Random Gaming Talk Thread

[Fifstar]

Portal 2 is surprisingly buggy for a Valve title. Never exits for me properly, had to edit something to get rid of mouse lag and now it crashed on the final boss 

[Trent Dole]

http://www.tssznews.com/2013/09/19/source-pso2-fully-localized-but-unlikely-for-the-west/ lol

[The Sceneman]

[ferrarimanf355]

http://www.tssznews.com/2013/09/19/source-pso2-fully-localized-but-unlikely-for-the-west/ lol

Why am I not surprised? Sega spends the money to localize something, then doesn't release it? Flushing $100 bills down the toilet would be a better use of that money.

[Rahxephon91]

Your new Atlus overlords everybody.

But seriously, why wouldn't it be profitable in the west? By all accounts it's pretty good and it's not like F2P MMO's haven't been successful. And it's not like there is'nt a crowd here who'd spend money on it's pay stuff.

[Great Rumbler]

F2P MMOs are massively successful in America. No small number of failed pay-to-play MMOs have ditched that model and gone F2P, only to see profits shoot through the roof. It doesn't make any sense, but this is Sega we're talking about.

[Purple Filth]

http://www.tssznews.com/2013/09/19/source-pso2-fully-localized-but-unlikely-for-the-west/ lol

that's what you got Altus now for you fucking distinguished mentally-challenged fellows 

if Sega fucks this up then my god...

[Trent Dole]

I think Sega's very mistaken if they believe that servers would cost more to keep up for the US/EU than they'd bring in for PSO2. Of course it's also possible that they figure they'd get a better ROI via other ventures and are focusing on those instead. Still a bummer, but at this point people have figured out how to hack in item names displayed in English instead of them JP runes in addition to patching more than enough of the text to get by. Thing that sucks is in order to give them any money for premium and such you have to fake a JP address and jump through some hoops to get webmoney, and even with that if native players feel like reporting you you cant still get banned for the crime of wanting to play something that Sega can't be arsed to release in your region.

[Positive Touch]

guys i hate to break it to you but no one gives a shit about pso in the us

NO ONE

[Trent Dole]

Yeah, I know. Still sucks an awful lot.

guys i hate to break it to you but no one gives a shit about pso in the us

NO ONE

Tell that to the nearly 50% gaijin populace of ship 2.

[Rahxephon91]

Don't think you need to care about PSO to want to try PSO2 if it's easy to get to.

I sure don't care about Phantasy Star.  You put PS02 on Steam, fuck I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd play it. Tons of people were playing the pos Ragnorok 2.

[chronovore]

Clever.

[Raban]

how much money would you spend on it?

I'd put in at least $30. Customize my pad get dat inventory upgrade. A lot of the friends I LAN with are big fans of PSO on the Gamecube and they know about PSO2 and want in. I played some of the Japanese beta but I stopped because I was sure it'd come to the US

I don't think it'd be hard for Sega to make this profitable in the west, but game publishing is a gamble and Sega is at least smart enough to get the picture after losing their stake more than a dozen times.

[demi]

Some random shit on sale at Amazon

Soul Hackers 3DS $25 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00APBF8A6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00APBF8A6&linkCode=as2&tag=thbo09f-20

Sonic Racing Transformed $20 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008OQTRYW/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008OQTRYW&linkCode=as2&tag=thbo09f-20

Etrian Odyssey 4 $20 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009LEIUY4/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B009LEIUY4&linkCode=as2&tag=thbo09f-20

[The Sceneman]

after like 2 frickin years, I've finally started work on Party Quest 2. Just nutting out the scenario and mechanics currently, will post my design pitch and bullshots soon!

[The Sceneman]

Yeah, and it ain't gonna be coming out anytime soon either. If I start work now, I imagine the dev cycle to take around 2 years.

I basically have most of the game on paper, but I still have a LOT of concept art to do, and I still need to figure out what framework to build the game in. iOS is the target platform.

[magus]

apparently there are no new character in the new smash bros other than megaman

[Huff]

And the wii fit lady or whatev

[Mr. Gundam]

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=687259

Another day, another bitchfest about Ryu ga Gotoku not coming over and the armchair CEOs whining incessently about how cheap and easy it would be if only they were just subtitle it.

Oscar, is there any potential ROI on a localization of RGG5 or (as I figure) has the series sold so poorly here that it's just a really stupid business move?

[Joe Molotov]

who even cares, it's smash brothers

you play this, you deserve what you get

You're right, I deserve this.

[Bebpo]

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=687259

Another day, another bitchfest about Ryu ga Gotoku not coming over and the armchair CEOs whining incessently about how cheap and easy it would be if only they were just subtitle it.

Oscar, is there any potential ROI on a localization of RGG5 or (as I figure) has the series sold so poorly here that it's just a really stupid business move?

Uh, I thought the Yakuza/RGG games are subtitled after the first one?

[The Sceneman]

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=687259

Another day, another bitchfest about Ryu ga Gotoku not coming over and the armchair CEOs whining incessently about how cheap and easy it would be if only they were just subtitle it.

Oscar, is there any potential ROI on a localization of RGG5 or (as I figure) has the series sold so poorly here that it's just a really stupid business move?

Uh, I thought the Yakuza/RGG games are subtitled after the first one?

yeah, but the armchair CEOs at GAF have never actually had a real job nor have any understanding of organisational structure, and obviously cant figure out that there are many other factors and costs to localizing a title (UI, design, translation, publishing admin)

[Mr. Gundam]

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=687259

Another day, another bitchfest about Ryu ga Gotoku not coming over and the armchair CEOs whining incessently about how cheap and easy it would be if only they were just subtitle it.

Oscar, is there any potential ROI on a localization of RGG5 or (as I figure) has the series sold so poorly here that it's just a really stupid business move?

60k, 20k, 40k, 25k, 8k

Pretty sure I'd be making the same choice in SoA's position.  They have very limited localization resources.  Someone like XSEED or maybe Atlus might be able to squeak a profit on it, but hard to say.  They're very extensive projects, and 5 in particular is huge and full of stuff that would require significant work.  Plus, unlike the average weeaboo JRPG, Yakuza would require a lot of other licenses and permissions.

That's what I say pretty much every time, but clearly I'm a big old meanie who doesn't know anything.

[Mr. Gundam]

Anyone who says it's easy and SEGA should just do it should be told to learn Japanese, it's easy, just do it.

My response whenever they whine about never being able to play the games is "There is nothing preventing you from playing these games. They're on a region-free console."

[Bebpo]

Is there any way they can rebrand the series in the west and market it into the next Watchdogs kind of "new hot IP, check it out!" thing?  I'm guessing the big sequel numbers after the title turn off a lot of mainstream gamers since they don't want to jump into a series midway that they are unfamiliar with.

[Joe Molotov]

Is there any way they can rebrand the series in the west and market it into the next Watchdogs kind of "new hot IP, check it out!" thing?  I'm guessing the big sequel numbers after the title turn off a lot of mainstream gamers since they don't want to jump into a series midway that they are unfamiliar with.

Marlow Briggs and the Yakuza's Gold

[Rahxephon91]

Anyone who says it's easy and SEGA should just do it should be told to learn Japanese, it's easy, just do it.

Is it actually easy? How hard is it really to do on the side among other things? Where do you start?

[Rahxephon91]

I got you're joke, I just wanted to know more about it. Obviously it's very shallow to want to learn to play video games, but here we are. It's useless to complain about these games when there's something you can do about it.

[magus]

and my favourite one!

[magus]

gust announce a new ar tonelico game

http://fuckyeahgust.tumblr.com/post/62520359085/courtesy-utsuho-lazy-from-the-a-reyvateils

ar tonelico 3 sucked big time,i hope they will do better with this one... the fact that they have done a whole reveal without a single face is something at least

[Himu]

What Oscar says is right. Been learning five months. I've slowed down because I don't have as much time to practice but I still do ten vocab words/sentences and phrases a day plus at least one kanji. I'm probably pre-k level now but the reason I started learning - Ore No Ryouri is fully playable now.

IMO if you are a Japanese game fan you need to learn the language from here on out. Fat days are over. Get to moving. Gonna import Ishin when I get a ps4 in a year. Hoping I'll be at middle school level. Almost done learning 1000 vocab/sentences. So I'm probably above prek but I know so little kanji. Need to step that up to 5-10 a day.

[Takao]

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=687259

Another day, another bitchfest about Ryu ga Gotoku not coming over and the armchair CEOs whining incessently about how cheap and easy it would be if only they were just subtitle it.

Oscar, is there any potential ROI on a localization of RGG5 or (as I figure) has the series sold so poorly here that it's just a really stupid business move?

60k, 20k, 40k, 25k, 8k

Pretty sure I'd be making the same choice in SoA's position.  They have very limited localization resources.  Someone like XSEED or maybe Atlus might be able to squeak a profit on it, but hard to say.  They're very extensive projects, and 5 in particular is huge and full of stuff that would require significant work.  Plus, unlike the average weeaboo JRPG, Yakuza would require a lot of other licenses and permissions.

dead souls was an apt title jeeze

[ferrarimanf355]

There's a Nintendo Direct coming tomorrow morning. Set expectations to "low"...

[mjemirzian]

It's going to be 30 minutes of Kamiya telling us to eat shit for not buying W101.

[Joe Molotov]

It's Nintendo's fault for only moneyhatting Famitsu enough to get a 39/40.

[ferrarimanf355]

It's going to be 30 minutes of Kamiya telling us to eat shit for not buying W101.

Are we supposed to die afterwards?

[magus]

they'll probably show the final evo of pokemon x & y starter since they are barely 2 week away

[Rufus]

I have my PC back.

Yes, it was the PSU. And of course it had just about run out of warranty.

[magus]

still not out

on another note apparently pokemon x & y has leaked so pic of the final starter have been going out




the ninja frog looks really cool,it's the fox that looks super dumb

[Himu]

Always roll green.

[iconoclast]

The final evolution of the fire and grass starters are absolutely horrific. The ninja frog is the only acceptable choice.

[magus]

The final evolution of the fire and grass starters are absolutely horrific. The ninja frog is the only acceptable choice.

where did you see the final grass starter? *search around...*

[Himu]

Blue it is.

[Joe Molotov]

The correct answer is always blue.

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[archie4208]

Maybe there's hope for more weeaboo games on PC. 

[fistfulofmetal]

AUDIOSURF 2

[Great Rumbler]

Already got my copy of Agarest.

[D3RANG3D]

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Maybe there's hope for more weeaboo games on PC. 

This is a double edged sword this could mean more weeaboo games, but this could also mean no one will buy them because everybody says this game is shite, so people are going to be like yeah not falling for that again...

Already got my copy of Agarest.

I got mine like a week before you

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and that is nothing to be smug about.

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[demi]

Agarest really isnt the best barometer for JRPG on PC..... wait for TITS then start thumping your chest.

[mjemirzian]

Agarest War is one of the worst SRPGs I've ever played.

[D3RANG3D]

 

[MCD]

A bit old but heads up anyway:

FF7 just got an update on Steam. It now uses the Playstation soundtrack instead of that horrible thing it had originally. One-Winged Angel sings again! Unmodded, even.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=83789181&postcount=979

[Joe Molotov]

A bit old but heads up anyway:

FF7 just got an update on Steam. It now uses the Playstation soundtrack instead of that horrible thing it had originally. One-Winged Angel sings again! Unmodded, even.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=83789181&postcount=979

It's also on sale for $6 atm. JRPGs on Steam

(But you still have to sign up for a shitty Squeenix account. )

[The Sceneman]

[Rufus]

USgamer.net needs to add some very basic information to their reviews, like what system the game in question is on.

[magus]

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/10/04/square-enix-president-must-reform-urgency/

what forumite thinks

"no more smartphone game,revival of final fantasy,chrono trigger sequel and candies"

what matsuda think

"final fantasy xv will be the last square-enix console game,more smartphone game than you can complain about"

what will happen

nothing as they've done the same dance around 3 month's ago

[ferrarimanf355]

USgamer.net needs to add some very basic information to their reviews, like what system the game in question is on.

Maybe they think their readers are distinguished mentally-challenged?

[The Sceneman]

an NZ energy drink company is doing a daily Xbone bundle giveaway starting next week. yeahhhhh I'm gonna be drinking a lot of V 

[archie4208]

Bioshock Infinite has amazing art design.

The game itself kinda sucks, but it's so pretty.