It’s rather wild that agetec took a chance on Simple Series Volume 31 and decided to translate it for european audiences as Monster Attack, like were they expecting once it was retitled as Global Defence Force that it’d be a series with multiple sequels and releases over the next two decades?
Also anyone who says these games are “import friendly” is a liar, YOU try reading all those item descriptions and working out which one a 5 way grenade launcher and which has the destructive power of a laser pointer.
at the time, a bunch of publishers were picking up simple 2000 games and releasing them dirt cheap into european supermarkets. i think global defence force was the first one that i saw that was sold in actual videogame shops, and the first one that had gotten any hype (and even that was isolated to somewhat niche fora like ic/sb, rllmuk, and so on).
some of my friends irl had found the website of 505 gamestreet a little earlier, so i was playing games like zombie zone (oneechanbara) and demolition girl before then, too.
here’s a handy list that i’ve been referring back to regularly for over a decade
I’m no stranger to 505’s output (I will be BURIED with my copy of steambot chronicles and battle construction vehicles) but its cool even by sheer chance that the first game in that series got translated even if by any metric it really shouldn’t have.
Skip to 2023 and they won’t even translate the switch ports of 2&3!
Perhaps the reason I am playing The Saboteur is I am fascinated with the idea of a “game developer’s game” or the game development equivalent of an album where a bunch of session musicians get together to make something that’s impressive. Probably the closest AAA gets to actual “Art”. I think among these are three games: The Order 1886, Titanfall 2, and The Saboteur. I am also interested in The Saboteur because it seems like every studio I work at has someone that worked on that game at some point, so I feel like there’s some linage with a lot of modern games with it? Maybe I’m overthinking this.
they changed the billboard ad across the road from my flat from modern warfare 2 to this and it’s an epic dark souls type illustration but like… presumably that’s hogwarts so i guess this person is just staring broodingly at a british high school? is this as close as they can come without being arrested?
i try to purge my mind of all things harry potter (mm except some of the set design in the third movie) but i will admit this poster has got me to do a few takes wondering exactly what their angle is
Maybe you have to reclaim Hogwarts from the grasp of its corrupted undead founder, who is ruining the legacy of the school with her demented reign of terror
i liked the first few hp books when i was a kid but the appeal was basically “what if billy bunter was a magical girl” so it’s funny that they’re making a whole game that’s like Greyfriars: Origins. it takes place 100 years before billy was born BUT you’ll get to explore the public school where his greatest adventures happened, and some supporting characters will have the same surnames as people from the books. this is merely phase 1 of our plans for the bunterverse, which will eventually tackle the question of whatever happened to his missing postal order.
I think the first three came out in very quick succession in the US due to them running behind the UK initially when I was in like grade 5, which was the right age for me to appreciate what would now be called YA. I remember being at least conscious of the publication dates of the next couple but not very interested by then.
i loved hp when i was a kid. i even have the paperbacks that i got cheap online several years ago that i’m still trying to figure out what to do with. it’s impossible to read now but there’s a bit of nostalgia there. pple love to dunk on it now for obv reasons but the series def made me feel less like shit growing up. i used to sneak my friend’s copies into the house and read them under the covers with a flashlight.
i used to find it very irritating that i was a gryffindor and not a ravenclaw but eventually made my peace.
i am very fatigued by this whole debacle and the series’ falling from grace. i would like to go one full month without having to see pple trying to dunk on jkr even tho she deserves it. i’ve had her blocked for a really long time. it was a time and a place to actually like this shit and it’s p simple to just. . .stop caring and move on imo.
i used to have a scarf and everything. my brother took it and wore it after i didn’t have contact with my family for awhile and apparently kept telling pple when they asked if he liked the series: ’ look, my sisteris harry potter ’
but yeah. . .fuck jkr obviously. my generation really got got
yeah I dated a woman who had an expelliarmus tattoo at one point which I was a little shocked by because I wasn’t really used to that kind of fandom but I really respected what she got out of it
yikes, yeah i really feel for these pple but that shit was a huge part of some pple’s lives so i get it. i knew someone online who had a golden snitch tattoo on their ankle. we all thought it was so cool at the time.
In the Murder, She Wrote episode titled “Hit, Run and Homicide”, Jessica realizes the solution to the episode’s mystery while playing Spy Hunter in the Cabot Cove grocery store.
I read the first one shortly after it was released (1998 in the US apparently, so I was 14) and was like “this is boring I’m going back to reading Heinlein novels” which honestly is just a huge own
