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Post by Red Hairdo on Jul 15, 2009 23:07:16 GMT -5
Agreed.
And if they don't pick it up, someone else will. Though that would be very dumb of them, losing such an opportunity.
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Post by Incog Neato on Jul 18, 2009 11:15:06 GMT -5
Agreed. And if they don't pick it up, someone else will. Though that would be very dumb of them, losing such an opportunity. I dunno, man. They'd probably look at it as whether it's something that's worth their time and money. Given the fact that Falcom supposedly just dumps everything onto the company that buys the rights to localize a game w/o giving them much support (is that the word I want? D:), it may take more resources and effort than they want to invest. :x Ys games aren't exactly selling like hot cakes either. DDDD:
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Post by Mutagene on Jul 18, 2009 13:16:21 GMT -5
It would help if there was a larger library of officially localized Ys games. Unless you mean in Japan.
Even then, I think it's pretty popular over there as far as GOOD JRPGs go.
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Post by Incog Neato on Jul 18, 2009 13:58:29 GMT -5
It would help if there was a larger library of officially localized Ys games. Unless you mean in Japan. Even then, I think it's pretty popular over there as far as GOOD JRPGs go. Nay, I meant beyond Japan, particularly on Western shores. D: I think we need to be more fantatical and haunt companies to localize the games. *______*
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Post by Red Hairdo on Jul 18, 2009 14:40:29 GMT -5
Or just learn japanese. xD
I have been trying. xD
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Post by Varion on Jul 18, 2009 14:43:33 GMT -5
I can't help but think more advertising might help. Everyone who's seen me playing a Ys game has really liked the look of it, but before I tell them they'd never heard of it. Or just learn japanese. xD Always the best option
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Post by Mutagene on Jul 18, 2009 15:03:13 GMT -5
Yeah, a friend that was staying over one time came into my room while I was playing Felghana and was like "...whoa. That looks awesome." Then I told him what game it was, and he was utterly confused, despite the fact that he is an avid JRPG fanboy. (Seriously, he owns pretty much every NIS and Atlus game in existence... at least, for the consoles he owns.) Of course, it was while I was fighting Death Faleon for the first time, and I had to tell him that I can't pause during boss fights. Also, I tried learning Japanese, but I gave up after seeing a very partial list of kanji. Thanks but no thanks, I have enough trouble remembering hiragana. (Though I'm pretty good at reading and 'translating' katakana both ways.)
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Post by Varion on Jul 18, 2009 15:07:26 GMT -5
Exactly. The story I always tell is when I was playing against Gildias on hard in the library at lunchtime on my laptop. Loads of people ended up gathering round saying how awesome the game looked and cheering me on, but of course not a single one had heard of the series before.
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Post by AllenSmithee on Jul 18, 2009 15:41:01 GMT -5
Voted.
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Post by Ranzor on Jul 20, 2009 1:01:22 GMT -5
Me too.
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Post by Ashurei on Jul 20, 2009 23:06:12 GMT -5
I threw my name into the mix last nite. Hopeful thoughts~
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Post by Jessicat on Jul 21, 2009 22:57:31 GMT -5
Added my meager support to the Atlus thread as well ^^; [This might be one of the few reasons that could get me to buy a PSP ]
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Post by Este on Sept 16, 2009 0:16:26 GMT -5
Ok, first time poster, long time board... viewer. Anyway, I'm really excited for Ys 7 to be coming out tomorrow, but due to my zero experience speaking Japanese (beyond 'yatta' or 'yata' or whatever), I'm sort of forced to wait for it to be translated. Thus, I'm blowing some life into this thread. Does anyone have any info or even a hunch if it will be translated and when and by whom. I've got that feeling that everything that's going to be said already has been... but I'm starved here.
*Squirms*
Someone pick up the translation already!
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Post by Este on Sept 16, 2009 10:57:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I just hope it's screeming loudly enough to be heard, and soon. Haven't heard anything about Ys Chronicles getting picked up either, but this is neither the time nor the thread to be thinking about that.
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Post by yotaka on Sept 16, 2009 23:55:11 GMT -5
The thing with Chronicles is that there's an almost identical game already on the market. Sure, Chronicles is superior to Legacy in every conceivable way but anyone thinking of picking the game up for distribution will have to ask how many people will be willing to buy the same game twice. I wouldn't take hesitation to bring it overseas as any kind of evidence against Seven making it over. Completely different situation.
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Post by Este on Sept 17, 2009 0:31:50 GMT -5
That actually makes me feel a bit better... can't say I'm not jealous of everyone who had it imported. I just don't want to buy the game and then buy it again when it's in English. Contradictorily, I may just buy it for multiple platforms to see what the differences are. And by may, I mean will.
*Flings money at Falcom*
Don't hold out on me, man...
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Post by ParanoiaDragon on Sept 18, 2009 1:51:51 GMT -5
I don't know, I think the PSP & DS are almost different enough marketingwise, that there's more of a chance, then if the systems were more like eachother. In otherwords, I think the PSP is more for older gamers, possibly ones that actually grew up with Ys 1 & 2, while the DS is owned moreso by the younger crowd. Even still, I have huge doubts abou 1 & 2 being localised, & so I bought the Japanese version just incase.
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Post by Lunar on Sept 18, 2009 2:50:56 GMT -5
The thing with Chronicles is that there's an almost identical game already on the market. Sure, Chronicles is superior to Legacy in every conceivable way but anyone thinking of picking the game up for distribution will have to ask how many people will be willing to buy the same game twice. I wouldn't take hesitation to bring it overseas as any kind of evidence against Seven making it over. Completely different situation. Yggdra Union PSP got picked up here. Anything can happen
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Post by Este on Sept 19, 2009 23:01:55 GMT -5
So I was looking around on the site here and saw that when Konami did the Ark of Napishtim translation, they announced it at the beginning of '04 and it didn't come out until about a year later. Should I let the idea of playing Ys 7 soon go? That would kind of suck.
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Post by Este on Sept 20, 2009 1:46:59 GMT -5
But... if Ys doesn't come out soon... that means I'll have to pay attention to my studies instead. Awww. ):
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