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This whole thing really bothers me because $40 is a fucking absurd price for a DS game from over 15 years ago, but having actually played the Etrian Odyssey games on DS I know that they're all genuinely excellent games and well worth the price in terms of both playtime and enjoyability. I can easily get 40 hours out of each game. And the fact that they didn't change much aside from upgrading the graphics to HD is a positive thing. All the updated art looks very nice and clean (the completely new sprites look weird and out of place, but I suppose inconsistent art isn't a new problem for this series). But the only reason they're charging that much is because they think the series has enough diehard loyal fans that they can get away with it. And the fact they threw in some PNGs of Persona characters as a $3 DLC is just insulting.

On the bright side this is a Sega game and not a Nintendo game which means it goes on frequent deep discounts, and this actually came out three years ago so the fact that I forgot about it till now means that it often goes as low as $11.99. So I guess that kinda solves the problem because that is an excellent price for a game of this caliber.
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The font is so disgusting in these ports. I swear sometime starting in the late 2010's developers just stopped giving a single fuck about decent looking fonts. Playing without a second screen is kinda soulless too.
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>>736958479
It's bullshit that these games originally cost $20-30 and they were charging more for the same game.
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>>736958667
>that these games originally cost $20-30
Maybe if you bought them used like a cuck.
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>>736959232
Nope, originally they were $30 and then got reprinted right before 4 came out at $20
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>>736958479
>>736958667
Guys... It's not $40 for one game. It's for 3 games. It's less than $15 per game when they AREN'T on sale.
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>>736959303
I got just the cartridges for like 5 bucks each in 2013 from Gamestop. The mall that Gamestop was in doesn't even exist anymore, sad.
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>>736958479
You can get them for a buck each from key resellers
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>>736959303
No they were not.
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>old games should cost less... because they just should, okay?
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I bought the 3 of them for 2.40 euros on eneba
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>>736958479
they released denuvoless
also they've been on humble bundles n stuff so keys for them are like 5 dollars
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>>736959564
They do cost less when you adjust for inflation.
But yes OP's post is kind of bizarre where he acknowledges the games are worth the asking price but doesn't want to pay it because ???.
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>>736958667
GBA games were $30.
DS games were $40.
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>>736959360
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/29538/Etrian_Odyssey_Origins_Collection/
It has a permanent 33% off bundle that essentially makes it "Buy two get one free" but they absolutely are $40 if you want to buy them individually. That's still $26 per game. And I only want to play EO3 anyway so still, better to wait for a sale.
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>>736958624
Font issues are just the norm for Etrian Odyssey. They didn't start giving a shit about that until IV when they actually had a font autist look it over and picked something that actually fit the game.
Need I remind you that the original US release had nigh unreadable abominations that were so terrible, the Euro version threw it in the trash and just went with the Nintendo DS system font set instead, and the US version followed suit immediately thereafter. The ONLY text that got out unscathed was the battle menu which used what I can only surmise is a pixel version of FOT-Skip Bold.
tl;dr - The shitty font "problem" is both authentic and on-brand.
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>>736959734
Nah he was right.
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>>736959820
That having been said, it would have been literally free and minimal changes required to simply use Neuton like they did before for the "modern" entries. (Neuton is an open-source, royalty free font and they already went with it for all the 3DS entries except Nexus, which got some real ugly shit for some reason).
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>>736959768
never buy on steam
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>>736959608
I payed 90 euros, because import.
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eovi when bros
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>>736958479
Nigel you stupid rat fuck faggot homo just buy them from key sites they're like $1.50 apiece
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>>736960183
>Switch
Got mine on steam, played them on deck
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>>736958479
>never bothered to fix the font
not worth $40 for a deeply flawed game from the dinosaur age
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>>736959939
I guess that's one way of checking. If I were home I would have posted a pic of the prices I took before and after because for some reason the games got ridiculously expensive (particularly 3 at over $80 on Amazon) when the 3DS first came out, but like I said Atlus reprinted them and made it a point to say "look they're only 20 bucks each now"
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>>736961551
The Etrian Odyssey series is the closest thing to perfect games out there, the fuck do you mean "deeply flawed" you fucking dipshit
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Do you think this site is actually infested with zoomers who never even owned a DS or do you think it's just people the same age as us trying to be annoying when they call Etrian Odyssey an ancient game. Like yeah it was released a long time ago but /v/ has been around that long too, I was posting about it here when it was new. The thought that actual children who hate old games have chosen this site and this board to call home is much more annoying to me than the act of calling the games old.
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>>736958479
All 3 EO remasters have been bundled and the keys only cost $2 per game. See gg.deals.
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>no 4/5 or Untold collection
Funny that they considered this shit a flop, like what did you expect at those prices
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>>736958479
If you don't want to pay for it why don't you just pirate it?
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>>736958479
>gg.deals check price
>lowest price: €0.46
What exactly is the issue again?
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>>736960183
Is this the version with English text? I was thinking of picking it up.
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>>736959734
It was variable actually
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>>736964829
Yes, it is.

Also, wtf is wrong with 4ch today?
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>>736966242
Please understand, it's hard to focus right now
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My theory is that they just set the japanese prices for the entire world and called it a century.
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>>736965869
>>736965942
>>736965942
4chan is fucked today.
Also how can you tell which copies have English lanuage from the box? Some are Japanese only iirc.
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>>736958479
>This whole thing really bothers me because $40 is a fucking absurd price for a DS game from over 15 years ago
why?
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>>736967351
Poor.



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