/vr/ - Retro Games

I still sorta dig the dumb anime cutscenes in Japanese video games. They're hilarious.
However from the 5th to 6th generation the whole thing became much more prominent, and therefore much less tolerable for people who don't like it. To be honest, I think a lot of people who dislike it now have ALWAYS disliked it, and just can't avoid it anymore -- just as the anime influence has always existed. Before the days of the Massively Long Animated Cutscene, the aesthetic wasn't so obvious. But suddenly JRPGs were interspersed with melodramatic, 20-minute cinematics. As I recall from the 6th gen this was tolerated fine at the time, but the 7th generation brought with it a movement that re-emphasized gameplay, and thus that sort of thing quickly fell out of favor. The golden era for the Japanese video game in mainstream gaming culture is long gone.
Anime also has a bit of a stigma now that it didn't used to. It used to be kind of exotic; not only is it not now, it also doesn't suit the style that defines the current Western industry, the most prominent aspects of which are focused on realism and first person shooters. It's sort of cheesy and perhaps misunderstood thanks to modern anime culture.