Games that we don't got a western release
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Hm. I wonder if there are any Aussie games which didn't get an official release or shop sale anywhere else than in Oz (it doesn't count if it's available for purchase over "da Intarnetz", since you can buy pretty much anything on-line if you want to).
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Re: Games that we don't got a western release
From the sounds of things, they didn't think Americans would be particularly receptive to a game pretty much built around making fun of them.skyrish10 wrote:Well, Metal Wolf Chaos is made by the same guys who made Dark Souls (including the precursor Demon's Souls and inspiring one called Bloodborne) and Armored Core games, which are released in the west. I wonder why Metal Wolf Chaos wasn't released over here
Wikipedia lists only ten Australia-exclusive videogames: International Cricket for the NES, and a variety of adaptions of Australian Rules Football, our unique and wonderful code of rugby-influenced handegg. Pretty much all other Australian-made games are produced for an international audience in some form or another, due to our relatively small size and distance from the rest of the world making it difficult to survive off the domestic market alone.Reactor wrote:Hm. I wonder if there are any Aussie games which didn't get an official release or shop sale anywhere else than in Oz (it doesn't count if it's available for purchase over "da Intarnetz", since you can buy pretty much anything on-line if you want to).
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Very well, so most likely there are only 10 games which are Australia-exclusive. I was curious, since gaming press never really talks about games from Oz, and I was kinda curious what gems they might hide over there. Thank you for the answer.
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Yeah, thank goodness for the Action Replay 4M+ cart (gazes lovingly at copy of RSG)skyrish10 wrote:There's alot of Japan-only games available on the Sega Saturn, all because of the poor marketing sales of the Saturn in the US and SEGA of America policy to not allow RPG games and other Japanese titles
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Another game that is never released outside of Japan is Hermie Hopperhead, a nice 2D platformer game on the PlayStation, but unfortunately it was only released in Japan, all because of Sony Computer Entertainment of America (Sony Interactive Entertainment today)'s policy to deny any 2D games releasing on the western soil throughout the lifespan of the PlayStation.
If they released Metal Wolf Chaos in North America, what will happen? a backlash or something?Kinsie wrote:From the sounds of things, they didn't think Americans would be particularly receptive to a game pretty much built around making fun of them.skyrish10 wrote:Well, Metal Wolf Chaos is made by the same guys who made Dark Souls (including the precursor Demon's Souls and inspiring one called Bloodborne) and Armored Core games, which are released in the west. I wonder why Metal Wolf Chaos wasn't released over here
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Since i played Monster Hunter World (which is my first Monster Hunter game), there's alot of Monster Hunter games that didn't make it here including the Frontier series and a MMO that was only released in China.
It's so odd why the original Monster Hunter 2 and Monster Hunter 4 are Japan-only, but the PSP version of Monster Hunter 2 (Monster Hunter Freedom 2) and the G-Rank expanded version of Monster Hunter 4 (Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate) are not respectively, and not to mention Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (which there WAS originally to release the PS3 HD version of Portable 3rd to the west but Sony Computer Entertainment America pulled the plug because it had no trophies and the NA version of Ad Hoc Party would need to be updated, which Sony wanted Capcom to foot the bill for), luckily most of the Portable 3rd stuff carried over to G-Rank expansion version of the Wii original Monster Hunter Tri as Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on 3DS and Wii U. Obviously the Monster Hunter series in the West prior to 3U, 4U and World are sparse, probably due to the lack of interest in the series.
It's so odd why the original Monster Hunter 2 and Monster Hunter 4 are Japan-only, but the PSP version of Monster Hunter 2 (Monster Hunter Freedom 2) and the G-Rank expanded version of Monster Hunter 4 (Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate) are not respectively, and not to mention Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (which there WAS originally to release the PS3 HD version of Portable 3rd to the west but Sony Computer Entertainment America pulled the plug because it had no trophies and the NA version of Ad Hoc Party would need to be updated, which Sony wanted Capcom to foot the bill for), luckily most of the Portable 3rd stuff carried over to G-Rank expansion version of the Wii original Monster Hunter Tri as Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on 3DS and Wii U. Obviously the Monster Hunter series in the West prior to 3U, 4U and World are sparse, probably due to the lack of interest in the series.
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Re: Games that we don't got a western release
I am STILL PISSED that we don't have PSO2 yet, despite being promised by that lying sack of incompetent shit company SEGA.
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Actually the problem is that it's illegal for any work sold in America to use the official President's Seal.skyrish10 wrote:Another game that is never released outside of Japan is Hermie Hopperhead, a nice 2D platformer game on the PlayStation, but unfortunately it was only released in Japan, all because of Sony Computer Entertainment of America (Sony Interactive Entertainment today)'s policy to deny any 2D games releasing on the western soil throughout the lifespan of the PlayStation.
If they released Metal Wolf Chaos in North America, what will happen? a backlash or something?Kinsie wrote:From the sounds of things, they didn't think Americans would be particularly receptive to a game pretty much built around making fun of them.skyrish10 wrote:Well, Metal Wolf Chaos is made by the same guys who made Dark Souls (including the precursor Demon's Souls and inspiring one called Bloodborne) and Armored Core games, which are released in the west. I wonder why Metal Wolf Chaos wasn't released over here
It was too American to be sold in America.
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Isn't that due to the massive amounts of tie-in stuff in that game? There's a ton of awesome content from other games in there, and I'm not sure they could bring over any of it due to licensing in the west. It's a shame, PSO2 is excellent from what I've heard.RexS wrote:I am STILL PISSED that we don't have PSO2 yet, despite being promised by that lying sack of incompetent shit company SEGA.
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Many Novotrade-games never made it outside our country. Novotrade was a Hungarian software developer company in the good ol' days gone by (Impossible Mission 2 was one such workpiece which DID make it outside to the West). Most of them were Commodre 64 DataSette-games. I do have some in their physical form, and I'm leaning towards to sell'em as collector-exclusive items, as they're unfuckin'-believably hard to obtain in their physical form. Even their emulated ROM is damn hard to grab. Here are some:
Áttörés (Breakthrough)
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/tvc_attores_a.jpg
Centaury
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/centaury_a.jpg
Kincskeresők (Treasure hunters)
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/kincskeresok_a.jpg
Ninja
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/tvc_ninja_a.jpg
Repülésszimulátor (Flight simulator)
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/repu ... borito.jpg
Törpe (Dwarf)
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/torpe.jpg
TV-Ball
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/tvc_tv_ball_a.jpg
Űraknaszedő (Space Sapper)
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/uraknaszedo_a.jpg
So as you can see, Hungarian programmers were pretty up to the job back then, and they were wanted as fuck, simply because they worked for a much much lower wage than a Western programmer did. Remember, we were under Soviet invasion & a crushed rebellion in 56, so average income for a person was pretty low (thankfully, prices were also pretty low), and while the computers were evolving at the other side of the iron curtain, we were stuck with the Commodore. I don't know how good or bad these games are, they're so friggin' rare, nobody could churn out a review of them yet.
Áttörés (Breakthrough)
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/tvc_attores_a.jpg
Centaury
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/centaury_a.jpg
Kincskeresők (Treasure hunters)
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/kincskeresok_a.jpg
Ninja
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/tvc_ninja_a.jpg
Repülésszimulátor (Flight simulator)
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/repu ... borito.jpg
Törpe (Dwarf)
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/torpe.jpg
TV-Ball
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/tvc_tv_ball_a.jpg
Űraknaszedő (Space Sapper)
http://www.tvc.hu/html/pic/boritok/uraknaszedo_a.jpg
So as you can see, Hungarian programmers were pretty up to the job back then, and they were wanted as fuck, simply because they worked for a much much lower wage than a Western programmer did. Remember, we were under Soviet invasion & a crushed rebellion in 56, so average income for a person was pretty low (thankfully, prices were also pretty low), and while the computers were evolving at the other side of the iron curtain, we were stuck with the Commodore. I don't know how good or bad these games are, they're so friggin' rare, nobody could churn out a review of them yet.
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Re: Games that we don't got a western release
Also not to mention that releasing Phantasy Star Online 2 in the west would cause over-saturation, because there's a loads of MMO games available in the west such as WoW, Final Fantasy XIV (A Realm Reborn version), Runescape and Guild Wars 2.Sgt. Shivers wrote:Isn't that due to the massive amounts of tie-in stuff in that game? There's a ton of awesome content from other games in there, and I'm not sure they could bring over any of it due to licensing in the west. It's a shame, PSO2 is excellent from what I've heard.RexS wrote:I am STILL PISSED that we don't have PSO2 yet, despite being promised by that lying sack of incompetent shit company SEGA.
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I don't think there'd be an over-saturation problem, I mean there are probably a hundred or more people using workarounds to play the game in the west already.skyrish10 wrote:Also not to mention that releasing Phantasy Star Online 2 in the west would cause over-saturation, because there's a loads of MMO games available in the west such as WoW, Final Fantasy XIV (A Realm Reborn version), Runescape and Guild Wars 2.Sgt. Shivers wrote:Isn't that due to the massive amounts of tie-in stuff in that game? There's a ton of awesome content from other games in there, and I'm not sure they could bring over any of it due to licensing in the west. It's a shame, PSO2 is excellent from what I've heard.RexS wrote:I am STILL PISSED that we don't have PSO2 yet, despite being promised by that lying sack of incompetent shit company SEGA.
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If you are a fan of the Macross anime and you want to get some great Macross games like the Macross Frontier trilogy and Macross 30, then you have to import them from Japan because an American company known as Harmony Gold blocks all Macross stuff to the west other than the original one (which the Original one was made as the first part of Robotech) until 2021.
Oh btw Scallino, Metal Wolf Chaos is no longer Japan-only because the game was going to get remastered on PS4, XB1 and PC and was published by the same publisher who published Serious Sam and Hotline Miami.
Oh btw Scallino, Metal Wolf Chaos is no longer Japan-only because the game was going to get remastered on PS4, XB1 and PC and was published by the same publisher who published Serious Sam and Hotline Miami.