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MrTerrorist
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I grew to dislike School Days game along with the other games made the same company, which are also set in the same universe of School Days, when I learned about the protagonist's father, who is a P.O.S. and way worse than his son.
How bad is the father? Let just say spoiler[abandoning his girlfriends after getting them pregnant and stealing their money was the least problematic thing about him.] |
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Beatdigga
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I guess the Tetris trailer dropped too late to cover in the article, which is a bit of a bummer because that actually looks kind of good, and is apparently the first dramatization of a lot of Nintendo executives from that era.
Sounds like Wild Heart was a good time at least. |
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Avec ou Nous
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Sega must be desperate if they're putting Twitch streamers in their games now. I wish we could go back to Yakuza being unknown in the west. I hope the Japanese version wont have them in it, at least.
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CelticMutt
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Sega has been putting literal porn stars in the games for years. Neither that, nor Twitch streamers, nor wrestlers, nor Hollywood actors are them being desperate. It's called having fun. |
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L'Imperatore
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Are we even supposed to like the dudes in the School Days universe? |
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BadNewsBlues
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It’s funny how you mention desperation while indirectly acknowledging the fact that the Like A Dragon games have gotten more popular than they’ve ever been in the west. Your suggestion benefits no one.
My dude you’re complaining about twitch streamers being put in a game that’s used real life gravure models, wrestlers, & actors. What are you even complaining about? |
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Joe Mello
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It's worth putting into the ether that doing The Mario was the original video game-based dance craze.
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Fedora-san
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I don't think those are comparable at all. The gravure idols make sense. You can watch camgirls or JAVs in game which just so happen to be real JAV actresses. And face-modeling actors for the characters is typical video game stuff. But adding western Twitch streamers is something else entirely, especially for a game set in feudal Japan. It does just come off like they just want some big streamers to promote their game and don't really care about immersion. Although from what I understand, this is an optional DLC and not forced upon the player. Thankfully one does not have to have this stuff in their game if they don't want. Which also makes me think it might be region locked since I doubt many people in Japan knows who CohhCarnage is. Probably just an American market focused stunt. |
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Slips Python
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It's just marketing. Cringy marketing, but it's nothing new to SEGA. Remember when Egoraptor/Arin Hanson was the official unofficial spokesman for Sonic the Hedgehog in the west? Back when Sega's marketing tactics for Sonic was to basically play into the whole "these games suck" angle and hiring a guy know for shitting on the series because...irony? I never got self deprecating humor. Thankfully they went with Inugame Korone to promote Frontiers and seemed to have grown out of the phase and focus on people who like their games now. There was also the Yogscast in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. If anyone remembers that game. And yes, I can confirm the streamers in the game are all optional DLC you can never have in your game if you don't want them there. And from what I saw there's no Japanese equivalent of them and they're not mentioned at all on the Japanese socials for the game or company. It seems to be an entirely western-focused promotion. All I saw on their Twitter was some Japanese streamers and Vtubers playing the game to promote it along with Hogwarts Legacy since Sega is in charge of releasing and marketing that game in Japan. Kiryu will also be on a program himself. https://projectv-official.com/84d6002642ca482e996c1173cf1a5a3c I'm guessing they took an extra step for the west to try to sell the game given it's very Japanese-centric setting and characters. I think Yakuza only started doing well in the west once they kind of started rewriting the scripts to make them more meme-y and jokey. I wonder if the rebrand to Like a Dragon means they'll be more faithful localizations now or at least this game will be so they need a new way to market it in the west. |
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wolf10
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I'm honored and humbled to have been immortalized in the column for information I was sure most people would just go to YouTube for, but I guess it happened.
I just wish the circumstances were better than, "Nintendo stiffed the staff of one of the most beloved games of a console generation." Ouch. CAPCOM removing Clover's entire credits reel from Okami re-releases was at least born of obvious and public spite. What's Nintendo's excuse here? |
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BadNewsBlues
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[quote="Fedora-san"] and don't really care about immersion.
I mean considering other aspects of the game? |
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FlamingFirewire
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Unfortunately, "removing the original credits & only crediting the new team" thing for remasters/remakes/re-releases of games is essentially an industry standard at this point. Halo MCC is another prominent fatality of this practice where all of the original credit scrawls have essentialy relegated to "Google It".
The choice to mention the OG team at all sounds a lot like someone on the Prime remaster pushed for full credits, and was then convinced/forced to not include more than a brief mention. Don't get me wrong - the remaster/remake team deserves credit too, but ignoring the original teams is ultimately abhorrent, disrespectful, and counter-productive to recognizing video games as a legitimate art form. When a movie is remastered, credits aren't normally changed or removed to only mention who worked on the new transfer. This practice is super frustrating. |
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Greed1914
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I always forget that Power Wash Simulator is published by Square Enix. I saw that Croft Manor was in it, and thought, "That's neat. I wonder why that one?" Obviously, the answer is that Square Enix did own Tomb Raider until recently. It's just so different from what is normally associated with SE that it's easy to forget.
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