I'm feeling quite offended xD
I'm feeling quite offended xD
Which makes me wonder of the real impact of Sony censoring on the japanese market. I remember reading about it was "awful" because it would kill many devs and games.
It goes without saying that Sony being less leniant about their censoring policies is the absolute right thing to do, but what about the real impact when it comes to sales and all those "concern" ? I feel like there is mostly none impact whatsoever and it's just a win-win situation for everyone, except a handful of people.
Like I said it won't make a difference it someone sees only what he wants to see.
The conclusion for Switch third party support three years in is that there is a drastical increase at output from 3DS and WIi U, physical and digital, competing or surpassing Sony consoles in quantity for first time in many years.
What is strange is that this increase comes mainly from publishers connected to Sony before. Traditional bigger players that were closer to Nintendo treat Switch many times as secondary console, leaving it out of AA/AAA line like Bandai Namco or ignoring it completely like Capcom.
Before anyone mentions Falcom regarding smaller publishers, I only have two words to say: Masayuki Kato.
ftfy
to be more clear, i think if there was some bad blood, it was between kato and yamauchi. that would have started falcom down their current path of not seriously establishing an audience on nintendo platforms post-sfc. kondo's just kinda along for the ride.
By end game, yes. But most of the game is not end game and you must be weary of the weapon triangle for most of the game. Whereas very very early in FE3H you can get access to large AoE heals and large AoE buff that gives +5 movement which basically takes away anything that could be considered a challenge. For players such as myself who love hard challenging SRPGs there hasn't been much of anything in awhile that could compare with FFT.
Haha. No. FFT does not allow you to undo your mistakes. FFT does not have a easy way to have 5 additional movement to your party. FFT isn't so crazily unbalanced where you can have a physical tank or magic tank simply take 0 damage.Uhm FFT is easy from start to finish. It's actually one of the easier SRPG series out there. If you want difficult, go play the original Hoshigami on PS, or even older FE. FE3H hard difficulty is about equal difficulty wise to FFT.
LakLak, censor your own country, leave others alone, imperialist.
Remember when everyone got up in arms when Ubisoft was going to censor Rainbow Six to appease China? Its the same concept. Why should games in Japan be censored to appease westerners?
Of course I'm stretching the way of thinking, but for a failed console, the PSP sold, AFAIK, around 70m of units. It's not like Sony went and said "it sold less than a half of a Nintendo product, so it's a utter failure".
Nintendo would love 70m failure with Gamecube, or even Wii U.
War of the Lions is considered harder than the original western release.Are you referring to the FFT remaster by chance? Cause I play the original PSX version.
I'm sorry, but can I ask where are you from?
Yeah, because censorship was the most non-progressive stuff that my country ever faced on it's history.
It's progressive to have a secret, unclear policy of censorship that makes dev's lives harder and gives the big company more control over them?
These censored games are still on the store though...and the content is just covered up in many cases. They aren't taking much of a stand. Also Trish's butt is despicable content?It doesn't matter where I come from, purging an online store from despicable and borderline content is what every store should do, regardless of the country. That's a progress and it has barely anything to do with soviet censoring. We also censor stuff on Resetera, for very good reasons. I don't even know if we should speak about censoring, "curating" should be the word we use.
Haha. No. FFT does not allow you to undo your mistakes. FFT does not have a easy way to have 5 additional movement to your party. FFT isn't so crazily unbalanced where you can have a physical tank or magic tank simply take 0 damage.
Are you referring to the FFT remaster by chance? Cause I play the original PSX version.
And the only FE that was of slight challenge to me was 6 I believe. The one where enemy reinforcements attacked the same turn they appeared. Everything else was just a simple matter of exploiting brain dead AI to attack where you have the advantage and using simple map choke points.
It doesn't matter where I come from, purging an online store from despicable and borderline content is what every store should do, regardless of the country. That's a progress and it has barely anything to do with soviet censoring. We also censor stuff on Resetera, for very good reasons. I don't even know if we should speak about censoring, "curating" should be the word we use.
Is he talking about the censoring of games that sexualise minors? If Sony Sony absolutely should censor that stuff. It's disgusting and anybody who's into it should be ashamed of themselves.What is despicable is the way western games aggrandize and depict militia and murder, truly the epitome of civility. The west does love going about civilizing the savage other. How about you judge what is appropriate for your county, and let us do the same. The people in California controlling the PlayStation department can do whatever they want, doesn't mean we have to agree with it.
If only that was Sony's policy and not some vague and secret one that censors whatever they feel like.Is he talking about the censoring of games that sexualise minors? If Sony Sony absolutely should censor that stuff. It's disgusting and anybody who's into it should be ashamed of themselves.
Is he talking about the censoring of games that sexualise minors? If Sony Sony absolutely should censor that stuff. It's disgusting and anybody who's into it should be ashamed of themselves.
Speaking of sexualized minors, I was watching Stranger Things (neat show) and saw there was a lot of 13 year olds (real ages 15-17) kissing on top of beds, and the slightly older ones in depictions of staring to have sex. That too is prohibited isn't it?
There is no double standard here? Right?
How about not trying to rationalize child sexualization?Life is Strange 2 has a sex scene between two underage characters but thats perfectly okay. What you have to watch out for is the pictures of fictional cartoon girls (voiced by actresses in their twenties and thirties) who look absolutely nothing like an IRL humans do. Thats whats really ruining the youths
Omega derail life.
On the "HD enough" part, this also included screen space use. Since HD was 16:9, this meant a lot of games that may not utilize the full space were not going to make it to the PS3, most notably, shmups. Shmups, especially vertical shumps hardly make use of the 16:9 ratio and have a lot of empty space on the sides, so where do they go when rejected? The Wii was too restrictive in both performance and download space, not to mention the rules requiring an office or whatever to get their games on the platform, and you also may need a publisher. Which left the Xbox 360, which became a haven for all kinds of shmups last gen.sony's been offering me a shitload of bias confirmation in the last couple of years. to be fair, it turns out it was basically scea that was the culprit, but they seem to have full control over the steering wheel now instead of deciding for their region if a game is 3d enough or should be part of a compilation or if it's hd enough. all that arbitrary bullshit seemed specifically targeted at japanese publishers and small localization studios - or was the byproduct of creating their brand one of the bleeding edge of technology, and not a place where everyone could succeed. despite their practices, it was the broadness of the psx and ps2 platforms that allowed for success from basically any genre or any publisher. there was so much growth in the rpg genre, sandbox genre, and action genre because a psx or ps2 game could be almost anything.
i'm not sure when this changed, but the language around the psp in the west was a specific indicator of where the direction would be heading. sure scea was quietly killing the chances of 2d games and their policies quietly killed working designs, but saying out loud that the psp would bring handhelds out of the gaming ghetto was putting a megaphone up to their mouths and declaring what they really thought of the industry. and even when the psp turned out to be insufficiently future-proof and had not and would not ever achieve this goal, scea was still in the process of stonewalling localizations that weren't part of their brand. around the time disgaea 3 was initially blocked behind the scenes and sakura wars 1+2 weren't allowed on psp because they were seen not as games but as text novels. who knows why this shitty decision making fell away. maybe it was the vita being such an obvious failure in the west that scea/siea didn't care about whatever games came to it. maybe they had simply given up on handhelds as a whole early on and didn't tell japan, so they super didn't care about what was coming to vita.
but maybe they should have actually paid attention because the moment they looked away, the vita brand became known for niche japanese games siea didn't care about and worse: gross shit that no one should care about. it's probably their specific negligence to the handheld market that fostered the audience no one should want. but when they went to fix it they did it in the way that required the least amount of effort from them.
and going forward if they don't foster relationships with smaller companies, this fanbase can be wiped clean from the start. if they want, siea can just secure those big japanese games that they care about (basically, final fantasy, from software's games, and capcom's stuff), and finally truly secure their brand as the one on the bleeding edge of technology. in doing so, they'll have a fanbase of whales and superwhales and developers making mobile-as-console games that vacuum all that sweet sweet revenue out from them. anyone else can just stick around and dine on the leftovers.
tl;dr:
-scea wants their brand to be about bleeding edge cool cinematic things
-psx era: no 2d games; ps2 era: gotta be in a compilation; ps3 era: gotta be hd; psp era: no text-based games
-sometime around 2009 or so after the psp had failed, scea stopped caring about the handheld market in general
-scea's inattention to the handheld market led to the rise of a fanbase they didn't care about
-scea's inattention also meant they didn't do anything about this fanbase because they didn't care about the handheld market
-ps vita came and went, but now they were stuck with this thing they should have probably paid some attention to
-siea now has to do some work to scrub this, but they do it pretty sloppily
-siea also just wants whale and superwhale money, so ps5 can probably get rid of those guys from the start (and everyone else!)
Is there a thread about it or is it in the OT which is far too long to search for? Just a question, would love if it sells well, i'm loving itApparently it's having stock issues in America. Seems fine in Japan though.
Really now? A lot being done to justify it in your post.What you have to watch out for is the pictures of fictional cartoon girls (voiced by actresses in their twenties and thirties) who look absolutely nothing like an IRL humans do. Thats whats really ruining the youths
You can see it on Amazon US. Also check the NPD thread for June. https://www.resetera.com/threads/np...ng-2-switch-1-hw.129811/page-12#post-23115725Is there a thread about it or is it in the OT which is far too long to search for? Just a question, would love if it sells well, i'm loving it
Ninja with the ability that ignores height breaks the game, monk can literally teleport, summoner and calculator are stupid on their own not to mention THUNDER GOD orlandu and agrias, the game is too easy to break because op abilities and free grind outside of some chapters but that is the fun of the game.Haha. No. FFT does not allow you to undo your mistakes. FFT does not have a easy way to have 5 additional movement to your party. FFT isn't so crazily unbalanced where you can have a physical tank or magic tank simply take 0 damage.
Are you referring to the FFT remaster by chance? Cause I play the original PSX version.
And the only FE that was of slight challenge to me was 6 I believe. The one where enemy reinforcements attacked the same turn they appeared. Everything else was just a simple matter of exploiting brain dead AI to attack where you have the advantage and using simple map choke points.
On the "HD enough" part, this also included screen space use. Since HD was 16:9, this meant a lot of games that may not utilize the full space were not going to make it to the PS3, most notably, shmups. Shmups, especially vertical shumps hardly make use of the 16:9 ratio and have a lot of empty space on the sides, so where do they go when rejected? The Wii was too restrictive in both performance and download space, not to mention the rules requiring an office or whatever to get their games on the platform, and you also may need a publisher. Which left the Xbox 360, which became a haven for all kinds of shmups last gen.
This has always been weird to me. Way too many games trivialize that kind of stuff.What is despicable is the way western games aggrandize and depict militia and murder, truly the epitome of civility.
Pretty much.If only that was Sony's policy and not some vague and secret one that censors whatever they feel like.
That would certainly spark discussion, though it probably wouldn't be positive.
The only SRPG that i have played, is Fire Emblem Awakening. i played it at max difficulty not knowing what perma death really mean, i could not believe a Nintendo game being so Hard, and i loved it. The first "intro" level took me 3 hours, there i knew that i wanted that lvl of difficulty but didnt want to let die any of my characters, so i did restart the level every single time one of my chars died. (That make the game even harder i could not use death as strategy). but then the second stage comes, and it took me 18 hours to clear it without losing any char.... after that.. it took me like 50 hours to get to the 5th stage.
So i think FE:A got just the right amount of difficulty as it is.
In other topic, im a pro in CIV 5 AND 6. and those game sucks... i hate firaxis. The A.I is the most incompetent in any game ever. The most easy FE pales in comparative of what CIV 6 is today.
You can see it on Amazon US. Also check the NPD thread for June. https://www.resetera.com/threads/np...ng-2-switch-1-hw.129811/page-12#post-23115725
Now it could be the original stock was just small but we'll find out eventually.
Is he talking about the censoring of games that sexualise minors? If Sony Sony absolutely should censor that stuff. It's disgusting and anybody who's into it should be ashamed of themselves.
I find it funny that people get so up in arms about this kinda thing when those same minors can get dismembered or worse in games. So it's okay for us to kill these minors, but not see them naked?
You work for Firaxis? is that a leak?If no characters in attack range:
Do nothing
elif characters in attack range and are weak to available move:
Attack character with weakness with your weakness exploiting move.
else:
Attack character that will lose the highest % of HP due to attack.