But people are buying the games straight from Hong Kong too, where the games may or may not be censored. Depending on the game. Sometimes Hong Hong uses the Japanese version as a base, which sometimes have differences from the US/EU versions.
Lemme also remind you of that they have always been able to find consoles in China, just illegally. ( Surprisingly or unsurprisingly depending on who you ask, most people never actually knew they were not allowed tho ) And games, even tho sometimes pirated, were what they were supposed to be. 'Cuzz they were pirated, nobody had to check them. lol
The ban being lifted was still important tho. Perhaps they could sell SOME slightly more mature content to adults, and by "mature" I mean the kind of content you could see in games rated 12+ by Pegi over here in Europe. Yeah that means many AAA might not come out at all, or get heavily censored. But if you're Chinese you know how it goes. It's not like you could just easily move to another country either. It's better than having nothing and risk getting charged for crime. I'd love to see something like Kingdom Hearts coming out in China, or would that still be too violent? At least there's no realistic violence.
I might love PlayStation just as much as Nintendo, it's ALWAYS been about the games for me. But some people may not even play different types of game genres, for them XB1 might be just enough, especially if they are Halo nuts and such. ( YES I know they have more than Halo but Halo is still what Zelda is to Nintendo, something most owners of those consoles would want and love )
But for me, I don't even care that much about online play. Especially not if I'm forced to work in a team talking to real life people. Ick! I don't really like shooters either. Toooo many chiiiiildreeen! But if YOU'RE into that, the Xboxes might have always had the best experience. According to what I've heard. The only games where I've thought online was completely necessary is Pokémon and the recent Mario Maker. Playing other peoples levels that they've made is really fun! And without online, I couldn't complete the Pokédex or battle anyone, so that's totally cool.
@WARDIE I'm sure there's great games on the XB1, if you're into that sorta stuff. But there are no JRPGs. Booo! And that's entirely their own fault for not managing to sell the console in Asia and Japan especially. Really sad if you think about it. That's a lot of lost sales. That's just ONE of the reasons PS4 have sold twice as much. Or is it even more than that? Dunno.
Nyeee... Fanboys will keep XB1 alive somehow. But they are gonna complain about all the games they aren't getting, duh. Unless they are really dum', they SHOULD be jealous. Tho they could get both of them, and even a Wii U/NX and they would be able to play everything. jk I get that it would be expensive. No unfortunately having a PC wont solve nuthin', many games are still console exclusive. And that's how things will stay, for now.
Isn't her hair colour "mint", or is it "teal"? I never got around to play these, because by the time they were localized I was just "oh really..." and then I had other games to play.
Not like Xbox ONE would still have a chance in Japan. PS4 will continue to rule no matter what price it is but this will probably make people who haven't gotten one yet to go get it. So much stuff's coming out that the JP market will enjoy to. Thanks to Square Enix.
No we missed LOTS of games. All the 3DS remakes. Not just the online game. And that's prolly because the DS remakes didn't sell as well as they thought they would. I mean they did do excellent in Japan obviously. People over here just prefer Final Fantasy when it comes to JRPGs. Even if it's terrible FF13 games. That's the ugly truth.
I urge ALL DQ fans to buy this. This game may decide if we'll ever have another DQ game in the west again. Squere Enix basically said so themselves. Is it fun then?, those who I've talked to said so. They imported it from Japan. And well, they said it was better than Hyrule Warriors. The game looks great too.
The genre isn't just "visual novel" it's an "otome" game, a game targeted only at girls. Yeah really, I'm not lying. They are not gonna swap the genders. If you're a straight guy, you probably wanna play a visual novel targeted at MEN. No gender swaps needed there as you'll be dating women in those. Of course, if you're a guy and don't mind going after guys nobody's gonna stop you from playing.
I already bought the physical Japanese version so I dunno if I'll need this. Ugh. Of course this always happens way ahead of them even announcing they are brining the game over. It's a miracle they are translating such a game at all, it being niche AND targeted at girls and all. So if you weren't stupid like me and imported it, buy it. That's if you're into that sorta stuff anyways...
@NomNom Pretty sure it's illegal to open another adult's mail without permission. Your family might wanna know that. Besides it's usually common sense NOT to open mail with other people's name on it. You don't have to be told this.
I stayed away from this series for years. But I watched/read it a and liked it. But as with everything that gets insanely popular, the fan base sometimes annoys the heck out of you. "Ermergerd Levi ermergerd"
Vita AND PS4 are still some of the best selling consoles in Japan. Make a Vita exclusive Yokai Watch game however and it will sell a couple of hundred thousand for sure. Trust me.
@john_c It really depends where you go. French people are famous to "hate" English. The ones I talked to ignored the classes on purpose. But no that's not how things work. UK is part of the PAL region so they'll get the same game as everybody else there. That means waiting until it's translated into all these billion different languages unless publisher choose only to release it in one language. And that rarely happens these days. It's always multi. It's a good thing they kept the PS4 region free.
@battleshipharuna It isn't. It's required to graduate at all in Sweden. Not that you actually have to try to learn. It's easy. Yet other countries refuse and demand games in their own language. There's no way I'm waiting, if it's region free like usual I'm importing it.
Oh yeah, they need to translate it into French and crap probably. Spanish and German too perhaps. I hate living in Europe sometimes. We Swedes are forced to learn English while nobody else wants to in other countries.
I would. But I know for sure that most people only talk about online play. In any game. That has one anyway. I blame people's tiny brains, they don't want a story, they wanna yell about your mother and harass little children. I'm kidding of course, or half kidding. There are many who wanna do that, but there are almost as many people playing for the story in a game. It's stupid not to give those people what they want too.
All artist are nerds, doesn't mean you have to be ugly or a loser. If they weren't nerds they'd be out all night doing drugs like all "normal" kids these days. And apparently Britain have big problems with under age drinking and drug use. More people should be nerds, maybe they'd stay inside more doing homework and whatever. trolololol
I wish they didn't use the dub names. Did you know the English official manga uses the Japanese names? Or well, for most of the series. 4kids can go kiss a duck's butt. The game is still fun tho.
Just waiting for all the comments whining about how Japan "sucks" and that they don't like the same games as westerners. Blah blah blah. At least PS4 is selling more units now, As for Xbox... What a joke.
Usually the sons take after the mother and the other way around. Japan never gets that right because they all mostly have the same hair colour and type. lol
It's not as weird as you think. Everyone who grew up during the 80's and 90's are now adults and if they are still gamers they can afford their own consoles. Most of our parents would never have bought something considered a "toy" at the time for themselves.
The DS games must have sold horrible in the west for them not to wanna release the new games. But I bought 3 of the 4 main series games. ( Out of 4, 5, 6 and 9 ) New. I still can't find a EU copy of the 5th game for a good price. I bought the PS2 game too when that came out and that was EU's FIRST DQ. God the PAL region sucks. Now where are my new games? Why aren't more people buying them only FF, KH and Chrono Trigger gets talked about. =p
Boo hoo, Japan doesn't like the same games we do. THANK BLUBBLING GOD! Not everyone is gonna spread their legs for Batman, deal with it. I much rather play Yo-kai watch.
@DVS There's lots of games officially released in Chinese, but they were only available in Hong Kong. To release many of these games in mainland China, many will have to be censored/edited unless the government says they are OK to go already. That's just the way it is. People are already buying the Hong Kong editions but on their own risk. Import an illegal game and they may fine you and take your console and all your games for it.
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Re: PS4 Censorship to Blame for Sucky Chinese Sales, Says Sony
But people are buying the games straight from Hong Kong too, where the games may or may not be censored. Depending on the game. Sometimes Hong Hong uses the Japanese version as a base, which sometimes have differences from the US/EU versions.
Lemme also remind you of that they have always been able to find consoles in China, just illegally. ( Surprisingly or unsurprisingly depending on who you ask, most people never actually knew they were not allowed tho ) And games, even tho sometimes pirated, were what they were supposed to be. 'Cuzz they were pirated, nobody had to check them. lol
The ban being lifted was still important tho. Perhaps they could sell SOME slightly more mature content to adults, and by "mature" I mean the kind of content you could see in games rated 12+ by Pegi over here in Europe. Yeah that means many AAA might not come out at all, or get heavily censored. But if you're Chinese you know how it goes. It's not like you could just easily move to another country either. It's better than having nothing and risk getting charged for crime. I'd love to see something like Kingdom Hearts coming out in China, or would that still be too violent? At least there's no realistic violence.
Re: TGS 2015: Good Grief! Sony Has More PS4 Exclusives to Show
I might love PlayStation just as much as Nintendo, it's ALWAYS been about the games for me. But some people may not even play different types of game genres, for them XB1 might be just enough, especially if they are Halo nuts and such. ( YES I know they have more than Halo but Halo is still what Zelda is to Nintendo, something most owners of those consoles would want and love )
But for me, I don't even care that much about online play. Especially not if I'm forced to work in a team talking to real life people. Ick! I don't really like shooters either. Toooo many chiiiiildreeen! But if YOU'RE into that, the Xboxes might have always had the best experience. According to what I've heard. The only games where I've thought online was completely necessary is Pokémon and the recent Mario Maker. Playing other peoples levels that they've made is really fun! And without online, I couldn't complete the Pokédex or battle anyone, so that's totally cool.
Re: TGS 2015: Good Grief! Sony Has More PS4 Exclusives to Show
@WARDIE I'm sure there's great games on the XB1, if you're into that sorta stuff. But there are no JRPGs. Booo! And that's entirely their own fault for not managing to sell the console in Asia and Japan especially. Really sad if you think about it. That's a lot of lost sales. That's just ONE of the reasons PS4 have sold twice as much. Or is it even more than that? Dunno.
Re: TGS 2015: You Can Ride Chocobos and Go Fishing in Final Fantasy XV
Those creepy goat monsters freaked me out when they appeared all of a sudden. I hope I don't have to meet them when I'm riding.
Re: TGS 2015: Good Grief! Sony Has More PS4 Exclusives to Show
Nyeee... Fanboys will keep XB1 alive somehow. But they are gonna complain about all the games they aren't getting, duh. Unless they are really dum', they SHOULD be jealous. Tho they could get both of them, and even a Wii U/NX and they would be able to play everything. jk I get that it would be expensive. No unfortunately having a PC wont solve nuthin', many games are still console exclusive. And that's how things will stay, for now.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 85
Digimon all stars rumble and Fairy fencer... Don't judge me.
Re: Weirdness: This Is How Big Boss Would Look in Quiet's Clothes
Great news.
Re: TGS 2015: Hatsune Miku Will Look Better Than Ever on PS4
Isn't her hair colour "mint", or is it "teal"? I never got around to play these, because by the time they were localized I was just "oh really..." and then I had other games to play.
Re: Interview: Bandai Namco on Bringing Its Japanese Properties West
I buy more Namco Bandai titles than I'd like to admit. lol
Re: TGS 2015: Phwoar, Those PS4 Faceplates Look Fancy in the Flesh
Where can I buy faceplates IN EUROPE?
Re: Rumour: There Are No Plans for Another Major Metal Gear Solid
Bye bye Konami. :/
Re: TGS 2015: Summer Lesson Will Be PlayStation VR's Best Seller
@bbq_boy Because all women like The Sims?
Re: TGS 2015: PS4 Price Drop Announced for Japan
Not like Xbox ONE would still have a chance in Japan. PS4 will continue to rule no matter what price it is but this will probably make people who haven't gotten one yet to go get it. So much stuff's coming out that the JP market will enjoy to. Thanks to Square Enix.
Re: TGS 2015: World of Final Fantasy Looks Ridiculously Cute on PS4, Vita
I can't believe my little sister... jk I had to. ( Because of the voice actor )
I guess I'll get this. It looks like a game that will make you super happy.
Re: TGS 2015: Dragon Quest Builders Constructs a Yellow Brick Path to PS4, PS3, Vita
Yeah. I'm not interested in Minecraft but I'd play this.
Re: TGS 2015: Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8: Final Chapter Prologue Unlocks on PS4
Yeah baby. Dream Drop Distance in HD is gonna look great. =D
Re: Dragon Quest Heroes Has Free DLC On-Disc For Its Western PS4 Release
No we missed LOTS of games. All the 3DS remakes. Not just the online game. And that's prolly because the DS remakes didn't sell as well as they thought they would. I mean they did do excellent in Japan obviously. People over here just prefer Final Fantasy when it comes to JRPGs. Even if it's terrible FF13 games. That's the ugly truth.
Re: Dragon Quest Heroes Has Free DLC On-Disc For Its Western PS4 Release
I urge ALL DQ fans to buy this. This game may decide if we'll ever have another DQ game in the west again. Squere Enix basically said so themselves. Is it fun then?, those who I've talked to said so. They imported it from Japan. And well, they said it was better than Hyrule Warriors. The game looks great too.
Re: Review: Amnesia: Memories (PS Vita)
The genre isn't just "visual novel" it's an "otome" game, a game targeted only at girls. Yeah really, I'm not lying. They are not gonna swap the genders. If you're a straight guy, you probably wanna play a visual novel targeted at MEN. No gender swaps needed there as you'll be dating women in those. Of course, if you're a guy and don't mind going after guys nobody's gonna stop you from playing.
I already bought the physical Japanese version so I dunno if I'll need this. Ugh. Of course this always happens way ahead of them even announcing they are brining the game over. It's a miracle they are translating such a game at all, it being niche AND targeted at girls and all. So if you weren't stupid like me and imported it, buy it. That's if you're into that sorta stuff anyways...
Re: Round Up: Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain PS4 Reviews Take Top Marks
Konami: "People still like games that aren't on mobiles, whoopsie daisy!"
Re: To No One's Surprise, Europe Has to Wait a Bit Longer for Persona 4 Dancing All Night
@NomNom Pretty sure it's illegal to open another adult's mail without permission. Your family might wanna know that. Besides it's usually common sense NOT to open mail with other people's name on it. You don't have to be told this.
Re: Koei Tecmo's Attack on Titan Game Certainly Looks the Part
I stayed away from this series for years. But I watched/read it a and liked it. But as with everything that gets insanely popular, the fan base sometimes annoys the heck out of you. "Ermergerd Levi ermergerd"
Re: Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Digs Out Its Best Beach Wear on PS4, Vita
Vita AND PS4 are still some of the best selling consoles in Japan. Make a Vita exclusive Yokai Watch game however and it will sell a couple of hundred thousand for sure. Trust me.
Re: Atlus Insists That Persona 5 Is Coming To North America This Year, While Europe Gets It Later
@john_c It really depends where you go. French people are famous to "hate" English. The ones I talked to ignored the classes on purpose. But no that's not how things work. UK is part of the PAL region so they'll get the same game as everybody else there. That means waiting until it's translated into all these billion different languages unless publisher choose only to release it in one language. And that rarely happens these days. It's always multi. It's a good thing they kept the PS4 region free.
Re: Atlus Insists That Persona 5 Is Coming To North America This Year, While Europe Gets It Later
@battleshipharuna It isn't. It's required to graduate at all in Sweden. Not that you actually have to try to learn. It's easy. Yet other countries refuse and demand games in their own language. There's no way I'm waiting, if it's region free like usual I'm importing it.
Re: Weirdness: The Ouye Is the Ultimate PS4 Rip Off
@Tasuki They do have copyright laws but nobody there cares.
Re: Weirdness: The Ouye Is the Ultimate PS4 Rip Off
@hi_drnick It's 797,06 USD.
Re: EA Boss Peter Moore Compares Kojima and Konami to a Rocky Marriage
If only bad marriages COULD be solved by kisses. It's more like he's in a abusive relationship, he shouldn't go back.
Re: Atlus Insists That Persona 5 Is Coming To North America This Year, While Europe Gets It Later
Oh yeah, they need to translate it into French and crap probably. Spanish and German too perhaps. I hate living in Europe sometimes. We Swedes are forced to learn English while nobody else wants to in other countries.
Re: Sword Art Online: Lost Song Grinds Out a Confirmed European Release Date
Netflix. Ha. Or you could just Google the name of the anime and watch it for free. Nobody's gonna come after you.
Re: EA Doesn't Think You'd Play a Star Wars Battlefront Single Player Campaign
I would. But I know for sure that most people only talk about online play. In any game. That has one anyway. I blame people's tiny brains, they don't want a story, they wanna yell about your mother and harass little children. I'm kidding of course, or half kidding. There are many who wanna do that, but there are almost as many people playing for the story in a game. It's stupid not to give those people what they want too.
Re: Oh Dear, British Industry Head Tries to Promote Games and Gets It Horribly Wrong
All artist are nerds, doesn't mean you have to be ugly or a loser. If they weren't nerds they'd be out all night doing drugs like all "normal" kids these days. And apparently Britain have big problems with under age drinking and drug use. More people should be nerds, maybe they'd stay inside more doing homework and whatever. trolololol
Re: Community: Final Fantasy VII Voted Push Square Readers' Greatest Ever Game
Sonic 1 over 3? I think not.
Re: Review: Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist (PS4)
I wish they didn't use the dub names. Did you know the English official manga uses the Japanese names? Or well, for most of the series. 4kids can go kiss a duck's butt. The game is still fun tho.
Re: Mighty No. 9 Misfires, Delayed Until 2016
I was lied to by people working for them. They said it wasn't delayed. Frikkin' puuep.
Re: Gamescom 2015: 10 Years Later and the 'Story Begins' with Final Fantasy XV's Dawn Trailer
There's still not a release date? I've been waiting since 2005-2006 for this.
Re: Japanese Sales Charts: Nothing to See Here, Go Back to Gamescom News
Just waiting for all the comments whining about how Japan "sucks" and that they don't like the same games as westerners. Blah blah blah. At least PS4 is selling more units now, As for Xbox... What a joke.
Re: Koei Tecmo's Secret Game Is Apparently to Do with Attack on Titan
Yes because Spiderman regularly gets his friends eaten.
Re: Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Delays Its Ninja War Into 2016
Usually the sons take after the mother and the other way around. Japan never gets that right because they all mostly have the same hair colour and type. lol
Re: Soapbox: Why I Love Strategy Guides
As long as it's Prima or Piggyback. Not those terrible Brandy games guides.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 78
That's a very brown dog. Goodness.
Re: Rumour: Mighty No. 9 May Say Nein to 2015 Release
And it really is just a rumour. Don't believe in it.
Re: Uh Oh! There's a New Dead or Alive Xtreme in Development
You mean a new Boing or Bounce.
Re: Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm PS4 May Be Delayed into 2016
Aww man. WELL...that leaves my wallet open for other games.
Re: Here's Your First Tiny Look at Dragon Quest XI's PS4 Battle System
Please tell me I can change the hero's dog haircut.
Re: PS4 Prints Money as System Shipments Surpass 25 Million Units
It's not as weird as you think. Everyone who grew up during the 80's and 90's are now adults and if they are still gamers they can afford their own consoles. Most of our parents would never have bought something considered a "toy" at the time for themselves.
Re: Will Dragon Quest XI Come West? Square Enix Doesn't Know Just Yet
The DS games must have sold horrible in the west for them not to wanna release the new games. But I bought 3 of the 4 main series games. ( Out of 4, 5, 6 and 9 ) New. I still can't find a EU copy of the 5th game for a good price. I bought the PS2 game too when that came out and that was EU's FIRST DQ. God the PAL region sucks. Now where are my new games? Why aren't more people buying them only FF, KH and Chrono Trigger gets talked about. =p
Re: Japanese Sales Charts: PS4 Sales Dip as New Games Sell Better on PS3
Boo hoo, Japan doesn't like the same games we do. THANK BLUBBLING GOD! Not everyone is gonna spread their legs for Batman, deal with it. I much rather play Yo-kai watch.
Re: Review: Legend of Kay Anniversary (PS4)
@Sonicfan11589 They are identical.
Re: How to Watch PlayStation's China Press Conference Live
@DVS There's lots of games officially released in Chinese, but they were only available in Hong Kong. To release many of these games in mainland China, many will have to be censored/edited unless the government says they are OK to go already. That's just the way it is. People are already buying the Hong Kong editions but on their own risk. Import an illegal game and they may fine you and take your console and all your games for it.