>>274 >Theres no longer any reasonable explanation as for why one would purchase a console The only thing that would motivate someone to possibly buy a console if he is too young/unwilling/ignorant about sailing the seven seas. >All three companies are kinda trash now. iirc Microsoft got quite a strong reaction from players about their proposed system. Everyone was making fun of them. And yet now, with Nintendo, I don't see as much pushback, memes, etc. I could just not be in the places where it's happening, or maybe people just aren't willing to make fun of Nintendo as readily.

>>297 >The only thing that would motivate someone to possibly buy a console if he is too young/unwilling/ignorant about sailing the seven seas. Or they could just stick with previous platforms. >And yet now, with Nintendo, I don't see as much pushback, memes, etc. I could just not be in the places where it's happening, or maybe people just aren't willing to make fun of Nintendo as readily. Part of it could be just how people are tired and don't see the point in expressing their displeasure about it anymore when these companies clearly don't listen nor care, or because they've already been silenced and V& for any number of reasons, or they're just accepting it because of how Nintendo is the "least bad" option in town when it comes to being able to play and "own" modern games. Actually, speaking of the other systems, could this new "virtual card" system be some form of DRM? Similar to how the PS4/NG5 need an internet connection to "verify" that you're playing an authentic Snowy licensed PlayStation disc, if the CMOS battery ever goes out.

>>296 Can you link the thread? I don't know what PLW refers to. >>297 A lot of the motivating factor in buying a console is the no-fuss setup. It's just putting a cartridge/disc in and pushing the power button for the most part. Meanwhile, on PC, you have to keep track of all these different storefronts. And PC releases, by their nature, are more unstable than console releases. I had to buy the Neptunia Re;Birth games that Nintendo wouldn't let me have on PC and they are giving me absolute hell with how often they fucking crash! My laptop is mid-high specs, too, it's far from a potato. It should have zero issues running these low-budget Vita games and it indeed runs them smoothly at a consistent 60fps, until they just stop working.

>>292 >breath of fire 5 >fairy minigame you better chiggity-check yourself before you wriggity-wreck yourself; also the fairy game in three and four was fairly hands off, just walk away son jesus christ, theres monsters to violently murder with nina the daughter of zeus

>>290 It definitely shouldn't have been a bof game, but furthermore, its kinda shit game.

>>225 >Like no one has anything actually "new" to say on topics, or everyone just seems to be playing the "exact same games". >I know there's only so many "new" things you can say before you inevitably have to repeat something, but it just never felt this "bland" before. Because we are going through a period with next to no new and notable games. Series that once provided an interesting and valuable experience have been tainted or simply haven't come out with anything recently. And companies are paying the price for it, too. Of course this won't go on forever, but right now there just aren't any good, innovative, fresh titles to talk about. There is some potential in the indie scene, but there are a lot of developers there that are just as bad/compromised as the ones at AAA companies. Things haven't been this dry for a long time.

>>276 Thats only iffin ya get caught laddie!

>>277 You forget then. I AM THE LAW HERE.

>>278 YARGH! Blast ye landlubbery ways! Ye done caught me fair and square, hell and tarnation! I regret nothing!

Oh fuck, ENA: Dream BBQ just came out. Kinda pissed it's releasing in parts though. Gonna wait and pirate it.

Assassin's Creed Shadows violates Japanese commercial law!!! So for those not in the know, in Japan, the Japanese Imperial Seal, also known as the Chrysanthemum Crest, cannot legally be used for commercial purposes. This has been a Japanese law since 1880, with an update to said law being issued in 1929 that allows for "some" commercial usage within certain restrictions: https://archive.ph/K7u7b Well, apparently Ubisoft's crack team of legal experts and professional localizers did not know about this circumstance and included a version of said Chrysanthemum Crest in the game and violates Japanese law as a result of this: https://archive.ph/1RgGC https://twiit.com/yamato_shigure7/status/1905310503205044409 https://invidio.us/watch?v=rk4tMCC5EC4 And the kicker is that people were pointing this out weeks before the game even launched: https://archive.ph/IvFOw Ubisoft has managed to fuck up to the point that they actually released illegal contraband.

>>271 Sasuga, Oda Nobunigger.

>>233 Archive redirects to rurt news while attempting to solve the captcha. An xcancel link would be appreciated. Seems like archive.is and its mirrors have cucked out and are now taking in shady ad money.

>>236 https://twiiit.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1894764933520179368

>>238 >>233 Eh, I wouldn't call it a tranny off the bat. Even though it doesn't say "he or she" like it does with other characters, that could just by that homo femboy marketing like with Hideyoshi so characters in the story can go "I thought you were a girl!?". Putting the sex of the character in stone in promotional material would take away from the androgynous ambiguity of the character that helps make a trap a trap.

>>112 Also, do not mistake this as just the opinion and word "one guy". In fact Keene expressed that he sees himself as carrying on the work of Arthur Waley, a person he spends the next chapter expressing his utmost adoration for. For those who don't know, Waley made the first English translations of many Japanese and Chinese texts like The Tale of Genji and Journey to the West, and basically established how the Western public understands Japanese and Chinese culture to this day. And the way Waley did this was by adhering to the same practices many localizers are follow, by cutting out entire portions of the story or changing story elements to suite Western tastes. Another Anon found a PDF of the entire book, so it's the last attached file if you want to read the entire thing.

>>110 Which game got so censored to the point of becoming the industry's most absurd case? Fire Emblem has to be a top tier case of mutilated franchises by both japanese and americans.

>>194 >Which game got so censored to the point of becoming the industry's most absurd case? Depends on what you're asking for. Phoenix Wright is a case of "absurd" localization where, as the series progresses, they translators have to grapple with the fact the games obviously take place in Japan, but they essentially "wrote" themselves into a corner by trying to "localize" the entire series as taking place in LA. With pic related being one of the amusing memes results from this. Then there's also the case of NISA, where they either remove entire portions of games (At best) or brick your console if you dare to play it (At worst). Working Design is another infamous case for being incredibly terrible with their translations, which they only got away with for years because they lied about how the games they translated all "failed" in Japan.