Have you ever played the fighting games: Gundam Wing Endless Duel (Super Famicom) and the Gundam Battle Assault games for PS1 ? (there´s also 2 for GBA) Personally, I thought those were great…

I can´t mention others because I haven´t played them, but I could mention a lot of worthy games based on other anime.

“Doesn’t change the fact the game is bad.”

“Yes all the games I listed are bonafide bad games. If you like bad games, thats your problem.”

So…you don´t think that gaming preferences (as other preferences) are subjective ? Is nobody entitled to disagree with you ? What makes your personal opinion/preference undisputable ?

Not everyone likes the same, deal with it. The only thing that is not subjective about games would be its technical specifications, but those don´t make a game better by itself. Art designs, story, music, gameplay (related to genre), display (2D, 3D, from the top, side scroller, etc), button configurations/interfaces…all subjective.

If you don´t respect other people´s opinions/preferences, nobody will respect yours.

By the way, I don´t think that anyone here has said that they like every game that Atlus/NIS published…I don´t even know if there´s people out there who have played them all (doubtful). But even if that were the case, I don´t see how it affects you.

“Yet, I have friends that are completely disillusioned by the the current crop of low-budget, Otaku anime-fetish style rpg/srpgs.”

And let me remind you that there´s a lot of “mediocre” (based on reviews and sales) western games out there, and JRPGs and SRPGs are much rare in the US than FPS or other western games. If it weren´t for Atlus and NIS, we would practically get only Square-Enix and Bandai-Namco RPGs (those that they choose to release), which is a really small part of what the Japanese produce.

And personally, I´m an anime fan that cares more about japanese games than western games…and I don´t see what´s wrong with that. There´s a lot of people in the US that mostly play M rated western games along some racing/sport games. I respect their preference, and I think mine should be respected as well.

Plus anything w/ Nazi and the occult makes it automatically cool (Hellboy). The camera might be frustrating to wrestle w/, but not game-breaking compared to Sonic PS3 which is an action game. OP is not perfect and could use improvement, but it was fun to play.

No, not all game are good and I have certainly regretted some of my game purchases. As long as one has fun w/ the games, who cares, that’s the bottom line.

BTW, I’m not a rogue fan at all, Izuna was my first and I loved it, even though it was hard for me, and Izuna 2 only improves on it right, so I don’t know how that could be bad. I’m interested in trying out Baroque (and now the upcoming Int’l version), but I’m scared of the unforgiving diffculty, lol.

I do love srpgs. Good ones. Summon Night series, Disgea, SRW, Final Fantasy Tactics

Why you people would rather play Operation Darkness or Spectral Force 3 than this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWGfmrcRk3Y&feature=related

is beyond me.

The game system is actually really well done. It’s not a “bad game”. Sorry to break this to you, but your opinion actually counts for nothing.

In addition, MS Saga (a Gundam game, even though it doesn’t have Gundam in the name) is actually not bad, either.

Honestly I have no problems with this flood of shovelware releases. Yet, I have friends that are completely disillusioned by the the current crop of low-budget, Otaku anime-fetish style rpg/srpgs. Do I love those types of games, I sure do, the more the better, but I know in my logical objective brain that these games are low-budget half-assed developed games that are meant to entice the Otaku demographic.

Justifying Operation Darkness is like me justifying a Gundam game, which we can all agree have all been crap, (except Gundam Universe, because it has the Nu-Gundam DFF), see what I did there…

First, Izuna 1/2 is very bad even by rogue-game standards. Operation Darkness…ok if you think Operation Darkness is good, then you got some serious problems.

You know I dont’ subscribe to the philosophy that everyones opinions hold the same water and that everything under the sun is good. There are such things as bad games people. Half of you posters pretty much implied that there are no such things as bad games, because someone out there likes it. I’m sorry there are such things as bad games, and Operation Darkness is a prime example of one. Spectral Force 3 is another example.

I”m not saying Atlus USA only publishes bad games, I actually like a lot of the games Atlus USA publishes, but that doesn’t mean they dont’ publish bad games.

Yes all the games I listed are bonafide bad games. If you like bad games, thats your problem.

You know someone out there actually Dakitana, doesn’t change the fact it was horrible piece of shit game.

Hey I like shitty games too. Luminous Arc and Arc Tonelico are my guilty pleasures. Yet even I concede that they aren’t good games.

Am I busting my nut because Atlus is releasing Luminous Arc 2, of course I am, but i’m not going to justify my purchase of it.