Shenmue Dojo

LAMEWAD wrote: Anybody here who plays VF5:FS good? I just started playing it, kind of, and I'm pretty bad at the moment. I don't exactly have the time/patience to practice too often but it's fun nonetheless. I play as Lau Chan... or at least I attempt to.

Dorian wrote:

Tuffty wrote:So basically, more than an hour spent on going back to square fucking one. No levelling up, no reinforcing weapons or armor, literally no progress.

OK, now think about the people who were making master ninja no save run in NGB...

Tuffty wrote:Different though innit? In their case they're playing an already difficult game, having beaten it multiple times already if they're playing on the hardest difficulty possible, purely for the challenge and for the sense of accomplishment in saying 'I did it'. Whereas I'm playing an already difficult game on first playthrough, just to progress but have had numerous stepbacks in the space of an hour during normal play, losing all my souls I gathered and my time.

Steam has been getting an increasing number of Japanese titles like Recettear from Carpe Fulgur to most recently a port of ClaDun x2 from NIS America. Marvelous AQL will join the Steam train with Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy, which is slated for release on September 27.

"As I understand it, Valve got in touch with us! They’re keen on giving their users great options on their service and they contacted several Japanese publishers," Marvelous AQL producer Esteban Jose Salazar said to Siliconera. "I was actually hired on after MAQL had decided which game to publish. My first day they told me we’d be doing Half-Minute Hero on Steam and my grin was about a foot wide. I’m a huge fan of both. Valve has made it so easy for us to bring the game to Steam with their constant support and amazing publishing tools. Running development of a game in two languages (English and Japanese) can cause major headaches, but Valve was always prompt and professional in helping us out."

Marvelous AQL has a long list of titles they could bring to Steam like Luminous Arc 3, No More Heroes, and Grand Knights History. I asked Salazar what’s next for Marvelous AQL and Steam? Will we see original games made for PC? Ports of games that didn’t get localized?

"At this point, we are considering our best options. The PC is a killer platform, Steam is a dynamite service, and as long as I’m here I’ll be championing both for our games, old or new. The best things you can do to see more games from us on Steam is pick up this game and let us know you are interested in others. I can’t give you any specific hints, but if the game sells reasonably well, I personally would like to see us doing something *grand* on the PC. I think others would too, but first I have to show my bosses it’s a lucrative platform."

Dorian wrote:

Tuffty wrote:Different though innit? In their case they're playing an already difficult game, having beaten it multiple times already if they're playing on the hardest difficulty possible, purely for the challenge and for the sense of accomplishment in saying 'I did it'. Whereas I'm playing an already difficult game on first playthrough, just to progress but have had numerous stepbacks in the space of an hour during normal play, losing all my souls I gathered and my time.

The point was, you "lost" one lousy hour. Those people lost weeks, months in some cases.

Dorian wrote: My point was that it's an integral part of playing video games and there's no point in crying over it.

OL wrote: So the Ni No Kuni pre-order promotion has already had some stuff added on.
http://www.ninostarter.com/home
They made enough pre-orders so they're adding some art cards to the Wizard's Edition, as well as a small selective soundtrack disc. Nothing huge, but it's still really cool that they're actually adding things because of larger amounts of pre-orders.
It says that the next incentive added would be a golden wizard's coin, which sounds like another nice little bonus. That's if they make the pre-order quota. The gauge seems to indicate that they've made it already, but they haven't updated the page saying anything about it, so I'm not sure.
Regardless, this whole thing is making me like Namco more and more. Pretty cool of them to do all this.

EDIT: Nevermind, clicked the "goals" button and apparently the coin is already a done deal.
Not sure what the third thing will be, but they seem well on their way to it.

Dorian wrote:

Even Square Enix Admits The PlayStation Era Was The ‘Golden Age of FF

Who Really Cares? wrote:

Dorian wrote:

Even Square Enix Admits The PlayStation Era Was The ‘Golden Age of FF

Fixed.

Martin wrote:Was an integral part of video games. Now with every game having some kind of checkpoint system, a new game is unlikely to punish you like that for not saving. There will be exceptions of course, but the days of prevalent "risk vs reward" in your progress through games are essentially over.