This absolutely contradicts what's happening lately with all those "HD remakes" and all those re-releases of PS1 games on PS3 (and it's worth mentioning that many of them should have worked on the PS3 all along but an artificially set up blockade is keeping you from just putting your original PS1 discs into the drive and playing them). How is it that Japanese games only seem to get re-released on closed and very exclusive platforms? And often in really bad quality? You can't honestly believe that there's some kind of nobility to be found in their hesitation of re-releasing old games in a more convenient manner. The truth is: Japanese developers are even bigger jerks than our big ones.

Additionally I don't see how they are really trying to make sure there's some big progress considering the quality of their works. Whereas western games have gone a long way since the early to mid-90's, many Japanese developers hesitate to abandon the standards they've set themselves a long time ago. From my perspective it looks more like the Japanese develoeprs wanna be in total control of their franchises so nobody else benefits from them (at least not more than necessary) and they avoid actual progress to keep their fanbase safe. That's plain awful!

Well, if you'd read past that part, you'd see that I had clearly mentioned that lately they're getting over it. Gosh, you n00bs can't be arsed to read. I guess that's not any different from before though.
Which would totally explain why Konami has farmed out development of Silent Hill to western development studios, same goes with Capcom and the latest Resident Evil release. Gosh, gosh, gosh, gosh. It's like... some people just fail to keep up with things, yeah?

Interesting bit of information:
Silent Hill Homecoming was so westernized it never even got released in Japan, despite being published by a Japanese company.

Dude, I didn't just repeat a fact you mentioned, I explained why this fact contradicts your whole "samurai code of honor" theory there.

You know, I like this post.
It's relevant, but doesn't assume too much.
Short and sweet.

I'd like to thank you, personally, for your contribution. I apologize for not simply writing you a message, but I feel like an example could be made out of your post.
Except you didn't. I clearly stated that in the last few years, Japanese game developers have been far more willing to release their older games. I even praised Capcom for finally re-releasing MVC2. I made mention of the recent release of Darkstalkers (a PS1 fighting game) to PSN.

How, indeedidily-doodily-posterino, could you have missed that? How, in all of this stuff posted on the screen in front of your human eyes, did you miss the part where I said:
And just focus on my original explanation of Japanese culture?
You know, I didn't want to pull this card, because there's not much I can do to verify, but I used to be an Otaku. I watched anime ALL the time. I remember days watching episodes of television shows that had only been fansubbed hours before, and as such, I got tired of reading shoddy translations, and there were works that hadn't been translated that I wanted to see, so in College (or Uni, if you prefer), I studied the Japanese language and their culture.

I got enough exposure to their culture to realize that it's a society I don't agree with, and have lost a great deal of interest in anime since then, every now and then I can freak out my friends who simply don't know that I've studied Japanese and give them interesting tidbits or speak to them in the language.

Anyway, I know how your typical Japanese pride works, and this (to me) is the most likely assumption one could make, but again, like I said, it seems like they're finally getting around to realizing that some people want the same bullshit over and over again without any tweaking.

Exactly. Entrusting a certain company with work on your franchise doesn't mean that you're abandoning it or anything - you can be sure that the publisher is still in full control (I've worked with a company that's developing games for Nintendo's portable consoles and I can tell you - working with Japs as a western developer is always hard and even nightmarish at times). The whole step of letting western developers work on their franchises is rather confirmation of the fact that the Japanese themselves see how their own people are uncapable of bringing progress to their own franchises. So they hope that they can get it by cooperating with western developers in what I would call an act of desperation.

I'm glad we're in agreement then. Things have changed.

I know, but I thought that was too funny not to share and it is marginally relavent since it was a game that got its English translation butchered by some guy there ;)

Back on topic, I'd really like it if gog can get their hands on Enemy Zero and D, those game look very unique and fun to play. I don't want the mainstream definition of horror, I want something that will royally screw with my mind.

I'd also like to see some visual novels on here too, just for the sake of mixing things up.

Great so see a 2D shooters fan. ^^ Yeah, it would be very difficult for GOG to get these games for us gamers here. Kind of sad. :(

Yeah, seeing the Ys series here would be awesome!
Right on man!

Japanese publishers have rereleasing their games for a long time. Consider all the different versions of Street Fighter II for example, and all the REmakes and REleases on Gamecube. It's nothing new.

And hopefully, when they come here, they won't have the ridiculous prices they have on DLSite. 80% of their catalog costs $50 or more, including games like Zwei!! which are over 6 years old now.

It might just be some exchange rate nonsense, or games being priced higher in Japan, but it's still ridiculous.

Well, I just contacted Nyu-Media, and was told that Capcom wants to be the publisher for their games on GOG. So I hope that means we'll be seeing Capcom's library here in the near future! See, it pays to write to and pester developers and publishers! Now go love bomb the rest of them with e-mails so that the sooner they get here the sooner we can shower them with money.

I am playing DMC3 on my pc currently. On a higher res and with a gamepad it is even better than on the PS2. And yea - the game kicks ass.

I would advice against games that are dialogue-driven for obvious reasons. However action driven games are a definite 'yes' such as dmc or resident evil.

Not strictly GOG related but I asked Sega if we'll see more Dreamcast games come to PC (like Shenmue, Soul Calibur, Skies of Arcadia, Powerstone, etc.) and they said that they do intend to support their older games but have no official announcements to make yet and to keep tabs on gaming news sites for any announcements.