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gently caress yes, an Ys thread. Like Toddy said, I'd kind of wanted one of these to go up when Origin came out, but I was up to my eyeballs in bullshit around that time and couldn't make do. Very happy to see this go up in time for Chronicles+. Good OP, Streetman. Also just for the record, y'all should probably be falling to your knees and worshipping the ground Saraleen stands on, 'cause she's largely the reason Chronicles+ is so goddamn amazing. I'm actually curious as to whether or not the Japanese fans are gonna get pissed that there's no apparent plans for Chron+ to come out over in the "domestic" market, since it's pretty much the superior version of the game!
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borf posted:I just recently played my first Ys game, Oath in Felghana. It's really fun! Unfortunately when I was a kid and saw these games, I thought it was the stupidest name I'd ever seen and always passed on them at the rental store. Can someone shed some light on what/where an Y is? Back then I pronounced it as "whys" in my head, I have to imagine that's wrong. In-universe, "Ys" is the name of the flying kingdom you visit in the second game (AKA, the second half of Chronicles+). It takes the name from the myth of Ys, which among other things is where the city of Paris (Par-Ys  ) takes its name from. It's pronounced like "ease".
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kirbysuperstar posted:Did the little keychain things from Eternal Complete make it over? Otherwise I can't think of anything that's missing. They did. And I imagine request #1 would be official TurboCD music, but I wonder if those might be tied up in rights issues somehow. I'm not sure they would, since the base melodies are the IP of JDK/Falcom, but music rights can get so weird sometimes.
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Wasper posted:Is there any plans to release 7 on steam? No native PC version exists and the game, as is, would look like rear end on a PC. The graphics were designed from the ground up for the PSP. So no, barring a PC or PS3 version with redesigned graphics, don't expect to see Seven on Steam. On the flip side, though, because the bosses in particular are way more visually complex than other Ark Engine games and you can't really turn that down without making everything an indistinct mess, Origin is likely to remain a Steam exclusive! At best they'd have to make a Vita version, not a PSP one.
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Feb 22, 2013 23:20
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sethsez posted:I thought it got a Chinese PC release? That uses the assets straight from the PSP version with very little upscaling. Believe me. It doesn't look all that good. And the DRM situation for it is hilarious, as every single file has a SecuROM wrapper. Every file. Without exception. The game has to call back to a SecuROM auth server every time it loads any assets.
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Feb 23, 2013 02:26
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raditts posted:Seriously, what the gently caress was going on there? How does it make the transition from Ys 1 to Ys 2 if you don't get teleported at the end? It doesn't. The Master System version is kind of doofy that way.
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gschmidl posted:No English version of Zwei, um, 1, I assume? Or Xanadu not-Next? Xanadu not-Next is from 1985. I think a lot of modern players would have trouble appreciating it, it's pretty primitive by today's standards.Also none for Zwei one, because while Z2 is one of Falcom's best games, Z1 is surprisingly weak.
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AfricanBootyShine posted:Isn't that the port where literally every file is protected by SecuROM? I don't have high hopes. Yeah, one would hope they remove the ridiculous DRM from it before trying to sell it over here. It impedes the game from working right. Anyway, I made a huge and ludicrously spergy post on the XSEED forums about something that's been bugging me for a while: http://xseedgames.com/forums/showthread.php?3987-Drake-s-Tinfoil-Hat-Corner-Speculating-on-what-ll-be-in-upcoming-content! Super TLDR so you don't have to read through my walls of  : Falcom's been subtly but pretty consistently pushing the idea of "knight Elena" for a while now, and I suspect she's going to feature in an upcoming title as a major/playable character. The pushing of the idea seems just a little too persistent to just be "fanservice", and the general tone of it all doesn't seem right for fanservice either.Meanwhile, it sounds like XSEED is doing recording for Celceta right now, according to their Twitter. I imagine we'll hear details about the release of it fairly soon at this point, since once voice assets are recorded, usually the only thing left is script insertion and debugging.
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Lance Streetman posted:Ed: And since Spacedrake is so active in the thread, I'll give his poo poo a callout. All the Carpe Fulgur games are on sale ATM as well, with Chantelise at 2.49: Dunno how much of a shoutout I deserve now since I haven't posted in the thread in a good while Worth noting that all three games are on sale on Steam for a bit longer, though! http://store.steampowered.com/sale/Ys_Series_Midweek_Madness If you haven't gotten on that poo poo yet, get on it. Those are great prices for each game. Also gonna agree that Origin is overall the best start. It starts you at the very beginning of the series plot and it's a great introduction to how the mechanics of the games work, especially playing as Yunica. Though really, aside from maybe 1+2 (and that's only due to their relentlessly oldschool nature, which won't be to everyone's tastes) you can't go wrong with an Ys game
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Lance Streetman posted:And I think the PC version of Ys 7 is just crammed full of DRM. I said this earlier, but the extant PC version of 7 has a SecuROM wrapper on literally every file. It has to dial home any time it loads ANYTHING. Needless to say load times are comically brutal. Tobaccrow posted:I wouldn't count on Ys 6 any time soon. The English version on PS2/PSP was put out by Konami so there may be some legal red tape, or requiring the translation to be entirely redone for Xseed to bring it to Steam. I could see Ys 7 being more likely (assuming nothing's wrong with the PC version. I think it only got released in China?) As far as I understand it, the issue with Napishtim is that Konami owns the script they have for the game, so a new one would need to be commissioned. Deuce, the man-god super-fan translator who handled Oath, parts of Origin and I&II, apparently has had a Napishtim script sitting in his back pocket for some time. The thing is, it would also need to be completely style-edited, re-inserted and debugged, which would be no small amount of work when XSEED already has a ton of announced projects to get out the door (and apparently Rune Factory 4 has been a huge, Trails FC-esque resource sponge - the script is about the same size, for one). So since it's still basically as much work as releasing any other game, XSEED needs to find time on the docket to actually work on the game. And there's the issue of the game having been released already - which could bite into sales compared to unreleased titles. I bet it'll come, they just need to find time.
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Ryuga Death posted:Do I move on to Oath now? Also, do Feena and Reah ever come back? Feena and Reah themselves have never returned (Ys II being a pretty conclusive ending to their story), though some of the other Ys titles deal with their history and "people". Ys IV/Celceta deals with this eventually, as does Ys VI/Napishtim. As for moving on, Oath is your best bet for "next title", though Origin will give you more Feena & Reah. It'll even show you who Toal was and what his relationship to the goddesses was! Celceta, due out later this year, happens more immediately after II.
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Wendell posted:So the first post in this thread is the guy showing where XSeed's hint image originates from, followed by every other poster making completely random guesses that have nothing to do with anything and completely ignore his evidence. Great forum. The OP was edited later on with the updated hint. It was just a few pixels at first.
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Sara pretty much produces miracles from her fingertips, so I have little doubt the PC version will be amazing. Uh, no pressure, Sara. :x But god, it feels so good to be able to talk about this. Been wanting to for a million years. Please look forward to it! Meanwhile, shifting back to Yschat, god but I was blown away when I saw the Celceta LE for the first time. I may have to doe-eyes at the senior XSEED dudes to guarantee I get a copy. And according to Tom there's tracks in there dating back all the way to '89 and all the way up to Ys Zanmai. I seriously cannot wait.
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Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about a thread name change/purpose change unless you want this to become a general Falcom megathread anyway; once PC Trails FC gets close to release I was planning on making a Trails-specific thread for that release and to lead up to the release of SC. I imagine :trailschat: will move over there once that's up, and this thread will go back to being mostly about Ys.toddy. posted:The announcement got me excited enough to go back and play the first game. No, not Trails in the Sky FC, Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes. Man, Falcom has come a long way since "MANKIND HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE POISONNNNN~". I so badly need to track down a copy of that at this year's Portland Retro Gaming Expo. Just to have it around and maybe emulate it. The voicework.  I forget, is it known if LoH1 was done by the same studio that did the TG16 version of Wanderers?
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Lance Streetman posted:Honestly, this thread gets so little traffic and the thread is already kind of a general Falcom megathread that we could probably do both without much trouble. I do kinda want to keep the Ys part in the title just because it's kinda the thread focus, but I wouldn't mind adding something about TitS. Continuing the honesty, then , I'll really leave it up to you and other thread denizens. I didn't mean to "dictate" the course of the thread, just that you shouldn't feel pressured to change the thread purely for the sake of a few Goons working on a Trails title, especially when there's going to be a dedicated thread for it in a few months when there's more to immediately discuss.What I'm tryin' to say here is, I don't want to feel like I'm hijacking the thread, especially since I've got a whole lotta love for a red-headed swordsman and his crew.
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CF, too, has a XP testing/development machine we've used for years for backwards compatibility testing. In fact, I'm posting from it right this second. I should point out, though: at least as far as CF is concerned, SC is likely to be our last certified-XP-compatible game because XP is being EOL'd in April of next year. I would really recommend putting some scratch together for an OS upgrade next year, because any games we accept after that date will not be tested with XP due to it being a deprecated OS. A number of our games picked up after April 2014 will probably still WORK in XP, mind but aside from SC we won't be doing compatibility testing after that date.
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Mokinokaro posted:SpaceDrake's rough guesstimate on Twitter for part one is Dec/Jan. That's still super-rough, by the way, and shouldn't be taken as gospel. But I know that is, or was, the initial target date. Price I have no idea on yet.
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thorsilver posted:Has anyone played Sen no Kiseki on Vita or PS3? Or, for that matter, the HD re-releases of the Trails series (Sora no Kiseki) on PS3? A large part of the point of the Trails games is their narrative and the charming characters and watching them bounce off one another, so if you're shaky on that in Japanese, it's not the best idea.
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Volt Catfish posted:They're also trying to get Napishtim on Steam, right? They mentioned it on Facebook: they'd really like to get Ys 6 on Steam, to complete the Ark Engine trifecta. We'll see if it happens.
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Yeah, you guys can thank Sara for the huge majority of this. She did an amazing job modernizing the parts of the engine that needed/could be modernized, and the game looks ridiculously dope at 1080p+ at 60FPS for a game of its age.
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Im_Special posted:What about 16:10 monitors, does it have something like 1920x1200 for us weirdos? I helped debug it on a 16:10 monitor. It works just fine and looks glorious.
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Great Joe posted:Just wanna reiterate this because you guys really are the best. Meanwhile, I feel the need to reiterate that CF didn't actually have much to do when it comes to Trails First Chapter. I still helped organize some things in a general fashion, way back when, and I helped debug it a little bit, but the lion's share of the praise should be heaped on Sara for working miracles. It's SC that contains the fruits of our labors and love.And no, XSEED hasn't announced anything about a PC release of Brandish.
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RadicalR posted:Okay, it's been bugging the hell out of me. Where the hell is your avatar from? The very game series we're talking about. (You won't see Joshua rocking the rad scarf until SC, though.) The text actually doesn't show up in SC; it's more just a summation of Joshua's character arc during part of SC, combined with what is probably a joke in bad taste.
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Cake Attack posted:yeah I agree with this, apparently SC adds a bunch more spells which is pretty cool Specifically, it fleshes out the Space and Mirage sides of the equation and actually gives them some attack spells (including a very good Mirage one that may or may not be previewed in FC  ).
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Meanwhile, in "Steam is being good to Falcom" news, thanks in large part to Steam they've sextupled their year-over-year profits for this period: http://www.esterior.net/2014/08/lic...nancial-report/ And this doesn't count Trails numbers, which was the best Falcom debut on PC yet. poo poo's gettin' good, sons.
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Nate RFB posted:One thing I've wondered about is whether any stink is raised in the Japanese fanbase over the fact that these Steam releases are from a technical standpoint far superior to what is available to them. Last I checked, at least, oh my yes. Unlike Trails, where some script replacement shenanigans are possible (and the game does have a full Japanese font set even at high rez  ), Chronicles+ can only be played in English and it's by far the best version of the game. I remember reading a lot of sourness about that when it first came out.It'll be curious to see if Falcom addresses that at all, especially with the English Steam versions pulling in so much money. However: SorcerousHam posted:It must be kinda weird if you're a Japanese company trapped in the selling-to-otaku culture of "we will likely only sell 2000 of these therefore we shall price it at X in order to make a profit" to then move to a platform like Steam and then suddenly find out there are so many more people you can sell your poo poo to and you could've been making more money years ago. Honestly? Some of them stay in denial. That it's a blip or that sales will fall off or that it somehow cheapens the brand. There are developers so used to thinking that their sales can only go down unless they get that Pokemon-esque miracle that a lot of them don't realize their products could have fairly extensive appeal if they just priced it in a way that most people could access them, and put their products on accessible platforms. And PC has been a "porn platform" for so long that it's really hard to dissociate it from that in the zeitgeist. I'm actually wondering, personally, if FFXIV might not be making some headway on that front; when I was in Japan last year, it was getting promoted and sold, for PC, in major shops and not just holes in the wall in Akiba. The PC version usually had to be put with the small selection of western PC games, but even so. Killer apps opening a platform remains A Thing, and given its apparent ridiculous success, I've been wondering for a while now if XIV might have a bit of a knock-on effect for the PC market, as new XIV players go looking for other things to play on their PCs now that they realize the PC can be used for that. SpaceDrake fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Aug 11, 2014 |
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smenj posted:I think they're doing the whole thing, actually. XSEED's just doing editing and stuff, as far as I know. We're doing the entire base translation and a good deal of the editing; XSEED is doing a bit of script editing as well, and ofc Sara is handling the code side of things for the PC version.
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Heran Bago posted:Yesssss. It's honestly hard for me to judge, being so closely involved. I think the original script in Japanese has some brilliant moments and I've done my level best to make those moments brillig in English as well, but I think some of it will come down to the eye of the beholder. There are times where SC gets Anime As All Hell, but there's also a lot of stuff being set up in FC, beyond the main plot, that will be addressed in SC.
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As far as the whole "Estelle competence" thing goes, this is sort of... addressed over the entirety of SC. You'll see. Also I can get behind Ys VIII: Adol Does Greece. Gon' be real salty if Dogi is missing again though, and the lady looks remarkably like Karna. Hm. (Still personally pulling for "Knight Elena" to become a thing given that they've been teasing it for ages, c'mon Falcom)
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Nate RFB posted:So how do the other Legend of Heroes games stack up? I had been under the impression that most of them were never translated, but it looks like 1 and 3-5 are available in a variety of formats. LoH 1 is a product of the early nineties. This gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkNyBx-4zUo The infamous line "Mankind has always been the poisonnnnnn" comes from the same dub, and I am sad I could not find a context to make it work in SC. I tried not to fiddle with the script TOO much, but god drat, that line is just too ridiculous to not try to get in there. Sadly, no dice, at least this time around. The game itself is a fairly dull, unremarkable Dragon Quest clone. It's sufficiently uninspired that it's hard to even insult it. The selling points were the voicework and art for the TG16 version. LoH 3-5 have translations that range from the nonsensical (Vermillion is terrible, and includes lines like "I didn't have eaten a unusual today") to the aggressively mediocre (Song of the Ocean is legible, but still lacks any of the charm of the Japanese). The bigger problem is that the really cool full-real-time battle system of the earlier versions of Gagharv was torn out for a simplified version of Trails combat, without map movement. It's very dull and has none of the fun or charm of the original releases, which is a bummer because LoH 3 was an enormous reversal from the first two games and probably made sure Falcom's reputation as a game developer was intact after the loving disaster that was Ys V; LoH 3 is still considered a fairly significant 16-bit-era classic in Japan, so far as I'm aware, and IV is fairly highly regarded as well. In short, the English versions should probably be avoided, aside from LoH1 as a historical curiosity (being the last Falcom game obviously branded as a Falcom game prior to Ark thirteen years later; Popful Mail practically doesn't count because Falcom's involvement was almost entirely removed). I kind of hope the PC versions might get some kind of translation some day, but that's not too likely anymore.
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That's basically the idea, yes. SC intentionally caps off Estelle and Joshua's basic story - it's still left a little open-ended, because this is a big world of a thousand stories that's bigger than just the two of them and even they aren't done with their lives yet, but it ends in a very satisfying way and would be a good place for people to "move on" if it comes to that. Third takes all those little hooks and blows them up by a factor of ten, so if anything you don't want to stop there. It pretty much expands on a bunch of the side stuff and elaborates on the set-up for the Crossbell (Zero/Ao) and Erebonia (Sen/Sen2) arcs/campaigns. Doing Third and then not doing those would be a real kick in the pants. The game itself is sort of a dungeon crawler - there are no towns, and the whole thing takes place in this weird illusory dimension that may or may not be real, but all the side events the player gets to see are real and are events that have or are happening. And it stars a character who will get introduced in, and have a major role in, SC, along with a new character as his partner. It's a difficult game to sum up in a concise forum post. Nate RFB posted:It's not that bad, just kind of a dull and easy Quintet game. Every single boss to my recollection can be killed by simply suicide charging into it while mashing the attack button. You just tend to kill them before you run out of HP. Also the magic system was a complete waste of time. Also this is a pretty good summation of Ys V. You can't quite call it an Objectively Bad Game™, because it doesn't really have much in the way of systemtic defects. It's just really uninspired, both graphically (which strikes everyone as particularly weird since it's meant to be set in Egypt) and design-wise, and it falls far short of the bar set by previous titles, especially Dawn of Ys. That's another factor, though; Ys V was inexplicably only for the SNES. If you were part of the PC-98 or TG16 crowd, I.E. Falcom's primary fanbase up to that moment?  Ys V did clearly inspire the mechanical shift to come in Ark and Oath and beyond. But at the time, it wasn't very impressive.
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Cake Attack posted:The issue is that Zero and Ao are kinda in a bad place platform wise. This is basically the problem with the Crossbell campaign in particular. The Erebonian campaign isn't in nearly as much trouble since it's on the PS3 and the engine being used also allows for PC porting; while this wouldn't be effortless, it still puts the chance of Sen/Sen2 on the PC well inside the realm of possibility, especially given the likely potential return on investment those games would have. Crossbell isn't in quite the same situation. The PSP versions simply aren't coming out here; there's no way they'd be approved after the end of 2014. The Vita versions would be possible, but it's likely the voicework would have to be cut down to fit within budget. (That being said, though, the Vita has apparently generally been good to XSEED, so it probably wouldn't be a total wash; ditto Vita versions of the Erebonian games.) A PC version of Zero does exist, as does one of Ao; the Ao one is in Chinese, currently, but it shouldn't be enormously difficult from a technical perspective to put a J-E script into either game. The bigger problems are that the ports themselves are based around the PSP versions, and thus look rough; unlike the Liberl games, the Crossbell games were designed from the ground up for the PSP, and that largely includes the assets. A few somewhat higher-rez assets exist for the Vita version, but even those aren't truly "HD" enough for a proper PC version - certainly nothing like the PS3 assets in the current Eng-PC version of Trails in the Sky. There's also the fact that the Chinese versions are shot through with incredibly invasive DRM (though I'm not sure how bad it is for the J-PC version of Zero), and it's unclear how hard that will be to decouple from the port. It's not totally impossible that the English-speaking world could see the Crossbell campaign, but there are a lot of technical hurdles to making it realistically happen. Baltazar Robotnik posted:The timeline of these games give me a headache. It's weird, too, poo poo wasn't really that confusing until recently. I mean, 4 had a slightly unclear place in the chronology, but it was all cut-and-dry beyond that. But now Celceta is out, this is coming out, Felghana is actually a little hard to place... ofc, for Ys, the plot has never been the greatest driver anyway Mr. Fortitude posted:So the timeline is Origin ----- 1 - 2 - 4 - 3 - 5 - 6/Napishtim - 8 - 7? Correct, with a few tiny clarifications Also, as far as music goes, the franchise generally cranks up the awesome of the music as it goes on. The Crossbell games are already famous for having some amazingly great tunes, and half the reason everyone is giddy for Sen 2 is because the soundtrack to that game should bomb asses out of their seats. Even Sky 3rd is kind of rad as hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOnj7DjtB6s
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Cake Attack posted:poo poo, if you're reading this all I can say is feel better and I wish you the best. I watch this thread like a hawk, what're you talking about Anyway, thanks dudes, and I am sorry my own personal  bullshit has slowed the game down and now shown up on the forums. Things are pretty far along, though, so hopefully more news will be rolling out over the next couple of months. And thank you dudes for the support, at least.Endorph posted:i feel really bad for the guy and hope hes doing better but on the other hand his beat poetry at the end was palpably awkward. That wasn't beat poetry, that was unvarnished emotions  It may or may not be awkward either way
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Levantine posted:Finally picked up Origin for 6 bucks. They really need to release VI on Steam. I've mentioned this before, but the problem with Napishtim is that, since the extant script is owned by Konami, they'd need to re-translate and re-insert the script, plus bring the game up to spec; basically it'd be as much work as any other game. So it's really a matter of finding time in the schedule. SpaceDrake fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Jan 9, 2015 |
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Renoistic posted:If I'm only getting one Ys from the Steam sale, should I go for Origin or Chronicles? I've only ever played Celceta, which was great if a bit on the easy side. Oath in Felghana is also on sale despite not being on the page, oddly. Also: they needed the time, guess they found the time
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toddy. posted:Which reminds me: did they keep the LoH entry numbering after trails (Trails being LoHVI)? Or is Zero/Ao considered a spinoff (and then the same goes I suppose for Sen)? When Zero was first announced, it was numbered as LoH VII. As I like to point out to Wyrdwad, though, that was dropped by the time it actually went to market. Ao never had a number attached, and neither has either Sen game. It's pretty clear Trails is its own thing now, although from a very technical perspective, yes, Crossbell is VII and Erebonia is VIII. Cake Attack posted:An open question to people who know more about LoH than me: So far as I am aware, Trails in the Sky was intended originally as a single game. You can actually see a lot of remnants of this in the data files, too, but that's about all the detail I can go into on that subject . They split it in two, though, simply because their vision of the game was getting too big for Falcom's budgets at the time.It was always intended to be a new world setting separate from the Gagharv one of LoH III-V, and it was intended to be significantly more internally consistent and "open to expansion" than Gagharv was (they basically tore through the entirety of Gagharv's potential in three games) and with a somewhat higher technological base than the purely-medieval-fantasy previous LoH games were. As far as I know, though, it was also intended to be very potential "one and done" - I.E., if the game, setting etc. didn't catch on, they could just leave it there and move on. It had the potential for enormous expansion, because they were boiling down the area covered in the "game world" significantly (and conversely expanding the scope of potential sequels) but being a separate setting, it could be left behind if it didn't work out. It wasn't actually a huge success with FC's release (then just "Sora no Kiseki"), actually - it did okay and the ending became infamous very quickly, of course, but being a PC-only title in 2004 did not do it any favors. That was the lowest ebb of the PC in Japan, and by that point Trails was literally sharing shelf space with porn in many places. And I don't mean sharing "store space", I mean it was on the same shelf. It wasn't until the PSP versions came out that it began selling better, and even then it was a long burn. Trails doing 100k+ in an opening week is a phenomenon that began with Zero. So, as far as I know, Trails was designed to be expandable, but they also designed the initial game (or SC, at least) to be an ending if it fizzled completely. It didn't, and eventually really caught on, so now it's the huge continuous narrative everyone's come to know and love (and dread if you're a localizer trying to tame this beast). There might be a few errors in there but I'm pretty sure it's all truth.
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Mokinokaro posted:You misread. There was originally supposed to be a single Trails in the Sky game that ended up split into two (FC and SC) due to budget and time constraints. Yeah, there was originally never going to be an FC and SC. What is currently FC+SC was going to be one game, but it was just too big. Cake Attack posted:i like how if you swap PSP and PC this describes the situation in NA pretty well too. i mean maybe not the sharing shelf space with porn, but on the other hand steam did greenlight nekopara... I personally always suspected that would be the case; even in 2010, before XSEED's announcement and when I was pondering tackling Kiseki on my own, I thought it would do well on the PC here due to lack of competition on the platform and a general hunger for that kind of content. Meanwhile the PSP was dead in the water.
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Blattdorf posted:Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd be actually willing to release a new Ys game on PC first. I'm not holding my breath, but from a business standpoint I'm sure it is making more and more sense to them to go ahead with this idea. This is straight-up speculation and not based on any kind of insider info at all, but based on the rather specific way Kondo phrased that one answer to that Windows Central question, I strongly suspect a full-blown sequel to Ys Origin, or another title starring Yunica and Hugo at any rate, is at least being heavily mooted, if not in pre-production/early production. They themselves have admitted that the game sold north of 200,000 copies, data suggests that number is even higher now, it's the best-selling of the Steam Ys titles, and it sits among the upper echelons of Japanese games on Steam in terms of sales in general. The theoretical math suggests that even with sale prices and whatnot, Origin has provided Falcom with upwards of seven figures in revenue. That's spread out over a period of a couple years, but even so, that's huge. That's a fanbase. That's a base you could sell a new game to, and I'm sure they're aware of that. Will it actually happen, I have no idea. But especially given how Yunica and Hugo have been showing up in side media all of a sudden after getting ignored for half a decade or more, I do wonder.
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Nate RFB posted:About as likely as a Ys game centering around Elena, perhaps? I dunno about an Elena-centric game but they've been teasing goddamn something with her for ages now. They do this poo poo with Trails all the time, leave obscure hints in secondary material for people to pick up on later. But seriously, it wouldn't surprise me at all if another Ys Origin offering hasn't at least been discussed internally. Origin's numbers are the sort of thing where you begin to talk seriously about follow-ups for a foreign market exclusively. Tamba posted:Unlikely. While Falcom seems to like the PC game sales in the west, they still don't want any of that stuff in Japan (I'm following the Falcom Twitter, and whenever they mention a Steam sale, they get angry japanese tweets complaining that they aren't selling the japanese versions on steam). Sadly this is one of those things where they kind of aren't getting the hint that just maybe they'd see more than 2k if they participated in Steam Sales in Japan The long march continues
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toddy. posted:This one was heavily discussed when that ys girls calendar thing was printed for Ys Seven. I reckon having a war-trained Elena tearing Felghana apart with the Genos sword would be an awesome game. Nate is more getting a dig in at my  -ing a while back over Elena getting put into future games as a playable character, I think. (Still maintain there has to be some kind of calculation behind that subtle-but-persistent push of the idea of Elena in a Felghanan knight uniform with the Brave Sword. Like since 2010 almost every single appearance she's made in "new" media has been in that outfit except for like one wallpaper and the loving Line sticker sets, and those are mostly older assets repurposed as big emotes.)
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