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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Feb 21, 2024 15:06:17 GMT -5
At this point, I fully believe NoA is sitting on a translated and ready to go version of Mother 3 and it's become a "break glass in emergency" sorta deal. They're sittin on that til one day when they f*** up and need a distraction of positive publicity.
EDIT: For example, if Microsoft owned it they would've released it two weeks ago when all the doom and gloom shutdown reports were coming out of XBox land
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Feb 21, 2024 15:18:56 GMT -5
SNAKE RATTLE & ROLL!!!! I have the OST on vinyl. It has a giant foot on the cover, so it's not my favorite to put on display, however, it has both the NES and Genesis versions on it. That game is worth playing just for the soundtrack alone. It's beyond frustrating at times with the isometric viewpoint, but it was one of my go-to multiplayer games as a kid. I overall really enjoy how unique and weird it is.
Endless Ocean on Wii was one of the games I liked to show people who weren't into games. This game looks pretty good, but man, I just wish we'd see a breakthrough with life-like VR "experience" games like this. I'll keep my eye on it. I'm curious about Yo Yo Mania, too.
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Post by Denny Zen is Cooking™ on Feb 21, 2024 15:34:23 GMT -5
I think that Mother 3 is more about it being an extremely difficult game to translate in a way that would be socially acceptable under modern American sensibilities. The Magypsies, for example, would be considered very offensive and I think they would have to be completely altered for an American release. There's a lot of scenes of animal abuse. TanTane island is basically an acid trip.
All of that to say, it wouldn't really be a matter of just doing a 1:1 translation for an American release...I think there would have to be substantive changes, and that's what makes it financially non-viable. I think the fact that Nintendo has never shut down the fan translation despite being aggressively protective of its IP signals that it's unlikely there will ever be an "official" translation, and Nintendo is comfortable with just allowing the Western fans who really want to play the game to play it that way.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 21, 2024 15:35:55 GMT -5
I think that Mother 3 is more about it being an extremely difficult game to translate in a way that would be socially acceptable under modern American sensibilities. The Magypsies, for example, would be considered very offensive and I think they would have to be completely altered for an American release. There's a lot of scenes of animal abuse. TanTane island is basically an acid trip. All of that to say, it wouldn't really be a matter of just doing a 1:1 translation for an American release...I think there would have to be substantive changes, and that's what makes it financially non-viable. I think the fact that Nintendo has never shut down the fan translation despite being aggressively protective of its IP signals that it's unlikely there will ever be an "official" translation, and Nintendo is comfortable with just allowing the Western fans who really want to play the game to play it that way. Really I imagine that's probably less that they approve of it and more that there's no possible way you could stop the fan translation at this point. It's been out there circulating for ends on end, you could absolutely never stamp it down or really even make it hard to get ahold of at this point.
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Post by Cyno on Feb 21, 2024 15:37:50 GMT -5
Nice seeing the original Killer Instinct now on NSO. RC Pro AM is also a game I liked a lot as a kid.
Ender Magnolia is a nice surprise. Ender Lillies was a pretty solid Metroidvania and I'm curious about Magnolia's more industrialized setting.
I really want SMT5 Vengeance, though I'll be getting it on Playstation since I already have the original on Switch. Though while you can't carry over your save from one to another on the Switch, you can apparently carry over 3 demons of your choice from the original game's Compendium. So it'd be pretty hilarious carrying over endgame demons to start off a new game.
Tales of Kenzera: ZAU looks really interesting. It's a game by Abubakar Salim, who was the voice actor for Bayek in Assassin's Creed Origins among other things. It's a Metroidvania and a tribute to his father.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Feb 21, 2024 15:46:29 GMT -5
RC Pro Am freakin' rules, couldn't tell you have many hours I've put into that game over the years. So glad it's on NSO now
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 21, 2024 16:18:27 GMT -5
RC Pro Am freakin' rules, couldn't tell you have many hours I've put into that game over the years. So glad it's on NSO now RC Pro AM is literally one of my favorite NES games.
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Post by Andee9001 on Feb 21, 2024 16:19:34 GMT -5
It makes sense given what it is and the time period in which it came out but it still feels weird to me seeing all of the, "OMG, my childhood!" for Epic Mickey given how underwhelming the consensus on it was at the time. Which is at least personally an opinion I always agreed with. Was hyped for it back when it came out then I made it maybe three hours in before never touching it again. For what they are the Epic Mickey games are guilty pleasures for me. Neither 1 or 2 are particularly great but they always made me feel nostalgic for games like Castle and World of Illusion. Definately would like to pick this up again.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 21, 2024 16:20:33 GMT -5
It makes sense given what it is and the time period in which it came out but it still feels weird to me seeing all of the, "OMG, my childhood!" for Epic Mickey given how underwhelming the consensus on it was at the time. Which is at least personally an opinion I always agreed with. Was hyped for it back when it came out then I made it maybe three hours in before never touching it again. First, the my childhood comments make me once again feel god damned ancient... secondly, from what I remember most of the hype for that game came from the developers concept art where he was just basically doodling nightmare Disney artwork where even he said there was no way that Disney would ever allow it to go as far as he was drawing. But everyone ignored that and decided that the game would look like that despite again... the artist saying that it absolutely wouldn't.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 21, 2024 16:24:13 GMT -5
It makes sense given what it is and the time period in which it came out but it still feels weird to me seeing all of the, "OMG, my childhood!" for Epic Mickey given how underwhelming the consensus on it was at the time. Which is at least personally an opinion I always agreed with. Was hyped for it back when it came out then I made it maybe three hours in before never touching it again. First, the my childhood comments make me once again feel god damned ancient... secondly, from what I remember most of the hype for that game came from the developers concept art where he was just basically doodling nightmare Disney artwork where even he said there was no way that Disney would ever allow it to go as far as he was drawing. But everyone ignored that and decided that the game would look like that despite again... the artist saying that it absolutely wouldn't. Being fair there was also quite a bit of early talk about features that didn't end up making it into the game, like having some kind of karma meter and more in the way of destroying things rather than just fixing them. Really it kind of boils down to they advertised the game having certain things before they were sure it was actually going to have those things.
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Post by Andee9001 on Feb 21, 2024 18:44:44 GMT -5
Retromania finally released it's update regarding the final 2 DLC members as well as the other half of their storymode, among other improvements. I can appreciate that it finally came out. Not sure what their socials were like but they've been radio silent on Youtube for a while. Been a while since i've played it so might have to give it another go.
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Post by Mike Strike on Feb 21, 2024 19:11:17 GMT -5
That was a nothing burger Epic Mickey and SW Battlefront are pretty good imo.
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Post by Ganon83 on Feb 21, 2024 21:41:21 GMT -5
I think that Mother 3 is more about it being an extremely difficult game to translate in a way that would be socially acceptable under modern American sensibilities. The Magypsies, for example, would be considered very offensive and I think they would have to be completely altered for an American release. There's a lot of scenes of animal abuse. TanTane island is basically an acid trip. All of that to say, it wouldn't really be a matter of just doing a 1:1 translation for an American release...I think there would have to be substantive changes, and that's what makes it financially non-viable. I think the fact that Nintendo has never shut down the fan translation despite being aggressively protective of its IP signals that it's unlikely there will ever be an "official" translation, and Nintendo is comfortable with just allowing the Western fans who really want to play the game to play it that way. Nintendo usually doesn't give a shit about things like this ftr, outside of Pokemon which they don't have full control over. Their big thing is more if you've uploaded a ROM straight up (which the translation team did not do nor do they advocate for it), if you're trying to sell the game, if you've recreated a game (ie they don't want people to play your HD Mario 64 in Unreal 3, they consider that competition), if you make a porno featuring the Super Mario Bros., or if you even think of Smash Bros. as a competitive fighting game.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 21, 2024 21:49:46 GMT -5
I think that Mother 3 is more about it being an extremely difficult game to translate in a way that would be socially acceptable under modern American sensibilities. The Magypsies, for example, would be considered very offensive and I think they would have to be completely altered for an American release. There's a lot of scenes of animal abuse. TanTane island is basically an acid trip. All of that to say, it wouldn't really be a matter of just doing a 1:1 translation for an American release...I think there would have to be substantive changes, and that's what makes it financially non-viable. I think the fact that Nintendo has never shut down the fan translation despite being aggressively protective of its IP signals that it's unlikely there will ever be an "official" translation, and Nintendo is comfortable with just allowing the Western fans who really want to play the game to play it that way. Nintendo usually doesn't give a shit about things like this ftr, outside of Pokemon which they don't have full control over. Their big thing is more if you've uploaded a ROM straight up (which the translation team did not do nor do they advocate for it), if you're trying to sell the game, if you've recreated a game (ie they don't want people to play your HD Mario 64 in Unreal 3, they consider that competition), if you make a porno featuring the Super Mario Bros., or if you even think of Smash Bros. as a competitive fighting game. the recreated game is especially true if they have their own remake coming out. Like when someone made Metroid 2 right before they announced their Samus Returns remake.
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Feb 21, 2024 22:22:54 GMT -5
oh hell yeah pocket card jockey.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 21, 2024 22:27:54 GMT -5
In an incredibly funny dick move they put up Mother Switch avatars, because apparently those are run by Drew McIntyre.
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Post by Cyno on Feb 21, 2024 23:22:06 GMT -5
In an incredibly funny dick move they put up Mother Switch avatars, because apparently those are run by Drew McIntyre. Mother 3 is Drew McIntyre's favorite game of all time.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Feb 21, 2024 23:45:05 GMT -5
In an incredibly funny dick move they put up Mother Switch avatars, because apparently those are run by Drew McIntyre. Even more specifically they’re for Mother 1, you know, the game they did a long delayed Western release of as EarthBound Beginnings
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 22, 2024 0:07:14 GMT -5
In an incredibly funny dick move they put up Mother Switch avatars, because apparently those are run by Drew McIntyre. Mother 3 is Drew McIntyre's favorite game of all time. He deeply empathizes with Fassad.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 26, 2024 23:08:23 GMT -5
Pokemon presentation is only 12 minutes long so wouldn't get your hopes up on much of consequence.
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