can we agree that japanese AA games are saving the industry? Like Crystar, Octopath Traveler, Nioh, The Legend of Heroes etc

Post the last non japanese AA game you played. Now!

No. Octopath Traveler, in specific, was offensively bad to me. It's like the most bland, generic copy pasted JRPG plot ever. It's like the opposite of a genre deconstruction: it flanderized the genre.

>>715757471
I think it was Darksiders in 2013 or 2014

>>715757639
>he last played a non jap AA game 11 years ago
No wonder you hold this opinion, PLAY MORE GAMES. NOW!
Remnant 2, Wasteland 3 and Divinity Original Sin 2

Can you post a good game

>>715758003
>third person shooter
>co-op
>horror
the west market is flooded with shovelware like this

>>715758319
>rpg
>turn based
>anime
the east market is flooded with shovelware like this.

You see how easy it is to be reductive and dimissive? Actually try playing a game before you criticise it

>>715757471
Expedition 33

>>715758869
What did you think of it?

>>715757471
unironically ultrakill and that's fucking it
and even then it's out of sunk cost to see the ending in 2 decades when hackita finally releases it

>>715759048
It's pretty good. You can tell the devs wanted to make a game they like. It also respects the player, there is no checklist reminding you of all sidequests, the map just shows locations, no GPS arrow telling you where to go, no 2hour long introduction either.
You start the game, know nothing about the world/characters but just by paying attention you get the basic idea.

It's like OP said, with AA you have studios small enough for soul but big enough to execute big ideas

>>715757389 (OP)
Never played any of those. How are literal whats saving the industry?

I definitely did not think Crystar was anything special. I dropped it after a couple of hours.