How can western devs even compete anymore?

How can western devs even compete anymore?

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At the very least, they've not offered anything this year so far.
>inb4 someone posts Andromeda

By making indie games. I've noticed lately that it's where the west does shine. AAA games hopping on the latest trends are almost always trash and pander to people who don't play vidya for wider audiences.

The only big name western game I've enjoyed in the past 5 years since Max Payne 3 is Titanfall 2, and of course it's dead on PC now taking 3-5 minutes to find a match, this wasn't even an issue last month.

What happened to online games?
Almost none of them have persistent communities anymore and 90% of the ones that do are over 10 years old anyway

Out of every game that's got a release date between now and November the only western game I'm interested in is Prey and that's only because Avellone worked on it.

They never could. Pretty much the only truly good Western game in 2016 was D44M

Horizon

Horizon can easily compete. Then again, why pit them against each other is another question.

Who's the guy in the middle and why is he in the picture?

The games are shit so the communities die after launch. The old games are actually good so they kept a large part of their player base which in turn attracted new players for years

They kept pumping out yearly titles so consumers got used to abandoning games quickly

Persona 5 protagonist. Because he's from a good Japanese game.

LOL

Oh, is that really the guy we are putting in with 2B and Link? I guess you gotta take what you can get.

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>How can western devs even compete anymore?
by going SJW -- and even non-gay normies eat it up

I feel like you need to learn a thing or two, user.

Persona has never been a series that is great but its never been a series thats bad.

p5 and nier. wheres the 3rd character from

I really hope it lives up to the hype. I want to play a good western AAA title this year.

His game is gonna end up with a higher metacritic score than either of theirs.

>muh stronk womyn and 2 fags
Why is Japan so cucked?

they never could

Zelda

I would have agreed with you pre-Persona 5.

I doubt it, Persona 4 really didn't flip any tables and Atlus's best series is still EO

the is the protagonist for soon to be goty

But Link and Joker are alpha as fuck. I can't speak for 2B as I haven't played Automata.

What sort of budget did Nier automata have? People keep saying it was limited.

It was definitely limited because they couldn't even afford to make any worthwhile DLC for the game. Even the world is kinda barren, making exploration more of a chore than anything.

That said, the gameplay is fantastic, and the story is basically what you'd expect of Yoko Taro.

40 mil

What sort of budget though the latest mass effect is 40 or 50 million USD. Is nier 10 million or so or closer to indie budgets?

Nothing wrong with stronk women when they're cutey 2B androids in stead of bull dykes.

>Persona has never been a series that is great
If you had made this statement before the game actually came out you might have had a leg to stand on.

>According to Taro, NieR: Automata won’t be getting any content DLC as they’ve simply run out of funding and available manpower for the project
>He also added that the game won’t be getting a photo mode of any sort due to budget constraints as well.
Looks like they got fuck all budget

Remove Cucksona 5 and put William there

Only Lightskin hair allowed

Persona 5 is really, really good.

It's easily in the same tier as Zelda and Nier

Really these are the three best games coming out this year unless something new comes out and totally surprises everybody.

This kind of makes sense because I'm pretty sure that Yoko Taro's games have basically been side projects for Square, rather then meant to be big money makers.

But Automata's been selling well and gotten lots of acclaim so who knows how things will go.

Typical SE, spend it all on FF. Atleast Nier Automata felt more complete than FFXV despite a tenth of the funds.

Let's not forget about the upcoming Kiseki games about to be released.

First one wasn't any good.

Who

>no Benz
Pray for a miracle.

Nioh. You know that game that got shilled to high heavens because it was like Dark Souls, and everyone forgot about it within two weeks?

artificial academy 3

A game having used goods and fake lolibait does not make a game good. Persona has been shit since 4.

More fucking Gaylo

>According to Taro

Stopped reading right there. I don't trust anything that comes out of his no moving mouth.

I guess protaganist from Nioh. Well, yeah, who cares?

Not surprising. They cannibalized Xenogears so bad it barely had enough left to rush the game out the door with what should have been roughly a third of it's content reduced to being nothing more than an info dump. For Final Fantasy 8, of all fucking things.

Where's Kiryu?

It's a good thing. Square would never allow a game like Nier to exist if it had a large budget - they'd demand a safer, more generic product that tries to please everybody.

Why isn't Kazuma in the picture?

why is she wearing her visor?

they literally cannot

Japs are the only ones making good games anymore, with a few exceptions here and there of course.

>Why isn't Kazuma in the picture?
Because it's a picture from the quadruple digit sales club.

>anymore
The only time the West was making good games was back on PC nearly 20 years ago. And some animal mascot platformers.

Nier Automata is a masterpiece. I doubt any game will top it this year.

The gameplay is mediocre.

Pretty much this.

No it's not. Ideal blend of genres.

This picture needs Kat and William

why are weebs so insecure

The sidequests and exploration are incredibly tedious, the combat is incredibly shallow if somewhat satisfying so long as you aren't playing as 9S, and the difficulty is completely fucked.

Are should phoneposting scum like you be allowed to spread your cancer?

Story yes. But combat was boring and when combat is boring a game like nier thats means game boring too. Look, Yakuza has a 19th century arena combat system but game itself was fun you can do tons of stuff. P5 is a turnbased JRPG it will be boring too but you can do tons of other stuff which is making game fun as fuck. So Nier was a great game but not that much 8/10.

>t-shirt date dlc never ever
GODDAMNIT SQUARE ENIX YOU FUCKING JEWS

P5 will get 79-83. Screen shot this post.

I will screencap your post just so I can laugh at it and use it as funposting fuel

Absurd. P4 has a 90, its release has a 93, and P5 completely demolishes that game.

Kiryu and Majima (not pictured standing to their left)

Well thats just your opinion man

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>they can't compete

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you all sound fucking retarded