Retr0gamer wrote: » Looks gorgeous. Sakura Wars is massive in Japan. It was hugely popular on the Saturn but dickhead Bernie Stollar blocked a western release. It became a massive multimedia franchise and made stars out if the voice actors. Would love to see remakes of the original games
Sephiroth_dude wrote: » Why did he block it?
sniper_samurai wrote: » Because Sega America and Sega Japan were at war with each other. Sega were an extremely petty company back during the Saturn era. The source code for Panzer Saga was deleted by another dev as he wasn't allowed to use its game engine.
skerry wrote: » Picked up FFVII on the Switch. Never had OG Playstation so have never experienced it. Only played first level so far so just getting used to battle system. Edit: meant VII not XII
nix wrote: » Enjoy! Probably best to play it in hand held form with the dated graphics, use headphones though as the soundtrack is incredible. I'm tempted to snap it up on the switch myself, but can only see myself playing it if traveling
sniper_samurai wrote: Because Sega America and Sega Japan were at war with each other. Sega were an extremely petty company back during the Saturn era. The source code for Panzer Saga was deleted by another dev as he wasn't allowed to use its game engine.
ERG89 wrote: » Didn't one give the go ahead to release a console sooner than expected (I think it was the Saturn) without the other one having prepared for its release that soon.
skerry wrote: » The World Ends With You on Switch is down to £22.99 on Amazon at the moment.
Xenji wrote: » As much as I love the game I would avoid it, the controls both motion and touchscreen are horrendously bad.
skerry wrote: » That's the impression I was getting from reviews, good game, terrible port. I think I have too much on my plate JRPG wise at the moment anyway. Only getting into FFVII at the moment and want to stick with it if I can.
Sephiroth_dude wrote: » First time playing it?
skerry wrote: » Yeah, I never had OG Playstation. Was always a Sega/ Xbox person but given that I've only discovered my love of JRPG's late in life I think I might have picked the wrong teams. About 2 hours into it and just getting used to mechanics but its enjoyable so far and the dated graphics aren't bothering me.
Sephiroth_dude wrote: » Lucky man, I'd love to be playing it for the first time again, enjoy.
Retr0gamer wrote: » It's not the best game ever people make it out to be
megaten wrote: » Pretty sure FFVII broke the bank when they developed it. Going by the FFVII retrospective Polygon did ages ago they had to scale up massively to develop it which was offset by generous reduction in royalties to Sony in exchange for going to playstation and encouraging other publishers to do so as well.
Retr0gamer wrote: » It did but it's budget was meagre compared to game budgets today. Developers have to invest so much in a game they have to play it safe and go with current trends and focus testing. FF7 on the other hand is a glorious mess that would never get made todays. That and iseaki has ruined Japanese anime and videogames
megaten wrote: » Sorry but I really disagree with this, even SE still make expensive messes. They just don't happen to be good. I'm almost certain FF7's budget was close enough to 100 million and is definitely their or over it with marketing.
skerry wrote: » According to Business Insider "Final Fantasy VII" cost around $45 million to make, and had a U.S. marketing budget of around $100 million.
Retr0gamer wrote: » You can turn on an optoon to highlight exits and ladders. Very helpful.
skerry wrote: » I had a look in config menu there and nothing jumps out. Do you remember what the option was named? Could definitely do with it, a lot of time spent wondering around so far only to find I'd walked past the ramp I was supposed to use.
