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Delusibeta
Aug 7, 2013

Let's ride together.

Cake Attack posted:

Nah cause of the va, they either need to license it or dub, and either is too expensive (if they even can license the va).

also i don't like the new character art

Besides, most of the market would probably have double dipped on this game already. A triple dip on a format that can already play the game is a bit of a risk, to say the least.

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Cake Attack
Mar 26, 2010

yeah that too, i'd buy it for like the fifth time but most people aren't as obsessed as me

Stabbey_the_Clown
Sep 21, 2002

Are... are you quite sure you really want to say that?
Taco Defender
Not that it matters, but what are the differences? Just new character artwork and voice acting which won't happen in English anyway?

Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

New music too

Cake Attack
Mar 26, 2010

concerning SC's delays:

http://www.carpefulgur.com/drakblog/?p=53#more-53

poo poo, if you're reading this all I can say is feel better and I wish you the best.

Factory Davey
Jan 9, 2010

I am aware of what the hands look like. I did my best. :(

Cake Attack posted:

concerning SC's delays:

http://www.carpefulgur.com/drakblog/?p=53#more-53

poo poo, if you're reading this all I can say is feel better and I wish you the best.

Jeez, that sounds inexplicably rough.

And yeah, on the off chance he somehow comes across this thread: this project and Recettear was the beginning, at least from my point of view, of getting Japanese games/JRPG's on the PC/Steam. At the very least it was on the frontier. It's been a really exciting and fun time to be a fan of this stuff, and I do want to thank him for taking the lead that he has and hope sincerely that he has found some peace.

I also feel like a dick for, even jokingly, complaining about the Monster Book being incomplete.

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

Jesus that was heavy, and yet I can relate to a lot of it.

You're a cool as gently caress dude. Take all the time you need to chill man, we'll still be here waiting :unsmith:

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

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.

Araxxor
Oct 20, 2012

My disdain for you all knows no bounds.
:stare: Well, I didn't expect to hear that. I hope he's doing well.

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer
Didn't see any beat poetry, but yeah, if you've ever honestly considered them, the suicide thoughts never ever leave you for good. The struggle just lessens, sometimes.

Good for the Drake to be able to put this all down, and out there into the public. Takes quite a bit. I hope it helps. And i hope it gets us more Falcom. :D

Zaggitz
Jun 18, 2009

My urges are becoming...

UNCONTROLLABLE

drat. :smith:

Feel better SpaceDrake.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

At the end of everything, hold onto anything



Fun Shoe

HenryEx posted:

if you've ever honestly considered them, the suicide thoughts never ever leave you for good. The struggle just lessens, sometimes.

The best you do is figure out ways to drown them out or channel them into something constructive until they fade again.

I've already sent my well wishes towards SpaceDrake elsewhere. Wishing the best for him.

SpaceDrake
Dec 22, 2006

I can't avoid filling a game with awful memes, even if I want to. It's in my bones...!

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 :v:

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 :colbert:

It may or may not be awkward either way :v:

Cake Attack
Mar 26, 2010

SpaceDrake posted:

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.

i look forward to doing what i did with FC and buying it an amount of times most would call fiscally irresponsible and kinda pathetic

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

drat. SpaceDrake - take care of yourself, feel better.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

SpaceDrake posted:

I watch this thread like a hawk, what're you talking about :v:

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.


That wasn't beat poetry, that was unvarnished emotions :colbert:

It may or may not be awkward either way :v:

I don't think anyone is going to say "gently caress you for not releasing a video game fast enough, rear end in a top hat" after that, even though I'm certain it must feel that way. (Or at least if they do they're a shithead.) Feel better and thanks for the honesty.

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
I hope you're feeling better. I'm new to the whole TitS thing but I'm a few hours into the first one and loving it, and I'll thank you for any work you've done to bring the second game into english. Be alright, man.

xylo
Feb 21, 2007
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SpaceDrake posted:

I watch this thread like a hawk, what're you talking about :v:

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.
Please tell me you are getting some professional help. I know several people that have gone through very serious bouts with depression and all of them have said it helped immensely. It's very very difficult to cope on your own sometimes. I hope the XSEED knows what really happened so any semi burnt bridges between your companies can be repaired.

Best of luck and please try and stay healthy. :)

toddy.
Jun 15, 2010

~she is my wife~
http://www.esterior.net/2015/01/xanadu-next-domain-www-xanadunext-com-spotted/

Someone found that the domain xanadunext.com has been registered by XSEED. I see good games in our future.

Delusibeta
Aug 7, 2013

Let's ride together.

toddy. posted:

http://www.esterior.net/2015/01/xanadu-next-domain-www-xanadunext-com-spotted/

Someone found that the domain xanadunext.com has been registered by XSEED. I see good games in our future.

Yeah, there's been a hell of a lot of digging around whois with regards to Xseed today. Along with XanaduNext.com, there's CorpsePartyBloodDrive.com, TrailsOfColdSteel.com and LordOfMagma.com.

:speculate: The current thinking is that Lord of Magna would be localised name for Forbidden Magna, and that Trails of Cold Steel is the localised name for Sen no Kiseki. :speculate:

Delusibeta fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Jan 1, 2015

Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

Localizing Sen before the Crosbell games wouldn't make sense, and those probably won't happen for quite a while (see here, read from the bottom up).

Also there's still Sora no Kiseki The Third before either of those games.

Cake Attack
Mar 26, 2010

just how little sense does it make? like could they theoretically do it and just have some previously established plot points you'd need to figure out yourself, or would things just make no sense without prior games?

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Well, I mean, Ar No Surge got translated without the game it was a sequel to being translated.

Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

Sen shows the events of Ao from the perspective of the Empire, so while it could technically work, it would basically spoil Ao.
But if they're not planning to translate those anyway...sure, why not?

Cake Attack
Mar 26, 2010

i mean its definitely not ideal, but considering the crossbell arc's immense localization hurdles, i imagine it may be a choice between skipping and not doing anything else with the series. of course, none of this is even confirmed anyway, which is why im posting reasonably instead of just going holy poo poo what

e: why is coldsteel assumed to refer to sen no kiseki, it doesnt match up with any other translations for the title ive heard

wateyad
Nov 17, 2007

The power of the Outsider is

...dat ass
:yosbutt:

Cake Attack posted:

i mean its definitely not ideal, but considering the crossbell arc's immense localization hurdles, i imagine it may be a choice between skipping and not doing anything else with the series. of course, none of this is even confirmed anyway, which is why im posting reasonably instead of just going holy poo poo what

e: why is coldsteel assumed to refer to sen no kiseki, it doesnt match up with any other translations for the title ive heard

No one (apart from, presumably, Falcom) actually knows what the Sen in Sen no Kiseki is supposed to mean.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

I think it means 'Trails in the Flash' as in 'flash of steel' so 'coldsteel' kind of works maybe

Cake Attack
Mar 26, 2010

its a badass name though, lets all get on the same page here

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJe6So9MqSc

I assumed it was Cold Steel based off this.

Inflammatory
Apr 22, 2014
for a minute there i thought they were giving trails a gritty reboot from the sound of that title.

Delusibeta posted:

:speculate: The current thinking is that Lord of Magma would be localised name for Forbidden Magma

i'm pretty sure it was magna, not magma. also wasn't that game a massive flop or something?

Delusibeta
Aug 7, 2013

Let's ride together.

ImpAtom posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJe6So9MqSc

I assumed it was Cold Steel based off this.

Yeah, that's the theory. Admittedly, the suggestion that Xseed's prepared to go back to the Legends of Heroes franchise so quickly does strike me as a bit wild, hence why it was labelled :speculate:.

Inflammatory posted:

for a minute there i thought they were giving trails a gritty reboot from the sound of that title.


i'm pretty sure it was magna, not magma. also wasn't that game a massive flop or something?

:doh:

Regardless of the games' sales performance in Japan, it's still Marvellous USA rumoured to be localising a Marvellous game.

Zeether
Aug 26, 2011

I'm pretty hyped for Xanadu Next, it's supposed to be a sort of Japanese equivalent of Diablo unlike the older games.

evilalien
Jul 29, 2005

Knowledge is born from Curiosity.
It controls somewhat similarly to Diablo 1 if you use a mouse/keyboard. It also has gamepad support which makes it play more like a slower Ys game. That's about where the similarities to Diablo end though because the world is not randomly generated (outside of a bonus dungeon but that barely qualifies), enemies have fixed drops, and equipment has fixed stats. It is an incredibly fun game though and all Falcom fans should play it. Don't hesitate to try out both mouse/keyboard and gamepad to see which suits you better.

oblomov
Jun 20, 2002

Meh... #overrated

Cake Attack posted:

i mean its definitely not ideal, but considering the crossbell arc's immense localization hurdles, i imagine it may be a choice between skipping and not doing anything else with the series. of course, none of this is even confirmed anyway, which is why im posting reasonably instead of just going holy poo poo what

e: why is coldsteel assumed to refer to sen no kiseki, it doesnt match up with any other translations for the title ive heard

I actually think it's a smart move. This is why they localized Sen games in Chinese and Korean after all. It's a new Arc, newer console tech, and they can just do some background shot ala Yakuza or Xenosaga of its needed.

Otherwise they will never catch up and series will die on the West. Slow localizations and SC just coming out this year isn't going to cut it. This way they could produce 2 games over 2015 and 2016, and be almost caught up when 3rd game releases. Plus they can build up the audience more in the West. Ideally they would port the games to PS4/PC as well, but that won't happen.

tithin
Nov 14, 2003


[Grandmaster Tactician]



I've never played a TiTS game until a friend of mine bought Trails in the Sky (first chapter?) for me on steam.

Spoilers below for people who are new to the game - no seriously, don't click those spoilers unless you've actually beat the game.

I just finished the game, and I have to say -

a) didn't see that ending coming. Not even remotely.
b) alba what the gently caress
c) JOSHUA WHAT THE gently caress DUDE, NO, DON'T DO THAT
d) YOU MOTHERFUCKER

e) When's Second Chapter out?

Cake Attack
Mar 26, 2010

Its not dated but sometime in the next half year or so seems likely

Slur
Mar 6, 2013

It's the Final Countdown.
So, for anyone who is familiar with "Trails of Cold Steel", how much text does it have in comparison to Trails in the Sky?

Cake Attack
Mar 26, 2010

I don't have an exact figure but the entire series is playing in the same ballpark

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Now that I've finished Trails, my Steam recommendations are all dating sims :saddowns:

they could at least judge me for my actual bad purchases like Runaway: A Road Adventure

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Cake Attack
Mar 26, 2010

have you bought any yet

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