Japan: Incredibly awesome or insanely creepy?

[Arris]

Re: Japan: Incredibly awesome or insanely creepy?

Second Life isn't a sex game. It's a game that some people have sex in. It's also not a game that capitalizes on the idea of having sex with underage schoolgirls.
It's totally different.

and yet everyone EVERYWHERE still watches porn with underage school girls as the theme. Message I'm trying to get across it's happening everyone, don't pick out one places flaws when the flaw is in there own country too.

[Murphie]

Re: Japan: Incredibly awesome or insanely creepy?

Everyone everywhere watches underage girl porn? Um. No.

[Arris]

Re: Japan: Incredibly awesome or insanely creepy?

Everyone everywhere watches underage girl porn? Um. No.

um...hrm I remember to phrase stuff properly...."meaning people from all over the world". Just pointing out stuff like this just makes sterotyping worse.

[Akashimo]

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The second they start making phone sex games for DS is the second the DS becomes more popular than sliced bread.

QFT!

[Malacite]

Re: Japan: Incredibly awesome or insanely creepy?

> .> there are allegedly sex games for the Wii in Japan. I can't confirm this, nor do I doubt it for some reason, despite the fact that this is Nintendo we're talking about...

[Akashimo]

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Nintendo's first star was peach.... and if you been to 4chan a few time... yea >_>; still a hit, lol. Anyways, with the industry as it is here, no way we'll see them come to the U.S...... curse watchdog groups and FCC....

[Feba]

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despite the fact that this is Nintendo we're talking about...

not really.

Just because it's Nintendo's console doesn't mean they can control what games are made for it. They tried to awhile back, took some group to court and lost.

Not to mention Nintendo has basically stopped censoring games afaik. Eternal Darkness, REleases, Doki Doki, heck, at one point I know one of Nintendo's executives was talking about trying to get GTA ported to Wii.

[Murphie]

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um...hrm I remember to phrase stuff properly...."meaning people from all over the world". Just pointing out stuff like this just makes sterotyping worse.

While I'm sure that there are people all over the world who like this sort of thing, the fact remains that a game based on it was made in Japan for the Japanese market. That's all I'm saying.

[LilithAngel]

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I've been to Akibahara.

One word: WOW

...

I'd go back in a heartbeat. Word.

As far as "H-Games" are concerned, yes, they've suitably progressed these days from such games as True Love and Season of the Sakura to newer games having full on voice casts, and some, quite a bit of animation in, ahem, "certain" scenes.

J-List, for example, is a *major* importer of H-Games in the States, as they carry a wide variety of said product (and other stuff from Japan, both adult and non-adult). It's actually a sort of a family business; the guy is an ex-patriate from San Diego (IIRC), and regularly attends anime cons across the States (I met the guy at A-Kon in Dallas a long time ago, and talked to him a couple of times at each con).

Honestly, as much of a fan as I am of these games, I find the fact that the market for these games is HUGE more fascinating than the action going on in them (again, one trip to Akibahara will confirm this).

EDIT: As an aside, H-Games have come about in a bit of a "natural" evolution of the insanely popular Dating Simulator games that are prevelant in Japan. I say natural insofar as the sense of a good relationship between a guy and a girl could very well lead to sex, but in the context of the discussion, isn't saying very much.

[Feba]

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Even if I never live in Japan for any amount of time, I definitely want to spend at least a week in akiba before I die.

[LilithAngel]

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Even if I never live in Japan for any amount of time, I definitely want to spend at least a week in akiba before I die.

That week will cost you more than the tickets to and back, no joke. Akiba is amazing.....ly expensive, depending on what you wanna get (and you'll wanna get a *lot* there). As the Mecca of all that is video games, anime, and hentai, everyone can find something to feed their particular vice, whatever that may be.

[Feba]

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As the Mecca of all that is video games, anime, and hentai, everyone can find something to feed their particular vice, whatever that may be.

What about all three?

Well, at least two. I've almost completely lost interest in... well, one. I've almost completely lost interest in the other two...

[LilithAngel]

Re: Japan: Incredibly awesome or insanely creepy?

Yup, if that's your case, then you'll find plenty.

I keep running across cool and awesome games that'll never reach the States here, and that makes me sad, since I have to look them up on the Web, then Google-translate the site so I can understand them enough to play them effectively (I'm doing that with Aquarian Age Alternative now, a kickass "table-top" arcade character-based combat game). It's pretty interesting to be playing a game I have no idea how to read anything on the display, usually relying on my gamer's instinct to know what to do and when, and to be playing against opponents with whom I cannot (usually) communicate with. It takes skill to win that way, sometimes (and a large amount of luck, too).