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Yakuza 5 |HOPE for Western Release?| Can we make some noise?
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immortal-joe
Member
Justice is served.
Now we play the waiting game.........
Now we play the waiting game.........
drtomoe123
Member
Apparently, according to LAI's website anyway, they've had Sega as a client before, so that might actually help, too.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Oh, sure, but if no one is interested in that company or even releasing a game, it's all still wishful thinking isn't it?
Hrm, I guess there's that. I still don't think the localization fee is what's hanging up an announcement or release of these games. Especially in the case of something like VC3.
Hell, presumably Sega would have a free localization of VC3 assuming they don't send their lawyers to kill that fan translation project.
The question is, will SEGA bother to read this part? and will they even care?
R_thanatos
Member
i don't understand how shining hearts managed to get that much after the HORRIBLE anime.
Congrats to Yakuza 5 i guess.
microtubule
Member
Not getting my hopes up but please Sega make it so!
Evenbillybob
Neo Member
Every day that Yakuza 5 is not confirmed for The West is a little piece of me dying. It's the one game I really need in my gaming life.
Make it happen Sega!
Make it happen Sega!
Operation Rainfall is hardly a "random" fansite. Also, did you read the intro at the top of the page? It explicitly explains that the poll is not a guarantee of localization, but more to use as "ammo" when taking the pitch to Sega and Konami.
It blows my mind that Sega is publishing that Project Diva game or whatever, but not Yakuza 5. It's infuriating beyond belief. I hope these votes end up meaning something, but I have my reservations. Now that Project Aces has hit the shit-dust (F2P Ace Combat title) all I have left is Yakuza Studios and Platinum Games to provide me Japanese PS2-era goodness. =(
chrominance
Member
Hatsune Miku games probably cost a lot less to localize, especially given that none of the songs need English lyrics. I don't know how lengthy the cutscenes/skits are but there's no way they're anywhere near as involved as Yakuza ones, even if Miku gets voice acting (which I kinda doubt).
RoryDropkick
Member
Ah the waiting game sucks, let's play Hungry Hungry Hippos!
It's only been 7 months, it's really not that long since JP release.
My favorite series this gen..
That would explain the noise.
Also there's usually a 1 year gap between Japan and western release anyway, not all hope is lost yet. A December 2013 - March 2014 release would give my PS3 a happy ending.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Well, yes, I did read the site. Which is why I'm just confused as to why people are taking this poll so seriously. I'm sure you could start a "VC3 vs Y5" poll on GAF, but I'm not sure what that would ultimately do.
Operation Rainfall was started as a campaign for Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story, and Pandora's Tower to get localized and they all did.
Part of it is a localization company has offered a discount for localizing whatever game wins the poll. I don't know what they've worked on so I don't know how good they are, but it's a little more than a random poll on a random website. Obviously Sega still has to want to shell out for the localization and use that company to do it.
HyperZone<3
Member
do we know any games exactly that this company worked on, they're partner page is pretty impressive, but do we know even if these guys are any good at what they do without a specfic example to draw from.
So operation rainfall is what?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yes, I know who they are and I bought the trilogy of Wii JRPGs.
The difference is that while Nintendo seems to be okay with tossing scraps to Xseed, Sega is known to hoard its Japanese games and refuse to license them to anyone.
Sure, I saw that too, but... I dunno, I mean, what if 8-4 came out and said, "we'll do a Sega game for free!" - would that matter to anyone making the calls in Japan?
As I said, there's the VC3 localization that is apparently all but done, and some localization companies buy/take/license/whatever fan translations, so the cost of localizing VC3 is probably negligible. But I don't know if they're interested.
Heck, in the same way that Nintendo could just grab that Mother 3 translation - which the translator has offered! - patch the rom, and then slap it up on VC for like 15 bucks but they just don't want to do it for whatever reason.
Conflict NZ
Member
I hope this comes over so bad, my Japanese isn't good enough to the point where I can play this game without english subs.
They were all localized by Nintendo Europe at that point. Their campaign was for US release.
However they lost all their credibility with the Collectors Edition Box fiascoes.
Hrm. Considering the votes have pretty much slowed to a crawl I'm not sure that's such a good idea.
ioriyagami
Member
I've been doing some research...and the results don't look good:
- Yakuza 3 was released on the 26th February 2009 in Japan, announced for the US in the 8th of December of 2009 and released in the US on the 9th March 2010. This means it was announced 9 months and 5 days after the Japanese release. Yakuza 3 was also believed never to be released in the West at the time, but there were leaks about its localization back in 19th September 2009, 6 months and 24 days after the Japanese release.
- Yakuza 4 was released on the 18th March 2010 in Japan, announced for the US in the 8th of June and released in the US on the 18th March 2011. This means it was announced only 2 months and 18 days after the Japanese release. Yakuza 3 did above expectations, so that could be the cause of such prompt announcement.
- Yakuza 5 was released 6th December 2012 in Japan. Today, 8 months and 16 days after the Japanese release there still no announcement, rumors or leaks about its official localization.
IrishNinja
Member
agreed, it really is the weirdest argument ive heard since VC kids were being told to support whatever they were hocking at the time...i don't think that's how anyone in a decision-making position thinks
This is disheartening, but we have to remember that Y5 is a much MUCH bigger game than Y4 as well. It's 4 cities and 5 characters vs 1 city and 4 characters. Plus, much of the content of Kamurocho from Y3 could pretty much be reused in Y4 as it's the same city, same games, same menus etc.
Wonko_C
Member
I can see why people could think like that. Back when people begged Namco to keep localizing Tales games, they responded by telling their fans to keep buying other Namco games and then they would see about localizing them.
To be fair, they are localizing a shitload more tales games now as well.
Never would've thought we'd get the ToS re-release.
Eh, ToS was one of the most successful entries and they bothered to release Abyss on 3DS. A Symphonia re-release was a shoe-in for localization.
But yeah, it IS getting more and more worrying as more time passes. :/
We'll get the Yakuza 5 localization announcement the same day Sega releases PSO2 in America.
SirIgbyCeaser
Banned
This is slightly off topic.
But considering the team rebuilt the engine for yakuzaa 5. Does that mean that Yakuzaa 6 on PS4 is already in the works?
I'd import that just for the visuals... these games have amazing amount of work put into them.
But considering the team rebuilt the engine for yakuzaa 5. Does that mean that Yakuzaa 6 on PS4 is already in the works?
I'd import that just for the visuals... these games have amazing amount of work put into them.
JustRiffled
Banned
I think them saying the engine being completly rebuild for Yakuza 5 was a slight exaggeration. It just more refind similalrly to how games previously were.
I think team is not making Yakuza 6 next. They will experiment more...just as they did with Kenzan I think.
I still think it's kinda insane from Sega too put so much work into the visuals of the game and have it aimed/released in only one region (Yakuza games, Valkyria Chronicles)
Shadowman16
Member
Seconded. Its not the perfect way to play the game (I'd love to get an English translation) but I just can't wait that long! I cleared the Kiryu section earlier (epic end battle) and now have just done the first bit of Saejima's story. He seems cooler than I remember, not sure if his moves list has been tweaked but I'm really liking his fighting style and heat moves (especially the ground bounce combo's). Can't believe its taken me 26 hours to get to this point either, these games have always been a time sink for me but this one is absorbing even more hours than usual. I can't see myself 100%ing the game in less than 100 hours if not more.
Noisepurge
Member
you mean non-translated version?
well the japanese chess Shogi and the like are really hard if you dont how to play those games beforehand.
games like Golf is pretty easy to get a handle on.