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drake_tolu on 29 June 2014

No, because FF XV coming on PS4, and PS4 don't sell much in Japan.

I predict 1,200,000 first week and 1,500,000 lifetime.



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SjOne on 29 June 2014

The install base is to low for it to even beat FFIV level



Dr.Henry_Killinger on 29 June 2014
Sleepyprince said:

You can also spam your keyblade move, when Sora throw the keyblade. You can do it something like 7 times. It helps a lot, but still Sephiroth is pain to beat in hardest mode. Even if you know everything on how to beat him (wich is kind of cheating) one miss on harder mode, just one and you're dead. And since he has such THIS amount of life, there's a lot of room to make that just one mistake. That only fact about him is annoying.

Sonic (The rush move Sora learned from Cloud) Lasts longer than Strike Raid (the keyblade throw) and you are invicible during it.

The best thing to do his hit Sephiroth in a combo but don't use your finisher, since he will teleport and hit you, and then roll when he does that fire thing. Use strike raid whenever he does meteor or that sword dance move. Once he's at yellow he gets serious, he's more agressive but it should be easier cause he doesn't use heartless angel anymore.

Also the highlevel Kh1 bosses have Health above Max Health, so their HP bar won't even go down until they've taken enough damage, its crazy.

But all of the bosses in KH3DS that you can fight for the second time, since you can replay boss fights, are harder, and the secret boss Julius is probably the hardest boss I've fought in Kingdom Hearts.

 

strike that, Mysterious Figure is harder, he turns fucking invisible



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The Fury on 29 June 2014

Wow, look at all those games they made consistantly for so long, now what do we get? 1 every 5 years.

How sad.



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VanceIX on 29 June 2014

Hopefully. XV is what Japan needs to revitalize the console industry. It's up to SE now.



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DietSoap on 29 June 2014

I think so, yes. It's just an all around infinitely more impressive looking game.



ikki5 on 30 June 2014
DerNebel said:
ikki5 said:
DerNebel said:

But Kingdom Hearts is pretty damn big in Japan...

OT: Probably not, it might reach higher western sales than XIII though, depends on the quality.


Kingdom hearts is not that big in Japan... lol. It's about moderate maybe but not big. You need to look again at the sales figures of the series. The PS2 ones were the only ones to really do great.

Yeah, those were the mainline games...both 1 and 2 easily cleared a million, that's big for Japan, very big. If you don't consider KH big in Japan then you could basically say that Resident Evil isn't big either.

um.. have you seen the sales figures for Resident Evil vs Kingdom Hearts? Kingdom hearts had two games hit over 2 million and 7 hit over a million. While resident Evil has 8 hitting over 2 million where as both Resident Evil 4 and 5 sold more than the best selling Kingdom Hearts.  Resident Evil is FAR bigger than what Kingdom Hearts is. There is no competition there. Even in Japan, the game is far more popular than Kingdom Hearts.



KungKras on 30 June 2014

Much of the talented people that made FF games during the series' peak doesn't work for Square, and judging by the crap they keep shoving out, the people left doesn't seem to have any talent.

So the real question should be which new FF game is the one that ends it.

And by it, I mean the franchise.



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DerNebel on 30 June 2014
ikki5 said:
DerNebel said:

Yeah, those were the mainline games...both 1 and 2 easily cleared a million, that's big for Japan, very big. If you don't consider KH big in Japan then you could basically say that Resident Evil isn't big either.

um.. have you seen the sales figures for Resident Evil vs Kingdom Hearts? Kingdom hearts had two games hit over 2 million and 7 hit over a million. While resident Evil has 8 hitting over 2 million where as both Resident Evil 4 and 5 sold more than the best selling Kingdom Hearts.  Resident Evil is FAR bigger than what Kingdom Hearts is. There is no competition there. Even in Japan, the game is far more popular than Kingdom Hearts.

ummm....

Mainline Resident Evil games:

Pos Game Platform Year Genre Publisher North America Europe Japan Rest of World Global
1 Resident Evil 2 PS 1998 Action Virgin Interactive 1.88 1.47 2.02 0.45 5.82
2 Resident Evil 3: Nemesis PS 1999 Action Eidos Interactive 1.30 0.77 1.54 0.11 3.72
3 Resident Evil PS 1996 Action Virgin Interactive 2.05 1.16 1.11 0.73 5.05
4 Resident Evil 5 PS3 2009 Action Capcom 1.91 1.37 1.08 0.61 4.97
5 Resident Evil 6 PS3 2012 Action Capcom 0.78 0.85 0.88 0.27 2.78
9 Resident Evil 4 PS2 2005 Action Capcom 2.08 0.83 0.46 0.25 3.62
18 Resident Evil 4 GC 2005 Action Capcom 0.98 0.42 0.22 0.06 1.69

Mainline Kingdom Hearts games:

Pos Game Platform Year Genre Publisher North America Europe Japan Rest of World Global
1 Kingdom Hearts PS2 2002 Role-Playing Sony Computer Entertainment 3.64 1.20 1.49 0.07 6.40
2 Kingdom Hearts II PS2 2005 Role-Playing Square Enix 2.20 0.58 1.38 0.17 4.33

Now look at the release dates. No Resident Evil game has sold more than a mainline Kingdom Hearts game since 1999, your notion that Resident Evil is far more popular in Japan than Kingdom Hearts is based on sales that happened over ten years ago.



brendude13 on 30 June 2014
DerNebel said:

ummm....

Mainline Resident Evil games:

Pos Game Platform Year Genre Publisher North America Europe Japan Rest of World Global
1 Resident Evil 2 PS 1998 Action Virgin Interactive 1.88 1.47 2.02 0.45 5.82
2 Resident Evil 3: Nemesis PS 1999 Action Eidos Interactive 1.30 0.77 1.54 0.11 3.72
3 Resident Evil PS 1996 Action Virgin Interactive 2.05 1.16 1.11 0.73 5.05
4 Resident Evil 5 PS3 2009 Action Capcom 1.91 1.37 1.08 0.61 4.97
5 Resident Evil 6 PS3 2012 Action Capcom 0.78 0.85 0.88 0.27 2.78
9 Resident Evil 4 PS2 2005 Action Capcom 2.08 0.83 0.46 0.25 3.62
18 Resident Evil 4 GC 2005 Action Capcom 0.98 0.42 0.22 0.06 1.69

 

Resident Evil 4 sold the worst?

What the fuck Japan?