esteban
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Post by esteban on Jan 21, 2019 1:00:14 GMT
I will absolutely check this out. I wasn't going to bother, but with so many trusted voices singing its praises recently... I knew I had to give it a chance.
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Post by spenoza on Jan 21, 2019 1:41:46 GMT
Watched another episode today. On the one hand, I am impressed they manage to get a somewhat 2D look from 3D characters. On the other hand, some of the movement seems very stiff, especially in the arms and hands. I’ll be watching and not thinking about it and then I will see a character move their arm with that immobile, dead hand on the end and it will suddenly bug the crap out of me.
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Post by soop on Jan 21, 2019 9:01:56 GMT
Watched the first 3 episodes, pretty decent so far. Love how Haruo says hucards are so cheap, 380 yen. lol That's like $5 right? It's also nice that he loves the games he has, but they're not AAA titles. I feel like those were the games the writer had, he didn't edit the past to choose stuff like Parodius and PC Denjin. Also... One of the characters is called Meow?
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Post by purple1308 on Jan 22, 2019 2:47:24 GMT
I really love how the series is going and now waiting for the second part
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Post by Black_Tiger on Jan 31, 2019 18:21:33 GMT
Watched the first 3 episodes, pretty decent so far. Love how Haruo says hucards are so cheap, 380 yen. lol That's like $5 right? It's also nice that he loves the games he has, but they're not AAA titles. I feel like those were the games the writer had, he didn't edit the past to choose stuff like Parodius and PC Denjin. Also... One of the characters is called Meow? I finally watched some episodes last night and the hardware/software porn and gaming culture makes it entertaining. I wouldn't be interested in watching it if the subject matter was some other random thing. I like how authentic it feels with select games in select places and times. The main character's PC Engine "collection" was shown during 1991, before Demjin or Parodius Da! existed. It makes sense for him to have a handful of games that are mostly ports of arcade games he loves. They even had him talk about getting deals on random used games. We didn't have the benefit of knowledge from decades in the future, otherwise we'd all own Magical Chasr, Sapphire, etc. A lot of the game based plot points were a nice touch for gamers. A regular person watching wouldn't get the joke about the girl asking for SFC Final Fight for co-op play until it was spelled out later in the episode. The Netflix subtitles are very distracting though, with all of the name changes based on google results and attempted translations. I first checked it out on youtube and a clip I watched from Japan had an ad at the end with the show characters, telling you about a new Namco collection of arcade classics you could buy. Do licensing deals likely played a partial influence on featured games, but everything felt natural to me for the times and places games and hardware showed up.
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Post by soop on Jan 31, 2019 20:56:09 GMT
I watched the Dubbed version personally, it's nice that they offered both though!
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Post by dshadoff on Jan 31, 2019 22:25:05 GMT
Watched the first 3 episodes, pretty decent so far. Love how Haruo says hucards are so cheap, 380 yen. lol That's like $5 right? It's also nice that he loves the games he has, but they're not AAA titles. I feel like those were the games the writer had, he didn't edit the past to choose stuff like Parodius and PC Denjin. Prices are tricky. While I believe that those games were available at those prices, I don't really believe that they were so cheap so soon after release. In context, USD-YEN exchange rates were: - about 160yen to the US dollar in early 1990 - about 120 yen to the US dollar in 1992 So, 380 yen in 1992 would be about $3US. Also, release prices of early HuCard games were between 4500 and 6000 yen - so, about $30-40US. (...Which is what bothered me about the early US releases - they chose a bunch of games which weren't popular in their native market at $30, and tried to sell them in the USA at $60.) It's true that the prices of used games were low in Japan until well after 1997, and that even unused games did go on deep discount if shopkeepers gave up on selling them at full retail (i.e. too old to sell as "new") - I bought tons of games between 100 and 1000 yen when I first visited in 1997. ...But I just don't believe that in 1992 there would already be such deep discounts on games from 1989/90. Maybe half price, but not 90% off. My two cents. Anybody who was there so early may be able to correct me if I'm wrong... Dave
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