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Re: Yakuza Wars Appears to Be a Mobile Game as Social Media Page Spotted

dancingstar93

@Dalamar Possibly means it's the first mobile game in the Like a Dragon franchise ("Dragon Among Men" here represents 人中之龍, a Chinese paraphrase of Ryu ga Gotoku which has been used for previous releases of the games in that language) that's been made under licence rather than internally developed. You're quoting a machine translation from Chinese, remember.

Re: What the Heck Is This New Neptunia Game for PS5, PS4?

dancingstar93

@Bunchesopuppies I don't believe we ever got the fighting game or dating sim with Nep characters that one of the original series creators once talked about wanting to make. But I haven't actually played any of the game since 4 Goddesses Online so I might well have missed them.

Re: Surprise Final Fantasy 7 Remake Patch Changes the Ending

dancingstar93

Sigh.... bit of a clickbaity headline: "Changes the ending" is hyperbole for "one line of dialogue in the English loc script got tweaked to be a more direct translation." It being changed this close to the release of rebirth suggests there's a callback to it that would be missed or make less sense with the original localised version.

Re: Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Is Out for PS5 on 24th October

dancingstar93

@Petto MGS1 on PS3 was basically the original disc images running under an emulation layer (even to the point you had to go into a system menu to switch discs or switch controller ports); the fact this is cross-platform (which we didn't know for sure before today) at least indicates it's not using a proprietary emulator (like, say, Castlevania Requiem does) but yeah, likely to be a pretty basic port.

@WhensDinner GZ+PP and Survive are playable on current-gen anyway & regularly come up in sales. Guns of the Patriots did reportedly have a working build on Xbox 360 but got canned because it would have needed 5 or 6 DVDs (per Time Extension a few days ago, citing an interview with the game's assistant producer).

The presence of Snake's Revenge certainly indicates these collections aren't going to be constrained by anyone's notion of series "canon," anyway.

Re: Poll: What Do You Think of the Final Fantasy 16 PS5 Demo?

dancingstar93

@Nepp67 This one is in a kind of weird situation like that: far as I can tell from various interviews, the English localisation team heavily worked over the raw translation from the original JP script, and then the EN script was pretty much back-translated into Japanese, or at least the original script heavily revised based on the EN version, and the English voicework was used as the basis for character animations, lip-syncing etc.

While I can't stand most English JRPG voicetracks, this one, like FF XII, evidently had a competent voice director who repeatedly reminded the cast that they weren't dubbing a shounen anime.

Re: Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Is the Next Mainline Game as Ichiban Goes Nude on a Beach

dancingstar93

@Athrum Given that the localised version of Ryu ga Gotoku 7 didn't have the number in its title, and 0-6 were localised under a different name, releasing it as Like a Dragon 8 would be liable to confuse people.

Kinda weird that this is the first one since 3 that won't have a subtitle in the Japanese release (Yokoyama confirmed in an interview last year that it would be simply "Ryu ga Gotoku 8" with no subtitle, because reasons) whereas out of 4-7 and Zero, only 6 had the subtitle in the localised release.

Re: Bloodborne-Style Action RPG Lies of P Launches 19th September, Download Demo for PS5, PS4 Now

dancingstar93

Played it up to the second boss (guy with horse mask wielding a totally-not Saw Cleaver on a bridge); it's competent enough, but not in "pre-order the steelbook" territory for me.

I was getting strong Blooodborne vibes from the whole thing, but then again Bloodborne is the only Soulslike I've played (not counting Nioh or Stranger of Paradise) so I'm prolly not the best person to judge.

Re: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Gets PS5 Gameplay as Early 2024 Release Window Is Confirmed

dancingstar93

@Darude84 Remake project has a third game planned. Crisis Core is a prequel to the OG FF VII but spoilers a fairly major third-act reveal so shouldn't be played first. Ditto Before Crisis (tho' the only way to play that at the moment is a bad RPGmaker "remake").

@Fizza where did you get "Yuffie dies" from that trailer? Sephiroth appears to be insinuating that the real Tifa died at Nibelheim and that the "Tifa" travelling with the others is a puppet formed from Cloud's memories & Jenova cells (<spoiler for something on disc 2 of OG FF VII redacted>)

Re: Breaking News! Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Will Have a Story

dancingstar93

And now dev comment #4 is up, confirming there'll be a recap movie or somesuch for "players who did not get a chance to play the first game."

@Uromastryx Obvious breakpoint would be after Whirlwind Maze, which would also give a story excuse to reset everyone's gear. Of course this is assuming that the rest of the remake project retains the general story structure of the original which is by no means certain.

Re: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Will Offer a 'High Degree of Freedom' on PS5

dancingstar93

@Cloud39472 Hey, Dissidia Opera Omnia is turn-based & still being updated, and there's a chance Ever Crisis (apparently ATB-style despite the flashy Remake-style graphics for battles) will actually launch and have its service last longer than First Soldier did . . .

@Rgeneb1 It's vague, sure, but wouldn't, for instance, apply to FF X or XIII & remember how much flack the latter game got on that count.

Re: Metal Gear Solid's PS5 Master Collection Adds Two More Titles

dancingstar93

@Skeletor85 Legacy Collection basically had HD Collection as Disc 1, Guns of the Patriots as Disc 2 and a download code for MGS + VR Missions.

Depending on how badly Konami decide to cheap out on this project they may pad out one or another of the volumes with things like the NES port of Metal Gear, Snakes Revenge, Ghost Babel &c. running under emulation layers. The current advert already mentions "regional versions of the titles" being "available as additional downloads."

Re: Gollum Studio Daedalic Has Another Lord of the Rings Game in Development

dancingstar93

@Arisen The Tolkien estate doesn't own the film / TV / videogame / merchandising rights to The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit ever since Ron Tolkien sold them off to United Artists in the late '60s to pay off his back taxes. What they do own is all rights to everything in the Tolkien legendarium that isn't in those two books (e.g. pretty much everything First Age and earlier) & unlike the various corps that have been trading the LoTR / Hobbit rights among themselves, have been extremely reluctant to license them to, well, anyone.

Re: Clive's Voice Actor in Final Fantasy 16 Thought He Was Going to Get Fired

dancingstar93

@Michael2008ish Some of the IX characters are voiced (well, barks / battle shouts rather than full dialogue) in Dissidia Omnia Opera, tho' this being a gacha-based mobage with a paper-thin story I wouldn't blame you for not wanting to play it. Vivi & Eiko appear & are voiced in World of Final Fantasy (the "guests" in WoFF are alternate-universe versions with different tho' analogous backstories but the same general personality).

Re: Clive's Voice Actor in Final Fantasy 16 Thought He Was Going to Get Fired

dancingstar93

@Kanji-Tatsumi FF XII is one of the very few JRPGs that I don't reflexively set to JP voice at the first opportunity. Not super-fond of Vaan & Penelo's voicework on either track, tho'. X, I eventually grew to tolerate the EN dub (since my Japanese sucks, the alternative was using a mod which leaves subtitle & animation timings out of sync with the voice track). I initially though Yuna's part sounded phoned-in but it later becomes clear why she's talking that way.

@themightyant Clive is hardly the first FF playable character, or even main character, who had a fairly common English given name: we've had Maria, Guy, Leon, Richard, Cecil, Rosa, Edward, Tina, Edgar, Vincent, Claire* & probably some more I don't remember.

  • (some of those may have been victims of localisation changes for one reason or another; e.g. Claire was originally Éclair which to English speakers suggests a variety of sweet pastry)

Re: Amazon's Making a Lord of the Rings MMO

dancingstar93

LOTRO is still a thing tho' not under its original publisher / dev, I've not really been following it for many years (quit shortly after Isengard launch). I have various memories of that game, including one side quest in Eregion that literally had you picking up the Fellowship of the Ring's litter. Also trying to level up a Hobbit character as far as possible without leaving the Shire (mainly through farming and cooking). I also use it as a good example of video-game scaling syndrome: compare the distance from the Buckleberry Ferry to Brandywine Bridge in the game (less than a minute at normal run speed IIRC) with how far it's described as being in the book.

Re: PS5 Action MMORPG Chrono Odyssey Almost Looks Too Good to Be True in Gameplay Reveal

dancingstar93

That kind of action combat might work in an online game if you're in a relatively small country with decent internet infrastructure, like, well, South Korea . . . not so much if you've got people from all over Europe or the Americas playing on a single datacentre for their continent. Never mind the question of how the hell will the "time manipulation" gameplay element play out in a multiplayer game.