Woops Sorry i didn't show up yesterday. Happy belated birthday anyway. :3 Didn't know our birthdays were in the same month.
Yeah when i said other Ivalice games i was thinking of Tactics Advance 2 and Revenant Wings. xD Even though they are "forgotten" among the other FFs. <_< And yeah XIII was the one that got the harshest criticism but that's only in the West. It actually did good in the East. Never saw them so i can't comment. xD I really only played Legendia, Symphonia, Abyss, Vesperia and some other i can't remember. Have yet to finish one though. >_< (Abyss is the closest i got to finishing) Nothing that can be done about that now. :sl Oh and summer here is when it's winter there btw. Can't remember anything about Nintendo's CEO. :s But yeah i think there was some sort of incident of the sort. Oh i see. This reminded me of Nier localization. (How the MC is an adult in the western version and a young adult in the eastern) Never played it though, just heard about it so i may be wrong. Nah no plans for vacation. I prefer staying home anyway. That's where everything i like doing is anyway. <_< Besides i have piles of anime to watch, manga to read and games to play. I'll be quite "busy". xD
I can understand, really. What I like may not be the game itself, but mainly the concept of scions (espers in Tactics Advance 2 and Revenant Wings). Sure, the back story (demigods/scions rebelling against gods/Occuria) is cheesy, but the scions themselves are cool (especially fully grown Zodiark). And wasn't the main XIII the one that received the harshest criticism? It's very different, though. In Phantasia, Cress had his blushing moments with Mint; in Destiny, Stahn and Rutee had tsundere-ish moments; in Symphonia, Lloyd and Colette were simply cute. But Xillia, the costumes alone are quite telling (compared to Mint, who was a damn priestess!). But I hope so -- Symphonia was one of my favourites due to the Yggdrasil siblings. That's bad. They could've at least had online classes which didn't require physical attendance during the strike or something. Hopefully you'll at least have some more holidays in winter, though. (Not that it'll be as fun as summer, of course...) Not just M$, actually. Take Nintendo for example. It's still generally badass, but the CEO for the US branch is quite a douche -- I recall him making a very stupid comment about gamers, but I can't remember what it exactly was now. Probably just old company execs who are past their age of glory, lol. For starters, the main character is an experienced man, very matured both physically (about 30 or 40) and mentally, also skilled in various fields. It contrasts starkly with your everyday JRPG, whose main character is likely a teenage boy with more guts than skills, more brawn than brain, and balls of steel. Yeah, I don't have most consoles so I play mostly PC. w Any plans of vacation or something? Or perhaps you could do with a week-long rest.
Ok then. Thanks. Hmm true. Really? FF XII is the FF i most dislike. xD I liked some of the other games from Ivalice though, just not XII itself. That could be true but i liked versus XIII when it was its own game, not a numbered game from the main franchise. :/ I guess. But fanservice was somewhat always present though. <_< And Yuri is a great MC. Maybe with the new Symphonia sequel (or whatever that is) its popularity will come back? And yeah the strike was long as hell. Completelly messed up the schedule and now we have to pay for that. >_< I just hope that the schedule gets back on track this year already so we can have January/February off and only go back in March. And thank you. True. Makes me wonder who is in control of MS these days. <_< What do you mean by "very western"? xD Well i have most consoles so no reason for me to play on the PC (aside from PC-exclusive games). This week and next week are crazy. Hopefully after that everything will settle down (for a while). Ok then. >_>
Don't sweat it, man. Actually, even if you'd replied sooner, I wouldn't have replied any sooner myself. Been busy too; finally got more time. Maybe that's the keyword. "Try." I can think of a couple reasons why game publishers would be discouraged to try picking up new franchises. Sounds like it. The XIII/Fabula Nova Crystalis series seems to get the harshest criticism after XII was dubbed the worst FF ever. (I personally liked the XII/Ivalice Alliance series, though.) Also, making XV an action RPG might be their way out from being accused of making games purely for graphic junkies with little else to compliment. If they'd made it another strategy RPG, people might bash them again for focusing too much on graphics. I think SE itself promised the contrary on E3 or something. Probably because western fans like shounen stuff more. Tales kicked off with Phantasia, right? Cress' adventure, his romance with Mint, and his fight against Dhaos was very much shounen. Same with Stahn and Barbatos, especially the ending. Compared to the older games, Xillia leans too much over to the cutesy/fanservice side. That's... terribly short. Students often have 2 or even 3 months of summer vacation. Was the strike that long/messed up that it pushed the start of your vacation to August? And here's the book. Indeed. The move was, by any sane person's point of view, inconceivable. It doesn't take a visionary and gifted businessman to think that M$ is almost like trying to make itself hated. It's very western -- may not be to everyone's taste. And too bad; I'm mainly a PC gamer myself. Especially since I don't have most consoles lol Well at least you will have your holidays and a new semester won't (hopefully) start off rough. Naaaa, not really!
I'm terribly terribly sorry for taking so long to reply. >_< I forgot to reply to your last one. Very sorry man, won't happen again. Perhaps. But still, it would make sense for one of them to try picking it up but oh well. True. I think the reason FF has been starting to fall in the west is because they focused A LOT in the Lighting trilogy and since the first game wasn't well received in here it was meant to happen. (I personally thought the first XIII was decent though. Never played the other 2). I'm kinda sad that FF Versus XIII turned out to be FF XV though. It plays NOTHING like a Final Fantasy... I love Kingdom Hearts but FF is an entirely different series. Makes no sense for them to change the genre of the game to action RPG. And yes, as for the Tales series it's also starting to become more niche. <_< Guess its popularity in the west was just last gen. My summer vacation is going to be 1 week or 2 weeks the most in the beginning of august... Then back to another semester. Our schedule is somewhat f***ed up since there was a strike last year. :s Oh and i don't care really. If it's not a bother to you then i accept it. Hmmm But wouldn't MS notice that if they did that, they would receive lost of bad reputation? If Sony did it as well then i could see that happening but since MS decided on doing that alone it just seems crazy. <_< Oh i see. :s Never heard of Mars War Logs but then again, i hate PC gaming. >_> The desire is too strong. ;-; But fortunately after these next 3 REALLY busy weeks i'll be free from most subjects (this semester). Yay~~ Guess i'm still a newbie. >_<
I don't see anything particularly damning or extraordinary with Bayonetta in terms of reputation, so I'm not sure why the other big two wouldn't. Perhaps they're not doing it to just one or two games? That is, they're no longer funding games 'cept for some specific franchises? True I guess, say what you want, Final Fantasy has grown so big that I think it's just normal for it to be racing to the bottom now. I usually consider Tales of series more of a niche, though, especially the newer games. /looks at Xillia I can totally relate, bro. But what, you don't have your summer vacation yet? It's almost freaking July! Also, I could PM you a scanned copy of the book, though it feels like it was typed using an old typewriter machine so it may not be very pleasant-looking format-wise. There was some discussion about it on another site, and someone commented -- which I really agree with -- that Microsoft's move might've very well been little more than an old negotiator's façade. Basically, he suspected that M$ never intended all those crazy restrictions in the first place. But by making demands that initially sounded unreasonable, when they capitulated and withdrew the restrictions, they would look much more reasonable and give a kind of "look, we listen to and understand what you customers want" impression. If you look at the core of it, though, it's still laden with considerable DRM restrictions. Actually nothing consistent. Last I played was a bit of Mars War Logs (PC) and a bit of Rune Factory Frontier (Wii), but I've been quite busy to stay concentrated. I totally know that feel... the desire to procrastinate even more the moment you get busier. I think it's important, though -- I still manage to game and chat every now and then during busy times to keep myself from getting burnt out. Haha, that's common with newbies, lol
I wish Sony could have funded it but oh well. <.< And yeah it's gotten decent sized lately with Persona/DeSu but aside from Persona, i don't think any of the games come close to the big names in the west like Final Fantasy, Tales of series and etc. Maybe i'll search for it after this (hellish) semester ends. So many things to do makes me rage. >_< Yeah. When i read they took those out i wasn't sure if i felt surprised or if i thought that was expected though. xd But yeah with the huge fan backlash they probably won't really make up for it now. :/ Fanbase got too scared of the possibility of them changing that again after the console's release. :s Oh i see. So what game(s) are you play now then? Same here. xd Tryding to watch/read/game as much as i can to cool off since i have so many assignments due lately it's driving me nuts. <_> Quite unproductive i tell you. >_> PS: LoL i accidentally posted this on my own page. Fail. xD
Nintendo being badass as always. Honestly though, it looks more like the kind of game that the Xbox lineage would pick, rather than the Wii lineage. And I think Megaten's already fairly famous in the western world. Take Devil Survivor for example. Hmm. The copy I have has like 191 pages for the contents. Might vary depending on the printing edition. It was first published in 1949; it must've been reprinted a hell lot of times. Don't forget that there's also the movie adaptation. At least now it seems that they've recognised the errors in their ways. They've felt the backlash, but of course people are still pessimistic about the Xbone. I'm glad many gamers aren't mindless sheep. Halo sucks too! /flees For manga, I mostly only read what I translate and very little more. Now that I'm taking a hiatus from scanlations, I practically read no manga. And I dunno honestly, I no longer follow VN translation stuff, lol. Check around VNTLS, maybe? Yeah. I mean, well, I would totally, you know, do Alisa. Haha, that happens when visitor messages get too long, I guess. Nothing much going on here; I'm procrastinating a bit and gaming a little every now and then while slowly completing my thesis. How about you?
True. It did good i think. But since Sega's development team was getting no support and MS & Sony ignored them, Nintendo took the chance and funded the project. <_< And yeah. Megaten games have a pretty decent sized fanbase in Japan and now it's starting to expand in the West. Indeed. >_< How many pages is it? Do you remember an estimate? Yeah that comment made me lol. They are digging their own grave. <_< probably the only people that will stick with them are the ones that really love Halo. <_< (That is, if those don't move on to another console xd) Yeah games (and to a lesser extent manga) sustain me more as well. Really? I didn't know about that. Did the official release already get released then? D: I'll search for Sola. "do things" lol. Indeed. xD I'm running out of ideas to write about. >_< Anything interesting going on in your life?
