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[zokie]

Should have been panties instead of shorts shorts

this is in the ps4/5 demo and the final retail but i am playing in chinese with japanese voice
the twitter user plays in japanese

Spoiler: your wish is granted

 

[zokie]

Official Online Manual | Granblue Fantasy: Relink | Cygames

Cygames presents Japan's hit RPG, now with all-new 3D action. A grand adventure in the skies awaits!

relink.granbluefantasy.jp

 

[Shake Your Rump]

Online manual! Nice. I remember when most PS4 games had this. It will give me something to read at work today.

Picking up a copy on the way home from work. Hopefully, no one at GameStop sells the copy with my name on it. I didn’t actually preorder. It’s just the only default copy they have.

My favourite local game shop only has deluxe editions to sell. It’s approximately $60 more ($135 vs $80), though. This doesn’t seem worth it for an art book and some post cards. Give me a strelbook case and I could be convinced. I watched a video that showed the deluxe edition “colour packs” and they actually look worse than the default skins.

As per my New Year’s resolution, I am to finish Tales of Arise before starting this. I am so close to the end. I tried to finish last night, but I swear the last few hours have been nothing but cutscenes. I am at what may be the point of no return, so I’ll give it one last shot before loading Granblue.

 

[Alexios]

The game won't boot for me, it seems like a common issue regardless of hardware configuration on Steam forums. Different to another also common issue of the game booting but then not getting past the logo screens and into the main menu or whatever, hope it's fixed soon, I wanna try it out

 

[Guilty_AI]

The game won't boot for me, it seems like a common issue regardless of hardware configuration on Steam forums. Different to another also common issue of the game booting but then not getting past the logo screens and into the main menu or whatever, hope it's fixed soon, I wanna try it out

I read a common fix for now is playing in windowed mode.

 

[Alexios]

I read a common fix for now is playing in windowed mode.

Game won't launch, can't switch to windowed mode, lol. Maybe fix for the other folks who can't get to main menu after launch, again, that's different.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Game won't launch, can't switch to windowed mode, lol.

Try putting "-windowed" in the steam launch options.

 

[Alexios]

Try putting "-windowed" in the steam launch options.

Doesn't work. Games don't all have the same command lines, lol.

 

[Alexios]

Wrong thread, delete me.

 

[Danjin44]

Wrong thread, delete me.

 

[Jooxed]

Anyone know how to get the game to run full screen on steam deck? It has black bars on bottom and top no matter what I do.

 

[somesang]

Anyone know how to get the game to run full screen on steam deck? It has black bars on bottom and top no matter what I do.

I believe the game doesn’t support 16:10 aspect currently. You could probably stretch using steam settings but then you get a stretched image. Happy to be wrong, haven’t picked up the game yet.

 

[Alexios]

Here's the error showing up in windows event viewer when the game fails to launch. Maybe they fucked up something unrelated to the actual game in this case.

 

[Yamisan]

Here's the error showing up in windows event viewer when the game fails to launch. Maybe they fucked up something unrelated to the actual game in this case.

Just get it on ps5 o.o All you have to do is press X and it starts.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Just get it on ps5 o.o All you have to do is press X and it starts.

 

[Yamisan]

Well enjoy not playing the game.

 

[Danjin44]

 

[Guilty_AI]

Well enjoy not playing the game.

Not like i'll be playing this right now either way

 

[Guilty_AI]

 

[MagiusNecros]

Fun fact. Narmaya Eng VA also did the voicework for (F)Akira Howard from Astral Chain. The more you know.

 

[Danjin44]

 

[_Justinian_]

Going to wait until they iron out all (or most) of the PC issues. Looks amazing from all I've seen though.

 

[Guilty_AI]

 

[Danjin44]

I'm not asking.....

 

[Guilty_AI]

I'm not asking.....

i know

 

[The Dude]

Game looks awesome... Deciding to buy now and dive in or wait a little. Looks like a fun plat tho, love the tales of vibes it's putting out a bit.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Good vibe and great visuals so far. Into the first town and I'm already liking the visuals.

Gonna have to pause as Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth is AMAZING and I can't put that down.

 

[Cornbread78]

This game is a ton of fun through chp.4

 

[EDMIX]

Just get it on ps5 o.o All you have to do is press X and it starts.

I'm saying.

This is why I'm selective on what I play on PC.

Not all games make sense for PC and if a developer is new to PC, its hard for me to buy it day 1 on that platform. With games like this, I just want to start playing with no issues.

 

[Hoppa]

as soon as I could arrange my party, I used all of my skill points on Rosetta and she plays like trash so clunky. Also am I supposed to be able to hit the dragon next to the ship in the opening level? He spent most of his time a distance away from the ship, it was so bizarre

 

[Yamisan]

Not like i'll be playing this right now either way

Then why are you here.

 

[ManaByte]

as soon as I could arrange my party, I used all of my skill points on Rosetta and she plays like trash so clunky. Also am I supposed to be able to hit the dragon next to the ship in the opening level? He spent most of his time a distance away from the ship, it was so bizarre

Attack its hands when it’s on the ship

 

[Shake Your Rump]

Made it to chapter 4. I wanted to try an online quest but didn’t see any way to matchmake. I could create a session, but no way to join random people or even do the “quick quest”. I’ll have to check the manual again.

I am impressed that the game has male and female protagonists. The dialogue matches your choice, and each is fully voiced. This is far superior to the generic silent protagonist “body 1 or body 2” thing we have seen lately.

It’s also really cool that the voice actor credits are directly on the character screen in the journal. I need to check Katalina’s voice, because it sounds like the alchemist “Arcadia” in Skyrim.

Being able to pull up the glossary during conversations is wonderful.

I’m playing on hard difficulty, but it doesn’t seem to matter. The AI companions do all the work.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Fml, my day 1 edition is stuck in the local distribution center so I guess I'll play it day 3 or 4.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

Fml, my day 1 edition is stuck in the local distribution center so I guess I'll play it day 3 or 4.

Gotta walk to the shops for games I guess. Amazon in Canada was delivering the game Monday. I remember the days, before prime existed, that Amazon would ship early to deliver on release day.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Then why are you here.

Can't i? I'm still interested in the game.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Can't i? I'm still interested in the game.

I find it funny how PC is still seen as secondary when it comes to playing games.

I'm waiting to buy Granblue Fantasy Relink. Since by 6 months to an year I can see it getting fully patched. Not to mention there might be mods for the game as well. And well if the game is censored I can just find a decensored mod and apply it to the game.

Persona 3 Reload having a huge amount of players on PC playing it just tells me that there's a huge PC market that some companies like to ignore or don't put as much effort into. As the years go on, PC is going to just grow in userbase when it comes to gaming

 

[jshackles]

Started this up on PC, looks and plays amazingly well. Glad I waited and didn't buckle under pressure with the early access on PlayStation. Getting a pretty steady 1440p/60fps with my RTX3060.

Shame about the lack of ultrawide though. I saw a video posted to the PC Gaming Wiki that showed you could use Cheat Engine to force ultrawide, but it stretches the HUD and looks like poop.

 

[Interfectum]

two questions about this game:

- Do I need to know anything about Granblue Fantasy to enjoy it? I know fuck all, never watch anime.

- Is there matchmaking to play the game coop with strangers?

 

[Gudji]

Anyone know if this game will have a demo on PC at some point?

 

[Fake]

I send them a feedback. Hope for a button remap.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Anyone know if this game will have a demo on PC at some point?

Technically all games released on Steam have a demo (trial) since you can automatically refund any purchased title as long it has been played for less than 2 hours.

 

[Guilty_AI]

I find it funny how PC is still seen as secondary when it comes to playing games.

I'm waiting to buy Granblue Fantasy Relink. Since by 6 months to an year I can see it getting fully patched. Not to mention there might be mods for the game as well. And well if the game is censored I can just find a decensored mod and apply it to the game.

Persona 3 Reload having a huge amount of players on PC playing it just tells me that there's a huge PC market that some companies like to ignore or don't put as much effort into. As the years go on, PC is going to just grow in userbase when it comes to gaming

Personally i hope for a fan made subtitles fix, the eng translation in this game is apparently quite terrible. Seems they also didn't include subtitles for in-game chatter which is something i hope they add later, overall pretty awful localization job.

Multiplayer is also region locked. There's an easy workaround on steam but still, why do they feel the need to do stuff like this?

 

[Shake Your Rump]

the eng translation in this game is apparently quite terrible

Is this your personal opinion or something you read online. I personally find it to be rather good and the voice acting is top notch. I would never even suspect it wasn’t native English. Reviews consistently say the same.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

two questions about this game:

- Do I need to know anything about Granblue Fantasy to enjoy it? I know fuck all, never watch anime.

- Is there matchmaking to play the game coop with strangers?

I never even heard of this series until last week. The conversations are self-explanatory, and there is a dynamic glossary you can access with a single button if you really want to know more about a topic.

I haven’t actually used the matchmaking yet, but it’s described in the manual. The demo had it as well.

Anyone playing the game should read the manual first. It’s rather nice and informative.

Official Online Manual | Granblue Fantasy: Relink | Cygames

Cygames presents Japan's hit RPG, now with all-new 3D action. A grand adventure in the skies awaits!

relink.granbluefantasy.jp

 

[Guilty_AI]

Is this your personal opinion or something you read online. I personally find it to be rather good and the voice acting is top notch. I would never even suspect it wasn’t native English. Reviews consistently say the same.

The examples i've seen being given out did put me off. Stuff like:
JP: "Lets go"
EN: "ARE YA READY TO GO GHOST HUNTING!!!"

There seems to be this heavy handed attempt in the eng version at having quirky dialogue, even when characters are just talking normally. A character says "Hmm" in japanese and then the english version replaces it with a whole phrase "A wishful thinking". I really don't understand why they felt the need to go through such lenghts.

The lack of subtitles within in-game conversations is also quite an issue since it means i wouldn't even be able to use JP dubs at least. The game looks great but issues like this make me want to leave it in the oven for a bit longer.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

I played my first online quest. I disabled “power adjustment” and got matched with a level 74 character who one-shot the boss.

A character says "Hmm" in japanese and then the english version replaces it with a whole phrase "A wishful thinking". I really don't understand why they felt the need to go through such lenghts

This is how localization is handled in every game. Japanese will say “hai”, but English says “how wonderful!” or ”I can’t wait!” That said, I haven’t seen anything like what you describe. Your example doesn’t even sound like English.

I started doing the fate episodes and they are far better than I expected. I was expecting long-winded skits like Tales of Arise. Instead, they are about one minute long and actually provide a nice backstory for the characters. The writing is fantastic.

Here is a random example:

 

[Hoppa]

Ok I kinda went in blind but I didn’t realise this was a like a Monster Hunter game, I love it!

 

[Guilty_AI]

This is how localization is handled in every game. Japanese will say “hai”, but English says “how wonderful!” or ”I can’t wait!” That said, I haven’t seen anything like what you describe. Your example doesn’t even sound like English.

Which is why i use original dubs in JP games most of the time, save some rare exceptions in which the english version is actually good like From games or Nier Automata. Then again, i can't do this here due to the aforementioned problem of no subs in in-game conversations. I hope they'll at the very least fix that.