The Lamonster
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Holy shit just saw that Super Mario RPG is coming to Japan!
Hopefully it will hit the US soon...
Hopefully it will hit the US soon...
Wrong. Here are the two main reasons the GAF aggregate is complaining about the Virtual Console:AugustDivision said:It doesn't matter to people like you guys though. You'll complain now when the releases are trickling out, and you would complain if they put out 3 or 4 a week and in a couple years they said "sorry we have nothing left."
There isn't a way to please people like the people in this thread.
thaivo said:What is curious to me about all the complaining is that there are already hundreds of games already released that are perfectly good to buy.
It's like NOA PR is posting here with us!March is roaring in like a lion on the Virtual Console. This might be a goodtime to look back at the massive catalog of classic games and ask yourself ifyou've played them all.
That still doesn't excuse the lack of San Fransisco Rush, Beetle Adv Racing and Pilotwings.thaivo said:Stop the insanity...
What is curious to me about all the complaining is that there are already hundreds of games already released that are perfectly good to buy.
This is not like Xbox Live where you have to get the newest games right when the come out to get the best Live experience. So what if there isn's a AAA game out this week? Some of these games are decades, decades old! Just because they are released "now" doesn't mean they're any newer than the VC games already released.
Perhaps it's because I have so many other obligations in life, but I haven't even been able to play the games I've downloaded... I have yet to play through Ocarina of Time, Super Metroid, Super Mario 3, Super Mario 2 - The Lost Levels, Gates of Thunder, Lords of Thunder, Phantasy Star 2, Mario 64, F-Zero 64, Star Fox 64, and the list goes on and on... :lol
ding ding ding ding ding.Stumpokapow said:But queueing up releases is not a substitute for proper user interface design and decent content navigation tools.
Not unreasonable? When did reason have anything to do with most NeoGaf posts. People on this board really have lost a grip with the reality out there. I actually read this forum almost entirely due to the unreasonableness of the posts. :lol Most should take a step back and see the forest rather than the trees... I think more than a majority of the people who own Wiis are pretty happy with what we've gotten so far... again, perhaps it is just me, but I don't have the money or TIME to get through all the great stuff that has been released thus far.Meloche said:Please, stop wasting our time pretending that the majority of the complaints in this thread are anything but reasonable (I can't speak for the people complaining that there isn't a game they like every week, that's tough shit for them).
Fixed. <3 <3MoxManiac said:There's a very easy way to please us: Release Ys I&II, Earthbound and Shining Force 2.
I see your point. Myself, I've been wishing for the Thunderforce series... but I hear that Technosoft folded, and it is unlikely.crowphoenix said:I'd say it more boils down to the fact that most people are waiting on a game and have been for a long time. This comes from the games getting ESRB rated, which causes us to think said game is coming soon, but months later said game is still no where to be seen. It's a frustrating experiance, especially if the game you are waiting for is one that you either never owned or lost.
I'm just paitently waiting on Shining Force 2. It'll come one day. For now, there's little on the VC that I wish to give Nintendo money for.
Thanks, I understand now. I guess complaints are always going to be louder than post by people who are content. Me, I'm loving what I'm getting. Wiiware has a lot of promise, and has already delivered some nice gems. Just wanted to balance out the negativity.Kobun Heat said:All this complaining isn't about Virtual Console in general: It's about how Americans, for some inexplicable reason, are getting totally dicked. Japan gets four games a week, we get one. That's messed up.
borghe said:ding ding ding ding ding.
this is pretty much it. Why doesn't Nintendo release everything they have? Because finding it all and sifting through the shop channel is a fucking chore. The same reason why the top sellers list almost is ALWAYS the same. Sure it's because they are great games, but a lot of that has to do with the fact that those and the new games are really the only easy games to find on the system. As an online retailer, I have generally found that users don't list "all products" unless they are REALLY REALLY trying to find something and having a hard time doing it otherwise. This is why so many retailers for the last couple of years have been plastering recommended products, highlights, sale items, etc all over their sites... Online retailing is 75% search, 20% impulse/easy access, and 5% browsing. With VC I would guess the numbers are closer to 90% impulse/easy access, 6% browsing, and 4% searching/filtering. Pretty crap ass UI that forces people to do stuff in almost the exact opposite way they are used to doing it on every other site.
Fix your UI Nintendo, and put all the titles up and let their own quality speak for themselves.
Kobun Heat said:All this complaining isn't about Virtual Console in general: It's about how Americans, for some inexplicable reason, are getting totally dicked. Japan gets four games a week, we get one. That's messed up.
Maybe Nintendo is really shooting for an authentic recreation of the silver-age gaming experience, where Japan gets a flood of amazing games and America gets a quarter of them a year later.PepsimanVsJoe said:This is on point.
The majority of posts in this thread are by a small group of regulars, and most of the complaints are in the vein of what I posted above. Expecting more than a game a week for the VC in NA when NOE/NCL continue to do so is not unreasonable. I wouldn't say expecting games that have been rated by the ESRB to come out eventually to be all that unreasonable a demand either.thaivo said:Not unreasonable? When did reason have anything to do with most NeoGaf posts. People on this board really have lost a grip with the reality out there. I actually read this forum almost entirely due to the unreasonableness of the posts. :lol Most should take a step back and see the forest rather than the trees... I think more than a majority of the people who own Wiis are pretty happy with what we've gotten so far... again, perhaps it is just me, but I don't have the money or TIME to get through all the great stuff that has been released thus far.
Pellham said:They definately should fix the UI, but I think Nintendo deliberately releases only a few titles each week in the hopes that it would improve VC game sales (like for instance, nobody would buy Street Fighter 2 if both SF2 and SSF2:T were released on the same day, and likewise with the various Gradius/R-Type incarnations). Smart strategy, but it sucks for gamers who have to wait and wait and wait for their favorite classics to appear.
Has anyone heard anything about a US release?gwiz210 said:I'm glad Super Mario RPG is coming, I can't wait to play that through again.
Like I said above, Chris cleared up my confusion. Sorry for if I didn't address the main issue at hand. I just wanted to say that things aren't all that bad. In actuality, we have it pretty good... look at Live and PSN, in comparison (excepting Ikaruga, Rez, which were great additions).Meloche said:The majority of posts in this thread are by a small group of regulars, and most of the complaints are in the vein of what I posted above. Expecting more than a game a week for the VC in NA when NOE/NCL continue to do so is not unreasonable. I wouldn't say expecting games that have been rated by the ESRB to come out eventually to be all that unreasonable a demand either.
As as for your comment about the majority of Wii owners -- I doubt the majority of Wii owners have even downloaded a game from the Virtual Console in the first place, so I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. I understand the money/time thing, but that doesn't suddenly redeem the lackluster Virtual Console release schedule. I may not buy another Wii retail game this year because I'm still content playing Brawl, Mario Kart, and replaying games I currently own. Does that mean that Nintendo shouldn't bother releasing anymore disk games this year? No...
just that it was submitted to and rated by the ESRB seemingly forever ago and Japan just had it show up on their release list for June.The Lamonster said:Has anyone heard anything about a US release?
This.Kobun Heat said:All this complaining isn't about Virtual Console in general: It's about how Americans, for some inexplicable reason, are getting totally dicked. Japan gets four games a week, we get one. That's messed up.
Oh Chris, you never fail to make me laugh... but seriously, I hope notKobun Heat said:Maybe Nintendo is really shooting for an authentic recreation of the silver-age gaming experience, where Japan gets a flood of amazing games and America gets a quarter of them a year later.
"Yo, did you see the new GameFan? There's a Super Mario FOUR in Japan."
"SHUT UP I AM PLAYING POGS"
agreed. this year so far we have hadthaivo said:Like I said above, Chris cleared up my confusion. Sorry for if I didn't address the main issue at hand. I just wanted to say that things aren't all that bad. In actuality, we have it pretty good... look at Live and PSN, in comparison (excepting Ikaruga, Rez, which were great additions).
Ultimately, it's not like NOA is averse to money or something. I'm certain releases will get better in time.
thaivo said:This is not like Xbox Live where you have to get the newest games right when the come out to get the best Live experience. So what if there isn's a AAA game out this week? Some of these games are decades, decades old! Just because they are released "now" doesn't mean they're any newer than the VC games already released.
What my main point was that it isn't like Xbox Live, where people play new games when they come out, and then don't play them at all after a few weeks due to the online component (i.e., online community aspect). I'm also saying that the games released each week on the VC are not any "newer" than those that were available previously. This cannot be said of commercial Wii releases.Ranger X said:I don't get your logic. "A new game" is contextual. For VC, "a new game" is a old retail game. VC followers will want new games on VC just like the people following the retail releases for Wii.
Is there no need for new Wii games each week because someone that would buy one now is already having hundreds of titles at his disposal? :lol
thaivo said:What my main point was that it isn't like Xbox Live, where people play new games when they come out, and then don't play them at all after a few weeks due to the online component (i.e., online community aspect). I'm also saying that the games released each week on the VC are not any "newer" than those that were available previously. This cannot be said of commercial Wii releases.
Kobun Heat said:Maybe Nintendo is really shooting for an authentic recreation of the silver-age gaming experience, where Japan gets a flood of amazing games and America gets a quarter of them a year later.
"Yo, did you see the new GameFan? There's a Super Mario FOUR in Japan."
"SHUT UP I AM PLAYING POGS"
If we're using subjective measurements, I'd argue more people are like me, and haven't bought everything that they're interested in, and actually haven't even been able to play through the games that they already have.Ranger X said:Maybe you didn't get me. Take myself as an example. I'm there since the Wii launch. What's interesting to me isn't the games that are available already but the new ones coming out. Old games matter mostly to new Wii customers.
Now the same logic applies with the VC. I'm there since the beginning, i know all that is in there i have bought what i had to buy. What interests me isn't the game that are already there but new ones coming out. It's the same damn logic as the retail Wii games see?
So, if there would be a drought of retail Wii game releases, i would complain just like when there's a drought of VC game releases. Same logic.
Huh, sacrificing the size of the library due to the navigation of the service being sub-par... that doesn't sound familiar at all, does it Microsoft?Stumpokapow said:But queueing up releases is not a substitute for proper user interface design and decent content navigation tools.
And a new one:Art of Fighting 2 SNK Playmore USA Teen Alcohol and Tobacco Reference, Violence Wii
Burning Fight SNK Playmore USA Everyone 10+ Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence Wii
Fatal Fury 2 SNK Playmore USA Teen Animated Blood, Violence Wii
DIG DUG NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. Everyone No Descriptors Wii
I would love for both FF2 and AoF2 to his VC soon but the rate of release suggests these are a ways off.Capndrake said:ESRB update, some new for the US but already confirmed elsewhere:
And a new one:
thaivo said:If we're using subjective measurements, I'd argue more people are like me, and haven't bought everything that they're interested in, and actually haven't even been able to play through the games that they already have.
Hey, I'm not saying it's a great thing that the only game out this week is Ninja Combat. Nor do I think you are wrong to say that one game a week is a weak effort. I think Nintendo has a lot better games to release, and it would be great if they released then 4 at a time like in Japan. But perhaps, there is a reason for it beyond what we know (i.e., licensing matters may be easier in Japan, working with IP owners easier, etc.).
I'm going to start to sound like a broken record, but I just think things are better on the Wii front than I had dreamt possible prior to release, and really can't bring myself to complain much. Of course, that's just me.
Cyan said:Seriously. The game was created by Satan to torment humanity.
Cyan said:Heh, that's exactly what I've been doing. I beat Super Castlevania IV for the first time last week, and then this past weekend, my roommate and I busted out the NES and beat Battle of Olympus and Castlevania I. Fuck yeah. And we've had those games for a loooooong time.
I agree. They really could put up 5 or more games up at once and still have a steady flow for quite a few years. Although, I'm not sure those all would be so great, and of course the spectre of licensing comes into the mix. Maybe Nintendo is following Sony's game plan and plans for the Wii to outlast the PS3... lol.. At the rate that the Wii is going, and the success Nintendo has had recently, it's hard for me to question their judgment.Ranger X said:I'm overall satisfied of my Wii too. It's just that when you start looking at what's really going on with the VC you're really wondering the hell Nintendo is doing. If we didn't know all those games available, already rated, or if we didn't even know wich publisher is signed on the service, we wouldn't be able to judge if Nintendo is doing good or not with the releases. I think they miss some basics. It shouldn't be. As a clear whinner in this thread, i concider myself realistic and not exigent. I only ask for at least A CHOICE wich means a minimum of two games. And whatever the way we look at the VC, they CAN put up 2 games a week for 5 years and this without even adding any new publishers than what they have now.
That's not true. I want them to do a faster release schedule and run out of games faster, since they're going to run out of titles sooner or later. It's literally an inevitability that the day will come when they have to stop putting up games on a weekly basis, but I want to be enjoying more content in the meantime rather than watching them stretch out the facade that VC will continue into perpetuity.AugustDivision said:It doesn't matter to people like you guys though. You'll complain now when the releases are trickling out, and you would complain if they put out 3 or 4 a week and in a couple years they said "sorry we have nothing left."
Hundreds? As in, two hundred or more? No there aren't, unless your username is MiketheBSG. Even for a dedicated VC buyer like me who has 54 games and has loved this service very much, I don't believe I could find a way to breach the 100 mark if I exclusively bought games that I believe I'd even moderately enjoy.thaivo said:What is curious to me about all the complaining is that there are already hundreds of games already released that are perfectly good to buy.
Nah, that's only a small part of it. Yes, I do want Shining Force II, Final Soldier, Star Parodier, Gley Lancer, Ys Book I & II, Earthbound, and Dragon Slayer (and Super Mario RPG, but that's not even out in Japan yet). And yes, I think there's no excuse for missing out on some of these games that have already been released in other regions, like those two Star Soldier games and Gley Lancer.crowphoenix said:I'd say it more boils down to the fact that most people are waiting on a game and have been for a long time.
Care to single out some of the posts demonstrating this phenomenon? I'm not fond of slinging blanket accusations from a distance.thaivo said:Not unreasonable? When did reason have anything to do with most NeoGaf posts. People on this board really have lost a grip with the reality out there.
With the VC tie ratio continually hovering around 0.5, "a majority of the people who own Wiis" haven't even bought a VC game.thaivo said:I think more than a majority of the people who own Wiis are pretty happy with what we've gotten so far...
Those are pretty significant outliers to be using to support an argument. I do agree that what you're saying probably is what Nintendo is trying to do, but I doubt it's purely for reason that superior versions of the same game will be released. And, as has been said however many times, this is currently unique to Nintendo of America. In Japan they don't seem to take issue with the idea of consistently releasing three games per week, which just makes this situation all the more baffling.Pellham said:They definately should fix the UI, but I think Nintendo deliberately releases only a few titles each week in the hopes that it would improve VC game sales (like for instance, nobody would buy Street Fighter 2 if both SF2 and SSF2:T were released on the same day, and likewise with the various Gradius/R-Type incarnations).
Sucks for Nintendo too since inflation is only going to continue eating away at the value of each purchase of Wii points, however slightly.Pellham said:Smart strategy, but it sucks for gamers who have to wait and wait and wait for their favorite classics to appear.
I'd go a step further than "good" and say that VC has an awesome library. Most (if not all) complaints in here are rooted in the idea that it could very, very easily be made even better. -_-cpro said:I kind of liked what I saw [while browsing the VC library]. Yeah, you won't get Square-Enix games, and Nintendo will forever be the nemesis of good marketing decisions, but the other systems and developers actually have a lot of good games. Especially Genesis. Still need PS4 and SF2, but very nice, all in all.
Yes, it has many more releases than the other two systems; that's great. That's wonderful, no sarcasm. But--well, as I was just saying, it could be improved pretty easily even if they only drew upon games that have already been released in other regions, hence all the criticism. Also, I'm not sure sure why anyone would be certain that releases will get better in time, since so far they've exclusively gotten worse with time.thaivo said:Like I said above, Chris cleared up my confusion. Sorry for if I didn't address the main issue at hand. I just wanted to say that things aren't all that bad. In actuality, we have it pretty good... look at Live and PSN, in comparison (excepting Ikaruga, Rez, which were great additions).
Ultimately, it's not like NOA is averse to money or something. I'm certain releases will get better in time.
Dream games? Not quite. Most people in here are asking for realistic games such as Nintendo first-party titles that require no negotiation, or titles which were ESRB-rated and should theoretically be undergoing testing (since getting rated is not a free ordeal). People aren't claiming that VC fails because the only translated version of Tactics Ogre is on PS1, nor do I see anybody boycotting because that blasted Capcom won't negotiate the rights to put up Duck Tales and Duck Tales 2.Conrad Link said:Anyway as far as the general VC bitching is concerned, its been like this forever on GAF, it seems to some people here the VC is only as good as the current status of any particular dream game they have on their brain.
I agree that neither are likely to happen, if that's what you're implying. ;_;sevenchaos said:Maybe there'll be a flood of VC games once the HD is released.