But they did... they localized it very well

Remember that the idea of turning Japan into an alternate-universe America came from a guy named Ben Judd, the head of the team that localized Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney back in 2005. Janet Hsu, the person who is in charge of the localization since PW:AA - Justice for All, was forced to keep the american setting to not break the consistency between the games.

But then again, by now the whole "we are in LA/the US" has become a running joke in the AA series.
Hell, even Capcom makes fun of it, so I don't think it has to be taken too seriously.

I mean, come on! Nobody believes Kurain Village or Nine-Tails Vale are "japanese-immigrant-founded american towns", or

Wait, but if cat hates Ace Attorney, then why she on court-records?

Because C-R is a forum for people to discuss Ace Attorney, and not the unironic version of /r/aceattorneycirclejerk. Right?

I'm not saying you should love Ace Attorney to be here, you can dislike most of it, but I just feel like it's weird to be part of a community that is centered around a game series where pretty much every member loves that series, and being one of the only persons who's really negative about it, maybe it's just a personal thing, but I would find that to be extremely annoying to have 99% of people disagree with me

I wouldn't even be surprised if there was a rakugo school in LA, here there's a ton of weird stuff, but yeah, I was referring more to the dialogue and not the setting, I believe Janet Hsu said that when she started localizing the games she had to make lots of changes to make references fit with Americans, and I'm sure the localization team for the first game did the same, that's why I find the localization good, other than that, the setting is fine with me because it seems like it would be a city near a bunch of mountains with nothing but forest behind said mountains, so I don't think it works as LA, but I think it fits as a city in Japanifornia if you catch my drift... probably not though, I suck at explaining my thoughts through text.

Honestly E.T gets to much hate it's not even that bad. Only reason people hate it is because of The Game Crash of 1983.

Honestly E.T gets to much hate it's not even that bad. Only reason people hate it is because of The Game Crash of 1983.

Ehhh it's pretty bad, dude.

I know it's really bad but there's way worse games out there like Action 52, or Big Rigs Over the Road racing. I mean Action 52 was a glitch filled mess and somehow it's all 52 games are glitchy and weird. By far the weirdest of the games is The Cheetahmen. Big Rigs doesn't even work for one there is no gravity the truck goes the same speed all the way up the mountain and you can go a million miles an hour backwards. Also it's a racing game but your opponent never moves a inch.

The reason E.T is bad is also because it was programmed in 6 weeks and that was impossible in 1983. I feel terrible for Howard Scott Warshaw the designer of this game. People tend to think it caused the game crash of 1983. There were various other reasons. Like to many consoles unlike now where there are 3 excluding PC. But in 1983 they was 15 consoles to choose from. There was also a flood of terrible games. (Yes E.T's one of them but that's not the point.)

Honestly the worst game I think has to be Action 52 or Hong Kong 97.

Where did you hear about all these shitty games xD?

-FNAF gets too much hate. It's also waaaay overhyped by the obsessed fanboys, but for $5 or whatever it goes for, it's not bad for an indie "horror" game. Ditto for Undertale, although it's vastly superior.

-Breath of the Wild looks great, but I don't think it'll be a great "Zelda" game. Mayby I'm just not open to change as much as others, but it doesn't look like the same mold I see in the other games that are some of my favorite games of all time.

So... you prefer the same ol' same ol' game over and over and over again, because you enjoy the formula?

I've played indie horror games - and have watched AestheticGamer play indie horror games - that were better than those games AND were free. Can't top 'free' in the price range.

So... you prefer the same ol' same ol' game over and over and over again, because you enjoy the formula?

Well, yeah. Zelda is my favorite video game series, so if the formula keeps producing games I know I'll love, then I'll be very skeptical to them changing it. Don't see what's wrong with that.

Hmm? By my standards "Breath of the Wild" is a decided stretch on "same ol' game over and over again."

Hmmm. Strange, because I've played majority of the Zelda games and really only like Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword - though I am fully aware that they, too, use the same formula as the other ones; so it somehow doesn't make sense that I don't like the others, when they go by the same aspects...

I actually enjoy the Draw system in final fantasy 8. it's relaxing, and if I draw all my enemies spells guess what they can't use. Also having ultima spells on disk one is just silly fun, as well as getting some of the legendary weapons in disk one <3 It's my favorite in the series.

I don't like how you have to junction magic to your stats. It's pretty annoying. I also hated weapon shops. But FF8 did have my favorite characters

Worked fine for me. I usually hate magic in FF games since the magic users traditionally die easily and use a finite resource.

Being able to junction magic and never spend it worked fine for me.

time for another one I think the next AA game will have the triad figure out what happened to Kristoph. Meaning because the locks are black they can now make it so he doesn't freak out in pain from getting his locks broken. Naturally Phoenix will know of the locks so he takes his collegues with him. Apollo to point out his tells to draw out information from him, and Athena to help him cope with what he's hiding. Why revisit this? I haven't played all of Spirit of Justice yet. I just started chapter 3 but I've been told it has a lot of Apollo in it and that's all I want to know about it really. I'm gonna beat it, but who else do we know little about? Klavier. We know he started his band early. What of his parents though? Are they orphans? What possessed to enter law? For Klavier one could argue it is to emulate his brother as he even mimics his hair style later. Hopes for a Gavin game staring Klavier maybe <3

Uhhh...is this in the wrong thread?

time for another one I think the next AA game will have the triad figure out what happened to Kristoph.

Why? Kristoph is a giant baby who threw temper tantrums and did shit because his poor widdle feewings were hurt. Why the hell should I give a flying shit about this character? He was boring as a non-villain. Hell, he was boring AS a villain! Why waste any more time on a character like that?

C-A

and references to things that I don't get, even if I am from the west.
I didn't watch The Grid.

How else do you make an audience "give a flying shit" about a character? You give them more story.

Actually, you do it by making them interesting to begin with. If you have an absolute jerk of a character, you have a very short amount of time to make him tolerable (or even likeable) to the audience, before they give up on him and don't care if anything happens to expand or improve. Take a look at posts of people complaining that they stopped playing Tales of the Abyss because they found Luke - who does begin the game as an insufferable, spoiled brat who is abrasive and doesn't know the simplest of world views (justified, but still) - too annoying to continue.
And, yes, the big point of Luke changing starts around 10-11 hours into the game, which is at the end of the first arc.

Actually, you do it by making them interesting to begin with. If you have an absolute jerk of a character, you have a very short amount of time to make him tolerable (or even likeable) to the audience, before they give up on him and don't care if anything happens to expand or improve.

-Super Mario World was boring for me, and I've never gotten invested in it at all. I'd rather play SMB3 or NSMB any day of the week.

-I think Partners in Time is better than Superstar Saga.

Or you...you know...give them more story. I mean, look at Darth Vader. He was a piece of shit in the first movie, and by the end everyone felt bad for him.

Urgh, I hate it when they make the villains - who I am supposed to hate - sympathetic. It's so overused these days AND keeps getting more times where their supposed reason for doing things has as good as nothing to do with their past.

C-A

-Shadow the Hedgehog is one of my favourite 3D Sonic games. I mean yeah the story and characterization of some of the Sonic characters suck and Black Doom is a laughable villain, but gameplay wise I really enjoyed it. Shame we won't be seeing the gun gimmick return for any future games.

-Sonic Adventure 2 is a great game. I enjoyed all the alternate gameplay styles.

-Chao Gardens are awful and should never return. I'd rather the extra dev time go to improving the game if possible or adding unlockables. Not spent on a useless tamagotchi game that doesn't fit the series in any way at all.

-I don't really find the original 3 AA games to be really that good. They're not really fun to play, they're really annoying and pretty boring.