Hey all, been recently looking around for a pricing guide and information on the unreleased version of UK Rule of Rose. I have the original game sealed and I was shocked to learn one sold on eBay for just under £350! I have since bubble wrapped mine and placed it in safe keeping!
It's a shame the UK and Australian publishers felt it necessary to cancel their releases of the game after some completely stupid not to mention false impressions were put online about it (i didn't see any major UK press outlets pick it up). I guess todays comparison would be Dead Island, a game with a controversial trailer with little to no relevance on the actual game. ROR is a pretty good game if you can get into it, shame it was largely ignored but aren't all games that are largely atmospheric and slow paced? The PAL versions not as rare as people like to make out on places like eBay though, it was still released in Europe and the games multilingual so the disc is exactly the same, only the cover and manual get swapped, and the massive price increase for that alone is pretty shocking. You've either gotta be a seriously hardcore collector or have more money than sense (or both)
I know exactly what your talking about I had a French copy of the game, Just kills me that someone paid £350, its that simple thing cause it is a non released version does that make a huge difference? Personally to me I dont think it does. But from the technical point, the game was actually unreleased in that specific variation of the game! Still wouldn't pay £350 I paid $200aud only because Australia doesn't sell it and we have crap rules here in oz
Well that's the thing, if the game was really unreleased then maybe fair enough but the disc and it's contents are the same across all the PAL variations (even the print on the disc stays the same, one disc for all of Europe, it was never manufactured for Aus territories because it never even went to the ratings board there) so all that remains unreleased is the PAL English cover and manual. It's like how Space Channel 5 Part 2 was never released in the UK so people think they can charge stupid prices for imports, there's one on eBay now for £90 and that's after the prices came down after the Xbox 360 release of it.
It reminds me of Deadly Premonition/Red Seeds. The Japanese PS3 version that has English audio people are asking around $120! Yet I can buy Deadly Premonition (exact same game) on Xbox for $30. Bonus is the Xbox 360 is full English menus too.
I have Deadly Premonition on the 360 although mine is Japanese and called Red Seeds Profile and yes, it truly is all in English as long as your 360 is set to English. It's a fantastic game that has one of the best stories in video game history IMO. It may not be the greatest game ever and it may look like it's from the Dreamcast / PS2 age of gaming in some areas but man, it is one great story with loads to see and do.
it's not that rare or expensive.. sorry. well, not saying someone else wont pay that absurd price for yours, too.
Not really super uncommon. Can find 'em in most areas that don't have localized covers for the game (ie. most EU countries that aren't Spain, France, Germany and/or Italia). Got one myself Now ... what I'd love to see is; 1. a UK/English cover for Raw Danger or 2. a PROMO copy of Raw Danger and 3. Someone willing to part with 'em
I honestly see Red Seeds/Deadly Premonition as the biggest knock off of the early 90's TV Show Twin Peaks. The game is uncanny in the similarities. Both Rule Of Rose and Red Seeds/Deadly Premonition are awesome games though the gameplay is a little sketchy on both, but the stories really make the games awesome.
That's because it is a knock off of Twin Peaks. The game had to under go quite a few changes in it's long production life. Those two kids for example were old guys at one point.
*Old ... twin ... midgets. ;D Either way, there's nothing new about video games "emulating" the TV/Movie industry. Usually, those are the types of games that carry the most originality and/or interesting game design stuff; as they're games that're usually made by someone who has a game idea built around something, rather than someone getting a license and 6~12 months to build an idea on it.
"ROR is a pretty good game" not really I love the survival horror genre when the ps2 was in it's heyday having played Rose of Red and hating the voice acting I can't see that we really missed out. The 'scary' moments and story were super interesting but unfortunately it wasn't just the gameplay that was broken :| This is only my opinion obviously as it's the same with many games, it all comes down to your favourite flavour of ice cream. I'm not surprised it's super rare though. When playing it I was surprised I hadn't ever heard of it (until I played it >_<;
Hating a game for it's voice acting is a pretty shallow argument, the first RE has some of the most god awful dialog ever written but it's still an awesome game. Rule Of Rose (not Rose Of Red) is a fairly unique game, it's slow and it doesn't scare you in the conventional sense. I'd maybe change my statement to if you were ever picked on in school, you'll get ROR and it will unnerve you. That's maybe the barrier, IF you can get into it, it's a pretty good ride. If you can't relate (or just don't want to, because it's not a nice place to go to) then you probably won't understand what it does and says. It's not a survival horror game at all, it's a psychological horror game, a rare breed.
When did someone buy this for £350 on eBay? Looking at previous completed auctions, the highest the game has SOLD for is £63 including shipping, which is a bit of a stretch away from £350. If it was worth that kind of cash, I'd sell my French, UK and Promo copies in a flash!
Just utterly stupid really, it's like "oh please think of the children" even though there are similar games that get the green light...
Blame the press, it's the same reason there wasn't a UK release. Some moronic press people saw the trailer and assumed from that the game was centered around abusing children. Being a small game with smaller distributors behind it they didn't have the money or resources to actually promote the game properly, never mind defend it in a back and forth with stupid people who hadn't a clue, so there was a possibility of some really bad press towards them specifically which might have risked their business so they decided to just not bother. It didn't even go up to the ratings board in Australia, decision was made before it had the chance.
See I don't think that's the case at all. (as I said before opinions are always going to be bias as they are an opinion). Also terrible acting is not terrible dialogue they are 2 different things (look at Turok ffs ). I've played games before where the speech was so terrible it ruined the experience in the same way a major film would be ruined if Joe Pasquale was the side kick. Or as a better example look at the silent hill hd remake and how a voice actor can ruin a game... Anyway I can appreciate it was trying something new and agree the psychological horror is pretty much dead in the water at the moment without indie games/Amnesia style games around. Also the bullying statement doesn't square away, you should be able to relate to a character regardless. I can't say I've a single thing in common with Harry Mason but I still found Silent Hill Shattered Memories an epic game for the main character. Anyway reply to rant over. If you enjoy the game a differing opinion shouldn't matter.
