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STEAM | December 2014 - Read OP for winter sale questions
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Said no one ever.
Atraveller
Banned
Gave me the shivers.
I liked BioWare's portrait system and how it evolved over time. Sure was a bit comical in BG but by KotOR it was pretty much your default character selector and finally in Dragon Age: Origins you could get your MC to gurn like a nutter!
Chairmanchuck
Member
I wrote some post about this before, but its because... japanese dont think globally. At least that was my experience when I dealt with buying the rights of anime. They dictate eveything, they tell you what they think is right (even though if it would be a totally wrong approach in the west), if you dont accept it, they laugh at you and such things.
Totally backwards.
Other anime publishers said the same, as well as manga publishers. Tokyopop in Germany stopped at least doing DVDs because of the shitty policies when dealing with japanese publishers...
Didnt JAST also tweet something like its hard working with them?
welcome to the club, I'm still trying understand Konami back of 90-ies, still don't, to this day (><)
not even trying with modern devs/pubs anymore
origin actually has it's nice things, what with refunds and everything
it's uplay that's hilariously bad lol
Gianni Merryman
Member
What about Doctor Who?
what are you saying, uplay has those awesome avatars
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I was thinking just other day, what Ubi could do to improve their service and perception of it, and I got massive headache, maybe that's why they aren't doing much? (><)
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Well when I spoke to the an employee at AX about everything it seemed like they were already being a pain in the ass about what they were releasing already.
Chairmanchuck
Member
I really dont get it. In 2005/2006 the japanese wanted to get the covers for the DVD with post. Fucking post. Then it takes like 1 month to get an answer "That cover is okay" or "That cover is not okay, redo it".
That was so backwards.
It was really a pain in the ass dealing with anime publishers at that time.
"You want that extra feature on DVD we had on the japanese DVDs? Lol no!"
"If you want to buy this good selling series, you can only buy it, if you also buy the shit nobody in Japan wanted."
"You should write the names how we tell you! You arent allowed to use the japanese names for attacks!"
Its really great to talk to publishers during conventions. You really get to know how shitty Japan is at these things.
what I don't get is why? Aren't anime and games still business and you want to make money and you compromise if you want to expand to other markets and things like that?
What are reasons behind this?
edited: like I mean when Japanese games began to be ported for west, they were doing even too much adjustment at times, not really necessary, as making games easier, changing names, translating lyrics and all that stuff, even changing story and characters sometimes. What's changed? Why they don't want to release globally anymore, or so it would seem?
To be fair, this is the core business model of the entire American cable industry.
You're right, done.
ok you got me there
Well Uplay's last feature update, openid login with your Steam account, is flipping pointless for me on their newer titles since they're still not available on Steam. At this rate it's more vanity project than competitive service.
I don't have an avatar. I've just got a silhouette of a Rabbid or what ever those annoying things are.
Chairmanchuck
Member
We never knew. We always assumed the only reason is because they are arrogant about their properties...
We really didnt know, why they act like that. The company I worked for also bought the rights for some asian movies, even japanese, and never had problems with those publishers.
Yeah. I can guess. But if you usually buy the rights of a movie, you buy the rights for this one movie. Nothing more. No need to buy some shitty other movie.
What I wanted to say with this is: If you are wondering why some publishers release the worst of anime, thats the reason
I really, really, really believe that it is just to general incompetency and standard old school Japanese business practices.
EDIT: And a hint of racism.
derExperte
Member
Hello, as always I bring you the latest demo news. Today I've got something exciting, it's a Freedom Planet demo! http://store.steampowered.com/app/248310/
Which was available on the official site as I just remembered. So less exciting.
Which was available on the official site as I just remembered. So less exciting.
Seriously. The backgrounds could be a gray to orange gradient for all I care as long as I don't have to see the insultingly bad old character art anymore.I don't really see that. The original BGs were clashing with the character art just as much. Maybe it's more obvious now because you're not being distracted by the fascinatingly terrible character art
Anyway, is the VN worth getting if I've watched the anime? The two seasons and that pool OVA episode I desperately wish I could forget
I have heard stuff like this a lot and I still can't quite believe it.
Maybe I should just stop consuming any Japanese media, in the end it doesn't seem worth it for anyone
Oh yeah, those were the days. You could practically run some AD&D 2nd Edition using the tables in the back of that book.
I did not know it was out on iOS. I stand corrected.
Chairmanchuck
Member
It is really sad. It just feels like its such a chore to deal with japanese business partners. If you work with business partners from Korea, China, America, India, both parties try to reach an agreement, that benefits both.
When we dealt with anime-publishers (we were also interested in Haruhi, Bleach and some other titles) it was always the Japanese trying to stand on top with us either accepting it or not buying the rights of the series.
If you know the Inuyasha Fansubproject in Germany, where we did the subtitles for Rumiko Takahashi shows, you might heard of me.
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Tizoc
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Man I miss Konami, for all their faults back in the 80s, 90s and prePS3 era if any, they had the best games.
Didn't see it mentioned: Dokuro's store page is up, comes out on the 8th of Dec.
Get this if you like puzzle games, hope it sells well =D
Who knows maybe next year Dragon's Crown my grace the Gaben Realm.
Yeah I think Origin and Uplay are mostly nothing but EA/Ubisoft game launchers and don't really have other benefits, people who want their games will use their services and that's pretty much it, so I'm not sure what they can do, and I don't think they are going to try.
You should get one.
All the cool kids have one.
I actually regret making one, I don't know how to get rid of it and i'm too lazy to figure it out, probably awkward since my friend sometimes log into it.
NingenJanai
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Didn't see it mentioned: Dokuro's store page is up, comes out on the 8th of Dec.
Nice, I wanted to get that game for Vita at some point.
Well the CRPG resurgence hopefully will bring some form of manuals back. The manual for Divinity Original Sin is full colour and about 50 pages and hopefully Pillars of Eternity's Collectors Book is up to snuff. Although I have no idea what the other book I preordered the other day was. Digital is great and all for the vast majority of your library, especially the one and done type of game but sometimes you want something a little tangible for the special ones.
Well I could spent my Uplay Credits to get an Aiden Pearce avatar. I can be iconic then!
Chairmanchuck
Member
With rumors of a 2nd JoJo fighting game being in the works, I'm hoping that would make it to Steam too. Then we'd have Bamco's trifecta of licensed games:
Naruto, DB and JoJo
...and for the uninitiated in JoJo, here's a quick guide
But the Jojo PS3 game is already... bad.
I mean Naruto is okay, the fightingsystem is easy, characters are totally unbalanced, but besides the fights the game has a nice storymode with sidequests and such things.
But Jojo... just consists of the typical CC2 fighting mode, totally easy, not really competitive, the roster is totally unbalanced, where you have overpowered characters and characters that cant do shit.
The VN is much better than the anime. But I don't know how it holds up after the anime already spoiled major plot points for you.
Inspite of how much at times SE baffles and annoys me, I have to give them credit, for having presence in the west and on PC and understanding how steam works, or at least trying.
That leads me to my main concern, when they are done with their beloved Lightning (in spring), maybe we at last will get FF5-6 ports? That would be nice, no?
Actually, could you kindly explain me what are uplay credits are good for? Can you get free games for example?
Not that I have a lot, but never really looked into it either.
That leads me to my main concern, when they are done with their beloved Lightning (in spring), maybe we at last will get FF5-6 ports? That would be nice, no?
Actually, could you kindly explain me what are uplay credits are good for? Can you get free games for example?
Not that I have a lot, but never really looked into it either.
Tizoc
Member
edit: OK found the updated one, check my post now
Chairmanchuck
Member
You can unlock DLC for some games. Though the DLC you usually unlock are just 5 minute missions. You can also unlock some cool things like the AC:Unity soundtrack if you have AC:U.
Its like an achievement-system, where you earn uPlay points and can spend those on small DLC for the games you own.
I've only really played Rayman Legends on Uplay, but from what I've seen, its just useless crap like wallpapers. Or occasionally it can be exchanged for in game currency or whatever.
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
Huh? I thought that game was Vita exclusive (I may be wrong though). ANyway I hope it will be cheap just like on Vita.
derExperte
Member
Wanted to try it but I get this error
Best demo
Can confirm.
I may be mistaken, but I always assumed they were filtered photos, and not drawings.
Yeah, totally agree. Having a good book up there on the shelf is always nice, especially for the special games. That's why I'm hoping to pick up the Valkyria Chronicles art book, for example. Hopefully we'll see more physical books and manuals from the CRPG resurgence.
I don't usually mind "twist spoilers" too much so if the VN adds quality flavor to the narrative that's good enough for me.
Got me to look after dr. dogg mentioned it, there are usually some rewards that you can unlock with each game, for far cry 3 there are single player/coop dlc missions, and splinter cell blacklist you get some costumes and money. You can get wallpapers and junk too.
Haven't looked at the avatar items, maybe now it's the chance to change my avatar.
Tizoc
Member
Must be a glitch then, you could always get the demo from the main site
http://freedomplanet.galaxytrail.com/download.htm