who buys imports?

the_waltz · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 2:50 pm Post subject: who buys imports?

how many of you here at anime-source actually own import titles, whether it's a pirated copy or a real import?

currently, i own 2: sin & punishment for the N64 and gundam vs Z gundam for the GC, both the actual imports from japan

Raiden · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject:

ahh...err...
ALL my games back in my country are ALL Pirated ones. Since that's all you can find there. I can also find genuine ones but...they're too expnesive. Only people with lots of $$$ can buy them.
so I have the pleasure of playing Japanese or US titles. And sometimes I compare both the US and JP version of the same title.
I have:
Rockman Dash 2
Rockman 1-6
Macross VFX-2
Rockman X3
Macross: Do you remember love?
Valkyrie Profile
Metal SLUG, Metal SLUG X
GranDoll and many others that I already forgot.
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silverkitsune · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject:

Only import I ever bought was Guilty Gear X on Dreamcast.
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ArkImpulse · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Mar 19, 2005 Posts: 60

yeah I play import games so far I have...

Naruto 2 (fighting game)
Shaman King Funbari Spirits
Gundam Seed To Never ending tomorrow (Jap)
SD Gundam Seed Generation
Tales of Symphonia (Jap ps2)
Gundam Seed Destiny (Tactics)
Yu Yu Hakusho Tournament game

umm yeah, just to tell you some of those aren't really the actual titles lol

Cornel · Yari Ashigaru Joined: Dec 05, 2004 Posts: 290

Naruto GNT 3 for gamecube
Bleach: heat the soul 2 for psp

Link_128 · newbie! Joined: Dec 16, 2005 Posts: 14

Well, in my country we don't have a strong industry, so I ALWAYS buy imported games. And even tough the ratings of pirate games are huge, I never bought a pirated game in my life.

Raiden · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 11:10 am Post subject:

btw guys...I'm sure some of you noticed this. Everytime I get an import game...the difficulty settings are much higher than the US release right? Or maybe is it just me?

since I always compare the US and JP releaes of each game that I can get. Do you agree with this theory? Does it mean they lowered the difficulty for US gamers?
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slaygore · newbie! Joined: Nov 28, 2005 Posts: 36 Location: Canada

In some cases its true. For me FF X-2 was harder in the japanese version than the american version. Also the international version of FFX was insanely hard(although there was no american version for that)

For others they are about the same level. Other cases such as Devil May Cry 3 the american version was way harder than the japanese version.

Also it depends on which you play first. The one you play first will obvisiously be harder since you don't know what to do while the second one you know everything already.
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the_waltz · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject:

slaygore · newbie! Joined: Nov 28, 2005 Posts: 36 Location: Canada

Uh actually the default setting for America was Normal which was actually the Hard setting in Japan. Which means that the japanese's version is way easier as the American's Normal level is equivalent to the japanese's Hard level.
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lilfairy · newbie! Joined: Jan 18, 2006 Posts: 12

me !!!!!
unfortunately for me the better NDS titles are comming out mostly in japanese ... so ... yeah ... have no chioce but to import

Serix · newbie! Joined: Dec 28, 2005 Posts: 23

The only games imported that I've played recently are Naruto GMT 3 and Naruto GMT 4. They're both fighting games. The games themselves aren't that complex or difficult to learn, it's more about timing and the like. The controls are actually quite easy. But it seems to be 100x more fun for Naruto fans, as they take insanely long to get tired of the game. (Including me.)
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pnayako · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:31 am Post subject:

All my dreamcast games I got either from China or someone I know in the Philippines, and all are pirated ^^ My PS2 games are the same, but my XBOX360, I got it from China, they have the cheapest Very Happy

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Raiden · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject:

It's probably modded...like always.
but I think Xbox and 360 are impossible to be modded, from what I heard.

I really loved those Modded systems...you'll never have to buy another system to play imports, pirated and any other games. Since it plays it all!
I loved those days^^
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