In the modern gaming industry with main stream Role Playing Games (RPGs), the battle between the two sub genres (Western RPGs and Japanese RPGs) have taken over the mass media discussions on which is “better” than the other. Despite this, the nominated RPGs in 2017 of Best Role-Playing Game of the year has shown that split in the society with great games such as Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Persona 5. However, in the past Western RPGs such as Mass Effect (2008) and Dragon Age: Origins (2009) have both won this award, dominating in the market through pandering towards the gaming community with precise implementations and uses that draw towards the market better than Japanese RPGs.
The way video games are nominated for the awards is they are
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This to show how Western RPGs pick up in any slack Japanese RPGs don’t with certain game mechanics that people rely on to have that challenge and immersion in the game.
Despite this, there is the argument about the award shows that are exclusively for either Western or Japanese video games, and whether The Game Awards is valid in being used since Western RPGs are dominating in the community and hence the market. In fact, The Game Awards is a show that uses an international jury and as stated before, uses companies such as Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony Interactive Entertainment, and Activision on the advisory board in the first place. Both Nintendo and Sony Interactive Entertainment are operated in Japan and thus giving both Western RPGs and Japanese RPGs a chance compared to a show that there isn’t a bias towards a side in this controversy.
In the same fashion of immersion, the use of expression through character customization and the experience throughout the game greatly coincides with Western RPGs rather than Japanese RPGs. This is due to the fact that in Japanese RPGs the consumer is told a story rather than being able to be a part of the story, like in Western RPGs. As discussed in an article called “The Rise of Western RPGs” by Stace Harman (2014), in the 1980s to early 1990s, Western RPGs developed a “complex alignments system” to help adapt the player
Every human is selfish. It's part of our sinful nature so we can't escape it. We all have to deal with it in one way or another and some are more prone to it than others. What we often forget is that selfishness often hurts the people who get in the way of our desires. This is something that we see throughout history, individuals have fought and destroyed each other over want of power, pleasure, and wealth, all self centered desires.
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The scarlet letter begins in seventeen-century in Boston. A young woman name Hester Prynne is walked through the town prison with her daughter Pearl in her arms with the scarlet letter”A” on her breast. A man in the prison tells an elderly onlooker that Hester is being punished for adultery. Hester's husband a man that is much older than she is, sent her ahead of him to America , but he never arrived in Boston. The truth is that he has been lost at sea. While she was waiting for her husband, she had an affair when she gave birth to a child. Hester refuses to reveal her lover's identity and she is being punished for her sin and secrecy. She is led to the town scaffold and harangued by the town fathers, but she still refuses to tell who the father of her daughter is.
* Instead of focusing on one particular target segment (18 to 35 year-old male gamers with above average-education and high degree of comfort with new technology) further target segments should also be focused (e.g. women, children, occasional gamers and non-gamers). Some of the further customers require games which are easy to play because they have a low degree of comfort with new technologies. Furthermore some of them don’t want to invest a significant amount of their time to learn and play these games because of their busy lives.
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