I'll give you a patreon when payday rolls around. Discord's not really my thing (hate my voice) but nobody deserves it more for the sheer effort you put in.

Is the piano piece yours too?

I've been binge watching your channel for a week now, love your stuff, keep it up !! P.S. Any Dragon Quest XI material happening, I think you'd like that game.

I guess im randomly asking but does someone know of a way to log back into an Instagram account? I stupidly forgot the password. I would appreciate any assistance you can offer me

@Lawrence Kieran instablaster ;)

true😍

finally someone put it into words

He is very casual and not pandering. how the fuck did you get cthulu

@@yeetleslaw8529 Cthulhu is pretty chill though. It's usually the nosy motherfuckers that run up on an old one and go insane. Big C just minds his own business, doing his thing

Also: Cthulhu's mortal avatar has been confirmed as a giant Danish(?) boy who makes A E S T H E T I C video essays about games

You need to work especially hard on yourself to learn dat Japanese tho. I can imagine their frustration if those games was their only motivation lol, but it's pretty strange to get mad on translation teams because of that for sure.

4chan lol

4chan /vr/ is actually one of a nicer board there.

@Heavy Metal Collector well it's not /b/

Ah yeah, and the term EOP, or "english only peasant", is thrown there alot, to show how they're superior for being able to "enjoy the game as it should be". They sure are lovely people.

Really good point. I would love to see what he could do as a director of a project!

RIP best friends zaibatsu, KZfaq ain’t been the same since...

Haha That game was messed up the more I think about it.

shit will forever hurt 😔

At least it wasn't this year they split

It's gonna take a commission, isn't it? Dammit I WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME.

Saturn library is more import friendly but the second hand market prices aren't.

@@tokyobassist it really isn't. Most of Saturn library that didn't come to the US are heavy text visual novels and RPGs.

And you wouldn't have to suffer through the yakuza localization

@arbereshe less than you think, at least the actual good ones. Racing is actually pretty poor once you run out of the classics such as Sega Rally and Daytona, and those have not aged well. Good 2D platformers are just a few, as well as 3D fighting games (the best were released in english). Beat'em ups, shmups and 2D fighters, yes, those are very much worth it

learning hiragana and katakana is quite easy and will help you be able to play alot of games that don't have kanji or have furigana.

Early 3d had a unique charm. I think a lot of it comes down to how new and unestablished it was. Similar to how vintage computers, before the typical IBM standard were incredibly interesting with so many unique designs. As the tech became more established it definitely became better overall but lost a lot of charm. Same with games, a lot of early 3d were jank and borderline unplayable but oozed originality and charm. Modern games have well established mechanics to build on so are generally more solid and playable but lack some of the character and uniqueness.

How much free time do you have? Spending 1 hour a day for the next year would get you up to a reasonable level that you could just keep a translation app on you while playing the games and get through them just fine (while also improving while playing the games). If it takes 5+ years then you honestly just aren't actually trying properly. Basic elementary school Kanji is reasonably achievable in 3-6 months.

@@HeadsetHistorian There's no way you're going to learn and remember 1000 characters in 6 months, let alone in 3 months unless you have 6 hours of freetime a day.

@@FakYuhGoogel They aren't completely unique, there are similar patterns. Also the more you learn the more you can dicipher from context and it snowballs. I've lived in Asia for about a decade now and studied languages here, so I'm pretty familiar with it. It's not nearly as hard as you think.

" dedicating 5 years to learn a language just to understand 20+ year old videogames doesn't seem like the best motivation." ironically sounds like perfect motivation im my case.

​@@FakYuhGoogel That's not true, many people have done it, and they're not all geniuses. I know because I've done it as well and I'm not a genius. It just takes consistent work. There are great tools for learning kanji using digital flashcards, for example Remembering The Kanji (RTK). I've used Wanikani, which costs a monthly subscription to be fair, but it takes away all the need to set up and follow your own structure, like you need to do with RTK. Most people starting RTK quit it very quickly, because you need to be extremely self-driven and disciplined. Using RTK or Wanikani, you can learn 2000 characters in a year. Granted, it's going to be a lot of work. But not 6 hours a day. (Wanikani also teaches vocabulary so it's more work, but with RTK you can easily do it with 1-2 hours in 6 months (1000 characters) or a year (2000 characters). I've learned around 2100 characters now, mostly with Wanikani, and a few more using Anki, and I'm very happy I did. Playing pretty much all Japanese games in Japanese now. Playing Final Fantasy 7 in the original Japanese was fantastic, they changed so much of the meaning in the English translation, even in the new one! Same for the remake.

This year is crazy for fan tls!

Aye. There was a Tobal 2. Had a disc of demos with it.

And I'm still waiting for Madara 2, and Samurai Shodown RPG, and Linda Cube... And, that is, not counting the amount of games that won't be translated (the Tengai Makyou series on PCEngine) after the Goemon 3 drama that ended in Tom and DDS quitting from the translation scene. I began studying Japanese a few years ago to be able to play these games by myself, because the scene isn't as reliable as it used to be (and probably won't be anymore).

Well I thought the same about Front Mission 2, Echo Night 2 and Ace Combat 3 over a 15 years ago and and now we have them. So never say never, I guess...

@@nikitalobo9337 Front mission 2? Me want. Must do .....Google searchings

@@ix8750 Yeah, but it's little tricky with patching and text is translated during gameplay and in engine cutscenes. In towns and shops you still should read script in .txt form on your phone or pc. But hey, at least we finally have it

now you can