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Star Ocean PSP definitely improved a lot of important things, but I do miss the SNES' graphical style. And while it may be a bad (and unofficial) translation, Silvestoli is a much cooler surname than Silvestri. I'm not that fond of 'Roddick' as a name either, even if Ratix was a pretty stupid alternative.
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"We won't be allowing porn back on Tumblr, but we will point out that the deal included a full set of backup tapes from when the site was full of the stuff. We'll start the bidding at fifty million dollars..."
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Magic could have been good. Admittedly, given how many settings it's had over the years, you could slap a few bits of terminology on pretty much any fantasy film and claim it's based on M:TG. But something based on the Gatewatch vs Eldrazi storyline could have made a great trilogy.

Flash Gordon could have been amazing if they played it in the spirit of the original, but it's much more likely it would have been a totally generic space film and thus sucked.
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A 2D Metroidvania game set in the Mushroom Kingdom starring a Toad. It would have a similar lighthearted-horror theme to Luigi's Mansion, and be titled Toadstoolvania.
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So we've got a topic about games you can't play in English (well, mostly). But what about games that you can play in English, but didn't make it through the translation process unscathed?

Assume that this will not be a remake- in the likely event it's an old game, it will be presented as a perfect emulation of the original system, and only the text (and speech if appropriate) will be altered. It can either be a more faithful translation (if you think the original changed too much) or just a better translation (if the original was gibberish).

My vote would definitely be Wild ARMs 1 and/or Wild ARMs: Alter Code F. Great game, but huge swathes of it were unintelligible nonsense.
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Disaster Report 3 (and 4 if they ever pull it out of development hell)
Valkyria Chronicles 3
Yakuza Kenzan/Ishin
Dragon Quest Monsters 1+2 PS1
All the non-localised Ace Attorney spinoffs
Ape Escape: Big Mission and Ape Escape: Million Monkeys
Princess Crown
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere
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The main problem is that the immense profitability of the F2P model means that even developers who could make good games choose to deliberately ruin them in order to support the need for constant IAPs. Decent strategic setups and interesting stories that could make fantastic games if they just sold them are turned into soulless, padded grinds with zero balance, because you've either got worthless equipment/characters that can't achieve anything, or ultra-mega-hyper-rare stuff out of the gacha than renders every challenge moot (for a month or so, then they roll out the new, harder challengeds and new, even rarer, even more overpowered gachabait).

And, of course, half of them shut down with no story resolution a couple of years after launch, leaving all the money you poured into it even more wasted than it already was.
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Weekly games night at my FLGS, plus the occasional weekend Arkham Horror LCG session whenever my brother and I are free to meet up (and can find the next scenario, which seems to be out of print and nigh-impossible to get hold of).
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Already got 1&2, but fortunately it's a 'Complete Your Collection' type bundle so I can get v3 for 10.

Is Ultra Despair Girls worth ~5? I've heard pretty mixed things about it. I know it's very different gameplay wise, but is the story good/connected?

Also Nonary Games for 5 and Zero Time for 3, or bundled for ~6. I'd rather play them on portables, but that's a very tempting price to get shiny HD versions. With voice acting, IIRC?
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They announced Bikini Karate Babes 3?
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Who the fuck comes up with subtitles for fighting game revisions, and are they getting the help they so clearly need?
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Should have gone with Suikoden V, since it's a prequel.

(So is Suikoden IV, but its so far in the past that connections are very limited)
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The MMO the boy MC plays in P3 is a reference to P2. That's all I know about connections between the 'old-' and 'new-style' Persona games
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It's not to everyone's tastes, but I ended up really liking TW1's combat. Once you get the rhythm of each fighting style down, it's a lot of fun. So much so, in fact, that I ended up having trouble adjusting to TW2's more 'normal' combat. I finished that game still feeling that I was missing an important trick to fight more efficiently.

The UI and journal in TW1 are shit, but then that's pretty much consistent throughout the series. Full of quests that are actually subquests of other quests with no indication that you can't progress in one until you've done another one that doesn't appear connected yet... it's a mess.
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Obellisk posted...

But who is the fugitive?

Waluigi
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An open-world online survival bounty hunting sim where Captain Falcon, Samus Aran and Fox McCloud compete to track down a wanted fugitive.
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Shonen_Bat posted...

Where's "confused"

It's not that complicated provided that you ignore:
a) the metaphysics. Stuff just happens because magic, and any attempt to figure out how/why a particular person's actions produce the observed result is futile
b) anything relating to Unchained X/Union Cross. Because seriously, what the fuck is going on!?
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Well this boss fight is... hard.

All lv 120 7* SN/SN+ medals in a +35 Keyblade, and... curbstomp battle in Ralph's favour. Man, it's been a long time since I've had to consider actual strategy in this game.
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None.

Do Marvel and MtG have endings? I assumed all F2P games constantly drip-fed new 'content' with tiny amounts of story every couple of months until the inevitable shutdown. I've never heard of one that you can actually complete.
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It has been ruled that clones don't count as people and therefore have no rights. Inevitably, this has led to the rise of the ultimate bloodsport- a team of heavily armed punters in a cordoned off arena with hundreds of defenceless clones for them to murder. All livestreamed to millions of disturbingly enthusiastic fans worldwide.

You have been selected as a potential 'DNA donor' to act as a template for the clones. Every day, thousands of your clones will be shot, stabbed and otherwise maimed to death for entertainment. You will, of course, be well paid, and be considered a celebrity since your face will be all over the most popular streams... until it gets a bullet through it. Repeatedly.

Do you accept?
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Looks really bad on the Grayscale colour scheme. Quoted text is only slightly darker than the background.
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"Best Ethnic Minority LGBT+ Character Ever".

Then just sit back and watch the fireworks.
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Dragon Quest Builders 2 kinda has this. The NPCs at your base all do various jobs while you're out adventuring, and make use of all the facilities you build them. I'm not sure how much of it is 'schedule' so much as "This job is open so I will do it now", though.
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Eight. Basically all the main ones except Origins (which I'm about 3/4 of the way through) and Odyssey (which I haven't got yet).

I do own all the others except the two DS games though. BTW, said DS games are actually called AC: Altair's Chronicles and AC II: Discovery.
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100% chance she dies to free up the codename just as Bond decides to come back for one last mission. He'll be 007 again by the time the credits roll.
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Was going to recommend Staples' Kashmir Microfibre chair, but apparently they don't do them any more.
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Didn't manage to find a copy today. Should be able to get it tomorrow.

Incidentally, does anyone know if there's a bonus for having the original on PS4? The Switch version explicitly states there's some unlocks if you have DQB1 save data, but I can't find any reference to it on PS4.
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Since its abject failure, the prices have been plummeting and it hit the point where I figured it was cheap enough to be worth buying a cool Arwing model and get a free Switch game with it.

The game seems... okay. Weapons are too slow, but I'd imagine that's just an early game thing to leave room for upgrades. What I've seen of some of the other characters makes them seem fun enough to maybe be worth picking up their figures, but the other ship designs look pretty bland and having to buy useful weapons is going to be a major irritation.

But ore importantly, the Star Fox integration is, of course, awesome.

Anyone else play it? If so, would you say it's worth buying more toys (or their DLC equivalents, but the toys are cheaper if they ever turn up in CEX), or is the starter pack enough to fully enjoy the game?
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Is Reflection still in it? It gets kind of overshadowed by IMaMOoY, but IMO it also ranks as one of Disney's best ever songs.

Possible lack of songs aside... this looks really good. Don't see how anyone could be fooled by her 'disguise' though, even in the scenes of her in the army she's very obviously female.
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Barbara Gordon
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Wouldn't 'God' be a demotion from how he currently views himself?
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Go ahead, kill all the zombies and leave a bunch of non-beheaded unburnt corpses lying around. I'm sure that'll work out well for you later on.
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Over? Are they actually shutting it down, or are you just assuming that everyone will be moving to MM2 and not making any new MM1 levels?
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I don't mind the difficulty dropping back a bit, but mandatory tutorials piss me off even more than usual when they're very slowly explaining mechanics that are exactly the same as the game I just finished.
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PerfectChaosZ posted...

BlackMageJawa posted...

City of Heroes is back on private servers, if you want a classic MMO that didn't last long enough to be turned into a hollow shell of its former self.

Wait wait wait what- City of Heroes?! That was my game before the end. Private servers? How do I get on that?

Check r/cityofheroes for all the details.

Basically, it turns out that one of the CoH developers leaked the full server code to a friend, and they'd been running a super-secret private server for years while everyone else was fantasising about reviving it via reverse-engineering the code or creating new CoH-like games. Then there was some controversy about moderators on various fansites being aware of all this and conspiring to keep it hidden so as to keep the cash flowing to the various other projects, someone finally blew the whistle, and all the software was made public.
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Linkle
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City of Heroes is back on private servers, if you want a classic MMO that didn't last long enough to be turned into a hollow shell of its former self.
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Strange Journey was SMT IV in all but name- in fact, it was called IV during development, but was changed to a standalone title becase the writers didn't want a mainline SMT game (spoiler for SMT IV) that doesn't take place in Tokyo.
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The Raidou Kuzunoha games are labelled Devil Summoner because the 'name' Raidou Kuzunoha (later established as a title given to the best detective in their clan) originated in the first Devil Summoner game. It and its sequel (Soul Hackers, which is what's on 3DS) are gridcrawlers similar to the early main SMT games, while the RK games are action-RPGs where each demon works like a different weapon. The Kuzunoha Detective Agency shows up in a few other SMT games, including Persona 2.

To clarify-
> Devil Summoner is a gridcrawler for PS1 that was never translated. The first SMT game to feature a character going by Raidou Kuzunoha
> Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers is a gridcrawler for PS1 and Saturn that was ported to 3DS and translated
> Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs The Soulless Army is an action-RPG for PS2, starring a previous Raidou a few decades earlier
> Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs King Abaddon is a direct sequel to the above
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Didn't they fuck up the specification so that the Switch burns out if you use a normal USB-C cable rather than an official Nintendo Switch one? Or did they fix that?
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Are the XBlaze games any good? I like the BlazBlue universe, and the PC version of Code:Embryo is in a bundle on Fanatical ATM.
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I like the cut of your Gibdo
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Featuring all the Seiken Densetsu games you've been waiting for!
> Sword of Mana!
> Heroes of Mana!
> Dawn of Mana!
> And, for the first time in English, one of those crappy Java puzzle games! Of Mana!
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"We're going to hit these goons so hard, words describing the severity of the impact will be left unexplored." He pointed at his own pistol. "One of you takes the bullet while I'm shooting the other, and we can take turns firing at these dudes. It's better if we hit three of you."

Danger? I said, glancing at my father and wondering if we had to try it. "Danger? You mean there's any need?"

"It's not a choice," he said, taking out a rifle-shaped box and packing it as neatly as he could in the back of a truck. He paused and reached back into a backpack. "This one. I know how we do it. The one you're going to take is called a 'bladed' shotgun. It's basically an open-fisted, double-barrelled, single-shot shotgun. The only difference between one of these guns, if one doesn't get to you, is its blade is longer in front of the barrel. It should be able to get through a headshot."

I nodded. The thought came to me in a moment and I smiled. In the old days in the Wasteland, bladed weapons were common. It was part of the job description, or, at least, part it wasn't, given that one was.

Frank Miller's Lego Batman Movie had a slightly different tone...
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The point of a trailer for a franchise movie isn't to get fans to see it. It's to trick non-fans into seeing it by pretending it's something completely different.

Just remember that it's controlled by marketing, and the two requirements for a career in advertising are a) a complete lack of understanding of human thought processes, and b) a void of purest evil where their soul should be.
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https://www.gog.com/promo/20190527_weekly_sale

Syberia I&II PC down to 2 each, along with the creator's earlier game Amerzone (which takes place in the same world).
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They're good, although unless you definitely want them on Switch, they've definitely been much cheaper on PC.
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I'm dreading A Whole New World. At least Will Smith isn't involved in that one (unless they decided to go all out on fucking it up).

My guess is they'll have drained it of all emotion except sheer boredom.
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kateee posted...

Persona 1 - literally only here because it's Persona. i'll probably hold off on this forever in the hopes of some kind of remake that will never happen

The remake already happened. It's on PSP, and while it's still only an okay game, it's a massive improvement over butchered PS1 localisation.
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RE2 original was a 'classic' style survival horror where it was almost always a good idea to avoid killing anything you don't have to in order to conserve ammo, but RE2R, zombies seem to be able to follow you from room to room, which makes evasion seem less plausible. And it seems to be doing the RE4 thing of feeding you just enough ammo that you're always 'running out' but still have just enough to get by.
So, while I'm still getting a feel for the rules of the game this time round- should I be trying to put as many enemies down as possible, or are many of them obstacles to be avoided rather than shot?

Also, should I still be aiming for the head? I know it's not a one-shot kill any more, but I'd instinctively assumed it still did more damage, but I've seen people say limb shots are more important. Is this a 'blow its kneecaps out and walk past it' thing, or a more efficient way of actually killing?
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