Yeah, that's SaGa. There were two on PS2 though. Romancing SaGa was a remake of the SNES game of the same name and was kinda good. Unlimited Saga was a utter failure.
Only Seiken Densetsu game on PS2 was Dawn of Mana. It.. wasn't very good either.
Most people hated Unlimited. I may be thinking of a different game, but I think they screwed with the leveling system for the US release of Unlimited and made it even more difficult. Like they messed up the enemy scaling to an absurd degree and made one boss nearly impossible.
I recall most spending most of my time in SaGa 2 grinding to get more cash and the odd stat increase so I could buy better (and exponentially more expensive) gear and not get wasted by just about anything mid-to-late game, so yeah, my memories of it are not that fond; keep in mind I was about twelve or thirteen at the time, so take that as you will. I liked SaGa 3's more focused narrative and character development system, as well as the time-travel element (which was apparently expanded on in the remake); it felt like a more well-made game to me.
Poking around the Last Story thread is making me very interested, considering it kinda seems like Resonance of Fate, my favorite RPG of this year, gameplay wise, only with more direct control over your characters. Could be worth keeping an eye on.
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edited December 2010
Mini update.
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edited December 2010
I really like the Deus Ex box...sadly I'm getting it for 360 so I'll have that white crap at the top. Still nice though.
I think that PSP game with all the gold is a pachinko game. Also hooray for more Tales games we're never getting (Radiant Mythology) and that *shrug* game is Pia Carrot, a pretty popular visual novel. It's another of those ones that started off as an eroge and became so popular that they just dropped that whole thing. It's just a visual novel now.
Also that Cave shmup is weird as hell. I saw it in a play-asia newsletter a week ago and I swear it's some kind of fat fetish shmup.
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edited December 2010
Those are some pretty crazy colors on that outfit in the Way of the Samurai box.
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Not that there is anything wrong with that box art but I can't help but feel like they could have done something more interesting with it considering the richness of the source material. They could have done something that really vibed with the 'Human Revolution' tag line, something like the augmented fetus from the first teaser trailer. I do like the black & gold polygon thing that they've got going on though.
I think the special edition box art is even worse - I like special editions that have box art that is either more subtle or more focused than the regular edition's - the Gears of War 2 Lancer and Dead Rising 2 Zombrex steelbooks for example. I'd have liked something like an anatomical drawing of a cybernetic hand.
However the box art does the trick just fine and as I've said the only reason I have any criticism at all is because of how impressed I am with the in-game art direction.
That Half Minute Hero 2 box art doesn't seem to capture the spirit of the first one at all. They can't be changing the game's tone that much, can they?
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
edited December 2010
Why the hell does de Blob 2 have the Syfy brand on it?
I really hope we get Catherine here in the states; after reading about the game, it sounds so amazingly strange that I have to play it.
I'm sure we are. I just hope we get new cover art that doesn't make me feel ashamed to own it.
Also, I couldn't help but notice that Birth By Sleep Final Mix in one of these posts. I really don't like how they make a new version of the game literally months after we get ours with new stuff that we'll never see outside of an import.
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edited December 2010
I'm campaigning for Wizardry PS3, but odds of that being localized here are slightly below 'snowball's chance in hell'.
yea theres no way. i figured at best thered be an asian version with english text or something, but even that seems like a pretty slim hope. makes me sad
Not that there is anything wrong with that box art but I can't help but feel like they could have done something more interesting with it considering the richness of the source material. They could have done something that really vibed with the 'Human Revolution' tag line, something like the augmented fetus from the first teaser trailer. I do like the black & gold polygon thing that they've got going on though.
I think the special edition box art is even worse - I like special editions that have box art that is either more subtle or more focused than the regular edition's - the Gears of War 2 Lancer and Dead Rising 2 Zombrex steelbooks for example. I'd have liked something like an anatomical drawing of a cybernetic hand.
However the box art does the trick just fine and as I've said the only reason I have any criticism at all is because of how impressed I am with the in-game art direction.
I have two main criticisms of the box art.
First, yellow is a girly color. In order to appeal to guys, they need something blue.
Second, not enough action. He needs to be holding a gun, because otherwise people won't understand that there are guns in the game. And as a bonus, he should be holding his gun sideways (aka: gangsta style) in order to appeal to teenagers.
EDIT: Okay, he is holding a gun. But the gun needs to be front-and-center! It needs to be in your face!
If they had done this, it would have sold like hotcakes.
yea theres no way. i figured at best thered be an asian version with english text or something, but even that seems like a pretty slim hope. makes me sad
So long as the quests aren't anything too terribly complex, it shouldn't be extremely terrible and hard to play. I've been playing Class of Heroes 3 recently, and once I google translate a quest listing, it's not proven too bad.
I'm pretty sure they've said that the co-op campaign in Portal 2 is just as long as the singleplayer one. I'm still a little surprised that they'd have the robots on the cover. Not that it really matters for me, because why would I have a box for a Valve game?
There is also a version has Socom dogtag logos because it comes with a Socom 4 demo or something.
What also bugs me is the whopping 4 tabs on top. 4 mentions of PlayStation is just ridiculous. Pretty amateurish that a massive multinational like Sony can't come up with something more elegant to convey that information.
I kinda liked the earlier PS3 box art style, with the thin strip that said "Playstation 3" and maybe the two small tabs that say PS3 only and Online Play
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Only Seiken Densetsu game on PS2 was Dawn of Mana. It.. wasn't very good either.
Got them for cheap and ended up hating them both.
Poking around the Last Story thread is making me very interested, considering it kinda seems like Resonance of Fate, my favorite RPG of this year, gameplay wise, only with more direct control over your characters. Could be worth keeping an eye on.
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And oh snap. A western game without a bald space marine lead. Dude actually looks badass.
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
PS3
(Wizardry: Dungeon of Imprisoned Souls/Town of Imprisoned Spirits, a two-pack of the PSN Wizardries.)
PS3/360
(Mildly NSFW)
Like, the axe wasn't even a giveaway.
DS
(Ni no Kuni: The Another World [sic])
(!?!)
(aka Half Minute Hero 2, what horrible art)
(I think it's Kenka Bancho 5?)
(Atelier Annie?)
DS
PS3
(Some bonus Disgaea 4 thing I assume.)
360
(It's a Cave shmup. Really.)
*shrug*
Cero Z? Really? (Their equivalent of an AO, pretty much.)
Translates as "Twinfucker".
Also that Cave shmup is weird as hell. I saw it in a play-asia newsletter a week ago and I swear it's some kind of fat fetish shmup.
oh fuck me, this needs to come out in english so bad. so damn bad.
Not that there is anything wrong with that box art but I can't help but feel like they could have done something more interesting with it considering the richness of the source material. They could have done something that really vibed with the 'Human Revolution' tag line, something like the augmented fetus from the first teaser trailer. I do like the black & gold polygon thing that they've got going on though.
I think the special edition box art is even worse - I like special editions that have box art that is either more subtle or more focused than the regular edition's - the Gears of War 2 Lancer and Dead Rising 2 Zombrex steelbooks for example. I'd have liked something like an anatomical drawing of a cybernetic hand.
However the box art does the trick just fine and as I've said the only reason I have any criticism at all is because of how impressed I am with the in-game art direction.
I'm sure we are. I just hope we get new cover art that doesn't make me feel ashamed to own it.
Also, I couldn't help but notice that Birth By Sleep Final Mix in one of these posts. I really don't like how they make a new version of the game literally months after we get ours with new stuff that we'll never see outside of an import.
I have two main criticisms of the box art.
First, yellow is a girly color. In order to appeal to guys, they need something blue.
Second, not enough action. He needs to be holding a gun, because otherwise people won't understand that there are guns in the game. And as a bonus, he should be holding his gun sideways (aka: gangsta style) in order to appeal to teenagers.
EDIT: Okay, he is holding a gun. But the gun needs to be front-and-center! It needs to be in your face!
If they had done this, it would have sold like hotcakes.
So long as the quests aren't anything too terribly complex, it shouldn't be extremely terrible and hard to play. I've been playing Class of Heroes 3 recently, and once I google translate a quest listing, it's not proven too bad.
Don't forget Reginleiv on the Wii.
On another note, they changed the one for KZ3 posted on the previous page:
Not bad.
What also bugs me is the whopping 4 tabs on top. 4 mentions of PlayStation is just ridiculous. Pretty amateurish that a massive multinational like Sony can't come up with something more elegant to convey that information.