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Anime MMOs: Why Aren't There More?
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This is an odd article since most game advertised here have a very Asian are style. For me, this art style is almost always a deal breaker.
For example, as cheesy and cliché as it sounds, your telling me a settings like Sword Art Online, wouldn't make a good setting for an MMO, I mean it is a MMO. They just need to not try to make every player the MC. Maybe have them chilling in background as pointless NPCs, but everyone gets to customize their own toon and just roll. If you were in that Aincrad settings, you've got alot to work with, 100 floors behind raid bosses, outdoor dungeons, traps, etc. Its cliché, but just an example, I mean its an anime about an MMO, so kinda custom tailored that it would make a good setting for an MMO.
~I am Many~
One Piece (Marines vs Pirates)
Naruto (Multi-faction conflict via Great Ninja Wars)
Bleach (Different Captains teams as factions maybe. Not sure if playing Hollows would make sense or not)
Newer ones:
My Hero Academia (villains vs heroes)
Black Clover (Different Kingdoms and Knight Squads)
Throwback:
Robotech/Macross because GIANT ROBOTS!
Gundam because GIANT ROBOTS and politics!
These are just off the top of my head, but there are a lot of anime, with great stories, that could make for interesting worlds to play in. That said, I left Dragon Ball out because every bad guy seems to become a good guy eventually. So, factions/etc would all come down to when the game would take place in relation to the series.
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Do something wrong, no one forgets"
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If you go by the purist definition of "anime is Japanese," you're excluding a lot of content that very obviously is anime (like Avatar: the Last Airbender and Arcane).
If you define anime as an artstyle rather than a regional animation, your definition is still tenuous because anime is not one art style - it's literally thousands of artstyles used to express every genre of content. FMA is not Code Geass is not Monster is not Cowboy Bebop is not Spy x Family is not Death Note and I could continue that list all year. It's why when people say anime art is "bad" or "off-putting," I automatically know they don't know what the fuck they're talking about. Because anime is many things, and at least some of those things WOULD appeal to any one person.
It's not like Western cartoons that are usually made for children, with the cheapest animation budgets imaginable (with characters often intentionally made as ugly as possible).
Each of these have a multitude of styles and fantastic stories that are completely lost on these clueless who must come on a thread and display their ignorance with pride and insult this fabulous medium.
There is such a lot of rich stories that have been brought to many games be they turn based or action based and strategy just to name a few.
Perhaps the anime makers are wise not to bring it across seeing the type of stereotypical responses that this thread has elicited.
But... then we have mmos where a female warrior gets by with what amounts to a steel bathing suit, and cosmetics play up all kinds of weird fantasy tropes, so I can't really say it's that much better.
The highest rated anime of all time is Fullmetal Alchemist, which does NOT engage in that. The most popular anime right now is Spy x Family, a charming family comedy version of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Which, again, is not that.
But you have to atleast admit that MANY MANY ANIMES have those Gigantic Breasts , Less Cloth and Panties shown here and there its a big part of Animes not everyone but there are many especial under the biggest and most know animes even if its not advertised with that thats just the gaming industrie which makes it look like its the only part about anime but still the part is big.
I for my part dont give a fuck what the anime haters say i enjoy them if they dont like them its their thing if they think every anime is the same let them.
You dont have to show ppl that anime can be something else just let them miss out on some very interesting and hearthwarming storys
there is a saying in Germany "Was der Bauer nicht kennt das frisst er nicht" roughly translates to "what the Farmer doesnt know hes not eating" they have their opinion on something so they will not try it.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
Amine people get really mad if you clump all Asian art forms that are similar to Anime together. Whatever subtle differences there may be is lost on people that aren't into it enough to see the differences.
All I can say for sure is there seems to be a lot of MMOs with a heavily influenced Asian art style that all looks pretty much the same to me. Ridiculous and overly elaborate armor and weapons, horrible styling that makes everyone look like the just left some pride parade (I have no issues with LGBTQ+ people) and really bad overly sexualized costumes in the cash store in case you want to look like a slutty French maid wielding a nine foot long sword.
I can't stand any of it and will flat out not play what could be a very good game because of it.