Have you ever had one of those dreams where you think you've already woken up?
You know the ones. You wake up, get out of bed, get dressed, head off to school, college, or work, and get on with your day quite happily, before suddenly waking up again and realizing that none of it has actually happened, except in your mind. And on top of that, you've usually slept straight through your alarm and are now going to be late for wherever you thought you already were.
Today is a lot like that for me. You see it's finally been announced that Elite Beat Agents is coming to Europe on July the 13th, and frankly, I'd long since forgotten it wasn't already out. It's not that I'm not used to this sort of thing you understand. I've lived here for 26 years, so I'm fully au fait with the continent being seen as the hungry dog under the dinner table; not a real guest at the party at all, but okay to throw scraps to every so often.
It's just that with EBA we're talking about an eight month delay, for a game which I've already played three versions of since this year began, including its originator's official sequel. And which they've already had in Japanese stores for months, meaning that everyone in the world has already completed it several times over. The kind of double-take I made when reminded that the release date is still over a month away hasn't been seen since the heyday of Looney Tunes.
Odds of Ouendan 2 not getting a European iteration when EBA inexplicably doesn't sell to everyone who's already got it? Place bets now!
[Via Kotaku]
Contest:
2:46 PM on 06.06.2007
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Why the hell does it take so long for Europe to get new games?
Any of our mainland Europe readers know any different?
The most famous example if Secret Of Mana taking a full year and an independent magazine campaign (God bless you Super Play) to make the journey. After the lacklustre European sales (and a strange coincidental spike in the adaptor market), Nintendo shied away from releasing RPGs in the EU until Sony got hold of Final Fantasy
I agree with you 100% Houghton. We europeans get on the same hype train as the americans do sadly it stops sometimes even a year before the game is released over here. You just don't care anymore after that period of time.
"Becouse there is so many retards who needs it in spanish, french, german and so on."
In fact many European gamers would love to get the games in English or at least wouldn`t mind if there is no translation. But it`s the same with TV shows and movies: broadcast stations decide to translate them and most times ruin the show just because they might get a bigger audience with the translation. That`s retarded. In the Netherlands e.g. they don`t seem to translate any stuff at all, just subtitles, which is way better.
I hate being part of the EU. Stoopid other languages
RINDA, RINDA! RINDA, RINDA, RINDAAA!!!
Best song ever. Fact.
That's not Linda but good effort. True fact, that is the best song ever and I regularly find myself going "do bu ne zu mi, mi tai ni..." etc :D Sexy times.
RINDA, RINDA! RINDA, RINDA, RINDAAA!!!
So I did.
lol I remember the Animal Crossing petition. That was a fuckabout, but we got it in the end ^.^
aperrently this is what all Game companies, not just Sony think.