>localize game for the usa
>make the enemies have 3x hp, do 3x damage, and make upgrades and items cost 3x more
what was the fucking thought process behind this

>>11820270 (OP)
Don't be a pussy

What's funny is that it should be the other way around, and when that does happen, Japan just LOVE that shit.

>>11820270 (OP)
Rentals. In the US/UK we have rentals where I could've gone down to Blockbuster, Family Video, whatever the fuck back in the day, and play a game for five days to a week, conquer it and return for relative cheap instead of buying whole games. Nowadays it seems quaint, but it was big back then, and publishers/developers notoriously and constantly made localized versions of games much more brutal so that kids couldn't rent and beat a game over a weekend.

A large part of this is because Japan doesn't have rentals. You could borrow a game from a friend or neighbor, of course, but stores weren't allowed to actually buy up game copies and then put them on shelves for other people to rent. It was legal law preventing it. In the Land of the Rising Sun, copyrights and legal laws are incredibly draconian in ways that make the US look free by comparison.

>>11820368
What about Nintendo Power?

>>11820368
Nobody was renting games in the PS2 era what the heck

>>11820396
yes we were, the fuck are you on about?

>>11820396
Bro I was renting PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii games. It's the Eighth Generation that rentals truly died in. Things weren't streaming oriented and digital-focused yet, the Seventh Generation was what kicked that into gear but it still took a while until the Eighth dropped the guillotine.
PS2? Xbox? Gamecube? That's basically how I got to play most of the big games of that entire generation, by renting out here in the Midwest.

>>11820396
We were though. Can you guys go back to /v/? you stick out like a sore thumb.

>>11820368
Then why were SMB3 and MegaMan 2 made easier for the US release?

>>11820481
Devs themselves had to make some of these choices, so I guess those particular developers were feeling more sympathetic, but frankly I never looked hard into why those two got easier. Sometimes it's quality of life, bug fixes, and so forth, and sometimes there were some pretty big overhauls that treat the US release like a balancing/fix-up revision.
Incidentally, that kinda happened with the Dragon Quest to Dragon Warrior releases on NES, effectively treating the expanded cartridge opportunity as the excuse to add more graphics and cutscenes, putting aside some design changes and censorship.

>>11820396
Wat.
>>11820481
Dunno, probably so that years later millennials would talk about how Mega Man 2 is one of the hardest games of all time when it isn't all that challenging even without Metal Blade.

>>11820270 (OP)
normal mode feels great though
only hard mode was hard, but its still doable. just don't get perfect thanatos, his lock-on attack sucks compared to imperfect thanatos

alundra syndrome

>>11820396
last game i rented in my life was mario odyssey,and i bought it when the club videotron closed and they were selling stuff

>>11820270 (OP)
DMC was praised for its difficulty. DMC, Ninja Gaiden, God Hand, during the 6th gen there was still a core action gamer fanbase who craved challenging games (something which few 3D games in the previous gen offered). I know this is hard to grasp for people these days because the following gen casuals took over and that destroyed the little remnant of games dedicated to these kind of players there was, so people today have trouble grasping a time period with different standards hence the shitty overblown excuses such as "muh rentals"

VICTOR
DELACRAW

>>11820270 (OP)
why Capcom USA made their PS1/PS2 games much harder for the US market?

>>11820368
Yeah, it was (as always) nips being fucking retards and bending to the USA when they had an otherwise huge market in Europe and South America. For this, they also did not bring DQ here until 8 just because americans had yet to receive the Dragon Ball anime - now with some added edge and nu-metal!

>>11820270 (OP)
I thought the game wasn't that hard. Sure I died a bunch, but it was perfectly doable.

Unless the PC version didn't get fucked with? Yes, I played the OG PC port, it was more than 20 years ago.

>>11820270 (OP)
Really? I got this game when it came out, absolutely loved it. Got absolutely crushed most of the time, but I recall you could keep half of your xp. I always thought I was just a retard. Good to know I'm not as retarded as I had previously thought.

Still gotta play this game. Should I just download the jap iso instead?

many such cases

>>11821849
can you speak english? if not then kys for asking a worthless question you faggot

>>11822248
Their post was written just fine. You're overcompensating.

>>11822258
He said "jap" (which a slur) instead of "jp", so definitely an ESL.

>>11824036
Go back homie.

>>11824036

>>11820396
Hollywood Video had a "Guaranteed in Stock" section for popular games, and if a guaranteed in stock game was not in stock, you'd get a coupon for a free rental. They guaranteed San Andreas but only got like two copies. I was getting free rental coupons like crazy.

>>11820270 (OP)
It's funny because the game is an insane grind for the first like, three levels, and then once you've got the good summons it really doesn't matter, you've got the counters for everything and you'll clean the rest of the game up just fine. The other two thirds of the game is just feeling a huge weight off your shoulders and it all suddenly getting less oppressive.

That first time they want you to fight about five of those doglike bosses in a row is just insane. Completely nuts. You can come back and effortlessly beat them once you actually have the right legions.

Underrated game. I wish Capcom would make infinite sequels for it instead of RE.

>>11820290
>Don't be a pussy
It's incredibly bad though. Check some playthroughs of the PAL version for instance. You have absolutely no choice but to spend 45mins in a 5min level chipping away at enemies really slowly with the base moves and non-upgraded legions. And you can't even grind because level replays aren't unlocked until like mission 8 or something. Hard is fine, tedious is bullshit.