/v/ - Video Games

>Why is the West so averse to the idea of crossovers?

Do you really think greedy megacorps like ea and activision feel like sharing their profits? Even now, call of duty black ops 4 is trying to undercut fortnite (which also undercutted pubg to begin with). Do you seriously believe ANY sort of beneficial co-operation can work among these backstabbing shekelgrubbers? I don't.

>>15435019

>Why is the West so averse to the idea of crossovers?

It isn't, not in movies at least. Also, don't quote me on this but I think Kingdom Hearts, while obviously made by nips, involves a few western characters.

>>15435059

Explain how numerous Western IP's showed up in Minecraft as skins. These Western companies could have made a Minecraft clone of their own but they just gave in and allowed their characters to be skins in Minecraft. That's one step closer towards a crossover project on the scale of Project X Zone. All they have to do is to find an independent studio that will make the crossover game which will most likely be a multiplayer shooter or a singleplayer RPG knowing Western tastes.

>>15435068

I meant in regards to Western gaming companies. Instead of remasters and reboots, why not do more crossovers because the latter is a lot more creative and interesting than the former.

>>15435117

What's stopping them from making the Vault Boy, Dragonborn and Assassin Skins then? Marvel/Disney is a bigger Western IP control freak than the other Western companies so it should be easier to get those skins approved and made. My main beef is that they would rather crossover with Western non-vidya than fellow Western vidya IP's.

Copyright laws, absurd licensing fees….(((a certain race of happy merchants)))..you know, the usual reason why crossovers would rarely happen in Western media.

>>15435019

Japan also takes more risks in what they crossover as well. I mean, if you look at something like Chaos Wars for the PS2, that crossed Blazing Souls, Code of the Samurai, Growlanser, Gungrave, Shadow Hearts, and Spectral Souls, and beyond the first and last being owned by IF themselves, it just seems baffling that those would be what they deigned to pick up and try to make a game around.

>>15435019

a good amount of it is how copyright law works in each country:

in Japan you can start such a project and work out the agreements later. You are even legally allowed to sell up to 1000 copies of a product that references an IP you don't have permission to use (to wit, doujinshi and doujin software)

in the west you have to get shit signed in triplicate before you even commit character notes to a design doc or it's C&D time. Actually getting a collab done would require heads of companies, not the actual creative types, to have the idea first

>>15435148

I think if there were to be a big Western crossover game between Activision, EA, Bethesda and Ubisoft, these are the IP's that would show up assuming that "kiddie" IP's are banned just like in Project X Zone:

Bethesda: Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein

Ubisoft: Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, Splinter Cell, Rainbow 6 (characters will be mostly/entirely based on the playable characters from Siege)

EA: Mass Effect and Dragon Age (stand-in avatar character for both Bioware IP's and that character brings along 2-5 notable/fan-favorite party members from each IP)

Activision-Blizzard: CoD (Zombies mode Characters and probably the characters from Modern Warfare), Destiny (generic guardian avatar and whoever Nathan Fillion's character is, main bad guy from Destiny 2 is a boss somewhere in the game), Overwatch, Diablo, Warcraft, Starcraft

>>15435019

western games don't have nearly as many strong or distinctive characters especially now. maybe 10 or 20 years ago you had all the mascot characters but now all the mcs are self inserts with no personality. nublizzard is total cancer but they're one of the companies who even have characters in their games at this point

Because in the west, games are serious business for serious mature gamers. Crossovers are nonsensical fun meant purely for entertainment. How are you going to tell a compelling narrative about a strong lesbian mexican trans-girl that elevates the human condition and spreads the message of tolerance if you have a side mission with Issac from Dead Space making a cameo where you have to team up to take out necromorphs in her walking sim?

Check out some smash clones. Brawlhalla and Rivals of Aether have western guest characters.

PXZ one was good. Godd selection of characters and ecchi. Second one was garbage since first one sold well and they started pandering to westerners and turned it into absolute shit. Some neofag sjws were complaining about boobs jiggle and in PXZ2 they shortened and censored cutscenes as a "feature" ruining them to be "faster". I just hope PXZ3 will add more ecchi and maybe limited song versions like they do with super robot. Don't care about western one. Don't want to see some old faggots fisting eachothers.

>>15435781

That reminds me, they are finally remaking King Kong vs. Godzilla. I have been waiting for them to do that for decades.

>>15435019

"Why the west…"

Answer: because of the leftists (incompetency) and jews (greed) in the western entertainment industry. Kill the leftists and jews, and everything will be better.

>>15435161

The name would be: The Cancer Wars.

>>15435820

And it will be shit. Anything with western influence/funding is shit.

starcraft vs red alert 2 vs stronghold when?

>>15435019

But there's already been a crossover involving Fortnite.

I remember reading about Who Framed Roger Rabbit and how that movie alone pretty much killed crossovers in the movie industry because of how much of a legal clusterfuck it ended up being. Seeing how in bed with Hollywood practically every western publisher is I'd say they have been told repeatedly to not bother.

>>15435019

they break universes, it has to be in a 100% unserious universe which doesn't fare well for ebin cinematic experiences

>>15435819

The second has a hotspring scene with every female character in the game, stop making shit up.