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Re: Lunar Remastered Won't (Currently) Include The Original English Voice Acting, But It's Been Offered "For Cheap"

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every time i see "Lunar... original English voice acting" it sets off a tiny alarm bell in my mind, as Lunar didn't actually have English voice acting, originally. More Iike Lunar Remastered won't have 90's English voice acting, but it will have new voice acting in English that is as original as the other overdub was. πŸ‘

obv i get the meaning but actually i didnt at first because I thought you meant it wouldnt get English voice acting at all.

TLDR the headline is ambiguous, could be better. πŸ‘βœŒοΈβ€οΈ

Re: Want Your Very Own Sega Neptune? You'll Need A Spare $2,600

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@BulkSlash

Once upon a time, there was a game store in Tulsa called Hershel's, where I spotted a loose 32x behind the counter tucked away, that they hadnt even bothered to merchandise. got a price on the fly, from Mr. Hershel himself.

$8. πŸ’€ I sold it some years later, and scarcely regretted it until roughly this moment.

thanks πŸ˜‚

Re: Lunar Remastered Won't (Currently) Include The Original English Voice Acting, But It's Been Offered "For Cheap"

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@slider1983

i totally feel you. I LOVE RPGs! But I can count the ones I've beaten on probably one hand.

Xenogears, FF6, Chrono Trigger, Suikoden 1 and 3, Earthbound, Illusion of Gaia.

ok. two hands ✌️

(for context, the number I've played and not beaten is many times longer πŸ˜†)

PS - is this my own syntax confusion or are you making a distinction between Tactical Strategy RPGs and Non-Tactical Strategy RPGs? πŸ€” I'm genuinely interested.

Re: Lunar Remastered Won't (Currently) Include The Original English Voice Acting, But It's Been Offered "For Cheap"

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@slider1983

yeah. seems like a real non-story, to me.

if they hadnt brought it up, id not have assumed this new release had the old Working Designs dubs.

OTOH recording all new English dubs seems weird unless they are really going to make this a full blown premium rerelease and a series revival. which also doesnt seem to be happening here.

I like the old dubs for nostalgia, and I cherish my old copies, but I can't imagine a new EN dub so "good" that I would choose it over the Japanese voices, or frankly, no voices. πŸ‘ cheers.

Re: Lunar Remastered Won't (Currently) Include The Original English Voice Acting, But It's Been Offered "For Cheap"

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"It's a shame, because Ireland says he has a lot of stuff he could offer for these projects, including uncensored outtakes, audience tapes and other cool extras. "

geez, maybe this Ireland guy should just start publishing games himself! 😬

EDIT - the headline seems to imply that the game will include non original/new English voice acting, but it will actually have no English voice acting.

Re: Review: Evercade Alpha - This $250 Bartop Arcade Is A Glorious Gateway To Hundreds Of Retro Classics

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"Sure, someone is always going to be stuck with the joypad rather than the authentic coin-op interface, but it's not the end of the world."

1) or they can use a stick of they so choose, right?

2) especially given #1 above, far worse is that player 2 will always be peerng over the shoulder of player 1, kind of like trying to see what someone is doing on their ipad. πŸ™‚β€β†”οΈπŸ™‚β€β†”οΈ

3) two sets of controls is the ONLY way for street fighter, this is DOA for me personally for this reason.

"None of Mega Man's famous platforming adventures are included, which might seem a bit odd"

what seems odd is the choice of Mega Man for this project at all, given that the "famous platforming adventures" mentioned are not arcade games. πŸ€”

thanks for the review! my take is that this seems high quality, but the lack of AV out, second controls, and odd choices for the marquee franchises make it irrelevant for me right off sadly.

Re: Review: Evercade Alpha - This $250 Bartop Arcade Is A Glorious Gateway To Hundreds Of Retro Classics

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"Because it's a 4:3 screen, it's the perfect aspect ratio for retro gaming, but you'll still find that some titles have a border around the action (like TATE-mode shmups, for example)."

Imo the second half of this couplet actually disproves the first, by demonstrating that a 1:1 screen is actually the perfect ratio for retro gaming, when it comes to arcade games in particular (also handheld games made for a variety of different screens.) ✌️

Re: The PC-88 RPG 'Xak II' Is Coming To Switch, But Without English Text Options

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@N64-ROX

"I get the feeling that a lot of "physical forever" purists are going to get a rude awakening when they plug in their Switch cartridges in 20 years' time and most of them run like muck without any patches..."

I think about this all the time!! physical makes zero sense to me now, and I rarely buy games that way because of exactly what you describe. we are on the installment plan, now, and it's hard to imagine what "retro" gaming will be like when it relies on all this online garbage that no longer functions.

for me, pre-internet gaming is a different thing, and essentially dead, along with so many other good aspects of life. it does seem like theres a movement to "unplug" but since it isnt the "way forward $" for the dominant corpses i mean corporations I don't think we will move that direction with any level of peace or comfort.

so, I'll just hang on to the pre-switch consoles and games that I still have, leave my phone by the door (on better days) and roll with the punches 😊✌️ cheers.

Re: The PC-88 RPG 'Xak II' Is Coming To Switch, But Without English Text Options

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I will say this: while the Wii is definitely part of the "old Nintendo" that I love, part of the appeal for me before Wii (yes, I'm old and I had every Nintendo console along the way since NES) was that Nintendo was averse/afraid of online gaming or distribution just like me, and in those days there never, ever would have been a non localized game allowed on any Nintendo platform.

in other words, I meant what I said, but when I said it, I didnt realize just how far back I was reaching. πŸ˜…πŸ‘ so It's pretty much old man yells at Nintendo shaped cloud.

Re: "The Project Is A Complete Scam" - The Internet Isn't Convinced By The SuperSega FPGA Console

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@bluphraust

lol very true! or (in the US at least) "middle class voters." It's no one! It's everyone! πŸ˜†

"The Internet" in journalism bugs me in particular because it's just like when (ahem) certain politicians and news organizations say "people are saying." The implication is that everyone or most people agree but in fact there's no "there" there, and it's actually just the speaker using a kind of straw man fallacy to separate themselves from the statement they personally would like to propagate, in order to make it seem more valid.

in truth, there are people on "the internet" on both/all sides of literally any issue, and this same writer could make the opposite argument or any argument at all really using the same strategy and data pool ("the internet.")

Re: Legendary Mario 64 Speedrunner Suigi Just Set A "Historic" World Record

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@bobby_steurer

That's what life's like! You'll never play all the great games, listen to all the great songs, see all the great movies, but you can spend your life having a blast trying 😊 and, better late than never, as they say! It sounds like you had a good time with it, and that's what is up. πŸ‘βœŒοΈ

Re: Anniversary: GTA: San Andreas, The PS2's Best-Selling Game, Turns 20 Today

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this game was a phenomenal "late gen" release at the time. to have our heads expanded by gta3 and then to see another giant leap to San Andreas in the same generation was just incredible!

it was also a welcome throwback to the early 90s at a time when 80s nostalgia was very much in vogue. Pretty much no game that I can think of even tried the vibe they pulled off in this game.

Re: Random: Here's The Story Of Why Capcom's SNES Aladdin Game Didn't Feature A Sword

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@Geobardi

good pull! so, he used it once ("rarely") in a dire situation against absolute evil, not exactly running around, slicing up mall security. πŸ˜‚

PS - i just watched level 1 on genesis as it had been a long time. yes, it looks weird as hell to see Aladdin brandishing a deadly weapon, weaving a trail of carnage as he makes his way across town πŸ˜‚ what were they thinking?!

Re: Interview: Super Mario Kart & SimCity Composer Soyo Oka On Her Most Iconic Nintendo Soundtracks

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@Poodlestargenerica

I second this request!

PS - have you listened to the podcast Legacy Music Hour? They used to do some interview episodes, and they did David Wise, Tim Ferriss, Oka, Tanaka, and I want to say Alberto Jose Gonzales(?!) but I might be getting a little mixed up over time.

suffice to say its a great podcast and those episodes are really special β€οΈπŸ‘βœŒοΈ