and i dont mean ''muh panty shot removed'' i mean good games genuinely ruined by terrible localisationPic related >EU version removed drivers running out of the vehicle>EU version removed most stage hazard (most notibly a plane crashing into the junkyard due to 9/11 while the American version still kept it)>EU version removed the entire storymode
>>719540254>EU version removed the entire storymodeThat doesn't even begin to do it justice>driver bios removed>three cinematics every driver had removed>lore flavor text on the loading screens removedMy personal favorite is the EU version removing the whole yellow jacket unlock sequence of shooting down a 747 and it crashing into a building while the US version had it unchanged despire the you know what from the real world.
>>719540313>>719540527G*rmany truly deserved those nukes instead of Japan
>>719540313It's unfair that only germany got the cool version
>>719540313>German Generals are Mechanical MenWE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO ACT, IF WE WANT TO LIVE IN A DIFFERENT WORLD
>>719540764kek based
One of the Ace Combat games, I think 3, or 2, don't remember is a severely neutered version that is released internationally compared to the Japanese version.
>>719540254Capcom fucking up western versions of their games in the early 2000s>DMC1US/EU was intentionally made harder ruining Kamiya's design>DMC3 (OG non special edition) normal mode was actually hard mode in US/EU thus ruining the balance as unlockables carry over in harder difficulties>Chaos LegionJP was too easy so they made it have damage sponge enemies and ruined the balance again, just in the other direction for the western versions>Onimusha 4 Dawn Of DreamsThis is the biggest offender in my book.The JP version is a phenomenal game and then Capcom decided to drastically reduce red souls(experience points) per enemy and decided to make all enemies damage sponges making the whole game tedious to play.Instead of always upgrading your weapons and having fun blasting through stages with 5 different characters and having the intended number always going up Action RPG experience, you got a dull and repetitive bullet sponge fest with miserable progression that doesn't allow you to play with around a hundred different weapons with various different properties as the experience points were severely gutted.Even the challenge aspect of the game was gutted as the JP version had an exclusive harder difficulty anyway, that kills you in one hit.I wonder who was responsible for this and what was their train of thought for ruining one of Capcoms best games.Thankfully the JP version has Eng Text and dual audio anyway so it doesn't matter now but then it effectively killed the series for 20+ years.
>>719540254>make a game>cuck and censor your own versionWhy's Japan like that?Pic related has tons of dismemberments, beheadings, gore etc that you get savlo points for that are removed in the JP version
>>719540254I honestly still get irrationally angry with this one, sure I could have accepted the removal of planes and the leaving the car burning on fire deaths, but you legit got a fucking third of a game without any story FMV cutscenes to motivate you, it wasn’t even mandated from Sony or any government was it? it was just the developers shitting themselves and over correcting I think, fucking cunts
>>719541053It was 3. While it does suck that they didn't localize it, 3's JP story is really boring and lame anyway.
>>719541178>looks so western, what do you mean it's Ja->Producer: Keiji InafuneFigures.
>>719541237i think it was government mandatedsomehow the two games that really rustles the feathers of Germany's census bureau have always been Wolfenstein and Twisted Metal for some reasoneven TM 2012 had several scenes removed and altered to please the germans
>>719541279You're a massive faggot, Electrosphere is the peak of the series.
>>719541119speaking off Capcom>later EU/JP versions of pic related fixed the driving mechanics to be less slipery >US never got the fixed version
>>719541351>looks so westernThe warrior character looks like Guts and the stealth character looks like younger Raiden from MGS. The characters are clearly designed by Japs.
>>719541351Inafune produced a ton of 10/10 games at Capcom. He's was a machine when it comes to making new IPs.
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>>719541119Capcom was bizzarely paranoid about Westerners renting games, finishing them quickly, which (in Capcom’s eyes) was equivalent of a stolen copy and that person 100% would’ve bought the game for full price if they couldn’t rent it.So they made western versions of all their games harder or occasionally more tedious, to try and make them impossible to finish in one rental session. All their games harder resident evil games are harder in America/Europe compared to Japan, RE1 was pretty drastic changes, RE2 was a lot more subtle, RE3 was somewhere in between.
>>719540254post the raven pic. you know the one
>>719541178I think Japan has censorship laws for dismemberment and shit. Same thing happened with RE4 removing the chainsaw decapitations and head explosions in JP.
>>719541351kek, it is like a pseudo-predeccessor to dead rising and that's like the most western jap game ever
>>719540254do I even have to say it?
>>719542218but it's not consistent for some reason, tons of anime, movies and other video games in japan have dismemberment without any problem.
>>719542276You'd have to tag it 18+
>>719542074>Capcom was bizzarely paranoid about Westerners renting games, finishing them quicklySure but Onimusha 4 was like a 20+ hour game.
I can’t remember what country it was, probably Germany, but Resident Evil 3’s mercenaries mode was censored to point of being borderline unplayable.The gore are killing wernt censored, but “getting points” for killing Humans was not allowed. The way the game mode works is timer is ticking down, if it hits 0 you lose. You gain extra time by killing enemies. With this removed for zombies (aka 90% of enemies) the only way to increase timer was killing dogs, crows, hunters, and drain Deimos, but it was still nearly impossible to finish, and even if you did you got an awful score, because other countries could finish with like 25 minutes spare on the clock if they played well, but censored version would finish with seconds left.
slightly on topic but i find it intresting how all of Europe just collectively accepted that Final Fantasy started at 7Square never bothered bringing over any of the NES/SNES titles to Europe until Sony took over publishing for VII and it became a smash hit
>>719541279t. the most raped man alive
>>719540254>Say, those Attorney games Capcom's putting out have been getting decent attention, are there any mystery-adventure titles out there we can add to the mix?>Well, there's a Japanese detective series that just repackaged its first five games for DS with a new added case, so six cases in all.>Sounds promising, but did you say six? Cut it down to three and have one of the interns do a quick translation over the weekend.They later did a re-release with all the cases and a redone translation, but the damage was done.
>>719542218They do yeah, the RDR2 quest where you find body parts is censored
>>719542218>tanaka-san sees a pair of shoes>loses his mindthings small peepee does to a nation
>>719541237>>719541469no wonder they made twisted metal head on afterwards with a cartoony aestheticthey even made included a demo for black 2 and made a joke that all the devs of it died in a plane crash and the demo's end game cinematics piece together the dead devs' story
>>719542808Fuck I remember playing that at a friend and not getting anywhere close to buy any of the overpowered items from that mode.This would explain a lot if that's the case.
>>719541773he was just being a little cheekylocalization changes are bad when they are made with sole intent to insult you or out of contempt for your intelligence
>>719540254>good games genuinely ruined by terrible localisation>proceeds to post nothingburger
>>719543860GAME NAME!? OH GOD SORRY FOR CAPS!
>>719542265The has got to be the most overblown outrage over nothing I have ever seen concerning games.
>>719543002>15 mb game rereleased as 36mb game>36 mb DS GAME?!!?wtf dudeyou cant have a ds game that big without having problems
>>719542817I remember it helped me that every gaming magzine that covered it went out of their way to explain every numbered title is standalone so the 7 doesn't mean we have to play 6 other games first. So it wasn't such a difficult concept to grasp, this is why it leaves me completely puzzled that companies are so afraid of this that they would rather call their 5th or 6th or whatever entry just God of War with no number again for example. Now THAT shit is just confusing and makes no sense. Will never understand what's the point, all they have to do is look at Final Fantasy 7 to see how pointless this shit is.
>>719544268least the could do is use a different title to set it apartlike change one word to a synonymstep-god of war for example
>>719544268Movie games desu, maybe they see it as cinematic, like how you’ll have a film then later a reboot/remake so now there’s Film and Film (2025)
>>719540254Dragon Quest
>>719544268Don’t know what it’s like in the US but the DQ remakes on the DS weren’t numbered at all since no one knew about any of them, the HD-2D remakes do though so I wonder if they’ll ever do the rest and people will know what 4-6 are without googling it
>>719540313This is funny as shit
Kill all localizersLocalizers are all evil subhuman scum, changing even one word from the original text always makes the result unreadable trash that has 0% in common with the original text. Localization should never be done, the only true form of translation is raw MTL output where no disgusting human being has had the chance to """improve""" it by making changes.I'm not interested in whatever retarded fanfiction the subhuman localizer vomited out, I want the original puns, idioms, references, sentence structure and grammar untouched. I play Japanese games for their culture, not American politics, zoomerspeak and retarded memes.
>>719540254>Remove pre-rendered / in-game cutscenes, characters, missions, dialogue and change all the boss fights because the Western anime releases hadn't caught upLocalisers were on another level back then.
>>719544625It'll only get worse considering the new generation
>>719542808There was also TXR Zero where they changed the currency from YEN to CP in the west and balanced it to that but they didnt change the currency requirements to beat certain wanderers essentially making the western version unbeatable
>>719544653reminds me of jrpg devs getting rid of high quality anime cutscenes in favor of uncanny valley cgi cutscenes on american releasesys 4 comes to mindcgi so uncanny, they removed the game from the canon and stopped doing numbered releases for a decade
>>719540254>Every Monster Hunter gameTranslations have been questionable in general but got really bad after Freedom Unite. "Heavenly scale", referencing how eastern dragons have a single scale pointing up (towards the heavens), got retranslated as... I think it was either "plate" or "mantle". Lots of lore implications lost in translation as well.>Legend of ZeldaThe nature and meaning of Demise's curse in Skyward Sword was COMPLETELY lost in translation. I think Fi was less cringe in JP as well. There is more that I forgot and a LOT more that I don't know about.
Castlevania 3 and Rondo of Blood/Castlevania X
>>719544769it was only the last wanderer I thinkso instead of 2 mil, you needed 2 bil to beat the game or accept being stuck on 99%fun stuff
West got only a beta release. Japs got their completed game 6 months after.
>>719544824games like lords of shadow and shadows of the damned were ruined by western pandering publishers forcefully localizing the games during production and have a shadow cast over their legacylords of shadows, the protag was supposed to be very edgy to show how he becomes dracula, it was removed entirely and he remained the good honest crusader since the start of the gameshadows of the damned had to change genres so much, the developer rewrote the main guy to be a despacito clone
The Korean version of one of the Idolmaster games made an idol call you producer instead of oniichan.Absolutely disgraceful.
>changed colors of playable characters>renamed enemies>changed audio samples>removed boss>changed the entire story>upped the difficulty to fuck with rentals>censored the sexy female enemies
What I'm getting from this thread so far is that literally every JP > EN localisation has been dogshit
>>719544268You follow gaming news and more or less know what new releases are about but normalfags don't so if they see God of War 6 they get intimidated, if you just call it God of War they still recognize the IP but you signal to them that it's a reboot or something or that at least they don't need to play the previous games to understand what's going on. It's funny because to me something like Fire Emblem is infinitely more intimidating because I know the series has like 10+ mainline games and I don't want to start with the latest entry but normies have no trouble buying the latest Switch game and playing with permadeath off.
>>719540254>Remove everything offensive>Leave in the cheat to make a 17 year old goth girl topless
>>719545342The funny thing about God of War is that it ISN'T a reboot, it IS a sequel to the earlier games and that's the same Kratos you remember from...>2005?Jesus Christ it's already been 20 years oh God oh fuckRe-rormalise numbering your instalments. Bring it back.
>>719545303I liked the first MGS. It's still a dogshit localisation, but it's enjoyable in its own right, what with all the fun accents and stuff, and changing Mantis' final line was arguably an improvement.That said, it fucked up MGS2 because now you can't get Meryl back to voice a Russian because you've already had a history of giving everyone accurate accents, and Kojimbo being autistic resulted in him having the game retranslated back into Japanese, which led to him severely limiting translators on the rest of his games, to their detriment. Twin Snakes is Kojimbo's attempt to "fix" the MGS1 translation (at least in part, he didn't bother having the codecs retranslated, just the major cutscenes so some lines make even LESS sense), and is filled with atrocious writing because of it.
German SiN had all the gore models replaced with boxes with CENSORED written on them.Thing is, one of the inventory items was a severed hand which they DIDN'T censor so you had that thing sitting right next to a big red box.
Pretty much anything Working Designs did>rewrite dialogue to infantile nonsense>remove puzzle hints to try and force people to buy their guidebook>change enemy stats to make games grindy as fuck>add bizarre traps like changing a treasure chest from only giving you 1 gold to stealing all your gold instead>making it cost xp to save>making a game end after the third level if you weren't playing on hard because fuck youIt's so fucked up, it's like they were actively trying to do the worst job possible.
>>719545616That was just the standard MO in the 80s and 90s, which got us shit like Miyazaki shipping Weinstein a sword to tell him to stop re-editing his films, and absolute slop like Robotech that clumsily ruined one of the greatest series of all time. WD were just carrying on the torch of fucking up Japanese properties, which continued into the early 00s with shit like Ghost Stories.
>>719545465Jaffe used to be a pretty based guy before he overdosed on Twitter
>>719545342>You follow gaming news and more or less know what new releases are about but normalfags don't so if they see God of War 6 they get intimidatedBut this is the entire point I'm trying to make with the FF7 case: no, it's not true lol. It wasn't an issue to anyone back then, FF7 still managed to become a hit despite literally nobody having heard about any of the previous games there because they weren't even released there.So this is just a bullshit assumption by marketers and companies that they should stop doing because it does more harm than money to them.
>>719545775>that clumsily ruined one of the greatest series of all timeSouthern Cross was already ruined when they didn't went with the initial concept.
>>719545528The funniest one was Lords of the Fallen.All media outlets, and even the devs themselves called LOTF (2023) a “reboot”, and having the exact same title as 2014 game gave that impression as well. But it’s not, it’s a full on sequel. And not even in a “if you find super hidden item it’s hints that it’s 10,000 years in the future of old game”. No, the literal first NPC you meet is the player character from LOTF (2014), and other characters even directly reference events of that game, you can even see the location 2014 game took place in the far distance of skybox.They had such low opinion of 2014 game that they lied to everyone and said 2023 was a royal reboot and not a sequel. And now the third game has been announced as “Lords of the Fallen 2” which is going to be 3rd game in trilogy.
>>719545616Silhouette Mirage was their worst work by far when it came to difficulty. Making the game harder for no reason and ruining the game's balance by raising the prices of weapons and increasing ammo usage.
>game releases in the US>NOOOO YOU CANT SEE THE BOOBA SEXO IS WRONG but keep the gore :^)>Game releases in EU>NOOOO TOO MUCH GORE CENSOR IT FILTER IT but Sexual themes a okay :^)why is the world like this
>>719546298Germany ruined a lot of things just by existingCheck out the abomination that is the German version of TF2
>>719545616they redid dialogue to be similar to anime fansubs of the timeand the combat of those sega jrpg games were meant to be "a cozy fun time with cute girls doing combat" meaning a snooze fest that you can sleep through so they rebalanced it into an actual challengeits so funny how some skill-issue-apologist is going on a crusade to mod all those games' western releases and undo the changes when a sane person albeit still salty would just mod the japanese releases with the western script
>>719545775>shitting on ghost storykekaroonext time dont tell a nearly bankrupt studio to "you have 100% creative liberty just get it shipped out the door"
>>719545974but those are just refrencesyou dont need to have played the older game to understand whats going on
>>719545616I'm generally curious what Alundra is actually like, but I'm too lazy to look up the fan translation
>>719540254>>719540527I would make a shitpost about how pantyshots are more important but this is actually fucked up
>>719540254AC3 and Persona 1and everything working designs touched
>>719543990Qenoblade something something (I don't know which game)
Not really a good game but such an odd case I'll take the opportunity to mention it.>SD Valis, a redo of Valis 2 but with, as the title suggests, an SD art style>American localizer apparently has no idea what that means so the game is now called "Syd of Valis">to go with the title, the schoolgirl heroine Yuko is renamed to Syd (though the manual still says Yuko)>use the cover of the company's crossover sugoroku game for some reason so outside of Yuko herself it's full of characters who never appear in the game
>>719543990It's learn to reverse image search you fucking retarded normalfag.
>Biohazard>Title makes sense because every game takes place in a biohazard zone where a infection broke out>Resident Evil>only makes sense for the first and 7th game
Here's an obvious one>removes half the missions and basically the whole story, including the branching campaign
>>719540254Star Breeze's the Darkness. The German version censored the game into a shallow joke of its American release.
The ps1 megaman games removing the japanese openings is something I'll never forgive
>>719540254Ape Escape : 3For whatever reason, the Pal version has a different dub and its fucking hilarious
>>719547319I like X4's US opening desu.
>>719547273That one's funny because the gameplay in 3 isn't actually very good, so the only reasons to play it are for the writing and the branching campaign.
>>719547308QRD?
>>719547257resident evil rolls off the tongue betterso much better in fact that saying the name endears people to the franchise morebiohazard is just a cool name
>>719540254the eu doing what it does best: being a commie shithole
>>719547441not that Anon but I can give you a different exampleGerman Resident Evil Nemesis (ps1)>Start with Uzi for some reason>Zombies all bleed black mist instead of blood>Enemies despawn on death>Sie Sind Tot
>>719547601But RE3 doesn’t even have an uzi, do you mean the assualt rifle? If so that isn’t a version difference, you just played on Easy.
>>719544117It's one of the worst localizations ever, and denying it makes you look like a contrarian retard. It removed content. It rewrote content, and they didn't even fucking have the basic dignity to localize all the game's DLC.The game is peak 2010s western localization, where you can FEEL the millennial matcha sipping retards thinking they "know better" than those "fucking gooks." You got a character here named "Harold." Now Harold? Totally normal, understandable western name. Harold is so proud of it, he has an "H" on his belt. What did the localizers decide? To rename him to "Arthur." Kept the H belt, though.
>>719547757could be, I am not German and was watching a German stream it, way back before Twitch was a thing, before Livestream was a thing, when Mogulus was a thing
>>719548101Sir that is CLEARLY an A with a crownStop being a Bigot
>>719547308I always wondered how would Germany censor the "nazi part"... Now I'm even more curious
>>719548320*Insert Hitler and Cooler Hitler picture here*
Perimeter from what I know had a lot of lines cut in the English version in comparation to the original Russian one. As seen herehttps://youtu.be/fxu5MjUjWb4?si=-QZz4ZHX_Ji8cItO
>>719540254I never liked how in the English version of Witcher Geralt always sounds like he's doing impression of Batman. His Polish voice actor is much better and doesn't do that.
>>719542074this 1000% is the reason, holy shit
>>719542817It was confusing for Americans too when suddenly Final Fantasy III is followed by VII.I forgot where exactly I learned about III really being VI, probably in a gaming magazine.
>>719542817>PALfag>Don't get Xenogears>Don't get Xenosaga Episode I>Get Xenosaga Episode II>Don't get Xenosaga Episode III
>>719545616Remember when Ireland retroactively said one of their biggest blunders was Telenet's fault? Good times.>https://www.neogaf.com/threads/oh-working-designs-and-your-wacky-translations.374077/page-4#post-17589981
>>719550517>Xenosaga 2 came with a "Movie" that was all the cutscenes from Xenosaga 1>Its fucking 5 hours long and incomprehensible because its missing a lot of regular dialogue
>>719545616There was that site that collected WD’s madness, they had a real obsession with fart jokes, I think the best example was turning a simple warp spell into a whole story about the pixie/fairy that does it being cursed with deadly farts so the party needed to wear some lvl1 helmets to avoid dying during the fart warp hurricane
>>719544982Kek, was it Platinum Stars?
>>719540254>have a story scenario system where your choices end up favoring one person or the other>can pick the other choice on the next loop>secret third option appears once you've picked both choices, making everyone happy>localizers nix every outcome except the ones for the third option so it doesn't fucking matter what you pick
>>719548941Came here to post this, seeing one of my favourite RTS of all time have the best part of its campaign (interesting story and worldbuilding) completely gutted including simplifying/censoring dialogue, rewriting plotlines and cutting out an entire character was heartbreaking. Basically if you've played the English version, you didn't play Perimeter. Which is a shame, since fixing it would be very easy - you just have to grab the russian xml file for the campaign dialogues, translate it into English and then simply copy & replace. Wonder if anyone bothered to do that.That is, on top of the awful soul-removing voice acting they did.
>>719551275Why did they do that?
>>719551423The reason all bad shit happens, they probably just "wanted to do their own thing"
>>719551419Perimeter: Legate Edition that came out last year has uncut Russian version of script with English subtitles iirc.
>>719544625you are an insufferable weeaboo and it's fortunate that the world ignores you
>>719551423they probably thought players couldn't handle a less than perfect outcome or playtesters didn't fucking get it
>>719551019Theater Days. With Momoko, specifically.I think there was some debate over whether it was just incompetence or if it was some feminist thing, since you know what South Koreans are like. I also think they patched it eventually, but I'm not sure. They shut down the Korean servers a very long time ago in any case.
>>719540254>terrible localisationThe game wasn't ruined, but the entire lore discussion went from kinda annoying, to outright schizoid because of it>Elden Ring
>>719551950I mean, if they didn't mess with Ami/Mami (I don't remember who else uses [o]niichan) then it's bound to be incompetence, right?
I couldn't believe how much easier and enjoyable the JP version of this game was over the Working Designs release
>>719551275It's a little different to that. Japanese version has two choices but with two outcomes each. The first time you pick a choice you get a bad result, the second you get a good one. So you automatically get bad results for every single choice the first time you play and need to go ng+ to get a good one, and even then you have to pick the same option you picked the first time (and you unlock jobs for each choice so picking the same option means you miss out since you already have that job). If you want to see both good results then you need to play the game four times so you can pick A+A and then B+B.Western release changed it so you get the good result from the start and don't need to pick the same option twice. Which makes it kinda boring that things always work out well, but the Japanese version also had that as long as you were willing to do it again. And had things always sucking on the first one, which is also boring.
>>719544942I played it for the first time recently and only the japanese version, I didn't like it. Still felt wrong compared to the others.
>>719542276>but it's not consistent for some reason, tons of anime, moviesDifferent rating boards and censorship standards, this isn't even exclusive to Japan, do you think a single entity oversees the content guidelines entire music, TV, movie, comic industry here in the US?Video games in Japan have been consistently off-limits with content such as beheading for about 19 years, while dismembered limbs have some leniency; video games that abide to CERO ratings that is, unrated stuff on PC like erotic games and those gruesome RPGmaker games are free real estate.
i don't know if it counts, because it was an illegal russian localizationin silent hill 1, this was a translation of the piano puzzle text>okay, here's a solution because the shit in the original was just unintelligible. some shitty poem. fuck konami and their riddles, good luck beating the game
>>719540254Streets of Rage 3Gay Panic resulted in a lot of colours being changed, a boss being removed andFor some reasonThe entire storyAnd they made the game really hard, and you can only actually get to the final stage on hard mode
>>719551423Because japs complained about having to play the game 4 times for every outcome and job.
even shmups weren't safe from localizers' fuckery. in sol divide for ps1, they cut out all endings, the save function and the whole extra RPG mode
>>719552238Working Design's ruined a shit ton of games because they thought they knew better.
>>719553115Anon, it's a thread for shitty localization, not for sovlful.Also Warcraft 3's russian localization was so epic it's still memed about today.
>>719545775>Miyazaki shipping Weinstein a sword to tell him to stop re-editing his filmsthis never happened btw
>>719553698I love how these days they're trying to sell this narrative that they were combating 30 day return policies, which I don't buy for a second. They took so many liberties with the translations alone, I bet they genuinely believed they were making the games better.
>>719553698I like the goofy translastion but they also tend to fuck up the difficulty balance
>>719541119You forgot them turning Sengoku Basara into some sort of DMC sequel and altering all references to japanese history, including character and location names. Which ended up permanently crippling the IP in the west, to the point where the base version of 3 is the only other localized entry in the series.>>719542265Fates got it particularly bad but the whole series is a mess when it comes to that. With the constant personality/support changes, censorship, and other crap like them omitting RD's hard mode script additions or nerfing effective damage in 7 for no reason there's just too much to mention in a single post. It's honestly a good thing that about half the series is still not officially localized.
>>719553698>>719554267The Japanese made Sonic the Hedgehog, a story about an animal hero who saves his friends from an evil human scientist.Americans saw that and turned it into a Terminator resistance ripoff, and the fans jerk off to diaper pregnant sonic clones.
>>719543860The thing I really don't get about this game's localization is, is there anyone at all out there who'll play a game with this art style and yet draw the line at Japanese names like Homura or Hikari? Who was that audience those name changes were meant for?
>>719541543Didn't the GC and Xbox versions get more fixes than the PS2?
>>719556476Yes and no. Basically there's the original Auto Modellista (PS2), which only released as such in JPN/PAL, the US meanwhile got different physics to make the game harder, which every other version is based off of (US Tuned as a Japanese PS2 exclusive, GameCube, and Xbox). I don't think any of the later versions have the superior original handling, but they might have unrelated fixes in comparison to the US PS2 version.
>>719555250Eh, it's clear they tried to sell the game as something a bit more of a broad audience. XB1 had gained a lot of traction with word of mouth, shulk being in smash and XBX looking like a big budget space opera (when in truth is a 90s anime). And when you remember the wave of hype that was the switch being a new console. I can see what they tried to do and why they tried to do it.Don't get me wrong, it's obviously not correct and is even funnier that xb2 ended up being the most 'anime' of the 4 games, but yeah, there was some logic behind it.
>>719540254>>EU version removed the entire storymodeWhat, that was the best part of Black, fucking bastards.
>>719547389>because the gameplay in 3 isn't actually very goodOh, please, it's the same as 2 with more variety. It's perfectly fine.
>>719547319Didn't x6 come with the japanese openings and all. Moonlight and The Wire are great.https://youtu.be/25Xn5EnhYYc?si=CWkbYAkgoWYSON1sBut what i do miss is the japanese ending for x5. Most like us credits better, but mizu no naka is just such a great mood setter for the bittersweet ending that x5 had.https://youtu.be/O5k08loR4DM?si=SeSEiQUJayfQL3cJ
>>719559251There are far fewer enemies and every plane turns like a pig. 3 is really really slow. 2 is more fun to play.
>>719553115Reminds me of Polish dubbings made by Russian bazaar pirate games sellers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g018D4fX0AAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g018D4fX0AAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3r6MwutbP8
>>719559824https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7HDWh2jUyQ
>>719559139I spent my entire life believing Black was the worst TM for this reason until i softmoddded my Ps2 in 2010 and realised what i was missing Fucking Germans man
The Japanese version of San Andreas is hilariously botched because of all of the drug references being removed and little things like not being able to kill peds.https://youtu.be/dcaXPaHvKu0?si=apvB3yY5rMKiGsWr
>>719540254Game was never released in original language. Only localization exists. Does this count?
>>719563860They released the game years later as a Club Nintendo exclusive in Japan for the 3DS.
>>719559898This one's cringekino
>>719543704Agreed, that's what makes that a bad change.
>>719545091Not only that but Sega also removed the image of the destroyed city in the bad ending. Getting a wall of text saying millions died is nothing compared to actually seeing it.
>>719565191What's so funny here is that Sega was doing great around that time, and then suddenly made a ton of shitty decisions that ended up alienating most of their fans.Butchering BKIII into the mess that became SOR3 really showed young me that these people did not know what they were doing anymore.I can forgive a cigar/panty censoring here and there, but SOR3 was just a maniac with a butcher knife at work.
>>719540254The localization team fucked up so bad they became the posterboy for why American localizers should be executed.
>>719567583Was this one that they went back and changed it because it was so bad?
>>719541119>chaos legionOh that's why it seemed so hard
>>719545616>>719550727Kek this is pretty much the only reason I even played Vay.It's a pretty bland and unfun JRPG beyond this though. Gotta give them credit for killing off one of the main characters only to replace him with a worse version of that character (when it comes to battle)
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>>719567656How much was actually fixed? I only know the "Xe" shit was fixed but I'm not sure about anything else
>>719568757I don't know it's been a long time since I read anything about it.
>>719568358had no idea this was a working designs thing when I first fell for it
The most obvious example.
This entire game. It's 70% the dubs fault.
>>719568757Game 2 never was fixed. So you are basically playing a whole other story.
Now heres something oddEveryone called me crazy but apparently the PAL version of DBZ Budokai 2 only features the JP dub and only on GameCube
>>719540313I don't get it
Polish version of Sims 2 has infamous translation with "mac & chess" getting turned into "cheeseburger". Yes, they translated a English word into another English word and make everyone scratch their head over why cheeseburger looks like some kind of soup. My guess is the translator had only raw text to work with and for some reason thought "mac" in the context is a slang term for McDonald like burger. They fixed it in some expansion. And then in Sims 3 "mac & chess" got translated into "hamburger z serem" ("hamburger with cheese") and they never fixed it.
