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Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008
I won't believe that Arino wasn't shooting to see Samus naked again in the Super Metroid Virtual Console special. :colbert:

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Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008
They had to cut GCCX to launch their gaming news exclusive feed, KOTAK CORE. Only video game news there. :psyduck:

Anyway, I do hope you guys do The Wing of Madoola since it has a hilarious phone conversation between Arino and Kibe. The KOTAK translation is pretty poor if not down right insulting.

Edit: Even if the KOTAK episodes are low priority, I would like to see them done one day with Tama-game and other segments restored. It doesn't feel right watching the show with them missing. It's kind of like the neutered versions of Top Gear that aired on Discovery before BBC America picked it up.

Shady3011 fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Jan 14, 2012

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

Random Stranger posted:

Afterward they reposted some information on the event from other people who actually went to it.

Sounds like a typical KOTAK article.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

Lock posted:

Holy Jesus Christ that is the very loving definition of :words:.

This is when you know you've been there too long, when you forget you chose to go over, that they didn't invite you and give you special rank or privilege. You gonna live in Japan? Then take the bad with the good, because there IS bad, just like anywhere else, and you as an outsider aren't gonna be the one to fix it even if you think you 'get' the pop culture.

It took me as long to just mousewheel-scroll down that article as it does to read a normal article anywhere else.

Not to keep this going any longer, but this fuckwit is no stranger to being a stupid piece of poo poo.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/five-worst-gaming-2.php

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

Gutcruncher posted:

Wait, looking that the comments the guy who before did everything in his power to push down the links to fansubs because of the harm they cause is now... posting fansubs in the comments!

This is the same dude who thought a worthwhile news post was asking everyone to post pictures of their Skyrim character.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

Heran Bago posted:

The WiiWare Bomberman is good. Look out for the xbox version.




This game is like playing the original Bomberman except the original Bomberman came out 13 years before it and felt unique at the time. This game, on the other hand, throws everything out that made people love the Bomberman series the most obvious being the stupid art style. It doesn't even have local multiplayer. In fact, its stupid gimmick, First Person Bomber, isn't even in a first person view. Its in third person, which, limits your view of the field and adds a health bar. Great job, Hudson.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008
Landing on that moving platform is a pipe dream.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008
Thank goodness that level is over.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008
Pizza taking another one for the team.

zari-gani posted:

You guys are way too harsh on Japanese food sometimes :(

At least for me, it's more about pizza going to odd places. Believe me, living in California it is hard to appreciate great pizza.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008
Having never played Pilotwings, this is definitely not something I expected as a last level.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

redmercer posted:

I know! Try finding something that tasty-looking within 100 yards of a Greyhound station.

I don't even want to be within a mile of a Greyhound station. :ohdear:

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

Light Gun Man posted:

The preview video is an interesting curiosity. Reminds me of a similar short animation made for promoting Valis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TE_g94Jp7g

Is the promo supposed to end abruptly?

I've been watching Valis long plays with others over the last month or two. It's sad to know what Telenet Japan ended up doing to Valis.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

Gutcruncher posted:

So wait, are they action sidescrollers that take sex breaks or are they visual novel porn games? Holy poo poo my world is crashing down around me

Unfortunately, it's the latter. I'm not sure why I said unfortunately since in either case it's a sad thing to do to "celebrate" the 20th anniversary of the series.

Shady3011 fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Feb 27, 2012

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

I don't really know why they had to use the Valis license. Is there some insane Valis fanbase in Japan who are in love with the character or something? You don't exactly need an excuse to make a hentai game in japan.

It had more to do with Telenet Japan trying to avoid going out of business than legitimately listing to some fringe fanbase. They really thought this would save them.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

Mayor McCheese posted:

:psyduck:

The first thing I checked was to see if this was some sort of April Fool's thing, and then I checked the replies with some small hope that the community would tell this guy to gently caress off. Still the same old cesspool, I see.

Hey, man. Stop taking video games journalism so seriously. :frog:

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008
Paris-Dakar Rally is not a racing game. Also, that game is junk.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

joek0 posted:

Downloading raw of Captain Tsubasa episode now and hope to have it uploaded on my YT channel by Sunday night. Can someone translate the next episode hint.

http://imgur.com/OceIo,MQYOv


If it wasn't obvious from the episode preview, he'll be continuing Captain Tsubasa.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

rdbbb posted:

I loved that episode/game so much I tried to convince people it had merit!

You are a sick person.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

At this point, they'd probably consider localizing a DS game and releasing it now to be unprofitable. They could very well be right. I don't know if many people would buy it other than hardcore GCCX fans, and there really isn't a whole lot of us.

Xseed's expectations for the first game were ridiculous though. 100,000 copies for a game that only a small percentage of purchasers would know the source material for? I mean, this is the same company that put out that Wizard of Oz RPG on the DS and that was even more niche than Retro Game Challenge.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

ImpAtom posted:

You don't really need to know GCCX to enjoy Retro Game Challenge. I played it before I was aware of GCCX and I enjoyed it thoroughly. It's aimed at nostalgia more than fans of the show. They should have marketed it better.

I believe they were hoping the brand would make it sell more. :confused:

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

PaletteSwappedNinja posted:

From what I recall, they were planning on releasing the game in tandem with a localised broadcast of the show, but the licensees of the show never followed through.

That would make the most sense, but they should have revised their numbers when that fell through. In hindsight, hoping that the game would do well on its 8-bit throwback games alone was misguided.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

Revise what numbers? The game failed to turn a profit, that's the long and short of it. It not meeting their expectations became irrelevant once it became apparent that the game lost them money. If they were banking on cross promotional capabilities but the show deal fell through, then they probably did revise their estimates but they can't retroactively revise the budget for a project already completed or mostly complete.

What's the source on the 100,000 thing anyways? For the record, 100,000 sales is a pretty modest number. That's not exactly blockbuster territory. That's "average third party game" territory. Failure to meet that number isn't because they set their expectations too high.

Losing money on it would come from sales expectations as that would dictate how many copies they would make. All this did was help Xseed realize how this niche market works. Let's be honest here, 100,000 for this game would be a lot outside of Japan. Very few niche games ever reach that number here in the west. I know for bigger game releases that's small potatoes (more like bad numbers) but not so for these smaller releases. I guess what I took away from reading about this game was that Xseed overestimated sales and learned from that with future releases. It's definitely helped them with profits as Corpse Party has shown.

As for the numbers thing, that was me not remembering the interview correctly. It needed to sell 100,000 more to see the sequel get localized. So added to whatever it sold before that interview that is a lofty goal for this game. Compared to what they had put out before RGC I can't see how they thought this was a realistic goal.

http://www.siliconera.com/2009/06/24/the-state-of-xseed-interview/

Sorry if I'm coming off as abrasive. I'm just surprised at how Xseed approached this release than any real frustration of them not localizing the second game. It's a moot point now as they seem more focused on PSP/Vita releases with other platform releases peppered in.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

Famibomb posted:

Where da funk is my translated Corpse Party sequel, Xseed?

I need to bear witness to more buttered poopers.

It be great if they bring over that rom-com spin-off as well. It looks awesomely absurd.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

GidgetNomates posted:

I've been seeing those squishy pigs EVERYWHERE lately. They have a booth of tons of them in the mall, and I've seen them a few other places. Makes me think of GCCX every time.

Wish I had as much luck finding them. I really want to get one.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008
I wonder if we'll get anymore Season 3 episodes.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

cat doter posted:

Is he just terrible at navigating a 3D world or something? Since he's always playing 2D games it'd seem like he'd have trouble adjusting.

I've actually heard that the mainstream public in Japan can have trouble getting into 3D games, which lead to things like Super Mario Galaxy having a less than stellar reception over there whereas New Super Mario Bros was a mega MEGA hit. Any truth to that? Or did some fucker lie to me!?

Can't remember where I read that, it was on some gaming site iirc.

edit: I meant that in regards to the Ocarina of Time 2 parter. Was on the wrong page.

For me at least it has more to do with how much of the game he doesn't play. The AD clears 3 (4 if you count the Bottom of the Well) dungeons for him due to time restraints. These are all as adult Link. It's otherwise an okay challenge if a bit dull at times thanks in no small part to the dungeons he does tackle (Water and Shadow Temple).

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

zari-gani posted:

I have no qualms about that particular translator and I don't know anything about anyone there. That said, this post by their Kamen Rider translator is appalling and I was disheartened to see no one pointed out the offensive part.

I don't think I've ever seen someone compare a spelling mistake to slavery. Then again, I don't think I've met anyone that stupid either.

Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

zari-gani posted:

That Jojo's Bizarre Adventure game for PS2 they showed in the Capcom episode looked really, really bad. But mostly because whoever was playing it used the same attack over and over.

It was probably Arino.

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Shady3011
Oct 21, 2008

DarkHamsterlord posted:

I'm guessing they're cracking down on YouTube uploads because it's completely trivial for any Japanese person who knows how to write "Game Center CX" in English to search it on YouTube and get all the full episodes. It's considerably less trivial to find the torrents, unless you're good at reading English.

Fuji TV was pretty quick at getting GCCX stuff removed from Youtube in the past. For some reason, they got really lax and let it reach the flood that doing a search for Game Center CX on Youtube brings back now. I'm guessing they've finally gotten wise to just how many people watch these videos on there.

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