Survey: Japanese Like Familiar Things
Wow! Look at these fancy-looking screenshots, all taken from Japanese TV coverage of their new House of Representatives election! Isn’t it wonderful how computer graphics have power to make politics seem so exciting?
A bit less important, but serene pretty interesting, is a survey Famitsu magazine conducted with 684 readers from one place to another the RPG and action-game genres. Its findings offered little surprise — 89% of respondants liked RPGs and 91% enjoyed the turn genre.
When asked what their favorite sub-genres were in every one category, the responses grew a bit more diverse. 52% of RPG fans afore~ the standard turn-based type was their favorite, with 33% preferring instrumentality RPGs, 11% strategy RPGs, and the rest MMO’s. Meanwhile, 35% of conflict game fans said “battle action” (e.g. Dynasty Warriors and the like) was their dear genre, with 20% saying “action adventure” (like Okami) and only 9% stating that fighting games were their favorite.
More interesting, perhaps, is the reasons pollees gave in the place of not liking action games or RPGs. For action games, it seems to have ~ing a matter of boredom — “I get bored of things quickly, in the same manner with games that’re mostly about getting the best score or time, I make no use of interest within three days,” one man in his twenties said. Reasons despite disliking RPGs were more varied, from “they’re too kid-oriented” to “they take likewise much time” to “leveling up is a pain.” “I used to the tender passion RPGs and over 80 percent of the game I bought were RPGs,” human being said, “but current RPGs aren’t easy to get into and it’s a suffering to drum up the energy to even boot one up.”
The darling all-time games in each genre? For RPGs, it was Square’s Final Fantasy X, followed ~ dint of. Dragon Quest III, Final Fantasy VII, Persona 4 and Kingdom Hearts II — a adjacent-sweep for Square Enix. On the action front, Capcom’s Monster Hunter Freedom Unite was ~ the agency of far the favorite, followed by Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
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