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Googleshng - August 25 '04- 4:00 Eastern Standard Time
Olympic gymnasts are creepy in the number of ways they can flip around
in one jump. I assume non-Olympic gymnasts are too, but I've never actually seen one.
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A Tale of Two Importers, Part 1
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Hello. I have been doing much research on European
video gaming lately, and have been somewhat irked
about the bonus material they have been receiving (FFX
International, FFX-2 International, and Kingdom Hearts
Final Mix are the ones I know about). My questions:
A) Are there any games besides the ones I know about
that this is occuring for? I heard something about
Star Ocean being this way but I'm nto certain.
B) Could I go to Britain (the one European country
which speaks English), buy the said games there, play
them, and view the new content with no trouble? If
not, what would you suggest (short of learning
Japanese) to get ahold of this material in a playable
and comprehensible form?
Thank you for your assistance.
The Pezman
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Googleshng:
Actually, there's a fair number of countries you could go to to exercise your plan here, what with there
being other English speaking countries, and a good deal of European games (if not all) being released with a language
selection option. In any case though, this plan would work just fine if you went and bought European consoles,
hooked them to European TVs, and played European games on them. Otherwise you'd have to deal with the
fun of getting around regional lockouts and differing video standards.
The alternative of course is just to accept the fact that companies occassionally throw in a couple little
extras for our friends across the Atlantic to make up for them getting all their games a year late if
they get them at all, and not lose sleep over it. You really aren't missing out on much of anything.
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A Tale of Two Importers, Part 2
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Hiya
Couple of weeks ago I sent a letter similar to this on to Andrew but now I'd like your take on matters. You see when living in Europe we get about half the games you get in the states. However, there's a spiffy little invention called a mod-chip that now let's me play american ( and japanese) games PS and PS2 games on my PS2. Therefor I'm wondering which games you think are the must-haves for these two systems cause I'd like to compare your answers to Andrew's. Oh and with my semi-recent purchase of the american FFT I have all FFs so don't bother with those.
Thanks a bunch
Carl Greder
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Googleshng:
Well, one good place to start would be the reviews section, but off the top of my head we've got everything
from Working Designs, the Wild ARMs series, Koudelka, Shadow Hearts, Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter,
Vandal Hearts, Kartia, Valkyrie Profile, Disgaea, and of course, Castlevania: SotN. That should be a
good start.
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Limited Attention Span
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is that the topic? i like voice acting in some games, can't any now cuz they all suck, but still, i like to hear some poor guy poaring his heart into voicing a character just to realize thousands gamers worldwide say he can't do it, wouldn't like to be in his Dragon Scale Runing Shoes, that's for shore, anyone hear the german accents in FM4? did i hear someone say the Governator?
anywayzzz, i have a Q for your A, what's up with Unlimited Saga? i can't go trough a single level, i can't bring healing items with me, i can't retutn to a town, and, i don't die when my HP reaches 0, bleh, worst 14.83 i ever spent
This has been the first Q for A from this guy, hope it gets in, i'l be famous, shirt and shoe contracts, and maybe videogame characters named after me, yours truly, "this guy"
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Googleshng:
I don't really do topics. You ask questions about whatever you want, and I'll answer them. In any case
though, there's a difference between a German accent and an Austrian one.
Anyway though, Unlimited Saga. There's two issues here really. The first is that over the years, the
SaGa series has developed a lot of unique little quirks, like how "HP" is really just a form of armor
protecting your ACTUAL HP (called LP). The other issue is that they're rather sink-or-swim. Basically,
what you have to do when playing Unlimited Saga is forget everything you know about playing an RPG,take
some time with it, figure out how things work, and then start over. Oh, and I think the pirate girl
there is probably the easiest to start with incidently.
Of course, it should be noted that is isn't a game for everyone. Just masochists really.
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Phenomincal Cosmic Graphics, Teeeeeeny Little Screen.
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So As we have all seen by now, the GBA can play Movies of decent
quality. That being the case, why hasn't the game industry tried
puting FMV's on the GBA? The largest game i've seen them put out is
about 128 Mb but I know for a fact that carts can be made to hold up
to a Gigabit. So why are we being jipped on the FMV's?
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Googleshng:
Well, there's two issues here. The first is the same reason the PSP isn't going to sweep the market.
People don't care about eye popping visuals when their palm is bigger than the screen. I mean, look at
the most popular games ever. Tetris and Pokémon. The graphics are just good enough that you can
tell what you're doing. I'm not saying a nice rendered or animated movie wouldn't be nice, but it's not
going to be a selling point unless the console industry completely dies out.
This brings us to point #2. The bigger the cart, the higher the cost. If a feature is going to drive
costs up, and it isn't going to be appealing enough for people to want to pay more, which is why you
don't tend to see this happening.
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Taleses
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I'm sure Namco was thinking of the profit margin and localization costs of
thier Tales series when they decided not to bring the (gorgeous looking)
Tales of Destiny 2 on PS2 to the U.S; however it looks to me like Tales of
Symphonia on gamecube was met with some pretty good reviews and success,
begging the question... will the new Tales of Rebirth on PS2 stand a chance
of reaching our shores? (with some mediocre voice work at least?!)
....what would your bet be?
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Googleshng:
Well, as a general rule of thumb, we get more than we don't, so I'd think it'll most likely come over,
yes.
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