Hey, great to have you here.
I actually am only recently familiar with you from a few links posted a page or two ago. I went in and read what you wrote on the subject of LRG. Pretty interesting stuff bringing up so many of the issues while somehow still remaining respectful. It's almost like you were here with us this whole time. Glad you found the Mystery Dungeon series and that it made a positive impact in your life even though it's not been all smooth sailing trying to build that collection.
One issue you didn't have was the Golf Story fiasco. They lied that they had copies ready to ship for early preorders (the carts hadn't been sent to the packers). By the time they shipped BestBuy was already shipping their copies out. They put an ancient version of the game on the cart and there was a game breaking bug that was fixed a year earlier with a patch. The game wasn't fully registered in Nintendo's system so you couldn't get the patch for another month or two let alone the gold coins. By the time I felt like I could safely play the game my hype was down and playing the game didn't make up for the stretch of disappointment (and I waited from the game coming out digitally to get the physical version). I never did finish it and it should have been a great experience for me (as I love the mario golf rpg's and odd stuff like this).
For a while the LRG folks posted here (the company started here back with the first game thanks to our pretty diehard group of vita fans) and it didn't take long before they realized they couldn't just bully their way over anyone with issues. We still get mentioned by Josh when he pops up on other sites... most recently his onion account on reddit (lol)... but that's his modus operandi. He will likely stalk you forever, welcome to the club. Hopefully (and I mean this sincerely) this recent bout of being more open with information is going to develop into the norm for LRG. And maybe they'll get more professional. It's just a shame that folks have to make such a stink for anything to happen.
TBH being a buyer with them for five years, I was in their discord a lot which led me to befriending some folk and other collectors and being in the know on stuff. Sadly, when I split following shiren, a good chunk of them blocked or unfriended me, which goes to show how cultlike this can be at times. I actually did buy Golf Story standard! It was... OK? Yeah, I did buy it based off it being in-hand, which it wasn't, but it did feel like it shipped faster than other switch open preorders, like dusk which took EONS (due to ESRB stuff they did eventually fix, at least it seemed) I did not know about that bug however, but I did know about how their SKU of Pixeljunk Monsters 2 forever lacks the loading times fix that was implemented, meaning if you go physical, you have to deal with those ass-long stupid load times. Pure pain. I actually never made it more than 5 mins into golf story since my backlog got so big by the time I got the game, I just never got into it... So thus, I missed that bug.
The gold coins, that's another point of contention. I love gold coins but also don't fully care about them? you get more via digital anyhow. IIRC, LRG mentioned in their discord when I think their first non-LRG-as-publisher SKU games shipped out that they wouldn't go through the process of working with each publisher on gold coins because it would require a patch for each game and it would make things longer, and the fact customers would have to download a patch for the coins would make them mad. It was a pretty stupid reason IMO, just a simple "we don't see the need to do it" would suffice, but yeah, only games they self publish on the eShop qualify for points.
By "We still get mentioned by josh", I'm curious what you mean on that? Because by all indications that Expensive Onion dork was absolutely not Josh or Doug, none of them type like that, I was around them for years on discord and neither of them would be that blatant. But if they are venting about you guys elsewhere or on other forums, I'd definitely find that worth noting for my future records since I suspected they did the same for me when I spoke out about Shiren.
A month later, I randomly vented about how the Analogue Pocket not getting any ETAs since preorders opened 13 months prior was silly on a collector group discord server, and one of the guys from Special Reserve was in there. He openly called me psychotic and said that analogue didn't need to send ETAs as their products were always good, which seemed... random, especially the part about my "psychotic rants". Who knew not getting what you paid for and nearly summoning small claims court over it was psychotic. I did later find out that they didn't really vent about me to some secret group of limprint companies, but rather probably just did to their IRL friends, which likely included that SRG guy. Still, I don't like how hostile some people are toward me about them, despite how I dumped thousands into the company and gave too many benefits of the doubt.
The reason I act the way I do is because when I learned they knew for months prior about Shiren PC's situation yet said nothing despite me being in their server openly expressing hype for the CE, that was pretty much a clear cut sign of betrayal and them not giving a shit when they could have effortlessly stomped that out before shipping the units. Doug insisting on that AMA they "Forgot" and they "fixed it" by reorganizing the shipping/CS department (even though the CEOs messed up! I really hope no innocent workers got fired over their
up!) is more telling to me that they legitimately do not care until it blows up right in their face even when they're warned by customers and workers alike. While I admire some recent transparency like with the KOTOR CE getting swapped parts, it shouldn't have had to take this sort of outburst and backlash for this to occur.
Night Trap CE I can't link yet
Urrrrrrrgh... After buying the Switch CE and loving it, seeing this as the only CE (i swore there had to be some better, ultra one, but no!) is outright insulting. The bluray that was available standalone from LRG for the PS4 version, two action figures, one of an insignificant character, a random pin, and a script...?
Does anyone who got the Corpse Killer CE know how that script turned out? Switch got the freaking game on VHS! that was super cool! I think it was cheaper too, so what the heck is the point of this or even a PS5 version (when the announced Xbox One port is still MIA)
I like the dev guy behind these remasters, but lately I feel they're rushing him/he's rushing himself with how much bugs were in Ground Zero Texas...
