Dat cloud

Crackdown 3 effectively turns your Xbox One into the most powerful console ever made.

Maybe Microsoft can use the cloud to give Rare's 360 ports a stable framerate?

Crackdown 3 looks very impressive indeed.

Goddamn....JET Force Gemini looks awesome on the Xbone. They didn't revamp the graphics like the HD versions of Banjo and Perfect Dark as far as I know, but the game is in full widescreen with super crisp visuals and much better controls. I mean most Wii titles aren't even in true widescreen so this blows my mind.

I really need to get heavily into this game soon. One of my all time favorite N64 games. This just reminded me why it blew me away so hard in 1999. It was one of those games that pushed the system so hard it looks like a fucking Dreamcast title. I hope there's a lot of people playing this for the first time.

Oh, I also fucked with Perfect Dark Zero a bit.....I still think this game, while obviously not as awesome as the original, is better than people give it credit for. The controls are a bit wonky but the levels and weapons and general vibe is great. Still actually looks pretty nice too, 10 years later. Fuck....10 years since the 360 launched. That is insanity right there. I even managed to get into an online match for the first time in about 8 years. lol

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YES!!!! SILENT HILL IS BACK!!!

gamingeek said:

Haven't played this one in yonks, was great at the time. I miss my N64 games, I thought my machine broke so I bought another and it didn't work either. I think it's the adapter.

You chewed the chord, didn't you?

Yeah there are some hilarious meme's using that Time magazine cover pic.

So this sucks:

Chris Pranger From Nintendo Treehouse Discusses Harsh Realities Of Localisation:

The hardest thing for everyone to understand and to accept — and I’ve seen this first hand in the company, that this is typified — people think that obviously they’re right, and what they like or dislike has to be the norm. Why would it be otherwise? And they just say the classic “Why do you hate money? Why do you hate money, Nintendo?”

And it’s like “What are you talking about? We’re trying to make…obviously it has to make calculated risks, but at the same time, one of those risks…and I mean they’ll bring up games that are very Japanese games, like Captain Rainbow for instance. They’ll bring that up like “Look how many people want this. Don’t you want money?” And we’ll be like “Yeah, we do want money, which is why we know it’s a colossal waste if we ever try to localize that in this current market, because look at you people. You don’t make up a big enough group.

The hardest part for people to realize is how much money it takes sometimes to make a game like…if it’s a Japense game, to bring it over the States. Not just translating and then localizing and marketing, but if it’s a game that has substantial voice text, oh my goodness! That is a collosal cost to bring that over. And some games you look at and you’re like “Well how are they going to bring that over?” and it’s like “Well, they can’t.”

You look at something like even Xenoblade Chronicles. People love that game, you know, within a certain group. That game is not the type of game that just pulls in enough to justify the costs on that. So that’s like, we got it in the States by luck, that NoE decided “Oh, we’ll take the fall. We’ll localize that.” Okay, cause someone is going to have to eat the costs somewhere, because that game is guaranteed to not sell enough to justify how big that game is. You know, hundreds of hours, all voiced. That’s a lot of money that goes into that.

And people are like “Why do you guys hate money?” We don’t. That’s why you literally can’t make everything. And people don’t like finding out that their fanbase is actually too small to justify the costs of the thing they want.

So if NOE didn't pay for Xenoblade localsation it never would have been released in the States. Why can NOE localise these games and NOA can't? Disaster Day of Crisis didn't have tons of dialogue to translate and NOE did that too so NOA could have brought it over. NOE also did Fatal Frame while NOA ignored it.

gamingeek said:

So this sucks:

So if NOE didn't pay for Xenoblade localsation it never would have been released in the States. Why can NOE localise these games and NOA can't? Disaster Day of Crisis didn't have tons of dialogue to translate and NOE did that too so NOA could have brought it over. NOE also did Fatal Frame while NOA ignored it.

Nintendo of Europe localised not just Xenoblade Chronicles, but also The Last Story and Pandora's Tower.  All three were huge projects and I'm sure they cost them piles of money which is unlikely that they ever made.  So all three games had the voice work done in English already and the subtitles translated to five different languages.  All the work was done.  Then NoA said we're not bringing those three games to the US, and that's what gave rise to what became known as Operation Rainfall.  The campaign by a vocal group of fans to get those games published in the US.  Nintendo of America caved in a little and said, fine we'll bring you Xenoblade Chronicles but we're not touching the other two.  After some time Xseed stepped in to publish The Last Story and eventually Pandora's Tower to the US.  So gamers got what they wanted (on that occasion) but what numbers did those games make?  Miniscule.  Small but vocal minorities on the Internet often "sound" like big angry mobs when sadly there's not a big enough number of them to make localising most of these games profitable.  

I still like to think it's possible with most titles.  Personally I couldn't care less if they didn't have dubbed voicework.  In fact I would so much rather listen to the Japanese voice-track and read subtitles (even if the dubs have improved massively in recent years).  Surely that would save a lot of work and money right?

It will suck for me personally if there comes a time when the only Japanese games we get to play are the major blockbusters.  I got into gaming at an era when all the games I loved were Japanese and that has stayed true to a very large part to this day.  Don't want to think about not getting to play all these great games but it is already happening.  I'm thankful for the few brave companies who are still willing to take a chance on publishing these games to the west.