It sucks to be a UK gamer

Post by **kinn** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:05 pm

It just sucks so bad to be a UK gamer.

We get consoles and games released last (for the most part) and when they do get released, we have to pay more!

To top it off we get shoddy BC for PS2 games on the PS3, JSRF doesnt work on 360 and we still dont have a demo for Ninja Gaiden in PSN!

Man its hard being a Brit gamer. Anyone else agree or disagree?

Post by **Pullmyfinger** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:08 pm

And remember those black bars in some games

Post by **kinn** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:12 pm

Pullmyfinger wrote:And remember those black bars in some games

LOL

Dont remind me!

People worry about OAR (original aspect ratio) today but remember....we brits had to put up with squashed, bordered up, 17.5% slower gaming action!

Heck we still get it with some VC releases!

Post by **GagaMan** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:36 pm

This reminds me, where's the UK release for Super Paper Mario? Nintendo's official European website treats it as if it doesn't exist ;_;

Post by **Mozgus** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:43 pm

I know little of UK and it's television and gaming console standards over the years, but I've heard terrible things. I realize how poor the ports have been, especially on old consoles. I would probably give up gaming if I was forced to play nearly all games with black bars, and a slower frame rate. (Older games hardly ever had a true frame rate conversion, and instead simply had their overall speed lowered from 30 to 25 fps, which has a huge impact on gameplay.)

You also have to put up with your weird jewel cases, often with insanely thick manuals to cover 5 languages.

Post by **kinn** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:46 pm

Mozgus wrote:I know little of UK and it's television and gaming console standards over the years, but I've heard terrible things. I realize how poor the ports have been, especially on old consoles. I would probably give up gaming if I was forced to play nearly all games with black bars, and a slower frame rate. (Older games hardly ever had a true frame rate conversion, and instead simply had their overall speed lowered from 30 to 25 fps, which has a huge impact on gameplay.)

You also have to put up with your weird jewel cases, often with insanely thick manuals to cover 5 languages.

I guess its not as bad as the old days. We get a PAL 60 mode on most games i.e. if your tv can handle 60hz it will switch the game into that. But yeah, old days were bad! Daytona on the Saturn already had borders....but the pal verison was like in super wide screen!

Its just the waiting that gets to me! We get the games so late! For example, Blue Dragon. Its coming out in the USA in Sep time right? Well I think we will be lucky for it to even come out this year!

Post by **GagaMan** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:14 pm

It's been especially bad with Wii and DS games recently. We only just got Pangya Golf, and STILL don't have Trauma Center! I believe Metroid Pinball has finally shown up as well, about 2 years late!

Post by **kinn** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:15 pm

GagaMan wrote:It's been especially bad with Wii and DS games recently. We only just got Pangya Golf, and STILL don't have Trauma Center! I believe Metroid Pinball has finally shown up as well, about 2 years late!

LOL. Well remember how long it took for Animal Crossing (Cube version) to come out over here?