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Harvest Moon on the PC?  AAAHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Believe it or not I'm not really behind this idea, at least not as a gamer.  I understand their motivation, Farmville after all has freakishly become the biggest game in the world for the Facebook community.  And dammit they were the real farming game first. They want a piece of that Facebook pie!

That being said, I wouldn't touch Farmville and I really don't think I'd want to touch a Harvest Moon game modeled after Farmville.   Then again perhaps I should be a little more open. HM console games have not been so good in recent years. Lord knows the series needs some kind of change. Maybe this is it, but probably not it.

SteelAttack said:

gamingeek said:

Demons Souls a success

By far the most significant of these was Kim's admission that, despite great strides companies like Sony has made over the past decade in the art of localization, it's far from a perfect process. As an example, he touched on last year's surprise sleeper RPG hit, Demon's Souls. The From-developed dungeon crawler was expected to be a tiny niche project, with initial shipments of 15,000 copies. Yet it became a breakout through word-of-mouth, with current sales closing in on a quarter of a million.

Unfortunately, its unorthodox design and unrelenting difficulty caused Sony's U.S. and European arms to pass it up, assuming that it would be a failure outside of Japan. Instead, it was picked up for international release by Atlus; despite SCEJ's reluctance to license the game, they wanted Demon's Souls to carve a niche for itself outside Japan, and first-party avenues were closed.

"That was a mistake," Kim admits. "It should have come out as a first-party title."

At 250k sold. Remember this.

Damn. 250k. And I couldn't manage to nab one lousy copy of ll those 250k.

 it's still in print.  it seems like the first atlus game (sorry sony it is an atlus game now) for which they made more than the initial pressing.

also as far as i know it wasn't an international release, it was merely a North America release.  the game is still not out in Europe.

steel, there's at least 4 of those copies that have traveled all the way to cyprus ... you should have managed to get hold of one in mexico tsk tsk

I FUCKIN' HATE FASHION DESIGNERS!

*ahem*

Good luck finding a 'gem' in that turd, GG!

Remember, wear latex gloves when you dig as deep as you'll have to (you don't want to get poop under your fingernails!)...

phantom_leo said:

Good luck finding a 'gem' in that turd, GG!

Remember, wear latex gloves when you dig as deep as you'll have to (you don't want to get poop under your fingernails!)...

 I'm a good digger

Square though.... ugh, FF13 and Crystal Bearers have a few 5 or 6/10 reviews and then better ones. What's up with this?

bugsonglass said:

gamingeek said:

I'm off, time to see if Crystal Bearers is a P.O.S or an under appreciated gem. 

But I better go to gamefaqs and try and print off a game world map first

EDIT:

Oh shooooooooooot, gamefaqs has no map. Little help here. I probably wont start till I find a pic online. 

 did you finish with shattered memories?  i have been avoiding the dedicated thread for fear of spoilers

 There are no spoilers in there. I'm on my third playthrough. 

SteelAttack said:

bugsonglass said:

SteelAttack said:

gamingeek said:

Demons Souls a success

By far the most significant of these was Kim's admission that, despite great strides companies like Sony has made over the past decade in the art of localization, it's far from a perfect process. As an example, he touched on last year's surprise sleeper RPG hit, Demon's Souls. The From-developed dungeon crawler was expected to be a tiny niche project, with initial shipments of 15,000 copies. Yet it became a breakout through word-of-mouth, with current sales closing in on a quarter of a million.

Unfortunately, its unorthodox design and unrelenting difficulty caused Sony's U.S. and European arms to pass it up, assuming that it would be a failure outside of Japan. Instead, it was picked up for international release by Atlus; despite SCEJ's reluctance to license the game, they wanted Demon's Souls to carve a niche for itself outside Japan, and first-party avenues were closed.

"That was a mistake," Kim admits. "It should have come out as a first-party title."

At 250k sold. Remember this.

Damn. 250k. And I couldn't manage to nab one lousy copy of ll those 250k.

it's still in print.  it seems like the first atlus game (sorry sony it is an atlus game now) for which they made more than the initial pressing.

also as far as i know it wasn't an international release, it was merely a North America release.  the game is still not out in Europe.

steel, there's at least 4 of those copies that have traveled all the way to cyprus ... you should have managed to get hold of one in mexico tsk tsk

Everywhere I went, they were sold out, with no word on when would they be expecting more copies.

Assholes.

 i ordered from a canadian site (www.videogamesplus.ca).  over time i found that just 1 game, doesn't get stopped at customs.  2 is kind of risky though there were times when the package skipped customs.  For packages with 3 or more games i was always asked to pay a customs charge

phantom_leo said:

gamingeek said:

Gotta ask, why is always a conspiracy when JRPGs get a bad a review?

Eh. That was just a leftover theory from the whole "JRPG's don't evolve" debate from last month.  

Its a fact that ever since 360 came out all game "journalists" seem to want is Elder Scrolls style RPG's, and top notch FF-style RPG's, though admittedly few and far between this gen, have gotten a lot of crap reviews seemingly just because they're not the cool thing to like anymore.

Lost Odyssey is every bit as good as Mass Effect or Elder Scrolls, yet you would never know it from the reviews. And just the fact that these games are called "J-RPG'S" these days, like they're some kind of inferior stepchild to REAL RPG'S, is a telling fact. Remember back in the day when they were all just RPG'S? With no retarded letter at the beginning to make them look like a waste of time?