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Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization launches November 8 in the west
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The12thGripper
Member
lol
Yappadappadu
Member
lol
"Two years worth of semen made a glopping noise as it flowed endlessly into Asuna."
Yes, single player and multiplayer.
lol
So this franchise is still a dumpster fire then. Good to know.
SliceSabre
Banned
Wow that's super quick after the Japanese release. Can't wait.
Coreda
Member
Would you say it was a hollow realization?
There's going to be physical Vita releases in EU and Asia. Maybe spam BN Asia to use the NA version for DLC compatibility?
purseowner
Member
10/10
HypnoDarkrai
Member
PS Vita Digital only for NA? Bamco strikes again.
lol
This is going to be amazing in the next Fire Emblem.
The12thGripper
Member
This game looks to have systems more similar to Hollow Fragment than Lost Song (I enjoy LS but the gameplay systems aren't as good as HFs...)
So if you were burned by LS, you might enjoy this.
Anyway I'm looking forward to this. Nice to see this announced a day after SAO Abridged 10 is out
Dragonslayer_023
Banned
Super quick turnaround on this one. I liked Lost Song, though it was considerably less ambitious than HF, which was both a good and bad thing in spots. This game looks more like HF.
It's a sequel and is set after the previous 2.
But you can play it fine, you'll just get characters introduced in the other 2 but the story is pretty stand alone I'd say.
I actually have high hopes for this one. It's the first one being made for the PS4 from the get go, and everything I have seen from it has made me think this is going to reverse the trend from the other games.
The non physical Vita version sucks, but that's the course they've obviously set for America. I assume outside of diehard gamers like us, it's just not that attractive an option to spend the money on.
The non physical Vita version sucks, but that's the course they've obviously set for America. I assume outside of diehard gamers like us, it's just not that attractive an option to spend the money on.
WickedLaharl
Member
Yappadappadu
Member
That's canon?
I had heard about that famous chapter, but never knew that it was that explicit, basically porn. Yeah, just googled it. *shocked*
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Considering the previous title was also digital only not really surprised. Even more so if they know that shelf space for vita titles and getting retailers to agree with shelving it at stores might be a legit business reason for them to go digital again rather than spending extra $$$ with all things involved with getting physical copies into stores.
Plus how well the game sold shows that obviously people were not as perturbed about physical vs. digital as those may make it seem.
This game looks to have systems more similar to Hollow Fragment than Lost Song (I enjoy LS but the gameplay systems aren't as good as HFs...)
So if you were burned by LS, you might enjoy this.
Anyway I'm looking forward to this. Nice to see this announced a day after SAO Abridged 10 is out
Well considering that this is by the same team that did Hollow Fragment and Lost Song was by a totally different studio, yeah it should be closer to HF than anything that was in Lost Song. Lost Song was literally a reskinned Macross 30 for the most part. So at least we can expect similar quality with this title and am looking forward to seeing how they handled making it even more action based.
What annoys me the most is that I live in EU but I have a NA account on my Vita because it saves me a lot of money (1:1 conversion is fucking bullshit).
So yeah I could easily buy the physical game, but then I won't be able to get the DLCs.
The last SAO game, Lost Song, was available physically for Vita. Bamco just seems to have this weird digital fetish for their recent releases, but only in NA. It's getting kind of annoying.
Hikami
Member
I made the OT for the western Lost Song release (also made the Re:HF OT). That's how excited for it I was
. So I was massively let down by the bland areas/dungeons and some other stuff. Though I did like flying around and the combat was okay. But yeah, I'm glad this is looking more like HF. Enjoyed that one enough to play it all over again on PS4 after all.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Considering how close the Western ver is coming out I think Ill jettison the import OT claim. As schedule wise do not have time for it or doing something as complex as the Hollow Fragment one was.
Seeing as its pretty pointless having an import OT when the Western release is just a month away and for the most part I dont do Western OTs (outside of converts to Western OTs due to no one else doing one) since I rarely buy localized versions therefore information I can provide is not as accurate with terms as someone who has the game.
Will do an import impression thread instead as its far less time consuming than a whole OT.
Seeing as its pretty pointless having an import OT when the Western release is just a month away and for the most part I dont do Western OTs (outside of converts to Western OTs due to no one else doing one) since I rarely buy localized versions therefore information I can provide is not as accurate with terms as someone who has the game.
Will do an import impression thread instead as its far less time consuming than a whole OT.
I was pretty disappointed with Lost Song overall as well, really boring areas and not much to explore(even though you can fly around at mach speed it didn't really do much when the areas where so small).
This looks a lot closer to HF in design, which is great as I did overall like HF outside of the initial learning curve. Will probably pick this up.
This looks a lot closer to HF in design, which is great as I did overall like HF outside of the initial learning curve. Will probably pick this up.
Hippopuncher12
Member
Have the CE preordered. Pretty excited about it I liked Hollow Fragment and never played the other one.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
If you liked HF dont bother with Lost Song. Totally different dev team and overall not that good of a game outside of the flying mechanics. Unless you really want to see the "story" and character interactions gameplay wise its not too hot.
Then again if you can get it cheap you might as well take a look if you are a fan of the series.
Are they playing a 3rd game?
Azure Phoenix
Member
Glad we're getting it this year, I needed something to last me through the Winter months.
Hippopuncher12
Member
Thanks for the info! I will probably just skip it then with this coming out and then World of FF and FF 15 I am good on RPG's for awhile lol.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Why not just import?
That would be more expensive than just buying it locally, plus I'd like to support NISA for bringing XSEED titles to Europe( Maybe it can be an incentive to make them bring other Falcom titles like Tokyo Xanadu, and avoid ot being Digital Only like many other Aksys games here in EU) and, most of all, I'll be probably busy with both God Eater Resurrection and Rage Burst in September, so I'd have two games in a month anyways, in September rather than November.
You don't just forget 16.5!
LifeBrandRobot
Member
No Physical Vita version in NA? Good, I don't have to care about this game then.
Dedication Through Light
Member
I need that Soma outfit.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
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