{"id":8298,"date":"2018-05-07T23:42:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/captainsnoop-its-cool-how-all-of-these\/"},"modified":"2018-12-08T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T01:07:00","slug":"captainsnoop-its-cool-how-all-of-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/captainsnoop-its-cool-how-all-of-these\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/captainsnoop.tumblr.com\/post\/171069418225\/its-cool-how-all-of-these-relatively-niche\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">captainsnoop<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>its cool how all of these relatively niche japanese franchises are enjoying greater success in the west solely because they\u2019re on a machine people own<\/p>\n<p>monster hunter, nier, yakuza, persona, gravity rush, all this stuff you wouldn\u2019t expect to do well is doing well because the PS4 is doing well and the PS4 is a Japanese machine<\/p>\n<p>why<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s almost as if<\/p>\n<p>the general public likes unique, fun, challenging games and are willing to look past a game\u2019s flaws if the game itself is interesting enough<\/p>\n<p>you know, kinda like how it was when the PS2 was the biggest console ever<\/p>\n<p>and when the PS1 was the biggest console ever<\/p>\n<p>and when the SNES and Genesis were the biggest consoles ever<\/p>\n<p>and when the NES was the biggest console ever\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>why it\u2019s almost as if the western game industry\u2019s belief that people that play video games only care about homogenized, unchallenging \u201ccinematic experiences\u201d arose due to the success of the Xbox 360<\/p>\n<p>you know, the system that was initially successful solely because it came out earlier and had a significantly lower price tag than the PS3<\/p>\n<p>and even then, the Xbox 360 got majorly outsold by the Wii, which also delivered loads of kinda janky but fun and interesting games<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s almost as if the western game industry spending millions of dollars making games with zero gameplay but all of the graphics is a complete waste of time, and their decision to do so is based on an isolated fluke<\/p>\n<p>isn\u2019t that interesting that people currently and have always liked to have fun\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>captainsnoop: its cool how all of these relatively niche japanese franchises are enjoying greater success in the west solely because they\u2019re on a machine people own monster hunter, nier, yakuza, persona, gravity rush, all this stuff you wouldn\u2019t expect to do well is doing well because the PS4 is doing well and the PS4 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[2004,2056],"class_list":["post-8298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-teaching-tumblr","tag-tumblr-exodus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-29Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52363,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions\/52363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}