Double dip Astebreed, Ys Origin, MKH as I need DRM free copies. Sorry GOG, too late to the Japanese DRM free parties.

If the people at GOG don't share your desire then that will never happen.

Yep, this is a great bundle! I grabbed it as soon as it was live. :D

Crimson Clover's coming to GOG, confirmed by a Degica dev: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=126968117&postcount=251

Excellent news. This will be a good alternative to the Euro STGs already up here.

+1 Also, they are usually reported in this thread.

In terms of getting older Japanese PC classics on GOG, obviously translation is the biggest issue and awareness is another one. I mean who is aware that something like Falcom's White Witch RPG is actually an unbelievable subtle and heart-wrenching masterpiece of storytelling when it got that awful, butchered PSP release and people's perception of it is as a sub-mediocre derivative work.

There's a metric elephant load of them. Something like 1500 get released every year. Obviously, depending on your tastes, only 10 to 20% are worth your time, but as somebody who checks out the more interesting ones, there are tons of really creative ideas or creators doing good takes on niches not many other developers cater to. Since they aren't charging for them, the competition to create something awesome has gotten crazy competitive. I can't keep up.

It isn't just RPG Maker though. The freeware audience in Japan on PC in terms of volume and quality is much larger than the for-profit market. I would argue that about 75% of all worthwhile Japanese PC games are free. There's a spirit where if you're just doing something for the enthusiasm, you shouldn't be trying to make money. I'm not saying this is the right way of doing things, but it's the most popular attitude over here.

This is likely why people think there is a small indie scene here, even though that's not even technically true. (People probably aren't aware of how indies find success portables like the 3DS or Vita, or arcades these days.) I know a lot of freeware games are considered laughable and amateurish in other countries, with only the occasional gem, and I'm not saying that these games look like professional games, as most of them sacrifice looks for the quality of the gameplay and the idea, but in my many years of playing PC games of all shapes and sizes in English and Japanese, I have to say that in the Japanese scene, the freeware stuff stands out heads and shoulders above the for-pay stuff both in quality of execution and quality of ideas.

Well I like what I'm seeing here, especially the idea that this Crimson Clover game working its little way on over to GoG.

Yeah, it's nice that we went straight to the cream of the crop there. Crimzon Clover: World Ignition is a phenomenal shooter that belies its doujin game origins.

Must admit I haven't heard of half the games mentioned in this thread.

I really liked the Ys series on Steam though, as well as the Carpe Fulgur games I've played. Would love to see more titles along those lines.

I think part of it is I am a sucker for pretty much anything Japanese. Except sushi. I don't understand sushi.

Great. Now I'm thinking about milk tea out of vending machines, and no, I have know idea what that has to do with video games or sushi.

Thanks for the input and i actually feel dumb since i never though of it, since the translation would be more difficult for the western audience therefore that's why there's no awareness of the indie scene on japan.
It's a shame, i have great memories of playing old jrpg's and if there isn't enough budget to create those AAA jrpg's then it would be better to create something "smaller" and sell it cheaper on digital stores.
Well, i guess they're on the right path with the ports of portable games to the consoles and pc but i was curious to see if there are games like Pier Solar HD being made over there...

I keep a long-running thread for Japanese Indie (Doujin) games on another forum if you are looking for some interesting titles:

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=30730