The organizers of Japan’s Tokyo Game Dungeon have been going to great lengths to spread awareness about what they call “sekkyo ojisan.”
The 2024 edition goes: “Preachy dudes, the ones who nag at developers without even having played their demos, are the No 1. most hated demographic at game events. If we were in America, you would get shot in the head and told to go make your own game.”
Holy shit is this what the Japanese think of Americans? I thought we were more like this:
I think the context of the speaker matters. If this were Tokyo Game Show, you’d probably see a very pacific, sanitized statement that tries not to ruffle any feathers in addressing this issue. Considering this is an indie scene, I imagine the opinions are unvarnished, maybe even crass. It could also be dark comedy. “Taking the piss out of America” is rightfully in vogue nowadays.
It’s not like the Japanese are united in their hatred or xenophobia. Not everyone from one culture has a uniform opinion on others.
Wait until they find out it’s rooted into their gerontocracy.
They don’t want advices? Yeah, who cares what those pesky customers think? What could they possibly know about games? They obviously are not gamedesigners. They are too dumb to appreciate our genius, our precious QTEs, lootboxes, huge empty open-world “worlds”, deep ersatz-philosophical dialogs or a huge variety of fetch-quests! Let alone our eye-bleeding special-effects glimmering palette of red, pink and gold!
our precious QTEs, lootboxes, huge empty open-world “worlds”, deep ersatz-philosophical dialogs or a huge variety of fetch-quests! Let alone our eye-bleeding special-effects glimmering palette of red, pink and gold!
Tokyo Game Dungeon is for indie games, not a big industry event where marketing people are advertising the latest AAA live service trash stuffed to the brim with exploitative monetization and all the other things you are describing.
oh look, an unsolicited advice dude! who didn’t even read the fucking post, how typical.
“remake your whole fucking game because i don’t like it” is, in fact, unsolicited advice actually!
You’ve clearly never seen player’s proposed fixes to games before.
They’re very good at finding the best way to remove all the fun from it.
