• Valve Contacted Japanese Developers To Bring Their Games To Steam
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[url='http://www.siliconera.com/2012/09/07/valve-contacted-japanese-developers-to-bring-their-games-to-steam/']via siliconera[/url] [quote]Steam has been getting an increasing number of Japanese titles like Recettear from Carpe Fulgur to most recently a port of ClaDun x2 from NIS America. Marvelous AQL will join the Steam train with Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy, which is slated for release on September 27. "As I understand it, Valve got in touch with us! They’re keen on giving their users great options on their service and they contacted several Japanese publishers," Marvelous AQL producer Esteban Jose Salazar said to Siliconera. "I was actually hired on after MAQL had decided which game to publish. My first day they told me we’d be doing Half-Minute Hero on Steam and my grin was about a foot wide. I’m a huge fan of both. Valve has made it so easy for us to bring the game to Steam with their constant support and amazing publishing tools. Running development of a game in two languages (English and Japanese) can cause major headaches, but Valve was always prompt and professional in helping us out." Xseed has said Half-Minute Hero was one of their lowest selling titles. That was disappointing news to hear since Half-Minute Hero is stellar with a fantastic localization. There’s one particular scene in the Hero 30 storyline players won’t forget. Salazar believes Steam can give Half-Minute Hero a wider audience. "[Steam] gives us instant visibility without having to worry about an ad campaign and shelf space. In addition, we can be flexible on the price. While we might have to charge more for a disc-based version, with digital distribution we can offer the game at a price that users consider fair." Marvelous AQL has a long list of titles they could bring to Steam like Luminous Arc 3, No More Heroes, and Grand Knights History. I asked Salazar what’s next for Marvelous AQL and Steam? Will we see original games made for PC? Ports of games that didn’t get localized? "At this point, we are considering our best options. The PC is a killer platform, Steam is a dynamite service, and as long as I’m here I’ll be championing both for our games, old or new. The best things you can do to see more games from us on Steam is pick up this game and let us know you are interested in others. I can’t give you any specific hints, but if the game sells reasonably well, I personally would like to see us doing something *grand* on the PC. I think others would too, but first I have to show my bosses it’s a lucrative platform."[/quote] Valve is so awesome. Ports of Bayoneta and Vanquish on PC would be glorious!!
[IMG]http://www.jastusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/hentai_steam_april1.jpg[/IMG] Fucking finally
Yes please.
That'd be pretty sick. [editline]8th September 2012[/editline] I REALLY wanted to make some kind of, "now I can play all my delicious hentai games" joke etc.
I want persona on steam. :c
Yeah first ClaDun X2 and Dark Souls and now Half Minute Hero, could we get some other great Japanese titles?
Can't wait! [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Rapelay.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Lambeth;37584186]I want persona on steam. :c[/QUOTE] actually if they manage to port and move over the newer persona 4 Arena (I think) I'd be fucking sold.
Pretty soon Steam will start looking like this. [t]http://i.imgur.com/FtLYt.jpg[/t]
Wait, NMH could be on Steam? Awesome. Its good to see more Japanese companies go on PC, and even using Steam. I admit, some games I played that was made by a Japanese company was good on Steam(hint: charging 300% on someone who wants to buy food during a shortage). This is good news.
[quote]Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy[/quote] Is this a joke?
They should put Touhou.
Koei games please.
maybe i'll finally get a port of If I Were in a Sealed Room With a Girl, I'd Probably XXX
If I were sealed in a room with Japanese port, I'd probably XXX [editline]7th September 2012[/editline] God dammit
[quote]Marvelous AQL has a long list of titles they could bring to Steam like Luminous Arc 3[/quote] You still haven't localized it for the DS you assholes [editline]8th September 2012[/editline] marvelous marvelous pls i beg
Neat.
[QUOTE=ForcedDj;37584233]Wait, NMH could be on Steam? Awesome. [/QUOTE] I [b]NEED[/b] this, also Killer 7 too.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;37584186]I want persona on steam. :c[/QUOTE] I would cry tears of happiness the day I say Persona 3 FES Persona 4/Golden on Steam. I'm not even kidding.
[QUOTE=fenwick;37584262]Is this a joke?[/QUOTE] Nope.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;37584186]I want persona on steam. :c[/QUOTE] You'd have to end the sony exclusivity first. And uh, that ain' happenin'. Ever.
I want fuckin...umm. Fucking goddamnit I can't think of anything. Did Bangai-O ever get a PC port? [editline]8th September 2012[/editline] Oh shit, this is extremely unlikely but the only Japan only game that I ever wanted was the Fist of the North Star fighting game and if it came to steam just somehow I would cum for a million years.
[QUOTE=Swiket;37584221]Pretty soon Steam will start looking like this. [t]http://i.imgur.com/FtLYt.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Men, the weeaboos prepare to invade our lands, take our freedom, and rape our asses. Today we make our final stand. The BLUs, the robots, they were all just training, for tonight, we die together. - Dr. Fritz Krutz, RED Team medic, speech before the Victory of General Hatsune Miku at the Battle of Teufort.
Although Hentai games will never be on steam because Steam allows no pornography at all. Thus, you've just blown most Visual Novels away. And thus, I am shattered.
[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;37584525]You'd have to end the sony exclusivity first. And uh, that ain' happenin'. Ever.[/QUOTE] :c
Put fucking Madworld on steam
Hentai jokes aside, I'm not sure about this. Some games stay in Japan because they might not appeal to a Western audience.
Valve and Japan are gonna go into hardware development together and produce an army of killer Valve bots with Steam running on each one to deliver to us all a friendly DRM service that allows you to play games and watch hentai.
[QUOTE=ashxu;37585039]Hentai jokes aside, I'm not sure about this. Some games stay in Japan because they might not appeal to a Western audience.[/QUOTE] And like Feuver said, they also contain lots of adult material which is not allowed.
Bayonetta on the PC would be glorious, it was already amazing on consoles and it'd be even prettier on the PC. Who knows, maybe we'll start seeing more Final Fantasies and even Monster Hunter on Steam one day.
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