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Post by Sarge on Nov 21, 2019 22:31:05 GMT -5
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Post by Ex on Nov 26, 2019 10:32:45 GMT -5
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Post by Xeogred on Nov 29, 2019 21:18:16 GMT -5
And now that I got my serious review of Death Stranding out of the way, hehe...
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Post by Ex on Dec 4, 2019 10:37:13 GMT -5
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Post by Sarge on Dec 4, 2019 11:27:09 GMT -5
Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. I still say those ridiculously expensive memory cards are a large portion of the system's failure. I really like the system, but it clearly didn't receive the support it deserved.
Also, Armored Core! Very cool.
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Post by Ex on Dec 4, 2019 11:44:05 GMT -5
I really like the system, but it clearly didn't receive the support it deserved. It certainly did not in the west. The Switch proves the Vita could have been a huge western success if it had been marketed properly. Well I own two Vitas... an OLED model and an LCD model. I have over 100 physical games for the system. So on a personal level, the Vita was a huge success for my tastes. Anyone who enjoys Japanese game designs should invest in its library. Although a great many once-exclusive Vita games have been ported to PC, which diminishes its library's impact. Although the same can be said of the Switch. The Switch barely has any noteworthy exclusives at all. And that doesn't stop its success, to the contrary apparently.
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Post by Sarge on Dec 4, 2019 11:53:22 GMT -5
At some point, I'm going to try to snag another Vita to hack. At some point they're going to have to get cheap enough so that it makes sense.
I'll be the first to admit the Vita had less games than I'd like that appeal to me. The modern JRPGs that appear on the system tend to not appeal as much to me anymore. It's actually quite surprising how much I've stopped trying to keep up with all the RPGs since the PS3/360 era.
As far as Switch and exclusives go, just having Nintendo's output gives it a big leg up over the Vita. Sony perhaps could have created a similar situation for themselves; it's not like they don't have some really good second/third-party devs in their corner. For whatever reason, they decided to relegate it to obscurity, only mostly banking on all those otaku-style games until it died. And of course, we know that the appeal of portable indies certainly exists, although I honestly can't bring myself to buy many of them on there since they're typically much cheaper on GOG or Steam.
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Post by Ex on Dec 4, 2019 12:34:48 GMT -5
The modern JRPGs that appear on the system tend to not appeal as much to me anymore. For me it's the plethora of DRPGs, quality visual novels, and ecchi games. None of which I'd classify as standard JRPGs for sure though.
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Post by Sarge on Dec 4, 2019 14:21:12 GMT -5
Very true. I'm not a VN guy, and I rarely play FP RPGs. I think the best of that genre resides on 3DS, anyway. Etrian Odyssey is very solid stuff.
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Post by Ex on Dec 4, 2019 15:04:43 GMT -5
I think the best of that genre resides on 3DS, anyway. I agree EO is very solid, and I picked up all the EO entries on DS myself. (The one you got the other day is likely the best.) But EO is not representative of the full scope of DRPGs' magnitude.
With Vita you get stuff like Demon Gaze II, Mary Skelter, Operation Abyss, Dungeon Travelers 2, Mei Q: Labyrinth of Death, Stranger of Sword City, Ray Gigant... and a whole lot more. These not-on-3DS DRPGs have content and concepts that EO just never delves into. But! this kind of DRPG stuff is designed to cater to DRPG fanatics specifically, it's very niche. I certainly wouldn't expect a casual fan of DRPGs to go out of their way to track down and buy all this stuff. You'd have to be completely crazy to do that.
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