Could Anime Vice Cover Japanese Games?

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#1  Edited By EnduranceFun

I'm a fan of Giant Bomb, but it seems the content from Japan like RPGs or dungeon crawlers aren't covered at all on the main site due to a lack of interest. What with Anime Vice seemingly running out of ideas, how good of an idea is it to let them cover these niche games that Giant Bomb doesn't [want to], along with the other Japanese entertainment? I'm not a massive fan of it myself, but coverage on more obscure Japanese software would be something that could keep me interested in a website for a long time. You could even bung Kessler there what with his quick look history. 

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#2  Edited By Video_Game_King

Probably not. They're an anime place, not a game place. It would be appreciated to have more Japanese coverage here, but the lack of it isn't very pressing.

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#3  Edited By Detrian

Why would the anime website cover for the failings of the videogame website?

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#4  Edited By DoctorWelch

Yeah, thats one thing they could do. They are either going to liquefy the site or revamp it and do things like what you're suggesting. It's sorta hard to have a site dedicated to anime and a site dedicated to comics living together, especially when there are a few amazing anime sites that people wont stop going to because of Anime Vice. They have to try to broaden their range of topics that way its not just a site about filling in the porn/hentia sections of the wiki and talking about fucking cartoons. If they somehow hired like two or three people that lived in Japan who could dedicate the site to all things otaku in Japan, that would be pretty awesome, but it would definitely be a hard thing to manage. If I spoke Japanese (which I plan on learning eventually) I would actually love to do something like that :P

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#5  Edited By TheHT

Well if it's anime-related, why not? I don't think they should cover any and all games from Japan though.

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#6  Edited By tooPrime
@Detrian said:

" Why would the anime website cover for the failings of the videogame website? "

Not covering JRPGs or dungeon crawlers is hardly a failing.  More like a greatest strength.
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#7  Edited By EnduranceFun

Well, just being from Japan obviously is too far. This would go only for games like RPGs or obscure / niche games that would appeal to the anime community, if not being anime games entirely. 

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#8  Edited By Video_Game_King
@tooPrime said:
" @Detrian said:

" Why would the anime website cover for the failings of the videogame website? "

Not covering JRPGs or dungeon crawlers is hardly a failing.  More like a greatest strength. "
That confuses me greatly. Strength for who, and how?
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#9  Edited By Detrian
@Video_Game_King said:
" @tooPrime said:
" @Detrian said:

" Why would the anime website cover for the failings of the videogame website? "

Not covering JRPGs or dungeon crawlers is hardly a failing.  More like a greatest strength. "
That confuses me greatly. Strength for who, and how? "
It's a strength in the addled mind of the stereotypical american gamer who thinks all jrpgs are stupid. This short sighted thinking can't apply to an international videogame website though.
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#10  Edited By Bigheart711
@EnduranceFun: Of course they cover character, concept and franchise pages of some JRPGs on their wiki, but their domain is Anime and Manga. This would appeal to them however.
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#11  Edited By tooPrime
@Detrian said:
" @Video_Game_King said:
" @tooPrime said:
" @Detrian said:

" Why would the anime website cover for the failings of the videogame website? "

Not covering JRPGs or dungeon crawlers is hardly a failing.  More like a greatest strength. "
That confuses me greatly. Strength for who, and how? "
It's a strength in the addled mind of the stereotypical american gamer who thinks all jrpgs are stupid. This short sighted thinking can't apply to an international videogame website though. "
Oh my god, get over yourself.  I was just making a joke. Don't pretend like you set the editorial standards for international video game websites.
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#12  Edited By Video_Game_King
@tooPrime said:
"Don't pretend like you set the editorial standards for international video game websites. "
Isn't that implying that video game journalism has standards :P?
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#13  Edited By tooPrime
@Video_Game_King: lol True.
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#14  Edited By scarace360

Ya i think they should cover japenese games. And by that i mean ero games.

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#15  Edited By SlightConfuse

i would love if someone covered the import scene
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#16  Edited By Rxanadu

Then they could change their name to Japanator and have employees who fantasize about watching moe all the time. 
 
Seriously, that would be a good move for Anime Vice, since they're kinda fading out of existence at the moment.  I wonder where their vids went, like the 1-minute expert movies.  Those were pretty interesting.  
 
Also, does anyone know who works there, because I honestly haven't seen any employee on camera except for the people in the vids where they reviewed manga.

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#17  Edited By insectecutor

God damnit i posted in the wrong thread.

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#18  Edited By FLStyle

No no no no no. Anime Vice is for anime and manga. It's done enough devolving in the last 6 months as it is.

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#19  Edited By phantomzxro

Yeah i feel that anime vice is for anime and manga and whoever runs that site i don't peg them as a gamer. Now if they had to hire someone for that then they should just be added to the bombcrew and just cover the stuff jeff ryan and brad does not want to.