Run with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by g0zen
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Run with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by g0zen
how many reasons do you have left?Quote:
Originally Posted by g0zen
Bah, I want to play Disgaea some more but I have school.
Well that’s not really surprising, they haven’t released all that much this year in Japan… with the exception of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocture there lineup wasn’t that impressive so far… plus they only released 3 console games (2 PS2 and 1 XBOX), most of their games where for the Game Boy Advance (6 games) 2 of which where ports of older games and another 2 which where the Light and Dark versions of their monster battle game Devil Children (DemiKids in the USA).
They have Growlanser IV: Wayfarer of Time coming out in December, which should sell fairly well since the series has a good following in Japan.
they definitely need to pull it together. i love R&D1, but the rest of their lineup is sketchy. well, growlanser is solid, but i dunno if it's my kind of thing and it's irrelevant because we're never going to see any past 2 and 3 here (if WD even manages to get 'em out.)
demikids was disappointingly meh. can't take down pokemon with that interface, chaps. as much as i wanted to like it, it needs work.
I hope Atlus USA publishes Giftpia.
Hm. With Takara having control of Atlus maybe we'll see a turaround. But they did seem to be wishy-washy with their games this year. I remember they were screwy with Shin Megami Tensei Nine. They announced it for the X-Box, then delayed it, then cancelled it, then reannounced it for the PC, then delayed it again...
On a side note, a big "I hate you" to Atlus for not releasing Innocent Sin stateside. Then again this is Atlus who is notorious for releasing like 2 copies of every game they ever make (Atlus USA, not sure about Atlus Japan). I can never find games like Persona 2, Brigandine, Thousand Arms, Tactics Ogre for PSX (I think it was by them, not sure) and stuff around my area, and they only seem to be on e-bay with exorbitant prices.
uh, i thought nintendo was...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kinopio
http://www.gamespy.com/e32003/preview/gcn/1002353/
get over it. i have. persona was my favorite PS1 game, and i have managed to move on with my life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoman0chaos
it's not entirely atlus USA's fault in that regard, although they do bear some responsibility. of course, in the minds of people who don't know anything about running businesses -- especially international ones -- that sort of thing is irrelevant.
well, it's it a bit late to be finding copies of fairly rare PS1 games at retail? they print as many copies of a game as stores order. you can still find disgaea at retail now because it's new and stores are reordering it. when they stop, atlus will stop producing it, and it will disappear from retail. this is what is known as supply and demand. if you wanted a copy of persona 2 you should have bought it right away because it was bloody obvious that it wasn't going to be a million-seller.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoman0chaos
Considering how long the same copies of Cubivore and Sky Gunner have been sitting at my local GS I can't blame them. Hence I direct people to my earlier comment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoman0chaos
(Okay, so they didn't technically make either. But they still published both.)
Perhaps buisness is part of the reason Innocent Sin wasn't released stateside, seeing that the first Persona didn't do too well in the U.S. However, I've heard other reasons that the story content had "risque material" on it such as it taking place in a highschool, one of the characters (Jun) was openly homosexual, Hitler coming back to life, etc. and didn't fly with Atlus (at least this is what I've heard, I could be wrong). If this is so, wouldn't they just strap on an "M" label? It hasn't stopped an RPG from selling *points to Parasite Eve*. I guess I'm just blindly complaining but I found it odd that they held back on this project while releasing Eternal Punishment instead. They've released games that are more obsure and sold less than Persona (Brigandine, Hoshigami). Just holding off on a game and releasing its sequel is annoying and stupid. It's like a studoi saying "Hey, we're not releasing the Matrix, but we're releasing The Matrix Reloaded" and people who watch the movie know what's going on at the very moment, but so much of the storyline is blocked out because you haven't seen the plot of the first one.Quote:
Originally Posted by ferricide
But hey, since Takara is buying Atlus we may be able to see more Shin Megami Tensei titles and their spinoffs come stateside. And since RPG game remakes are all the rage nowadays, maybe we could see a Persona boxest or whatnot. Anyways, don't mind me, this is just mindless ramblings from a Shin Megami Tensei fan...