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Post by na00 on Jan 22, 2014 12:53:09 GMT -5
I really liked the article, but some of the comments are really irritating.
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Post by .:[R]Plus:. on Jan 22, 2014 14:48:17 GMT -5
well i think the article went a bit too literal with the identities of the players, how about mentioning just their first name and age or simply a username? cause the random readers have started branding them with the "P" word and honestly having someone's identity out there and people calling them that is borderline cyber bullying.
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Post by na00 on Jan 22, 2014 15:30:41 GMT -5
And that, for all of you that have ever asked, is the reason this game won't never, ever get an english release.
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Post by odin on Jan 22, 2014 17:57:48 GMT -5
I think the problem with how journalists view the game vs how we do is on opposite spectrums. News outlets like TIME, NY Post, among the other major North American papers, including those in Europe (Telegraph, etc), are the same way. The thing is, I'm Asian, so I have no problems with it. It's very personal. Our entertainment is done in the same manner, whether games or other story mediums.
There's no question the game was made for one type of audience, the Japanese, so I'm not sure why the journalists somehow feel they need to justify it's for them with their mindset.
Now, this isn't about Xenophobia or anything, but the Western media tend to speak up more loudly than other newsgroups I've seen. It's just in their nature. And I'm living in the US, saying this.
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Post by chrnos on Jan 22, 2014 20:00:42 GMT -5
she had asked me for the interview...
asked a few friends and they said that something like this might happen, so stayed away from her and just ignored it...
the article was too literal and.. gah!!
is for those reasons and many others that dating sims might never get a release here...
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Post by na00 on Jan 22, 2014 21:06:00 GMT -5
On a second read, I think the article lacks the point of view of someone who looks LP as only a game, and not as a substitute for a relationship. I mean, in my particular case, I keep playing the game 'cause there still pics to unlock, events to watch, items to buy, achievements to attain. And not 'cause I'm really in love with my virtual girlfriend or something like that.
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Post by odin on Jan 22, 2014 21:34:12 GMT -5
It's written like a bad summary of all of the Love Plus related articles I've read. Picking the most atypical examples, singling them out. Showing us how people in different countries deal with their virtual lives? But the majority of players aren't like that. They're like you, and us. I'm in the same boat, they're just "non-intimately cute" (if you like pixels, haha), nothing more. It's like a broken record.
The media just likes to blow it up when there isn't anything to talk about. Yes, they look better in NLP, but they're a far cry from real girls (Asian or not).
And this being all in the mind of Uchida, no less XD.
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Post by chappy on Jan 30, 2014 1:56:11 GMT -5
On a second read, I think the article lacks the point of view of someone who looks LP as only a game, and not as a substitute for a relationship. I mean, in my particular case, I keep playing the game 'cause there still pics to unlock, events to watch, items to buy, achievements to attain. And not 'cause I'm really in love with my virtual girlfriend or something like that. Basically this is my thoughts on the article as well. A western release looks dim, if this perception keeps going around Maybe if Konami could do a super-limited, online-store-preorder-only english release as a love letter for diehard Konami fans, ones who can see past the sensationalist news nonsense...
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