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@somnambulance if it doesn’t come to consoles they must not like success and money.

@Captain_Retro I wish we’d get even a re-release of those on switch or something.

Jeepers those early games are really hard. I feel like I’m playing zachtronics here. I’ve tried out the first ten games maybe, going chronologically, but maybe I should be jumping around more.

I was so excited for it. I really want it on console… but I got it on steam anyway and hope it runs on my ancient laptop.

Sega should do the right thing and release a lost RPGs collection: this one, all of shining force 3, and of course panzer dragoon saga.

@Pillowpants I think the real target audience for a remaster probably is people who have NOT played it. A lot of these were niche in the past, when gaming itself was niche. Now there’s a big audience. And if someone hasn’t played it, they don’t care if it’s recycled.

Square-Enix would probably let their stuff die rather than let someone else do it. But on the other hand, they do a ton of outsourcing (to save money…)

I’d love to see them remaster the quintet games instead (soul blader, Gaia, terranigma). I wonder if Enix still has rights to those.

Remaster the original, add QoL, release it, done.

They selling all the ***** they got in trade from me like 25 years ago.

Sad to hear he thinks he might be dying soon. that existential angst might result in some pretty cool design tho.

It’s not that he doesn’t make good games; he just overhypes people, and the end result doesn’t meet their overhype.

He made some real classics. I used to love bullfrog. I emailed him as a kid, and he wrote back.

I’m looking forward to seeing how this one turns out.

I wish they’d do the gold box d&d games. Or ultima.

Pretty cool. This was back before games had to be “AAA” budget with million dollar graphics and needed voice acting for every single line. Sometimes it seems like creativity and high budget are mutually exclusive. I love the media tie-in. There weren’t actually a ton of those that I can recall…

I really wish they’d do an English language overlay for all these the way pinball quest does for the Japanese version.

Which cancers? I’m in the US, and I’m still too young to screen for prostate or colorectal cancers… I tried! I got a game boy Christmas 1989.

Been having an existential crisis since 2013 tho…

@Jackburton1985 I think you’re grossly overestimating its earnings potential… not that I don’t wish they’d just put it out anyway. Konami owns the rights. They probably made it into a pachinko machine.

Snatcher was the only kojima game that ever floated my boat. I’m scared if I replay it I won’t like it anymore tho. I’m no longer 12! I had an import copy of policenauts, but my Japanese never got good enough for it.

@Kirbyo they… don’t play like vampire survivors… 😆 definitely inspired by Castlevania tho for sure!

I didn’t know there would be questions about the 3D games and Netflix show 🙄 😝

@MontyCircus definitely. But it’s crazy we’re getting these at all! I’m old enough to have seen so many cool Japanese things never come here, that it still seems amazing when something I’d expect to never get now gets released in English.

People pay more for a morning or weekend Starbucks.

I’ll be getting pinball quest. There’s no way I’m trying to play it on the original hardware, and I want to support this. There are so many Japanese games I’d love to play with the type of overlay translations they’re doing here. Even playing games that were released in English, but playing them in Japanese with an overlay, would be worth it.

Damn. That’s almost worth getting on TikTok for. I want to hear her do a final fantasy iv style song, but in the style of bare knuckle!

They’re not that important to the hobby… they’re important to the internet…

Shimomura is a genius. KH overshadows her huge body of work. She came right out of the gate with SF2, the best soundtrack in that entire series by far, and one of the best of all time… not to mention she did Mario rpg and so many more.

Ended up being some of toriyama’s objectively worst designs…

I wish the Americans had been a bit more pragmatic. We missed out on a lot of great games because they were so focused on the hideous early 3D. Europe boss had the right idea.

I loved the first Gabriel knight. It had the best soundtrack too, because it was more melodic, theme-based rather than cinematic. It was brilliant! Robert Holmes is awesome. The title track and bookstore theme are highlights.

Kinda weird. I remember it being popular to hate on it back when it first came out.

I hope it turns out. They’re always so hush hush about devs. If it’s grecco, I’m not sure what they’ve worked on besides the links awakening remake. I’m all in for an overhead Zelda, especially starring Zelda, but I hope it measures up to previous overhead Zeldas.

Either way I’d love a collection.

@Sketcz I bought mercenary force as a kid, thinking it was an rpg. I ended up loving it and miss it.

Bro id settle for a collection containing axelay, xexex, and parodius. I always wanted to play all 3.

@Poodlestargenerica did you read the article or just the headline? No one is saying it’s the one true way. They’re just stating why they like it. They’re not saying no one should play 3D games. They’re saying they don’t.

What a fantastic article. Julia Minamata’s thoughts on the abstractness of it took the words right out of my brain. EGA renders images the way metaphorical language renders concepts. Your brain has to connect the dots.

Can’t wait to play some of these.

@KitsuneNight would be really neat!

I’d like to try it. I’d like more non-hell shooters too

The parade of plastic fake consoles with empty innards is getting to be like the plastic guitars of 2008. As much as I love these old consoles…

Both the koshiro siblings have been heroes of mine since I was a kid, not just yuzo. They’re both geniuses too. Crazy the amount of absolute bangers. And not to harp on the youth thing, but they both started really young. Again, they’re prodigies. Their mom is pretty cool too. (I know nothing about their dad)

Did they ever fix the English cosmic fantasy collection translation bugs? I really wanted to support it, but… Just the same, I’d also like to play this one if it’s in English!

@PKDuckman yeah woulda been some bad timing for sure… “why didn’t anyone show up??” and “superspreader Xbox event” and not good headlines.

The past-tense of slay is actually slew. Slay/slain/slew. “Slayed” is like when someone tells a funny joke. “Oh, you slayed me!”

@Westone32bit Some definitely did! Final Fantasy VII did, for instance. But by the time of FF X, they were definitely localizing that, too; I don't remember which had that switched between those two release dates, though.

I remember Suikoden did have it localized, but they didn't just swap X and O; they swapped square and triangle as well! I remember that being pretty confusing.

Of course, these days, Nintendo games use A to confirm and B to cancel. Xbox is the same, but the A and B have their positions swapped (and X and Y)..., and meanwhile, of course, Playstation is X confirm and O cancel... so no matter what you do, your brain is always having to convert stuff around, unless you only play in one place...

@LowDefAl Woops yeah you’re right 😭 Altho now that that’s finally clear, I’m wondering why red means accept and blue means cancel?? Is that a Japanese thing I’m unaware of? Or did I get that wrong now? 😂

This seems like a ret-con to me. Originally, didn't the O mean true/yes, and the X meant false/no? That's why you used O to select and X to cancel in a lot of games, before Sony USA swapped. And now, officially X is "yes" and O is "no", which always seemed backwards from the Japanese maru/batsu (yes/no, true/false, circle/square), as Japanese is read from right to left (circle, X), not left to right.

But now they're saying Blue X meant yes and Red O meant no? That would have been back-ass-wards to a Japanese speaker.

@DestructoDisk This is true... All our pasts began a long tamago!

@DestructoDisk Yep, you got it, but you're missing the Japanese word for egg, Tamago (which is of course where "tamagotchi" comes from), and of course "tamago" sounds a little like the English phrase "time ago" Although I suppose if a person knows "Tamagotchi," then I guess they don't really need to know that "tamago" means egg, now that I think about it...

Hm. I have a few types of game boy (including one original) and several gba versions. And I’m broke. Too bad I can’t cash in.

Yay. Hope this isn’t like that Steam demo where they added AI that didn’t even work.

That title is brilliant for the twelve people who get it.