I'm going to fly to Japan. I'm pretty darn excited for this trip as you can probably imagine. Cranium and his family were going and so he asked me if I had a spare two thousand to go with them. I did. So I bought an airline ticket and I'm going to Japan next Saturday for about 2 weeks. This will probably be the farthest I have ever traveled, I've been to Alaska before, but only in the lowest parts. I'm excited and scared at the same time, I took a Japanese course last fall and made it out with a 'D' (yeah it's a difficult language ): ) and what I thought of as a pretty large amount of knowledge about the Japanese language. Sadly, since then I haven't said anything further than "good morning", "yes", "no", and "thank you". I'm going to be that lame white tourist that can't speak a lick of the language he is touring ;_; I hope I can catch on or at least I hope they won't hate me…13054Other things seem pretty pointless to talk about in comparison to that…Well, summer session (especially with an academic class) takes up a lot more time than I had imagined so I sadly haven't been able to use game maker. I'm sad, I haven't been able to do anything with it for quite some time ;_;Oh yeah, EVERYONE TELL KABOB THAT YOU LOVE HIM.He lowered the minimum vote count for games from 5 to 3, much more reasonable considering how often people comment on games. Also now the new users we get won't feel like they didn't get any attention when they submit a game.So yeah, thanks for reading 
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Posted by Ferret on July 24, 2010, 3:54 a.m.
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buy me mu-mo exclusive jpop cds. i will pay for shipping too.
@Cesque: Especially since Valve is an American company (I think).
And yes, I got the sarcasm.@Ferret: I live in Zane's basement. Forward two copies to him, please.And in the meantime, I'll be trying on his Link hat and waving his little sword around. Wheeeeeee. This is the best.lol do you guys really want me to bring you stuff? I suppose it would be possible.
Haha, a couple of years ago they hadn't even released HL2 over there, until they released HL2 arcade. Japan just isn't big on those kind of games on that kind of format. (I got the sarcasm too)
I think FPS games fall into American style. I've never seen an FPS from Japan.
Ever.Maybe EA should move there and announce all their FPSes there too. They have plenty to spare this year.Then again, if they offer Japanese support on TF2, I'll give it a shot.Metroid Prime and Killer7, Kilin.
Eeeh it was a long shot xD Still based on a peculiarly Japanese game.
Japanese games aren't really about realism or immersion which is why there aren't many FPS games, although it's not an unbreakable rule. They like playing characters rather than themselves.
A pretty good example is comparing cutscene length. Fallout 3 and Half-Life - no cutscenes, YOU are the player. Metal Gear Solid XXXVIII and Final Fantasy XXXVIII - 90% cutscenes, you spend most of the time looking at some hermaphrodite asshole rather than controlling.Err, they are still about immersion Toast. More about immersion and the narrative than the vast majority of Western games.