@Ralizah
For my case, i really depend on used games from Tokopedia or Ebay since there are a lot of old games that i have never played before or i start to play the old games very late.
@Ralizah
I have no choice.
I felt granted to able playing Ratchet & Clank Trilogy PS3 in used condition (Very Good), bought from Tokopedia just only Rp 250,000 or US$ 20 as if you find that game on Ebay, it tagged with very expensive prices for the rarity.
I still support the game companies by purchasing their Brand New games, but nothing wrong by purchasing used games as i can find them from Tokopedia.
Sometimes i still thinking twice to purchase a Brand new games with price tag more than $30.
An used games with price Rp 100,000 or under US$ 10 are completely temptating choices for me. I will get them ASAP.
Btw, Tokopedia is kinda like Ebay in Indonesia.
@JaxonH Region hopping is my reason for number 2. I buy my games in Japanese and second systems when I can, but some stuff I missed out on like the ps2.
For example, I own almost all the Taiko no Tatsujin games but for the PS2 versions I have to play rips since I don’t own a JPN PS2. (Or the SNES... saving up to buy the sailormoon and goemon games. I hate making some ebay seller a profit (as their margins are way worse than a company’s but we only focus on organizations due to envy)) but I would like to own those games. So glad region locking is done.
@theJGG I think fire emblem’s narrative framing is both its strength and weakness. Like a lot of games you play someone with a limited world view that is thrust into the center of a conflict so it makes sense that you kinda stumble upon details rather than get a ton of story exposition. I also think it is done to keep the player neutral for as long as possible (which is great for 3H) but since the modern stories hinge around my unit and that is usually set up for the “twist” sometimes the narrative tries too hard to bend the story to making making the my unit the chosen one without saying you are playing the chosen one.
Like Byleth makes way more sense after at least one play through (same with corrin/kamui and robin) but they try a little too hard to hang narrative underpinnings on the my unit which is still at the end of the day... the player thrust in the middle of this pre built world. Granted many games do this. JRPGs are far less concerned with the "why" so much as the "this is what you need to do to fix it". I felt 3H did the best at giving you time to learn the world organically (after all in real life a soldier doesn’t know all the reasons she is fighting, just her personal motivations and what she is told.) buuuuuut I actually wish it had spent more time exploring the past primarily because you have characters that are actively shaping fodlan and are long lived.
Before, that didn’t usually matter as the Tiki/Naga types were sleep/sealed and in someways knew less than the player did but that isn’t the case with 3H. My only real issue with the way FE is normally framed is it makes me feel like there is a golden route (which they nixed in 3H) so sometimes I end up playing to what I think is the script than how I would play normally.
That is one place modern western games shine. They either put you on rails (think main quest in elder scrolls games or bioware games as you can be good or bad but you will still save the world in the end) or they kinda let you get to the same general ending with flavor from how you play. Jrpgs actually give you a forest that you can get through but there is an obvious road. You can still wander the forest, but don't get mad if a bear eats you. In that way I feel western rpgs are more restrictive but because they allow for that illusion of choice you don’t feel like they are.
I had really hoped the DLC would delve more into the past. Granted the monastery tells a lot of story in its very design. Some of that narrative dearth in some areas and over focus in others is because sometimes IS hires outsiders to write the story. So they don’t really think about that exposition because they have to build and dump a whole world on you in one game. Western games don’t do that as much as sequels, licenses (to use a certain world players may be familiar with like Star Wars games. For me I’m always confused but to a sw fan that is just another layer on the cake) and open world design allows the player to see the world and meet its people. FE games are war games so you have very little chance to do that.
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Ahhh, my first real post of 2021... let's start on a high! @Ryu_Niiyama Thank you for your insight, that was extremely fun to read! I'll try to address each point:
When it comes to not diluting the player's perception of the three territories, Three Houses gives you small bits of info that have next to zero consequence in that regard. Reading about the War of the Eagle and Lion for example wouldn't have that much of an impact to make you think "I hate the Faerghus Kingdom for rebelling!" So in that was limited scope is good. But when you add in nations not even on Fódlan's map, like Almyra, it gets a bit silly.
Interesting, because despite the 1180 imperial years of Fódlan's history, we as the player have only been given fleeting amounts of information about the past. Adding in a "history lesson" wouldn't be the hardest thing to implement; Byleth could just say to either Manuela, Hanneman or Seteth that he/she doesn't know about Fódlan's history, and then they could say that they would teach Byleth, to "set the record straight" or something. Or you could have done it like in Persona 4 Golden where you can access the main lore points from the main menu in the form of a lesson. And as for the supposed golden route, I'm glad their isn't one, and I'm a bit sad at the same time. Unfortunately if there was a golden route it would have made very single non-"canon" route invalid, because that's not the ending the developers wanted you to get. Because there are many morally grey characters it doesn't make your choices wrong by any means. Though backstabbing the church has a lot of irony to it.
I haven't played any Western RPGs yet. The closest thing to a WRPG I've played is Horizon Zero Dawn, and that was much closer to an action-adventure than a roleplaying level based grind fest. And based on what I've heard I doubt that they would provide the same kind of creativity and flare that JRPGs have on tap. I'll of course try and buy one eventually but there's a certain charm to Japanese games that I think the West will almost never replicate.
DLC from Nintendo games has been flat tyre after flat tyre, believe me. Breath of the Wild's DLC was extremely fun and added some neat stuff but story-wise there was absolutely nothing. There were no interesting plot details or anything that could have been fleshed out. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity tried to do this but they made it an alternate history and kinda played it safe. Three Houses' DLC was alright but at the end of the day it didn't really add anything new aside from the absolute chad that is Yuri, Balthus and Hapi. (Don't really like Constance) And besides, the cool story in the DLC was also in an alternate universe anyways, because you could take units from all three houses, plus all three leaders. Makes the whole thing nearly redundant but good it could carry over to the main game.
@JaxonH
But to the big N and other companies emulators and ROMs outside of their own is a big no no. I want to play the games with no loss of access but in my current situation that is not going to happen. VC was leaps and bounds better than this rental system. I could purchase and play anything that was available on the service and they added games at least every week if not every other. I’ve bought games over and over in the past but I’m fed up with it. (Ex I “own” Megaman 2-5 on NES, the anniversary collection on PS2, 5 and 6 on 3ds VC as well as Legacy Collection on 3ds and Switch plus Legacy 2 and since anniversary we’ve not seen power fighters available yet!)
Again I say that both VC and Switch online could work in tandem. Isn’t the idea to have more people playing the games whether it’s through the sub or buy them on the service as opposed to using emulators and roms dumped off the net? At least then they could prove loss of revenue since you have many legal ways of obtaining the games. For those that play online subbing and getting access to the games since they have online access is a nice bonus. But telling a consumer that doesn’t play online and lives in a area where connections are scarce is another. I can swing a trip to town at least once a week to use WiFi to purchase games on the eshop. But the other way I didn’t get the benefits of online play (I’d rather play local anyway) through the sub and every other week I’d lose access to the games because of the checkin which conveniently wanted to happen late at night on Saturday when I was just at WiFi only 6 hrs or so ago and it never wanted to check in. So excuse me if I’m more than a little miffed at the service for cheating me out of my hard earned money I could’ve used on something else.
We can now officially say Monster Hunter Rise is releasing THIS year, and we’ll be playing the demo THIS month.
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@GameOtaku
First, I don't know if you're new here, but I'm the guy who constantly bemoans the state of the gaming industry because of all the stupid practices gamers have supported over the last decade. DLC, online services, games as services, etc. I've ranted about it all. So trust me, bud, I'm with you in despising the state of the modern gaming industry and what we have to put up with. Nintendo is by far the "best" of the big three companies when it comes to all that stuff, but they are slowly getting sucked in.
However, I completely disagree with almost everything else you're saying. When you sign up for a service, you sign a contract with the company that provides that service. If you read closely, you'll notice that you're agreeing to a ton of stuff. In the specific case of WoW servers being down as I mentioned. if you read the contract you agree to when subscribing to the game, Blizzard cannot be held responsible for foreseen and unforseen server outages that keep you from playing the game. Now, I've played WoW from the start, and I have seen them refund game time a few times when outages were especially long, but only after incredible outcry from the playerbase and sometimes attention from media outlets. But they are not legally responsible for compensating you according to the contract you agree to.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe even the simple purchasing and playing of software establishes tacit consumer acknowledgement of the publishing company's policies when it comes to various things like reproduction, ownership, etc.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
For a maniac Switch physical collector like myself January is mercifully quiet. FNaF: Core Collection and Atelier Ryza 2, everything else can wait for a deep discount. Naturally this doesn't include the half-dozen boutique physical releases that pop up every month, but I digress. What's everyone looking forward to this month?
Switch Physical Collection - 1,536 games (as of December 14th, 2025)
Switch 2 Physical Collection - 4 games (as of December 8th, 2025)
Ya, Atelier Ryza 2 is it for physical releases. And good, I say as well. It’s been rough on the wallet these last few months, especially having bought a PS5, extra controller, 1TB external SSD and converting the dozen or so PS4 exclusives over to digital (I should have just bought the All Digital system for $100 less, oh, well, it’ll keep more resale value I suppose). And with at least 3 big February releases that warrant extra digital purchases, and then Monster Hunter Rise in March which I not only have 2 collector editions preordered, all the amiibo, the digital deluxe, AND a copy from a French retailer who’s offering a steelbook, I need a slow month to recoup and prepare for the next onslaught.
That’s not counting the limited run editions I’ve preordered that sporadically release and ship throughout the year. I think my Ori Collector Edition just shipped out, for example. Grandia HD Collection also just arrived. I’m sure more are on the way.
But of course, there’s the Monster Hunter Rise demo. That’s the big, hype January release for me. I’m dying to play that game. Been hardcore binging on MH World in the meantime, trying to pass the time.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@theJGG I'll circle back to your post (likely in the FE thread so that we don't derail) but I want to digest it first.
I've got Disgaea 6 on preorder and I want buddy mission bond but I'm on a super restricted budget this year (only 100 a month to games) and I just bought a bunch of Taiko ps2 games. Good thing Disgaea is already paid for.
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@Magician this release date for Metroid Prime 4 seen too fishy to me, i expect and hope Metroid Prime 4 to release on Switch during the 2022 holiday season or the 2023 summer/Fall season and @JaxonH i can't wait to play Monster Hunter Rise in my extended battery Switch, i hope the Monster Hunter Rise demo have Cross-Save with the game.
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