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#101: Jun 30th 2011 at 10:46:46 AM

[up] I guess the only solution is to... Murder all the casuals i guess. Even out the numbers.

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#102: Jun 30th 2011 at 10:50:35 AM

One of the problems may be that the genre is more obscure, so they don't tend to localize many of 'em, which makes the genre more obscure.

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#103: Jun 30th 2011 at 10:51:02 AM

JRP Gs are becoming more and more rare. sad

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#104: Jun 30th 2011 at 10:55:50 AM

The ones we do get are of pretty high quality, but they're way too few and far between.

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#105: Jun 30th 2011 at 10:58:46 AM

[up][up][up] A slippery slope is there ever was one. At this rate, all we'll ever have are things that can hardly be called games.

edited 30th Jun '11 10:58:58 AM by Schitzo

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#106: Jun 30th 2011 at 11:02:08 AM

I don't quite think this signifies the End Of Games yet. We're still getting quality games. Just not all the ones we'd like, which is a damn shame.

edited 30th Jun '11 11:02:19 AM by Enlong

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#107: Jun 30th 2011 at 11:12:45 AM

if theres anything i hate about Nintendo, its their audacity to push the "so close and yet so far"-ness in the Smash Bros. series.

If you're gonna show us elements of a japanese exclusive game in a game you release worldwide and FLAUNT IT TO US, FREAKING SELL IT TO US.

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#108: Jun 30th 2011 at 11:25:31 AM

See, if these were obscure titles, I'd understand. But Last Story? All the Mistwalker games released in the west have sold decently.

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#109: Jun 30th 2011 at 12:34:15 PM

Meh, gonna start learning japanese language, not even the dubs or the translations are decent anymore

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#110: Jun 30th 2011 at 12:38:07 PM

Didn't one of these titles only sell 200,000 copies in Japan? If a JRPG can't sell in Japan I can see why they think it won't sell in America.

edited 30th Jun '11 12:38:14 PM by Kostya

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#111: Jun 30th 2011 at 12:40:42 PM

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Funy, they are becoming more interesting then Final Fantasy and even Dragon Quest

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#112: Jun 30th 2011 at 12:44:42 PM

I am sad, but I'll get over it. I have plenty of games to catch up on, and a bunch I still want to buy or am planning to buy once they're released. Even if quite a few of them are probably not getting translated (namely, Valkyria Chronicles 3, Tales of Versus, and Last Story, and the fact that FF Type-0 hasn't showed up at all in the West as far as I know makes me slightly concerned).

Also, I hate when I get to a topic and the conversation I want to respond to ended several pages ago, but heck, I'll respond anyways. I don't really find JRP Gs that anime-ish. Or at least Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. The Tales series is pretty anime-like, but the other thing that comes to mind when I think of an anime-ish game is Blaz Blue, a fighting game, out of the ones I've played. Anyways, I've tried really hard to get into anime, but the over-the-top fanservice and stupid humor in a lot of them just drives me away.

Sure, Final Fantasy has fanservice, but at least it doesn't wave it around in your face constantly (well, there's X-2, but I haven't played that.) Now that I think about it, though, it's not the anime art style (which I like) or the often labyrinthine plots (hey, I like Kingdom Hearts) that drive me away from anime. It's the character archetypes. I know a lot of people would disagree with me, but whoever writes the characters in Final Fantasy does a good job at at least not making them insufferably irritating and unlikeable, IMO.

edited 30th Jun '11 12:45:57 PM by Beorc

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#113: Jun 30th 2011 at 1:52:06 PM

I have 2 questions...........................

1)How do I bypass the region-locking? I don't want to buy another Wii, and apparently theres a program or something, or some micro SD or something...theres something called "Wii Freeloader" which has been blocked by a recent upadte. Which ones are proven to work? No idea how to get one though...if they won't localize a game, I'll find other ways to get it.

2)Is the only way to buy foreign games to import them?

edited 30th Jun '11 1:53:25 PM by Signed

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WildKnight Black Knight from the wasteland. Since: Jan, 2001
#114: Jun 30th 2011 at 1:54:39 PM

I don't know if the Freeloader still works. If nothing else, homebrew is required if you want to play imported games — if just to downgrade the Wii system firmware back to where the Freeloader actually works, or otherwise mucking with some settings and playing it normally.

And "buying foreign games" is literally the exact definition of "importing games," so I'm not exactly sure what you're asking there.

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#115: Jun 30th 2011 at 1:59:12 PM

He might be asking if there are any stores within the States that would carry such things there at the physical store itself. Possibly along with a larger online library of products that would involve you the customer going through the import process. So instead of ordering it and waiting for it to be shipped you could go to this store and find it already there in stock and shelved because they just do that there. The store does the importing for you. Unless it's an item they don't carry in their US branch stores.

A few stores do things like this with manga and such. I have never seen it with games though save a few GBA games I would run into in mostly now defunct stores for fans of Japanese pop culture.

edited 30th Jun '11 2:00:46 PM by Aondeug

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#116: Jun 30th 2011 at 2:03:05 PM

I was under the impression that Signed was not in the USA, considering comments relating to restricted access on Hulu etc.

Minus going to a specialized import store, I'm pretty sure you'd have to have it shipped to you. I don't know of any stores in my state that sell imported games, but we're not exactly known for that up here.

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#117: Jun 30th 2011 at 2:04:24 PM

Ah. Then replace the States with wherever the fuck Signed lives.

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WildKnight Black Knight from the wasteland. Since: Jan, 2001
#118: Jun 30th 2011 at 2:04:56 PM

Yeah, I've actually seen numerous Japanese specialty stores selling imported games (I remember seeing Brawl in the Japanese store across the Gamestop in the mall a month before it was officially released here. That was a crazy temptation to fight.).

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edited 30th Jun '11 2:05:26 PM by WildKnight

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#119: Jun 30th 2011 at 2:08:18 PM

He might be asking if there are any stores within the States that would carry such things there at the physical store itself. Possibly along with a larger online library of products that would involve you the customer going through the import process. So instead of ordering it and waiting for it to be shipped you could go to this store and find it already there in stock and shelved because they just do that there. The store does the importing for you. Unless it's an item they don't carry in their US branch stores.

Exactly, this. Except outside the US.

I've had....really bad experience with customs and anything export related...

So do EB games or Game Spot or Best Buy import for you? Any specific places in particular?

On a similar note. Bottled WATER is deemed too dangerous to carry around now! I blame America and their Minor Injury Over Reaction.

I don't know if the Freeloader still works. If nothing else, homebrew is required if you want to play imported games — if just to downgrade the Wii system firmware back to where the Freeloader actually works, or otherwise mucking with some settings and playing it normally.

I have...little to no experience with this kind of stuff...what's an easy "even a cave man can do it" way?

This is what sucks about gaming in the west...they rarely get the good games! Nothing but mostly junk like Mad World...so the only way to play some of the better games is to hack the Wii now.

Oh how I wish this is April 1st.

edited 30th Jun '11 2:13:03 PM by Signed

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#120: Jun 30th 2011 at 2:11:25 PM

Hey, we still got Radiant Historia, and Muramasa. We don't get all junk, as far as localized Asian games go.

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#121: Jun 30th 2011 at 2:13:31 PM

Funny thing is...I initially meant to say "mostly junk" at first, but I ended up editing and forgot to include "mostly"...

Radiant Historia sounds fun...but no stores is selling the damn thing.

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HOLY F*CKING SHIT! INSTANT 10/10

I must buy this game once I find it! Whatever those geniuses who made EO is working on, it MUST be good!

edited 30th Jun '11 2:15:41 PM by Signed

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#122: Jun 30th 2011 at 2:14:16 PM

What burns me is that there's now literally nothing for me to look forward to on the consoles.

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#123: Jun 30th 2011 at 2:24:12 PM

I found the last copy in my state, apparently. Haven't had time to play RH yet, but I'm told it's very good, and I'm willing to give it a go. The approach it has towards time travel sounds very interesting, and the combat looks at least un-boring, which is a plus.

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#124: Jun 30th 2011 at 2:29:51 PM

[up]Word of caution: it has a very limited number of areas and music tracks, and you're required to go back and forth through these areas quite a few times throughout the game.

I don't know, it just feels kind of...budgety. The writing is great, but it kind of falls short in terms of presentation and assets.

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#125: Jun 30th 2011 at 2:36:54 PM

I think the reason JRP Gs aren't doing well anymore is not entirely due to the games themselves but what they're associated with. Namely, it's bleed over from the anime backlash that's been going around these days.

I mean, on the surface there isn't much difference between your average JRPG and your average anime. That's enough to put some people off.

I don't think there's ever been much overlap between people who play JRP Gs and people who hate anime, but I think that this comment does single out a major issue, namely that there isn't that much difference between the average JRPG and the average anime these days. The focus of the genre seems to have shifted to style over substance, the games with large budgets seem to mostly pour it into visual presentation, and relatively few studios seem to be approaching video games as a distinct medium with their own unique strengths and weaknesses as a storytelling medium.

...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.

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