Why are japanese games not so popular in eastern and most of central Europe?

Why are japanese games not so popular in eastern and most of central Europe?

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Because people buy consoles to play Fifa and nothing else.

Is it worth trying to learn enough Japanese to enjoy their vidya?

I like anime but i'm not a weeb. Don't want to people to start calling me user-kun or anything retarded like that.

In Poland ppl cant stand "weird" things. I've seen them complaining even about big swords in MHW. They shit on Zelda just because its japanese, "childish" and muh witcher the best game ever created.

user-kun, you know how we sometimes have great games that never get translated anywhere? Same thing there. They have relatively more gems in their library than in the west because the culture is so pro-artist/maker, so people tend to just do their thing and fuck off. I think 10% of the best of the bunch gets fan-translated eventually.

Disregard slav opinions.
Went to Warsaw for a convention, the old centre is beautiful but walk a block and it's a DDR brutalist concrete hellhole.

But i want to play their sugoi games.

This basically, cringey macho culture never went out of fashion here

I still remember one of the CDA reviewers refusing to play Guild Wars (a western game) because it's "too anime" lmao. Also another reviewer giving DNF a good score because nostalgia and sexist jokes.

Oh man, I remember that GW 1 review. Fun times, still CDA had plenty of reviewers so GW in the end was praised. That was such a fun game. This is a thing though, there are plenty of weebs anc typical macho chavs. Normal

they're super popular here, retardo. most people just hide their power level and look normal, then go home to their slav anime cave.

japanese games are gay and eastern europeans are too masculine to enjoy them

Because they are national countries, it's easy as that. Stalin put respective nations in respective lands and people lost touch with wide world. Rise of east european nationalism stems from xenophobia induced by communists. And, European and American culture is more similiar due to same religion, so western games are more popular. One of the reasons might be also that video games came late to post-soviet countries and it took for most of them several years to catch up. Life in Poland is similiar to life in the West only since something like 2010.

>masculine
>get cucked out of a job by other slavs so they seek work in the west of Europe only to get fired because they can't handle the workload and need to drink all the time

Unironically PC gaming. PC gaming due to various factors was much bigger there so most slavs remember playing old WRPGs and Counter Strike in their childhood. Also sports are still big so muh fifa.

What a bunch of bullshit.
Look for the FIFA sales, they're meager for all that Sup Forumstard hyperbole that gets posted around.

Not a lot of people had consoles so they gravitated towards PCs which especially in the 90s and early 00s was basically devoid of Nip games

Because slavs have good taste and thus hate weebshit

Nah. I like anime and manga and I am a Slav. Problem is that I hate anime and manga that goes too much into beta faggot MCs or too cliche tropes associated with the two. Finding actually good stuff is sometimes really infuriating.

In this world you have no safespaces. It's all cuck or get cucked.

But yeah, in kurwaland we hate things that are 'weird' or degenerate. 'manga i anime to ciota i huj' is a common saying. Nobody has thankfully heard about furfags nor extreme sjws though.

Fucking this, finally. The real reason is that consoles weren't really a thing until recently, everyone has played or still plays on PC. And we all know what Japan thinks of PC gaming. Household names in Murrica like Kirby, Megaman or Samus are a big "who?" in Eastern Europe. There's just no tradition of playing Jap vidya at all.

Mangas were extremely popular in Central Europe in the late 90s, because the IP owners used to sell the licenses for next to nothing. I remember reading Evangelion in like 1999 (Poland). Besides, even back then we had a cult magazine about Japan called "Kawaii", which had a massive following, and also the tradition of translating Japanese literature to Polish was pretty strong at one point (even today we have Murakami translations months before the English ones, because our translator is friends with Murakami, look it up). Additionally, one of three most known movie directors from Poland, Andrzej Wajda, funded the Manggha museum in Cracow.

Actually a lot of kids/teens in the 90's grew up on consoles, like Nintendo (Dendy) and Sega Mega Drive, because they were a lot cheaper than a PC. On the other hand newer gen consoles not that many people had and more and more people started getting PCs.

Slavs are little more than animals, they can't appreciate anything creative because those parts of their brains have been hammered out by their Soviet masters decades ago.

>be like this
>cringe to death while playing the games
>still like the game
I don't get me. Here I am literally slamming my head on my table/pillow over how embarrassing a cliche is yet at the end of it all I enjoyed it. It's fun though.

>I like anime but i'm not a weeb
That's like saying that you like cute guys but that you are not a faggot.

because they arent translated and we cant play them

Maybe urban dictionary would help you? It's kinda weird seeing how weeb on Sup Forums has been used so much that it turned into another word that's been used so much that the meaning has changed. It's culture in the making.

kura xDDDD
my peanus weanus
MY PEANUS WEANUS
HA HA

Weeb is just someone who likes Japanese things like anime.

not him but
i like anime
and you are a faggot
btw i am a proud weeb if that satisfies you

Funny, you had just said otherwise.
Glad to see you come to terms with being a weeb and a faggot. We all are here

urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=weaboo
wtf
Sup Forums fags invented this shit?
kys right now

You're not making any sense, user.

Weeb is a derivation of weeaboo and Google my best friend will provide the definition. >Weeaboois a mostly derogatory slang term for a Western person who is obsessed ...
Which definitely coincides with the definition I've had for how many years I've been in this shit hole.

>you had just said otherwise.
how so?
if you like anime you are getting stamped as weaboo, arent you?
so what
it is not an insult for me

>Mobilepostan

Yeah, but consoles like Dendy or Pegasus came with shitty bootlegs and barely any of the notable JP titles. There was what, Super Mario Bros. Everything else was either western or some Frankenstein's horror with sprites replaced with Mario shit.
And then they weren't even really popular. It was always "that one kid" in the neighborhood who had a console and everyone went to his place to play. Large scale gaming at home wasn't really a thing until PCs became common in the 00s, before that exposure to video games was pretty limited.

>derogatory
I see you're not from here. Stop using revised sources. If you like anime you're a weeb.
That's precisely my point.

Wyobraź sobie być polakiem. Problem w tym że nie będziesz w stanie. Typowy polak Janusz (głowa rodziny) uznaje anime za zło w czystej postaci. Przykładowo ja nie mogę grać w typowe gry japońskie wyglądające podobanie do anime, moja rodzina uznałaby mnie za dziwaka i odmieńca. Mało ludzi w Polsce gra w typowe jrpg i są to osoby które nie dają jebania o nic i chwała im za to. Niestety większość z polskich userów żyje w typowej polskiej rodzinie gdzie anime nie jest akceptowane w żadnej formie.
Więc tak, to jeden z powodów dla których japońskie gry nie są bardzo popularne w Polsce.

Try to imagine be a polish. The problem is you wan't be able to. Typical polish Janusz (the head of the family) thinks that anime is evil in pure form. For example I can't play japanese videogames with artstyle of anime because my family would find me a weirdo and a freak. Only few people in Poland play typical jrpg and they are people that don't give a fuck about anything and thank them for that. Sadly most of polish anons live in typical polish family where anime is not accepted in any form.
So yea, that's one of reasons why japanese games are not very popular in Poland.

nice thing that it is possible now a days desu ne~

dp (dobry post) (good post)

Good, I dont want my country to turn into soy boy low testosterone faggot shit like japan and korea.

>liking anime makes you a weeb

Welp, guess i'm a weeb then. That or you're just a moron. The latter is far more likely. I think actual weaboos are painfully unaware of just how cringey and embarrassing they actually are.

Does it feel good to not enjoy a certain type of entertainment solely because of a petty social stigma?

kurde bilingual xDDD

Istnieje coś takiego jak praca/wyprowadzka, just sayin'. Podwiekom kondolencje.

You're just using a normie rebranding, retard. If you like anime you're a weeb.
I bet you complain about "weebshit" yourself like a true hypocrite.

Weeaboo was just a wordfilter for wapanese
They both refer to the same thing, people like Ken-sama who think nip culture is inherently superior

Over time it started getting used as a buzzword for people who like anything Japanese

Weeb is short for Weeaboo.

Weeaboo originally meant "White person obsessed with absolutely everything Japan" but now it means "Likes anime" (Sort of like how "autistic" has broadened through overuse to mean "likes doing absolutely anything out of the ordinary")

The term Weeaboo actually comes from a Perry Bible Fellowship comic (look it up yourself if you don't know it.)

How did that term come to mean what it does today? Sup Forums. Many, many years back, probably around 2005, tons of people were using the term "Wapanese" to refer to a "white person who wished he was Japanese" the biggest symptom of someone Wapanese was that they would be obsessed with anime and Japanese culture - from media - instead of the real thing. Moot added a wordfilter on Sup Forums that filtered Wapanese to Weeaboo to get people to stop saying it.

It clearly didn't work.

Nie każdego stać na wyprowadzkę gdy dopiero zaczyna swoją karierę anonku, nie zarabiam ponad 8000 dolanów miesięcznie. Przy okazji moja rodzina jest cholernie religijna co też jest częścią problemu, nie żebym ja sam był ateistą czy coś.

Prawda

I like cute guys but no homo.

>the head of the family
Just how Mafia are we talking here?

Me too.

A mieszkasz w małym miescie? W stolicach województw na słuchawie w korpo dostaniesz 2,5 koła na rękę (sam się o takiej opcji dowiedziałem z polskich chanów, o ironio), a dwoma językami nawet powyżej 3. To już jest wystarczająco, żeby nawet samemu wynająć mieszkanie, a jak wynajmniesz pokój to żyjesz jak we śnie.

>I think actual weaboos are painfully unaware of just how cringey and embarrassing they actually are.

this isn't even irony, it's steel-y or something

Quoting shitty references is not arguing.
The only reason weeaboo is a thing is because of that word filter moot had made. Ultimately the majority of 4cham back in the day was 'wapanese' before that shitty word fell out of favor and there's no shame in liking anime.
There's a very terrible retardation with people going "I like anime and Japanese culture but I'm not a [person who likes Japanese culture]". It's stupidity and irony at it's finest, those people are so insecure I bet they're responsible for the endless smear posts against anything 'too Japanese' before posting in another thread whining about the lack of good Japanese games and anime these days: because they're too insecure to enjoy those.

>It clearly didn't work.
it made it worse

>W stolicach województw na słuchawie w korpo dostaniesz 2,5 koła na rękę
Chyba w stolicy Mazowieckiego. 2k max na takim stanowisku.

Mieszkam w małym mieście. O pracy powiem tylko tyle że zarabiam narazie około 2,5 kafla miesięcznie i przebywam mniej niż pół roku w kraju. Więc wynajmowanie mieszkania nie opłaca mi się, lepiej uzbierać pieniądze przez parę lat i zakupić własne.

by the head of the family I just meant father ,grandpa or stepfather ect.

W Katowicach, Krk i 3city masz 2,5 koła w Capgemini z angielskim B2-C1, w PwC to samo. Byle debil się tam dostanie w busy season (czyli teraz), wystarczą jakieś studia, nawet rozgrzebane, no i cokolwiek lepszego niż kasa w Biedrze w CV (nawet staż).

Well, he later changed the filter to make "Wapanese" become "I am a retard, please tell me to leave Sup Forums." so Weeaboo became the only acceptable term.

kurwa, anony. chce mi się wracać do polski...

anglia?
ja sie szulam po słowenii

nie, niemcy

kurwa.
dla

>anony
I don't speak polack, but this sounds cute.

>te pasożyty które wykształciły się za polskie podatki i od razu spierdoliły z kraju za zarobkiem
Kurwa, prawo powinno wyegzekwować od was każdą złotówkę za ten dyplom.

Because they historically became popular in Americas through popularity of the Nintendo consoles. Here in eastern Europe almost no one owned them, besides bootleg stuff without proper library and we had more important things to do at the time, like trying not to starve. And nowadays they are just unappealing to the average player, with faggy guys with spiked or emo hair as main characters.

Does Polish use all of the sharp, pointy letters because they want to be edgy?

Pozwól, że nad tobą zapłaczę, Polaku-biedaku, nad drogą kolacją w londyńskim Ledbury xD

>t.Kaczyński

spierdalaj

Videogames in general aren't popular in eastern Europe cause everyone living there is trying to survive to the next day. Specifically as to why Jap games don't have strong communities formed here is because mostly because of 2 reasons - there's not a big enough community (and peripheral communities such as anime watchers and general weebs) to gain traction from and there's a cultural disconnect already that people can feed off from.

I'll break it down a bit, anime is big in any 3rd/2nd world shithole because escapism is necessary in order to survive here, in a way it's the most expensive drug. But videogames require capital, buying a console was a pipe dream for most people 10 years ago and if you sort of miss that window of opportunity when you can get a generation to grow up with something enigmatic you end up with a culture that eventually shows little to no interest in it. So in the end it's money that's the leading problem.
The cultural disconnect comes from a very interesting angle. Western europeans/americans have games made about them right? GTA, WW2 games, Tolkien-esque RPGs, all that stuff right? That's all western european/american culture so you end up consuming too much of your own content and want to gravitate to something different, japs are the first clear option. To us since we don't grow up with games depicting our circumstances we end up gravitating first towards those types of games, cause we don't have games depicting our lifestyles.

Though I'm a huge fucking weeb I love anime, JRPGs, anything japan really and I'm even studying the language myself. Usually the people who do end up liking that end up liking it a lot more than most people. Bulgaria btw

All Fucking weebs must fucking hang

We have a language better suited for cyrillics, but use a Latin alphabet, hence all the diacritics.

>Videogames in general aren't popular in eastern Europe cause everyone living there is trying to survive to the next day.
Eastern Europe, maybe. Central Europe is another story altogether. Czechs have one of the best standards of living in the region.

>Expensive
What the fuck are you on about? Video games are one of the cheapest hobbies, much cheaper than drinking smoking or having a drug addiction.
Unless of course part of the hobby is to make the drinks, tobacco or drugs yourself.

>most people just hide their power level and look normal, then go home to their slav anime cave
This. You don't bother the people around you with your shit, because you don't want them to bother you. But Sup Forumsnime - Overlord, Attack on Titan, Shokugeki no Souma, Death Parade, Boku dake ga inai machi (or Fullmetal Alchemist, Berserk and Death Note, if you want older stuff) is pretty popular around here, and same for japanese games (especially Soul series, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy and Pro Evo Soccer). And Naruto.

I would say no. There are many hidden gems though. There are gems like Violated Heroine games which are fucking good, no, I'm not talking about the porn and the faps and lewd, it's legitimately a fucking good game, I enjoyed the combat, the balance, exploration, and so on.

You're on the wrong website nigga.

Don't listen to this idiot. Unless you live in a literal bomb shelter in former Yugoslavia, then this does not apply to Slavs.

>same for japanese games
>Names japanese games that try to be as western as possible (with the exception of Final Fantasy)

is there any filter right now?
i saw sonyneger become sonybro and sometimes desu and senpai appear
is there is list?

Desu = t b h and senpai = f a m.

I believe capital cuck becomes KEK
A relic from the attempt to crash Sup Forums.

I named the games me and my friends play. Sorry if they're too western for you, they're really eastern to us. Japanese horror is the best.

Here in Brazil is the same shit, most of the boys are insecure tryhards.
The best way to describe it would be with Bill and Fosse.
Remember those characters from South Park who only say "HurhuUhuhu, you're gay!" ?
Well, imagine a WHOLE country where the majority of the boys are like that.

How new are you if the days of baka desu senpai isn't recent in your memory?

poor people only understand price, not value

This. Everyone pirates PC games here and nothing else. If you own a console, you most likely bought it together with a friend to play CoD/FIFA together or at parties. The only chink shit we had were GameBoys and that was mostly to play Pokemon. Any one who is a gamer and does so primarily on a console is an outlier.
>t. Slav that bought a PS3 this year with my roommate so that we can play CoD AW and FIFA 16 when we have friends over

Also this. Eastern shit has such a distinct and cringy artstyle and dialogues that it's horrendous to watch or read. Only hardcore weebs watch that shit.

The really poor doesn't even understand price, and just buys until they're broke.

Not sure about that. I have Czech friends and they don't really get paid all that much more than I would. But yeah it's mostly Eastern Europe with the problems.

I mean I guess if you pirate games yeah, everything is cheap. But most JRPGs aren't on PC where you can pirate them, and if you want to play them you'll have to emulate them, therefore you need a good PC for that. You had to buy the console games for the most part as well, while I do know hacking consoles was a thing you need to understand why poor people would be averse to shady business practices like that where they have to give away their toy they spent god knows how long saving money up for to some random retard.
I don't know where you're from but all those things just like any other eastern European should know are extremely inexpensive here, booze is literally less than $1 and a gram of weed is less than $6 in most areas, even less if you buy in bulk, cigarettes at around $3 too.
How does any of that compare to a console that you have to pay a EUR converted price to, VAT 20% tax on, the shipping prices and the added profit margin the store set on itself? You know the minimum wage here is like $350/mo, right?
You're very disconnected from reality if you think videogames aren't an expensive hobby here.

Nice argument loser, how is what I'm saying inaccurate for anyone in Eastern Europe?

Yeah. I'm this too.

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Because Poles hate Jap
Anti-Japan is popular in Warsaw

>talking shit

Fifa is good though. And playing with friends is much better.

Under the assumption that you pirate games, which wasn't thought into my initial statement, you can buy a 2000 euro PC and keep yourself entertained for at least a decade with pretty low upkeep. Sure, you won't be able to play the newest and best games, but you won't be able to buy good drugs or booze anyway if you're poor.

>How is what I'm saying inaccurate for anyone in Eastern Europe
Russians are literally known for being annoying online players. There are that many of them.

1 1/2 years old
i regret every day

But, the brother of a friend of mine (who is a pole) is the biggest weeb I know.
He is in his 30s, still lives with his parents and has anime girl posters in his room.

>i regret every day
Fucking casuals ruining my board!

Also this user is full of bullshit.
We are usually not massively indebted and don't live literally pay check to pay check. That's for retarded and poor Murrikans.
Here you have to be mentally ill, an alcoholic or really fuck something up to lose all of your savings, even if they are meager.
And there are a shitload of Slavic gamers, we just don't always play the same shit or in the same way, like AlterIWnet or pirated WoW like the rest of Europe/US.
Unless you have some hard data to cite, you are completely disconnected from reality and full of shit.