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[Heimdall_Xtreme]

We used to have a limited selection of games we always wanted to play, but due to localization restrictions, we never could.

These are mine.
















Games that never made it to America

 

[kevboard]

Serial Experiments Lain... although I think it's supposedly barely even a game, and more like an interactive software CD

GANTZ on PS2. My japanese isn't good enough to play it. I saw it at an import shop back in the day... looked interesting.

otherwise tho, I can't think of any. most titles that were hard to come by I did play through emulation back in the day. like some NES, MSX and MAME titles.

maybe some Wonderswan titles.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

 

[Mister Wolf]

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Serial Experiments Lain... although I think it's supposedly barely even a game, and more like an interactive software CD

GANTZ on PS2. My japanese isn't good enough to play it. I saw it at an import shop back in the day... looked interesting.

otherwise tho, I can't think of any. most titles that were hard to come by I did play through emulation back in the day. like some NES, MSX and MAME titles.

maybe some Wonderswan titles.

Gantz is actually a good game, and it was made by Konami.

This game is great too, also is a Konami game

 

[ReBurn]

Nothing comes to mind. If I couldn't play it then it was probably weeb shit anyway.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

The Samurai Shodown RPG

 

[Danjin44]

 

[CastorSoze]

I actually own Disaster Day of crisis and Project Zero 2 on the Wii since I'm in Europe. And some day I may even play Disaster.

I remember hearing of a game that was going to feature Godzilla and Evangelion. Looking it up now, City Shrouded in Shadow (Kyoei Toshi), it looks like it released on PS4 in 2017, exclusively in Japan.

 

[Sunraku]

Dragons Dogma Online

 

[Burning Blade]

Goemon 2 and 3.

 

[digimaster7]

Yakuza Kenzan, if rgg studio doesn't announce shit in a few years I might caved and play it on emulator using the google translator app

 

[6502]

Disaster was good.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Yakuza Kenzan, if rgg studio doesn't announce shit in a few years I might caved and play it on emulator using the google translator app

But a localized version was released. You can play it now.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Dragons Dogma Online

Got some good news for you: the game got revived by fans and it's playable, with a ton of content available and most stuff translated to english.

Thread 'Dragon's Dogma Online'

Mar 11, 2025

Just wanted to bring this to your attention: Dragon's Dogma Online has been revived, it's fully playable and currently has multiple servers that offer different approaches to the game:

• DDON Server: basically the closest to the original.
• Dogma Rising: smaller server, with a few more custom tweaks. They've blunt some of the MMO grindiness to give a more pure Dragons Dogma experience. Leveling seems faster, and money/blood orbs seem more readily available.

I've tried Dogma Rising...

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[Heimdall_Xtreme]

They already had everything... English voice acting. And they didn't release it.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Cancelled and banned in America... I'm one of the few people who have a physical copy.

 

[nial]

But a localized version was released. You can play it now.

That's Ishin!, not Kenzan!
Even then, it's not the original 2014 PS4 game, it's an inferior remake.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I have Ex Troopers on PS3 (Danjin). It's a beautiful game, but I didn't understand anything

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

That's Ishin!, not Kenzan!
Even then, it's not the original 2014 PS4 game, it's an inferior remake.

I wanted to share some good news

 

[digimaster7]

But a localized version was released. You can play it now.

this is ISHIN, I already have 100 hours on this

 

[Tobimacoss]

Dead or Alive 7.

Due to location in Space/Time.

 

[Halfkut]

if we are talking language barriers then Segagaga is my white whale

I believe a translation is actually coming tho

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Language barriers.
It's a visual novel.

And the story is extremely interesting.

 

[PeteBull]

Holy Squaresoft jrpg Trifecta never came to PAL region playstation, so back in mid 90s in europe we had to pirate that shit: FFT, Xenogears and Parasite Eve

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Dragon Quest X.

 

[reinking]

Samurai Shodown RPG.

 

[Ceallach]

Coupla mentions of Samurai Shodown RPG. It has an English translation for those interested. Its really good. The campaigns are petty short too.

DQX is it for me.

 

[CastorSoze]

They already had everything... English voice acting. And they didn't release it.

You probably mean the physical release back then, but I think it's on the Switch N64 online.

 

[Juja]

I had heard of Terranigma and attempted to play it on an emulator years ago, but the layers were all screwy. My wife bought me a repro cart a few years ago, and playing it for the first time was like magic.

Seriously, it was me discovering this game for the first time as if it was one of my childhood classics. It was just like the first time I played Chrono Trigger when I was 9, but I was like... 36 or so at the time, so feeling like a kid again at my age was wild.

Tangentially related, Actraiser Renaissance finally went on sale for $12, so I bought it on Switch 2, and I can't put it down. Quintet really had The Touch back in the SNES days.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

You probably mean the physical release back then, but I think it's on the Switch N64 online.

That's right... I don't understand... They already had the game in English... They just had to release it. It would be a cult classic...

But at least we'd have it as a great game on the N64.

I'm playing it on Switch 2 and it feels like those old arcade games... Really cool.