Shikigami No Shiro III

[Frogacuda]

Starforce is still around so it still happens. For one recent example, DiRT. And who can forget the BioShock authentication idiocy? As for patches, Two Worlds is a pretty good example of a recent game that's basically unplayable in its default state (and only marginally playable post-patches).

Those are all completely different issues, and those are subsiding as well.

But shit, if that stuff bothers you, buy on Steam. A large chunk of new games are carried there.

[Yoshi]

Yeah, Steam has essentially everything that is not published by EA or UbiSoft.

[Tain]

Starforce is still around so it still happens. For one recent example, DiRT.

Didn't Starforce really clean up their act?

[bVork]

Well, apparently Trackmania United (the non-Steam version - the one on Steam is clean) uses a lite version of StarForce. That seems to be the exception, though. From what I have heard, DiRT StarForce is as bad as usual.

I can't believe there's a form of copy protection out there that makes me miss typing word 4 from paragraph 3 from page 53 of the manual.

[gameoverDude]

Starforce is still around so it still happens. For one recent example, DiRT. And who can forget the BioShock authentication idiocy? As for patches, Two Worlds is a pretty good example of a recent game that's basically unplayable in its default state (and only marginally playable post-patches).

Just a quick heads up: The PC SnS 3 doesn't use Starforce, but rather it uses Safedisc (which has not given me any problems). Same goes for Raiden III, at least on the Japanese PC version.

Even though I've got the PC one already, I'll be getting the 360 SnS 3 in case of any other extra features that may be thrown in.

[Mikhal]

Looks like Aksys is bringing the Wii version to the US. No word on the 360 version.

http://www.arcade-renaissance.com/20...-to-north.html

[Grave]

Yay! Still digging the PC port, but I will definitely pick this up. Weird that there's no mention of the 360 one, wasn't that the first one they planned to bring over?

[bVork]

Given the English name and lack of moonspeak in the achievements in this list, I'd say the 360 version is crossing the Pacific too.

[Mikhal]

Yeah. It's very likely to come out for the 360 over here too. Just no "official" comfirmation yet. A press kit was even available for "Castle Shikigami 3" on the Xbox site during the Tokyo Game Show here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/press/default.htm

Don't bother downloading it though. Not worth it. I remembered it being a huge filesize just for a bunch of bitmapped screenshots.

[Low]

Preview with vid at IGN, watch the vid and laugh your ass off:

http://wii.ign.com/articles/854/854612p1.html

Was the localization for Shikigami 2 this bad? *-neo