Forum - View topicAnime in general ruined my desire to game. (18+)
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Hamyuts Meseta
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Anime/Manga/Doujins/ExtremeHentai, all of it pushed me to the point of realizing just how boring video games are. Devs have limited imaginations based on what's cool in social media. All we get are a bunch of vomit inducing first person games. A bunch of boring generic Jrpgs. Bland fighting games with primitive cheating A.I.
Crazy as this sounds my mind feels evolved superior to video game lovers. My imagination is so massive thanks to crazy Japan that now video games are dead boring. In the world of Anime you can be a brave Futa existing beyond space and time who must violate females absorbing their Quro energy in order to exist as a god. You see what exist in all Vagina is dark-space thus it releases Quro energy when orgasm. |
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DuskyPredator
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Here I thought you were about to troll with another anti-anime topic, but I actually have to agree with this. Previously I used to buy heaps of games, I have like 90 or so, but I recently really slowed down because I was so bored with the stories in games in comparison to what I was seeing in games. Well there are some exceptions like from the biggest RPGs which had a lot of work put into it.
Actually I might mention that I recently finally got into Dead Space games without being totally scared, but I ended up seeing twists a mile away. Thankfully the game kept me guessing with gameplay. I also had a problem where I was really sick of the aesthetics of games and was hoping to find games that looked very anime like, unfortunately I could not really find anything that was what. Well actually I did find a DS RPG, but it was aged enough that it was not enough to keep me interested with gameplay and story despite the nice pictures. I have been increasingly fond of some Pokémon game decisions where characters can look interesting, have some personality, and really pleasing anime styled designs. And yes there are a few characters in that series I like to look up a particular type of fan art of. I did like the look of the recent Mystery Dungeon game, but so far the story was fairly sub-par compared to the personality I liked from the previous version, but still enough to keep me interested. |
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lesterf1020
 Subscriber Posts: 295 Location: Trinidad and Tobago |
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Anime and manga have not done anything to diminish my love of games. You see I never expected to satisfy my story telling itch from a game. A game's primary function to me is to supply compelling gameplay, a great story is nice but optional. I have played a wide variety of games and IMO games are better off focusing on making the core gameplay interesting and varied than telling amazing stories. I have several unfinshed games that had one hell of a story but the gameplay was too uninteresting and frustrating for me to continue.
I have games that have so much story that the game is essentially an interactive movie, which is good for one or two playthroughs at most. I have other games which have next to no story that I played for months on end because the core gameplay is so much fun. Many of the games I have played have been quite an interesting intellectual or creative challenge. I admire those who were able to win, so I cannot say I feel superior to anyone in that respect. I like my games to be pretty, to have complexity, to facilitate a wide array of strategies, to have it's own unique character and I like my games on the hard side so that I feel like I have achieved something when I win, strong storytelling is very optional. Pulling off a daring, risky strategy against impossible odds is a lot more satisfying to me than an amazing in game story. As a PC gamer, thanks to digital distribution, I have what seems like a never ending supply of original and creative games now that the people who make games can sell to me directly or indirectly via services like steam. So sorry I can't agree with the sentiment. |
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marie-antoinette
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I love storytelling of all kinds and so I've been getting more into games lately, rather than the opposite. There's just so many great games out there that tell engaging and compelling stories. If you think all there is is first person crap then you really aren't looking very hard.
Of course, given how troll-like the OP has seemed in the past, this doesn't surprise me much. |
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TitanXL
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I mainly play JRPGS because of anime. They offer the closest experience in terms of story and characters as you'd find in an anime. Even the fan communities are very similar, with lots of doujinshi and fanart for JRPG games like Tales and Final Fantasy and Persona that you don't find in other types of games. I'd say those games and anime compliment each other just great, especially since they can get anime adaptions or game adaptions.
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Wow. I think you've been watching too much Anime. |
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Miranox
 Posts: 247 Location: Montreal, Canada |
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More like too much hentai. In a way, it's the same effect movies have had on books and printed media. Young people rarely bother reading books now that we have much richer forms of entertainment. I don't consider this a loss, I consider it progress.
It all depends on what your experience with video games has been. Personally I've never felt interested in a game because of the story or characters. It's the gameplay that makes the game what it is. This is why the only single-player RPG I've ever liked is Skyrim. I gave Mass Effect a shot and it bored me out of my mind. Every other game I have is either RTS or has some kind of online multiplayer action. |
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Haterater
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With the way you said this, maybe you should look into hentai games and others games that fall into that genre type. They are out there(mainly Japanese only, I imagine) and I'm sure they have those types of storylines you describe. As for the topic, I've been doing the opposite. Seeing many genres and other things I'm more interested lately than anime. |
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EricJ
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While the anime-lover in me was naturally attracted the character/story-heavy anime-styled games like Valkyria Chronicles, Persona 3 + 4 (found the high-school sim more interesting than the dungeon-crawling), and the last glory days of Final Fantasy X + X2 on PS2. (Before XII and XIII 1+2 came along and was so danged elaborately designed on Pentagon supercomputers, it had to play itself because I sure couldn't.  )
From your complaints, however, I'm guessing you're not on a PS3. I've never played Halo: Hero's Duty, because Microsoft Is Evil and X-Boxes Die Young, but there is much to be found in the uniquely Japanese synthesis of game with overwritten plot. Someday, we might even see SquareEnix deliver us a Kingdom Hearts III for the hi-def consoles instead of the crappy handhelds, but for now, I can play KH2 and dream. |
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Jose Cruz
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Maybe. Books still have several advantages over movies, manga and series. Such as that you can use your imagination more and comparing books and manga with movies and series, is that you can control the speed in which the story unfolds, I find that movies and series sometimes have problems of pacing.
I loved the story of Mass Effect, truly one of the best fictional stories ever told in a interactive format. They even made several novels and an anime film about it. |
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Jose Cruz
Posts: 1796 Location: South America |
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Overall I can even argue that videogames are the most advanced form of art in existence since they incorporate all other existing artforms and are interactive.
Anime (animation in general, actually) can be regarded as the second most advanced artform, since it incorporates painting, literature and music. Films and live action TV are the third most advanced artform, since they incorporate photography, literature and music, however, since photography is a more limited form of art than painting, film makers have less artistic freedom than anime directors (just compare the huge amount of stuff and the level of visual richness that Miyazaki puts in Nausicaa and Castle in the Sky with the very limited range of stuff and visual diversity that Miller could put into a movie such as The Road Warrior, that made on a similar budget than these two anime masterpieces). Manga is the fourth most advanced artform since it incorporates both painting and literature, but lacks music (and motion). Painting, photography, literature and music can be regarded as basic art forms. While movies, anime and games can be regarded as derived art forms that use modern technology to combine these archaic art forms. Manga doesn't need to use modern technology, only combines already existing art forms on paper. And finally, I might say that I stopped playing videogames after I finished college and began graduate school. I don't know why, maybe lack of time. Videogames are the most efficient way to kill time: you can watch a movie in 2 hours, a 26 episode anime series in 12 hours but a videogame can last 100 hours. Since I haven't got much time left, I am watching more movies and anime instead. Madoka, for instance, in only 5 hours of run time, delivers one of the strongest emotional reactions possible from a fictional narrative compressed into such small time interval. |
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LordByron227
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I would disagree. There are so many things about gaming that watching anime cannot "give" me.
For one, when I play a game, especially one like Starcraft 2, there is an adrenaline rush unique to crushing your enemies in a macro game or if you prefer to all in, you'd be full of gleeful laughter seeing you Mass Reapers slaughter their base. The immersion and interactivity provided by games are also unique. So all things being equal, I would say that the game medium is superior. Not to mention, at least for me, gaming is the more "social" of the two hobbies. I play w. my close friends and acquaintances from other states. |
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Rhyono
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Anime hasn't killed my desire to game, but I have become more selective. However, it has made me wish for games that don't/can't exist.
Regardless of your view on the SAO anime: the concept of a game like that is something I've always loved and would definitely want to play. HxH would be fun to play in so many ways. There's a list of things that anime has that could be standalone games. I enjoyed Skyrim and Borderlands 2 (for very different reasons) and I am looking forward to The Elder Scrolls Online. I played through Mass Effect 3, but I'm not in the boat with those that loved it. I haven't finished Crysis 3 yet, because it is basically the same game 2 was, just slightly different. Overall I just like it because of the visuals and would prefer it as an interactive/panning video screensaver over a game. |
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Hagaren Viper
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Also keep in mind that many live action movies use a lot of 3D animation nowadays, which could technically rank them up there with animated films by this criteria. Say what you will about Avatar, but it had the budget to make things look pretty nice. Though it seems like this ranking system is like apples and oranges anyway. I'm a little confused at OP since it's insanely easy to find generic anime as it is to find generic games. My like for games an anime never affect each other unless one has a spinoff of the other. |
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