You ever think about how crazy that Xenoblade would have probably ended up being just 1 game and dead because Reggie Fiis-Aime didn't think anyone wanted to play these 3 Wii JRPGs?
yeah, he was a bit of a retard
It feels like they localize almost everything now.
>>744552418>Thinking about what ifs from 16 years agoNGMIAt least enjoy the games on your hacked Wii or in your favourite way to play Dolphin
If only we were so lucky that Xenoblade ended on its best game rather than dragged out to now.
that era was weird in general. there was a massive hateboner push for jrpgs in the west. IGN,Gamespot,Xplay,Game Informer, everywhere was like "fuck JRPGs here's the new Mass Effect gaysex"
>>744552418Did the game really require US sales to justify a sequel?There have been Japanese only Nintendo franchises beforeShulk would not have been in Smash though regardless if the game didn't get localizedSakurai really doesn't like adding characters that global audiences can't get the games of inb4 Fire Emblem in MeleeHe's a huge fan and they were gonna be locked to Japanese copies anywaysHe didn't add Ayumi on the roster because her game wasn't localized at the timeinb4 LucasHe legit didn't know Mother 3 wouldn't have been released globally
>>744552418He was right for 2 of the 3 games.The Last Story and Pandora's Tower no body gave a fuck about. They were just lumped together to help push Xenoblade even more.Everyone had hacked Wiis and played the EU version of Xenoblade, so honestly it was kind of a nothingburger too.
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>>744552657It probably wouldn't have been so bad if there was literally anything to play on the Wii in 2012.It's so weird because Xenoblade was always going to be localized in Europe, Nintendo of EU was big on the game, but despite it being translated, it took fighting with NoA to get it greenlit.>>744552728True, no one cared about Last Story and Pandora's Tower ended up sucking, but the Wii was starving for games at the time.
>>744552418The lack of RPGs on the N64 and Reggie's disinclination to the genre(s) created a malformed breed of Nintendo fan that hated them on principle and it took the Switch crushing them under the sheer amount of games, love, and praise for the genre to finally submit.
Reggie is a omega casual. He wanted to push Wii Sports to Grandmas.
>>744552418NoA was getting insanely cocky during this era, the Wii had no fucking games coming out circa 2011-2012 and they were still refusing to localize shit. Then during the Wii U era they had the worst advertising possible, every commercial was targeted at toddlers and the system bombed horrendously because it looked gay and lame.
>>744552796for some reason a ton of games that got completely translated and localized by Nintendo EU got blocked from release by reggie and the other retards at NoA
>>744553154Then they decided to start localizing shit themselves. Then we went from NoE doing faithful translations to Treehouse raping the scripts
>>744552657Yeah even Final Fantasy was getting wrecked. 13 & 14 werent doing so hot. 7 & 8 was mocked as being for gay emos.
>>744553207I'm glad that Satoru Shibata is going to be in charge of NoA, hopefully he can keep those retards in line
>>744552418i loved the last story, fun game
>>744552418Reggie was a good marketer and face for the company, but it's super ironic that he would put on that "badass" persona and pretend to care about video games, yet for some reason he really didn't want any non-casual games on the Wii and WiiU.
>>744552657The hate happened due to three different cultural trends overlapping and was solidified by the struggle of most Japanese companies to adapt to HD gaming.1. Graphics had finally gotten good enough during the later half of the PS1's life and going into the PS2 alongside increasing script size and a I pivot away from box art westernized to be in line with 80s/90s fantasy depictions led to a generation of people who in their minds imagined all RPGs like they were the covers to the Dragonlance books to be hit by a culture shuck via artistic sensibilities they didn't like.2. The increasing dudebro'ing of gaming culture again leading to people who would of never had interest now crowding the space.3. Curated depiction of Japanese culture and media via what was imported in the 90s gave way to a broader depiction which include more goofy shit like their gameshows.All three were their own backlashes as the more gritty and edgy chunni aligned depiction of Japan was shattered and it in turn became something to mock instead.Then the Japanese business model of multiple smaller teams releasing multiples games a year just not equipped to the manpower required for HD gaming and so a ton of companies were basically set on fire in trying to recoup losses on anemic titles while also engaging in production level wide restructurings, thus feeding into the clownish perception of the Japanese that had come into being, and deeming their style of work as a dead end in an increasingly more 'Mature and Cinematic" medium. TLDR The perception of Japan went from Western Fantasy and Cyberpunk with Katanas, to Tentacle Porn at the same time they were struggling to get steady in a new HD game dev paradigm and it led to years of dismissal and mocking.
>>744552418Please, for the love of God, give us TLS HD.
>>744553629Also worth pointing out that Microsoft spent billions on aggressive marketing for the original Xbox and 360 to get a foothold in the console industry.
>>744552418Reggie stopped absolute kino
>>744554067True but in that Microsoft also tried really fucking hard to get a foothold in the Japanese market up to porting a bunch of Dreamcast games via their deal with Sega and having a stack of JRPGs released as exclusives for the 360.Then after that stack of JRPGs failed to gain a foothold they gave up.The left hand was courting the Japanese market while the right was courting the dudebros, and despite their many, many failings, MS never turned their dudebros audience against the Japanese games, the dudebros just did that themselves.
>>744552607I'm still waiting for a Buddy Mission Bond release, so there's still some stuff they publish they don't bring across.
Xenoblade 2 and onward are shit Would have been good riddance, maybe Moonolitsoft could have tried making good games and stop rehashing Xenosaga
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>>744552676>Sakurai really doesn't like adding characters that global audiences can't get the games of >He legit didn't know Mother 3 wouldn't have been released globallywhat am i meant to take away from this other than sakurai is fucking retarded
unironically reggie fucked up a LOT of things at nintendo while he was there, his only good decision was pushing really hard for wii sports as a bundle-in
>>744558395how could sakurai have possibly known reggie fils-aime would decide mother 3 was the field full of swords he wanted to throw himself into
>>744552742This was a fun arc.
>>744552657lol
>>744558395Brawl literally began development before Mother 3 even came out
