Has the age of the auto-updating game killed the import?
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
I disagree, the age of a Region Free PSP and Ps3, and a strong pound compared to a weak Yen and Dollor have made importing at lot easier and cheaper, therefore i import more games now than i ever did before
It cost me 2/3 with shipping and everything =) a game here (sweden) cost about 100$ and i can import from canada for 67$ with shipping =)
I can recall the whole reason to import a game was because it wasnt coming to my country. Lots of great JP games were released but most never came stateside. Not sure if it was an issue with translating the text or just the notion that it wouldnt sell outside its home country.
I have some classic imports that even today, still stand the test of time. Imports have become a past tense fad much like arcades. I miss those days but I can still relive them just by popping in my rare carts from JP into my system of choice.
The new days of imports really are nothing more than people who cant wait to get the game pay through the nose to get it early or cheaper from another region (as stated above). If people would just be patient, the game will come to their territory as is the case today. Only a few games really stay in one market while the overall majority of them are made to be multiregional.
Ahh the good old days of getting the latest EGM or Gamepro only to flip through the ads in the back about game importers like diehard and a few others. Showing off screes of the newest JP only games and listing high prices for importing them stateside.