Sega Is Bringing Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance To... Download Festival?

Never heard of this festival so when I saw download in the title I thought they had decided to do the right thing and make it a DLC download as well. Oh well.

Stuff like this is good in theory but asking people who have been drinking for 4 days to play a demo of a game that isn't more arcadey or pick up and play wont go down well. If it's raining I can see the booth being full just for the sake of shelter.

In any case go see Calva Louise, they are playing early on the 4th stage but are one of the best live acts going.

Is there really that much of a crossover between metal heads and weebs?

@GammaPhonic I go to Download and lots of gigs plus I play Pokemon and Splatoon. People are more interesting than stereotypes.

@jump yeah, I know these people exist. I was asking if there is enough of them to make this kind of promotion worthwhile. Obviously Sega thinks so, but I have doubts.

Liquid Death is the greatest scam in marketing since the iPhone

@GammaPhonic True story, I was wearing a Pokemon shirt at a festival once and people kept coming up to me to talk about Pokemon. This is 2024, video games have been mainstream for years rather than a filthy geek habit.

@jump

Sometimes I clutch my “True Nerd” credentials tightly and mutter about how if people weren’t bullied in school for their filthy habit, they aren’t true nerds. Then I remind myself that I should go outside for a bit and everything will be joyous once more!

It really is great that video games are more acceptable these days, although the elitist hipster jerk in me wants to find something unpopular to obsess over. Maybe we could bring back OG marbles?! Or knuckle bones…with real bones!

@GammaPhonic I’m sure there’s all kinds of words to describe people who call people ‘weebs’.

Also why would anyone think metal and dark and dramatic jrpg’s wouldn’t match! That ost is full of metal influences.

@jump You may have mentioned this before, so I apologize if I’ve missed it somewhere. Seen you around in the comments and have meant to ask about your picture. Is that a giant squash you’re holding? A baby Nessie? Alien weaponry? I can’t really tell. Ha!

@jump didn’t expect to see a calva Louise shout out in the nintendolife comments. Banging band!!

@GammaPhonic Dunno what the level of interest will be, but there's an obvious overlap between aspects of metal culture and the themes and aesthetics of mainline SMT games.

I never thought a NintendoLife article would be how I knew The Offspring and Baby Metal would be at Download this year.

Wish I'd gotten tickets now

@Ralizah
I couldn’t agree more! For me, SMT III in particular is the ultimate in stoner/doom metal vibes.

If you bring your switch to download it isn't getting lost, trampled or damaged. It's getting stolen. Serious problem at download. But i grew up playing games and listening to metal. More into the metal side of things now but yeah we do exist.

@bobby_steurer That's not actually me, it's a pic of Brie Larson holding a marrow. A few years ago Nintendolife started posting articles about her since she became a Nintendo Ambassador and she ran a blog about her love of Nintendo. For whatever reason when an article popped up the comment sections would exploded which made me laugh so I used her as an avatar.

@ThatSneakman It's not sold out so you can still get tixs, it rarely ever sells out as they can scale up the capacity when it's a big year.

@Zeebor15 don’t even get me started. Liquid death gets me in a ranting mood. I do work with a business that supports and supplies it too ugh. This festival sounds cool. Jealous for those who get to see baby metal live

What's this? An expansion, or spinoff?

@jump My god, I couldn’t have been more off if I’d tried. Ha! Thanks for your response.

I do truly wish this version did improve some of the performance issues on Switch so I could get it but oh well...

wish the the new story would be dlc for the original version that most of us alrdy have.

@GammaPhonic SMT is pretty metal. You must be confusing it with Persona.

@PinderSchloss Sorry. Didn't realise I'd struck a nerve.

@ThatSneakman there are plenty of tickets still available, it's rarely a sell out (thank god cos last year was awful there was way too many people

@HandheldHaunter never had anything stolen from my tent, or had my tent ransacked. Then again I'm not stupid enough to take anything valuable that won't be on me or in a locker at all times...

@Solabound That's just basic common sense right there. I always take an old crappy phone to festivals just to be sure. Then again can't remember the last time I camped at one! Hotels are the way to go!

@GammaPhonic not sure of the amount of crossover but anecdotally, my 3 closest friends are metalheads (and I'm partial to metal myself) and all 4 of us are "weebs" amd one of them plays video games probably more than anyone on this site. Not sure I agree with putting everyone into boxes though.