eSports Tournament Update Comes To Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun Next Week

Yooo competitive drumming

That is kinda cool.

Now that's an esport I'd wanna watch a stream of.

Would love to get more songs on Taiko but it's too pricey. Not enough bang for buck as it were

The music DLC is very expensive. I would love to buy them if they came together in a cheaper bundle.

@Handy_Man Couldn't agree more; it's been quite a while; the game has been discounted several times- the DLC, to my knowledge, not even once. Groove Coaster is even more fiercely pricey.

Played the demo and saw people playing it in the Arcades in Japan.
Loved the style and have been waiting for a discount for ages but it seems that it's never more than 20% off.

@Handy_Man depends, it is like usual the licensing behind it that makes it more expensive.

If I look at song pack prices in Taiko games, they are pretty much same like what iTunes (and so on) asked when you wanted to buy 1 song.

I am not saying the DLC in rhytm games are cheap (they are not) but the prices make sense.

@tourjeff You mean on the eshop? The game was 50% off in June in EU and somewhere in the same period 15 dollars in the US.

Hearing the term "e sports" will forever make me cringe. Play a real sport or nothing at all. Stop trying to appropriate (hah another cringe worthy term) the word sport from people who shoved you in lockers during your high school years.

I have the Japanese version and I’ve bought a ton of DLC for it. It’s about 5$ for 5 songs and gives me an excuse to keep coming back! They recently added a bunch of video game themes for free including the katamari damacy theme which is great. Not sure if the US got those free songs though.

@JHDK Well yes and no

E-sports is a sport but just like chess not in a athletic way.

So what you mean is that sport can be called sport only if it is the athletic one, and by that standard you are correct.

But most people don't look at the athletic standard, and thus chess and e-sports are "sport" but also not, it depends on the context.

For me e-sport is not sport but more competition, that word is a better fit in my opinion.

@tourjeff It has been as low as 50% from what I can tell, but I get your point. I can highly recommend dekudeals.com to have a look at different games you are interested in and setup a wishlist for the games you want. When the price goes down you'll get a notification. I use it all the time.

@NorwegianMate I use that website but didn't know about the notifications for a specific game. I'll check it again to set it up 👍
Also, I don't remember seeing this game below 20% off so, at 50% it would be already good.
I was also trying to find the physical copy of it but for some weird reason it's very expensive.

@tourjeff You have to register and then you can put up a wishlist

I got Bastion for 2 euros because I had it on my wishlist. I got an email with the lowered price, went to the eshop and bought it. So much better than checking websites for offers or going through the eshop by itself.

Personally I love physical copies instead of digital. But I got Wargroove, Bastion and Moonlighter for about 20 euros because of my wishlist and at that price I had to buy them

@NorwegianMate yes, normally I'd go for the physical version but sometimes the digital deal is unmissable 😁
I've got recently the two rally games digitally as they had, each, a discount of around 80% if I remember well.
For that kind of price you can't go wrong.

@tourjeff Exactly! You can either get two pints at the pub or two games at the eshop. Easy choice! (Sometimes)