Shadow Ranger
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Didn't we have a thread like this for something else? Phantasy Star, I think.
Hilarious, either way.
Hilarious, either way.
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SEGA announces YAKUZA ZERO Traditional Chinese localization
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MatrixMan.EXE
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colin19872003
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If I remember correctly, SCEJA has a dedicated team for the locolization of popular third-party exclusives starting with Final Fantasy XIII. Without spending much of their own resources, third party developer will gain a lot more sales by letting SCEJA localize their games.
immortal-joe
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I will suplex the next Chinese person I see onto a fucking bike rack.
sublimit
Banned
Sorry and you're right. I shouldn't have posted at all.
clay_ghost
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It started with tales of destiny 2 for ps2, I believe. But there was a long period of non localization after that before the restart of localization efforts during the ps3 era. Seems like ps4 is going to get them more and sooner. :-D
wapplew
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Yes, its not about Sega, SCEJA translate studio do all the heavy lifting.
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Jotamide
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LMAO at the original thread title. I feel bad for Sega fans in general these days. 
I think it's not only Yakuza games. What's with all the recent localization for Asia market first. Maybe if people complain less about the lacking of dub then we would have gotten more localization.
The other things I could think of, is the structure of character's letter. I remember XSEED also said about this problem, where Japanese and Chinese are similar in character spacing/size, but when translated to English, they have to re-code the game so it can fit Latin characters.
Canis lupus
Member
you sega you
Stallion Dan
Member
I should be mad, but I'm just laughing at this point.
ComputerMKII
Banned
You'd think they would have a best chance reaching a more international audience by localizing it into English.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Thats right once western publisher and its localisation workers. This is how far you done fell.
giancarlo123x
Banned
English motherfucker, do you speak it?!
To be fair they'll find their audience in HK and Taiwan considering Japanese medias are huge there, mangas, animes and japanese games are basically part of their culture for the young generations at this point, a lot of people grow up having to play japanese games with shitty strategy guides due to the lack of localization.
Localizing them there makes a lot of sense.
Yakuza have been localized before in north america, so it's not like they haven't tried.
Sega don't care
Phantasy Star Nova I think. And the replies were just the same.
Phantasy Star Online 2 getting a Eng Localisation ... for South-East Asia.
Sidewinder
Member
Send some tweets to Gio Corsi to remind him of "The List" and that Yakuza still needs to go West...maybe he'll give a statement (he won't) after this chinese localization news.
www.twitter.com/giocorsi
www.twitter.com/giocorsi
Actually I'm thinking that Sega has found that that's a bigger market too. Not that I don't understand - My experience in SakuTai is mostly through the Chinese localisations.
SolidSnakex
Member
It won't hurt to mention it more, but they already know that we want Yakuza. Adam has mentioned multiple times that Shenmue and Yakuza are two of the most requested games.
But did he receive a fan letter though?
Give War A Chance
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God dammit.
That is all.
That is all.
Acquiescence
Member
Sega you shower of utter c**ts. That's 5, Ishin and Zero now that we won't ever get to play without learning the language. All that Yakuza goodness denied to us.
Don't forget the 2 PSP Games and Kenzan!
Sidewinder
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I really thought we had a good chance to at least get Ishin around launch window of PS4, because there was the famous "List" thing going on, Yakuza being on top of it and a damn console launch with thirsty gamers willing to buy anything...but no, nothing in sight and now it's too late anyway, Yakuza would get crushed by the software avalanche.
I gave up hope, Yakuza is dead to me, TLG is still alive and kicking though
Acquiescence
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I really thought we had a good chance to at least get Ishin around launch window of PS4, because there was the famous "List" thing going on, Yakuza being on top of it and a damn console launch with thirsty gamers willing to buy anything...but no, nothing in sight and now it's too late anyway, Yakuza would get crushed by the software avalanche.
I gave up hope, Yakuza is dead to me, TLG is still alive and kicking though
I thought the same. I really did think there was a good chance of a Ishin localisation being announced some time back for the drought period, where Sony could pad out the thin line-up during summer with a Yakuza game for all those thirsty PS4 owners. Now that opportunity is missed and it's not going to happen.
Noisepurge
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yeah and it was even a sony consoles exclusive title, they could have put a little sony marketing behind it this time! i'm sure it would have sold enough to cover the localization costs, being a launch title of a beatem-up/rpg genre neither of the new consoles still have...
Yep, Phantasy Star Online 2 got a Chinese localization and both Phantasy Star Nova and Shining Resonance getting one next year.
Didn't SEGA say that they are planning to leave the western market and focus on Japan/asia? They have nothing coming for west except Sonic games and Alien Isolation.
and Miku.
immortal-joe
Member
I hope Sega's executives wake up tomorrow in a room full of Sonic fan-art drawings come to life, who then proceed to beat the living shit out of them with broken pieces of Saturns and Dreamcasts. I also hope Nagoshi's dick evaporates the next time he goes to the tanning salon. Oh God I should walk away.
Eh......more like the West don't care, that's how we ended up here in the first place.
Only Sony ponying up the money for localization can make these games come out in the West.
Nightengale
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Asia.
And yes, more than the western markets, since we're getting the localisation, and you aren't.
I will say that the best thing about the Asian gaming market is a much much less notable sense of any prejudice and negative connotations immediately associated to any sort of game.
We don't cringe at Final Fantasy pretty boys, we don't look at Musou character boob windows and cringe, we don't look at silly JRPG plots and cringe, we don't look at Yakuza storyline and think it's culturally incompatible.
By that same logic, we embrace the western dudebro games. We love the hardass bald space marines as much as the animu-design husbando and waifus. We love CoD. We love Battlefield. We love AssCreed. We love GTA.
The only thing that doesn't excite us is Madden. Madden is the one game where Asians go "what" at.
YuriLowell
Member
Never buying a sega published game again.
Maybe they can go bankrupt and someone can treat their IPs with some respect.
Maybe they can go bankrupt and someone can treat their IPs with some respect.
That's some selfish way of thinking, people. They are respect their IP a lot better than, say, EA. The only thing they need is people to actually buy their games first. Or start the petition, whatever it is. What you are doing doesn't solve anything.
I guess they think 4 Yakuza games is enough.
Taiwan and HK. Not China. Japanese drama is big there.
I only wish they would give us broken Asia English at least, since half of Asia doesn't understand Chinese. Asia has much more tolerance about the whole "Japanese culture" than NA, and in some cases, fully embrace it for what it is. Trying to expand to the audience there would be a smart move, given how the whole Japanese dorama is a huge fuss over there, and Yakuza fits quite nicely among those.
I guess they think 4 Yakuza games is enough.
Taiwan and HK. Not China. Japanese drama is big there.
I only wish they would give us broken Asia English at least, since half of Asia doesn't understand Chinese. Asia has much more tolerance about the whole "Japanese culture" than NA, and in some cases, fully embrace it for what it is. Trying to expand to the audience there would be a smart move, given how the whole Japanese dorama is a huge fuss over there, and Yakuza fits quite nicely among those.
AlphaTwo00
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Holy shit, Traditional Chinese? China won't care, cause most can't read it.
This is HK and the remaining markets that even catches Traditional Chinese.
AND I WIN. SO IMPORTING NOW!
This is HK and the remaining markets that even catches Traditional Chinese.
AND I WIN. SO IMPORTING NOW!
Pandora012
Member
Come on I only learned Simplified...