According to that poll they like the marriage system, though. Just not the petting stuff.
Fire Emblem Fates' localization doesn't have the petting minigame
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Wow, I'm really impressed at some of the reactions in this thread.
I mean, I totally get people being glad it's gone, but it's honestly not that creepy at all, it's awkward at most. People are treating this as if it was Monster Monpiece (that's the game with the vita rubbing gif, right?), but it's just... dumb.
As I said, I get not wanting dumb shit in the game, so I don't mind people being glad it's removed, but "otaku pandering garbage" and "shit for people who like hentai and have no shame" seems like waaaaaaay too much.
Unless the gif is hiding some part of it that's actually creepy.
I mean, I totally get people being glad it's gone, but it's honestly not that creepy at all, it's awkward at most. People are treating this as if it was Monster Monpiece (that's the game with the vita rubbing gif, right?), but it's just... dumb.
As I said, I get not wanting dumb shit in the game, so I don't mind people being glad it's removed, but "otaku pandering garbage" and "shit for people who like hentai and have no shame" seems like waaaaaaay too much.
Unless the gif is hiding some part of it that's actually creepy.
lol that's even more hilarious
Yeah, it was just the general awkwardness of the whole thing.
Coffee Dog
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Well, thankfully I'm not parroting that. I just don't think that this will help gain significant sales either, and now western gamers have a definitively lesser game with no real upside.
Fire Emblem Awakening sold 390K in the west
Nintendo pretty much doesn't care about you yeah.
I wish all of those other handheld RPGs could have sales as 'niche' as what Awakening did.
lmfao
His number is way off. Nintendo announced 1.9M for Awakening a year ago. Japan is maybe 500k of that.
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Jotamide
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Yeah, I would actually take the minigame if it meant having the game meme-free.
BobbyRobby
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Some of those gifs of petting dudes seems pretty light-hearted and funny. I would try it out but be annoyed if this was required to increase stats.
Anyone who is overjoyed or oversaddened by this news is weird to me.
Anyone who is overjoyed or oversaddened by this news is weird to me.
Sold much more than that. Probably 1.2-4 million between the States (including hat and down below) and Europe.
SenorArdilla
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This isn't coming from 2ch or amazon.jp is it? Because those places tend to be overly critical.
It's always weird to see people be happy about content getting removed from the game.
Can't say I disagree. Hopefully the people that care about that crap have bought a Japanese 3DS by now. I don't think that sort of thing is going to be missed stateside.
Aniki wouldn't support such an action.
It's a game meant to be taken semi-seriously unlike Triforce Heroes. I don't think you need to worry.
Jeffolation
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That would be most awesome.
Famitsu poll. It was pretty lukewarm, where the reception to shipping was really positive.
Basically my thoughts. Such a move isn't going to increase sales, nor is it going to decrease much. It's just, well, censorship. Weird seeing so many people in support of such, but I guess it's ok if it's something they don't like?
Ah, whoops. My numbers are from 2013 sorry. http://www.siliconera.com/2013/09/1...ire-emblem-awakening-luigis-mansion-and-more/
But yeah, if that's the case then yeah 1.4 million is pretty niche right :^)
Nope, it was mentioned by someone in this thread. I'd like to read it too! Props to Japan for not liking this stuff
That pretty much means it'll be gone for the next game.Coffee Dog
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but the stateside version of the game will be filled with otaku pandering, just not this one minigame
i feel like i'm shouting into the void here
If it's required, then yeah, fuck that shit.
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Steve Youngblood
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My problem is that I do feel like it's kind of disingenuous to say that content that is part of the game can or should just be ignored if it's not to your liking. If this was the a deleted scene that was tucked away on the extras disc, it would be silly of me to deride the inclusion of such bonus footage. But I feel like it's kind of akin to arguing that a scene in a film that's deemed not to work in editing shouldn't be cut from the Blu-Ray release seeing as how people can use the skip chapter feature if they really wanted to.
I realize this might seem a disingenuous comparison. However, I do think some care needs to be taken even in a medium like gaming to realize everything adds up to a whole. If -- and I realize this is a big if given the debate going on right now -- something is deemed to not work, I don't think you leave bad content in just because you can justify it as not necessary.
Poltergust
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I forget, was this mini-game shown in an English Nintendo Direct at some point? I remember seeing a video of it...
M0nochromatic
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Would there be anything left?
I'm glad the gay conversion/date drugging and creepy face petting is gone, but it doesn't really make the game palatable to me. That tone and writing on display in that cut content isn't the outlier, it's indicative of what the series has become and what the rest of the game is.
It's fine for those who like it, but you can't cut the "anime" out of FE at this point.
Coffee Dog
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it isn't. you can basically pretend it doesn't exist.
Reading through some earlier posts, the minigame isn't required, but you might miss a few somewhat important bits of dialogue concerning some characters.
Paracelsus
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Yes, a dead series. The cognitive dissonance is staggering, same that happened with Persona 3 and 4.
I see what you're trying to say, but I don't think your analogy is apt since a movie is designed to be viewed as a whole, and hitting "Chapter Skip" would fundamentally alter its flow. You would note the jump; it would be impossible -not- to note the jump. Unlike this game, where it sequesters the controversial stuff away in a separate area that you can easily ignore without impacting the flow of the main campaign.
To put it another way, never touching Smash Tour in Smash Bros. WiiU won't have the same impact on the overall experience as fast-forwarding through a scene in a movie.
Tangential, but what about games with very clear divides in content? A prominent example is single player and multiplayer. I couldn't care less about the fact that GTA5 had online multiplayer and I probably wouldn't have had much fun with it, but I loved the single player story very much.
I think there is value in being able to disassociate elements in a game from each other, letting players pick the content they want to interact with and ignore the ones they don't.
deadeyekiwi
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Its good that they cut this. I think it was right were it needed to be with awakening. My younger cousins (10-13yrs) all play fire emblem and don't need to see this.
WrenchNinja
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did I play a different shadow dragon
no one on gaming side wants to talk about game mechanics
AcademicSaucer
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Persona 3 and 4 have shit dungeons, Fire Emblem actually has above average tactics gameplay.
Azure Phoenix
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On one hand it's not going to bother me since I wouldn't have used that feature anyway, on the other I'm getting a little tired of Nintendo's slow regression back to the mid-90s.
We get it Nintendo, you want a PEGI 3-7 rating for literally everything, can't possibly have a 10 year old seeing a girl in a swimsuit, my god won't somebody please think of the children. Problem is you're being fucking stupid, having a range of games aimed at different age groups and demographics is not a bad thing. Fire Emblem isn't going to sell better just by having a lower age rating on the box, constant censoring is going to drive away part of the existing target market instead.
We get it Nintendo, you want a PEGI 3-7 rating for literally everything, can't possibly have a 10 year old seeing a girl in a swimsuit, my god won't somebody please think of the children. Problem is you're being fucking stupid, having a range of games aimed at different age groups and demographics is not a bad thing. Fire Emblem isn't going to sell better just by having a lower age rating on the box, constant censoring is going to drive away part of the existing target market instead.
Yeah, Tiki was only 500.
dangeraaron10
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I was going to go do productive things and go eat on my day off of work.
But this shit is just too fun to watch.
But this shit is just too fun to watch.
BroodShadow
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I don't understand how some of you people can take the stance I'm offended/creeped out by thing X thing cut it.
I can not stand censorship I does not matter how I feel about the thing in question.
I can not stand censorship I does not matter how I feel about the thing in question.
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