/v/ - Video Games

And since PQube are a British company two things could be possible here.

1. They're under police investigation for "producting child pornography" because that's the shitty excuse the UK used to ban the game there in the first place. (BECAUSE DRAWINGS ARE PEOPLE TOO!)

Or 2. the UK government are doing some kind of C&D legal bullshit to prevent them from working on the game any further.

>>14842126

Leave the retarded cuck shithole already.

>>14842126

Don't forget about the new requirement of needing a license to purchase pornography. With the silliness that is going on with the UK, I would inagine them wanting to classify this game as porn and require citizens to have a license to buy a game that is banned in their country.

>At least UK is doing something to save their decaying morality.

this is bait

>>14842141

Not that this looks like a game I'd ever want to play, but why do the bongs have such a hateboner for it?

>>14842183

The girls look better than any 3dpd on teaville.

>>14842185

Maybe now some of the virgins on this board will learn to be man enough for real women instead of wasting their time on fake ones.

>>14842170

I still can't tell if it's a VN or not.

>>14842211

The average SWM is so beaten down that I don't blame them for taking refuge with 2d.

>>14842227

>I still can't tell if it's a VN or not.

Its a shitty low effort mystery dungeon style roguelike. And its absolutely inferior than other games in this genre. The only appeal is that it has underwear shots and boobjob minigame.

Goons begone

>>14842258

>And its absolutely inferior than other games in this genre.

You got shit to backup that statement?

>>14842205

How long until the ugly hag and spineless pseudointellectual shit implodes and thankfully rots away from humanity?

That pathetic excuse of the once glorious Britain needs final obliteration.

Well PQube is fucking terrible when it comes to PR. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was a legal issue with the UK.

>>14842268

Don't worry, they let in enough dune coons to destroy themselves from the inside out. And since they're busy chasing cartoon tits instead of facing facts their downfall is inevitable.

>>14842258

>The only appeal

Isn't it supposed to have breast expansion?

>>14842258

Oh, interesting. It looks like a weeb skinned Dungeons of Dredmor. I'm genuinely surprised that there's actual gameplay.

>>14842285

It does

>>14842282

Raccoons and even inner city black people can have intelligence, mudshits can't. Take it back.

And the only concerns I have are for anons or any other poor soul currently unable to leave that shithole I get along with on Twatter and that we need any nukes fucking destroyed by force if necessary.

>>14842336

The eurocucks have no fucking authority or leadership to stop the mudshits from collapsing a once proud and distinguished country. Good riddance when all of the retards die just to virtue signal as the finest cautioning Darwin award ever when the retards would tellingly rather screech "pedo" about developed cartoon women that have big tits and the brains to love, date and fuck responsibly and enjoyably instead of doing anything to stop the actual bullshit happening to little kids.

Stop the pathetic "Nazi" buzzword shit. It's quite fucking annoying.

>>14842336

Inshaallah there my dhimmi friend! Present your imageboard license or report to your nearest satrap for summary beheading.

>>14842427

>chromatically aberrated animu girls

Remove this filth.

>>14842134

porn on that brown fairy semen demon?

>>14842383

>stabbings go through the roof

>police only care about finding the person who distributes anime merch

The brits truly do have the best comedy

>>14842463

Feel free to euthanize yourself first for existing.

>>14842463

Euthanize yourself for being pro censorship.

Why does the vita even still get games?

>>14842497

Still sells them in japan.

>>14842463

>Mystery Dungeon with big anime tiddies

>wants us to euthanize

Practice sincerity.

>>14842480

>Want a laifu? Bin that waifu!

>Be a man. No to onee-chan!

>Danga'! Manga!

>Don't want mug? Kill that smug!

>Any good anime? Hard to say.

>Folly to chase loli.

>Anime, eh? We're anti-dere!

>>14843278

>folly to chase loli

>pronouncing loli like lollipop

Americans everybody.

>>14843278

>HELL NO WE WON'T IMOUTO

>>14843278

Britain needs to burn.

>>14842487

>defending titties

>pro censorship

Are you retarded?

>Mark deleted the post

Grow a thicker skin you kike.

>>14843445

Low-lee is the correct pronounciation.

>>14843437

>waah stop getting rid of retarded shitposters

Shut the fuck up.

>>14843289

Eh, I had to try something.

>>14843419

No denying that.

>>14843454

How do you pronounce lollipop?

>>14843278

pretty good shit, but the last 3 were bad.

>>14843751

Loli is from Lolita, which is pronounced "low-lee-tah".

>>14843454

It's loh-lee.

>>14844452

Vowels in romance languages have 1 sound. 'Lo' won't sound 'low' or 'loe' ever, it's always 'loh'.

This is concerning. How's the digging going? Is there going to be another company who will pick this up or do you think that company will censor it?

>>14843610

>didn't read

>hurr butthurt

Kill yourself.

>>14844579

You're kidding, right? The "a" in "car" sounds different from the one in "babe". English uses the schwa to separate the different pronunciations of the same vowel. Similarly, "lo" sounds different in "lob" and in "globe", "loli" is like "globe".

>>14844701

I think Pqube was the only company remotely interested in it to begin with, and I'm not sure if it might have taken prodding from Play-Asia (given they had opted to ask around for what never-ever class Japan only games western fans would like, OL1 being high on that list at the time). The first game sure as fuck didn't come overseas, to the point OLZ being cleared came as a surprise. NA ESRB already rated it M (certainly high, but still releasable as it wasn't AO), but in Pqube's native bongland, the game got refused classification, on grounds of being "potentially harmful to consumers and normalizing child molestation", or something (while not doing anything against the rapefugees they have making good on the slur; wouldn't want to upset their poor guests). Only other games given that RC rating in britbongistan apparently being Manhunt 2 and Carmageddon. Wouldn't surprise me if "ineligible for native release" was also supposed to imply Pqube also needed to drop the game entirely, and since they didn't in the following months, maybe they got in trouble. Whatever the case, last I saw they're not allowed to speak about what's going on, or even the status of the game. Which is kind of odd since some weeks back someone had asked them on twatter if the game was still coming and they said yes. Also struck me that maybe SCEE decided they didn't want the game in their library; different circumstances, but SCEA has thrown their weight around in the past to decree what games could be in the NA library for the PS2 and PSP, such as forcing Agetec to cancel Shadow Tower Abyss' western release, and blocking PSP ports of games that weren't deemed to have enough changed/added. Overall though, I get the feeling that if the game is indeed cancelled, no one's liable to pick it back up. Regardless, it does make me think they could do with at least a small US branch; I know we've got our own issues with localization here, but it would be useful for times where PAL (the UK specifically in Pqube's case) might shit a brick over a particular game, in order to still get games released in English under more lenient circumstances.

Personal speculation, but I can't help but feel these repeated declinations to rate lewd games in PAL countries are an attempt to force the companies that want to handle them to get in line with the rest of the shitters in either censoring or just plain not deeming such games appropriate. I can give Pqube and IFI some praise for simply writing off the countries that tell them "no" as native markets to release in, but I think eventually it's going to reach a point where it's just not going to be deemed profitable enough to try to release such games, or at least release them intact. Of course, another option I see is a return to the old days of NA getting various releases while PAL gets repeatedly fucked out of the same ones (though at least the Vita and PS4 have been region free for physical carts, which is better than sixth gen and earlier).

>>14844452

Just like low-lee-pohwep

Get lewd games directly from Japan.

Learn japanese.

And kill your local leftists and jews.

>>14844885

But then it's that region free thing that makes western releases iffy. It might be sold in the NA but PAL markets could ban imports of the game from NA without censorshit couldn't they?

If Steam wasn't having a tiddy war this is where Omega Labrynth should go multi-platform on console and PC. That said the company may never trust western localization again after this.

>>14845594

Sage for second post. However this thought recently occured to me. Do you think the recent legislation changes in regards to porn in the UK will bring back region locking to physical devices, if next game consoles have physical media?

>>14845594

Possibly. I'd be curious as to if Ausfags have been able to import Valkyrie Drive and MeiQ without them just getting confiscated in customs and/or slammed for importing games deemed "CP".

>Steam titty war

I'd honestly thought to myself "well at least OLZ isn't on Steam, considering Valve's urge to purge", yet here we are. Also makes me worried SoA might back out on their claims that Shining Resonance isn't going to be censored here, but that's more a general localization climate issue than anything relating to Pqube or OLZ.

Again, I think the issue lies more in that the UK banned the game from release. If Pqube had a NA branch (hopefully one not as awful as most NA localizers; staying the fuck out out of west coast cities, especially commiefornia, for headquarters could help there) they probably wouldn't have an issue with being able to continue work with it, given that it was rated M here while PAL continues to NOPE at it and other lewd games.

>That said the company may never trust western localization again after this.

Depends on if you mean D3 or Matrix Software. D3 functions as the Japanese publisher, and they have (or perhaps had at some point?) a NA branch as well, though these days they seem to use XSEED for the likes of EDF and Onechanbara out here. But even then, they've got a number of recent games I suppose not even XSEED wants to go anywhere near

>>14845859

Does XSEED announce, or at least their games get announced, at E3? I haven't paid attention to that front in years. Beyond that though, I recall rumor from an anon that claimed to have been to some Japanese game conference that Falcom might just drop XSEED again in favor of some other company that was cheaper and faster for Legend of Heroes, the way they did for Ys VIII and Tokyo Xanadu. Of course, that was before NISA fucked things up (which shouldn't even come as a surprise), so maybe that sort of sentiment's changed, if it was actually true to begin with.

At this point the only game I'm particularly interested in that's confirmed for coming overseas, assuming OLZ is indeed cancelled, is Shining Resonance. Which is also assuming SoA doesn't fuck it up.

>>14844579

Low is pronounced like "loh" exactly. Rhymes with "oh" as in "oh shit". Row sounds like road without the "d".

>>14845954

For those games, being "banned" meant that they were denied any rating so retailers in the country were barred from being able to sell the games. They weren't made illegal to possess. There's nothing illegal about about importing the games, it's just that local storefronts can't sell the games since they have no rating. I've imported all of those "banned" games with absolutely no trouble or delays from customs.

>>14845984

I see. Thanks for the info.

>>14845954

According to the leak of booths/panels Xseed is announcing an RPG for PC and PS4. There is a chance that may be CS3.

NISA probably won't get much from Falcom after the Ys8 shitstorm pissed off the nip market. If NISA did get it I'm fucking done with vidya for a while, I'm sick of scavenging table scraps from this shitshow of an industry. I don't have the time to learn Japanese and I'm too old for that shit, I'll just play games from my nearly endless backlog on flash carts/older consoles and watch more anime.

>>14845999

Seems a fair bet since I'm not sure what else might be currently Japan only that they'd be interested in, but that's still assuming they've got work with Falcom. As a check though, is Falcom only planning for the Cold Steel saga to be four parts? Or do they have more in the works?

>NISA probably won't get much from Falcom after the Ys8 shitstorm pissed off the nip market.

>pissed off the nip market.

If you mean pissing off Falcom, yeah, but I'd honestly find it impressive (in a bad way) if they managed to get the average Japanese fan angry, since usually it seems like as long as what the west does to their games doesn't affect their native ones, they don't care much (but when it does the otaku throw a justified fit, like with Star Ocean V).

>>14846040

CS is going to be 4 games. Technically it was originally supposed to be 3, as CS1&2 were supposed to be one game. It got split into two because of the limitations of the Vita's game cards, which also caused some content to get cut as well.

The Ys8 thing turned into a problem for nips as because NISA did the PC port for all regions, so they got stuck with a game that ran like shit just like the west. At the very least Falcom won't be letting NISA port stuff for their own market anymore.

>>14846133

Why would it be a shitstorm? Aside from being the second Olympics Trump attends as a sitting president.

>>14846148

Olympics are loaded with politics no matter what, and I heard reports lot of japanese touristic areas told the stores with "questionable" content to close during the event, as well as temples that had to hide/take down the manji symbols because your average westernfag is programmed to automatically see those as the mark of the third reich

>>14846133

I don't buy into the Olympics meme, as there isn't a single nation on earth that permanently changed national policy for a couple weeks of visitors, and Japan sure as hell isn't going to be the first.

I'd be more concerned about anime/manga/games becoming more restricted in the west as more nations go for the drawings = cp angle.

If America sees another democrat president we're almost certain to end up like the UK and Germany in regard to how they handle this stuff, along with many, many other issues.

>>14846168

All that is temporary, like when China had to shut off factories and stop selling dog meat in Beijing so people didn't realize China is full of dog snacking insectoids that live in toxic gas.

At the most they locals won't be able to put up eroge ads with lolis showing off their soaking panties for a couple weeks.

If anything the experience will just bolster Japanese hatred of foreigners, which is a good thing. They need a reminder that the west is full of hysterical retards that should be ignored at all costs.

>>14846221

I think nip devs are going to start outright cutting off the west as it becomes more of a pain in their ass to deal with them. This current mess with OLZ is going to make a lot of smaller devs question if it's even worth taking the risk of seeing a localization deal go bust from random bullshit.

>>14846265

If companies just made English versions of things for the SEA countries, I'd be kinda alright with it. Bandai Namco has localized every shitty Gundam game while all the good ones are SEA/Japan only.

>>14846278

I actually preferred those, the localizations were kinda sloppy but I'd rather have that than the censorship and memeshit you see everywhere else. Unfortunately I haven't seen too many of those HK games with English in a long time. I was really disappointed when Moe Chronical Crystal got cancelled out of nowhere.

>cancelled

Whelp, time to rent a van and run a bunch of people over, if that's the case.

>>14846583

>Why is there even a gag order attached to this?

I would actually feel morally obligated to disobey a gag order if i ever received one.

Like in what context is a gag order not completely unfair horseshit?

>>14846183

This.

>>14846583

I fully understand these sort of games are more of a novelty than anything, I still get enjoyment out of them regardless. They usually sell at a lower price than most games (unless you go for the special edition shit) and I think they have every right to exist. If hipsters can play a game about squiggly cocks wriggling around and fucking each other I should be able to play a game about anime girls growing their tits to fight monsters without the intervention of national governments. The absurdity of the situation is the most frustrating part of this whole thing.

Can we nuke the EU and UK before NK? I'm getting wave after wave of "We updated our privacy policy." on so many websites.

UK got back stabbed really hard. Not only are they getting fucked on Brexit, they are also being policed 1984 style with the Online Communications Act and the Count Dankula case. Plus with a porn ban requiring a license for porn means this will be the end of the Tories next election.

Sorry for off-topic, but the UK really needs a new political party to rise. If it's UKIP and Nigel then so be it.

>>14847952

>this will be the end of the Tories next election

It won't. I remember when people bitched about the tories a few years ago… then they voted them back into power.

At this juncture in the time, the average British person is a fucking moron. Because they just keep voting the same clowns (be it Tory or Labour) back into power.

>>14847973

Then Britain will be absorbed into the Europa Islamic Empire.

>>14847878

Being able to demand (((companies))) show you what data they've gathered on you and that they delete it is one of the few things the EU has done right. You'd rather be even more helpless just so you don't get a few dozen emails?

>>14847973

>At this juncture in the time, the average British person is a fucking moron. Because they just keep voting the same clowns (be it Tory or Labour) back into power.

It's sad how so many in the UK still vote on the loosest of political knowledge like 'Labour is for the working class, I'm working class so I vote Labour.' Beyond that the system is stacked so heavily against a new party being able to rise any sort of influence. I can't imagine just how bad the UK will be in half a century.

>>14844728

>two strawmans back to back

>doesn't even know what he's arguing about

Try having a point for once you fucking nigger.

>>14848036

>I can't imagine just how bad the UK will be in half a century.

It will just turn into United Caliphate, so will majority of EU.

>>14845999

I'm 30 and I'm still learning Japanese that age and language thing is bullshit.

>>14846040

Their garbage PC port was released in Japan as well angry articles were written about it from Japanese news sites. They pissed off the Japanese market.

>>14849288

>the list* goes on

fug

So the game is cleared to come out in North America. Even if PAL gets screwed, the question is will the United Kingdom and the EU have the right to prevent the North American localization from being distributed even if distribution moves to NA because the localization originated in the UK?

If so for an American English localization will the script have to be rewritten and the game (((edited))) by a new publisher and the game re-submitted to the ESRB for a new rating?

>>14850330

It's a joke, you fucking mong.

>>14850370

Yes, but the other two examples are based on real-world events, re: Tommy Robinson's recent arrest/sentencing and UK police confiscating hammers and sticks as weapons. Presumably the 3rd is based on something from real-life as well.

Anime and their vidya counterparts won't always be around you know. At some point it will be made illegal.

>>14848036

>Beyond that the system is stacked so heavily against a new party being able to rise any sort of influence.

Sounds similar to the US. Trump ran as a republican candidate, not because he was necessarily Republican, but because no independent party can ever seem to win against the two big ones. And even then he had to beat out like sixteen other runners to get the candidacy.

>>14850272

>So the game is cleared to come out in North America.

Was cleared, anyhow.

>Even if PAL gets screwed, the question is will the United Kingdom and the EU have the right to prevent the North American localization from being distributed even if distribution moves to NA because the localization originated in the UK?

>If so for an American English localization will the script have to be rewritten and the game (((edited))) by a new publisher and the game re-submitted to the ESRB for a new rating?

I'm not sure. I would assume that, at least the way most JP -> NA -> PAL localizations work out, PAL usually just buys usage rights to the prior English script from NA and maybe just tweak the spellings a bit for PAL English, rather than retranslate the whole thing when its technically already in a given language (especially if said game already has English voicing to go with it). I'd like to think vice versa can and does happen, but such cases of JP -> PAL -> NA are kind of rare in comparison. This also assumes against a few things: one, that Pqube was finished on the translation and editing end when this happened to begin with, two, that Pqube would sell the script to another company (they still publish to North America themselves despite working out of bongland), and three, that any American company is interested in buying the script and/or doing an intact release. Also perhaps whether or not Pqube's in the shit right now, and with whom (was it D3 that backed out, or did they piss off the UK government somehow?).

>>14842440

The anime vendor is less likely to stab back.

>>14850418

The game was cleared for NA then. Why is it not cleared now? The only reason why I can think of it not being cleared for release now is because both NA and PAL were going to use the same place to distribute.

That said, you bring up D3 falling out of the deal as a possibility. Perhaps it isn't Pqube or the government we should be asking about, but D3's and Sony's deal. If Sony says D3 is required to localize the game for both SEoA and SEoE markets or no distribution rights then no distribution rights.

Now someone on Twitter is claiming Song of Memories has been removed from their site.

>>14853739

Post archive?

>>14853747

I cannot find it on their games list page http://pqube.co.uk/games/

Although, the official page is still up. http://pqube.co.uk/song-of-memories/

This page still seems to exist at the time of writing.

http://pqube.co.uk/omega-labyrinth-z-is-coming-to-the-west/

Just… unlisted.