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6170052 No.6170052 [Reply] [Original]

Westernized

>> No.6170055
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>> No.6170054

Look it's last year again

>> No.6170057

>>6170054

>> No.6170063
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>> No.6170069
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Look at what you must do to cater to Americans' taste.

>> No.6170084

>>6170069
Are you sure that's the same game?

>> No.6170090

>>6170084
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Light_Force_2

>> No.6170092

>>6170055
This is pretty neat actually.

>> No.6170099

>>6170063
Holy shit ! I just took a look at this game, they didn't only butcher the cover, they also fucked up the whole game by replacing every name, and even the sprites, by ugly cartoon style drawings. I can't believe it.

>> No.6170100
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>>6170092

>> No.6170104

/jp/ just got irritably weeaboo

>> No.6170112

>>6170104
The changes are objectively worse no matter how you look at it.

>> No.6170131
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>>6170063
They kind of kept the same artstyle in this related game, but it's much worse-looking.

What kind of drugs did they give to the green girl? Just look at her eyes.

>> No.6170136

Anything America touches becomes shit. Reverse Midas touch.

>> No.6170153

>>6170112
Subjectively worse to you. Quit being such a fucking weeb

>> No.6170162

>>6170153
>herp derp weaboos lulz legion

>> No.6170175

>>6170153
So you like it?

You like this shit?

I bet you liked the american megaman covers too.

>> No.6170181

>>6170175
But those were awesome.

>> No.6170187
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>> No.6170190

In very rare situations, you can get it better in reverse.

Compare Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan and Elite Beat Agents.

>> No.6170195
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Americans...

>> No.6170199

>>6170052
Subjective as it's an adaptation into another format.

>>6170055
Subjective as it's a cover subject to aesthetic preference.

>>6170063
I don't know. Probably subjective as the entire game was changed.

>>6170069
Objectively worse. Aside from the cover, the actual game has nothing changed but cut content.

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6170204

Feels good man

>> No.6170207

>>6170195
This makes me sad.

>> No.6170208

>>6170190
I like both.

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>>6170190
rare superior american cover

>> No.6170218

>>6170090
>Differences in Mobile Light Force 2
>When the title was developed for the US market, several changes were made.
>* A Charlie's Angels-style cover picture, completely unrelated to the original characters or the game's theme.
>* Removal of screen rotation mode.
>* Removal of all in-game plot.

>* Removal of all in-game plot.
...I am speechless.

>> No.6170247

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El2O-3GioRU
Westernized.

>> No.6170250

>>6170204

Sanae? In Zelda thread?

>> No.6170251

>>6170213
>american cover
>PEGI

>> No.6170257
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The US Taiko no Tatsujin game was horrible.
Do the Japanese think we're unable to play hard games or what?

>> No.6170272

I like how they made Kirby look angry in the US release.

>> No.6170296

>>6170257
Yes.

EBA vs OTO, Touhou vs flat pattern shmups without any complexity, etc.

>> No.6170320

I'm kind of curious to see a westernized Touhou or Umineko.
I'm a masochist I guess

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>>6170320
I don't even want to imagine a westernized Easy mode.

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>>6170320
American VN.

>> No.6170350

>>6170257
Westerners want easy games. They don't like to think. This is why games are getting easier and easier these days. Westerners always say difficult games 'suck'.

>> No.6170355

>>6170350
Stop projecting and stereotyping and being a massive weeaboo you ignoramus.

>> No.6170372

>>6170355
How many modern games are there that you can't breeze through on the standard difficulty levels? You have to turn most popular games to their highest difficulty to even get a challenge. I can't say whether things are different in Japan because I don't have a very representative sample of their games though. Touhou, Idolm@ster, and a bunch of VN and eroge games aren't really typical games.

But I can say games are much easier today than they were about a decade or two ago. And far more focused on graphics than decent gameplay or challenge. Graphics have leapt forwards whereas gameplay, inventiveness etc. have seemingly regressed.

>> No.6170373
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Western game heroes are always creatively designed and very charismatic, don't you think?

>> No.6170397

>>6170372
or, you just grew up

>> No.6170404

>>6170372
The days of "Nintendo-hard" are over. Judging by /jp/, the only games kids want to play these days are online MMOS where you can just buy power ups.

>> No.6170407

>>6170397
Sure if that would mean that I have progressivley became worse at older games wheras I have became a better gamer as time went by.
Because the old games are still harder compared to new ones.

>> No.6170409

>>6170372

I think the bigger problem with western games is how developers (or publishers) seem to be more interested in throwing money at big-budget money-shredders, rather than working to get the best out of a lower budget.

It's not as 'efficient', perhaps.

>> No.6170427

Most old games are easy as fuck and require basic pattern memorization, I dare you to name me a game as hard as a 00s CAVE shooter, GodHand or Ninja Gaiden Black.

>> No.6170433

>>6170409

I can agree with that. The game industry seems to be all about big name blockbusters more than ever, almost as much as the movie industry.

It's another reason why I'm grateful for independent gaming.

>> No.6170442

>>6170427

NetHack?

>> No.6170456

>>6170427
Battletoads :3

>> No.6170465

>>6170442

ADOM is harder than NetHack.

Suddenly a stone block falls on your head. You die.

>> No.6170482

>>6170465
>Suddenly a stone block falls on your head. You die
That is not a good kind of hard, though, if it really is like that.

>> No.6170486

>>6170442
There's a lot of luck in that though. I got a really easy wizard ascension once since I found a wand of wishing before I'd even hit level 10, then another 2 before I'd reached level 20. Had pretty much everything I wanted from then on.

>> No.6170489

>>6170052

Is that the VN or light novel?

>> No.6170502

>>6170204
She should be /jp/'s official feels "good man girl"

>> No.6170508

>>6170482

To be honest, stone blocks aren't that dangerous unless you're a wizard.

Silly squishy wizards.

What's more annoying in ADOM is

>You mutate into a writhing mass of primal Chaos. Game over.

>> No.6170509

>>6170112
The Western version of Mobile Light 2 actually looks better drawn. With Princess on Ice, yeah, it's shit.

>> No.6170513

>>6170508
Just because you are a wizard does not prevent you from wearing something to protect your head.

>> No.6170529
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>>6170509
The thing is that Princess on Ice actually bothered to change the in-game content to match.
Mobile Light Force 2's art is the exact same thing as the first one, and is irrelevant to the actual content.

Pic related.

>> No.6170530

>>6170513

I basically meant any class with lower HP.

>> No.6170531

>>6170373
Are you implying that Japanese characters are charismatic and creatively designed?

>> No.6170535
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>>6170509
>The Western version of Mobile Light 2 actually looks better drawn.

>> No.6170547

>>6170531
While they do fall into certain stereotypes, they're far more varied.

You just have to look at the right place.

>> No.6170558

>>6170529

Why did they decide to put some guy at front? Nausicca was the freaking hero of the movie for goodness sake!

Don't even get me started on that horrid looking Ohmu...!

>> No.6170560

>>6170535
Seriously, on the cover of the Japanese version that one guy in the right corner's left eye is crooked.

>> No.6170563

>>6170373
That one adventure game with the little girl was nice.

>> No.6170573

>>6170547
Variety doesn't mean originality.

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>>6170563

Shantae was pretty neat.

>> No.6170679

>>6170589
Gameplay was bad though.

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