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Post by Slayne on Oct 22, 2008 19:40:10 GMT -5
Just got my email from Atlus about this, pretty damn cool.
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Post by jeffx on Oct 22, 2008 20:04:07 GMT -5
While I like the fact that Ys showing up here and there now, I wonder what exactly prompted companies to bring them over? :o I don't really think it was the fan-base since we don't really seem that vocal or rabid. XD I've been pestering them about it forever... they probably did it in part to shut me up!!! anyway it's true what you guys are saying, the average reviews will probably be abysmal, but true hardcore gamers/writers like Jeremy Parish @ 1up will "get it" and write their review accordingly. As far as future Falcom games from Atlus are concerned; it all depends on what titles get consoles port. They have never published PC games and most likely never will. At this point, the Falcom PSP games stand a pretty good chance of being picked up for the NA market; better than they did before today to say the least. Oh... now's a good time to bug them for the Zwei!! PSP port!!!
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Post by ParanoiaDragon on Oct 22, 2008 22:26:04 GMT -5
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Oct 22, 2008 22:32:41 GMT -5
Preorder'd. Yay!
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Post by Lumi on Oct 22, 2008 23:12:56 GMT -5
I generally trust Atlus to do good on a localization front, so I see this as good news. ^.^ ...Even if they did goober the spelling of Ys on there. (Typo, perhaps?) YAY to Reah. NOT so yay to "Dahm"... it just sounds goofy to me. *SIGH* Oh well; can't have everything, I guess...
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Post by ParanoiaDragon on Oct 23, 2008 0:07:55 GMT -5
Who knows, maybe last minute, they'll change it to Darm?
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Post by Skeletore has a boner on Oct 23, 2008 0:34:26 GMT -5
They probably have some anal francophone on the localization team, cause I'd totally do something like that ;0
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Post by User on Oct 23, 2008 2:32:32 GMT -5
Oh, why do they choose the shit versions? This is going to give the Ys series an even worse reputation. Although I will be delighted by the 34% average rating on Metacritic.
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Post by User on Oct 23, 2008 4:47:24 GMT -5
I primarily meant Ys Strategy and Ys 6 PSP. The worst Ys games ever (along with Ys 1-2 DS), and both get released outside of Japan. And now this?! What's wrong with them? Why do they choose the worst ones? I don't believe it. Well, I've always wanted to see Ys 1-2 DS reviewed, because I love reading bad reviews of games that I hate. But since there weren't any, I'm happy about this, because now there will likely be plenty of them! They're going to be so hard on these games! It's kind of tragicomic though, as it's pretty sad to see Ys 1-2 get so much shit, but these remakes really are abysmal in every possible aspect, and they deserve all the 1/5 reviews in the world. And yes, putting "Book" into the titles Ys IS as bad as Y 's. It is such a ridiculous title. But then again, EVERYTHING "Turbo grafx" was goofy and ridiculous. The guys responsible for all the localizing there must have been very weird people.
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Post by Yakra on Oct 23, 2008 7:43:43 GMT -5
I'm totally delighted hearing this! As unexpected as it may be. I'll most definitely grab this one too, whenever it becomes possible! (No Amazon for I! X( ) [So will psycoblaster and his team continue ahead with their patch...? It would be sad if they didn't actually, since they were working so hard at it. I was really looking forward to that too.] By the way, where is the misspelling of Ys on the Atlus site? I looked all over for it and I'm getting the feeling I've gone incredibly blind! I can't see! And while talking about bad spellings/translations - soooo... Sara isn't spelt as Sarah?? I keep thinking of her name ending with an 'h' since it's apparently like so in the Nightwolve-Deuce patch and in the game booklet.
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Post by Savory Cade on Oct 23, 2008 7:59:28 GMT -5
Woot! Good news indeed! I'm really glad I held off on importing them last month.
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Post by Inochi 命 on Oct 23, 2008 9:15:12 GMT -5
anyway it's true what you guys are saying, the average reviews will probably be abysmal, but true hardcore gamers/writers like Jeremy Parish @ 1up will "get it" and write their review accordingly. It'd be pretty ironic and funny, seeing how 1up is the site we used to rag on for putting Ys Book I and II on their top 100 most boring or whatever games of all time list. I wonder what they thought about the re-release on the VC... and Seldane, we get it, it's not the best version of the game (I'd actually like to see a more accurate import review of the game myself, though) but how about some hope that they could fix things? Unless, you want them to keep it bad...
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Post by psybuster on Oct 23, 2008 9:19:04 GMT -5
Who knows, maybe last minute, they'll change it to Darm? Having "owned" a certain work in progress version of a certain game of another certain popular JP series 3 months before release and seeing that about the only difference from the retail version is fixing typos I wouldn't count on it. Maybe on the off chance I can still get into contact with one of the translators there, but I doubt it...at least, assuming they still work there; last time I talked to them was was well over a year ago, probably over two now
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Post by garant12345 on Oct 23, 2008 13:27:18 GMT -5
This is certainly interesting... Just learned of this yesterday.
I don't know much about the game yet, only that it's (quite) below the quality of Eternal/Complete. Not having any gameplay footage in the trailer doesn't help the people who don't know much about Ys.
I'm willing to bet that this US release has something to do with the Virtual Console release of the TurboGrafx version.
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Post by Red Hairdo on Oct 23, 2008 13:40:02 GMT -5
Including the name title. If not for it, things could have been different. But I don't think it was very smart of them to choose these DS Ys games. But since they don't release or port PC Titles...
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Post by macroidtoe on Oct 23, 2008 14:55:46 GMT -5
I mean, no offense, but those graphics are just wrong. I can handle bad graphics, but these are ... BAD. Yeah, that was always the first thing I thought while looking at screenshots: the 3D adds nothing to the game, and actually makes it look worse. The result is that you get houses and architecture viewed at weird awkward, ugly angles when compared to the attractive 2D spritework of the PC versions. (I had the same problem with the PSP version of Tear of Vermillion.) For overhead view: 2D = better, because you can bend the perspective and make it so that the characters and objects are always shown from the "best" angle and always look like what you want them to look like. In fact, if you look at pretty much any old SNES classic which used an overhead view, you'll realize that the sprites are basically drawn in "side view" perspective, because they simply look better and more attractive that way. It doesn't matter that it's not a realistic portrayal from an overhead perspective, because the aesthetics and recognizability of the characters are more important.
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Post by Justin on Oct 23, 2008 15:10:36 GMT -5
Falcom is only here today because of OST sales, and the various incarnations of Ys. I am not expecting anything great, but its Ys and its portable, which is fine with me.
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Post by Incog Neato on Oct 23, 2008 17:30:15 GMT -5
Ahahaha. The System section on the About page: www.atlus.com/Ys/about.htmlAnother illustrated Do and Don't for attack strategy. ^O^ edit: Gohan the Bandit. :P Haha, this one's name translations are going to be funny. ;D edit2: Dark Pearl ... seriously, I'm starting to get a feeling the translation done in this game was VERY poor. :O I'm starting to get worrried. They should have done what Konami did and ask fans* what the most common spellings are of the names. :P But maybe Gohan is a typo too. But Dark Pearl ... You know, perhaps all these names are from early translation attempts and will not be in the final product? :o * I do believe I was not the only person to have gotten an e-mail about Lava/Laba/Rava/Raba's name when they were in the process of localizing Ys VI.
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Post by Inochi 命 on Oct 23, 2008 17:40:01 GMT -5
So now it's really not just Seldane willing to express disgust at these ports I thought he was just exaggerating (as he sometimes does.... lol). Then... this is quite a perdiciment. On one hand we want the series to be more recognized by this game selling, on the other hand these games are horrible. When these games don't sell, the message to the devs and publishers won't be "oh we did a bad job" but rather "guess Ys wasn't destined to sell outside of Japan". It seems to me that only Falcom can make the best Ys games and ports, and only fans would be able to localize them correctly. And I recently found out Interchannel used to be NEC, too. Damn, weren't they good at porting games before? Didn't they make Bomberman 93 for the Turbo?
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Post by Justin on Oct 23, 2008 17:41:50 GMT -5
Falcom is only here today because of OST sales, and the various incarnations of Ys. I am not expecting anything great, but its Ys and its portable, which is fine with me. No way. Falcom's music, though awesome, is not their mainstay. Thank Legend of Xanadu, Brandish III, Gurumin, Ys Eternal, Ys II Eternal and Legend of Heroes III-VI for Falcom being alive. And give extra praise to Xanadu, which *still* hasn't been topped in terms of sales since 1985. Just sayin. Besides, like I said, this isn't even a Falcom game. Makes me cry. I still hope it sells well for the promise of moar Falcom. While I am sure all of that is true, most of those games are grossly unrecognizable to the masses. For those that even somewhat know about Falcom, its their music and Ys that the name is associated with. I think we forget that sometimes, because were uber nerds, and look at the message board we hang out at. Falcom is not intensely popular by any standards, and I have had the unfortunate opportunities to speak with many people that dislike the company.
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