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I want to fuck Adol

What if cold steel was a girl

>>14202436

Gay

>>14202438

She’d be hot but edgy

>>14203026

>How much is Kondo steaming inside from this absolute shit show?

I always see comments along those lines, but face it, anon. Falcom doesn't give a shit about what happens to their games in the west.

>>14203041

Apparently they do somewhat since they made NISA re-translate YS VIII after fan push back. If they didn't care they would've released NISA's original shit filled translation.

>>14203026

He's probably too busy sucking his NIS buddy's dick to care about what happens in the West.

If he really cared what happened in the west he would have made a Falcom International by now, he has enough sale figures/data to easily convince board members to fund a branch.

Hell if Idea Factory can make their own International branch when they're much smaller and make less money, then Falcom has no excuse.

>>14203387

Probably didn't want to listen to months of crying like when they used the word "trap"

>>14203484

>Why does people still give them jobs!?

because the french market

>>14203225

What did it say?

>tfw have both fan translations of Zero open and they constantly contradict each other

I wish it was possible to learn Japanese.

>>14203633

I saw this tweet earlier and knew there would be outrage. kek

>>14203594

Still better than apologizing for it at the very least, but its shit

XSEED isn't perfect but they're okay

They have some real faggots and whores on their staff. I checked out their tumblr blog and it was beyond cancer.

At least they haven't let it seep into their work (yet) but I still worry. Why can't the west have some actually competent localization teams?

I forget, does Atlus and Sega have localization branches? It'd be nice to get them to localize a Falcom game for once

>>14202741

Everyone's gay for Adol

>>14204535

>At least they haven't let it seep into their work (yet)

Wasn't the Akiba's Beat translation shit?

>>14204623

That anon meant their politics. Like here, >>14204647 as long as they don’t let their politics into their games they have a leg up on the competition. Akiba’s Beat was fine for the most part. The biggest problem it had was gameplay.

>>14204681

>That anon meant their politics.

I heard people complaining about the translations of the names. Wasn't sure if anything else was messed up.

Any word on if they managed to get the PSP assets redrawn for Zwei 1's localization? I remember them saying something about trying to get a hold of the artist when they first revealed the game but said it likely won't happen.

>>14204718

The only major change was the in game company that was called KKK in japan. The source material was pretty shit even before the localization

>>14204535

Atlus seems to be mostly fine now but they used to be real bad with changing chracters race and stuff. However since they struck it big with P3 they've just been limited to occasional cringe lines. Also sometimes they have left lines untranslated in, SMT4 if you had a specific party makeup with a certain combination dead in a specific fight you would find it. They copped to it and said oh we missed that in testing and just missed it, however they refused to patch it saying it would cost too much.

Sega on the other hand is pretty weird they have not censored or changed anything in a while. While doing Yakuza 3 they got shat on for cutting out a bunch of the mini-games. The game sold like crap and after 4 they kind of stopped localizing them, until Sony threw them some money to do the rest of the games. Last year though they put out Yakuza 0 and made a point of mentioning how they left the entire game intact. Even including the video store where you can watch live-action gravure model videos. They kept it all in and the game sold really well. So I don't think they will go back to censoring shit until people stop buying their games.

>>14204535

>I forget, does Atlus and Sega have localization branches? It'd be nice to get them to localize a Falcom game for once

Sega seems to have a translation team seperate to atlus, but they don't really do much, just a few random 3DS games and some miku shit. Even then they don't try very hard, for example, Puyo puyo 2 on the 3d classics game was left completely untranslated and the first miku game didn't have proper english subtitles. Atlus for a time was more focused on publishing indie games on steam than translating anything not from the parent company.

>>14205166

>Sega on the other hand is pretty weird they have not censored or changed anything in a while. While doing Yakuza 3 they got shat on for cutting out a bunch of the mini-games. The game sold like crap and after 4 they kind of stopped localizing them, until Sony threw them some money to do the rest of the games.

Isn't Sony translating the games for SEGA though? I know they did 5, at any rate.

>>14203387

What possesses people to do this? Stick to your guns you faggots.

>>14205561

>Isn't Sony translating the games for SEGA though? I know they did 5, at any rate.

The translation deal was only for Yakuza 5. After that Sony just does some promotion for the yakuza series but nothing else for sega

>>14205607

A situation where Anton meets up with his family and they all make fun of him because he still can't fuck a chick.

>>14205592

Bau can you fuck her?

>>14205561

I thought SEGA had in-house translation.

>>14208301

They do.

>not Zwei edition

lame

Level 5 master quartz are broken as fuck.

>>14209078

Brittany is the one who’s fairly responsible for bringing over Trails as intact as they are and is responsible for the scripts not being filled with memes as she has described herself to be very dry when localizing. Becky and her dad being an exception. So long as she is not inserting her politics into the games and keeping it consistent throughout, she’s fine.

>>14210043

As was said in the thread earlier I'm fine with Xseed for now but this shit is still something I consider a big fucking risk for them in the future

This CS1 drama CD is pretty long. I'd just like to confirm, it's totally safe to read this after Chapter 6, right?

>>14210157

It takes place between Chapter 6 and the Final Chapter, so yes, you should read it right after finishing Chapter 6.

>>14210207

Read what I posted.

whens zwei

>>14215291

Today

XSEED WHERE IS ZWEI YOU SHITS

>>14215352

>gog version actually released at the same time as the steam version again

Someone at gog must really like the Zwei franchise because the zwei games are the first xseed releases that they didn't delay a few hours from some reason.

>>14210772

Is that Anri Okita?

>>14215422

Yea.

>>14215874

Usually most Falcom games have a config program inside the game folder. You can try looking there.

KUROSUBERUUUUUUUUUUU

Is Zwei fun and worth buying and how long is it?

>>14208525

Not That Adol.

Are there JP voices for the new Zwei anywhere? A gog install would be nice too if anyone has a magnet. Also, what are the odds that Zero and AO's fan translations will be done before the release of CSII on PC? Or does that not matter so much? I'm just desperate for some more Trails.

>>14216074

The first one xseed released was pretty good, I don't know exactly how long, but it depends more on how you play it. I spent about a week going through the story and collecting everything on the side, but there's stuff like the arcade and new game plus that I didn't bother with. It's a classic with interesting gameplay, but not a standout series like Y's or Trails.

>>14217219

> Also, what are the odds that Zero and AO's fan translations will be done before the release of CSII on PC?

0%. Zero won't be done for several months. Ao's might, but it might be a low quality translation like the one that currently exists for Zero.

>>14217839

When they removed the ages from Senran Kagura.

>>14217234

But is playing CSII before Zero and AO a bad idea? I don't want to spoil anything.

>>14217841

So if XSeed is one cunt's promotion or lack of oversight away from being completely pozzed and everything else Falcom in the hands of NISA… I don't want to have to try and learn Japanese, again.

>>14217849

Even if you do get spoiled you won't know you got spoiled until you actually play the Crossbell games. However, there is one section of the game at the end where you get to play as Lloyd and Rixia in Crossbell.

anyone got a magnet to a GOG zwei 1?, the steam crack is fucked for me

>>14217883

Thats better than nothing, thankfully. I hope we get all three sometime this year.

>>14217893

Did you try running in compatibility mode?

>>14217856

>>14217867

Y O U

C A N ' T

L E A R N

J A P A N E S E

>>14217849

Personally I don't think the spoilers you'll get in CS2 are a big deal, but I guess it depends on how tolerant you are of spoilers.

>>14217883

>spoiler

Yeah, I realized Yin/Silver/whatever was Rixia once I saw her weapon.

>>14217839

Since the beginning.

They have always been lefties, but at least they don't fuck with the translations (all that much compared to the rest of the localizers).

>>14217839

XSeed has always been full of leftists, but they're leftists that don't believe in altering the source material even if they don't like it. The top brass wanted to age up the Senrans, for example, but Tom put his job on the line to just not post their ages instead to get around Canadian laws.

So no, I wouldn't want to spend time with any of them, but I can respect their professionalism.

>>14218681

>to get around Canadian laws

wat. Tom said himself there was nothing external forcing them from changing/removing the ages, it was just his co-workers bitching.

You dopey cunts have to do this every thread. I only have enough patience to visit this one thread on this shithole board; expressly for any news on falcom games. I guess I'm just not young enough to deal with these theatrics, really, what's left to say that's already been said in every thread about localisers politics/drama? The absolute state of this place is far too painful for me and I cannot understand what pushes anons to make posts that are so abhorrent, so consistently.

>>14217219

>Are there JP voices for the new Zwei anywhere?

It's just like 8 battle grunts Anon

>>14219435

As if that isn't enough to ruin something. Ragna sounded like an ill-fitting, annoying shit in the dub in the first (second) German Two. That said, his nip voice was also awful and far too nasal so the best option was to simply turn voices off. More games need to allow you to do that, a disappointing number of them don't. The recent update for Shantae, for example, has you play as her three friends. All of them have extremely bad voice acting. Sky sounds butch as fuck despite being the most feminine looking one. Bolo sounds like a generic male, which while not offensively bad as the two girls, doesn't suit his idiot self. Rottytops is the worst of them all, with some voice that I can only describe as a young teenage girl being lolsorandom and trying to sound cool. And you can't turn off voices.

>>14219466

You sound anal retentive, i would mute you.

>>14219601

At least you've come to realize that being able to mute people is good, especially if they have horribly unfitting voices.

Just stop shiting the thread

I'm playing through SC now, and I wonder how the bonus BP system works.

On some quests it's pretty self explanatory why you would get bonus BP, but on others I just get bonus BP for doing nothing ordinary.

>>14218678

>muh KKK witches

Tom was fucking stupid there. Acquire didn't get the rights to all of the store names in Akihabara, so they did parody names. One of the stores ended up being called "KKK Witches" and all of XSEED went "Umm do they know what that sounds like?" and so obviously all of them except one person (Tom) thought this should be changed for localization purposes, since the signs had no meaning other than to avoid legal copyright. And so they suggested a bunch of sillier names (Hatsuu's was "PBG Sandwitches"), but then Tom somehow said it was some "2deep4u" joke because it was "shockingly funny" and they all went full "Are you a fucking moron? There is nothing funny about it". The second XSEED emailed Acquire about it, they didn't ask them to change it; they just explained them what it meant and Acquire apologized immdiately and said it wasn't their intention (and IIRC they even changed it on their own in the JP version before launch).

It's not censorship if that's not the meaning; the intent was meant to purely avoid copyright, it wasn't meant to hurt or offend anyone. What's ironic though is that he WAS okay with changing it… if they switched from being offended to people of color to women instead ("Witches" > "Bitches"), because he said one offense to the other. So Tom's "selectively" fine with censorship, like in Celceta where one of Roos says something about fucking a monster in the ass (in runic language and you gotta translate it), but it was taken out because it's obviously a rated T game.

Tom quite frankly seems to put up a much better persona online than I get the impression he does in his work, and seems like a bit of a hypocrite (as shown here >>14204647). Needless to say no one at XSEED stands by that bullshit but Tom and they localization output is constantly great, especially their Kiseki staff. I would definitely not llump them with those hacks at NISA.

Given that I'm not paying for any of this shit, what's the best choice between the Zweis and Tokyo Xanadu?

>>14220700

Zwei II's design and gameplay actually made me appreciate Tokyo Xanadu's better tbh. Guess you could play them in release order, but all three of them are good games.

Please consider buying if you liked the game and thought the localizers did a good job, even it's if during a sale.

>>14221022

I throw them money for Kiseki. They're not getting anything for decade old shovelware.

>>14221031

Zwei II and Tokyo Xanadu are newer than the Sky trilogy though.

>>14221050

>paying for TiTS

>>14220557

>people of color

>>14221363

Also, caring about offending women

>>14222952

> but god damn it I was getting into the story after GJ #4

You should be able to find chapter 5 online pretty easily. I think it's on one of the wikis.

>>14223184

Not going to be the only surprise relating to Renne. :^)

>>14223048

It's acting weird for me too.

>>14223214

The 3rd spoiler of sorts if it worries you. It'd be my pleasure.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/748490/The_Legend_of_Heroes_Trails_of_Cold_Steel_II/

February 14th.

I have never paid for a single Falcom game and I am boasting about it.

>>14227471

You cared enough to reply, dullard.

I feel like making new primers with using the ones in the OP as a base. They're getting quite outdated. What kind of changes, if any, would you guys like to see?

>>14227543

Why not tell us what you were planning on changing about them first?

>>14227568

Generally, besides updating for what came out or will come out (both officially and by fans), I'm thinking of better fleshing out the gameplay explanations. I'm thinking of making these more PC version focused.

For the Kiseki Primer, my main limitation is that I haven't played the Iseruhasa duology, the Gagharv trilogy, the Crossbell games and the spinoffs. For most of these games (Crossbell games being the exception), I'm not changing much outside of formatting and fixing typos. Debating about mentioning the differences between the base games, Evolution and Kai.

Of course I can probably get away with just focusing on the Kiseki series and leave the other games as mentions in the introduction and maybe footnotes.

For the Ys Primer, it's more of a time for a not ugly guide. Creepy Dogi stays however. I might do this one first since it's more straightforward.

Here's a full list of changes/improvements in the PC version:

Graphics:

- Arbitrary resolution and FPS settings (Up to 6k and 60 FPS officially supported, minimum resolution 1280x720)

- Image quality settings: up to 8x multi-sample anti-aliasing, transparency supersampling, and anisotropic filtering

- Shadow quality, distance and filtering improvements as well as additional shadow casters

- Postprocessing improvements, including HBAO+ as well as higher quality depth-of-field and glow effects

- Ultrawide aspect ratio support (e.g. 21:9)

- Field of View (FoV) adjustment

Input:

- Mouse/keyboard controls with full rebinding support

- Selectable button prompts, including mouse/keyboard and several controller types

- Gamepad button rebinding

- Option to disable camera auto-centering

Quality of Life:

- Turbo mode, with configurable speedup factors for battles and field traversal (automatically stops during timed battle input prompts)

- Autosaves with configurable autosave interval

- Instant resume feature which allows you to resume directly from Steam to your latest save

- Options for skipping startup movies and logos

Audio:

- 5271 additional lines of voice acting

- Uncompressed background music quality

Is there a word for the artystyle they use in Trails? It's the same as in some of the Ys games, with the nice 3d scenery but almost sort of a sprite thing going on for the characters. It reminds me of the original Grandia and I like it a lot. I finally got around to buying Trails 1 yesterday, on GoG. Not far in but I like Estelle better as a main character than I do the vast majority of JRPG protags. She is the main character, right? I'm not getting rused by the game?

>go on a long two week trip, expecting to get back just in time for Ys8 to be released on PC

>delayed again

Thanks nisa.

>>14227399

Oh shit that's way sooner that I thought, I better get to finishing that NG+ playthrough with Towa's ending

>>14228616

You deserve it for expecting anything out of NISA, kill yourself

>>14227878

If the script is shittily translated like the recent video previews would have you believe then its fucking pointless, NISA needs to be eliminated already

>>14227878

>Turbo mode

I really can't play trails games without it anymore. I have no clue how I tolerated the playing them without it.

>>14228634

That's for coldsteel 2 not Ys VIII. NISA never improves games for a PC version, they don't even know how to port games to the PC

>>14228611

She is, but just for the Trails in the Sky games.

>>14228654

Yeah, I knew the Cold Steel ones were in the same world but with a different cast. That's just about all I know about the games. She's a nice change of pace as a protagonist.

>>14228650

Ah, then that's a good thing

>>14228663

>That's just about all I know about the games.

There's also a series between Sky and Cold Steel (Zero and Ao) but those games only have shitty fan translations.

>>14228650

>I have no clue how I tolerated the playing them without it.

>tfw played Zero in PPSSPP and could use unthrottle for turbo

Is there a fix for the occasional stutter in Xanadu Next? FPS remains 60 but game still stutters from time to time.

>even if you don't carry the fishing rods over to NG+ you still get the end game fish forced onto you in Trista

Thanks Falcom.

>>14231425

I'm suddenly reminded of the review that complained about items in Oath being "invisible and off the beaten path" and whined that the game called them bad for repeatedly dying to the first boss.

>>14233314

Over the course of two 80 hour long games and one reportedly 100 hour long game all you can get from her characterization is “waaaah I don’t like her because she’s gay” you have serious issues.

>>14234538

Except 90% of her lines are in reference to her cunt lust.

>>14203041

They might not care what happens to the game in the west, but trusting a company like NISA only for them to admit failure and give up is a huge loss of face.

>>14234576

If you choose to put blinders on, go for it.

>>14235891

How can someone write so much and still understand nothing about why those games haven't been localized yet?

>>14235891

>Xseed can license the script of Sky + Cold Steel out to NISA so the latter can port them

What is it with retards and NISA. Why would you support a company that has proven time and time again to be completely incompetent?

>>14235903

>that nobody understands

That's bullshit, who doesn't like converting lesbians with your dick? Its literal conquest

>>14235891

and I thought I found some bad shit there.

>>14236181

Might be a shill or a NISA marketer

>>14236261

day*

>>14235891

>nisa can port out faster then xseed

>nisa has indefinitely delayed the YS8 port and handed it off to another developer to even finish, maybe

>while xseed pumped out CSII in the same time frame, or less

LOL

>>14236261

>using the literal translation patch to play Azure

>>14233314

Blame spineless women in Japan. A lesbian like Angelica is not at all threatening to their chastity, so they can get away with lusting after girls like her with zero consequences because they are not gonna get pregnant.

>>14234538

Having only played CS1 the only reason I haven't written off Angelica as utter fucking garbage is that I hope she gets fleshed out in 2 or 3. In 1 all she can talk about is how gay she is, except it isn't as endearing as Oliviers playfulness because Angelica is portrayed as a strong character, physically despite me finding her shit in the V and C fight and in terms of status. She's a high ranking member of the nobility and she practices taito. The problem lies in that unlike Olivier she isn't the butt of any joke. She has no Estelle or Mueller to intimidate her into keeping herself in check, the girls aren't grossed out by her and she just doesn't say anything funny. To me she felt forced and I don't think CS1 would have been at any loss if she had been taken out entirely. The one time I remember her having character was her standing up to her father's troops and owning up to the consequences in the mines which is alright but doesn't really mean anything if two other characters(maybe more, I forgot plenty regarding CS1) also had the same moment(Jusis and Alica).

Plenty of NPCs had better character than fucking Angelica.

So I'm at the end of CS1. Is actually grinding to lvl 80 in the final dungeon even possible, or would reaching 80 require NG+ playthrough? The stuff you get for that in CS2 is fairly irrelevant, I know, but I am curious.

On the topic of data transfer from CS1>CS2, I've heard that apart from the dance partner, whoever you unlocked as an option is also transfered to CS2, can anyone comment? I even read the supposedly accurate guides on this, but in the end I somehow unlocked Crow, which I thought I didn't, and despite doing every Towa bonding event prior to festival I failed to unlock her. T-thanks. She wasn't my dance target, but STILL.

>>14236495

>macro over micro

>ARPG

I'm tired of existing

>an hour ago

this better not be you fishing for (you)s anon

>>14241619

>this better not be you fishing for (you)s anon

wew

>>14241682

You're an abomination

>>14241931

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>>14241275

That’s criticism of how they wrote the characters around her and not the character herself. The arguement is still “she’s gay and I don’t like it” ignoring her entire character.

>>14242281

people like you is why Falcom fans get such a bad rep, your argument is "anon doesn't like gay characters and i don't like him" ignoring his entire post.

>>14242423

>Falcom fans get a bad rap

Where? I barely see anyone talk about Falcom games outside of here, what reputation do they have?

>>14242441

some gaming sites and halfchan Falcom threads which always end up in either a circlejerk or a shitshow, on my circle of friends and to me which seems the net the reputation is akin to Undertale mainly thanks to fanboys that are unable to take any criticism towards the absolute perfection that is Falcom, if you don't like it you are a low IQ hater, FF fanboy with low attention span or whatever buzzword so people give up any reasonable discussing and it all turns to Falcom is perfect vs Falcom is pure shit and everyone else just kinda walk away.

>>14242866

Yea just passing by but Angelica and the utter inability of people excusing the character to even actually address the negativity she receives properly just turns me off to the games which is a shame seeing as how I like these kinds of games(jrpgs with relationship mechanics)

Played Ys I recently. I like the idea of the combat, but it's pretty boring how every enemy behaves exactly the same, no difference except raw stats. I also really don't like the fascination with making bosses almost unbeatable unless you get to them with the right conditions. Unless you're a high enough level, or have the right equipment, a boss takes almost no damage from your attacks. Either you're forced to die and come back later, or spend 30 minutes chipping away at them without making any mistakes. So what OP's pic says about "no grinding" is kind of horseshit, only after killing enemies for a while and gaining a couple levels did I inexplicably start doing 20 times more damage against bosses.

>>14241634

I was pretty sure I didn't miss any of her events, but only spent one ticket on her during the festival, since I was sure I had enough bond with her due to the chapter 5 trigger. Bike event is one of the possible triggers in addition to link exp, as I've read… but according to that I should not have unlocked Crow. Hard to say in the end, but I unlocked him and 4 girls.

Finished the game just a moment ago. The epilogue boss was a mistake. Now I wonder whether I should reload from the festival and try again for peace of mind. Well, NG+ is an option, but I dunno if I could make it before CS2 at my pace even though there's still 2 weeks.

>>14242885

To be fair, CS3 does murder both of the characters people dislike, so maybe Falcom is learning.

celine a shit

blade I a shit

>>14241574

It works like this: whoever you have the option to pick as a dance partner in CS1 gets a special line of dialogue when you meet them again in CS2 (that basically ties in to the last thing they say to you). The person you danced with gets a brief shout out at the very beginning and they start at link level 3 instead of 2 but otherwise the choice doesn't really matter nor is it brought up in the story. Ergo, picking Crow is a complete waste if I recall with Towa being almost as useless. Sara is a full party member in CS2, so she's definitely worth it.

>>14243287

I highly doubt any but Millium will stick. And even she will probably be a talking sword.

>>14247009

Thanks, I also went and looked it up. Actually impressed they made this many little differences for all the possbilities. Apparently you can also dance with Elise on NG+.

That Towa requirement sure is a ruse.

As much as I don't want to replay the final dungeon, I might reload from festival and minmax points to unlock two more characters for my autism.

>>14247529

It's technically Elise+Alfin, which is basically a tradition kept up through the series.

>>14250741

What in the fuck would be a contractual necessity to censor?

> And if there’s any positive to be gained by doing so, it’s that the presence of offensive content in localized titles will spark much-needed discussion about those topics, and hopefully lead to a dialogue on the state of the industry in Japan, possibly even resulting in creators being a little more cognizant of people outside their tight-knit circle of acquaintances when designing new titles from here on out.

<I hope Jap devs will start to self censor so we don't have to censor for them and can remain looking like good goys

> I believe content alteration will occur a little more often in the West than it has before (hopefully not by us, but regrettably, that isn’t outside the realm of possibility)

XSEED fans need to get the fuck out. They allowed this to happen by pushing the meme that XSEED was ok.

They're about to tighten the rope further and they think they've got the numbers to survive the fallout.

>>14250777

>>14250741

Getting mixed messages from him here, inner struggle indeed. Hopefully releasing uncensored content will cause content alteration but hopefully not by our hand? I think he is trying too hard to please everyone / sound neutral. Still, he repeats his self-proclaimed zero-tolerance stance. That's far from what I think of when I hear "kool-aid".

What matters is what they'll actually be doing in the future.

>>14250818

If Xseed continue in this direction, they will only be marginally better than NISA. Better fucking hope they unfuck themselves.

>>14250799

He is obviously a leftist, and is trying to make them self-censor in order to stick to his own no-censorship policy. Because apparently censoring things before they're released is different.

>>14250799

Yes, it's only that one guy. Not the dozens of other people also in the company that are already perfectly ok with even more censorship.

Are you retarded? Do you work for XSEED? Is your name (((Tom)))? Kill yourself.

>>14250818

>inner struggle indeed

As a show to convince retards that they did the best they could.

The ESRB is not a binding governmental entity so there is no excuse that they forced you to do so as a legitimate reason.

You are not required to release on consoles let's ignore the fact that most of these games already saw a release on JP/CN and they weren't censored, XSEED themselves release shit on PC already, so the excuse that hardware manufacturers won't allow it because it'd get an AO+ rating is also bullshit.

Muh obscenities/Western sensibilities is not an argument because you're deciding what is appropriate for everybody else, generally even WW outside of JP/CN as EU tends to use US translations/censorship editions for their (((localizations))) based on what a small cabal of thirty to forty people most of the time less "feel" is appropriate.

If they were upfront about it I would not care as much because then at least the average fucktard couldn't claim they were doing their "best" when they obviously aren't but they use every fucking bullshit excuse they can think of instead of just saying "We did not think this was appropriate for us to localize" is disingenuous and wrong.

>>14251713

People don't realize that Tom is actually the best person at Xseed in terms of being anti-censorship and being passionate about his work

If you fire him you might as well just not buy from Xseed anymore, everyone else from what I've seen of them, is worse

I said this in the gog interview thread and I'll say it again

He's sort of a fenceshitter, but he's defending the right side, but if he falls he'll probably fall on the wrong side

Basically XSEED is a ticking time bomb, especially when they ignore people like Tom and exclude him from the credits all Xseed games since Akiba's beat because he disagreed with one example of censorship

That's a pretty huge fucking deal

>>14251733

He was the one who wanted to be excluded from the credits. Those words were from him.

>>14251768

He wanted to be excluded from that game's credits, and Xseed's rules were that "if you want to be excluded from one game's credits you're excluded from all game's credits"

>>14251733

>Basically XSEED is a ticking time bomb

It was always designed like that. They get a fanbase who buy "XSEED" games not games that XSEED localized.

Once they can get that market they don't give a shit.

It's coming.

>>14251768

Are you sure about that?

>that I asked to have my name removed from the credits of Akiba's Beat, and thus – in accordance with company policy, which I was well advised of beforehand – removed from XSEED's company credits altogether, meaning I will not be appearing in the credits of any future XSEED title

Yes, he did willingly get his named removed from the credits of that game but company policy is why his name no longer appears on ANY XSEED game's credits.

It is very obviously designed to punish people who disagree with a particular game.

Xseed is nearing sjweebdom?

>>14251790

They're the same as ever. Tom has always been a leftist. He still supports releasing games uncensored, he just has this retarded idea that somehow when people see the games uncensored this will somehow make people want to pressure the Japs into being less extreme, which anyone with a brain knows won't happen because most gamers don't give a shit about lewd. My stance on Tom remains the same as always: he has retarded opinions, but he's professional when it comes to his actual job. As long as he keeps that professionalism, I don't give a shit how dumb his opinions are.

>>14251880

>As long as he keeps that professionalism, I don't give a shit how dumb his opinions are.

Even when he plainly said that he wanted to influence jap devs into censoring their stuff while in production?

>>14251939

That's not what he said. He expressed a retarded opinion that not censoring games would somehow cause this to happen. That's a completely harmless idea even if it is stupid, because it won't work. As long as he continues to not censor games it doesn't mean anything. I know you're desperate after you fucked up Ys VIII and lost your biggest cash cow when you lost Dangan Ronpa, NISAfriend, but you're going to have to try harder than that.

>>14252071

How about this quote from the same interview?

>and hopefully lead to a dialogue on the state of the industry in Japan, possibly even resulting in creators being a little more cognizant of people outside their tight-knit circle of acquaintances when designing new titles from here on out.

everybody knows leftists use "dialogue" and "conversation" to mean

>talking at somebody and getting angry until they do what we think is correct.

Why does it fucking matter that the devs in Japan are making games that only their "tight-knit circle of acquaintances" as retarded as that is to say, because of all them Nips that use the fucking localization industry because they only speak English? can enjoy?

>decide to get into Ys

>start with Ark of Stupid Word and Oath in Stupid Word, everything is simple

>except lunges

Tell me, what the fuck were they thinking when they decided to make lunge attacks (and jumps) work the way they did? Why are they so incredibly inconsistent? Some times I can do three of them in a row, other times I can't do a single one in thirty attempts. I don't even know what I'm doing differently. A quick search tells me that I'm not the only one with this problem, so it's clearly just incredibly bad controls. Speaking of which, I got to the second town in Ark of Napishtim and upgraded my wind sword. It said something about being able to use its special skill, which the help menu tells me requires you to do a basic three-hit combo and then press the attack button again "with the right timing". I've been doing nothing but the basic combo for several minutes, trying many different timings for the extra press and I haven't gotten it to activate even once. It's pretty damn hard to tell what "the right timing" is when I literally cannot get it to activate to begin with.

>>14252071

>And if there’s any positive to be gained by doing so, it’s that the presence of offensive content in localized titles will spark much-needed discussion about those topics, and hopefully lead to a dialogue on the state of the industry in Japan, possibly even resulting in creators being a little more cognizant of people outside their tight-knit circle of acquaintances when designing new titles from here on out.

He is clearly saying that he wants Japan to self-censor to please western SJW sensibilities.

>>14252156

As I said, he's just retardedly naive and thinks the Japs will care. They won't. Xenoblade 2 clearly shows they don't give a shit. So as long as he doesn't censor games, it doesn't matter what he wants. The fact remains, XSeed doesn't censor like NISA, ArkSys, 8-4 and every other loc company that doesn't directly work for a publisher does (and some of those do it too). So yes, I prefer the people who don't censor, regardless of how batshit their personal beliefs are. Until those beliefs effect their work, then this is just meaningless bitching. Tom has gone on record saying he doesn't like Senran or fanservice and yet he does his job. Who cares if he wants Japs to change? He has no power to make it happen. And so long as he doesn't use what power he has to gatekeep, then he's better than the alternative.

Is there any way to see what difficulty you're playing on in FC?

>>14241273

Do you think that's the case? Or is it cuckold otaku who like having cute girls stolen by cute girls Angelica types?

>>14254429

Save file has your difficulty I believe.

>>14252370

> So yes, I prefer the people who don't censor, regardless of how batshit their personal beliefs are.

>And so long as he doesn't use what power he has to gatekeep, then he's better than the alternative.

I can see that you're like the other XSeeD fans that arent immune of the same Stockholm Syndrome that NISA fanboys are subject of when defending their shit too. (either be the quality of the translations themselves or the case of censorship)

>>14255089

I see that your arguments have no substance and you can't refute anything I'm saying so you just say "Trust me I'm right."

>>14257550

That's okay, what matters is the now.

>>14257874

I like your style, mate

>>14258478

I'll protect her with my dick

>>14255343

>I see that your arguments have no substance and you can't refute anything I'm saying so you just say "Trust me I'm right."

So projecting your own sins in this thread?

>>14259880

>Respond with an ad hominem

Congratulations, you just lost the argument. Nice job.

>>14259880

>>14259926

stop shitposting faggots

>>14254879

I don't know what you expected from angelica, she has very big mental problems

>>14233314

Angelica should have been the MC.

>>14262320

Now there's something I did not expect to see.

>>14262495

>Angelica should have been the MC.

No

But she should have been just a tomboy or fithead/gearhead. If they absolutely had to make her queer (they didn't) then just leave vague hints at it in the very least or make it a joke that's not desperate to normalize her creepy behavior. Anything other than "insufferably cocky in-your-face turbo-dyke who's two huffs away from rubbing her rug on anything missing a Y chromosome"

If she comes back in CS4, man…

>>14262695

>to normalize her creepy behavior

>yuri

>creepy

come on, anon.

>>14262699 (checked)

Just let the anti-yuri brigade continue in their cry corner.

>>14251733

>>14251733

Tom is becoming an almost full on cuck who pushes for self-censorship and also said he does not want to do games that offend him or others anymore. He and the rest of xseed are becoming bigger faggots who will probably lose their fanbase over this.

>>14262891

Call me when they censor a game over it, then I'll agree with you.

>>14262891

>I’d rather just localize games that everybody can enjoy!”

-Tom

ITS TIME TO LEARN MOONRUNES

>>14262995

>call me when

Its your job to look for it faggot, dont be a fanboy

I can understand your position and i even agree with it to an extent but this is a reason to be fucking wary about XSEED for their future works.

Am I wrong, or not? Or is Tom, the biggest anti-censorship person at XSEED, not saying that XSEED games have risk of being censored because he as a whole is not XSEED?

If he can't guarantee the safety of Falcon vidya and he's the closest thing we have to an anti-censorship apologist we have in the localization industry, we should at least be worried.

This isn't some "XSEED is compromised, time to buy from NISA and give up hope, you will never learn Japanese" post. This is a "okay, so the best dude at XSEED admits there's problems in the company, he himself admittedly doesn't view self-censorship as a problem and would encourage it IF HE HAD THE POWER. Everyone else at XSEED is inarguably worse if you've taken a look at their localization blog. This is a reason to be wary about them and to watch their next games closely.

>>14263128

We pay attention to every game. They haven't done it yet, so historically their track record is good. This blog post is not new. Anyone who has ever read Tom's posts before would have known this is how he felt. In spite of that he still has, so far, done his job for years. The second that changes, I will be right there with you. But despite going on record as not liking Senran, he has handled that franchise professionally. Anyone who has payed attention to XSeed at all is aware of their political leanings. And yet despite that they have an actual respect for what they do in regards to the original source material that companies like NISA obviously don't. That has earned them a certain amount of trust in my book. The moment their stances negatively effect a single game, I will be the first to lead the angry mob. But it hasn't happened yet

>>14263304

I sincerely doubt XSeed has the ability to change what Japanese companies make. Remember when we were freaking out about Treehouse sending people over to Japan to manage content for Xenoblade 2? Doesn't seem like they managed to do much content policing does it? And if Nintendo can't do it, there's no fucking way XSeed can.

>>14263456

>I sincerely doubt XSeed has the ability to change what Japanese companies make.

The more I think about it, the more ridiculous the idea is, xseed or anyone else. The only way this could be possible in any capacity is maybe if the sales in the west would be equal or greater than at home. I like Tom but I dunno how high he was to seriously think that.

>>14263456

Localizers are the gatekeepers between Japan and the rest of the world though. If a Japanese company gets most of its income from localized titles, they might want to change their games into what they perceive to be what the target market wants. And who else has more influence on that kind of decision than localizers?

>>14263271

>We pay attention to every game. They haven't done it yet, so historically their track record is good.

This, too.

I understand how Tom saying "I would to see this happen" is worrying, though. Here's to hoping he never gets to cross the line with any of their games.

>>14263456

>Treehouse managed to not get their claws into one game

>this means they aren't worth worrying about and fighting against

What kind of faulty fucking logic is this?

That's luck, Treehouse has screwed up plenty of games here as it is, just because they didn't manage to screw it up even WORSE this time doesn't mean they won't keep trying until they successfully do.

>>14263271

I'm not going to call it censorship because this word seems to trigger people's panic response mechanisms even though it is but them removing the ages from Senran Kagura was an omission to make the game more acceptable by Western standards.

That would be something to consider. Their record isn't clean it's just been considered "acceptable" changes.

Would they as in XSEED themselves consider it censorship if they just removed the content instead of changing it?

People thought that was ok because it was just something small but that is literally how shit always starts.

First you remove the ages.

Then you have a buggy mess that can't stop crashing because half the game has been removed to make Western faggots feel better.

>>14263456

He can't really change what they make but they XSEED can choose to not bring over specific titles because theu find them "disagreeable" this already happens with a large amount of Nip titles from a lot of localizers or change the way a line is said which is what happens 95% of the time, not just unintentionally as a side affect of translation but if they were to find a line or character to be "problematic" they could change it to be or say something technically correct but not what the writer intended.

This is the real threat.

The people not playing Nip only titles aren't getting outraged by them, they rarely even know they exist until they get hyped by EN/JP speakers.

The people playing the Westernized (((localizer))) approved version that take over English speaking fanbases are also a problem.

Look at what happened to Fire Emblem. Do you really think localizers are incapable of content policing?

Is that the future you want for Falcom titles?

>>14263666

>This is the real threat.

Not really. If you had any sense you wouldn't be playing localizations in the first place. I just don't want them to affect the original games.

>>14263630

I think the point is they fucked them up here, but not in Japan. Sure those shits can keep trying, but the question is CAN they succeed.

>>14263630

I'm saying despite the fact Treehouse specifically said they were sending people over to monitor the game that the Japs just laughed at them and did what they wanted anyway, and that was fucking Nintendo. XSeed are so tiny compared to Nintendo that the idea that they could somehow pressure Jap devs into making less lewd games when the Japs have all the power is hilariously unlikely. The only thing they could do is censor content themselves, which would then be obvious to us and XSeed would probably lose all support at that point because they're reputation among niche enthusiasts is really all they have. Tom's wish is just shitty pipe dreams. He has no way to make it happen. So he'll either keep doing his job through gritted teeth, or he'll succumb to gatekeeping, at which point XSeed will likely face huge backlash and lose a lot of their audience. I doubt the second one happens though, because as another anon said, this is just Tom wanting to have his cake and eat it too. He wants to keep being the accurate localizer guy, but also wants games to be less lewd. He's not willing to compromise his ideals about his job, do he's bitching about content and hoping somehow his dream will happen when it never will.

>>14263727

>>14263758

This doesn't mean treehouse won't stop trying, and the fact that nobody listened to them this time might have more to do with Monolith Soft refusing to listen

What happens when they get the ear of someone who *will* listen? Moreover, do we have any proof that XC2 was guaranteed to have not been tampered with; that there was even more triggering content in there that wasn't fucked with and the stuff that remained just happened to trigger people anyways?

We don't really have anyone in japan who can confirm this for us, we have to go by ear, common sense, and people who can read japanese for us.

Xseed isn't a big company, but Falcom is significantly smaller than Nintendo as well. They deal with much smaller studios and individuals. If they talked to the people handling corpse party, would they have the ability to change it?

They got the shit changed for the KKK witches bit without even explicitly asking, just informing the japanese company that the name happened to be the same as a white supremacist group here and they changed it and sent it back to them, what's to stop them from going further?

>>14263836

Because it was the lewdest Xeno game to date? I guess it's possible that Dahlia only had pasties or something on in an original draft but honestly I doubt it. The reason why XB2 is so important is because it's clear evidence that backlash against censorship is being taken in to account. Yes, the game had some textual censorship (though nothing was done to the original Japanese), but the fact that no visual changes were made, despite several of the designs being way more lewd than the stuff changed in XBCX, makes it pretty obvious that Torrential Downpour is working, even if no one will admit it. If western localizers really could interfere at the design level I doubt they would have let Dahlia happen. And now that XB2 is selling quote well, their hands are tied.

>>14264411

Valentine's can't come soon enough this year.

>>14263895

And that's just it. We have to go by ear and common sense.

Treehouse fucked up Fates in much of its script, yet that fanservice as fuck Camila cinematic was uncensored, the swimsuit DLC still all exists. Character design isn't the best measure for this shit unfortunately, leftist meddling could include many things like changes in dialogue to be more LGBT friendly or what have you

The fact that precedent exists for XSEED doing this is probably the worst thing about it to me, and they did it without even trying.

>>14267767

They still made several visual censorship changes to Fates and the fact we know what changes were made to the XB2 script due to the differences shows they were unable to change the script at the Japanese level, which is what you were scared of. If Nintendo can't make those changes, there's no way XSeed could which brings me back to what I said. If XSeed we're to go full cuck (in their actual work I mean), it would be obvious and they'd be over.

>>14267869

If you say so man, I wish I could have your confidence in this sort of thing

>>14267912

The biggest problem with a lot of people on /v/ is they have so little faith in their own accomplishments. I know it doesn't seem like it because the media is always trying to put you down, but the stuff we've done has made a difference. I'm not saying "stop" or "we've won" or "there's no need to pay attention anymore." I'm just saying it's okay to have a little faith in what we've done.

>>14268037

I'll take your word for it.

I never intended to stop supporting XSEED yet, but that doesn't mean this doesn't give me grave concern

>>14268037

>(31)

>>14268504

>257

>>14268493

What you should do immediately is start learning Japanese, if you haven't done so already. That way you'll have a head start if they ever get worse.

Going into Cold Steel I was worried Rean would be a painfully cliched anime MC that's totally dense about grills because that's so funny, but I gotta say Rean delivers something. I mean, some cliches are naturally there, but he has character that shines through here and there. And he seems to be dense about his sister for comedic value, but that's it. I hope he develops more from CS1 onward, although I imagine the writers might be playing it safe if he's still to be a self-insert type.

>>14269267

Oh dear.

I'm enjoying those Zwei games more than i should.

>>14273282

Why do you enjoy them anon?

playing trails in the sky, hard mode. what's the deal? It's not super hard yet, but it seems like XP is super slow, is that the main difference between hard and normal?

>>14277160

The differences are gonna appear later on once available arts/crafts/party combos, become available. Strats that are viable on normal don't work well or even feasibly on hard/nightmare i.e. agate spam

The start isn't too much different, probably as a result of them not wanting to simply bloat numbers and have every battle take forever expect that to change by the end

Also, the differences are much more notable in TiTS 2 when the difficulty ramps up, its entierly feasible to have not too much difficulty in TiTS 1 nightmare first time through is you abuse earthwall, in TiTS 2 however, it's a nigh-literal fucking nightmare.

>>14277385

not that anon but is hard mode worth it for a newfag to the series, but one who's eager for a challenge and is fairly used to (relatively) hard JRPGs?

More importantly, are there any notable character or story differences in hard mode? I haven't started TiTS yet but its sitting in my GoG library as I decide which game in my backlog to play next; I'm considering it.

>>14277923

I've played TitS for the first time on Hard, and it was just the right amount of challenge most of the time, it proved quite satisfying. A few battles were insane (especially in SC) and required devising some brilliant strategies and/or lucking out.

>>14277938

Sounds like it'll be my cup of tea. Thanks anon.

Just out of curiosity, can you recommend either the Vita version or the PC version? I have the option but i wonder if the game will be comfy and unchanged enough to experience on a handheld, or if its worth sitting down on my PC.

>>14274214

The script inject of SC into the vita EVO version just got finished as well. Someone is now prepping an inject of the garbage Zero script into its vita EVO version. I don't know why you'd want either, but some people might like it.

>>14277957

The Vita version was made by a different developer, who messed with the balancing. The English PC version is pretty much the definitive version. I'm currently at work, but once I'm home I can post a comparison table I made.

>>14278212

How does it break lore?

>>14278212

PC version doesn't have voice acting?

Vita version was censored?

You need a fanpatch for it to be in english? I saw it on nonpdrm/PKGI in english, is that pre-patched?

How is the balancing broken? Remix is bad?

All this suggests I should play the PC version, though I wish there was a way for me to experience the VAs and extra cutscenes while also on the go. There's too many negatives from what it seems like, mainly from the

>SC intro spoils story

>breaks lore

>censored

>need to finangle with DLC to get OG soundtrack

These seem like fucking massive deals to me, what the hell

>>14278246

*playable version on the go

these things sound like its nigh unplayable if I care about the game at all

>>14278246

Here's a video on the vita version.

The voice acting is meh.

>Vita version samefaces

And I thought the original version had samefaces.

>>14278243

Mainly the Combat Arts. Different Tactical Orbments give the characters different Combat Arts. In the Evo versions they can use Arts from Zero, Ao and in The §rd even from Cold Steel, that should not be possible with their Orbments.

There is a scene at the beginning of SC where you get a new Orbment. The character who gives you the new Orbment mentions how a Boss from FC could use a certain spell, because he already had one of these new Orbments. I don't think this scene makes sense in the Evo version.

>>14278246

>PC version doesn't have voice acting?

Nope.

>Vita version was censored?

Yes, all console versions had to be censored. It's only one scene in The 3rd though.

>You need a fanpatch for it to be in english? I saw it on nonpdrm/PKGI in english, is that pre-patched?

No, nonpdrm doesn't allow mods. You have to use MaiDumpTool.

>How is the balancing broken? Remix is bad?

As I mentioned they backported newer and stronger spells and allow you to attack enemies on the field to get advantages in battle. This made the combat to easy, so they made all enemies stronger. This was done poorly and made the balancing even worse.

The remixes are mostly pretty bad and/or ruin the original mood.

>>14278295

>The remixes are mostly pretty bad and/or ruin the original mood.

The version of Merciless Savior is pretty good.

>>14278212

What was there even to censor in TitS…

>>14278843

Star Door 15

>>14278920

>>14279124

Tsk, I guess, but barely. The story itself is more censor-worthy.

>>14279392

It was.

Man, I'm counting the days until CS2. I haven't been this excited for a game in a while.

What was the DLC for it on consoles? I assume just more costumes and items?

>>14279799

Yeah, pretty much. And the old DLC works with it.

Does anyone have that link to Brandish 2 Renewal with the fan translation already patched?

>>14280531

Nope after a year of work they figured out you have to be able to program to port a game to PC.

>>14277385

Alright, thanks fam. I'm just heading off to the second town after finishing up the prologue. After playing some Ys games I was kinda expecting everything in this on hard to kick me in the balls and was getting worried.

>>14280584

>Nope after a year of work they figured out you have to be able to program to port a game to PC.

At least people finally figured out why all their previous ports were so god awful.

>>14288812

How did I ever miss this in my playthrough? Unforgivable.

For the next OP:

>Ao is 100% translated, should be out by Valetine's Day.

>Zero no Kiseki fan tl progress report on Valentine Day.

( https://twitter.com/supremezerker/status/958149715090137090 )

>>14292444

TX2 will probably happen after Sen IV. Kondo already teased a sequel.

>>14292455

Welp, at least rope is cheap. Honestly I have no idea how can anyone could want more of Tokyo Xanadu after how it turned out, I played it to the very end and all I felt in the end was profound regret for all the 60 hours of free time I was never getting back. It wasn't even bad, it was just mediocre, which is the worst thing a game can be.

>>14292444

Better not have paid for that.

>>14292431

Then whatever NISA has cooking up for tomorrow.

The good news is that Nisa fucked up the PC port not the PS4 version.

Honestly they should have never committed to a day one port in the first place.

>>14294375

The chances are low it's Falcom-related.

>>14292444

well there's this set https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=ricotta_%28ys%29+sumiyao_%28amam%29

Who's ready for the CSIII announcement tonight?

oops you were talking about Renne :^)

Remember to pray to Reah, Feena, and Aidios

CS3 is

SAFE

>>14301963

Until we all freak out again at E3 or something.

>>14301963

Goddamn you guys need to stop doing this. My brain knew there was little chance it would be CS3 but your panic still affected me.

>>14303740

Ahaha

>>14303740

And that's the first I've heard of a Winter release date. Wouldn't surprise me but last I've heard from Falcom, it was around the end of their fiscal year which is like October.

>>14304447

Yeah, Falcom themselves said it would be in the fall, not winter. Falcom also haven’t said anything at all about pushing it back to a winter release.

>>14303740

Sounds like an intentional mistake to me.

They can claim it was an unintentional mistake while also using it behind the scenes as a bargaining chip to get the rights to license III for an NA release under the excuse that people are "expecting" them to. Sounds retarded but it works in these sorts of things

Lots of people saw the initial press release, fewer people read the correction.

retarded and hopefully unsuccessful P O W E R P L A Y

Anyone got the new bread ready?