Whoa. Shame.
The pay to win DLC is stuff you can get in the grade shop anyway...
Actually, no.
As I briefly went into previously in the thread, the context was:
- Finishing off Xillia 2 platinum, on NG+, with the usual Grade Shop suspects already enabled
- Realizing I'm going to be about 4-5 hours short in finishing this off before crunch time for work came (I freelance audio, huge soundtrack work was lined up then which would take me out of commission for 3-5 weeks as far as gaming goes)
- Had $15 lying around on PSN since 2012 (I can't even remember what I bought prior, was remainder off a $50 PSN card)
- Bought +30 levels (level +10, level +10, level +5, level +5) which added up to a dollar under my wallet funds to just speed up the lv200 achievement by a few hours on top of the Grade Shop NG+ run
- Got platinum
- Started work, RIP Falk's gaming for a month.
The more contextual discussion here is, why even do that? Are platinum trophies really that important? Why not just hack trophies if they mean so much to you?
Xillia 2 is hardly the only Tales plat I have. Heck, Tales games are hardly the only plats I have. It's all about the journey, not the destination and funny as it sounds, I legit get nostalgic going through some of them sometimes (not just limited to PSN) sort of the way photo albums invoke nostalgia. As to hacking saves vs $ DLC, I guess it's a combination of "well the $15 is lying around not being used anyway" and a developer-sanctioned method* as opposed to a hack. Not that it really matters in actual
practice but there you have it.
*And again, I think Bamco's DLC practices are terrible, it was pretty much an impulse-buy, and I wouldn't do it again given the choice, since I've finished plats for a shit ton more games since that crunch last year.
I'm well aware every time I bring it up it derails threads, but I thought it would have been funny one last time in the context of previous page. I'm all for self-deprecating humor if someone gets a kick out of it. That's all there is to it. ;p
edit: you can quote that other guy and stare at him though!
You hating on the Neps, fam?
I'm agreeing 100% with Durante in this case. For me, the dubs take Neptunia from an amusing, stylistic romp through Japanese gaming and pop culture (in Japanese) to straight-up cringeworthy (in English). A lot of the humor and the moe factor just... I dunno, doesn't localize well, I feel. You're welcome to disagree.
edit2: Although a completely different culture, Bollywood falls into this categorization. It's far easier to appreciate Bollywood movies for what they are when left in their original language, whether Tamil, Hindi or whatever. Subs are fine. Dubbing... really turns them from something amusing and cultural into downright hilarious.