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Endorph posted:Sweet Fuse: By your Side is a funny, charming game about the guy who made Megaman's niece trying to save hot guys from getting blown up.  big dude with red hair was my favorite anime hunk
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Endorph posted:Sweet Fuse: By your Side is a funny, charming game about the guy who made Megaman's niece trying to save hot guys from getting blown up. I kept hoping it would be like Daganronpa, because everyone in game I hated and wished they died.
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Endorph posted:Sweet Fuse: By your Side is a funny, charming game about the guy who made Megaman's niece trying to save hot guys from getting blown up.
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Nov 19, 2014 23:16
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Sweet Fuse was the only girl game I was tricked into playing. I was tricked by anime.
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Nov 19, 2014 23:17
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Final Fantasy is getting its own magazine, which is fine because the franchise is quite large enough to warrant its own brand. My biggest surprise was that Persona has its own magazine already.
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The Taint Reaper posted:Sweet Fuse was the only girl game I was tricked into playing. I was tricked by anime. how did you get tricked into thinking a game called Sweet Fuse: By Your Side was anything other than a goofy game about dating hot guys Tae posted:Final Fantasy is getting its own magazine, which is fine because the franchise is quite large enough to warrant its own brand.
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NikkolasKing posted:Isn't Avatar a super-expensive movie? Isn't it also the shallowest, most unoriginal piece of poo poo ever according to a lot of people? Economic basics still hold true even for Nippon and drive everything. These 'anime' games that keep creeping up (hehe) sell about 30-50k copies in Japan, which is pretty much the lowest point you can hit for a game in Japan for that particular publisher to say "yeah it did exactly what we expected", at least in my experience. Meanwhile other companies invest a lot more and in marketing to chase the 300k+ sales figures and every now and then something like Pokemon, Monster Hunter, or Resident Evil comes along and sells millions. These aren't 'low effort' games, they're massive games with a ton of investment and a sizeable amount of risk. The bigger companies chase these projects because they have substantial returns on investment, especially in terms of ongoing IP value (recent classic example: Persona and its half dozen remakes) The problem is not many companies can absorb the risks associated with it anymore. Hence stuff like Inafune blowing his load about the Japanese game industry stagnating, and so on and so forth.
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Endorph posted:how did you get tricked into thinking a game called Sweet Fuse: By Your Side was anything other than a goofy game about dating hot guys further, why would you need to be tricked into playing that?
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When I bought Hakuoki the 19 year old muscle head cashier at Gamestop told me "this game looks badass as hell, I love samurai games" and I just nodded sagely and went on my way.
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The main problem with the Japanese industry is just that there's not enough capital and a big enough market available to put out the same volume of AAA titles as America. How many AAA companies are there in Japan vs the US? You can't expect them to be equal
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icantfindaname posted:The main problem with the Japanese industry is just that there's not enough capital and a big enough market available to put out the same volume of AAA titles as America. How many AAA companies are there in Japan vs the US? You can't expect them to be equal It's not the AAA that is the problem but rather loss of market for majority of mid-tier games. So you can spend a few million making a game trying to target 300K-500K, fail and bankrupt the company of just get by with these fan based games where they can guarantee certain amount of sales. It's unfortunate but due to mobile games and demographic trends it's only going to get worth for Japanese devs unless they can target Western gamers. So if Compile Hearts or NISA can have guaranteed western sales from games like this one or Neptunia line, it's a no brainer for them as alternatives kind of suck.
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Cake Attack posted:
mine was meoshi because he is a socially awkward turbonerd but also a badass kung fu blogger which is 
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I finally have a PS3 and I'm in the mood for some decent to bad RPGs. How is Fairy Fencer F?
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Erg posted:How is Fairy Fencer F? Erg posted:decent to bad I will say it's definitely one of the best games Idea Factory's put out. For whatever that's worth.
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Erg posted:I finally have a PS3 and I'm in the mood for some decent to bad RPGs. How is Fairy Fencer F? Decent, i hear, but probably not where i'd start. its more of a not quite at the bottom of the barrel, but getting there kinda rpg Endorph posted:I will say it's definitely one of the best games Idea Factory's put out. For whatever that's worth. Isnt it compile heart? admittedly, they are basically the same thing
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Erg posted:I finally have a PS3 and I'm in the mood for some decent to bad RPGs. How is Fairy Fencer F? play Eternal Sonata instead
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Cake Attack posted:Decent, i hear, but probably not where i'd start. its more of a not quite at the bottom of the barrel, but getting there kinda rpg Yeah, one of the better games Compile Heart's put out.
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alcharagia posted:play Eternal Sonata instead He said "decent to bad," not "one of the worst JRPGs ever created outside of RMXP."
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alcharagia posted:play Eternal Sonata instead Between ES and Broken Sword 1, if I ever see a goat I go into a blind rage.
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play last rebellion it is the best
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Erg posted:I finally have a PS3 and I'm in the mood for some decent to bad RPGs. How is Fairy Fencer F? the Tales games aren't too shabby. Not great, but decent time-wasters.
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Erg posted:I finally have a PS3 and I'm in the mood for some decent to bad RPGs.[/url] Star Ocean: The Last Hope International.
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decent to bad RPGs? Is that the sound of Star Ocean 3 I hear walking up?
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NikkolasKing posted:Star Ocean: The Last Hope International. I don't know what kind of blood feud you have against Erg but that's really uncalled for.
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Super Jay Mann posted:decent to bad RPGs? Is that the sound of Star Ocean 3 I hear walking up? That ain't a ps3 title.
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Baltazar Robotnik posted:play last rebellion it is the best Wasn't that the game so bad the localizers had to apologize for picking it up? EDIT: Pfff oh man they really did: quote:Once we got Last Rebellion we realized it was not the kind of title we should release in the United States because of its quality. I feel really sorry for our customers because we released that title. That’s why I told Nao (PR Manager) we have to release the announcement for Last Rebellion, but never push that title. We cannot say it’s a really great title. We felt really sorry, but we had no choice to release that. And yet the company managed to stay alive for 5 more years despite not releasing a single game since. Huh. So what the heck was that game like anyway? HGH fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Nov 20, 2014 |
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Erg posted:I finally have a PS3 and I'm in the mood for some decent to bad RPGs. How is Fairy Fencer F?
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Erg posted:I finally have a PS3 and I'm in the mood for some decent to bad RPGs. How is Fairy Fencer F? alcharagia posted:play Eternal Sonata instead HGH posted:Wasn't that the game so bad the localizers had to apologize for picking it up? 
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Eternal Sonata had some interesting ideas and some really nice aesthetics here and there but man it sure felt like half a game. All I remember is the plot screeching to a sudden halt for some reason or another - any other information on it has completely fled my brain.
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I haven't played it in ages, but I remember it constantly grinding to a halt to explain about Chopin's life at completely arbitrary moments.
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Cake Attack posted:Decent, i hear, but probably not where i'd start. its more of a not quite at the bottom of the barrel, but getting there kinda rpg I actually had access to a PS3 for a while, so I am getting close to running out of non poo poo/gross RPGs to play. SelenicMartian posted:Ni No Kuni looks pretty and is decent to bad thanks to the dense party AI, grindy sidequests, horrible interface and, you know, Level 5 only making good games by accident. Oh, that reminds me, don't touch either of their White Knight Chronicles ever, there's an almost done LP thread of it, and WKC wishes it could be merely bad. I think I've asked about Ni No Kuni in this thread before. I tried to play it twice, and both times the slow pace and AI killed it for me. I wanted to like it SO much, but it just wasn't happening. alcharagia posted:play Eternal Sonata instead I forgot about the weird Chopin game. Are the fights fun? I'm willing to put up with a lot of dumb poo poo for a good battle system (Tales of Graces f)
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Heavy neutrino posted:I don't know what kind of blood feud you have against Erg but that's really uncalled for. What makes SO:TLH so awful? I know next to nothing about JRPGs and only know about SO:TLH because it pops up every so often when I look for RPGs and from what I recall it was well received by critics so I assumed it was at least an okay game.
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DrProsek posted:What makes SO:TLH so awful? I know next to nothing about JRPGs and only know about SO:TLH because it pops up every so often when I look for RPGs and from what I recall it was well received by critics so I assumed it was at least an okay game. The gameplay is fine but as for the other stuff... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNauq6_9iP0
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Counter point: EDGE MAVERICK no for real though please do not play star ocean 4.
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The gameplay is fun, the soundtrack is pretty good if you like Motoi Sakuraba, and all the poo poo people comonly complain about on here is optional. Like that linked cutscene. I enjoyed the diversity of normal battle themes in the game too. After a point there is a unique theme for each planet. Including remixes of Star Ocean 1's and Star Ocean 2's battle themes. I think this or this are my fave battle themes from the game. SO4 is not a good game by any means but it was enjoyable enough. I can say without hesitation that I'd rather replay it any day over ever touching FFXIII again.
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Considering how great Star Ocean 2, Valkyrie Profile, and Radiata Stories were it's amazing how poo poo Star Ocean 3 and 4 were. It's like there are 2 teams at Tri-Ace and one of them is staffed entirely by mentally ill people and children. Having said that I love you Tri-Ace, please make something that isn't poo poo again.  I heard Resonance of Fate was amusing and interesting at least, I haven't really checked it out.
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Srice posted:The gameplay is fine but as for the other stuff... Loved the gameplay, but yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
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evilskillit posted:I heard Resonance of Fate was amusing and interesting at least, I haven't really checked it out. Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVibNKrp8sQ Tri-Ace supposedly helped with CG in FF 13-2 and Lightning Returns. The valkyrie transformation near the end of 13-2 is just like the into scene of VP. But LR is very much a remake of Valkyrie Profile 1.
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evilskillit posted:Considering how great Star Ocean 2, Valkyrie Profile, and Radiata Stories were it's amazing how poo poo Star Ocean 3 and 4 were. It's like there are 2 teams at Tri-Ace and one of them is staffed entirely by mentally ill people and children. Having said that I love you Tri-Ace, please make something that isn't poo poo again. Actually, most of Tri-Ace's games are made by the same people. Yoshiharu Gotanda, one of the founding members of Tri-Ace, directed Star Ocean 2, 3, and Valkyrie Profile. The biggest staff changes are in Radiata Stories, VP2, SO4, and Resonance of Fate.
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