General and Gaming => Classic Video Games => Topic started by: dreama1 on March 26, 2015, 11:05:22 pm
Title: What's the best console for anime/style games?
Post by: dreama1 on March 26, 2015, 11:05:22 pm
What's the best console for anime/style games?
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Post by: wvdoom on March 27, 2015, 01:21:22 am
like kendo rage or zero wing? i'd say any of the 16 bit consoles visual novels maybe the DS
current gen ps vita all the way. serious go-to system for weird japanese everything
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Post by: Nosmiric on March 27, 2015, 09:52:12 am
The ps3 has a bit of anime games overall...and the system is region free so you can get all of the obscure anime stuff that never released out of Japan with no problem.
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Post by: disgaeniac on March 27, 2015, 11:26:50 am
I'd say
(for hanhelds); easily the Vita and/or Vita(ps)Tv - it gets more of the niche-ier & anime-ish types of game, plus it gives you access to PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4 games as well, and
(for consoles)...probably a launch PS3 (it can play PS1, 2, and 3 games (discs)).
short answer
Sony is your friend here 8)
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Post by: krelyan on March 27, 2015, 06:04:56 pm
If you want new games then, as others have noted, that niche seems to have found its home on the Vita. However, PS4 has some of the bigger name games (most are still in development), such as Persona, Disgaea, etc. If you just mean in general, then it's a lot harder to pin anything down as the console of choice for games of that ilk. PS3 is a pretty solid choice though.
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Post by: dreama1 on March 27, 2015, 06:07:04 pm
If you want new games then, as others have noted, that niche seems to have found its home on the Vita. However, PS4 has some of the bigger name games (most are still in development), such as Persona, Disgaea, etc. If you just mean in general, then it's a lot harder to pin anything down as the console of choice for games of that ilk. PS3 is a pretty solid choice though.
What about 3DS? The vita is more niche?
Title: Re: What's the best console for anime/style games?
Post by: disgaeniac on March 28, 2015, 06:33:17 am
If you want new games then, as others have noted, that niche seems to have found its home on the Vita. However, PS4 has some of the bigger name games (most are still in development), such as Persona, Disgaea, etc. If you just mean in general, then it's a lot harder to pin anything down as the console of choice for games of that ilk. PS3 is a pretty solid choice though.
What about 3DS? The vita is more niche?
more niche?
absolutely
more mainstream games?
absolutely not
Title: Re: What's the best console for anime/style games?
Post by: kingrat101 on March 29, 2015, 09:50:23 pm
I don't think you can go wrong with a TG-16/PC Engine CD either
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Post by: gf78 on March 30, 2015, 01:38:59 pm
For a current system, PSVita all the way. Offbeat, obscure titles like Akiba's Trip, Danganronpa, One Piece Red and tons more are available on the Vita. It really is the go-to system for anime style games.
As somebody else already pointed out, Sony is your friend here. Depending on your tastes, just about anything Japanese will be found on a PlayStation system. PS3 and PS4 are region free, so you can import titles for these consoles without fear that they won't work. For PS1 and PS2 games, you would most likely need an import console. There were games based on anime properties such as Space Battleship Yamato and Neon Genesis Evangelion on those systems.
In addition, if there is a chance that a anime style game got a localization (ie US release), chances are that it was on a PlayStation system.
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Post by: burningdoom on March 31, 2015, 01:27:15 pm
After watching the latest Game Sack episode, it has to be, without a doubt, the PC-FX (not to be confused with the PC-Engine). NEC's next-gen console after TG-16/PC-Engine, that didn't fair as well.
In that review, there wasn't a single game that didn't have anime cutscenes. And these guys aren't like big anime fans, or at least haven't portrayed themselves that way. That's just how the games are on that console, apparently.
It was only released in Japan, though. And as a result, this is a pretty bad episode of Game Sack (which I really haven't seen bad episodes of this series before). They don't know what's going on in half the games they're playing. And they could only find an English translation for like 1 game online.
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Post by: maximo310 on March 31, 2015, 04:00:48 pm
Yeah, that last episode was a bit dissapointing since they didn't know how most of the games worked because of lack of translations. I think it would have turned out a little better if they had done a bit more research on the games, and translations since there are quite a few of them out their on the internet, and that might have helped them understand the games a bit more. But yeah, PC-FX flopped hard since all it had going for it was better decoding and quality of FMV compared to other consoles, but NEC forgot to upgrade all of the other parts from its 1992 build( it was originally going to be released then, but there was no interest in a new console, and developers still wanted to continue to use PC-Engine+ add ons), leaving it with a very niche library of games that didn't appeal to a large amount of people. NEC really made a bad move on their part with this.
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Post by: lordsofskulls on April 13, 2015, 03:30:49 pm
PS2. Has alot of JRPGs.
It was the Golden Age of JRPGs in Playstation 1 - Playstation 2 Era. PS2 plays both = WIN/WIN situation.
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Post by: yancakes on May 12, 2015, 03:39:24 am
I feel like when the first person here mentioned Sony you may as well have closed the thread. Pick a Sony system, any Sony sytem. You'll find anime.
Title: Re: What's the best console for anime/style games?
Post by: weirdfeline on May 12, 2015, 07:27:07 am
Any PlayStation system.
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Post by: stealthrush on May 22, 2015, 01:15:58 am
Was surprised it took so long for this to be said. Plenty of anime games to import for the Saturn, although most of them are done in that compressed FMV style.
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Post by: eternia on July 12, 2015, 01:19:18 pm
In my opinion, Sony's consoles and handhelds in general have always been the best systems for anime style games. The Sega Saturn also has tons of anime games, or anime style games.
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Post by: disgaeniac on July 12, 2015, 01:24:19 pm