The only thing I'm concerned about is the quality of localization for games like Persona, if they even will continue to release them in the west. I don't want them to Yakuza-fy it by just giving us the original Japanese with English subtitles, i.e. minimal localisation effort, while also removing the "too Japanese" parts of the game.
The Yakuza games have the Japanese track with english subtitles because that's how the fans in the west wanted them to be it's nothing to do with being a minimal translation effort, the first Yakuza game had a english dub and it was shit fans hated it so they went with Japanese and english subs for the second game and fans loved it so it's been that way for all other games since.
of course, sega aren't bringing the yakuza games out here anymore at all because they claim there's zero interest in them, and they're supposedly trying to cut back on spending. hopefully the same won't happen to all of atlus's games.
I'm deciding to be optimistic and just assuming that Sega will facilitate European publishing for Atlus going forward and little else will change. I'm learning Japanese as a precautionary measure though. (Always nice to have a back-up and I hear I can make 1000Yen+ a day translating from home.)
Hopefully Sega know better than to meddle with Atlus and give them publishing options in Europe so I dON'T HAVE TO FUCKING WAIT AN ENTIRE YEAR OR MORE FOR MY FUCKING PERSONA GAMES. If not, the option to pirate or watch playthroughs on youtube never go away.
How come I get a feeling the same people that Buuh'd the Xbox One DRM stuff are going to Hurray! at this news... It's an odd world, the world.
Except this was the one and only good idea MS had for their bs online stuff. A tiny miniscule gleam of sunlight amongst a sea of liquid shit. And then they dropped the feature, and now Valve is doing it, and on PC no less. It's almost hilarious.
Which is funny again because Microsoft was implementing Steam in all but name until people booed it off the system entirely. Truly odd.
How come I get a feeling the same people that Buuh'd the Xbox One DRM stuff are going to Hurray! at this news... It's an odd world, the world.
Except this was the one and only good idea MS had for their bs online stuff. A tiny miniscule gleam of sunlight amongst a sea of liquid shit. And then they dropped the feature, and now Valve is doing it, and on PC no less. It's almost hilarious.
Which is funny again because Microsoft was implementing Steam in all but name until people booed it off the system entirely. Truly odd.
So I decided, after a long time of it being downloaded onto my PC to try this highly lauded dungeon crawler Legend of Grimrock
But upon starting I immediately got intimidated by the character select screen. In a way, I despise these screens on my first run through, because I never know how to play the game, and I'm not very happy about losing progress to learn from my (often irreparable) mistakes.
Then I had an idea. I've been egging my friend on to finally start doing "let's plays" with the equipment he bought over a year ago by telling him he needs to play Persona 4 with me. This precludes me from playing it, though. I've watched the anime, played the fighting game (it was delayed a year in europe and I never even noticed... silly me for being poor and thrifty) but I want that joy back so when I saw "custom portrait import" as an option I had to do it!
Roleplaying like this is PERFECT because I can deal with a potential total loss by having a huge laugh as I go. A pity Chie can't use bufu, but I made up for that by making Yukiko a fire mage.
I think they're pretty solid builds (even if I learned a hard lesson about using daggers in the back row. In retrospect, I should have gone with Naoto instead of Yosuke), what do you think?
It still kind of sickens me that proper publishers that put games in boxes like DTP have to go through greenlight because Valve are too haughty to deal with product anymore. God forbid that, as a catalogue, they should spend time reviewing the products themselves.
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