Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20190925145530

The Light novels were pretty recent, so you are probably right. I probably used paypal, guess they don't much care for blocking services which can buy H for you. Don't remember what White Rabbit itself uses, but they ask for your top value (uneditable I believe). So either a sniper bid or some autobidding software like you had with ebay. I assume those would be all special editions/old stuff? Can't imagine base edition Type-Moon stuff being that expensive. They did get more mainstream recently, but I doubt FGO players would spend much on other works.

It's better for me to check PostNL's local track&trace to see if they received the package than it is to check PostJapan's. Generally Postjapan's status updates of entering the country happen when I know the package is coming tomorrow or when I already have it. Sometimes they update it on time, but they've been lacking recently. Amazon actually shows a little map? I just get text. Maybe it went from post office to regional warehouse to national warehouse and then to the airport? At least it's being tracked. I actually tend to type it out in notepad and then just copypaste, makes it easier read what I'm replying to. It also makes it so that you need to have a line inbetween to start a new paragraph. I guess I'm just used to local prices then. Generally I buy what isn't dumped or I really like and I don't have any JP homecomputer so I don't ever check their prices. Maybe I should get an MSX at some point, they are pretty easy to get over here. Philips made plenty.

Mostly generic unit names weren't translated if I remember right (it's been 5 years for me). The localization is probably a good reason to play it again, but I wanted to go through their list of games chronologically. Quite a few games which look interesting, Oudou Yuusha being one of them and probably the other Dai games. Not likely it'll get translated soon though, so it'll just be machine translations. I'll probably never learn Japanese. After highschool I can't stand the idea of having to learn another language. Dutch problem I guess, they made you learn 4 at least. I doubt there'll be many options of learning Japanese on the job, knowledge of Japanese generally being a prerequisite. Maybe an online class would help? With a bit of discipline that would be better than self learning. Maybe a private tutor? Or let's hope machine translations take a good leap with quantum computing, would just mean buying some google glasses. I can dream, right?

I get you on the unique content part, but to me there's only so much "uniqueness" to differing content. Storylines tend to be very derivative, I can't count how many JRPGs I've played where "Empire is bad, you hero, go save world" and even the details are barely different. However I still play the games because the combat is different (and somewhat enjoyable) and the world around it is different or significantly better looking. Something similar applies to remakes for me, if done right it's a fresh experience. I'd play a modern 3D Dragon Quest 1 instead of the endless 2D polished ports it gets. But again, much easier for them to reboot a series (just use the name) or lazily "remaster" a game (FF VIII being the most recent example). Something that's stylized properly can always be a treat yeah, even way later. Recently replayed Yoshi's Island 2 and it sure as hell holds up better graphically than World or even Mario 64 (the original is very bland graphically). I can't imagine many people saying the same about that new Legend of Zelda remaster. It always feels to me like Japan constantly NEEDS more content, just look at all the stuff they release. So I think the large demand for content probably plays a good role in the unoriginality. Like you said costs as well. It's sad because most established developers just stick to their old stuff, I'm sure they can come up with something creative.