04-19-2014, 02:44 PM
I would say both only because my taste has been leaning slowly in Western direction. It started with JRPGs with Final Fantasy games and later games like Chrono Trigger or Legend of the Dragoon. I even got into Xenosaga and Star Ocean too.
But lately it has been games like Skyrim and the Elder Scrolls games, Borderlands (a FPS RPG sure but a RPG all the same). Right now I'm playing Mass Effect again too. I think games like that tend to fluctuate off and on, one moment JRPGs are the greatest thing and the next they are more geared Japanese culture and hard for a Western audience to get behind beyond a few really die-hard fans of the genre.
Then again you also have Western games like Dark Souls which are only really good for the first few months before their audience abandons it cause they already beat it multiple times and no need to do it again. Newer audiences don't get to experience it the same way cause the online capabilities of the game are no longer maintained so it is empty.
So I take it on a case by case basis and try not to think too much in absolutes.
But lately it has been games like Skyrim and the Elder Scrolls games, Borderlands (a FPS RPG sure but a RPG all the same). Right now I'm playing Mass Effect again too. I think games like that tend to fluctuate off and on, one moment JRPGs are the greatest thing and the next they are more geared Japanese culture and hard for a Western audience to get behind beyond a few really die-hard fans of the genre.
Then again you also have Western games like Dark Souls which are only really good for the first few months before their audience abandons it cause they already beat it multiple times and no need to do it again. Newer audiences don't get to experience it the same way cause the online capabilities of the game are no longer maintained so it is empty.
So I take it on a case by case basis and try not to think too much in absolutes.