New Marvelous financial report is outhttps://corp.marv.jp/english/library/img/result4q2026.pdf>>DAEMON X MACHINA TITANIC SCION, the latest title in the “DAEMON X MACHINA” series released in September, performed poorly and fell significantly short of the initial sales plan.>Although sales increased significantly year on year due to the release of three new console game titles, a segment loss was recorded due to the underperformance of DAEMON X MACHINA TITANIC SCION and Browser Sangokushi Ten.Wondering why they're talking about dragging out the Senran girls' corpes now?Unfortunately they actually think that converting Senran into a "global" franchise will save them. Marvelous is on the ropes and hopefully the next is around their neck.
>>739379215I don't want to see the modern audience version of Senran Kagura. It would be completely neutured. I hope it stays dead
>>739379215i hate california so much bros
>>739379215So Dolphin Wave (which is also fanservice like Senran) is carrying their company but they're still gonna bring out a toned down Senran anyway?Man, feels like every gaming executive caught a mind altering IQ eating bug during covid.
>>739379372>I hope it stays deadAnon...They're breaking the emergency glass because of the OP game being a disaster. They're just using said glass to slit their wrists because they're retarded.
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>>739379215>a segment loss was recorded due to the underperformance of DAEMON X MACHINA TITANIC SCION and Browser Sangokushi Ten.OP cut the part of Rune Factory and Story of Seasons being good sellers, but does this part mean that DxM and this other mobile game tanked so hard that it wiped out the former two's success? Why did they put a AAA budget into a janky mech game (and then REMOVE THE MECHS?!)
How do you fuck up DxM this badly>Openslop>Choppy UE5 >Suits instead of Mechs>70 fucking dollarsHopefully this slop doesn't affect the development of RF6
>>739379215Kind of a shame, I'm still stunned Daemon X machina got a sequel, I've tried to enjoy that game a couple of times and I just couldn't get into it.
>>739379215Is this why the game is 80% off right now? Just a fire sale to boost numbers up?
I liked the game but you can't play at being modern AAA in price if you lack the resources.
>>739380354Yes, it was in a humble bundle last month for $15 too. It's also on Steam key sites for $2 (yes you read that right).
Surely Farmagia bombed harder
>>739380709It probably comes back to budget and Titanic Scion definitely had a bigger budget.
I unironically hate Senran Kagura so I'm glad it died.
>>739380149The other mentioned game doesn't look that high budget (image). DxM was near certainly the biggest budget project Marvelous ever did, early articles talked of First Studio (the studio that made this game) hiring for a "AAA game" many years back. Going by the info in these financials it probably didn't even outsell the worst selling Senran Kagura game.
>>739379649I just won't buy it, just like I skipped that Neptunia ninja crossover game despite liking both franchises.I'd rather remember them fondly than the equivalent of seeing them troon out.
>>739379215If the first DAEMON game didn't suck ass maybe I would have bought the second.
>>739379215>DAEMON X MACHINAhas this series ever sold well?
>>739380149>and then REMOVE THE MECHS?!Wait, what?
1. People only bought Armored Core 6 due to being infatuated with Elden Ring and going "I see From logo I buy", not because people genuinely like giant robots. People LOATHES giant robots. So making Daemon X Machina was an idiotic idea from the start. Which bring us to...>>739380149>>7393815592. Marvelous realized their mistake way so they tried to correct course by instead copying Marvel and going with Iron Man suits, basically trying to ride on popular thing a second time, which still was an idiotic idea because people didn't like the original Daemon X Machina in the first place.
>>739381475The original game was marketed by Nintendo so it benefited a lot from that, it possibly passed a million over time and with sales. It must have sold well enough for Marvelous to greenlight a sequel with a seemingly AAA budgetIt also has 1/10th of the budget of this, it's a 8 hour mission based game that's pretty janky. It was an okay Armored Core replacement until From brought it back proper.
>>739381047>Died lol
>>739379372More like it'll be fucking Gacha dogshit
>>739381717He'll like it now that there'll be no TnA
>>739379372If It's Burst level of lewd, then that'd be ok, but I'm worried about the worst case scenario of it being tame as fucking nepsenran
>>739379215I feel kind of bad about another /m/ game failing spectacularly but Titanic Scion controlled terribly. Refunded it almost immediately.
>>739379215I didn't even know it was out. Market your shit morons.
I can't put my finger on what was the problem with titanic scion. I played it and had fun at first. And I should have absolutely loved it. I hated armor core because the cool parts of it (customization, mecha) were completely unenjoyable because of from slop being from slop and pandering to masochists. Titanic scion isn't hard. I like open world slop... there was something wrong with gameplay and I don't even remember what.
>>739379215Any website covering this news?
>>739379215It was a mech game with no fucking mechs in it, of course it failed. All the>le powersuit is cooler and more popular than mechsAnthem dick suckers can eat shit.
>>739381717>in a form that suits the current eragrim
>>739382496>le powersuit is cooler and more popular than mechsThey are; Marvelous simply failed to do it the right way.
>>739379215They should have given us multiple endings, story routes, and romance. That’s why Daemon flopped. Senran will flop if it’s censored just saying.
>>739382895Doesn't work if your game still wants to play like a mecha game. DxM 2 was a stupid idea from the start.
>It's now illegal for my wife Mirai to ever appear in a Senran game againI don't want it no matter what they do.
>>739383085Not just based but smart.
>>739383145Why are you even in a thread for something you hate?
>>739381475First one was cool enough, second one they went with powersuits instead of mechs and open world memes that probably bloated the budget.
>>739383085As shitty as things are right now, nintendo is only really rough with qureate in japan as of now, they are more ease with other publishers in japan as long as they don't want to release their games in the west as well lol
>>739379215I have a personal hate vendetta against Marvelous for selling out to Sony during the early censorship of japanese games, get fucked and i hope this shitty dog company crashes and burns.
>turn mech game into generic sci fi suit game.>learned nothing from the fuckups of the first game>first game is still better runs better and looks better.shiiiieeet
>>739383085They should make some flat girls with big asses.
>>739383503>generic sci fi suit game.How many games have customizable super armor?
>>739383240>as long as they don't want to release their games in the west as well lolThat's all of them, though. Japan doesn't buy games, all they do is roll they gacha and send supacha to their favorite e-whores with a facerig. Nintendo knows this and knows denying these games a western release in these times is equivalent to a death sentence. Even during its heyday Senran Kagura sold way more in the west.
>>739379215I feel like this game fits in a specific recent type of Japanese game that's "selling their soul" so to speak and faceplanting trying to capture the AAA Western market. Removing fanservice is the most obvious aspect, but even with a game like DxM, they removed the mecha in favor of generic "power suits" because they probably think mecha is "too Japanese." They're all even trying to bank on that $70 AAA price point. Other games from even bigger publishers that have tried this I would say are>Atelier Yumia (it had a good launch but clearly had no legs and negative word of mouth caught up with it very quickly, there were Gust damage control articles within the first 6 months of them promising they didn't abandon old fans>Rise of the Ronin (Koei Tecmo again, Koei talked for years about how this was gonna be a 5 million several hit and it likely didn't even hit 1m. Feels like a Ubisoft game from the Xbox 360, there's also tons of pointless WRPG mechanics haphazardly hamfisted into the game like romances and different factions that aren't fleshed out or feel like anything more than them just tossing them in because they thought it would attract Bethesda players>Monster Hunter Wilds (Obviously this has a stellar launch, but again, negative word of mouth about them selling MonHun's soul to capture journos and Ubisoft players caught up very quickly. By month 4 (after its first quarter) it was already selling less than Rise and even less than the DMC HD COLLECTION IN 2025>Code Vein 2, really recent so don't need to explainMonster Hunter World in 2018 shifted Japanese studios into thinking they could pull AAA normies into their games and these games are definitely the effects of that. We are basically in another 7th gen with how Japanese games are being developed, just without Western outsourcing this time, and without the handheld platforms that Japanese studios were still developing their own domestic great games for at the time.
>>739383628I think they went with power suits because they tought From was going to actually bring back Armored Core as a series instead of making a one-off on Elden Ring spare change. So they stopped using mechas to try and not overlap too much.
>>739383615Japan still buys games
>>739383628Atelier dev didn't learn shit or needs to break off from Koei TecmoThey're censoring their JK pantsu shower scenes game and were on stream defending their decision.
>>739383849No they don't. LoveR Kiss sold 3.5k copies on Switch and the Switch 2 edition didn't even hit the Famitsu top 30 at all. The only games that sell anything in Japan now are bing bing wahoo and AAA games like the aforementioned Monster Hunter that get enough advertising to break the gacha-obsessed salarymen out of their stupor.
>>739379215I remember beating the demo and thinking that it was really rough but had potential for a fun budget title. Then I saw the store page and the $80 price tag and immediately knew that it's going to bomb insanely hard.
>>739379215>Marvelous is publicly traded>Has been for over 20 yearsWould never have guessed.Small publishers have no business being public.The damage from bad releases gets amplified, while good releases get investors overly greedy and set unrealistic expectations.
>>739383996>gacha-obsessed salarymenYou are making it sound like gacha destroyed games. And gacha is just harmless fun!
>>739383628Japan is just shit at making video games now.Korea and China have been raping them in the mobile market for a decade now, and the same is starting to happen in the console markets. They simply can't secure budgets large enough to actually compete outside their own country. Look at the new "big" sword art online game and then compare that shit to crimson desert
>>739381701I liked DxM. It was flawed as fuck but it had charm in other areasTitanic scion however was outrageously bad
>>739383996Wilds also did poorly enough in Japan that it might have ended that series there, this image is from when the game was just over 6 months old. You're reading that yen price tag correctly.
>>739383628If they went with mechs again it would endlessly be compared with AC6.
The second game played better than the first, and has better customization, but the open world part wasn't super great, and weapon balance was all over the place.
>>739381823The gacha already came out and died anon…
>>739380354>>739380457I managed to snag it during the humble choice bundle with one of those new members coupons for 8 dollars.
>>739384064Gacha literally destroyed the Japanese game market. Games went from selling 50-100k in Japan to selling 5k the moment it became prominent. Mobile accounts for 90% of all modern Japanese game spending. Even Falcom games are underperforming there now, but making up the difference and more in western sales. Which is inevitably going to tilt them more and more towards western sensibilities and allow the absolutely deranged faggotards that are the western Kiseki "fandom" to dictate the direction of the series.
>>739379215Hope they go bankrupt and Qurate buys SK.
>turned the mechs into power suits>game ran like absolute shit on the Switch 2I was planning on buying it but the second thing made me not.
>>739384632The remake selling well is grim since it was censored.
>armored core alternative>turn it into open world dogshit slopserves 'em right
>>739379215It failed because the switch 2 port ran like shit and the text size was so fucking small that i could not read anything of it. Even PS5 had the same text problem.
>>739384632Overseas sales carrying a Japanese game isn't necessarily a bad thing, the major problem is that they think they have to change or alter things to suit Western tastes, when we ALREADY DID this EXACT song and dance in the shift from the 360/PS3 gen to early-mid PS4 gen, in which the latter grew Japanese games to success again in the West because they were uniquely Japanese, while in the former Japanese published games were tanking hard in the West because they were trying way too hard and failing to match Western sensibilities of the time.Like, Japan already had their lesson that the West LIKES JAPANESE GAMES and they're already falling into bad old habits again!
>>739382375Awful progression systems for starters. The games combat isn't that bad it just has a bad progression system. A lot of the actual systems in the game didn't feel fully thought out. Some things felt pointless as well. I wish it had a more thought out progression system like Xenoblade X or something. The story wasn't great. Wasn't absolute dogshit terrible but it wasn't great either. I had the gun arms or whatever and they were broken and just steamrolled the entire game. Also unlocking "high end" gear in the endgame was just shit. After about 15 hours you pretty much experienced all the game had to offer. I ended up beating it in 20 which is really short for what the game is. Sidequests felt ultimately pointless as well.
>>739381701>People LOATHES giant robots.Only when they're the sole focus of a game.Players enjoy giant robots when they act more like temporary power-ups.
>>739379215Anyone could see this comingThe first DxM did alright thanks to Nintendo advertising it I have no idea why they wouldn't do the same deal and just do the other ports later like last time
I did the six-hour ascent to the top of the tower but never beat the boss at the summit...
>>739379372>It will come out. >Sweet baby inc will consult>It will bomb>The devs will conclude that nobody likes Senrans anymoreI hate this gay earth
>>739383628Hoooh boy all the wrong shit with this post>>Atelier YumiaYumia failed to keep up with recent sales because Ryza secondaries don't fucking care about anything that doesn't have that slampig in and people who've been playing at least since the Arland games have been progressively disappointed by Gust diluting the series, Yumia's sales simply went back to normal and didn't do anything that Atelier hasn't been doing for a long time, people were more annoyed by the fucking Fortnite building than the change in the battle system.>>Rise of the RoninRonin flopped because nobody gives a shit about the Bakumatsu era and it was also way too silly and over the top for the few people who cared about the setting, moreover people were initially expecting KOEI's own Way of the Samurai but all they got was steampunk Nioh, the game didn't appeal to anyone and it wasn't a matter of "selling their soul" because there was no precedent to begin with.>>Monster Hunter WildsWilds' entire problem is that it launched unfinished and wildly unoptimized to the point the vast majority of people couldn't fucking run it, it has nothing to do with the quality or "soul" of the game itself.>>Code Vein 2Code Vein 2 flopped because nobody actually gave a shit about the first game, which sold purely because of the waifus, the second game doesn't have the first game's waifus so the few people who actually cared didn't buy it, not because the game itself is bad, it's slightly less mediocre than the first one, the outrageous pricetag and poor performance didn't help either.And when it comes to DXM2, nobody cared about the first game or the switch to power armor, the game sold poorly because of (again) the outrageous pricetag and the game itself being just as shit and unfinished as the first one, with atrocious design decision such as the 5-8 hour tower climb or "bosses" that do nothing but run away from you and die in literal seconds the moment you catch up to them.
>>739384664Qureate are being pansies in the face of Western interference unfortunately >>739383085Senran should belong to Dragami Games, the guys who just released LoveR Kiss a few weeks ago on SW2. They're even updating it with a kamikaze wind fan function for the purpose of getting your favorite panchira moments in the photo mode. All of this takes place in a school (Qureate shyed away from this and even when they do a school setting they're always "IT'S COLLEGE IT'S COLLEGE IT'S COLLLEEEEGE!") and there is even not only JKs but also JC and JShttps://x.com/Dragami_Games/status/2056933091399303326
>>739382895yeah yeah, I saw this coming a mile off, you're in "communism was never really tried" tier delusional territory. Absolutely nobody gives a shit about power suits, few people give a shit about mechs either but they at least have a hardcore niche who grew up with gundam and eva.I dont know why its so hard for people to understand that just the aesthetics of the thing you control have a gigantic impact on player adoption, this is why bayonetta flopped and DMC continues on, people dont want to play as a tranny witch any more than they want to play these lame ass anthem power suits.
>>739385349Either one is fine imo. They're both leagues above Marvelous.
>>739383996Everyone that cared about LoveR kiss bought it in switch then upgraded
>>739384321how is that a problem? every souls like clone sold off the fact that it was similar to souls
>>739379215>>739379461They’re the same company that ruin Yugioh official anime and forced Konami to create their own studio animation. Don’t listen to them!
>>739383085Never forget what the Chinese took from us.
>we reached the point where another game had to bomb for Senran Kagura to come back>but without its main appealFucking monkey's paw
>>739385349By the way, the duck censor is just for teh trailer
>>739385910Idk if this a controversial opinion or not but I always thought SK's fan service sucked. All the girls have bolt on balloon tits. They lack a bit of sag and most importantly nipple bumps.
>>739379215>releases shit game>it flopsMarvelous should just stop following american ideas and go back to do good games. please, say that Guardians of Azuma did good!
>>739386031>please, say that Guardians of Azuma did good!>>In the consumer division, the latest title in the “Rune Factory” series, Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, was released worldwide on June 5, 2025, as a launch title for the Nintendo Switch™ 2, followed by the global release of the latest title in the “STORY OF SEASONS” series, STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar, in August of the same year. Both titles recorded strong salesIt did, but... >>Although sales increased significantly year on year due to the release of three new console game titles (Rune Factory, Story of Seasons, Daemon x Machina), a segment loss was recorded due to the underperformance of DAEMON X MACHINA TITANIC SCIONDxM did so bad it wiped out the success of the other two releases
>>739380149>OP cut the part of Rune Factory and Story of Seasons being good sellers, NICE! both titles are great and deserve more love.!
>>739385428>qureateslop>better than marvelousholy kusoge taste, anon-kun.
>>739383996They buy digital mostly now because physical doesn't give enough to be worth it (and they are poorer than years ago)
>>739386251I'm right, you're wrong. Simple as.
>>739384203>look at licensed game
>>739384632That doesn't imply that Japan didn't buy it...
>>739386124It really makes you wonder what DxM budget was if it flopping was bad enough to wipe out the success of two other titles that probably didn't have that much budget.
>>739386017They are too young to have saggy tits
>>739379215Marvelous could absolutely still make a decent Senran Kagura game if they really wanted to, but unfortunately, like most Japanese companies now including the likes of Compile Heart and Inti Creates, their mindset is not "how do we make a great game that our fans will enjoy?", but "what do we have to cut/alter to ensure this will release on every platform simultaneously including the most censored ones"?
>>739386524Any breast that's above A-cup sags, it's how gravity works. Tits are fat, not muscle. Fat always sags.
>>739386448They admitted it underperformed in Japan sadly. They're full steam ahead on the global push.
>>739386543>inti createsfuck off faggot
>>739386595Skin has retention, anon
>>739379215They should stick to Story of Seasons. Magical Melody remake when?
>>739384687>>739384828This right here. Why can't these absolute retards do anything right? Is it a matter of skill in these developers or something? I guess since oldheads weren't (and still aren't) good at modern development, there's no quality 'experience' to pass to on the younger generation, so both generations end up being dogshit developers? It's BAFFLING.
>>739386639Ok cool but big tits still hang down no matter the age of the wearer. The fat tits of that one girl in my middle school class did not look like the tits in Senran Kagura do.
>>739386619They expected too much for a remake
>>739386543Inti's already been dropping PS5 and Xbox as of late. You can't just back them into a corner of only releasing their games on DLsite, the company has to live. If every single one of the 4 major platforms are censorious then none of these companies really have a choice.
>>739379215Well...MAYBE OF THEY DIDN'T DROP THE MECHAS IT WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER!!!!
>>739383085Flatties and cows can coexist.
>>739384321DXM didn't even feel like controlling a machine, it felt weightless.
>>739381715>original game was marketed by Nintendo so it benefited a lot from thatThat's a good point. Isn't that the same reason why Yokai Watch was so successful? Then YW4 went multiplatform and the entire series was shuttered lmao. Well, obviously, there were more reasons why the series failed, like Level-5 being dumbasses for one.
>>739379372>Censored Senran Kagura, no up-skirts, no bikini, but the gameplay is actually amazing>The usual Senran Kagura, full tities with mind numbingly basic ass gameplayStupid "what if" that's 100% not going to happen, but if you had to chose which one would you pick?
>>739386935I believe the main reason was that the sequel dropped me has and made it about power suits instead. That is like going from being Gurren Lagann to just Iron Man, both are cool but Gurren Lagann is cooler.
>>739385020The first DxM was a mech game in a market with 0 mech games, this game was a shitty character action game in a market with a billion character action games.
>>739387047*Dropped the mechasHow the fuck that happened?
>>739379215I'm sad that mecha games seems dead overall. daemon really doesn't deserve the hate.
>We need tone down game for global standards>BTW here is a collab with most coomer ass gacha we foundThat's almost hypocrite as DOA.
>>739386783This, I'll never understand why they felt like that was a good idea
>>739387225Its not a mech game, who cares.
>>739386626>>739386762>Inti's already been dropping PS5 and Xbox as of late.No they haven't, they're just doing late ports. Card-en-Ciel, Servants of the Dark, Majogami and the Gunvolt trilogy all released on PS5 and Xbawks eventually if not from the start. The Gal Guardians series exists primarily to continue releasing something with the Gal*Gun brand on all platforms simultaneously. They literally spelled this out to you in that Korean interview last year, they want their games on all platforms for maximum sales, and the development process has been changed to ensure the production of something that can release on all platforms. This is the unfortunate side-effects of multiplat becoming the industry norm. Now companies like Marvelous don't care if the changes alienate their fans because in their view having it on all platforms instead of an exclusive to one or two is more important; this is also why they don't do platform-specific censorship any more and every version is the same (read; censored to the lowest common denominator platform's standards).
What I'm saying is; if Marvelous can't even manage to make a Senran with style, gameplay and fanservice on par with the 3DS games, they may as well not even bother because it's just going to get shit on and boycotted by everyone and end up tanking their PR even more. Look at the shit Compile Heart is taking over Neptunia Unlimited raping the designs of the CPUs, that's the price of prioritizing multiplat over fan concerns about content. They wanted it on Shittendo's systems and they didn't care about what had to be done to accomplish it.
>>739387946What is the single platform you're suggesting for development?
A lot of Marvelous' corruption is due to them listening to the retards at xseed, the moment they shitcan those losers is the moment they'll start recovering as a company
>>739388045It's actually Marvelous Europe that's the cancer tumor. Xseed has always had respect or at least tolerated Senran, we never heard about any shit like this from them.
>>739388169Old xseed is absolutely not the same thing as current xseed, they've been shit for years and those that had integrity and worked on senran no longer work at the company lmao
>>739388008Whatever one will allow them to make a Senran with 3DS-level style and fanservice.If none exists, then this is a doomed venture and Marvelous should cancel the project.
>>739388242Well, the Senran game that currently is actually announced is targeting that platform, but you're not gonna like the answer to what that is...
What the fuck. Is it really THAT bad?
>>739388426I genuinely cannot fathom how gachashit continues to get away with things that would get censored to death on retail platforms. Fuck it, someone get Google or Apple to make a console already and free us from the SnoyValTendo tyranny.
Dead things should stay dead, lest they be corrupted and maimed by the modern audience.
>>739388807It's because the jews love it when you use sex to draw men into crippling gambling addictions.
>>739381701abhorrent take from someone posting worst girl
>>739386392whatever helps you sleep at night, shit taste anon-kun.
>>739388807>get Google or Apple to make a consoleI'm sure that won't be absolute aids, like Google's last attempt.
>>739388807Japanese people are pushovers. Don't know what happened to the samurai spirit but they are just super docile. Chinese and Koreans are pyschos with nothing to lose, and in the case of China there are billions of them. Fuck with something they like and they swarm like bees.
>>739388807>Apple to make a console alreadyThey did. The Apple Vision Pro.
>>739389396That's not a console, that's a VR headset.
>>739389145Sure thing, xister.
>>739388426We're talking about something different. They've already said they're considering a new console game in the recent interview, they wouldn't say such a thing if it wasn't already in the planning stages. Marvelous Europe has also all but confirmed its existence and that it's targeting both Playstation and Switch (meaning it has to deal not only with Sony's policies but Nintendo's new ones too which are even worse).Unless they end up releasing an uncensored PC version, this project is fucked. Maybe they could get away with a 3DS-level fanservice game on Playstation now, but absolutely not on Shittendo consoles where now even Neptunia can't release uncensored.
>>739389706It's an AR headset, and was marketed as a catch-all device, including vidya. If you don't consider that their console, then buy an iPhone, which you might consider more of their console. It has gacha, Apple Arcade, and "premium" games like the Resident Evil remakes and the Remedy games which all flopped. Apple will never make a traditional console.
>>739389316If only the Chinese liked games that weren't just animated jiggling jpegs.
>>739390152What are Nintendos rules?
>make sequel to mech game>remove mechswho could've seen this one coming?
>>739390152>picIt's so fucking over
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>>739390443>>739390554This game released uncensored on Playstation btw, it's 7+ in Europe. Here's a sheet of the absolute bullshit Nintendo has been up to lately.
>>739390492Power armor iron man games seem super cursed. There could be a market for them but for whatever reason this and Anthem did awfulAlso if it was more like DxM but power armor instead I wouldn't mind but the grind is fucked up and a lot of the quests suck eggs
>>739390492They also went with open world and they failed to make it engaging. I'd wager that it had a bigger impact on sales than going from big guys to small guys.
>>739390443>>739390649>>739390443Here's an example of the extreme levels of censorship Nintendo is imposing on anime-style games. They didn't just have to cover this girl up, they literally had to lengthen her face and chin so she looks "less childlike".Making the Senrans 18+ isn't going to get around this. Nintendo hates anime ecchi content in general now.
>>739388807Because they usually don't show that stuff on the store and even then many games just have separate versions for them
>>739390152That pic is probably fake, I don't think Marvelous Europe is telling people about plans for Project N, let alone telling people about "August/September" which isn't even something Japan has been told about. I'd be floored if they're localizing this release at all, even moreso if it's actually Marvelous' Western branches doing it and not outsourced to a rando company. The announcement of N was only for iOS and Android so them mentioning consoles is weird itself.
>>739390846>>739390649>>739390554Hopefully the Sitch 2 becomes a console they'll suffer with, as unlikely as that is with the amount of sycophants now.
>>739390846Reminder this shit got an XBOX PORT and the UNCENSORED CG IS ONE OF THE STORE IMAGEShttps://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/kamikaze-lassplanes/9N9NBL49PS43Yes, of all 4 platforms I think it's clear Nintendo hates ecchi the most now. Consequently they are the dominant entity in Japan and you HAVE to be on their platform to be able to even breathe as a Japanese game. We are so fucking FUCKED!
>>739390152This pic is likely fake.
>>739379215Bad story. Good music.Ok gameplay. Open world is boring.
>>739379461You are not getting a "tonned down" Senran Kagura. In fact, you're not getting anything at all.
>>739391184>I'd be floored if they're localizing this release at allI'd be floored if they weren't. Only gacha can really get away with not having global releases now. Gone are the Vita days where the Japanese domestic market could be self-sustaining.
>>739391373Xbox would be the same, if they could afford to.
>>739381559Titanic Scion has the player in a customized suit instead of a full Armored Core style mech. Functionally it's honestly not much different. I guess they did it so it'd be easier to do story stuff in the hub (since you or the NPCs can just be without a helmet or whatever) but it definitely looks a little odd. A lot of the old Strai bosses from the first game even come back as wandering zone enemies and they've been scaled down to match. The actual issues with TS are that the story sort of sucks from what I've played and the open world does not really carry the game. It's easily just as jank as DxM 1 but now it's spread over a big mountain desert and your pilot mods are uglier. Also HOLY SHIT THERE'S SO MUCH CRAP TO FARM. WHY.
>>739391184>>739391519Here's the r*ddit posts that lead to it.https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/senran_kagura/comments/1sddx10/what_do_they_actually_mean_by_modernizing_does_it/https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/senran_kagura/comments/1sev55t/o_my_god/https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/senran_kagura/comments/1sfp3vz/they_arent_responding_i_want_to_find_out_if_this/Believe what you want, but to me, this looks like the genuine product of someone reaching out to Marvelous over what was said in that interview. And I don't think it would be farfetched that they'd have information about this, they are a branch of Marvelous after all. It's not like they disclosed anything major in that response, just that it's in planning and that it's going to target Switch and Playstation.
>>739388807Ultimately it comes down to that gacha titles make real money, while niche console titles don't.
>>739391184New Link went on for 7 years since 2017 and there was never any hint of it getting a localization. Marvelous USA or EU never talked about it either, all its mentions in english come from external stuff like the anime, merchandise, or collabs with other gacha games. Then there's the currently running Dolphin Wave which might as well not exist in this part of the world.Marv EU was never in charge of localizing SK either anyways, it was mostly publishing on their part back when they actually wanted to do this stuff and even got exclusives goods like the double faced dakimakura with Kat, Hikage and Renka. Now SK is not even listed in their site.
>>739386341It has more to do with living in smaller houses/apartments than Americans, so physical space is precious compared to an HDD. >>739391980>Gone are the Vita days where the Japanese domestic market could be self-sustaining.It still largely is. Japan's gaming ecosystem is leagues healthier than the West's. AA and indie gaming studios are still very much present in Japan and most of their output is bought by Japanese people or people from the surrounding East Asian and SEA countries. Otaku games are extremely niche in the West and the censorship they face in that region is the result of being a rounding error in the grand scheme for these companies.
xsneed has always hated daemon x machina, sort of like they've always hated senran kagura. actually it'd be harder to find a game xsneed actually DOES like...Falcom made the right call to cut ties with them
>>739392572>make money = greenlight>doesn't make money = "damages the brand">can't make money without platforms letting you in firstThe ultimate Catch-22.
>>739379215>Have a niche mecha game>Mecha fans like it.>Sequel drops the mechas for power suits.>Mecha fans abandon it.Is their fault.
>>739386124I did my part getting Guardians of Azuma. It's really good. I hope it becomes an evergreen seller for them, but they don't really seem to be pushing it much even here.
>>739392795I think those people that did play the first game wouldn't have bought it even if it still had mechs.
>>739379649This games were never very good, the TnA and fanservice was the point. They are idiots if they think this is gonna work
Xseed should release the rest of the Sengan series on GOG make some extra moolah, barely any of them are on there.
>>739383996My understanding of eroge is that 50k sales indicated a massive success and that sales in the 5 - 15k range was relative normal. Is that wrong?
>>739392468I think the basic premise was entertaining>Desert the gestapo, join the rebels and fight the regime out of vengeanceBut then you have shit like Angel and the final boss just going>Im going to solve racism by killing everyone
>Japanese games aren't allowed to be Japanese due to Western influence>Japanese games that try too hard to pander to the West crater because the West doesn't want Japanese games in Western sheep's clothingThis is literally just set up to push Japanese game studios into bankruptcy, like JP otaku need to be spamming the government with this shit on how the Western industry is trying and succeeding at killing Japan.
>>739379215The first Daemon X Machina was only bought and played because mechafags were hungry for a new Armored Core game. After they got it they never should have made another Daemon X Machina. Their fault for refusing to acknowledge their game was an AC6 waiting room title at best.
>>739393325Yeah, but these aren't "eroge", they're full-fledged console releases on proprietary engines with a much bigger budget. Eroge can get away with numbers like that because 90% of it is made in one guy's basement with RPGMaker. The bigger eroge companies like Alicesoft and Eushully struggle just as much if not more than console ecchi otaku companies do. Alicesoft practically dropped off the face of the earth after Evenicle 2 was banned from Steam with Dohna Dohna being their last real title, and other companies like Ninetail have to resort to crowdfunding on Kickstarter to continue making games (which puts them in a tenuous position as Stripe is putting more and more pressure on Kickstarter to ban adult content).
>>739393609They just need to put pressure on Sony and Nintendo to stop censoring and blocking releases. Things would steadily fix themselves from there, but they would have to put aside their mindset that Nintendo is beyond criticism.
>>739393757Goddamn, reading all that makes me realize just how fucked things have gotten the past five years or so. These games aren't really in my wheelhouse, but I can't stand the idea that random moral busy-bodies are preventing people from making a legitimate livelihood.
>>739393434Does it do anything with the reveal at the end of the first game that it all took place on mars and that they then came to earth?
>>739393609We need to be putting pressure on these people as well
>>739383996Never played a Gal Gun game sell me on it, from the outside it didn't seem very interesting
>>739394041Pretty straightforward, Titanic Scion is set on Earth.
>>739379372I guess they didn't realize the problem is their writers being completely braindead since Burst 2 and not necessarily the content the few that still follow this series tune in for. I guess it's stupid to have expectations for ecchi series to do anything but be ecchi, but I truly was expecting more from Senran Kagura.
>>739394041I dont remember that reveal, but TS has the Colossi AI as world bosses and that is pretty much the only reference to the first DxM
>Saves you from globalhomo
>>739393628If you are hungry for a game it's not enough to get 1 every 6 years, there's more than enough room for 2 mech series.
>>739394489Gacha games aren't even real games, glorified slot machines.
>>739379215>listen to a few autistic spergs who are angry that Armored Core 6 finally was a good entry for the series instead of a janky mess with bad controls>turns out it was just a few loud autists>flopskek
Only way how a new senran kagura can be released and not being completely sanitized is being an JP exclusive, nintendo guidelines in the west are way too harsh right now, so harsh that playstation is more laxed guidelines over here
>>739394489That game is tame enough to release on Steam who are uber-cucked on lolis. It's nothing compared to Senran Kagura.
Can I just get Kandagawa Jet Girls 2 please?I never cared about the ninjas but I fucking loved that game man
>>739394449There's a couple references in optional data logs if you really want to go look for them.
>>739394724Game is more tamed compare to tiddy ninja, but nexon clearly gave gabe money because it has shit in it that all ages VNs would absolutely get rejected for
>>739394704>is being an JP exclusiveIt'll get 5k sales at absolute best. Why do you think Japanese companies all make their games for the west now? Japan doesn't support their own otaku game industry unless it's a gacha they can get findommed by.
>>739394724This, Blue Archive is full of cunny but it doesn't let you go beyond that. You can't rip off the Shupogaki twins' clothes in combat. You can't grope the Game Dev squad's budding breasts. You can't feel Mutsuki's butt. Sexy outfits is only part of ecchi games. Embracing and going further, not limiting it to Live2D avatars and going all in on the gameplay side is another part of it and that's the part that gacha never goes to.
>>739394489Blue Archive is what I wish Senran Kagura wasMore than just SoL, it has SOUL, which SK desperately lacks.
>>739394743The dev behind that game was Shade Inc and they shut down a few years ago.A number of their core members came back to form Nanairo Enterprise and made TurretGirls, but that doesn't have any of the quantity of a full game release at all, I'm not sure they're equipped to make a full size game yet.
Only marginally related, but I wanna try the Akiba's Trip games. Should I play the original Playstation versions or the PC versions? Any localization changes or censorship in any of them?
>>739394928>Japan doesn't support their own otaku game industry unless it's a gacha they can get findommed by.And yet we have proof they will. It's called pic-related. If you're an otaku and fan of Japanese games then you should know who this is.
>>739394724Blue Archive actually got rejected by STEAM initially they got through after months of trying. Senran Kagura fails to understand that more is better than less when it comes to clothes, you don't want them wearing skimpy clothes, that leaves nothing interesting to shred and reveal.
>>739395013>You can't grope the Game Dev squad's budding breasts
>>739395034You are brown. You don't have a soul.>>739395135I've seen the Famitsu sales and they don't lie. Do you want to start quoting more examples?
>>739395159>Senran Kagura fails to understand that more is better than less when it comes to clothes, you don't want them wearing skimpy clothes, that leaves nothing interesting to shred and reveal.You've never played a Senran game if you think that's a normal outfit for the girls. Let alone Mirai
Why are people pretending like BA is safe? Yeah you can't grope the characters, just give them headpats, but I feel like some of you are being dishonest here
>>739381701>1. People only bought Armored Core 6 due to being infatuated with Elden Ring and going "I see From logo I buy", not because people genuinely like giant robots. People LOATHES giant robots.>So making Daemon X Machina was an idiotic idea from the start.Nigga you are fucking retarded. Armored Core has been a cult classic for a long time in the mecha genre. Having players from Elden Ring, the Souls Series and Blood Borne explore the Armored Core series was actually a great turn around, letting people delve deeper into where some of From's playstyle and mechanics carried over from one series into another. Also people don't loathe giant robots, many people just can't get into them because of the human factor. Iron Man movies is a great example of this, to showcase the suit and the face. And players have been increasingly asking for more Armored Core. >>739384914Everything in this. Plus I'll tack on more. >the online was shit because the crossplay between consoles and pc took up so much time it crashed because of bad coding>could only play with similar console/pc just so you wouldn't get stuck loading into another person's room or yours>end game was hunting stats and addons, which was abyssmal for certain replay value and the surprise bosses, while welcoming for a challenge, was few and far between>on top of the end game dungeon being shit, they were divided by fucking class colored keycards of bronze, silver and gold>first DxM allowed you to save a room for farming for specific weapons and addons>TS takes that but puts it on the keycards WITH FUCKING LIMITED USES>some of the old weapons that were converted into TS became fucking two handers, making them extremely unusable unless you build around them using the mutant talent skill system >some player favorite weapons never made it back>the bonus costumes you couldn't wear in TS because of mutations tied to skill progression>took nearly 3 MONTHS to patch that problem>the entire boss rotation DLC
All those all-age slop games deserve it.They abandoned their potential PC eroge audience for fast console money and more safe horny appeal. And now censorship overlords are forcing them to censor their kusoge.At ANY point of time they can say fuck you and release games with nipples and sex on PC. But they will not. They will ORZ and censor already censored all-age family friendly ecchi slop for Switch or PS5. Dreaming about selling billions of copies. This is justice.
>>739395135They only played this (and Bunny Garden, none of the other Qureate games are that successful) because of Vtubers, nu otaku are brainless cattle who need Vtubers to lead them around in the scant few seconds they're not grinding dailies. Vtubers can only carry a select few games and 80% of the time it's some Western indie.
>>739393757It’s a rerelease anon it probably didn’t cost that much
>>739395196>you are [imaginary schizo babble]Senran Kagura hasn't had a good game since Burst 2. That's why it's dead, it lost it's soul.
>>739379215I liked the demo just fine but no fucking way I pay full price for it
>>739395034>SOUL>saying that after V1C
>>739386898This, pretty much. TS actually feels weightier despite being downscaled, anyone who says it controls worse is a casual who'd also get filtered by AC proper (not 6).The open world is shite though, that part is hard to argue. It's no XBX.
>>739395196>I've seen the Famitsu sales and they don't lieNeither do the actual sales, and you didn't seem to recognize her. How odd? Almost like you don't know about anything that IS Japanese exclusive.
>>739395429V1 is incredibly soulful though, from beginning to end
>>739395284Because of WESTERN Vtubers you mean.If they watched VTubers in general then they'd have seen Pekora among other big JP channels play this.
>>739395135Based as fuck AcaciaBVLLI'm on my hands and knees they save DRPGs like they did VNs
>>739395284>VTibers ahhhh so THAT'S why I didn't recognize it
>>739384989>Players enjoy giant robots when they act more like temporary power-ups.oh is that why titan fall is a successful series? and armored core isnt?
>>739395034BA got more budget put into it than all the SK franchise, you need money to support all that "soul".
>>739379215>Release a game with literally no marketing>Wonder why it fails
>>739395545Same here brother. I wonder what kind of dungeon design ideology they have.
>>739394928So It's basically fucked then? They're gonna make something both the western and japanese fanbase are gonna be upset at
>>739395135>considered reading this for the art and the yuri>don't even need the translation because I can read moon>but it being a ron paul clone absolutely kills all my interestA shame.
>>739379649Don't you dare "current era" SK, you slimy kikes
I played the first DxM and that is why I did not play the second one.
>>739395730In terms of trials sure but it takes itself much more seriously and pushes more towards drama and tragedy than the comedy aspects of ron paul.Here the comedy is more for brief moments of levity and when it's time to take things seriously they take it seriously.
>>739395476You think this will magically transfer to a new Senran Kagura game?I have sales numbers from Senran's actual peers from back in the day like Compile Heart and Gal*Gun and LoveR/Reco Love. All point to a sharp decline in sales after the Vita died. Even a fucking big name like Dead or Alive barely broke 10k with its latest console release.I don't know why we're even talking as if being JP-only would help Senran Kagura avoid censorship. Console platform policies are global and both Sony and Nintendo have censored games that released only in Japan/Asia before. Just ask Tokyo Clanpool how much an Asia-only Switch release helped them.>>739395727Which is why I'm saying if they can't find a way to get at least 3DS game (Burst and Deep Crimson)-level fanservice, they may as well just cancel the project.
>>739395878Well I don't want them to take it seriously, the whole concept is just a turn-off.
>>739395916>You think this will magically transfer to a new Senran Kagura game?Not directly. It's however showing that you absolutely CAN go Japan only and sell more than well enough if you can get your appeal right.
>>739395961>if you can get your appeal right.And these games clearly aren't appealing to the Japanese any more because they aren't buying them.
>>739395629Senran Kagura costs a lot more to make though. And it's not by pandering to a global audience wanting to chase money that they will achieve that "soul" either. BA has SOUL, ecchi, pandering, a good story and SoL events, the SOUL is the sum of parts after all. Senran Kagura leans too hard into just the ecchi factor nowadays, it narrows itself considerably as a result, it's known as a series that offers nothing but ecchi in a market where this is already commonplace, where series that offer nothing more than that die out because it's not enough to keep a series going.Only way I see it making a bigger name for itself is having an actual narrative that's engaging. Even porn games get good word of mouth when the story and characters are worth giving a shit about.
>>739395938That's unfortunate but to each their own.
>>739395743You know when It's going to censored you are gonna have the most annoying zoomers calling you a stupid chud and claim the sexiness was never part of the appeal of senran kagura
>>739395272You are right and the smart developers will move to PC while the dinosaurs will go extinct on cucksole. If only something was done about the CC problem then this process could be sped along.
>>739379215Titanic Scion is great. Marvelous needs a demo out so people can give it a go.
>>739396163It has had a demo since before release.
Does the DLC let you fight the one-and-a-half members of Trinity the base game killed off for you?
>>739396036But is that genuinely true? The reason they can't sell these games isn't because of that, it's because they're being blocked and forced out by external factors. All it takes is someone telling those faggots in the west to fuck themselves. No kindness, no "maybe we can get along," insult them like they insult the Japanese games industry(and trust me when I say there are many ways that will dig deep into the western industry's psyche that will truly hurt them) that person will be a pariah to the western games industry(and overall western entertainment industry to give a small hint) but a symbol to the smaller JP devs that want true freedom.
>>739396036I guess you need it spoonfed, Manosaba sold 500k units in Japan >>739395476 and it is not a gacha or a mobile game. The Switch version isn't even out either (PC exclusive), and there is no localization. Normal games can still sell in Japan.
>>739379215They abandoned the Mechs from the original game (no the super mode doesn't count)for a game 10 times more jank then the first and charged $70 for it, so it's not a huge shock. I enjoy it to an extent, but I bought for like 7 dollars off a key site so I didn't have massive expectations for it. The Mechs being turned into super modes was the lamest shit imaginable.
>>739396119sinisistar 2 is solid.hentai/eroge with real gameplay is a low hanging fruit-- massively underrepresented.
>>739379215I actually like the game, but I'm not hooked on it. I play it on and off.
>>739396248Im more upset about not letting us shot the betrayer cunt
>>739396256These niggers only have themselves to blame for sticking to SONY desu, they should put the HD motion from the Switch back into practice for their next games.
>>739395916I don't disagree, I just don't see how it's possible with how cucked platform holders are being right now, maybe make it a playstation for JP and US markets? Playstation as of right now seem to be ok with something as tame as burst unlike nintendo where if you want to release it in the west they'll force you to make "changes" so it can release on their english eshop
>>739396379hentai games with gameplay are great, even the lowest budget 2D sidescroller hentai games tend to be fun
>>739394206It's a hybrid rail shooter/VN dating sim. You use pheromones to "shoot" at a crowd of swooning suitors to give them "euphoria". Each girl has a spot she's weak in where a pheromone shot will (usually) one-shot her, except for the teachers who are sorta minibosses and may take more. Your "smart bombs" are the Doki Doki gauge which fills as you go. When it's full, you can point at and enter Doki Doki Mode with a girl, during which you shoot her up with a ton of pheromones in a short minigame, after which she will explode and take out all other targets on the screen. Your goal is to get your feelings through to one of several main girls. To do this, you play a VN section where you choose responses to raise her affection. Your responses are dependent on your stats which are raised or lowered depending on what girls you use Doki Doki Mode on during the shooting sections. Each girl favors different types of responses, so you must prioritize girls with DDM which raise that stat.Later games add more mechanics like a vacuum to suck girls' clothes off, but this more or less the gist since the first game (available on Switch and PC as Gal*Gun Returns).
>>739396283You're ruining his blackpill anti jp narrative
>>739396248You can fight the mom in a (previously time-limited event) fight through the sim console. Not a particularly exciting fight.
>>739395272>>739396119>all agesoh the schizo arrived
>>739396489with the increasing amount of "Leftover Men" (esp. american and chinese) these games will be a financial goldmine.
>>739379461it happened in 2014, because everyone caught on to just how incestuous and audience-hating the entire game industry is.
>>739396439That would work if people on Playstation or Steam bought their games. They don't. That's why they had to cuck out to tendies.
>>739384862>the major problem is that they think they have to change or alter things to suit Western tastesYeah, I don't understand the point of this. Yakuza is a great example where Yokoyama outright said they weren't going to make changes to accommodate for westerners since the fact it's Japanese is its selling point, but then he goes and starts censoring content like crazy, he's admitted to internally considering western sensibilities and changing content to suit it, adding western e-celebs, and adding western D-list celebrities into the games while also setting a game in Hawaii.Sony in particular is a fantastic example of cutting your nose to spite your face. Why in the world would you try to standardize controls across all regions when the Japanese have spent your entire console lifespan with O = accept, X = cancel? It would be like forcing that on us in the west who have grown up with the opposite outside of very few games.
if marvelous is desperate for money i wonder if they'll start milking no more heroes again.
>>739396651There aren't significant sales differences between Playstation and Switch versions for these games. There's just no audience for them in Japan any more.
>>739379215They already attempted a sanitized version of Senran Kagura with that SenranxNep game.How did that go again?
>>739396739Did NMH even sell? Didn't see a lot of people talking about the third one
>>739396651It's extremely fucked that blanc backstabbed us and is the reason why the newest neptunia is CERO B...so compile heart can release it on the english eshop, fuck furukawa and people defending him
>>739396516>Ruining blackpills with this beautiful smileSasuga Sherry-chan
>>739393434I haven't gotten that far. Once the game opens up and let's you move around the world it isnt terrible but the tutorial mission where you break out is legitimately one of the worst I've ever played and left a terrible first impression. I only got past it because I liked the first game. Thankfully the stuff after that is a lot more fun. I'm especially happy that they improved the feel of running (even if flying is kinda just better) and there's enough whacky autism in the gameplay, like horeriding, that I find the moment to moment stuff engaging.
>>739396163This game doesn't seem as stylish as the first.
>>739396651It's because Tendies aren't third world niggers with a tower sized paperweight, they have games, they have an audience, your average PC guy isn't going to buy these sort of games, it's super niche. Your average Jap owns a Switch and will absolutely buy the ecchi games they used to own on the PSVita.
>>739393061>This games were never very goodSecondary or non-player? Call it.Senran Kagura 2 Deep Crimson on the 3DS was legitimately a good game, the series early days had Takaki focused on delivering something he actually believed in that just so happened to come packed with tits and ass, it was after Shinovi Versus (or arguably starting with it) that the ambition was clearly not there anymore when Marvelous, and perhaps Takaki too, came to think the boobs could carry the series by itself since Deep Crimson was nowhere near as well recieved as Shinovi Versus, so there's no need to take any of it seriously, just make the series more standard 3D action similar to Musous and make the narrative less serious, let the tits and ass speak for themselves, well that worked for a while, until it didn't and Sony went full force against sexualization but Marvelous and Takaki refused to abandon ship so conforming to Sony's new policies were their choice, leaving the series to lay on mobiles instead.
>>739396614Sit down newfriend. Read your first ADV.
>>739396989Cool, but shitendo wants to be the next disney so that means these games are absolutely cucked now, so It's a lose-lose situation
>>739396757>There aren't significant sales differences between Playstation and Switch versions for these games. There's just no audience for them in Japan any more.There clearly are if these companies are willing to cuck themselves and kneel to 'tendo rather than staying on PC and Playstation consoles. I'd argue that Switch gives access to even more Japanese audiences because there's that much bigger of an installbase. Even successful Japanese games like Witch Trials sold 500k on Steam with just JP/CN language support. It's also coming to just Switch with no Playstation port in sight.>>739396849Why put the blame on tendies? It's not their fault Playstation users didn't buy CH games to keep it pure and uncensored on Sony platforms.
>>739397102Nintendo isn't Miyamoto. Nobody takes Miyamoto seriously he's a castrated cuck and, thankfully, he's only latching onto Star Fox and Mario.
>>739397152Sakurai is the current golden goose.they will gut him for those golden eggs soon enough.
>>739397143I'd say part of the issue was the Nep games on the Switch were laughably badly optimized there, they put no effort whatsoever porting them and shot themselves for it. Even outside of /v/ everyone mocked how much of a rushed cashgrab these were.
>Why put the blame on tendies?Why are you ignoring the fact that they are censoring 3rd party games?
>>739379215This game is actually really fun it is baffling to me that people are so weird about the power suits, you can’t even hardly tell how big your mech is in AC6 because you’re barely around anything for scale and fast as fuck
Senran Kagura was always overrated kusoge >ecchi>no even nipple bumps
>>739397270Yeah, it's stupid. In Titanic Scion itself you can't tell they're not mechs aside from cutscenes where a character takes the helmet off.
>>739397235Sakurai is the golden goose but even as much as he complains he's still forced to bend the knee to censorship to pass through CERO's rating system. He had to censor Pyra and Mythra, much to his disdain.
>>739397245That's the main reason why most ports fail, any platform, honestly. Tales of Arise just released on Switch 2 and it's a shitjob like every other Bandai Namco port.
>>739379215Why do Senranfags keep acting like Senran was Marvelous' cash cow instead of SoS and RF, which are both doing well?
>>739397143Who the fuck is talking about nintendo fans? I'm blaming all this shit on the the people running nintendo for fucking us niche JP game fans over
>>739390152>Current>Global>Market>StandardsDon't talk about this piece of shit when it gets announcedDon't bring it up in Senran threads when this piece of shit gets announcedDon't even make threads about this piece of shit when it inevitably gets announcedIt's fucking over. Sell all of your Senran stocks and buy whatever merch you want before they take them off the shelves and incinerate them for being a product of their time. It's genuinely and definitively fucking over.At best, it'll be like that new Neptunia game that got announced, and that's "best" with quotation marks in the double digits.
I miss my waifus
>>739397047that post doesn't show what you want it too
Man, I hope all fucking jews, feminists and japanese corpocucks die so I can get ecchi games and anime back again. I didn't feel so much pure and honest hatred since last localizer thread over here.>>739394658Anon, the sequel flopped because it didn't just not improve and optimize. They replaced mecha with faggot suits and now some contrarians think the latter can stand side by side with the former when it's not just the same.In fact, I'll say power suits are the trannies of the mecha genre. Think about it, they imitate giant robots but they will never mecha.>>739396989I just don't know what's wrong with Takaki. I know they have to make business and money to bring food to the table but then I see chinks and gooks being ok with fanservice. Surprising to day this as chinks get censored due to communism (and some chink feminists from time to time) and gooks with their feminazis and their feminist cults.I guess gacha games can be safe sometimes because jews see them as opportunities to make shekels out of "gambling" mechanics while pushing over censorship worldwide. And yes, I'll use quote marks because of some legal autism involved with that business method I don't want to get involved over here. Death to all jews, I guess.
I guess the famitsu posters are entering the thread, you know the ones who claim hundred line censorship on the switch happened was because kodaka is a playstation fanboy....
>>739397534>Senran stocks
>>739397258Too afraid to quote me? My question is why are third-parties even dealing with a censorship happy company like Nintendo when they could be releasing stuff on PC/Playstation only? Why are they catering to Nintendo? They don't HAVE to release on Nintendo platforms you know. Unless....sales on other platforms were fucking abysmal and those people don't buy games?>>739397440Okay, so why do these companies have to cater to Nintendo management? They don't have to release their games on the Switch. Next time buy their games on PS4/PS5.
>>739397408>>739379649lol
>>739397579Kikes have nothing to do with eastern gacha gamesAnd there is no reason to shit on power suits because of a few retards
The next Senran game should try to actually have good gameplay. Throw co-op on that shit with big raid bosses like Granblue Fantasy Relink and I'm sure that it'll be popular
>>739397270Because the iron man suit isn't as fun as a giant robot. They had an opportunity to do something like making on foot gameplay actually fun and necessary in some areas (the first games on-foot gameplay was literal and only needed in I think one mission?), with the Mechs being turned into big vehicles for traversing the maps and for fighting bigger enemies (like the bosses they put in from the first game). Instead they went the Iron Man route and it's just kind of disappointing. Plus you would get an actual feel for the scale of the Mechs in the world if you could hop out and do some things on foot.Hell you don't even really need to give the player a mech right away either, make them play for awhile before they can get one.
>>739397738>They don't have to release their games on the Switch. I wish they wouldn't your platform is cucked as fuck now
>>739396834The PS and Xbox ports of NMH3 bombed, probably because the older games weren't readily available on those platforms. Now that they rode out every exclusivity deal they could and all the games are on PC, maybe they'll go back and do PS and Xbox ports of NMH1+2.
Because there was a time period before 2023 where nintendo wasn't censoring the third party games so people who wanted uncensored ecchi games shifted over to the switch but know they are censoring even more than Sony's 2018 censor policy for whatever reason.
Sounds like they need to make even more shitty farming sims.
>normalfag fantasy safelink
>>739397865>Because the iron man suit isn't as fun as a giant robotYou cannot even tell the difference between the game and AC because the scale of you vs the enemies is the same is my point, it makes no actual difference to how it controls and plays.
>>739397850>less fanservice than a Hoyo gachaI'm I supposed to be impressed?
Nintendo fanboys in the thread getting defensive so god damn funny man, you don't have to enter this thread where your toy is getting rightfully criticize, you can just go to other threads and clap at the shitty first party games the SW2 has been offering
>>739397934all three console makers and valve are now roughly equally puritan, deathly afraid of violating child porn laws, and all want to censor any ecchi games that come their way. some slip through the cracks because of different judges working that day. sometimes it seems like there's a winning streak for a few months of one company being less jewish than the rest. but in the end they're all the same, they have no significant difference in values. some people need to get with the program and stop schizoposting that any one of them is primarily holding back games. it's all of them. yes, it was sony "first" like a decade ago, but it's redundant now.
>>739396119Once will deal with Mary and co on Steam, payment processors and UN troon censorship mafie the golden age will come.
>>739395040Thanks for letting me know anon, its a budget title so no issue with it not being full, seems its still getting updated.Gonna buy at full price
>>739398117It's not a gacha silly head! It's a real game :)I'd like if Senran had fanservice AND good gameplay!
>>739386990>if you had to chose which one would you pick?the second one, but here's what will happen>Censored Senran Kagura, no up-skirts, no bikini with mind numbingly basic ass gameplaylike the next Neptunia
>>739397901just buy it on ps5 bwo
>>739390152>Maybe they could get away with a 3DS-level fanservice game on Playstation now,Zero chances, you actually have to pay attention to what kind of sexualization Sony is sort of allowing again these days: characters who look mature to a certain extent and in which fanservice is mostly a visual treat, not something that defines most of the gameplay.How Sony championed Stellar Blade is a good example of what they can let it slide, Eve is extremely sexualized but she looks like a grown woman, and the fanservice is just a visual treat for the player, the game itself is actually serious in its narrative, zero sexual gags.Meanwhile Senran is filled with high-school girls and sexual gags are deeply integrated in its narrative, Sony letting that slide is tough call.
>>739398151>all three console makers and valve are now roughly equally puritan.And this is why gachas are taking over
>>739397838Look little jew boy. If I was part of a porn industry owning tribe I would push censorship in anime and hentai so coomers/gooners, or whatever term reddit zoomers use now, come over to spend their shekels in some blacked porn channel or onlyfans suscription. I would as a hypothetical jew crush any sort of competition to maximize any profits, and it's not just some cohencidence jews are the ones pushing censorship since blackrock and other companies decided to cohencidely invest stocks in japanese companies while tighting up payment processor policies in recent years. You remember DEI and VISA/Mastercard threads? You don't because you are a fucking lying jew shit.
>>739398214That's a mod
>>739397579Chinks are not okay with fanservice, they just go under the radar, several gachas got censored because of feminazis on their countries reporting games to the CCP
>>739398353Why do you keep ignoring the part about gameplay?
>>739398285 (me)And to continue the idea just in case even if I repeat myself, I would as a hypothetical jew allow fanservice on mobile gacha game because I know people will flock to them and spend their money, with some portions coming over to my jewish payment processors, taxes and app store fees.
>>739398143Who are you even talking to?
>>739381559You now use Power Armor,the game is fucking OPEN WORLD. There is crap like crafting and MINING. You have to mine crystals or metal ores! 50% of your time will be spent jumping around empty space because you have to fucking WALK to the mission area. Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
>>739398285>come over to spend their shekels in some blacked porn channel or onlyfans suscriptionBut if you ban 3DPD porn because of jews...how can I get references for learning and drawing anime porn and hentai? Or how can I draw anime porn and hentai without getting fucked in the prison like in South Korea?
>>739398372They can escape censorship sometimes if devs/owners/investors have their hands in gacha dev companies. In chinkland you can get away with shit as long you have connections.Oh, I remember True China (Taiwan) too. They are ok.
>>739398235Playstation literally allowed Rebirth Trilogy 1-3 on their platform recently while nintendo rejected them, they aren't the free platform they used to be for sure, but they've clearly eased up since the new president took over
>>7393979342023 you say?
>>739381823Why not both.png
>>739397739Project N is the only thing in the horizon and it's a mobile game whereas RF6 is in development
i didnt even know it existed. i wouldnt have bought it anyway.
More than 300 posts in less than 7 hours, wow. A relevant thread about qureate reached the bump limit, this may reach the bump limit later today. They can save themselves if they give us more Ikaruga fan service...I'm kidding of course and obviously they won't do it but anyway.
>>739398663I hate nintendo, but they literally was ok with regardless as long as it was rated by the rating boards until after mugen souls Z released, then that when they went into brand protective mode and got worse and worse since the SW2 launched, even safe horny games aren't allowed on the western eshop anymore (Bunny Garden)
>>739398492Make it NTR blacked like you'll be unironically protected by kikes, some henious shit going on worldwide. Look at Hollywood.
>tfw just bought Titanic Scion for $2Hopefully I can make a cute girl and fight against big mechs in a suit
>>739397850>The next Senran game should try to actually have good gameplay>posts a dumbed down action game so gacha players could enjoy itYou could've posted DMC or NG you know?
>>739398815right feet is inverted
>>739398950Because they'd never achieve that level of depth, especially with multiple playable characters. Try to be realistic. Granblue was pretty great for what it was, having like 19 different characters.
>>739398964It's official art as you probably know.
It will always be funny how concerned devs are with self censoring then Konami just quietly released anime titty dressup pantyshot simulator and got a teen rating.
>>739398850>they went into brand protective modeAnd I posted why the muh brand bullshit is happening because Japan's FSA is forcing ESG on their public companies to make them more attractive and safe for western investors to invest. Notice how Nintendo went full cuck after this >>739398663 was announced.
>>739399021No, it was dumbed down shit so gachafags could actually play it. It's more dumbed down than Oneechanbara
>>739399056To be fair, Edens Zero is rated 16+ throughout Europe, so, it's on par with Senran Kagura: Estival Versus in that sense.
>>739399102Dumbed down from what? It was always intended to be the way it was. Certain characters absolutely have more depth than Onneechanbara, don't be a niggy
I have no idea wtf they were thinking with that sequel. I liked the first game, I used to sloppy mecha games and I was happy to get a poor AC copy.Then the sequel is shitty and censored powersuit slop with open world. Fuck off.
>>739398851>Make it NTR blackedBut what if I just love RAPE and black dude feat anything white is peak rapecore. Similar to Orc x elf. Is it still blacked? Feels like classy animalistic "beauty and beast", "rich and poor", "weak and strong". The different skin color always hit all those vibes.
>>739399056Yeah it launched outside of the Famitsu top 30 (a reoccurring phrase in this thread) and the only pulse it had anywhere was Hermit shill anon making those screenshots
>>739390846this is completely psychotic. literally a war on art styles because lolicons triggered them to an insane degree
>>739381701>People LOATHES giant robotsAC has been a classic series, gundam still has fans, and mechwarrior 5+battletech both have amazing modding scenes.
>>739399098Fucking TPC and Pokemon games having "IT'S MA'AM" designs and ESG nigger faggotry support in their websites.
>>739399056OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH EROTIC
>>739398562The Rebirth Trilogy was rejected because it was a dogshit port, why do we keep ignoring the fact that these sloppy ports were released on the JP side and everyone saw how much of a terrible job they did porting it to the Switch? I wouldn't allow such a sloppy product either to make it to the global market, have some standards.
>>739399175Don't compare niggers to orcbros like some lefty.
>>739382895Powersuits are not cooler because they lack the scale.
>>739399164>dumbed down from whatNow who's playing dumb? From lower budget action games obviously. You think that dumbed down gachaslop is better than Senran? Really? Or are you just a gacha addict obsessed with MUH RAIDS and defending it simply because it's part of your favorite gacha IP?
I am not giving the famitsu freak a serious reply
>>739381701fucking retard with awful anime tastes. Elden Ring had no effect on Armored Core sales, it sold well because it's a great mecha game but the regular Elden Ring fan doesn't even care about Fromsoft, they like Elden Ring specifically and wouldn't buy a guy that's not specifically knight guy roll slop in an open world.Also, DxM 2 literally doesn't have "giant robots" and it's the reason why it crashed and burned.
>>739399375Powersuits may work as some part of equipment mechanic in other genres or to make some cultural references. But never as games about them like DxM Titanic Scion.
>>739399362All rape. In normal setting you don't have orcs. So dark color is natural. Green people don't exist. If it's brown tomboy all enjoyers should be white not dark.
>>739399359Dude, Nintendo has allowed a lot of games with AI ''art'' on the eShop and we also have the software published by West Connection Limited, for the most part the platform holders don't care about qualitiy as long as the game can run AT ALL. Also, the Switch versions of the Rebirth games briefly had eShop pages in the west and then were removed, that's another thing worth mentioning.
>>739398285You're a fucking idiot, the post is saying kikes aren't running the eastern gacha games and if anything they do try to fuck with them as they are the reason that DMM/Fanza is region locked to JP only.Learn to read
>>739399056Sadly videogame age ratings play a big factor in how well games perform.
>>739398181that is the sad part, if Mary simply didn't exist things would likely improve a ton, majority of western otakus use steam as their primary platform. japanese creators would probably be much more well off. still it seems like there's nothing to be done when it comes to removing her/improving steam culture in general
>SK is teasing "le new generation" shit>talks marvelous trying to make SK globalflop incoming
>>739399359lol
>>739399491Well to me I don't care for them because powerscaling. It feels contrived that powersuits are the only way to fight when its shit that's barely above human size. At least proper mechs mount giant weaponry.
>>739399537Your Elden Ring and resident evil bro?
>>739399386You seem unhinged
>>739399583Kinda funny because the Western videogame ratings don't really care much for sexuality, it's usually CERO in Japan that acts like a bitch over it.
>>739399749ESRB is extremely chill yeah, It's just unfortunate with all the platform holder garbage going and payment processor stuff isn't helping the situation for sure
>>739399749Yeah, Neptunia Riders was CERO C in Japan due to some revealing race queen outfits but in the US it got rated E10+, and there's still even panty shots in the game
>>739399749You are kidding right? You can't show a titty without being locked into a hard M. Anything even barely sexual gets an Adult Only and pulled off store shelves. See hot coffee.
I'm like the exact focus-group audience for Titanic Scion because I love power armor even more than I love giant mechs, and I generally enjoy open world games more than mission-based ones, and I just could not be bothered to stick with it for longer than three hours. Has all the classic "modern audience" problems; everything about it feels so sanded-down and afraid of letting you enjoy the game on your own terms. Ten million tutorials, NPCs that constantly follow you and talk your ear off, objective markers constantly leading you by the nose. Then I got my first piece of equipment and saw that this was a "3% Chance to Do Whatever" game and I gave up. Combat was not nearly good enough to justify putting up with any of the rest of the game.
Titanic Scion wanted to be a mech game but also wanted to be metal gear rising.And the bosses did end up being way cooler than if they had just made everything big mech fights again. It's a lot harder to justify a mech riding a robot horse instead of just having a samurai in power armor riding a robot horse.
>>739399526Anon, they have some stocks in some chink companies. Look at Mihoyo/MICA for example. One became ESG faggotry incorporated and the other had some UN event out of nowhere before/during release of their sequel which just so happens to be allowed to have some fanservice even under the eyes of chink censors.What if instead of me learning how to read some retarded cherrypicking post by some faggot anon you learn how to read the situation so when shit hits the fan you don't get surprised like a retard and you may possibly use your brain to have some insight so people don't spell everything for you. Choke on a dick if you feel so offended for your tribe, I know you would be glad to do so.
>>739399898BG3?
>>739399957>mihoyo>esgokay, you're just a bad actor
>>739379215Good. I wanted mechs not gay iron man suits. Others and I said this at a gameplay showcases and was the designs and tone was for "western audiences"
>>739399915>talk your ear offCan be turned off completely from the first minute.>3% Chance to Do WhateverMaybe if you mean the attachments that can be swapped out freely, but otherwise definitely not. Even the attachments ended up growing on me because it felt like I could finally do part tuning again instead of spending fucking skillpoints like in 4th gen AC.
>>739399970It's safehorny for faggots and furries. Sex will be ok and approved for mass consumption as long it's not directed to straight males.Reason why ecchi is being suppressed and why we have goblinas in western vidya and media.>>739400021And now you outed yourself as a SEAniggee mihoyoshill. kek
Inti had to remove the girl with big boobs from the eshop cover of card en ciel so they can release the switch 2 edition on the western eshop, that's just how fucked nintendo is right now
>>739399898The ESRB pretty much allows anything that isn't outright porn, including stuff like Gahkthun which is a typical eroge just without genitals in the CGs to get an ESRB-M, at least over the past 15 years or so. Most standard anime fanservice provided there isn't nudity get a T-rating, and if it didn't its still a moot point as nearly no one gives a fuck if something has a T or M.
>>739400256No it's there. I own it on both switch 1 and 2
>>739398181We must alao abolish Japanese censorship laws. Fantia was pressured to only allow full black-outs or blur two days ago.
>you're a shill because you won't let me spout my fud
>>739400256Haha...
>>739400297Isn't Fantia still using Mastercard/Visa?
>>739400348She's on the home icon
>>739399898>Anything even barely sexual gets an Adult Only and pulled off store shelves. That isn't remotely true, nearly nothing that has been submitted to the ESRB has gotten an ESRB AO, and the last title to do so was Conan Exiles in 2018.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AO-rated_video_games
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>>739400348Inti creates probably have connections, but would they be able to get something like a gal gun 3 released onto our eshop? I'm leaning more towards of doubt
>>739400256The fact that Death Match Love Comedy (ESRB-T) was only allowed to release on the Switch in the West as an European physical Switch release since NoA blocked both the NA and EU digital switch releases is also a disgrace.
>>739397738>My question is why are third-parties even dealing with a censorship happy company like Nintendo when they could be releasing stuff on PC/Playstation onlyI've already said it in this thread and I'll say it again; because multiplat is the industry meta and companies don't want to make exclusives any more, they want their games on all major platforms simultaneously for maximum sales. Back when Playstation was the primary censorship platform, you still saw most Japanese companies self-censoring for them after 2020, with only a very small handful willing to skip Playstation to release ecchi games on only Switch/PC (qureate, Eastasiasoft, Inti Creates for a time). Most companies either self-censored fanservice out of their games (e.g., Compile Heart) or stopped making otaku games completely. Bullet Girls, Omega Labyrinth, Dungeon Travelers, Genkai Tokki, etc. all dropped off the face of the earth after Sony started censoring outside of ports.The same pattern is repeating here, just with Nintendo as the primary censorship platform instead. The root cause remains the same; companies do not consider their creative visions or fan desires worth skipping a major platform for, nor are they willing to ship a specific version for the cucked platform(s). If it were still Playstation the situation would just be the same as it's been since 2020 because very few companies are willing to skip a major platform to release an uncensored game any more. It's not because of sales on Nintendo consoles being significantly better than other platforms (they aren't), it's because to these companies and their shareholders, every platform they don't ship on is simply that many less potential sales. Like Compile Heart could absolutely just ship a cucked version of Neptunia Unlimited to Nintendo if they wanted to, but they're too cheap and lazy to do it.
>>739380204you can do exosuits but for it to sell you have to make it mecha musume nowadayspretty dumb from their part. imagine getting mogged by dolls nest
>>739400557Dispatch of all things ran into all kinds of issues on the Switch despite how much it sold (the art book needed to censor the eShop page and the uncut release of the game was blocked).
>>739400416It does, but the announcement is vague enough and mentions prosecutions due to insufficient censorship. And that malicious incompliance may be reported. So could as well be an internal issue.Besides, they already accept toracoin.
>>739399915>huge mecha fan plays genre for first timeThe game barely explains shit and every equip has a gorillion numbers because it’s a mecha game
>>739395256nigger kysnon of the fromdrones care about Armored Cuck, 99% of the bandwagon fags who bought this trash thinking it's ''souls but with robots!!!'' never played any other AC title in their lives
>>739399898>You can't show a titty without being locked into a hard M.Is that an ESRB unique thing? I'm guessing uncensored tits would in nearly all cases get you a CERO-Blocked, ESRB-M, and PEGI-16/18.
>>739399452>Elden Ring had no effect on Armored Core sales, it sold well because it's a great mecha gamenah this isn't even a bait, you must be a faggot with autism or some other mental illness
>>739400297Abolishing Japanese mosaic laws wouldn't really help these games because what's fucking them over is the platforms they rely on for distribution being controlled by companies that have become overly twitchy about their "brand image". And a large part of the reason they're that way is because the cultural consensus that has emerged on normie social media sites like Twitter is that Japan is a pedo Epstein rape island and otakus are predators. Dunking on lolicons on Twitter has been an easy path to getting 100k+ likes for years now. Dealing with this would either require laws insulating marketplaces from "brand protection" bullshit, or to somehow forcibly silence all the people calling anime fans and otakus pedophile misogynist rapists because the companies believe they are just acting in the will of the majority voice here.
>>739395256>on top of the end game dungeon being shit, they were divided by fucking class colored keycards of bronze, silver and gold>first DxM allowed you to save a room for farming for specific weapons and addons>TS takes that but puts it on the keycards WITH FUCKING LIMITED USESWhy the fuck is this thread filled with people who just blatantly are pretending to have played the game? You get almost every piece of equipment by fighting a story or event boss in the simulator, keycard dungeons only had augments and a tiny handful of exclusive equips
>>739384716good, anti-censorship fags deserve to get mocked and humiliated
>>739385184Naw, Wilds fucking blows and the audience reaction would be just as tepid if it ran smoothly.
>>739400616>Compile Heart could absolutely just ship a cucked version of Neptunia Unlimited to Nintendo if they wanted to, but they're too cheap and lazy to do it.I think It's more to do with not having balls, they wouldn't want to upset their master despite their master throwing them under a bus with the Rebirth Trilogy and Code Z releases being canned and blocking the swimsuits for nep rider (which probably affected sales on the platform too)
>>739400348>>739400484While I hate the faggy stance Nintendo of america has taken. The games page isn’t changed anywhere but the us. https://store-jp.nintendo.com/item/software/D70010000106165
>>739400895They had exclusive equips? I did only maybe 2 of them (in ~130h) and stopped, because the fucking keys never drop anywhere, and when they do they're usually not even purple which is a waste of time.
>>739379215>Outlook>In the Digital Content Business, the Company plans to release two new console game titles and one new title in an online game series, in addition to multiple titles from its domestic and overseas subsidiaries. >Net sales are expected to decrease due to a decline in the number of core new titles in the Digital Content Business. However, in terms of profit, the Company aims to achieve an increase in operating profit for the full year by improving profitability through the restructuring of development and operation frameworks in this business, as well as enhancing overall earnings capacity. The two games would be Rune Factory 6 and ???Is it this? >>739379649 Maybe we get an announcement soon??Is the "online game" how they call a gacha like Project N?
>>739400996I'm aware, I just think it represents nintendo with the new direction they're taking in general (Which is dogshit)
>>739400740>The game barely explains shitDude I wish it had this problem
Reminder, ten years ago we didn't have to deal with this faggotry
>>739401040They weren't actually exclusive since there were some statues in the open world that had the gear with fixed stats but you could get better versions with the semi-random stats in the keycard dungeons. It was I think a sniper, a shoulder cannon, and maybe a laser cannon or something the single shot cannon was ok I think but memory intensive
>>739401273We did, just in more subtle ways.
>>739401273Snoy was 10 years ago, anon
AAAAAAAAAAEIIIIIIII JAPAN IS UNDER ATTACK ALERT THE YOUTUBERS-LMAO
>>739381475First one was Armored Core when Armored Core had been dead for a while so it essentially had an install fanbase.
>>739401273We need Obama back. Ecchi's golden years.
>>739401461Soisis....
>>739401501Obama was unironically one of the global niggers who started the agenda push into japan
>>739395256who is this
>>739400895Plus, the keycards weren't limited use. You could use one as much as you wanted. The blank key cards were for copying cards from other players, since you could share your favorite.
We have another anti-japan schizo
>>739401424Sony didn't start being weird until 2018>>739401408I take treehouse typical faggotry and calling highschool academy and removing the ages in localization of JP games anyday of the week over the current mess we deal with now
>>739384203Korea and china have yet to make a good game. Just because Japan is failing doesn't mean they're making masterpieces. Once their own governments force them to censor their gacha titties and lolis they'll disappear leaving no legacy behind
A smiling Hibari (with cleavage) for this thread.
>>739401721They were doing small shit up to that point, that was just when they went full ham
>>739400684Dispatch literally used the censored Japanese PS5 port as a base because they were lazy and tried to pass it off as a Nintendo thing.
>>739401721Treehouse does a lot worse than that. Even removing xenoblade from the discussion these malicious fags remove and only add their own ideology in
>>739401736He's a retard but you don't have to retard back at him, lies of p, stella blade, wuchang, were all decent games
>>739401152There are three games announced in 2023 that still aren't out. RF6, Project Life, and a story of seasons with more focus on multiplayer.
>>739402208Wouldn't surprise me if Project Life is cancelled, was a part of the Loop8 and Farmagia announcements and was probably on the same flop tier as those
>>739399386Granblue Relink isn't gacha, silly head
>>739401882There was nothing (beyond wild speculation) that indicated that to be the case and both AdHoc and Nintendo made statements talking about Nintendo's approval process, and AdHoc managed regional releases just fine on Playstation. And even if that theory were correct, Nintendo still forced the eshop page for the artbook to be censored in North America.
>>739397408Because it was literally Marvelous' flagship series throughout the 10s, while Rune Factory had died because Neverland, the original developers, went under after RF4. It was only after Senran died and Takaki left that Marvelous decided to revive Rune Factory and add furry bara sodomy to it to make it their new thing. This was a meme made during the 10s.
>>739396163It had a demo. It fucking sucks
>>739396163The original had you flying around in a 3D arena shooting and launching missiles at your opponent, and you had six different slots for weapons. This on the other hand just looks like Monster Hunter with robots.
>>739385115every-time
>>739402687Too many retards live in the "now" or are caught in their own bubbles. Senran was huge and I hate when these types say other wise
>>739400647Dolls Nest is a way better Armored Core game than the Daemon X Machina team was ever capable of making. The biggest reason for the flop is that the first game was trash, anything else is cope.
>>739388807pushing ""climate change"" even when talking about anime tits. tsk tsk
>>739403021> Senran was huge Lol
>>739403485He's not wrong.
>>739399898>store shelvesgood thing there are no game stores left anyway
>>739403485It really was Marvelous' flagship franchise. Good sales, official manga, an anime series and an OVA in less than 6 years (2011-2016).
didn't even know this existed. Looks right up my alley
>>739379461>but they're still gonna bring out a toned down Senran anywayThey don't have much of an option now because all the big platforms have blocked fanservice games in recent memory.
>>739402912There are 6 weapon slots+shoulder and auxillary he's just using a sword
>>739404336does the "release censored on steam with a patch to uncensor" strategy not work anymore?
>>739404336The proper way to handle Senran today would be an JP/EN/CN Steam release with anything that might get them banned in an off Steam patch. Guessing selling ecchi content to China would be worth more then selling a censored to hell game on Switch/PS5 anyways.
>>739399043she has inverted feet? I have no idea what this is, came from the index lol
>>739379215Shouldn't have ditched mechs for power armor, they got what they deserved
>>739404373Still works just fine.
I just want rune factory 6.
>>739399920>It's a lot harder to justify a mech riding a robot horse instead of just having a samurai in power armor riding a robot horse.G Gundam literally has a Gundam riding a horse mech that's piloted by a real horse and people think it's cool as fuck. You don't have to justify it if you just play it straight and make it look good.
>>739379215>Make a mecha game when no one else is making mecha games>It does alright>Make a sequel that's not about mechasGenius move
>>739404373>>739404427Console and ecchi game publishers have been very slow to adopt that method because they're not eroge companies that are used to working with and publishing on the PC ecosystem, they're traditionally console companies that have been treating PC releases as an afterthought for years now. You only need to look at the average "quality" of their PC ports to see how they view the platform. It will take a lot, if ever, to break these companies of their reliance on consoles. For now, there are only a handful of non-eroge Japanese companies publishing games primarily for PC. These guys, Nanairo Enterprise, formed of former Bullet Girls devs, are one of them and you can see how TurretGirls mogs almost every single anime "fanservice" game still releasing on console and it doesn't even need a patch. Then again, it may have just gotten lucky with Steam (it's also available on GOG and itch.io though). It also sold surprisingly well, over 100k copies and still counting.This is probably the only way Senran Kagura could continue in modern times without serious, likely crippling, compromises, but it's up to Marvelous to be willing to go for that. Judging by their statements, I don't see it sadly.
>>739386406all that Japan makes
>Open thread because I liked this game a lot>50% senran kagura bikini sperging>50% autists crying the mechs are too small in a genre where scale is never portrayed
>>739402687Before Neverland's untimely demise, they stretched themselves too thin with shit that had no chance of selling. Remember Lords of Magna?
>>739386935Yokai Watch only sold well in japan. NOA didn't do shit
>>739404940>Remember Lords of Magna?I have it, actually. In fact, I got it randomly at a Gamestop and only found out about Rune Factory through it. It was a charming and novel, if janky game. Minibosses were way too durable, especially after the halfway point, and certain girls and the main character are almost useless unless you teach them spells (looking at you Gabriele). Adelheid best girl, Charlotte a shit.
>>739405187It wasn't a bad game, but it probably wasn't worth the time they spent on itThere were a few odd games that were tangentially rf/bm related around that time and none of them were successfulHometown Story is another one; I remember being turned off by it being even more childish than usual BokuMono (until that kid fucking died lmao)
>>739404940>Efficiency is a fine companion to visual presentation>Efficiency is a fine companion to visual presentation>Efficiency is a fine companion to visual presentation
>>739379215remember when daemon x machina got a shoutout in no more heroes 3?
>>739386762>You can't just back them into a corner of only releasing their games on DLsiteThey don't have to only release their games on DLSite, they just have to release a censored version elsewhere and an uncensored version on DLSite, but for some reason Japanese devs hate this idea beyond reason.
>>739401958I'll concede LoP but stellar blade was ass in a bad way despite being ass in a good way.
>>739391648dolphin wave is basically toned down senran. no battle damaged clothes when they’re defeated.
>>739404903its a shame, because I can see it being a viable path forward. create super censored versions for console and steam release (to avoid mary ire), with uncensor patch, even if its just ecchi? of course, its not a satisfying solution, because its still feeding into and supporting censorship, but it would support these developers during a dangerous time for them.
>>739388169>Xseed has always had respect or at least tolerated Senran, we never heard about any shit like this from them.Tom outright said that he was the only guy at XSNEED who was actually fighting against censorship and the rest of his coworkers wanted the games censored.
>>739405461You need only look to how and why Inti Creates canceled the Xbox One port of Gal*Gun Returns. Microsoft demanded some censorship (who knows how much) and Inti Creates deemed this unacceptable because they wanted all versions of the game to be consistent. It was admirable back then, but I believe this very mindset is also why Japanese companies now just self-censor at the development stage and do not bother shipping different versions for different platforms's standards, they have this mindset that all versions of their game should be consistent and combined with them wanting to sell their games on all platforms means they just self-censor to the lowest common denominator.
>>739405187You just know the plot got rushed to hell after you get your the 4th unit. Also, the grinding for mats was pretty hard due to the drop rate being so low. Also pretty disappointing that you can't carry over everything in NG+ and requires you to finish the game multiple times to allow you to carry over your team's setup. I do wish I had a fully kited team but my 3ds broke before I finished my third run.I do like the gameplay of it, a freeform movement turn based RPG is pretty rare.>Adelheid best girlToo bad she came way too late.>Charlotte a shitHey now, as your first unit, shes pretty great. She hits hard and has an arc shaped attack range so she can get alot of enemies easily.
>>739405497Key/Visual Arts eventually was forced into that approach after Holy Undead got blocked and after trying to release Summer Pockets Reflection Blue just cut without a patch made China mad. Seems like it is working out though, Summer Pockets Reflection Blue, Rewrite Harvest Festa, and likely anemoi handled it just fine.
>>739405461Because most jap devs/publishers are lazy and retarded. I really can't think of any other reason why. Maybe cultural issue? I kinda doubt that one.
>>739399056Konami is a major publisher and only they have the balls and the weight to tell the console manufacturers to fuck off. Also that game was still censored anyway with them cutting out the groping scenes from the story.
>>739399898>You can't show a titty without being locked into a hard M.And you can't show a titty in Japan without CERO banning the game entirely, retard.
>>739402912You have all the exact same weapon slots and even more weapon types + potentially assault shift which 2 more guns.If anything you should complain they didn't add a second shoulder slot because fucking hell why didn't they add a second shoulder slot? The shoulder weapons were the best part of the first game and still are.
>>739384632The western audience wants the fun of anime without the ick which is why western sales are booming. Gacha still fills the ick demand so no one loses out.
If H-game developers can release patches to add sexy stuff back in, why can't normal developers?And miss me with the "muh wasted development time" excuse.
>>739405679Actually, Pqube indicated back around that same period that SNOY was demanding censorship and simultaneously requiring other versions of the game be in the same state as the SNOY version so it wouldn't make them look bad. And then eastasiasoft was having trouble with the Asian Switch release of Tokyo Clanpool because of them wanting to release an uncensored PC version when those should be separate products and none of Nintendo's concern.If the console companies are breathing down companies' necks and demanding parity to cover up their censorship it makes more sense that they're avoiding different versions. Then again you also had Koei release the censored version of Ar noSurge DX only on Steam when Steam doesn't give a shit if you have off-Steam uncensored versions.
>>739405905They want everyone to have the same experience and not favor one region over another
>>739399452>Elden Ring had no effect on Armored Core salesyou're a fucking dumbass
they keep censoring their games down to shit. what do they expect?
since Senran Kagura games are no more, I continue to support the series by purchasing the freeing 1/4 figures. I have several, and just paid for one earlier today.
>>739406174Reminds me of the PS4 version of Omega Labyrinth Life, which was so censored that they changed the name to just Labyrinth Life (because the Omega looked like boobs)
>>739406123Because Hgame devs only started doing it due to Kagura Games, a publisher and translator for Hgames, started doing it for their clients
>>739379649>modern audience dogshitthey will continue to lose money until they are sold off or shutdown
>>739381475First one sold well on switch and again when it went multiplat and continues to trickle money via catalogue salesTitanic Scion on the other hand sold like shit on every fucking platform and released at the SAME TIME as Silksong.It also sucked cocked so that didn't help.Instead of fixing the things that people didn't like about the first game they threw the baby out with the bathwater and additionally made the game more simple and brainless while also tacking on dogshit open world.
>>739406395So they die either way, great.......
>>739379215go woke go broke
>>739379215I bought it for $5 the other day kek.
>>739406123Porn devs are more use to needing to jump through hoops. Makes a weird situation though where Nukitashi is fine getting onto Steam without trouble since an R18 dev knows to go with a patch but Tokyo Clanpools is banned since EastAsiaSoft figured the content wouldn't be a problem.
>>739380149Rune Factory selling well is terrible news.
Anon...please don't let them parade my corpse...Just wipe me out....right now...
>>739406501Anon they already pre-censored Tokyo Clanpool with the intent of having an off-site patch and Steam still banned it anyway.
>>739406389R18 patches took off long before Kagura existed, shortly after VNs got allowed onto Steam. Kagura has optimized the process though, there is a reason why they are handling the Steam releases of Rance.
SEX SELLSSEX SELLSSEX SELLSSEX HAS BEEN THE DRIVING FORCE FOR MANKINDS GROWTH SINCE INCEPTION
>>739379215Go wokeGo broke
How is this going to fuck over Rune Factory
>>739379215This is why you don't make non gacha gamesGamers only want gacha games with cute anime girls
>>739386017They were working on that exactly complaint with 7even but oh well
>>739406940>gamers only want gacha gamesAnyone that wants gachas games doesn't actually like video games as a medium. They're just the means to the end, that being the anime girls.
>>739406935Rune Factory was already fucked.
>>739406389Otaku Plan (the Black Souls publisher) does it too.In fact, I think most of the smaller eroge devs have been doing this since 2018/19.>>739406695Hotaru in a microbikini Digiskin was probably enough to set Steam off and that was left in the Steam build as well as the Asian Switch version.What they probably should have done was just blank her out in the Steam build entirely like the publishers of Succubus Prison did with Vinum. Hopefully Eastasiasoft will be more thorough with "cleaning" their Steam build if they ever go and port Castle Panzers.
>>739395256>>the bonus costumes you couldn't wear in TS because of mutations tied to skill progressionto be fair you could unlock a hide the mutations customisation
>>739406935It shouldn't, because hopefully they've learned their lesson since GoA and GB were the only reasons they made any money last year
>>739407097>What they probably should have done was just blank her out in the Steam build entirely like the publishers of Succubus Prison did with Vinum.I legit think a dev should make a censored version of a game where they just replace all the objectionable content with big CENSORED stickers, it'd serve as free advertising for the uncensored release while giving a middle finger to the platforms at the same time.
>>739407114Yeah, which put you in the default Outer outfit. You couldn't combine that option with the other outfits because it was its own outfit. It wasn't until they added the Mutation toggle that you could enjoy the DLC outfits.
>>739379215Ok so that explains the massive discount on Titanic Scion at the moment, but is it worth it at that price?
>>739407161While you won't get a game perma-banned for it since it isn't a content based ban, Steam will reject and request a new build if the submitted Steam build gives the impression that more content exists outside of Steam. The "barely any game there" type Steam releases usually accurately describe the content of the Steam build for that reason.
>take mecha game>make it about power suits insteadThe fuck did they think would happen?
>>739407364They unironically thought hundreds of thousands will slurp up their shit at $70. That's the funniest part. The MSRP being 70 fucking dollars lol
>>739407364Was getting kicked out of your mech and walking on foot really that big of a selling point for you that the exact same game minus that mechanic is a deal breaker?
>>739383085I'm so sick of this "is the drawing underage?" clown shit. It's a drawing. Why can't non-Jap countries understand this. Why must the world be full of gay censorious double niggers.
>>739384632This is why I call anyone that uses Japanese sales as an actual values metric a retard. JP sales have been worthless for over a decade. They should not be taken seriously. Japanese consumers stop getting pandered to because THEY abandoned the game's market for gacha trash. They only have themselves to blame and I have zero sympathy for them getting dicked over..
>>739407291Key sites are basically just giving it away, all the keys came from Humble so don't get worried if they're "sketchy"https://gg.deals/game/daemon-x-machina-titanic-scion/
>>739407554Years of feminist-led culture wars and "the personal is political"-type rhetoric have led zoomers and alphies to treat everything as propaganda for some position and thus anything that isn't explicitly portrayed in a negative light is equivalent to an endorsement of that thing.
>>739406735It was still pretty rare until KG started doing it
>>739398890its ok with mods. would never play it unmodded though
>>739395743I'm hoping it just means a game without the touching mechanic. So long as it has clothing destruction and jiggle physics with a bunch of lewd alt costumes I'll be fine with anything.
The bump limit has been reached! Here's an Ikaruga.
>they think anyone gives a fuck about senran kagura outside of its ecchithey're so cooked
>>739399056Shame this game is complete dog shit cause the fanservice is top tier.
>>739408154Hey, Senran Kagura has memorable characters for the most part, it has a lot of humor and the also music like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fode2V0QCE8
>>739407124In modern times, a game making money means a corporation needs to have more control in the decisions regarding the next installment so they can make more money, which means the game will be shittier.
>>739397738The issue is devs now will never know when any random platform will decide to be trigger happy and kill their game on their platform. There are examples of it happening on literally every platform so they need to diversify just in case.
>>739408114If they are targeting Switch/Switch 2 like Marvelous Europe seems to be claiming, it is absolutely not going to just be the lack of Intimacy Mode.>>739390554>>739390649>>739390846Hell, even back in 2018/19, I really doubt Takaki would have just given up and walked away from 7Even entirely if Sony was just demanding the removal of Intimacy Mode. They had to be targeting something even more fundamental, like the clothing break mechanic which is arguably THE core of Senran Kagura's identity.
>>739379215I have no idea why the fuck they thought they should turn their Armored Core clone into FUCKING ANTHEM, especially when Armored Core is getting popular again. That being said, I liked how it gave the custom MC a voice and personality.
>>739402687I remember the days when Senran Kagura was THE fanservice series.
>>739408386>If they are targeting Switch/Switch 2 like Marvelous Europe seems to be claiming, it is absolutely not going to just be the lack of Intimacy Mode.I can cope that they'll maybe do a reverse Omega Labyrinth and just release a butchered version on Switch with PC and PS5 untouched.
>>739408412It never was much of an AC clone, not even 4th gen AC. It only made sense to pivot, not like changing them to powersuits inherently changes much gameplay-wise.And AC isn't "getting popular", that Sekiro spin-off just came and went. The doujin clones have been in development for years and are only now starting to turn into something playable. Most have still yet to release.
>>739408093It was the norm for the VN companies by that point, of the older companies MG was the last main holdout and they were doing patches by 2017. Though those companies didn't exactly have that much output at the time.What Kagura figured out more then anything was just how valuable a Chinese localization on eroge was.
>>739408536How ironic to ask such a thing now when Senranfags had been begging and begging for Nintendo to save the series from Sony for years. I'd know, I was one of them.
>>739408685I'll be real I never trusted Nintendo to be the bastion of fanservice given their schtick has always been family friendly. Honestly I think a game like Omega Labyrinth probably could release on PS5 if they tried to release it today but I just think devs are too scared to try now. I still fully blame Sony for starting this trend and putting the fear of god into Japanese developers.
>>739381701>People LOATHES giant robots. Insane how many mechafags still deny and get butthurt whenever this is pointed out.EVA and TTGL are still recommended to anime newfags, but it's always under the same "this one is different, this one is NOT about robots" shit.AC is definitely not big. It's a niche game. Nowadays they rake in billions, but back then FIFA games were also niche shit but that didn't stop them from releasing a new one very year since the PS1 era. A huge chunk of the people who bought AC6 due to Elden Ring hype won't come back for AC7.The Toonami kid who watched Gundam Wing back then only cares about Gundam Wing because his main interest is nostalgia, and not the mecha itself.>>739395256>Also people don't loathe giant robots, many people just can't get into them because of the human factor. Iron Man movies is a great example of this, to showcase the suit and the face.Every single mecha anime does this.
>>739408386>If they are targeting Switch/Switch 2 like Marvelous Europe seems to be claiming, it is absolutely not going to just be the lack of Intimacy Mode.Ultimately, if they honestly try to make a Switch Senran, they'll probably eventually come to the same conclusion that others companies have that certain titles just won't work on the Switch outside of Asia. Say what you will about Sony's bullshit, you could still feasibly design a game with some ecchi elements around them from scratch even if it is a downgrade, but that really isn't an option with where Nintendo's restrictions currently are for the US, when these swimsuits don't pass their content restrictions.
>>739408652>VNThat's because JAST and co had their own sites to sell games from
>>739408769Nintendo was fine until they started seeing themselves the same way Disney does, then all went to hell.
>>739409023That's what they've always been. It's just that now they're paying more attention to their third party releases.
>>739409075It's really the Mario movies/theme parks/etc that made them more brand protective now.
>>739408769>Honestly I think a game like Omega Labyrinth probably could release on PS5 if they tried to release it today but I just think devs are too scared to try now.I'm not so sure, while they accepted the Neptunia Re;Birth trilogy, remember that all of those are Teen-rated and tame compared to much of the rest of Compile Heart's back catalog or the other ecchi series on the Vita. Nishino also never really said that he was rolling back the censorship, just that he wanted to try and win back market share in Japan where Playstation has been declining for years. Even if it were true, the moment they find any success, they'll probably go right back to censoring just like they did when PS4 was a success and just like Nintendo did when the Switch was a success, which means you can never truly count on them and can never wish them success for their policies because success just means they will undo those policies in an attempt to make themselves more appealing to normgroids.I agree with other posters here that these devs should move to prioritize PC. Even with Steam's issues, there's a way around them as well as other storefronts to sell on, so PC can never truly pull the rug on you the way console platforms can. Otherwise, these games will just be stuck in an endless cycle of prosperity in one gen then getting rugpulled next gen when Sony/Nintendo decide to pander to normies again.
>>739408769It didn't even pay off for them, Sony went all in on large Western titles and live service titles, the former of which are now expensive as hell to develop and their live service initiative is one of the business decisions by a video company ever.
>>739404928Did you say goodbye to your humanity and become a monster with gene editing too anon?
>>739409240The other big with with PC is that you honestly need it anyway considering much of the market for these titles is in region with poor console sales (especially China).
>>739409240What >>739409306 said is kinda why I think they wouldn't. I mean look at Stellar Blade, that is by far their most successful exclusive both on PS5 where it sold damn near as much as Elden Ring and on PC where it more than doubled sales of every other port. They have to have some self awareness now that they're the beggars that can't be choosers.
>>739409379You'd think Nintendo would have learned something when the Wii U was a flop with no games and dealing with controversy after controversy over Treehouse censoring their games, and for a while, it seemed like they did with Furukawa even explicitly pledging not to censor third-parties while Sony was all in on it. But then they found success again and immediately went back to their shitty policies like nothing ever happened. You can never count on these companies long-term.
>>739409556Yeah being censorship happy quite literally always does more negative PR than positive, well actually there's literally never even any positive PR in the first place cause when it comes down to it nobody actually gives a single shit about being pro-censorship beyond virtue signaling.
>>739409737yeah thats the thing why is the "default" mode for Sony and Nintendo being pro-censorship? they only fuck off from the censorship when they're floundering and in dire need of money. these are corporations, they're supposed to make money, and they know that ecchi games make money, they just seem to have a weird hangup about them
>>739409792Censorship isn't about making money, it's about feeling morally righteous.
>>739400996and how can we ignore that nintendo us censorship? Do we live in japan or something
>>739406643I thought the Japanese loved Azuma?
>>739409556I would never trust Sony censorship policy and certainly wouldn't make business decisions off of an assumption that Sony will be lax with what they allow, though I will note that if Sony ever were to win back Japanese devs they would need to hold onto them much more than Nintendo who almost could run the Switch 2 entirely off of their own first party output.Though if a Sony portable system actually does happen, I could see a 2-5 year period of Sony explicitly having lax standards with hope of getting marketshare, then either tightening things up regardless of how things go because either "Japan still isn't buying and it makes us look bad" or "It was a success, now we don't need these icky games".
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>>739409792>and they know that ecchi games make money, they just seem to have a weird hangup about themIsn't the whole problem and reason they are ignored is that these games largely don't make much money on the platform scale? Like Elden Ring would have outsold the entirety of the ecchi part of the Vita library. They have a relatively high return on investment for the studio, but the budget isn't directly meaningful to the platform holder collecting a royality.
>>739410000If somebody does they should avoid putting anything nintendo in the OP, we avoided alot of shitposting because the OP was about Marv.
>>739410073ig thats why gachas are allowed because they make SO much money they are given more leeway
>>739410149It's because Gacha's have more alternative plaforms and don't completely need Google/apple just look at Horizon Walker.
>>739410073Well the biggest issue with the PS5 right now is that all their first party games are so similar to each other. They(ironically) need more diversity in their libary and ecchi games USED to be that diversity.
>>739410000It's up, but I ain't linking it in case a janny gets mad. Nice quads.
>>739379735dead on arrival, they are already telling you
