Fans of Japanese games are no doubt familiar with the hassles of localization. A promising new game with innovative mechanics? Let’s hope it makes it over here. The next installment in a cult series of games? Hopefully it has a shot. An obscure niche title aimed towards a Japanese audience? On second thought, how about an import guide.
It should go without saying that the Western and Eastern game industries are two very different beasts. Besides language; cultural, preferential and even philosophical barriers separate the two. Business structure, design philosophies, price points, company tradition, user markets, Western appeal, translation costs; any one of these things can get in the way of the localization of a beloved game. What’s a poor foreign games enthusiast to do then?
When all hope has gone, the only thing left to do is import. Of course, you’re going to want to know a few things about importing before you start.
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+ is seemingly releasing on PC on May 26th, according to new information found on SteamDB.
From Xfire: "It's been estimated that roughly half of the video games ever released on the market can no longer be downloaded or purchased. Whether this is exactly correct is not the point. Rather, we think that either way, the video game industry, as a whole, has done a terrible job at preserving video games and making older titles available to play for future generations."
You can play all of these games still lol. The headline is just misleading. Funny is that there is not one game in the list that you really can't play anymore due to it being online only games.
Its not about games you can't play. Its about games you can't officially buy anywhere.
Who needs to buy these games anyway? Most of them are average at best and won't really be missed.
It says buy, not play though. You can't purchase Deadpool or the Simpsons game anymore. Unless you have a 360 for the simpsons or a physical copy of deadpool, or purchased it before it was delisted.
Look at his comment. It's from 9 hours ago. Article goes back 4 hours. Title might have been changed after realising the mistake
One you actually legit cannot play AT ALL is Noby Noby Boy. I miss turning my brain off and messing around in that game, was so psyched to re-download it when i rebought a ps3 slim, but you cant, even if it's in your downl library, along with a few other obscure PS3 games i had.
I would replace Transformers Devastation with War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron tho.
Transformers Devastation was good but not as good as Fall and War of Cybertron they should be on the list. SH 2 I can play any time I want since it came free in a $10 Xbox I bought used. The Simpsons Arcade I have on my PS3 surprised the Xmen Arcade game is not on this list or the Turtles arcade game either.
I had the X-Men arcade game on my 360. I don't know if Xbox Live is still a thing or not, and of it is, I don't know of they still sell X-Men. But it was deinitely on Xbox Live at some point.
If you had X-Men before you can redownload it from your transaction history on the 360 Microsoft did not castrate the 360 from online. That is how I was able to redownload the old TMNT arcade game to my 360 you can't play it on XB1 or Series X but you can still access it for sure on the 360.
The Valkyria Chronicles series holds a special place in the hearts of many gamers, so its heroines continue to get occasional figures.
