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A look at: Blue Exorcist DVD Vol.3
6:00 PM on 03.12.2010
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Listen it REALLY sucks that they made said cuts. I have played like 8+ hours of the game now, it is still very fun and so brutal that it makes me laugh. The mini games in it do not have much effort put in them to start, all play sloppy and little to do. With all that the game would still be a must have for me.
Eh, I'll just buy it used eventually. That way I'm not paying full price for an incomplete game and Sega doesn't get my money for doing a half-assed job.
You know, I would be much less annoyed by this if Sega had been honest about it. Instead, they said, "We'll be cutting the hostess clubs and quiz show, but that's it." Still, I am enjoying the game, despite the slow beginning.
Or, maybe this is all an attempt, as I've said in another post, to cut domestication costs. Less translating, less recoding means less money. Sega made it no secret that this release is a gamble for them. They may just be hedging their bets.
Or, the content that was cut may be made available later as DLC. The back of the game case says "Trophies, Add-On Content" as available PSN features. It seems logical, if not exactly ethical, after the statements Sega has made.
Or, the content that was cut may be made available later as DLC. The back of the game case says "Trophies, Add-On Content" as available PSN features. It seems logical, if not exactly ethical, after the statements Sega has made.
I hate when games, books and manga are cut and edited because of assumptions that we won't understand cultural differences. I am a nerd and one of my favorite things is reading cultural info parts in the back of manga.
@Satokoji: "Or, maybe this is all an attempt, as I've said in another post, to cut domestication costs. Less translating, less recoding means less money. Sega made it no secret that this release is a gamble for them. They may just be hedging their bets."
This is what I've been saying from the very beginning, and it's also what a Sega rep heavily implied when he was talking about the hostess club cuts. However, many people seem to be getting the circumstances switched around.
This content wasn't cut to make it appeal more to a Western audience. The localizing team knew that they were going to have to cut corners, so the "will this appeal to the West?" question was used to decide which content would have to take the fall.
In other words, Sega's logic was:
We need to cut something to make it profitable --> There's lot of stuff here; what should we choose? --> Cut the stuff you think Westerners would care the least about.
Sega's logic WASN'T:
We don't think the West will understand this --> Cut it
I'm not saying we should agree with Sega's logic (I certainly have my doubts about it), but we should at least get our facts straight before raging at the machine.
This is what I've been saying from the very beginning, and it's also what a Sega rep heavily implied when he was talking about the hostess club cuts. However, many people seem to be getting the circumstances switched around.
This content wasn't cut to make it appeal more to a Western audience. The localizing team knew that they were going to have to cut corners, so the "will this appeal to the West?" question was used to decide which content would have to take the fall.
In other words, Sega's logic was:
We need to cut something to make it profitable --> There's lot of stuff here; what should we choose? --> Cut the stuff you think Westerners would care the least about.
Sega's logic WASN'T:
We don't think the West will understand this --> Cut it
I'm not saying we should agree with Sega's logic (I certainly have my doubts about it), but we should at least get our facts straight before raging at the machine.
Sega and the Yakuza franchise has always been a total WTF to me.
It's clearly a incredible series yet they always screw up with releasing the US version.
They held out saying no Yakuza 2 forever and then when they had finally released it people had moved on. So then when people complained about not getting Yakuza 3 Sega said no one bought 2. Of course they didn't it was on PS2 when most had moved on to the next gen consoles.
Now they release Yakuza 3 with cut content and during a time frame in which it will be completely overlooked by 2 of the biggest titles of this generation and will use lack of sales as a reason to not bring Yakuza 4 to the US.
They need to fire someone somewhere i think.
It's clearly a incredible series yet they always screw up with releasing the US version.
They held out saying no Yakuza 2 forever and then when they had finally released it people had moved on. So then when people complained about not getting Yakuza 3 Sega said no one bought 2. Of course they didn't it was on PS2 when most had moved on to the next gen consoles.
Now they release Yakuza 3 with cut content and during a time frame in which it will be completely overlooked by 2 of the biggest titles of this generation and will use lack of sales as a reason to not bring Yakuza 4 to the US.
They need to fire someone somewhere i think.
"I encourage everyone who's interested to take the plunge. If nothing else, you'll get a good game, and Sega might be convinced to bring Yakuza 4 over in a more complete state. "
That's an weird line of logic, especially when you consider the stated reason for the cuts: financial savings (on a $60 game, of course).
What you're saying is this: "Oh no! Sega cut 13% of the game for financial reasons, figuring we'll buy it anyway and won't know any better! But spend $60 anyway to tell Sega what you really think of the franchise!"
If I'm Sega - a company, BTW, that killed it's last console as it was getting popular, hasn't made a good Sonic game in almost a decade, hasn't gotten Shining Force right since the SATURN and to top it off is brutal to the press corps - I'm seeing "we cut almost 1/5 the game and they bought it anyway! Let's see what else I can get away with with Yakuza 4!"
It's a catch 22. If we get Yakuza, it will be broken. But if we don't buy it, we won't get the broken Yakuza.
I think I'll be over here replaying Skies of Arcadia on my Dreamcast instead, and thinking back to a time when Sega at least pretended it cared about it's customers.
That's an weird line of logic, especially when you consider the stated reason for the cuts: financial savings (on a $60 game, of course).
What you're saying is this: "Oh no! Sega cut 13% of the game for financial reasons, figuring we'll buy it anyway and won't know any better! But spend $60 anyway to tell Sega what you really think of the franchise!"
If I'm Sega - a company, BTW, that killed it's last console as it was getting popular, hasn't made a good Sonic game in almost a decade, hasn't gotten Shining Force right since the SATURN and to top it off is brutal to the press corps - I'm seeing "we cut almost 1/5 the game and they bought it anyway! Let's see what else I can get away with with Yakuza 4!"
It's a catch 22. If we get Yakuza, it will be broken. But if we don't buy it, we won't get the broken Yakuza.
I think I'll be over here replaying Skies of Arcadia on my Dreamcast instead, and thinking back to a time when Sega at least pretended it cared about it's customers.
