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[Parakeetman]

What does that mean?

As others stated, its designed to feel like an MMO world with how there are other characters walking around and the games interface and design with enemies. Plus how they speak of things in the game itself. But it is in the end a single player game.

If you are familiar with the .hack series its designed like that. Players inside of a virtual game world.

Heres the US site about the animated series so you can get a bit more familiar with the setting and back story. Since with this title you wont really know whats going on without at least having watched half of the show which takes place in Aincrad the virtual world that they are trapped in.

http://www.swordart-onlineusa.com/

is there any skill involved?

do you assign general commands and tactics to your hommies?

Yes there is skill involved as the skill usage, timing, dodging, counter etc all play a part of the games mechanics in combat. For the partner you can give general commands to them. The rest of the actions they pretty much will decide on their own, but it works. As you really dont want to be micromanaging them all the time as combat is real time as you have seen in footage. It looks like the Vita version really improves on that. Im familiar with the PSP version as had owned that and from all that Ive seen with video footage / interviews and other what nots its pretty much the same but MASSIVE improvements to everything overall.

Since this game too the whole synchronization with the animations + game seems to be a lot better than the PSP version should make it easier to time dodging and counters. Also with how your sword skills and such are selected appears to be much more user friendly than the PSP verison. Which you can view what it looked like with the PSP version on my older posts where I threw up a bunch of recorded vids.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=107718890&postcount=72

Hopefully sometime later today the OT will go up. I need to get started on putting things together. If anything tomorrow at the latest. Wont be anything super spectacular but at least we all will have a place to discuss the import version and once the Asian one is released or we get more official word on if the game is actually also localized in english will put it there.

 

[Stuart444]

Hopefully sometime later today the OT will go up. I need to get started on putting things together. If anything tomorrow at the latest. Wont be anything super spectacular but at least we all will have a place to discuss the import version and once the Asian one is released or we get more official word on if the game is actually also localized in english will put it there.

Is there going to be an OT for this or even an import impressions thread? (edit: nvm, I see in the OT thread that you claimed it anyway ^^ so just waiting on you to put it up then)

In any case, game is out next week though shipping and stuff means I won't have it for another week or two but oh well, still looking forward to it

 

[Parakeetman]

Is there going to be an OT for this or even an import impressions thread?

In any case, game is out next week though shipping and stuff means I won't have it for another week or two but oh well, still looking forward to it

Yep there will be an OT. Its just being worked on currently. Yeah I know the game comes out on the 24th. 23rd for those lucky enough to find any "flying" stores.

 

[Stuart444]

Yep there will be an OT. Its just being worked on currently.

Yeah, after I posted that, I had the sense to go look in the OT thread in the community section. Sorry about that haha.

 

[Parakeetman]

While this time around am a bit slow on getting the OT up, figured Id do it since not sure who else here on GAF actually played the PSP one considering hardly anyone talks about it. And the gameplay mechanics should be the same from what Ive seen asides from all the improvements to basically everything.

 

[Stuart444]

While this time around am a bit slow on getting the OT up, figured Id do it since not sure who else here on GAF actually played the PSP one considering hardly anyone talks about it. And the gameplay mechanics should be the same from what Ive seen asides from all the improvements to basically everything.

I've played a little bit of it but I don't play my PSP much these days so haven't done much past the tutorial.

The video on the previous page makes the battle UI (for skills and stuff) look different and a little better to me but I need to actually play it to see how I feel about it properly.

 

[Parakeetman]

I've played a little bit of it but I don't play my PSP much these days so haven't done much past the tutorial.

The video on the previous page makes the battle UI (for skills and stuff) look different and a little better to me but I need to actually play it to see how I feel about it properly.

One thing for sure is it will be tons better than the PSP version which you had to deal with virtual menus and such. Along with a bunch of other things that made it real user unfriendly for those unfamiliar with mmos in general.

I threw up gameplay footage from the PSP version somewhere. Like A LOT of footage. Which showed off how the battle system used to work, besides general game flow.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=107718890&postcount=72

With the interview vids and gameplay footage and from what I know about the PSP version, the new one will most def be more of a joy to play. I look forward to being able to link together sword skills and such. Plus the dodging / parrying should be a lot better too considering that the framerates and animations look to be synced better.

Anyways am trying to do the graphics stuff now. Since thats what takes the longest messing with it. Writing all the other crap is pretty fast, but its all the graphical work that slows things down. Should have done more of this in advance.

*Update Am still working on things here but hopefully should be decent when done.

 

[Parakeetman]

Update Am still working on things here for the OT but hopefully should be decent when done. I have a dinner need to attend tonight, so will continue the work when I get home. Still dont have to leave for a few hours so am progressing with all the other materials currently. Should be ready by tomorrow as will be working through the night. Will drop the OT link in here also when its done and up.

Whats taking long also is wanted to try and minimize wasted space from the character graphics. Came up with an idea but its requiring me to redo a lot of the images and make various copies. So thats taking a bit of time currently. Hopefully will pay off.

Heres a preview of the OT title image. Its not perfect, but since Im not exactly a 2D artist its the best I could do for now haha.

Dont think I threw this up yet too. New commercial for the game. Came out on the 17th.

(click on image to view video)

 

[iRAWRasaurus]

Update Am still working on things here for the OT but hopefully should be decent when done. I have a dinner need to attend tonight, so will continue the work when I get home. Still dont have to leave for a few hours so am progressing with all the other materials currently. Should be ready by tomorrow as will be working through the night. Will drop the OT link in here also when its done and up.

Heres a preview of the OT title image. Its not perfect, but since Im not exactly a 2D artist its the best I could do for now haha.

Nice!!

 

[Parakeetman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DuXWIsSbL8&hd=1

Some more gameplay...

Shit I dont know how I missed this post but fantastic vid! Will be adding this to the OT also. Thanks for linking it!

 

[Stuart444]

Nice images.

I'll keep an eye on this thread incase I miss the OT when it goes up. (half 5 in the morning here, about to go to sleep and all)

 

[ThatOldTimeyRogue]

I went over to the thread about the show....THAT many people hate it?

Yeah the show pretty bad, but more than that it was disappointing. The first half was alright... cool and interesting but with its fair share of problems. Then the second happens and well, speaking as someone who liked the first arc, the second half of the show reaches levels of shit unexplored by man. Anything that was good in the first half was replaced by shit.

 

[Parakeetman]

Yeah the show pretty bad, but more than that it was disappointing. The first half was alright... cool and interesting but with its fair share of problems. Then the second happens and well, speaking as someone who liked the first arc, the second half of the show reaches levels of shit unexplored by man. Anything that was good in the first half was replaced by shit.

its why I appreciate the game more considering it pretends the whole second half never happens. Seriously

Spoiler

Sugou was the worst antagonist ever. Talk about generic.

Nice images.

I'll keep an eye on this thread incase I miss the OT when it goes up. (half 5 in the morning here, about to go to sleep and all)

yeah go get rest since its still quite some time off before it comes together and goes up.

 

[Stuart444]

Yeah the show pretty bad, but more than that it was disappointing. The first half was alright... cool and interesting but with its fair share of problems. Then the second happens and well, speaking as someone who liked the first arc, the second half of the show reaches levels of shit unexplored by man. Anything that was good in the first half was replaced by shit.

I disagree. First half was better, no one can deny that but I enjoyed the whole anime.

But hey, I think even people who hate it can at least agree that the op songs (especially the first halfs op) is fantastic

 

[Hasemo]

Since there are almost no games coming out in May, I've decided to give the Vita SAO a shot and preordered it today.

 

[Parakeetman]

Since there are almost no games coming out in May, I've decided to give the Vita SAO a shot and preordered it today.

Im quite interested to see how much its improved. Considering I had a fairly good time with the PSP version problems and all think the Vita one should be pretty good. That boss battle footage crinale had posted up looks like they really made the game seem pretty smooth. If one enjoys the types of battles that you go through in actual MMOs then the boss fights should be an enjoyment with this title. Looks like they added more equipment too vs the previous title. Which am hoping should be a decent amount. Id like to find out more about the co-op stuff as like if you can gain items to use in the single player story or what not.

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Apologies to others on the OT. Still am working on it currently. Almost done with the character stuff and all thats left is really just checking sizing and prepping the youtube links and a few other things. Hopefully the idea about the character profiles will work so wont have to change a bunch of stuff again. If anything will get the bare minimum stuff up tonight.

Updated title image preview. All the character stuff is finished. Working on getting the section titles done. Might just go with text for starters and add the other stuff as it finishes.

 

[Stuart444]

Again, nice image. A reason I don't volunteer for OTs (even for import ones that other people probably won't do) is because I suck at image editing haha.

 

[RyougaSaotome]

Since there are almost no games coming out in May, I've decided to give the Vita SAO a shot and preordered it today.

This is me as well. Also would be great to make into a feature for the site I write for.

Need something bright and colorful to dig my teeth into.

 

[Parakeetman]

Again, nice image. A reason I don't volunteer for OTs (even for import ones that other people probably won't do) is because I suck at image editing haha.

Image editing isnt too bad, its just time consuming thats all. D:

I had totally forgotten about the weapons section so am doing that up currently. D: The lack of a border on the title image was bugging the shit out of me so had to cut pieces off from other sections of the HP and frakenstein the border at least it looks better now
makes up for the odd size of the picture.

I really should just stop with all this image editing.

Some of the other resources, the character profiles currently are in my imgur folder. I think the link below should work. The translations were just real quick and dirty so some might sound odd as was rushing to get all this shit done. I swear to go whoever wrote the japanese shit though seems like they were not even that familiar with the series or gave a shit about what they were doing with how random / halfassed whats written inside the character descriptions were.

http://parakeetman.imgur.com/all/

This is me as well. Also would be great to make into a feature for the site I write for.

Need something bright and colorful to dig my teeth into.

You guys should like do a feature on what the co-op is like. Since I bet thats one feature Ill never be able to mess with haha Yeah seriously colors is one thing the game does not seem to be lacking! Really looks great. When the OT goes up please do leave a link to the feature you do and Ill add it to the OT.

 

[Stuart444]

http://imgur.com/rlQ17X3

btw saw this on Gfaqs, look like there is no online multiplayer at release? Just local ad-hoc MP?

I've not looked up the MP stuff much but I'd hope they would have online MP, even if it's via a patch later on. :/

 

[Parakeetman]

http://imgur.com/rlQ17X3

btw saw this on Gfaqs, look like there is no online multiplayer at release? Just local ad-hoc MP?

I've not looked up the MP stuff much but I'd hope they would have online MP, even if it's via a patch later on. :/

Yeah it seems just adhoc up to 4 players for the time being. No news on the main site which would suggest that they will patch it in later. Ill try to look deeper after the OT goes up.

 

[thetrin]

Silica: Ehehe

Sry I haven't learnt how to make wifs yet

Well, more accurately "Ehehe, it's like a date!"

 

[BBboy20]

those people have no sense of humor

So you are Legit with this show, huh? HUH!? D=<

 

[thetrin]

http://imgur.com/rlQ17X3

btw saw this on Gfaqs, look like there is no online multiplayer at release? Just local ad-hoc MP?

I've not looked up the MP stuff much but I'd hope they would have online MP, even if it's via a patch later on. :/

Even Freedom Wars is doing online MP in a post launch patch. I don't know why they keep doing this. It's really annoying.

 

[Stuart444]

Even Freedom Wars is doing online MP in a post launch patch. I don't know why they keep doing this. It's really annoying.

is that also by Bandai Namco? Since from the list in the image, God Eater 2 is in the same situation and also by Bandai Namco.

 

[Parakeetman]

Even Freedom Wars is doing online MP in a post launch patch. I don't know why they keep doing this. It's really annoying.

No shit right? Not to mention with the track record of how long they take too in general. I mean hell not even GE2 has its online patch yet.

is that also by Bandai Namco? Since from the list in the image, God Eater 2 is in the same situation and also by Bandai Namco.

Its SCEJ

 

[lazybones18]

So you are Legit with this show, huh? HUH!? D=<

Legit til the day I die

 

[Stuart444]

No shit right? Not to mention with the track record of how long they take too in general. I mean hell not even GE2 has its online patch yet.



Its SCEJ

ah, then still, wonder why.

I guess it doesn't matter since the games are aimed at Japan where local handheld MP (like MH) is more common than it is in the west where online MP is king and local MP is dead

 

[Parakeetman]

ah, then still, wonder why.

I guess it doesn't matter since the games are aimed at Japan where local handheld MP (like MH) is more common than it is in the west where online MP is king and local MP is dead

I think it might be also due to lack of talent in the field for internet MP related coding. Since how as you mentioned its not as big of an emphasis here when it comes to the handhelds. Even one that worked well like MH4s they forgot a lot of key features which would have greatly improved the online experience but didnt add.

They will have to change that though, since if they want to seriously push their titles in the West Online Play is a must.

I think the "fastest" company that patched in online play was actually the folks behind the Ragnarok Online? I think Soul Sacrifice came with online from the get go. I forget how Toukiden was...

One thing about God Eater 2 is since one of the devs involved with that project is working together with SCEJ for Freedom Wars (not sure what they are exactly doing on the project) but if they are the main developer wonder if the code that they will be using for Freedom Wars is the same or similar to whats going to be used for God Eater 2 which is why its taking so long for GE2s to be released. Pure speculation of course, am not exactly sure what Dimps does. As thats the team that was also on GE2 and is part of the team with Freedom Wars along side 1 other studio and the SCEJ studio.

 

[antibolo]

If you think it's dumb that online is not a priority to them, you obviously don't understand how people play these kind of games in Japan.

 

[chickdigger802]

how does mp work? everyone's kirito or can you be waifu.

 

[Stuart444]

how does mp work? everyone's kirito or can you be waifu.

Character creator

http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/827/827303/

Check the video on this page ^

 

[Sitrus]

how does mp work? everyone's kirito or can you be waifu.

Everyone is a "Kirito" but you can seemingly alter your "Kirito"s appearance, voice, name etc.

Haven't seen any mentioning of this game having an online multiplayer mode so I will assume it's only ad-hoc as for now.

 

[matmanx1]

I'm keeping an eye on the Asian version. Depending on how much is translated and how much is not, I may bite. I very much enjoyed SAO the anime, especially the first arc. I will be looking forward to impressions of the Japanese version.

 

[Ryuukan]

Character creator

http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/827/827303/

Check the video on this page ^

Awesome

 

[Sitrus]

A new video showcasing the 76th floor's boss battle. It also seems the preorder on PSN has been taken down too.
http://youtu.be/2DuXWIsSbL8

 

[Parakeetman]

I'm keeping an eye on the Asian version. Depending on how much is translated and how much is not, I may bite. I very much enjoyed SAO the anime, especially the first arc. I will be looking forward to impressions of the Japanese version.

Its too bad folks are going to have to wait till May to hear about how much is translated with the Asian version though.

A new video showcasing the 76th floor's boss battle. It also seems the preorder on PSN has been taken down too.
http://youtu.be/2DuXWIsSbL8

Yes the pre-orders were just till the 20th thats why. Also that vid was posted earlier by crinale

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=108635934&postcount=142

Its a great video though, since gives folks the idea of what boss battles look like. Those familiar with how MMOs are will see really does capture the feel of a boss battle in an online game.

 

[chickdigger802]

kinda weird this game simulates a traditional mmo, when the manga show makes it seem more like a character action game with loot.

 

[TheChillyAcademic]

So there is a -32423423 chance this will get localized right?

 

[chickdigger802]

So there is a -32423423 chance this will get localized right?

what was the last anime game that was localized that aren't the big shounen jump ones?

 

[Granadier]

This will probably be as bad as Season 2.

 

[Parakeetman]

So there is a -32423423 chance this will get localized right?

Actually someone earlier in the thread was talking about how a "friend" was at an event where they had talked about the plans for a western version. But without any concrete news on that yet for the time being we all agreed that it was a rumor.
*Edit
Basically what the guy under me posted. We are just going to have to wait and see for now.

 

[mdubs]

So there is a -32423423 chance this will get localized right?

A friend of mine in the media attended an event recently. This is actually confirmed for the US, I believe Fall 2014

Totally understand. I believe the embargo for all their news is sometime next week.

Believe

 

[RangerBAD]

I'm still waiting for the trailer of the NerveGear version. :x

 

[antibolo]

So there is a -32423423 chance this will get localized right?

The Internet blogosphere (and Play Asia) has been misled into believing it will have English support in the Asian version, but I have yet to see any sort of official confirmation.

 

[Parakeetman]

I'm still waiting for the trailer of the NerveGear version. :x

never gets old lol

 

[isshak_gravi]

I'm totally getting this game.

So there is a -32423423 chance this will get localized right?

Hey, crazier things have happened.

 

[michaelius]

The Internet blogosphere (and Play Asia) has been misled into believing it will have English support in the Asian version, but I have yet to see any sort of official confirmation.

You need more official source than Sony Taiwan (or was that Namco Taiwan) ?

It said game will have english subs - what we don't know yet is if full game is subbed or only parts.

 

[isshak_gravi]

You need more official source than Sony Taiwan (or was that Namco Taiwan) ?

It said game will have english subs - what we don't know yet is if full game is subbed or only parts.

Namco Taiwan, but don't ask me more than that. I don't have much contact with them. http://www.namcobandaipartners.com.tw/news_detail.php?the_no=czoyOiI4MCI7

 

[Parakeetman]

You need more official source than Sony Taiwan (or was that Namco Taiwan) ?

It said game will have english subs - what we don't know yet is if full game is subbed or only parts.

Which is the problem unfortunately, the fact that they use the word "subtitled" as that usually refers to only cutscenes and such. Where if they had said "localized" it would mean that all text in the game. Is the general understood difference between the two terms.