Games from Japan's DARK AGE

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ThorHighHeels

ThorHighHeels

Күн бұрын

The 7th gen wasn't a good time for Japanese games. So let's point & laugh at them and find if there's some gems hidden in there for good measure.
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@ShadowLady1
@ShadowLady1 6 жыл бұрын
i like how all of these games have horrible screen tearing,the true ps3 experience
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
Yeah I didn't even bother to mention it anymore haha. A lot of people blame Unreal 3 for the screen tearing, but it seems pretty consistent on PS3 across the board no matter the engine. (unless all 3 of these games were made in unreal 3 then its totally that but i dunno)
@ShadowLady1
@ShadowLady1 6 жыл бұрын
You can't really blame the devs or the engine when Sony actually admitted they made the PS3 hard to program for on purpose, www.cnet.com/news/sony-ps3-is-hard-to-develop-for-on-purpose/
@ShadowLady1
@ShadowLady1 6 жыл бұрын
Also this was a really great video,it has potential for a series
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
wow okay. I didn't know they just did it for the lulz.
@ShadowLady1
@ShadowLady1 6 жыл бұрын
Yeah I was pretty surprised when I first found out too
@sebastiandurando2493
@sebastiandurando2493 5 жыл бұрын
You need to hand it to Gears of War though, they basically sold a console by themselves and convinced an entire country to make third person shooters.
@greenorb2056
@greenorb2056 5 жыл бұрын
"gears of wars but you play as guts" at least give him a giant slab of iron
@BaranZenon
@BaranZenon 5 жыл бұрын
​@Wiley Cat SHAMEFUR DISPRAY
@loriscece9665
@loriscece9665 6 жыл бұрын
Glad you mentioned Binary Domain at the end. It definitely got lost among some of these games despite being a significant step up
@ITSTAKING
@ITSTAKING 5 жыл бұрын
I consider Binary Domain Japan's Spec Ops: The Line. Flawed games but the definitions of hidden gems.
@hagi342
@hagi342 5 жыл бұрын
@@ITSTAKING i finished it twice, playing binary domain is like watching popcorn movies, many aspect is lacking and the gameplay is dull, but it's fun to play
@krono5el
@krono5el 4 жыл бұрын
Sega is forever dope
@ITSTAKING
@ITSTAKING 5 жыл бұрын
20:05 "I don't know what is happen! The whole world is explode." 10/10 Game of the Year.
@RoboZombie777
@RoboZombie777 6 жыл бұрын
I just played Bulletstorm and the way you described Mindjack basically matches up perfectly with it, except the actual combat is unironicaly really fun. It feels like a balls to the wall arcade game written by a 2000s Newgrounds flash animator, not just the combo scoring and the "get extra points for shotgunning people into cactuses and/or sniping people in the nuts" stuff but the pacing of the whole thing feels like a 90s Sega/Namco lightgun shooter.
@SuperLlama42
@SuperLlama42 5 жыл бұрын
My big problem with Bulletstorm is that it holds onto enough modern military shooter gameplay tropes to hold it back. The skillshot system encourages you to be ultra-aggressive ala Doom 2016, but the bog standard regenerating health system encourages you to hole up and play defensively. I think the gameplay would be vastly improved if skillshots gave you health back, which would be a short-term incentive to just rush out and chain them together as much as possible (possibly with diminishing returns if you just keep spamming the same ones over and over to encourage you to mix it up as well.)
@Negameleon
@Negameleon 5 жыл бұрын
You should check out El Shaddai, Puppeteer and Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, both on the good spectrum of lower budget japanese games that came out at the tail end of the last generation, but fantastic in their own way.
@stubdteauzgautugaux
@stubdteauzgautugaux 5 жыл бұрын
The demo for El Shaddai made me cry. It was so overwhelming
@jacobbarreras5118
@jacobbarreras5118 4 жыл бұрын
Hey I know this comment is a year old but I really wanted to thank you for mentioning El Shaddai. I remember reading about a game in a playstation magazine that said you needed a degree in religion to understand it. I'm paraphrasing but that was super interesting to me when I was younger and it became one of those memory fragments I hoped to complete and I think you just helped me do that!
@vincesc720
@vincesc720 4 жыл бұрын
El Shaddai is an absolutely astounding game
@ricardocasillas3285
@ricardocasillas3285 3 жыл бұрын
I have a copy of El Shaddai at the store I work at, which is weird because we don't sell games lol I guess I have to buy it now
@dasuberkaiser6
@dasuberkaiser6 3 жыл бұрын
Oh my god someone else acknowledged the existence of El Shaddai, I was honestly starting to think I might have hallucinated the whole thing.
@samvimes9510
@samvimes9510 6 жыл бұрын
Vanquish is like Gears of War hopped up on cocaine with a heavy dose of Japanese stylishness, and my god is it a fun game. Lost Planet was pretty fun too, but I don't know how the sequels fared. Also I picked up Front Mission 3 for my Vita because of your last video, and goddamn is the game fun.
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
I played Vanquish years ago but couldn't really get into as much as I thought I would. Though apparently I was playing it wrong. Was taking too much cover and not sliding around enough.
@samvimes9510
@samvimes9510 6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the cover is more of a temporary thing. You gotta powerslide all over the place, jumping over enemies and blasting them in the back while you slow down time. It's all about that CRAZY action.
@InugamiTheHound
@InugamiTheHound 5 жыл бұрын
lost planet 1 was early 360 game a lot folks like. Lost planet 2 went full of co-op MP like monster hunter game and Lost Planet 3 went back to its roots.
@geoffreychauvin1474
@geoffreychauvin1474 5 жыл бұрын
Lost planet was fully western developed by its third numbered entry.
@purvdragon-sensei
@purvdragon-sensei 5 жыл бұрын
DamuEmran What Lost Planet 3? It doesn’t exist.
@sjakkalul
@sjakkalul 5 жыл бұрын
There is also a shitload of great Japanse games from this era: Xenoblade, demon/dark souls, bayonetta, deadly premonition, monster hunter tri, dmc, nier, metal Gear 3 4 and 5,and even more, in my opinion this era was kinda shit for western games, they all looked and played alike
@LeukemiaSmith
@LeukemiaSmith 5 жыл бұрын
Those were the only interesting games during that era half the games were the same old same old shooters. I'm glad the market in Japan seems to be looking up game wise.
@linuxman777
@linuxman777 5 жыл бұрын
The 7th gen could best be described as when alot of smaller Publishers and Game companies either failed or abandoned the Triple A market. RIP THQ
@sampleentry5253
@sampleentry5253 5 жыл бұрын
dill pickle Because those games were gambits against the massively popular shooter genre. We talk praise for them, after the fact, but during that era, lots of people kept within the shooter realm, because it was familiar, consistent, and inoffensive.
@tehteh9893
@tehteh9893 4 жыл бұрын
You say that during 7th generation Japanese and Western gaming industries had dark age, but at that very time Russian gaming industry LITERALLY DIED FOREVER. That dead dark age is remembered for utterly garbage games like Lada Racing Club, Sea Dogs 3 and Stalin vs. Martians, and since then Russia doesn't produce ANYTHING except online cash grabs and indies. (Well, there are HoMM 5 and King's Bounty games, but these are exceptions. Stalker doesn't count, it has been conceived in early 2000s and was in developement hell to that time.)
@fysl305
@fysl305 5 жыл бұрын
7th gen was basically Sega being the king of japan, primarily with Yakuza lol
@nighthoodlupin3500
@nighthoodlupin3500 4 жыл бұрын
Next to Nintendo, which basically created a cultural phenomenon with the Wii after being called "dead" by some people during gen 6, yeah I'd say Sega really came back a lot stronger in Gen 7 too (but then again they started the gen with Sonic 2006). Yakuza got started in Gen 6 on the PS2 though... but it didnt really pick up steam, especially outside Japan, until Yakuza 3 on PS3.
@FoolyCoolyBlackLagoony
@FoolyCoolyBlackLagoony 6 жыл бұрын
That era of Japan's game industry will forever be a dark, but fascinating time. Seeing them trying desperately to keep their head above water lead to some pretty trash tier game, but it was interesting seeing falling giants like Konami try their hand at God of War style gameplay or Techmo with Gears of War. Great video by the way, also, what were the songs used at 6:31 - 6:43?
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
It's a mash up remix thingy I made ages ago. The original songs are Radar Detector by Darwin Deez, and Eaten by Bloodbath. Though neither of them sound quite like how they did in the mash up, which I have uploaded here for your displeasure soundcloud.com/adolfnomura/mash-op
@Dookie5495
@Dookie5495 6 жыл бұрын
Love how you’ve been switching the format around on your reviews/analysis. I’m always learning something new from your videos.
@Ioselash
@Ioselash 6 жыл бұрын
The era when CGR still made reviews and had the record scratch evil squirrel intro. Good times. I remember Mark reviewing all of the games you mentioned except for Quantam Theory. The main guy looks like an ugly Guts. That kiddie pool joke was Rebel Taxi-esque dark humor lol
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
Man Mark has been around for so long haha. Dude has reviews of PS1 games old enough that they were current games at the time. Shame he ded now.
@DieHardjagged
@DieHardjagged 5 жыл бұрын
@@thorhighheels Hes not really dead..he just turned into an asshole who sold his soul for a New CGR show to sell on Amazon exclusively while also firing everyone else on the Team so that Mark can keep all the money himself.
@daveraschke
@daveraschke 4 жыл бұрын
@@DieHardjagged so that's what happened
@craftycatgirl3939
@craftycatgirl3939 5 жыл бұрын
So many great character action games came out of Japan around this era- not just Platinum's work but my favorite example being Drakengard 3. Yoko Taro was and still is an absolute madman.
@spookyskeleton9816
@spookyskeleton9816 4 ай бұрын
Nah the game is shit, Yoko Taro still the man though
@megacide84
@megacide84 5 жыл бұрын
I'll say this. The 6th gen truly was a golden age for Japanese developers.
@jervey123
@jervey123 5 жыл бұрын
also the 4th and 5th gen, i can name great japanese rpgs from those eras for days!!
@glorbojibbins2485
@glorbojibbins2485 5 жыл бұрын
So many good PS1 jrpgs
@jervey123
@jervey123 5 жыл бұрын
@@glorbojibbins2485 also on the snes, there's final fantasy 3 and the all-time classic crono trigger
@megacide84
@megacide84 5 жыл бұрын
@@ryhanzfx1641 I blame SONY for the most part. Instead of making a streamlined, easy to program X86 based system like the Xbox 360. They had to troddle out a complicated, proprietary nightmare "Cell architecture" that programmers hated which severely crippled the console. That alone set Japanese game developers back a few years while U.S game companies enjoyed great success with the Xbox 360 for most of the 7th generation.
@Krystalmyth
@Krystalmyth 4 жыл бұрын
6th Gen was no Golden Age. No offense, it was experimental and wild, but it was the at best its Silver Age. Which arguably tends to be cooler. The silver age of comics for example brought us the Xmen in the form we know them as today.. How could you not consider the 4th Gen, including the SNES/Genesis, as the clear golden era of gaming, considering we're still, to this day, trying to replicate, remaster, recreate, reference, and reproduce everything from that era. It is the master source of gaming, that defines, the golden age.
@alteregoreview
@alteregoreview 6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that period of Japanese games was weird. Those Front Mission mechs look pretty cool, especially the one with four legs.
@Jose-rc3dl
@Jose-rc3dl 5 жыл бұрын
For a while I thought Quantum Theory was a game I had dreamed up instead of being an actual thing.
@cjinl2428
@cjinl2428 5 жыл бұрын
Man, I almost forgot about this. "Japanese games have not been good these days" was such a common narrative for several years. Remember when the developer of Fez told a Japanese reporter that "his" games suck? It was just accepted that the Japanese game industry was in the pits.
@UnironicallyUnfunnyAnimeDubs
@UnironicallyUnfunnyAnimeDubs 6 жыл бұрын
I was about to ask for the second intro song but decided to check the description first and found your music. Goddamn this is nice. Got some relaxing stuff and some bangers. Your creative video editing transfers over to your music quuuuuuite well. Almost inspires me to give the DAW another go. Just almost though. Keep the music coming!
@shazzbutter
@shazzbutter 4 жыл бұрын
+++ add another vote for VANQUISH and BINARY DOMAIN +++ ... These games are fantastic 3rd person shooters that are still super cheap and easily found 'in the wild' and online.
@thebravegallade731
@thebravegallade731 5 жыл бұрын
I really consider Persona 4 Golden and Xenoblade Chronicles the start of the reinesannce of Japanese games.
@AilingBird
@AilingBird 5 жыл бұрын
Id like to thank RGG studios for making Yakuza, some of the only super japanese games on the ps3 lmao
@MrDmoney156
@MrDmoney156 6 жыл бұрын
I agree! Japan was going in a bit of a originality crisis and it's one of the reasons why most Japanese gamers was so stuck to retro stuff with their modern stuff having nothing new brought to the table.
@chrisossu2070
@chrisossu2070 6 жыл бұрын
Wasn't Keiji Inafune partially to blame for this?
@MrDmoney156
@MrDmoney156 6 жыл бұрын
Chris Chen can't recall, how so?
@setaentertainment4311
@setaentertainment4311 5 жыл бұрын
@@MrDmoney156 Reasonable & unreasonable saying, 'Japanese games for us, only for Japanese.' quotation.
@subrussian
@subrussian 6 жыл бұрын
I love your content so much, my dude
@beat-man5167
@beat-man5167 6 жыл бұрын
Yeah this was pretty dark era. Some good stuff came out of it tho, like TTT2. 5:41 Dude I miss arcade racers. I remember blur (RIP Bizarre) and Split/Second (RIP Black Rock) coming out around the time and also Driver San Francisco, which is like Mindjack but with cars, go play it. Also, Yahtzee, that guy. fedora head ass run on sentence ass skipping Gravity Rush 2's endgame out of spite ass.
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
There's loads of arcade racers on Steam, and quite a few in development currently. So many even that I can't think of any to write down right here, but they exist!
@vaugna1620
@vaugna1620 5 жыл бұрын
Quantum Theory was one of those games I saw in a magazine and occasionally recall but can't remember the name of and start questioning if it even existed or if it was just a bad fever dream.
@Blackcloud288
@Blackcloud288 5 жыл бұрын
Really though, Lost Planet 2 was the best anomaly to come out of this mess.
@nighthoodlupin3500
@nighthoodlupin3500 4 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised at how few people are bringing up Dead Rising. That and Lost Planet were the first game after Capcom came out and bluntly said they need to look at what the west is doing... and somehow Dead Rising one of the best games ever.
@V8RacerGT
@V8RacerGT 5 жыл бұрын
Binary Domain is awesome!
@QuetzalOvejasElectricas
@QuetzalOvejasElectricas 6 жыл бұрын
Oh, I got a review copy for Mind Hunter. I had to play it. I had forgotten about it. I am now TRIGGERED.
@indejcriptible
@indejcriptible 3 жыл бұрын
hi there, querido furro
@LizardGenes
@LizardGenes 6 жыл бұрын
Interesting continuance of gaming Japan's Lost Decade, where the economic shrinkage of the 1990s was reflected by the aesthetic of urban ruin in titles of that time, but in a different direction. I think that earlier time led to a recognisable and enduring style, whereas yeah, here they didn't really know what they were doing. What I find interesting are the wonky Japanese games only on the Xbox, like Breakdown and Dino Crisis 3, and on the 360, like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, which indicate early templates for games the American market might favour. You sure do love that smooth MGS2 Jazz, as quite frequently does it feature in your vids. Also, I think you're my favourite channel on the youtubes.
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
yes MGS2 good. Also yeah, I'm slowly building a up a small collection of Japanese xbox games. It's like SEGA just dumped all of their excess Dream Cast games on there haha. I also just finished Lost Odyssey the other week. Will review soon!
@LizardGenes
@LizardGenes 6 жыл бұрын
Nice! I like how you give flawed games a good hearing, while keeping a critical edge in your reviews. I really enjoyed Panzer Dragoon Orta, and the unlockable original that comes with it. Will probably try to get Jet Set Radio Future too at some point.
@animedudevid
@animedudevid 5 жыл бұрын
DRAGON'S DOGMA!!!! People are just now learning how wonderful that game is.
@planetschlock
@planetschlock 5 жыл бұрын
I remember wanting to like Quantum Theory so badly but the game felt like trying to play Gears of War 2 on an old refurbished Toshiba Satellite laptop that you bought on sale at Office Max.
@megamanx1291
@megamanx1291 5 жыл бұрын
Planet Schlock lmaooo
@Treetops27
@Treetops27 5 жыл бұрын
Just japanese game? The 7th gen had a disproportionate amount of trash from western devs too.
@RemixerUltimate
@RemixerUltimate 5 жыл бұрын
I'm sure he'll get there.
@cosmic-creep1384
@cosmic-creep1384 4 жыл бұрын
Will always fucking love that game over lmfaooooo, literally had it as my notification tone for a long ass time
@Rommulo35628
@Rommulo35628 6 жыл бұрын
THAT INTRO THEME IS SO FUCKING COOOOOOOOOL
@RUOK2000
@RUOK2000 3 жыл бұрын
On the sensitivity of mind jack and binary domain, i find it helps if you make adjustments in the option and get them how you like
@hemangchauhan2864
@hemangchauhan2864 6 жыл бұрын
Another lovely video. That mech game looks neato And have you played any Lost Planet games?
@hb-robo
@hb-robo 6 жыл бұрын
Hemang Chauhan Lost Planet 2 is legitimately one of the best co-op shooters of all time
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
Not yet, but I do own all of them already.
@Demon27248
@Demon27248 3 жыл бұрын
Finally someone who gets it! Subbed! MindJack is like Gears of War, but actually good. Hell, it's one of the best third person shooters of the generation. No boring walk & talks to showcase Unreal Engine 3 gray, no pretentious heart of darkness rip offs that just say "war is bad m'kay". It's just 100% non-stop action featuring mechs, gorillas, drones, all tied together with drop-in/drop-out co-op and versus in a truly unique blend of multiplayer with single player. The AI is bad sure, but the game is designed for human players to control both friendly and enemy AI across the game, and thus an empty shell when you're not being jacked on by other players. The dynamically evolving difficulty of the campaign depending on who's in your game is the most unique part of it all.
@ArtofWEZ
@ArtofWEZ 4 жыл бұрын
You were not kidding about Mindjack, I am digging this Time crisis aesthetic
@MsSaskue360
@MsSaskue360 6 жыл бұрын
I like a lot of the Japanese games from this era especially the jrpgs and th then game like project diva f and f2nd, yakuza 3 and 4 plus this is the era that Japanese audio option became normal
@peachesandcream8753
@peachesandcream8753 5 жыл бұрын
I would have to say that the PS3 era made me push away from gaming purely because of how the entire industry was in a crisis of some kind. The games coming out were unoriginal and boring and usually a carbon copy of each other. The PS4/PC era has made a comeback and I've found myself excited again and often playing games multiple times a week when before I was playing maybe a few times a month.
@wintermute8315
@wintermute8315 2 жыл бұрын
If you'd had an X360 you probably would have loved that generation. It was incredible.
@peachesandcream8753
@peachesandcream8753 2 жыл бұрын
@@wintermute8315 I doubt it since my preferred genre was RPG's and action/adventure. Xbox has always attracted the first-person shooter developers. I will say though, that Lost Odyssey, Nier and Resonance of Fate were good.
@consensualsenses
@consensualsenses 6 жыл бұрын
Great video as always.
@kael070
@kael070 5 жыл бұрын
Ahhh dirge of cerberus, nice memories, lovely aesthetic, fun gameplay, amazing ost, i had a lot of fun with that one
@CaptainPsychopath69
@CaptainPsychopath69 6 жыл бұрын
Dammit Thor. How can you make videos about anything so interesting?
@MicahBuzanANIMATION
@MicahBuzanANIMATION 5 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I found your channel.
@punk_rock_music_teacher
@punk_rock_music_teacher 4 жыл бұрын
My favorite video of THH!
@drinkyourtea
@drinkyourtea 5 жыл бұрын
Third birthday was the biggest slap in the face to hardcore Parasite Eve fans who wanted a legitimate sequel or anything other than what Third Birthday was going for.
@Rpgwaiter
@Rpgwaiter 6 жыл бұрын
Damn you Thor, I was really trying to forget Front Mission Evolved. Back to therapy, I suppose.
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
heh
@donbasuradenuevo
@donbasuradenuevo 3 жыл бұрын
Though in Japan's defense, Demon's Souls was created during this dark age. And it was totally worth it.
@diamondmetal3062
@diamondmetal3062 3 жыл бұрын
I actually remember playing a demo for Quantum Theory. This was many years ago so I don’t remember much about the game, but I clearly remember a boss having a very prominent dick-like protrusion. The actual tower had a nice design, tho.
@TWKIC
@TWKIC 2 жыл бұрын
6:32 Is that a sample of "Radar Detector" by Darwin Deez?
@Kesvalk
@Kesvalk 3 жыл бұрын
Double Helix tried to be Gun Hazard in HD, not Front mission 3 though it failed just the same seeing as Gun Hazard had a lot of cool systems like the buddy NPCs that helped you, the whole RPG and proficiency system and was open ended so you could decide what you wanted to do.
@fieryrebirth
@fieryrebirth 5 жыл бұрын
Another game from this age worth a mention: Knight's Contract. A stiffy-controlled DMC-like hack-and-slash with a twist(that fails to deliver).
@oshycontin
@oshycontin 5 жыл бұрын
i remember i used to play the binary domain free downloadable demo on xbox 360 on repeat and i loved it. i loved shooting the robots and watching them fall apart. never ended up buying the game though and i highly doubt i would enjoy it now.
@23Scadu
@23Scadu 4 жыл бұрын
I hope you get around to making that Binary Domain video. It was such a strangely bad-good game.
@rwjfan5000
@rwjfan5000 6 жыл бұрын
So very many games of this type came out around that time, it's just depressing. They're quite simply a flaccid lot, mere shadows of the past. FFXIII is dull and lifeless, Resident Evil 6 is a frustrating mess, and Front Mission Evolved really does just make you think of Armored Core and weep bitter tears. Bomberman Act Zero though, that game actually has some TIGHT multiplayer which I will not hear slandered, despite the rest of the game. :)
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
THE FLACCID GEN
@AbdallahTeach
@AbdallahTeach Жыл бұрын
> FFXIII is dull and lifeless big disgaree.
@lamdatheavali8431
@lamdatheavali8431 5 жыл бұрын
i used to play front mission evolved on my 360 holy shit nostalgia bomb
@michelottens6083
@michelottens6083 2 жыл бұрын
PS3 times were pretty swell for midtier hyperkinetic brawler games, though. Heavenly Sword, Lollypop Chainsaw, DmC got some good ones, and all the Platinum games... Though the genre's largely disappeared again in mainstream, so maybe none of those made the moneys back.
@andrewscarpati9665
@andrewscarpati9665 5 жыл бұрын
Mindjack was a gem.
@baschabermain
@baschabermain 5 жыл бұрын
Binary domain & Vanquish are actually in my steam wishlist...
@liukaosborne
@liukaosborne 3 жыл бұрын
👌 19:35 mfw so much Nostalgia rite now from that soundtrack 😣so good ~
@BlackCatRedScarf
@BlackCatRedScarf 4 жыл бұрын
2:30 - What OST is playing on the background? I would like the name to be able to find it. It's really good. EDIT: found it - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven OST - Part 5: Naples Station
@conradojavier7547
@conradojavier7547 5 жыл бұрын
Koei should put the Main Character of Quantum Theory in Warriors All Stars 2.
@oshycontin
@oshycontin 5 жыл бұрын
i literally thought it was guts in the thumbnail and thats why i clicked the video
@Lucrei.
@Lucrei. 5 жыл бұрын
The worst thing about all these games is the screen tearing... Oh god my eyes
@shadowthehedgehog181
@shadowthehedgehog181 Жыл бұрын
There needs to be more videos on this subject. The 7th gen was interesting for a lot of reasons. One of them was the supposed decline of the Japanese gaming industry, which convinced them to become more "westernized"
@Alzorath
@Alzorath 5 жыл бұрын
After about 5 videos watched, it's the kiddie pool joke that earned my sub ;)
@COUNTVLAIDMIR
@COUNTVLAIDMIR 5 жыл бұрын
The Front Mission games have the same setup ever since the first game, not only FM3.
@Argroh
@Argroh Жыл бұрын
yeah, about Front Mission... ...they did make a new one, but not called Front Mission...
@viniciusbarreiros1258
@viniciusbarreiros1258 6 жыл бұрын
Great video! This dark age of japanese games was, or maybe still is..hard to say if its over, something very sad. Japonese game developers were most of the time being praised for the interesting things that their minds was able to bring to the market, very unique ideas, concepts and stuff. Looking at the entire video game market, its not that hard to see that this "dark age" its kind affecting most of the devs, people are not trying to do great stuff, only stuff that sell a lot, and i belive that this is a bad way of doing basically anything. Some may argue that games are very expensive things do develop, and for that reason they has to be lucrative etc, but i would say that with the high tech from today, we should at least be doing things as good as ps1 age with a pretty decent graphic capacity (not because we need graphics, but because it can be made better, its easier with the modern tools), and they would certainly be cheaper. Games doesn't need photorealistic graphics, just something well done, there are far more important things in a game development, art direction for example, most of the time matter more than the graphic itself... lets wait for the next generation of games to come.
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
I feel like it's over. Tecmo went from Quantum Theory to Nioh, which just had a sequel announced that was big enough to be on the big screen at E3. To me that says a lot, and Square is now making games in Unreal 4, which is much more cost and time effective then them using their own engines. PS4 and Steam aren't hard to publish to, or develop for, and engines like Unreal and Unity are cheap/free and easy to use generally speaking. I think it says a lot that even Visual Novels have found their place on Steam, with Shibuya Scramble coming out for the first time in English soon. So honestly, while we aren't on PS2 level yet, I'd say the dark times are definitely over. Hell, even the devs behind Disaster Report are making a new game, and Platinum is making like a billion games at once haha
@viniciusbarreiros1258
@viniciusbarreiros1258 6 жыл бұрын
well, its true indeed, things are starting to head towards good stuff, hope we get as near as possible to ps2 game age, cause if you ask me, ps2 should be some sort of game ideal to aim at, in my opinion this console its almost impossible to let go, so many good games/ideas/concepts.
@sebastiandurando2493
@sebastiandurando2493 5 жыл бұрын
You posted this comment 9 months ago but I think it is definitely over now, with Capcom releasing RE7, RE2, DMCV and MHW.
@HiddenAdept
@HiddenAdept 3 жыл бұрын
Well atleast during Japan's dark age we got SMT IV, still favourite game to this day.
@joehill4094
@joehill4094 5 жыл бұрын
so have you heard of Gundam Operation Troy? it was like gundam meets battlefield 2 (the good one). Ive never played it though, but the gameplay looks fun.
@WildPotatoIndustries
@WildPotatoIndustries 6 жыл бұрын
After some reflection, seventh gen consoles seem rather dated now. I mean, that generation started 13 years ago, but it wasn't until recently that I noticed how badly some AAA games from that generation have aged. Personally, I still think the sixth generation of consoles is my favorite due to it's wider acceptance of middle market games and lack of major streamlining to appeal to mass markets, but that's just me and my biased opinion. While the current generation isn't super amazing, there is definitely more variety out there now than there has been in a long time.
@SameriddAndCave
@SameriddAndCave 6 жыл бұрын
I chopped a chunk of my finger off on my disc brake in my bike and got 3 stitches and my nail is eventually going to fall off. Just thought you should know.
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
See now this is why I force my dad to fix my bike whenever something breaks. But hey, at least that nail will grow back over time!
@bitwize
@bitwize 5 жыл бұрын
Is the tower in Quantum Theory infested with Cy-Bugs?
@5hane9ro
@5hane9ro 5 жыл бұрын
Silent Hill died, final fantasy made a trilogy of mental retardation, devil May cry got a edgelord reboot perfectly around the edgelord 2012 Spider-Man reboot, and resident evil turned into a genuinely fantastic comedy with RE6. A great time to love Japanese games indeed
@BossBash86
@BossBash86 5 жыл бұрын
I mean, not gonna lie I enjoyed Front Mission Evolved for what it was and it's a game I find myself coming back to from time to time along Gun Hazard, Assault Suits Valken and Front Mission 1.
@nolongerinuse915
@nolongerinuse915 5 жыл бұрын
where'd you get those Akira Yamaoka samples at 7:08?
@TheOneAndOnlySame
@TheOneAndOnlySame 2 жыл бұрын
13:18 ©Riow Arai
@dreamingthelife
@dreamingthelife 4 жыл бұрын
Vanquish was Dope! \m/
@BookooZenny
@BookooZenny 3 жыл бұрын
I just wanna know what sample packs Akira Yamaoka uses T-T
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 3 жыл бұрын
he uses a LOT from a pack called Distorted Reality by Spectrasonics. otherwise he also uses a instrument called the melotron a lot. many of the specific samples are out there tho. folks have been tracking em down and ripping sound files from the pc versions.
@theaceofspades56
@theaceofspades56 5 жыл бұрын
Goddamn I havent heard about Quantum Theory since TBF played it almost 10 years ago.
@midnitepalace
@midnitepalace 3 жыл бұрын
whats the name of that sample pack you used around 7 min? :)
@SnackCannon
@SnackCannon Жыл бұрын
*"the way of the bald man"* had me dying lmao
@royaljunior2125
@royaljunior2125 3 жыл бұрын
I almost didn't get that grey joke
@L0upyb0y
@L0upyb0y 6 жыл бұрын
Could you do a "I've been playing: Illusion software" video, kind sir? Great videos, btw!
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
Arent they a Hentai games dev? lol. Not sure if KZbin will allow that. Though I do mean to review Bible Black one day. The meme is too strong to ignore.
@L0upyb0y
@L0upyb0y 6 жыл бұрын
Hehehe, that's good news! (sidenote: games like Artificial Academy can be played with a relatively low-level of sexual content - for a hentai game a least)
@biggiecheese3155
@biggiecheese3155 5 жыл бұрын
I played quantum theory when I was like 12 or so and loved that shit
@johnzarek3628
@johnzarek3628 Жыл бұрын
The Angry Fedora Neck Beard Man! XD I also hate that guy. That's the perfect name for him.
@swamidesperado8075
@swamidesperado8075 4 жыл бұрын
When I was younger I played quantum theory and thought it was good because I was a huge gears fan so it didn't seem bad to me
@Getitstraightyo
@Getitstraightyo 5 жыл бұрын
Im a huge front mission fan and I skipped Evolved. This made me want to give it a shot
@KEIFERGR33N
@KEIFERGR33N 5 жыл бұрын
take my sub u beautiful person
@Orinslayer
@Orinslayer 5 жыл бұрын
Oh my god somebody finally said BARCUS BENIX
@etiennelatour3435
@etiennelatour3435 5 жыл бұрын
FL Studio; a man of culture, I see
@eliroberts5943
@eliroberts5943 5 жыл бұрын
what is the music that starts at 11:03? I'm sure I know it but I can't place it and I am going banana splits
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 5 жыл бұрын
It's a track called Party Time and is from a game called Lone Survivor.
@eliroberts5943
@eliroberts5943 5 жыл бұрын
@@thorhighheels Thank you! I love that game
@geoserenity
@geoserenity 5 жыл бұрын
i prefer firing with r1, makes sense if r1 is fire and r2 is alt fire
@INIGO7
@INIGO7 5 жыл бұрын
5:15 music?
@SerotoninCrunch
@SerotoninCrunch 6 жыл бұрын
the flower intro theme sounds suspiciously similar to the intro of the song radar detector
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 6 жыл бұрын
It actually is radar detector. I only slowed it down a tad.
@SerotoninCrunch
@SerotoninCrunch 6 жыл бұрын
ThorHighHeels I now love you even more, Darwin Deez is lit as fuck Thor awesome taste in music!
@sizzxrk
@sizzxrk 5 жыл бұрын
What is the "intro theme" at 6:32? Fucking tune!
@thorhighheels
@thorhighheels 5 жыл бұрын
It's a slowed down version of Radar Detector by Darwin Deez. It's from a snippet of an old mash up thingy I did soundcloud.com/adolfnomura/mash-op
@doddood5516
@doddood5516 4 жыл бұрын
What was the intro theme called?
@justinl8791
@justinl8791 2 жыл бұрын
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