Why are JRPG settings usually based on Europe and the characters white people? Other than being derivative of Tolkien and D&D like most fantasy media, is there any reason for why Japanese developers do this again and again instead of drawing on Asian history and mythology?
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Lazyness. Since the setting is so established it's easy to have a committee write a cookie-cutter story for it either subverting or playing striaght the the common tropes of the genre.
>asian history video game lazy route: we'll just make it about samurais
>tolkien/D&D lazy route: we smush all fantasy race in and den give everyone swords
It's really hard to get excited for a "new" fantasy RPG nowadays when it all looks so similar, but maybe based opinion from me too.
Because the Anglo-American hydra has tentacle fricked the world into one homogeneous cultural sludge.
Based
It was okay before 2008-2009. Now it's a little too gay for my liking.
This.
They realise the superiority of European culture.
It's exotic to them, so it's more fantastical. They get endless historical dramas, books, games and plays about their own history so it's rote and boring to them.
>It's exotic to them, so it's more fantastical.
Thread should have ended here.
They don't live in america or uk.
>Why are europeans in a european setting
why is you brain being american?
nah OP got a point, Japs are obsessed with whites they worship them, even in Asian (including Arabic/Persian) themed games they will shove white characters into them either as foreign characters or native japanese characters who looks white, a side effect of the inferiority complex and white worshiping of Japan
>they shove white characters into them
This is honestly absurd, since when is having characters from diverse backgrounds count as being "shoved" into a game? You and OP are honestly ridiculous.
>it's okay when whites are in games with non white setting but having non-whites in european setting games is a genocide of my race!!!
Who are you quoting?
This, japs are ill in the head
You made em ill american
because they are an American colony, the Japanese are brainwashed by American culture this is why they are obsessed with the Euro fantasy shit popularized by American media
>is there any reason for why Japanese developers do this again and again instead of drawing on Asian history and mythology?
But, there ARE more than just a few JRPGs that are inspired by Asian History and mythology though... ESPICALLY MYTHOLOGY...
Noa is a cutie
>It's another stealth /misc/ thread
JRPGs initially took inspiration from Wizardry and Ultima, which were derived from D&D and had high-fantasy settings. After Dragon Quest took off and created the JRPG genre as we know it other developers followed suit by making games with a similar aesthetic. DQ was massively popular and it used a foreign setting so why change what isn't broken was the mindset.
Since then the genre has grown and while DQ and FF remain the most popular franchises there are still a wide variety of RPGs that use other settings. SMT, the Xeno games, Star Ocean, all of them exist outside the traditional D&D format (FF has gone into wildly different settings a lot too, as have the SaGa games). Culture has very little to do with choosing a setting, it's dependent on what the director and the company want to make and feel would work the best.
Although is right and this is a shitty attempt at a /misc/ thread. Everyone talking about culture and race is so aggressively moronic it's funny.
Too much effort for a tiresome thread my man.
I stopped browsing in like 2012 and came back because of the insanity of the US election season, literally every board is brigaded by /misc/tards day in day out and all these morons took everything they read there seriously. It is hilarious. Just complaining about trannies or whatever on every board it's amazing, these dudes were/are jerking it to troony porn
There's no /misc/ in this thread and you made the worst most off topic post ITT so far.
>/pol/tard
>not /misc/gay
100% a leftypol troony behind this.
You're definitely making trenchant deductions and not having a prodromal psychotic episode
>/misc/ boogeyman
Take your meds
There's nu-/misc/ buzzwords all over but nice try.
Why? Those are also mostly stealth /misc/ threads made by bored losers who can't get enough attention on /misc/, Ganker, or Ganker.
don't you have some disco elysium shill posts to make?
There's tons on JRPGs with settings based on Asia
They just (mostly) didn't get localized
Holy shit, that old man in center left.
What game is top left?
Because the RPG genre was born from Dungeon and Dragons and this from previous works like Tolkien's so medieval fantasy in general became the default.
Also the japanese have a very idealistic vision of Europe, (specialy Paris France) and they see europeans as sophisticated and refined. You will see this a lot in anime.
Because that's the one time where the West was cool (i.e. before the USA, Black person worship, jazz, pop, etc.) and also the one time where the world was cosy (beautiful countryside, nice towns, amazing fortresses vs. mass agriculture, shit blocky buildings, underground bases) and adventures felt like it. Fireguns also ruined things.
As to why the West and not Asia? There are plenty of RPGs about Asia. Asia was cool too. Africa and Oceania didn't exist, and America had only a few tads of cool.
>white people
They're not white. Japs see them as asian/jap, you seem them as white.
It has to do with your own cognitive bias.
>Why are JRPG settings usually based on Europe and the characters white people?
You're moronic. Japs love making media about their own country and history, or just asian inspired.
>Warning sign not translated
Do localizers really...? It's pretty clear from the composition of that scene that the warning sign is a major part of the framing and thus is prominent enough that the second (if not first) thing you notice after the mysterious girl is the giant, sign right next to her head
Yeah, and it's obviously true the other way around too: Total War: Shogun, Shadow Warrior, Shadows of Tsushima, etc. The West and Japan have obviously a lot of exotic appeal for each other.
Ghost of Tsushima* obviously
>Other than being derivative of Tolkien and D&D like most fantasy media
You have no idea what the frick you are talking about you mouthbreather.
All I see is someone calling out japs worshiping white people and the mutts and trannies raging at them. What /misc/ brigade you morons
OP doesn't even know what he's talking about and is completely wrong though?
It would be interesting to see some input from Japanese devs on this. Like why they find European-style settings particularly fun. Or whether they're personally familar, on more than a surface level, with Western fantasy or classics like the Arthurian legends. Also: have they ever been to Europe or do they base all of their aesthetics around photos and movies?
Because it fits the idea of "traditional fantasy". Most people that make fantasy media just remix Tolkien or DnD.
>Also: have they ever been to Europe or do they base all of their aesthetics around photos and movies?
I wonder what's american devs' answer to this.
Because European culture is superior.
Threads like these are the worst, some braindead shitposter just writes whatever he "thinks" is controversial and everyone just sees straight through it, and he also can't commit at all too, just a dead thread about a braindead topic.
I guess OP wins, you have no argument
>t. OP
Meanwhile Chinese usually make games based on their own mythology. The same can be said about books. Even deliberate destruction under communism couldn't done the same damage to the culture as plain old capitalism did. Glory to CCP!