Faith in Konami of America (KOA)

Neemo · Trick Member Joined: 25 Dec 2003 Location: Houston

Lets start from the begining shall we?

A few days ago i said...

Regenesis · Trick Member Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Location: Rockford, IL

1.) KOA doesn't make the American DDR games, KCET does.

2.) What reasons do you have for presuming that all of the 10s from Extreme won't be included in DDREX US? So far any 10 footers from the Japanese games have appeared on their "corresponding" American release. Why would that trend change now?

3.) There's a forum specifically for discussion of console DDR and a thread specifically for discussion of DDREX US...try posting there. </pseudo-mod>
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xequar · Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:59 am Post subject:

Actually, I believe that KCEH (Konami Computer Entertainment of Hawaii, or whatever the C stands for) is responsible for the XBox releases (read: Ultramix).

I do have to agree somewhat with Neemo, however, simply because it does seem like the US keeps getting the short end of the DDR stick. We all remember what a lackluster release DDRMax2 US was, especially compared to Max2 7th Mix. If they want to cater to a US audience, fine. However, if they are going to do that, they should use different game names. Rather than naming DDRMax2 as they did, they could have named it damn near anything else that started with DDR. We all know it's not the same game, so it shouldn't be named the same. AND, and, I think that would actually quiet a lot of the doggy about the US releases (which I readily participate in) simply because our expectations would not be raised as high by the title. Consider Ultramix. There's a lot less complaining about that, and I would assert that it is because we DDRFreaks KNEW it was an original game, not a game that really rocked in Japan but was totally butchered to bring into the US. Hmmm, in fact, I might make that a seperate thread...
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Fr0sty · Trick Member Joined: 16 Sep 2003

First off, copyright issues are a pretty good reason why the US doesn't get a lot of the songs. US and Japanese Copyright laws are completely different. Also, remember, Japan made the game so don't expect America to get all of the best songs. America will get the songs that will best suit their audience (which would be... American songs such as Heaven, Days Go By, Lovin' You, etc.). You can complain all you want, I doubt they'll give us any more songs then they would've.