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mdo7
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When I just read this, I was like "Whoa, really???" Is Square Enix trying to help Mass Effect 3 get a good sales? ME3 is coming out in Japan March 15. Yes ME3 is coming out the same month in Japan as the US and Europe unlike how the first one came out in Japan 2 years after the US release. Also this is the same Square Enix that help gave Call of Duty popularity in Japan. I wonder what SE (and EA) will gain for this?
What's next: Star Ocean 5 developed by Tri-Ace and Bioware?? |
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Arisato-kun
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Fund it. This news is awesome. Square Enix already has my money. |
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TitanXL
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I hope Bioware doesn't go anywhere near a Star Ocean game honestly. They should probably focus on fixing their MMO first. Also, this is probably more for western gamers since Mass Effect isn't really popular in Japan. |
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Shenl742
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Well...both ME games debuted at #3 on release, according to Media Create Last edited by Shenl742 on Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:36 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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ArsenicSteel
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Funny, you can say it's mutually beneficial but unless ME3 or AC does a FF tie-in then this is more like SE looking for ways to raise interest in FF XIII-2.
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mdo7
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uh, the first game debuted at #3 in Japanwhen it first came out. Mass Effect 2 bombed in Japan on 360, not even the PS3 versioneven came this far to being best seller. When I heard that Mass Effect 2 was ported to PS3, I was so happy because I wanted to play it badly and not only that, I thought Mass Effect could reach to a bigger audience in Japan because western game that sell well in Japan are on the PS3. Despite hopes and additional contents (the 3 DLCs included on the PS3 version) and tweak (using the ME3 game engine for the PS3 version) they did for the PS3 version, it didn't help the game sell in Japan, I wonder why?? maybe if ME2 had a dub (Takehito Koyasu for Male Commander Sheperd, and Megumi Hayashibara for Femshep, anyone?), would that have made a different. It is not known if ME3 will have a dub for the Japanese release. Last edited by mdo7 on Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:14 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Shenl742
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Guess I confused the charts. Whoops
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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Beatdigga
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If you can replace the losers in your party with Wrex or Garrus, I'm there.
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shukero
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My first reaction was what?? why?!?!??? lol
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TitanXL
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I wish people would stop using that 'debuting good on release' thing. Slow release week, nothing new came out that week, there's plenty of ways to explain why it may debut that high. What's important is life-time sales, which was only 28,969 copies there. Final Fantasy XIII-2 so far has sold almost a million in Japan alone. Which means this is either -Bioware wanting to raise awareness for ME3 in Japan -Square raising awareness for FFXIII-2 in America. As for why it didn't do good there, well.. it's a WRPG for one, which tend to get a lot of hate in Japan. But it's not even as good as other WRPGs; even Biowares other stuff like KOTOR is better, because ME is more of a 'shooter with WRPG elements' rather than a straight WRPG. It's really dumbed down in comparison. |
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shukero
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took the words right out of my mouth 
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Mune
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They mean the last month, right? Since it was released in NA on the 31st of January.
XIII was released on 12-17-09 and XIII-2 on 12-15-11 in Japan. NA releases were on 03-09-10 and 01-31-12. |
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Beatdigga
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I love KOTOR, and Mass Effect 2 was dumbed down compared to 1, but I'll say this right now, it was a lot more involved than the FF 13 "Walk here and click the A button" gameplay was. |
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TitanXL
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Eh, I find the whole 'involved' thing very superficial and arbitrary in a lot of games like that. I mean, it doesn't matter which choices you make, it tends to be the same result anyway, or one line of different. If you saved that one queen you just get one line of a dialog in the next game acknowledging you did; that's it. Nothing major changes, mainly since the technology is limited in what it can do and the game has to continue no matter what you do, and the story always suffers because of it because it has to remain vague and disconnected to accommodate for people who didn't pick that option.
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Beatdigga
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Really? I found myself much more invested in Mass Effect's story than the story of FF 13. I think half of that was the characters, but half was the control. |
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