What're your top picks for games that were never localized outside of their home nations? My top picks are:
Metal Wolf Chaos:
Captain Rainbow:
Heavy Metal Thunder:
Metal Wolf Chaos:
Captain Rainbow:
Heavy Metal Thunder:
Games you wish were brought overseas?
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Mother 3.
It's a shame, too, since a small team has already translated it and released it on the wilds of the internet, which is the only way anyone outside of Japan has gotten to play it.
But apparently Nintendo doesn't like money.
It's a shame, too, since a small team has already translated it and released it on the wilds of the internet, which is the only way anyone outside of Japan has gotten to play it.
But apparently Nintendo doesn't like money.
Well, "overseas" for me right now I'm just wishing Nier: Automata becomes able to purchase on steam. For some f**king reason, it's not available to south-east asia region. Which I have no idea why. I read somewhere that it was going to make it by April, but it's nearly May, so I have a bad feeling that unless I get a PS4, I'm not gonna play it.
Just a bit of a rant, sorry no discussion value there.
Just a bit of a rant, sorry no discussion value there.
I'm a big fan of importing so I personally don't really care either way. Two games which make no sense to not be brought over yet are the trails of zero amd trails of blue games. They take place between the events of trails in the sky and trails of cold steel and both of these series were brought over but for some reason they skipped over the middle of the trilogy.
Dragon Quest Monsters remake for the 3DS. If DQ Monsters was a bigger franchise, I'd probably like it more than Pokemon.
Also Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce 2. The first one was so fun being suped up versions of DW characters doing random missions and being able to essentially fly by a certain point.
Also Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce 2. The first one was so fun being suped up versions of DW characters doing random missions and being able to essentially fly by a certain point.
I guess Parasite Eve. We got the second one, but not the first, and unlike a lot of other classic jrpgs that weren't originally released in the EU, it never got rereleased in a compilation, on PSN or such.
Why was this never released in the states? I still ask this question.DarklordKyo said:
A physical copy of DMC4: Special Edition. I know you can order a Region Free English version, but that's beside the point. Capcom claimed it was too complicated, but that is so much bullshit. You guys released DmC: Definitive Edition just fine, why not DMC4? If XSEED can bring over Onehcanbara Z2: Chaos, you can get your own IP's physical copies stateside.
There are some weird ones that I wish I'd had a chance to play. Yes, the US eventually got Final Fantasy V but I would have liked to have played the original Super Nintendo version. I also really wish Hagane was put onto a digital storefront like the Virtual Console or Steam or really anything. Yes, the US did get this game back in the game but it was a very limited release so, understandably, I missed out because mine wasn't a "it's Friday, let's go to Blockbuster" kind of family. As for games that will likely actually count here:
I'm not 100% into fighting games but I'm pretty sure this one was made by Arc System Works (the Guilty Blue and Blaz-Gear guys). Even if it's not them, it's Fist of the North Star, it seems to be in the Arc-Style and, it looks fantastic. If I want to play a Fist of the North Star title here in the states my choices are greatly limited to one of 2 terribly optimized Warriors titles or a slow Sega Genesis game that was rebranded.
The UK got this but I'm kinda annoyed that the US didn't get this: Mega Man The Wily Wars. This was a sort of graphics upgrade/remix of Mega Man 1, 2 and, 3 that was launched exclusively for the Sega Mega Drive. It seems weird at first that the US didn't get this but my understanding is that the Sega brand was much stronger in the UK (if not the whole of Europe) than it was in the US so Capcom throwing them an exclusive doesn't seem as weird to me. Still, it would be nice if I could get my hands on this more easily but for all I know it's on the PSN store or XBLA at this point again, it would be weird if it wasn't by now.
Seiken Densetsu 3 and Mother 3 can fit here...Also a majority of the River CityRampage Ransom series.
I'm not 100% into fighting games but I'm pretty sure this one was made by Arc System Works (the Guilty Blue and Blaz-Gear guys). Even if it's not them, it's Fist of the North Star, it seems to be in the Arc-Style and, it looks fantastic. If I want to play a Fist of the North Star title here in the states my choices are greatly limited to one of 2 terribly optimized Warriors titles or a slow Sega Genesis game that was rebranded.
The UK got this but I'm kinda annoyed that the US didn't get this: Mega Man The Wily Wars. This was a sort of graphics upgrade/remix of Mega Man 1, 2 and, 3 that was launched exclusively for the Sega Mega Drive. It seems weird at first that the US didn't get this but my understanding is that the Sega brand was much stronger in the UK (if not the whole of Europe) than it was in the US so Capcom throwing them an exclusive doesn't seem as weird to me. Still, it would be nice if I could get my hands on this more easily but for all I know it's on the PSN store or XBLA at this point again, it would be weird if it wasn't by now.
Seiken Densetsu 3 and Mother 3 can fit here...Also a majority of the River City
Some of the more commonly-cited reasons why Metal Wolf Chaos was never localized were SEGA saying it wouldn't sell when pitched to them, it apparently being illegal to sell a product in the states that has an unaltered version of the Presidential Seal, and FROM themselves being convinced it offends Americans.CoCage said:
On the bright side, we got something relatively similar. Liberation Maiden for the 3DS is kinda like Metal Wolf without all the patriotic fervor.
Yeah, I got Liberation Maiden on my 3DS. It's a nice substitute; too bad the sequel is a visual novel.DarklordKyo said:
Agreed, sucks that they got an outside dood for Hearts R. Hell, they could've still done it on the cheap by hiring Absolute Zero.MC1980 said:
If it weren't for the local import shop I'd say almost the entire Squaresoft PS1 and SNES line-up. Euroland got no love in the '90s when it came to JRPGs. It also took insanely long to localize games. Like I played FF7 months and months before the euro release. I also would have missed out on Xenogears if it weren't for that import shop.
As for games that never made it out of Japan I'd say Seiken Densetsu 3, Treasures of the Rudras and Bahamut Lagoon.
As for games that never made it out of Japan I'd say Seiken Densetsu 3, Treasures of the Rudras and Bahamut Lagoon.
See, they have Vita versions too, though. With voice acting too. They had no reason to skip over to sen no kiseki and there was a multiple year period between their release of trails FC and SC during which they could have worked on the vita versions of zero and ao as opposed to simply skipping them over. I didn't even expect them to bring over sen by that point and had already imported and finished both games by the time they had announced sen 1 for US release (no dual audio so glad I didn't wait hehe) but just thinking of people playing it without having played the Crosswell games sounds absurd.MC1980 said:
Cubivore. it never reached European shores, but is one Gamecube game I'd love to own, even if I cannot play it.