What Japanese games would you most like to see on the PC?

Vanquish needs the 1080p+ 60fps+ treatment. I would love to see it on my PC. Also, all games from Falcom, their RPGs are a blast. "Tales of" games would be nice too.

But in general, the more japanese games on PC, the better. I see the new Naruto game doing good in steam at the moment.
 
Armored Core, because I do believe its place is on PC and Dark Souls has proved there is an audience for From games over there.

Platinium games, especially Vanquish.

Monster Hunter games that are not Monster Hunter Frontier.

Skies of Arcadia. I don't know what Sega is doing with its Dreamcast collection on Steam, but that would be a splendid idea.

Okami HD.

Tengai Makyo HD remix & translated.

Senran Kagura with Oculus rift support.


Feindflug said:
Ninja Gaiden Black & Ninja Gaiden II (the original version, not that Sigma crap)
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Oh God yes, please, that too.
 
While there are a ton of titles, I kind of feel like Tekken on Steam with the workshop and full on DOTA2 style client (streaming, replays, mentoring) would be amazing.
 
I'd want as much possible but the most important to me are

1. All of Segas original Xbox stuff. Emulation still looks miles away with that system meaning I still have to dig that console out to play the likes of Panzer Dragoon Orta and Jet Set Radio Future. They should also use the love From Software gets from the hardcore these days to thier advantage and port the Otogi games.

2. A 3D fighter, anything just put one out. Selfishly I'd prefer a Virtua Fighter as that's the best one for my taste and if it was the first one it would have the chance of a market to itself for a while.

3. Yakuza, even if they left them untranslated and let the community do the translations via mods.

4. Anything that's already had a decent PC port but was disc only should at the very least be patched to work for modern systems and put on steam and/or GOG. e.g the original Resident Evil games, Metal Gear Solid.
 
ironic that during the late-80s and mid-90s there were far more and popular japanese arcade and console releases on western computers than today.

from Bubble Bobble, Snow Bros and Rodland to Virtua Fighter 2 and Samurai Shodown 2.
they were better than today's games too.

Japanese games became much more niche nowadays and not for everyone
unfortunately mainly due to the demise of arcade games, except racers.

Just like with anime, I'll stick to the older games.

Still, I am quite pleased with the current Japanese PC ports.
 
Agent_ShortBus said:
Yakuza series.
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gelf said:
3. Yakuza, even if they left them untranslated and let the community do the translations via mods..
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Mr. X said:
Yakuza series
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The crowds have spoken. Yakuza it is.

BakkaGames said:
The whole Metal Gear Solid franchise
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Waste of resources. You can play most of them through emulators anyway. Except 4.

HolyBaikal said:
1. Tales
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I think it would be a miracle if we got Zestiria on the PS4.

Damerman said:
dragon's dogma.
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I don't see it happening. Actually given the capcom's lack of faith in the game it would be a perfect candidate for Phil Spencer to moneyhat: Bring a "definitive edition" on the Xbox one and if it takes off there might be a sequel.
 
scytheavatar said:
Phoenix Wright. Shocking that the best adventure game series ever never appeared on the PC.
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It didn't? I have a surprise for you:
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  • Shadow of the Colossus
  • Ico
  • Metal Gear series
  • Way of the Samurai 1 &2
  • Yakuza Ishin
  • Demon's Souls
  • Bloodborne (not trying to start some shit by saying this, PS4 is fine too)
  • Ni No Kuni
  • Catherine
  • Any Shin Megami Tensei games

I'd say older stuff but that's what emulators are for baby
 
Non-LOS Castlevania games
All fighting games by Arc System Works
CAVE shmups
 
petran79 said:
ironic that during the late-80s and mid-90s there were far more and popular japanese arcade and console releases on western computers than today.

from Bubble Bobble, Snow Bros and Rodland to Virtua Fighter 2 and Samurai Shodown 2.
they were better than today's games too.

Japanese games became much more niche nowadays and not for everyone
unfortunately mainly due to the demise of arcade games, except racers.

Just like with anime, I'll stick to the older games.

Still, I am quite pleased with the current Japanese PC ports.
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Yeah I honestly had no idea there were Taito PC ports until my girlfriend asked me if "I knew a computer game where a guy shoots rainbows at enemies" (Rainbow Islands). My mind was blown...
 
I think the easy money would be for square to port everything that they have on iOS to steam with decent resolution options and controller support.

Capcom should do the same for ace attorney and ghost trick.

For the bigger titles: namco needs to understand that fighting games are picking up on pc in a big way. Get Tekken and Soul Calibur on steam pronto.

Konami would kill with Symphony of the Night. They ported it to everything else. Bomberman Ultra on steam would also do very well as local multiplayer titles are becoming increasingly popular on steam.

I'm with everyone else on the Dragon's Dogma front as well, I've always wanted a chance to play it.
 
All of 'em. But I'd settle for the shmups. Also, for the doujin games to come to Steam or such, rather than this CD low-rent limited print run physical distro bullshit that happens a lot. It bugs me that I'd have never been able to properly procure a copy of Bunny Must Die in the west if Rockin Android hadn't managed to localize and distribute (and Steam even rejected 'em...had to go through greenlight, ridiculous.)
 
Any modern nintendo games would be awesome though there's no way in hell.
I agree with Dragons Dogma, also Valkyria Chronicles was a great choice. I can dream I guess.
 
In a perfect world, everything, even Nintendo games. But if all stuff from Square Enix, Atlus and Platinum were to be released from now on, I'd be very happy. Don't even care about old games, just upcoming titles would be fine.

Do I have to pick one game? Final Fantasy XV.
 
Final Fantasy games. The production values in those games are wasted when they have
to be pared down for consoles.

I loved playing FF13 on my PS3, but the subsequent sequels ran so poorly on the
last gen consoles. Seriously, 13-2 and LR:FF13 are terribly optimized! With a good
PC you can brute force all that to oblivion.
 
Dragon's Dogma. Got this recently and poured about 40 hours into it in little more than a week. Would love to be able to experience it at 60 FPS/1080p.

It'd be nice if Bloodborne came to PC eventually, too.
 
DigitalDevilSummoner said:
I think it would be a miracle if we got Zestiria on the PS4.
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For recent games, Tales of Zestiria would make me the happiest more than anything.

Though, unlike lots of the other games, like Final Fantasy XV or Kingdom Hearts 3, or Tekken 7, there hasn't been anyone talking about Tales of Zestiria coming to the PC. :<
 
Steambot Chronicles needs a PC port, I think. Since Granzella has the rights, they just need a budget and Irem vets to help program. Higher resolutions and custom graphics options are a must, even if the assets themselves won't scale. It's also a case where having a keyboard could help with the rhythm-game sections.
 
Mostly last gen 3d stuff tbh.

For most of the games before last gen, we can sufficiently emulate with all the benefits as if it were on pc. But stuff like dragons dogma? Suffers from tearing/sub 30fps and low resolution.
 
I'm more interested in the bits of the history of Japanese PC gaming that we've never really seen in the West in a big way. As an archetypal example, the Xanadu series. Tons of games, and I'd find them fascinating from a historical standpoint.

It's a big chunk of the pantheon of games that's not really known in the west, and a major gap in my understanding of the history of the medium, and I'd love to rectify that.
 
mclem said:
I'm more interested in the bits of the history of Japanese PC gaming that we've never really seen in the West in a big way. As an archetypal example, the Xanadu series. Tons of games, and I'd find them fascinating from a historical standpoint.

It's a big chunk of the pantheon of games that's not really known in the west, and a major gap in my understanding of the history of the medium, and I'd love to rectify that.
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Hmm...wanna partner up and do a Classic Japanese PC Gaming thread? :)

It's an idea worth taking to Aeana and foobarry. Maybe Wyrdwad could donate a bit.
 
dmcAxle said:
Under Night In Birth, the most recent Blazblue release, the most recent Guilty Gear release, the most recent Persona 4 Arena release. Basically any recent 2d "air dash" fighting game. We have Skullgirls but that is more like Marvel Vs. Capcom (also isn't a Japanese developed game).

This genre of fighting games has virtually 0 presence on PC other than emulation of old games. There are old versions from before like the first Blazblue, very old Guilty Gears and Melty Blood but they either have no online or only peer2peer online where you need the other person's IP address. I really do think there is a huge opportunity to port these games to PC and Steam specifically as people do want them. Someone just has to take the bite. It probably won't be Arc System Works though considering how little faith they have in PC gaming demand and the only bones they are throwing on Steam to judge demand are the 10 year old PC games that no one will buy.
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Yep.
 
Persona series, probably at the top of my list. I haven't played any of them at all, and would play them if they came to PC.

Harvest Moon/Rune Factory farming simulator games are a good choice as well, from above. PC did get Reteccar though, so I guess there is a little bit of that on the PC.

Something off the wall that hasn't been mentioned yet is SRW -- at least the original generation games. Won't ever happen but it would be cool if it did.
 
Bloodborne. Imagine that beauty in 60 fps!
 
mclem said:
I'm more interested in the bits of the history of Japanese PC gaming that we've never really seen in the West in a big way. As an archetypal example, the Xanadu series. Tons of games, and I'd find them fascinating from a historical standpoint.

It's a big chunk of the pantheon of games that's not really known in the west, and a major gap in my understanding of the history of the medium, and I'd love to rectify that.
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Oh yeah, this is great... wouldn't mind seeing some translations + emulator pack-ins up on GOG for a lot of those obscure X68000, FM Towns, PC-8801 games...
 
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