Danjin44
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Sorry, no-denuvo is completely unnegotiable.
Consider it on the same category as you wanting a physical version
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George Kamitami wants to port all the Vanillaware games to PC but it’s not up to him
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Guilty_AI
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I mean, would you buy this if it was digital only? Full price?
Danjin44
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I would be a little sad but FUCK yeah I would!
There no way in hell I'm gonna miss out on this game.
ssringo
Member
I bought the game literally just to give money to someone from Vanillaware and to leave a review saying as much. I like to think someone in the decision making process saw it. probably not
I'm also planning to buy Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle which is from another person that worked at Vanillaware.
Guilty_AI
Member
Well, my principles are stronger, so nope
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Remember that Dragon's Crown DLC we never got?
Well now we are getting something similar
Danjin44
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My love for Vanillaware games is stronger than any principle.Well, my principles are stronger, so nope
March Climber
Member
By all means, please don't stop sharing ex-Vanillaware employee new games or Vanillaware-like indies. I could use some more to wishlist and purchase.
I remember buying this because I heard about some similarities to Muramasa:
And this one was fun too:
Regardless...
manfestival
Member
They better not do it!
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Arenanet (Guild Wars devs) finally letting go of their 'No console/controller ever!' stance and then Kamitami(Vanillaware) finally letting go of the 'No PC ever!' stance, both in the same year...
Guild Wars Reforged was released a few months ago and has controller support.
Having played FFXI back in its heyday, I'm all for MMOs with controller friendly control schemes. GW2 has some ground targeting you could work around with the Steam Deck's touch pads, but they still weren't the ideal input method.
IMO the big issue with GW3 is it's a buy to own game. We'll see if console players need to subscribe to PS+ or XBOX Live to play. Other MMOs with paid subs didn't need it. But the Guild Wars games have always been buy once play forever, with expansions being their own thing. Hopefully they work out a deal with the Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo that doesn't screw the players, but I doubt it. I'd wager they will require a sub.
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Hudo
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I will do so as well. And I rarely buy shit at launch.Already planning on buying Muramasa at launch. Full Price.
Pejo
Member
I tried finding it myself, but it was a JP article and from over 2 years ago, so I'm not having much luck.
Durin
Gold Member
God damn I hope it happens, because I'll buy all of em. No one makes games that play or look like theirs.
Unicorn Overlord would probably sell the best since strategy RPGs usually do well on PC, and probably 13 Sentinels since visual novel-esque stuff tends to do well too.
GrimGrimoire would also be cool, because it's anime Harry Potter x side-scrolling RTS.
Unicorn Overlord would probably sell the best since strategy RPGs usually do well on PC, and probably 13 Sentinels since visual novel-esque stuff tends to do well too.
GrimGrimoire would also be cool, because it's anime Harry Potter x side-scrolling RTS.
Pejo
Member
Dragon's Crown with a healthy online population again is my dream. I had so much fun playing co-op in that game.
Danjin44
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More people need to play that game, its surprisingly fun and Once More version add lot of quality of life which made the experience much more smoother compare to PS2 version.
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Durin
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Yep, Dragon's Crown would be cool as well, especially for local multiplayer. A PC version would be easier to drive on the Steam Deck vs RPCS3 emulation, and just bring that over to friend's place with some controllers over bluetooth.
I'd assume on PC they could do Steam Remote Play together, so even if the servers shut down in the future you could still easily peer to peer the game.
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Durin
Gold Member
Yep, I'd hope all of their games that get ported come from the better versions released later, like the Leifthrasir version of Odin Sphere.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
bender
What time is it?
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Tbh Muramasa was the one I really wanted and I'm hyped. I would double dip for Odin Sphere and Unicorn Overlord too.
Guilty_AI
Member
Cant wait to mod CJ into this
bender
What time is it?
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Pejo Dragon's Crown is Vanillaware's very own Phantasy Star Online and I love them for it. Multi-platform and Crossplay for a huge community would be perfect.
I like Dragon's Crown and love PSO but how are these games anything alike?
Famipan
Member
Ok so VW employee's indie games gets Overwhelmingly Positive reviews —> I imagine the employee showed Kamitani their bank account —> Kamitani finally understands the potential?
Or maybe it was the fear of people copying assets and making TEMU VW that held them back, but now AI can make TEMU VW just by scraping the internet so there is no need to hold back on the ports
Or maybe it was the fear of people copying assets and making TEMU VW that held them back, but now AI can make TEMU VW just by scraping the internet so there is no need to hold back on the ports
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Dungeoncrawling, lootfarming, leveling, solo or full co-op play and of course multiple difficulty modes.
PSO- Normal, Hard, Very Hard, Ultimate Endgame level cap of 200.
Dragon's Crown-Normal, Hard, Infernal, Ultimate Endgame level cap of 255
BennyBlanco
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Durin
Gold Member
It's still wild to me that we'd see a day where Japanese devs said PC was essential, when the biggest reason I owned consoles growing up was largely just to get access to Japanese games.Times have just changed.
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Vanillaware was the last major hold-out I cared about, and now even that's starting to happen.
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Sega will get it done eventually and I am 100% confident in this. Cannot wait to buy all these games again lol.
100%, you still have Nintendo doing their own thing releasing a new title about once a month. But Sony's 1-2 exclusives a year is gonna be an issue.
We have all the mainline Final Fantasies. Yakuzas, and soon Metal Gears. Japan still has unfriendly copyright/derivative works laws. I wonder what the first Japanese game that really takes advantage of what's possible with Steam Workshop ends up being.
Everything I see is always Vanillaware struggling with funding. If the full catalog gets ported over, I could see them being funded for the next decade just by people rebuying them yet again. And that would be a good final push for any other holds out.
Guilty_AI
Member
Palworld has workshop support
Good point, I always forget Pocketpair in Japanese. Part of me thinks that's not possible as Nintendo would have taken them out with their Ninja army.
Knight of the Round
Member
This. If PC gamers buy Muramasa day 1, it'll happen.
Durin
Gold Member
Sony seemed to make their choices going hard into high-budget AAA content since PS4, and then into live-service games this gen. Both of which operate at budgets and team sizes that not many Japanese studios can scale to, and they take longer to make so the release cadence declines. Nintendo was smart to go lower budget, and having a portable system makes sense for selling to their own country.
Unless Sony rebuilds some Japanese partnerships next gen when they do that handheld, I would imagine Switch + PC will be the primary platforms Japanese developers target.
Given Pocketpair's success with supporting mods, it's probably going to keep happening, and maybe the turning point will be one when a smaller Japanese dev gets funded by a larger Japanese publisher, and they see the long-tail revenue benefits of supporting mods. That or some kind of mod ruleset comes in from Japanese devs that compromises enough for their copyright law culture.
Knight of the Round
Member
Japan slowly and hesitantly moving away from PlayStation exclusivities and start investing on PC seems like something a lunatic would have said 20 years ago, but that's just proof of how non-Japanese PlayStation has become in the last 2 console generations.
Danjin44
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Thats pretty obvious why, this gen Sony cares faaar more about western audience than Japanese audiance.
hardwood007
Member
It will probably be a gamekey card if it ever comes to switch 2
Mr Hyde
Member
Muramasa is confirmed to come on a proper cartridge so maybe not
I also don't have anything against key cards so not a good gotcha there buddy.
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