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I'm pretty sure Xenogears went Greatest Hits, and Parasite Eve didn't do half bad(probably thanks to the fact that it included the first demo of FFVIII).
Persona 2, Katamari Damacy, and Parasite Eve all did well enough to merit multiple sequels, Earthbound got a sequel (eventually), and Xenogears got three pseudo-prequels. Robot Alchemic Drive is the only one on the list that falls squarely into the "who cares, nobody bought it" camp.
Also: Xagarath forgot to add Chrono Trigger to that list of awesome non-PAL games.
Well I think it's great. It's cheesy and campy but the gameplay is solid, the controls are good, and the story is interesting. It's one of the best hardcore offerings on the Wii, I think.
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And?
The CIA created Al Qaeda, those fucking Albanians, overthrew about eight democracies and about five dictatorships that really did not need to be turned into lawless shitholes.
News to me. It's just usually been about Japan having stuff before.
I've always hated region locking.
You say it like they even give us Earthbound. Sure, there was that one time...
The way Nintendo handles it outside of Japan, one might say Europe got lucky with that particular title.
Like, "Lex Luthor has stolen 40 cakes" terrible?
I think Famitsu gave it good scores, too.
Wait, are they the ones that give good scores to everything?
To say nothing of the lack of alternatives at the moment.
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Nah I'm just joshing with ya though. :P
Well, put it this way, I've got Fallout, Quantum of Solace, Fable and Red Alert 3 sitting here with Gears 2 arriving on Monday, and Disaster is still managing to draw me in and make me love it.
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And no I'm not joking.
That's the plot of seasons 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 of "24".
A season goes:
Arab Terrorists-> Russians -> White dudes(non foreign and/or British) -> our own government?
I mean one of them had the President involved in a terror plot seriously. I don't actually think anyone would give a shit about the game.
In fairness, I did mean on Nintendo. The one thing everyone's been riding their ass about since E3 has been a lack of anything remotely hardcore, so all I'm saying is that for the Wii (as noted), it's not only one of the best, but in terms of current, it's also one of the only.
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You'd think no one would care about the "sex" scene in Mass Effect, but guess who was all over it.
Sure, our government has done all kinds of crap, but the folks at Fox News don't like to be reminded of it.
24 is okay because the easily offended can pretend the evil government is controlled by liberals, plus Jack Bauer gets to torture the shit out of people.
Long story short, yeah, some folks are going to have a shitfit over this, and Nintendo is banking the shitfit will be less intense after the election.
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Excellent.
No wait, the opposite of that.
by my maths, it's £27.89 + £1.60 delivery, so £29.49, which is ~ $46.80 delivered.
Legal ones of course.
I don't think this would breach any forum rules.
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This holiday is going to be super tight for me and the wife, so probably no new games at all. But I'd still like to have a nice guide handy for doing the homebrew channel. Who knows? I may get run over by a limo and have the guy inside buy me a pony and everything my cold black heart desires.
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All in all, it's just awesome. It's complete. It's the most cinematic game I've played since Shenmue in a way. The Shenmue comparison is one I'd make quite a lot, too - both games take many different genres and 'modes of play' and introduce them to you as and when you hit them. This game is like all the fast, action paced bits of Shenmue strung together, mixed in with a bit of Time Crisis and a bit of the Minigame style action you'd expect from the Wii. QTEs, duck-and-shoot fighting, minigame rescues and exploration are all the name of the game, and it is god damn awesome.
This is without a doubt one of the few games I've played to have done QTEs well. The 'last boss' was absolutely incredible, and it was powered entirely by QTEs. I was really on the edge of my seat.
This is the most movie-like game I've ever played too, sans Metal Gear Solid 4. You do less watching than Metal Gear, but it's sitll got a very fun, interesting plot. Wildly unbelievable but it's fine - this game is a lot like being in a Disaster-driven series of 24 - lots of shit happens, and just when you think everything's going to calm down it goes crazy again.
The score is amazing. Characters are well enough developed evne if they are very much simple stereotypes and like Ryo, Ray is a simple but really likable lead. And yes, Reggie is right, the voice acting isn't great, but it fits the entire feel of this game, which is this super-cheesy every-disaster-and-action-movie-you've-ever-seen-rolled-into-one.
I really enjoyed this game. I think part of it is because I love light gun games in general, but light-gun games are usually low on plot and have simplistic, arcade game values in the score, characters, design, and general aesthetic. This game has the arcadey light gun gameplay with detailed weapon and character upgrades, a fun plot, and high, high production values.
This game is in my mind the vision of what Wii Hardcore should be in the future. Despite the lower graphics it looks fantastic in places (not so hot in others, but whatever) and is more than passable. The way the controls work are perfect for the Wii - a mulititude of different 'styles' of gameplay, each with different setups, some motion sensitive driven, and some not. It just works.
Sorry if this seems gushy, but I fucking love this game. It's a crime this may not get released in NA. A crime.
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So badly that game's price was put on free fall.
I could think of quite a few other games that would fit a lot nicer under the "not worth 50 dollars" tag. It looks like a full retail price game to me. If he doesn't think it's worth full price than why not sell it for less than full price?
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And isn't the US a fairly large portion of the market? I would think that the potential sales alone would cause it to be released here.
i mean, its not my kind of game anyway, but i just feel its really dumb to not release a practically finished and paid for title for marketing reasons... there will always be SOMEONE who likes it.
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Bwuh? If it doesn't have Mario on the cover I'm pretty sure the masses don't "swallow their first party releases blindly." Can you name me a game that sold "to the masses" that doesn't have Mario on it? WiiPlay doesn't count because everyone knows you buy that game for the extra remote.
Woah, Nintendo game prices NEVER free fall. Sounds like the game's aptly named.
Legend of Zelda? :P
That is all.
But was that the masses, or the "hardcore"?
Same. Unless there's an announcement soon (next 6 months or so) I'll end up doing that.
Is there a way to play imports though that doesn't require weird hacks?
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