2006 development. That game was weird, it did alot of bad decisions and alot of good ones

>2006
Wasn't that Two Thrones? That was just a shallow knock-off of Sands of Time, and even that is a very shallow relationship on the replay.

Too soon...

Jackie....

They dont, its 19 ceuries cliché romance over and over.

Japanese games: Main guy and main girl make googly eyes at each other with a lot of blushing until 3/4th through the game they're destined lovers.

Western games: Main character and any other character talk three times then fuck.

The problem with video game romances is that they're just underdeveloped.

Take something like Mass Effect. There's a total of like 5 romantic conversations you have with your partner. That's just not enough to have decent writing.


But go too far into romance, and you alienate some of your playerbase and get accused of waifu pandering.

Because romance is awkward as shit no matter how you twist it.

Romance scenes are so fucking pointless to begin with. What feelings are you supposed to incite in the player/viewer? 90% of the time you're so disconnected from the characters anyway, so you can't exactly feel like you share the emotion between them.

If you make a romance scene and the audience rolls their eyes, you're clearly doing something wrong. And the japs don't do it better than the west, they just do it differently but just as bad.

Love is the most base human emotion, the fact that you can't even understand it pretty much makes you a robot, if not autistic.

they dont, its all romance novel tier cringe

""""love"""" is a shitload of things to different people when we're talking about romance

There's so many swirling of wants, expectations and insecurities its not even funny. It's more like a goddamn job interview than anything.

This is coming from a hopeless romantic. Romance scenes in film, animation, and videogames is so fucking predictable and lame, it has nothing to do with whether or not someone relates to the concept.

He literally said it's "pointless" and asks what it's supposed to incite in the viewer.
He's autistic.

>implying the writing in Vampire Hunter D is anything other than mechanically autistic and sterile
The setting is bitchin though and the only reason needed to read.

The wierd remake one with the american prince

Daily reminder that X-3 IS A POSSIBILITY

That's me, doofus. I'm saying romance scenes in mostly anything are redundant.
Romance itself in real life is cool, that's fine.
In media it's pointless as shit. You could go on an hour long discussion about how they're so fucking detached from reality, which you could argue is the whole point of fiction, but if you're fine with magic and dragons in movies but you hear groans and cell phones unlocking once there's talk of relationships and the passion of love on the screen you can't stick your finger in their faces and tell them something's wrong with them.
That just makes you a weirdo. Not appreciating romantic clichès in fiction doesn't mean you're """autistic""", it just means you're sick and tired of it.

I mean, if you can't understand the point of escapist media that panders toward nerds...

What is wrong with her face?

Hold up.
Are we talking about characters you can romance as the main character, or just dialog/cutscenes between two scripted characters engaging in cliches?

Listen, if your whole point is to fill some sort of empty void in yourself by playing games with romanceable characters, then yes, japs do that a whole lot better than westeners. That kind of changes everything.

I mean, at this point devs are fully catering to the waifu style of game romance. It sells, apparently. Both East and West are guilty, it's just that West hasn't had much time to refine it.

Scripted romance isn't even that common in games at this point.

You really think that's why? Are you aware of all the Japanese crossdressing characters? Of the stereotypical gay characters? Oversexed villains (or protagonists like Bayonetta)? Stop being afraid of the things you don't know. Witcher had classic romance in it and it ain't no weeb game for sure.

Examples? Apart from bioware, what game establishes romance through bunnyfucking?

They don´t, you are imagining things, for whatever bias.

The Witcher comes to mind, but you're right, not many western games do have romanceable characters, but those that do are mostly just "like what you see? but before we fuck you gotta know my backstory and motivations for this adventure though"

The most basic human function is the need for food. After that comes water, then shelter and then love. Idiot.

Japanese men spend 100% of their day fantasizing about romance.

Ironically, if Witcher 3 had dispensed with the choice bullshit and just assigned the player one of the two, the game would be better.

In the Witcher however, sex is just part of their relationship. But the romance is actually well established. You have a point though.

Saint's Row IV had a good romance plot

Only on one side, and only for people that read the books. Geralt and Yen were interesting in that fighting and saying snide shit didn't break the relationship, since they'd been together so long they could call each other out.

But the Triss side was pretty underwhelming, since her relationship with Geralt has much less depth to it. Also, she's in the story less, which hurts.

>Hey Kinzie, you wanna fuck?

More games need this.

I thought they were literally just taking the piss out of Mass Effect with that.

Agree