The Cheat-Out: Save states are for champs.

[Elin]

Well currently i'm not even trying to understand the story, just watching robits fight

This is also acceptable.

[Gypsy]

Yeah, isn't there that Sapphire game that sometimes goes for close to $1000? Reminds me of Radiant Silvergun or the English version of Panzer Dragoon Saga. It's okay when the rarer games for a console are ones that are fairly forgettable or disposable, but when you have that combination of a good title and a low print run, things get pricey quickly.

Oh! What'd you get for the Dreamcast? <3 I finished Shenmue for the first time recently following the Shenmue 3 announcement, so the Dreamcast love is strong in me at the moment~~

Cool, will give them a look. :3 Thanks.

Sapphire is a $400 game but yeah still ridiculous. Fortunately it was brought to PSP and that only runs about $40 these days. Lots of the US Turbo games are ridiculously expensive at this point. I only really plan to get the WD games and I've already nabbed Cadash and Vasteel. The rest I think will be Japanese unless I luck out.

In fact here is all I have so far including stuff in the mail: Racing Damashii, Cadash, Vasteel, Dragon Spirit, Salamander, Side Arms, Super Star Soldier, Final Soldier, PC Genjin, PC Genjin 2, PC Genjin 3, Momotaro Katsugeki, Image Fight, Ordyne (this game is adorable!), Kyukyoku Tiger, Adventure Island (Dragon's Curse in the US, secretly Wonder Boy III or something like that), R-Type I and Puyo Puyo. I really want to get the first Spriggan and Download (yes this is the name of a game lol) 1 and 2. But I need to cool it for now.

Lots of really fun games there. Really enjoyed what I've played so far. Dat old school challenge.

For Dreamcast I picked up Garou MotW, Last Blade 2 and Choko Senki Kikaioh. I sold my US copies of those games for $160 and got Japanese versions for $66 shipped.

[Gypsy]

Yeah, true enough. When they focused on aesthetic / control-based improvements rather than actually trying to rebalance the difficulty, it was usually to the game's benefit, so maybe being a bit too hard on them. And I thought the difficulty in the English versions of the Lunar games was actually more fun and challenging than the Japanese ones, so there's that~

Yep, basically the same situation as Ignition and Arc Rise Fantasia. Big money penors are to blame for all the world's worst dubbing atrocities, clearly.

They made Alundra a lot more fun as well imo. Mostly because they made it more challenging. Easy games are boring! They went overboard with SM though.

Indeed. That game was dubbed in English in Japan. Can't remember if that's been brought up here before or not. No wonder it's such a rubbish dub.

@Nem: Spoiler: That is the story.

[Warrior]

Newsflash pigglydick

MOST ENGLISH DUBS SUCK REGARDLESS OF RECORDING LOCATION!

[Gypsy]

Newsflash pigglydick

MOST ENGLISH DUBS SUCK REGARDLESS OF RECORDING LOCATION!

Moron.

[Gypsy]

Better go find the Japanese dub of Uncharted.

[Gypsy]

Oh and Call of Duty too. I can ONLY play that game in the MUCH SUPERIOR JAPANESE LANGUAGE.

[Gypsy]

Kawaii desu tank shell.

[Gypsy]

I see everyone left.

[Grouch]

Newsflash pigglydick

MOST ENGLISH DUBS SUCK REGARDLESS OF RECORDING LOCATION!

I'll bite. I've found most dubbed rpgs have sucked a great example is evergrace. the 1 rpg I can think of off the top of my head that didn't suck was FF12 for the most part it had pretty good voice acting there were a few characters whose voice actors just didn't fit the part.
The other exception to the dub rule is action/fps games I really can't think of an ps or action game that had shitty voice acting.
platformers have been hit and miss on thise too. racthet and clank games had good voice acting. ape escape had terrible voice acting.

[Grouch]

I see everyone left.

I've been here just didn't have anything to really contribute.

[Knightshade]

Did this just become Skype the hangout all of a sudden?

[Cosmic]

Newsflash pigglydick

MOST ENGLISH DUBS SUCK REGARDLESS OF RECORDING LOCATION!

You realise bad voice acting exists in Japan as well right? There's plenty of games and anime that sound horrendous even in the original language.

[Gypsy]

I'll bite. I've found most dubbed rpgs have sucked a great example is evergrace. the 1 rpg I can think of off the top of my head that didn't suck was FF12 for the most part it had pretty good voice acting there were a few characters whose voice actors just didn't fit the part.
The other exception to the dub rule is action/fps games I really can't think of an ps or action game that had shitty voice acting.
platformers have been hit and miss on thise too. racthet and clank games had good voice acting. ape escape had terrible voice acting.

For all the crap they get from some people AAA games generally have really good VA. I recall the Uncharted games being quite good in the VA department but it's been awhile. Bats games too. I think a big problem is that companies think every game should be voiced now. If you aren't going to hire decent talent please just don't bother, I'd rather read.

You realise bad voice acting exists in Japan as well right? There's plenty of games and anime that sound horrendous even in the original language.

A live look-in at Warrior:



You really do bring up a good point that not many people want to admit.

[Grouch]

For all the crap they get from some people AAA games generally have really good VA. I recall the Uncharted games being quite good in the VA department but it's been awhile. Bats games too. I think a big problem is that companies think every game should be voiced now. If you aren't going to hire decent talent please just don't bother, I'd rather read.
You really do bring up a good point that not many people want to admit.

exactly right if you're unwilling to spend the money on good voice actors don't bother with it at all.