Getting out of the console business sure did the trick, eh Sega? Abandoning all of us who bought a Dreamcast and and every big game for it domestically, that definitely changed your fortunes and kept the Sega business and legacy alive, right?
Just merge with Nintendo. Two clueless dinosaurs on their way to total irrelevance and extinction, together as one at last. Its like poetry.
So buy a game when its released, but don't reward developers for something that is little more than an idea. Throwing money at some concept art and "trust us, its gonna be great" is so asinine to me that I wonder how I ostensibly share the same hobbies with such people. There should be a new rule: developers aren't even allowed to have a Kickstarter fund until they produce a playable demo, for free, available to everyone regardless of whether you are pledging or not.
Now before you say, "b-but without the crowdfunding the game wouldn't get made AT ALL", I ask you this: have you seen what Mighty Number Nine looks like? The video is right up there. I am quite certain that something of its, uh..."caliber" could have been produced with the same budgets afforded to many indie and mobile developers, with no crowdfunding, and with the same end result of PS2 graphics and gameplay that looks dull even to people who just wanted something that plays exactly like Rockman 2.
Also stop using Shovel Knight as your one example of Kickstarter gaming gone right. Shovel Knight was produced by competent people with decades of experience making exactly what Shovel Knight is: a 2D platformer with 8 bit graphics. Who exactly works at Comcept? Even Inafune himself is sort of questionable; Rockman was Akira Kitamura's creation and Inafune has pretty much just been a producer for many years.
Lastly there's nothing at all wrong with 2.5D run n' guns on the PS2 other than looking like one, unintentionally, with your brand new game in 2016.
One of the very few games on the horizon for any Nintendo system that I'm genuinely excited about, but to my knowledge a western release has not been confirmed.
And with Nintendo's streak lately, I imagine they would force Namco to cover up the blonde. Put her in a nice, zipped up leather jacket instead. And of course the Japanese girl needs to be at least 18 years old, musn't forget that.
Looks like a PS2 game, one of those 2.5D run n' guns back when 2.5D run n' guns were a new thing; Shin Contra and such.
Further evidence of what a scam Kickstarter video game projects are. People who throw money at promises and concepts deserve the worst anything can possibly turn out.
If you support this neutered shell of a censored game with your money, you are part of the problem, and an enabler of Nintendo's inept Puritan attitudes.
It's baffling to me that Nintendo has, at various points, tried desperately to shed their "kiddie" image, but is still practicing 1990's video game censorship 25 years later.
I'm all for giving a new director a shot to remake the original Metal Gear. A young Solid Snake kicking ass, infiltrating buildings instead of little encampments in an "open world", and actual boss fights with characters with their own personality and gimmicks.
Kojima became the George Lucas of gaming: he didn't understand what made Metal Gear good.
All I've learned over the past year from Nintendo is that I, as an adult American male, am no longer their target audience. They are content to pander to the following groups: soccer moms, whiny liberal SJWs, and their shrinking audience of drones who will slurp up whatever secondhand censored garbage Nintendo deigns to translate for them.
This was a secretive company that kept things close to the vest during the Yamauchi era; an interesting juxtaposition given Nintendo's creative output. The Directs were an expression of Iwata's outgoing personality and his desire to reach out to the company's dedicated fans. It's fairly certain that the new president, who spent decades in the banking industry, is not kooky or fun. And that attitude is honestly what Nintendo needs right now: back to the Yamauchi style of doing things.
Besides, what is there really to Direct upon? A smattering of indie eShop releases? Yet another StarFox trailer? They're clearly saving their ammo for E3, when they will apparently announce the system that will likely make or break Nintendo's future.
To Damien McFerran and anyone else who doesn't get it: it isn't about wanting or needing to have buttcrack and lingerie in this game. It is about censorship. It is about Nintendo publishing a "Mature" game and then deciding its audience is not mature enough to handle sexuality in gaming. It is about a lack of options for the consumer thanks to region lock. It is about deciding, on your own, as a consenting adult, what content you are comfortable with in video games.
I encourage anyone who is interested in this game to play whatever free demo Nintendo provides, and then, when it is time to pay for more, go straight to PSN on your PS3/Vita/whatever and purchase Fatal Frame games there.
End censorship in gaming. End regional differences. End region locking.
@IceClimbers Konami forced him to write the worst ending in video game history? Yeah, okay bro. What I'm talking about has nothing to do with Eli or the unfinished chapter. Konami brass probably saw what his method was going to be of retconning the equally stupid ending to MGS4, and just how it was that Big Boss never had a mechanical hand before, and that was the last straw.
I guarantee I know more about Metal Gear than you.
After that fanfic-tier ending, I'm glad he was fired. While that was the most egregious problem with MGSV, some other lousy aspects of it prove Kojima truly is the George Lucas of gaming: he doesn't understand what made Metal Gear good.
I couldn't care less what his next move is. In fact, I'd welcome Konami giving a new director a shot to remake the original Metal Gear, with a young Solid Snake kicking ass vs. some, y'know, actual bosses with personality.
@Fee so change their ages in dialogue. That's what they do with every localization of Senran Kagura. All that's being changed there is a number and a couple lines of dialogue, definitely preferable (and less work) than cutting the buttcrack costumes.
@Zombo begging for scraps and having your intelligence insulted just doesn't make sense, either. So what if Nintendo doesn't localize any more of these games? If they censor "adult content"--which, by the way, is ridiculous in this context--in a game clearly meant for adults, why would you want any more of that, anyway? Go play any of the three (four?) Fatal Frame games on PSN if you're that desperate to play one. Or import the uncut version somehow, though in another brilliant move Nintendo makes that difficult these days.
If the game bombs then Nintendo is free to interpret why in any way they choose; but one look on any forum could clue them in. This is a niche game and if you're going to appease its niche audience, don't jerk with the product too much or you'll find we will be happy to have made Nintendo waste their time and money.
I freaking knew it. In fact, I called this months ago.
Nintendo is going to foist this crap on the west in a misguided attempt to compensate for their demanding the lingerie costumes be cut. Puritan Bill and PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN committee at Nintendo of America strike yet again.
A Wii U price cut is about two years too late. Nintendo has nothing to gain from the system at this point, they might as well ride it out at their obscene $300 retail price.
If the Wii U had been $199 with a game by Christmas 2013 it may have been competitive.
This literally is the only thing that matters with the localization of this game. Bra and panties and lingerie costumes, censored or not. Do your job as a "journalist".
The only proven way to make money on mobile gaming is free-to-play with endless microtransactions. If Nintendo doesn't realize this and releases a quality game on mobile with a $19.99 asking price they will fail miserably. Mobile players don't really want to play a game, they want a brief distraction while they sit on the toilet/ride the bus/wait for their meal at a restaurant.
Something like Rusty's Real Deal Baseball is the best option. A Mario platformer, which I guarantee Nintendo would never allow as a free to start download, is a bad idea.
@Darknyht a better question would be: what is good about it? Developed in the west, it is a cheap imitation of what Tecmo Bowl is supposed to be. The classic mode is the same as the DS version, which in turn is the same as the SNES version, the worst of the first four games. The modern mode is hideous. No license of course, that almost goes without saying. But most of all and most damning is the fact that the Edit mode, the one thing that could have saved it, is awful. Its more egregious of a failure with the DS version, but the fact that nothing was done to fix it says it all for who was behind the modern zombie Tecmo Bowl games.
@Dankykong says a lot about the unique gameplay. Practically every single football game made ever since takes the same sim game approach, with the view always from behind the line, and never any music or whimsy. Tecmo Bowl NES, and to a much greater extent Tecmo Super Bowl NES, were lightning in a bottle.
Owned it since January 2013. Completed it in both modes with one survivor.
Its basically a hugely underrated classic, and Nintendo fans should be ashamed of their having not supported it. Consider your current situation with the Pii U and ask yourself: would any major publisher create a AAA exclusive Wii U title today?
@Blastcorp64 Konami's Run & Gun games are JPN developed licensed NBA titles. In terms of games with an NFL/MLB/NBA/NHL license, the pickings are indeed slim, however in the glory days of Japanese game development many games based on those sports were made in Japan.
This also highlights a key difference in the way Japanese and American game developers view making sports titles. American devs make sims, with micromanaging of depth charts and an fervent desire to make it "realistic". Japanese developers make them fast and arcadey, like an action game with a sports setting. The Tecmo Bowl series is probably the single best example of this.
One, are you implying player names are present in this Wii U version? That is not made clear in this review and would be a huge boon for Tecmo fans; to my knowledge this would be the first version of the game with player names present since the Game Boy version almost 30 years ago.
Two, it had nothing at all to do with "the most popular teams" making the cut. These are the playoff teams from the 1987 season.
Let me get this straight: Fatal Frame is getting a nice LE edition in Europe, but no disc version at all in the US; while Devil's Third, which they didn't even want to publish, will have a physical release here?!
Nintendo of America is a blight on this company. Just incompetent.
No. They don't. Cultural differences shouldn't have any effect on anything. This weird obsession with not offending white people, or not upsetting white parents, or altering "Japanese things" in games so that white people will get the joke/reference/point that certain Japanese video game companies have is so bizarre to me. What Hollywood film is ever changed to suit a certain audience's cultural makeup? Practically none. They subtitle it and that's that. So the guy watching in Hong Kong doesn't get the joke about Rabbis performing circumcision. Who cares?
This Chris Pranger sounds like an ass, towing the company line just like Reggie, and Bill, and every other NoA guy who thinks he has all the answers and that the fans know nothing. Hey Chris Pranger, how about you not worry about localization, and just tell your bosses to remove their retarded region lock so we can make up our own minds?
God bless M2 for including all region versions in one release. Blaze's panty shot, long hidden from the west because WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN, is gloriously present and zero apologies are made for it.
It's interesting, then, how this comes shortly after the censored, Poison-less US version of Final Fight One was once again foisted upon western players; with no option for us to make up our own minds as grown adults with what we want to see in our 2D beat em ups, and say so through our wallets. Even almost 30 years later, Sega is still cooler than Nintendo.
@LztheQuack look I hate to go here, but can you read? They are listening to fans, that's all I ever said about Devil's Third. You keep using quotes as if I said something that your scroll wheel will prove I didn't.
What's "meaningful feedback"? Club Nintendo surveys?
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Re: Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Makes Underwhelming Debut in Japan, Yet Wii U Hardware Shows Impressive Growth
Xbox One - 289
It never stops being funny
Re: Sega Slashes Full-Year Net Profit Projection By 90 Percent
Getting out of the console business sure did the trick, eh Sega? Abandoning all of us who bought a Dreamcast and and every big game for it domestically, that definitely changed your fortunes and kept the Sega business and legacy alive, right?
Just merge with Nintendo. Two clueless dinosaurs on their way to total irrelevance and extinction, together as one at last. Its like poetry.
Re: Video: New Mighty No. 9 Trailer Aims to Bring Back the Hype
@dadajo @brandonbwii
So buy a game when its released, but don't reward developers for something that is little more than an idea. Throwing money at some concept art and "trust us, its gonna be great" is so asinine to me that I wonder how I ostensibly share the same hobbies with such people. There should be a new rule: developers aren't even allowed to have a Kickstarter fund until they produce a playable demo, for free, available to everyone regardless of whether you are pledging or not.
Now before you say, "b-but without the crowdfunding the game wouldn't get made AT ALL", I ask you this: have you seen what Mighty Number Nine looks like? The video is right up there. I am quite certain that something of its, uh..."caliber" could have been produced with the same budgets afforded to many indie and mobile developers, with no crowdfunding, and with the same end result of PS2 graphics and gameplay that looks dull even to people who just wanted something that plays exactly like Rockman 2.
Also stop using Shovel Knight as your one example of Kickstarter gaming gone right. Shovel Knight was produced by competent people with decades of experience making exactly what Shovel Knight is: a 2D platformer with 8 bit graphics. Who exactly works at Comcept? Even Inafune himself is sort of questionable; Rockman was Akira Kitamura's creation and Inafune has pretty much just been a producer for many years.
Lastly there's nothing at all wrong with 2.5D run n' guns on the PS2 other than looking like one, unintentionally, with your brand new game in 2016.
Re: Lost Reavers Developers Reveal More Details About the Impending Release
One of the very few games on the horizon for any Nintendo system that I'm genuinely excited about, but to my knowledge a western release has not been confirmed.
And with Nintendo's streak lately, I imagine they would force Namco to cover up the blonde. Put her in a nice, zipped up leather jacket instead. And of course the Japanese girl needs to be at least 18 years old, musn't forget that.
Re: Video: New Mighty No. 9 Trailer Aims to Bring Back the Hype
Looks like a PS2 game, one of those 2.5D run n' guns back when 2.5D run n' guns were a new thing; Shin Contra and such.
Further evidence of what a scam Kickstarter video game projects are. People who throw money at promises and concepts deserve the worst anything can possibly turn out.
Re: Splatoon Bundle Boosts Wii U Sales in Japan as Project X Zone 2 Struggles
40,000 copies in a debut week in Japan isn't really "struggling". Only in comparison to the previous title, which means nothing, honestly.
Now Code Name Steam? THAT struggled.
Re: You Can't Alter The Chest Size Of Female Characters In The Western Version Of Xenoblade Chronicles X
If you support this neutered shell of a censored game with your money, you are part of the problem, and an enabler of Nintendo's inept Puritan attitudes.
It's baffling to me that Nintendo has, at various points, tried desperately to shed their "kiddie" image, but is still practicing 1990's video game censorship 25 years later.
Re: Konami Already Planning Next Metal Gear Game, Presumably Without Hideo Kojima's Input
@Dakt agreed, completely.
I'm all for giving a new director a shot to remake the original Metal Gear. A young Solid Snake kicking ass, infiltrating buildings instead of little encampments in an "open world", and actual boss fights with characters with their own personality and gimmicks.
Kojima became the George Lucas of gaming: he didn't understand what made Metal Gear good.
Re: Nintendo Is Making Female Characters Cover Up For The Western Version Of Xenoblade Chronicles X
All I've learned over the past year from Nintendo is that I, as an adult American male, am no longer their target audience. They are content to pander to the following groups: soccer moms, whiny liberal SJWs, and their shrinking audience of drones who will slurp up whatever secondhand censored garbage Nintendo deigns to translate for them.
Re: Talking Point: As Rumours Come and Go the Desperation for a Nintendo Direct Grows
The Nintendo Direct died with Satoru Iwata.
This was a secretive company that kept things close to the vest during the Yamauchi era; an interesting juxtaposition given Nintendo's creative output. The Directs were an expression of Iwata's outgoing personality and his desire to reach out to the company's dedicated fans. It's fairly certain that the new president, who spent decades in the banking industry, is not kooky or fun. And that attitude is honestly what Nintendo needs right now: back to the Yamauchi style of doing things.
Besides, what is there really to Direct upon? A smattering of indie eShop releases? Yet another StarFox trailer? They're clearly saving their ammo for E3, when they will apparently announce the system that will likely make or break Nintendo's future.
Re: Poll: The Tricky Issue of Retail Games as Download-Only Releases
Continue to ignore the real problem with Fatal Frame 5, Thomas Whitehead. By all means.
Re: Yes, Fatal Frame's Lingerie Outfits Have Been Removed From The Western Version
To Damien McFerran and anyone else who doesn't get it: it isn't about wanting or needing to have buttcrack and lingerie in this game. It is about censorship. It is about Nintendo publishing a "Mature" game and then deciding its audience is not mature enough to handle sexuality in gaming. It is about a lack of options for the consumer thanks to region lock. It is about deciding, on your own, as a consenting adult, what content you are comfortable with in video games.
I encourage anyone who is interested in this game to play whatever free demo Nintendo provides, and then, when it is time to pay for more, go straight to PSN on your PS3/Vita/whatever and purchase Fatal Frame games there.
End censorship in gaming. End regional differences. End region locking.
Re: It's Official, Hideo Kojima Has Parted Ways With Konami
@IceClimbers Konami forced him to write the worst ending in video game history? Yeah, okay bro. What I'm talking about has nothing to do with Eli or the unfinished chapter. Konami brass probably saw what his method was going to be of retconning the equally stupid ending to MGS4, and just how it was that Big Boss never had a mechanical hand before, and that was the last straw.
I guarantee I know more about Metal Gear than you.
Re: It's Official, Hideo Kojima Has Parted Ways With Konami
After that fanfic-tier ending, I'm glad he was fired. While that was the most egregious problem with MGSV, some other lousy aspects of it prove Kojima truly is the George Lucas of gaming: he doesn't understand what made Metal Gear good.
I couldn't care less what his next move is. In fact, I'd welcome Konami giving a new director a shot to remake the original Metal Gear, with a young Solid Snake kicking ass vs. some, y'know, actual bosses with personality.
Re: Review: Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water (Wii U)
Go to Hell, Nintendo of America.
Re: Cosplay Dreams Come True With Zelda and Zero Suit Samus Outfits in Fatal Frame
@Fee so change their ages in dialogue. That's what they do with every localization of Senran Kagura. All that's being changed there is a number and a couple lines of dialogue, definitely preferable (and less work) than cutting the buttcrack costumes.
Re: Cosplay Dreams Come True With Zelda and Zero Suit Samus Outfits in Fatal Frame
@Zombo begging for scraps and having your intelligence insulted just doesn't make sense, either. So what if Nintendo doesn't localize any more of these games? If they censor "adult content"--which, by the way, is ridiculous in this context--in a game clearly meant for adults, why would you want any more of that, anyway? Go play any of the three (four?) Fatal Frame games on PSN if you're that desperate to play one. Or import the uncut version somehow, though in another brilliant move Nintendo makes that difficult these days.
If the game bombs then Nintendo is free to interpret why in any way they choose; but one look on any forum could clue them in. This is a niche game and if you're going to appease its niche audience, don't jerk with the product too much or you'll find we will be happy to have made Nintendo waste their time and money.
Re: Cosplay Dreams Come True With Zelda and Zero Suit Samus Outfits in Fatal Frame
@hcfwesker maybe its time you asked yourself what it is you want to support with your money.
Do you want to support censorship?
Do you want to support corporations deciding for you what you can and cannot see?
Do you want to support region locking and the brain dead committee thinking that created and enables it?
Stop being "grateful" a game was translated for you and start demanding better.
Re: Sources Suggest Nintendo NX Is A Fusion Of Home And Mobile Hardware Powered By "Industry-Leading" Tech
Can't wait until Nintendo gives up on boondoggling and I can play Zelda on PS5.
Re: Cosplay Dreams Come True With Zelda and Zero Suit Samus Outfits in Fatal Frame
I freaking knew it. In fact, I called this months ago.
Nintendo is going to foist this crap on the west in a misguided attempt to compensate for their demanding the lingerie costumes be cut. Puritan Bill and PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN committee at Nintendo of America strike yet again.
Re: Video: Car Owners May Wince After Watching This Final Fight One Trailer
@Tasuki no doubt. But changing one word in the context of destroying a car with your bare hands is a special kind of limpwristed PC coward nonsense.
And the worst part of all? Capcom USA isn't even the worst US division of any gaming company. That "honor" goes to Reggie, Bill, and friends.
Re: Video: Car Owners May Wince After Watching This Final Fight One Trailer
Is there anything more gutless than Capcom USA changing "God" to "car"?
Pathetic.
Re: Chibi-Robo!: Zip Lash Fails to Clean Up in Japanese Charts
..there's a new Famista game?!
Re: Editorial: A Wii U Price Cut is Still Worthwhile Despite Its Ongoing Woes
A Wii U price cut is about two years too late. Nintendo has nothing to gain from the system at this point, they might as well ride it out at their obscene $300 retail price.
If the Wii U had been $199 with a game by Christmas 2013 it may have been competitive.
Re: First Impressions: Taking A Shot At Fatal Frame: Maiden Of Black Water
IS
IT
CENSORED
?
This literally is the only thing that matters with the localization of this game. Bra and panties and lingerie costumes, censored or not. Do your job as a "journalist".
Re: Shiny Founder Dave Perry Wasn't Keen On The N64 From The Start
The single worst decision in the history of gaming.
In fact, most of the Wii U's struggles can ultimately be traced back to one thing: cartridges for the N64.
Re: Analysts Wonder If Super Mario Can Save NintendoÂ
@Superryanworld not as well as it is for Supercell.
Re: Analysts Wonder If Super Mario Can Save NintendoÂ
The only proven way to make money on mobile gaming is free-to-play with endless microtransactions. If Nintendo doesn't realize this and releases a quality game on mobile with a $19.99 asking price they will fail miserably. Mobile players don't really want to play a game, they want a brief distraction while they sit on the toilet/ride the bus/wait for their meal at a restaurant.
Something like Rusty's Real Deal Baseball is the best option. A Mario platformer, which I guarantee Nintendo would never allow as a free to start download, is a bad idea.
Re: Review: Tecmo Bowl (Wii U eShop / NES)
@Darknyht a better question would be: what is good about it? Developed in the west, it is a cheap imitation of what Tecmo Bowl is supposed to be. The classic mode is the same as the DS version, which in turn is the same as the SNES version, the worst of the first four games. The modern mode is hideous. No license of course, that almost goes without saying. But most of all and most damning is the fact that the Edit mode, the one thing that could have saved it, is awful. Its more egregious of a failure with the DS version, but the fact that nothing was done to fix it says it all for who was behind the modern zombie Tecmo Bowl games.
@Dankykong says a lot about the unique gameplay. Practically every single football game made ever since takes the same sim game approach, with the view always from behind the line, and never any music or whimsy. Tecmo Bowl NES, and to a much greater extent Tecmo Super Bowl NES, were lightning in a bottle.
Re: Feature: Have You Played... ZombiU?
Owned it since January 2013. Completed it in both modes with one survivor.
Its basically a hugely underrated classic, and Nintendo fans should be ashamed of their having not supported it. Consider your current situation with the Pii U and ask yourself: would any major publisher create a AAA exclusive Wii U title today?
Re: Review: Tecmo Bowl (Wii U eShop / NES)
@Darknyht ...barf.
Re: Review: Tecmo Bowl (Wii U eShop / NES)
@Blastcorp64 Konami's Run & Gun games are JPN developed licensed NBA titles. In terms of games with an NFL/MLB/NBA/NHL license, the pickings are indeed slim, however in the glory days of Japanese game development many games based on those sports were made in Japan.
This also highlights a key difference in the way Japanese and American game developers view making sports titles. American devs make sims, with micromanaging of depth charts and an fervent desire to make it "realistic". Japanese developers make them fast and arcadey, like an action game with a sports setting. The Tecmo Bowl series is probably the single best example of this.
Re: Review: Tecmo Bowl (Wii U eShop / NES)
@SquirrelNuts they are not in the 3DS version, you don't know what you're talking about.
Re: Review: Tecmo Bowl (Wii U eShop / NES)
Couple things here--
One, are you implying player names are present in this Wii U version? That is not made clear in this review and would be a huge boon for Tecmo fans; to my knowledge this would be the first version of the game with player names present since the Game Boy version almost 30 years ago.
Two, it had nothing at all to do with "the most popular teams" making the cut. These are the playoff teams from the 1987 season.
Re: Super Mario Maker Tops The Charts In Japan, Causes Wii U Sales To Double
Disappointing to see one of the greatest games ever made pushed from the top spot, two weeks after release, in favor of some no-effort "game".
Re: Nintendo Confirms Super Mario Maker Console Bundle and Key Release Dates for North America and Europe
Let me get this straight: Fatal Frame is getting a nice LE edition in Europe, but no disc version at all in the US; while Devil's Third, which they didn't even want to publish, will have a physical release here?!
Nintendo of America is a blight on this company. Just incompetent.
Re: Chasing Dead To Bring Horror And FPS Action To The Wii U eShop Soon
Are you guys really so hard up for a Wii U game that you'll convince yourselves this looks anything other than terrible?
Re: Splatoon Passes Half a Million Copies Sold in the US as Wii U Game Sales Beat 2014 Figures
The Wii U was outsold by the PS4 7 to 1 during this period.
"Break out the bunting", they said.
Re: Chris Prangar, Nintendo Treehouse Staffer Who Recently Spoke About His Work, Confirms He's Been Fired
@IceClimbers good thing I didn't take you up on your bet, huh? The PayPal would have read:
Technosphile, you've got money!
From: IceClimbers
Notes: for knowing even less than Chris Pranger
Re: Chris Prangar, Nintendo Treehouse Staffer Who Recently Spoke About His Work, Confirms He's Been Fired
He should have plenty of time to work on a Captain Rainbow translation now.
Re: Chris Pranger From Nintendo Treehouse Discusses Harsh Realities Of Localisation
@Wolfgabe "things would need to be changed"
No. They don't. Cultural differences shouldn't have any effect on anything. This weird obsession with not offending white people, or not upsetting white parents, or altering "Japanese things" in games so that white people will get the joke/reference/point that certain Japanese video game companies have is so bizarre to me. What Hollywood film is ever changed to suit a certain audience's cultural makeup? Practically none. They subtitle it and that's that. So the guy watching in Hong Kong doesn't get the joke about Rabbis performing circumcision. Who cares?
This Chris Pranger sounds like an ass, towing the company line just like Reggie, and Bill, and every other NoA guy who thinks he has all the answers and that the fans know nothing. Hey Chris Pranger, how about you not worry about localization, and just tell your bosses to remove their retarded region lock so we can make up our own minds?
Re: Super Smash Bros. Evo 2015 Champ ZeRo Is Joining Team SoloMid
Ah, Scarflard. Who says professional gamers aren't athletes?
Re: Zombi Reveal Trailer Suggests That Wii U Gamers Need Not Be Too Jealous
Wow. Color me both wrong and disappointed. Looks exactly the same, the models don't even have a higher count. Very lazy, Ubisoft..
Re: Splatoon's Big Update is Coming on 6th August
WE CLANS NOW
Re: Review: 3D Streets of Rage 2 (3DS eShop)
God bless M2 for including all region versions in one release. Blaze's panty shot, long hidden from the west because WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN, is gloriously present and zero apologies are made for it.
It's interesting, then, how this comes shortly after the censored, Poison-less US version of Final Fight One was once again foisted upon western players; with no option for us to make up our own minds as grown adults with what we want to see in our 2D beat em ups, and say so through our wallets. Even almost 30 years later, Sega is still cooler than Nintendo.
Re: Assault Android Cactus Brings Mega Weapons and Neat Camera Angles Into the Battle
Coming to Wii U later, alongside Project Cars.
Re: Review: Final Fight One (Wii U eShop / GBA)
No Poison, no buy.
Re: Exclusive: Project CARS "Simply Too Much For Wii U", Developer Now Waiting On New Nintendo Hardware
Got this for $4.99 on PSN thanks to a DLC glitch a few weeks ago. So, LOL.
Re: Negative Reception For Devil's Third Is Due To Poor Player Skill, Claims Tomonobu Itagaki
Looks fun to me. 3D beat em ups aren't for everyone. Anarchy Reigns got tepid reviews as well, and I think it's a bit of a masterpiece.
Re: First Impressions: Trying to Believe in Devil's Third
@LztheQuack look I hate to go here, but can you read? They are listening to fans, that's all I ever said about Devil's Third. You keep using quotes as if I said something that your scroll wheel will prove I didn't.
What's "meaningful feedback"? Club Nintendo surveys?