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XSEED E3 line up [Brandish, Senran, Story of Seasons, Akiba's, Corpse Party]
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ULTROS!
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Isn't Corpse Party: Book of Shadows technically the second game in the series that came out with no problems?
Isn't Corpse Party: Book of Shadows technically the second game in the series that came out with no problems?
Not to mention Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus AND Dekamori, Trails in the Sky 2, every Ys game ever, Ragnarok Odyssey ACE, Rune Factory 4 (after Frontier), every Valhalla Knights game, Wild Arms 4, 5 and XF... honestly, our rate of releasing sequels far outnumbers our rate of NOT releasing sequels.
-Tom
ShikabaneHime13
Member
Ugh! Was seriously hoping for a CP: Blood Drive announcement! I'm already importing the limited edition from Japan, but would happily double dip. Oh well, I trust awesome Xseed to bring it out sooner or later. And wouldn't it be nice if Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undressed came out in August (as the current placeholder date on retail sites says)? That would be an epic birthday present to myself (already preordered and ready! Two copies of each version on PS3 and Vita!)
Too bad you didn't release Valhalla Knights 3 Gold! I've had to stop playing 3 because I simply couldn't stand the excessive loading and loading times in that game.
Isn't it?I wish Gurumin was on PSN
Fuck, did it get pulled?
EDIT: Still there in the US, dunno about Europe.
Any chance to port games to the PC in the future such as Disgaea 3+4, Star Ocean 3, Toukiden, Demon Gaze, Drakengard, Unchained Blades, Soul Sacrifice, Durango?
Hours Left
Member
Do you have any idea when we will get any updates on the Trails games? I'm going through severe withdrawal.
Eternal Gamer
Member
Amazing that PSP is still getting games at this point.
Erm, even ignoring the fact that only one of those games you listed was released by us in the first place, bear in mind also that we don't have any programmers at our disposal aside from Sara -- so the only way to port those games to PC would be if the original Japanese developers ported them, or if we licensed the source code from one of those developers (which is hard to do to begin with; we only get Falcom source code because they trust us due to our now-longstanding partnership!) and convinced Sara to do it (bearing in mind that she's only ever worked on PC games and never done porting before).
So... the answer is pretty much just no, there is no chance of that, I'm afraid. Sorry!
"Sever" withdrawal? Man, how long has it been since you last cut off a limb?!
(Sorry, had to! Heheheh)
Anyway! If I had any idea when you guys would get an update, I'd also have an update. So I'm afraid the answer to that, too, is no. We'll have an update for you once things are looking a little smoother -- which hopefully will be super-soon, but I don't want to jinx it.
-Tom
charlequin
Banned
Isn't Corpse Party: Book of Shadows technically the second game in the series that came out with no problems?
There's a "Corpse Party 2,"
These are fourth and fifth games! Ys only dodged the curse by having 1 and 2 sold in the same package.
Until money actually leaves my hand in exchange for it I'm still operating under the assumption that you guys are the first publisher ever to announce but fail to publish the same game twice.
Hours Left
Member
I'll start by severing my heart, since it can't take much more life without Trails. @_@"Sever" withdrawal? Man, how long has it been since you last cut off a limb?!
(Sorry, had to! Heheheh)
Anyway! If I had any idea when you guys would get an update, I'd also have an update. So I'm afraid the answer to that, too, is no. We'll have an update for you once things are looking a little smoother -- which hopefully will be super-soon, but I don't want to jinx it.
-Tom
Everyday we're getting further and further away from the Japanese series, and it makes me sad. I want to show this series my full support, but I don't have any outlet right now besides buying FC for PSP again, which I've already done twice.
#truthfacts
ramoisdead
Member
Don't forget Gaijinworks' mystery PSP game which I hope Vic will announce soon.
It's crazy that PSP games are still coming in 2014 and I hope that doesn't stop anytime soon. So many gems out there, waiting to be localized.
Hours Left
Member
Since they will most certainly all be digital releases anyway, I see no reason to stop. (Though I obviously would not object to physical releases.)
If the demand is there, then it should be filled.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Goddamn.
I'll most probably buy everything
I'll most probably buy everything
but only some at full price.
I did not even think about this when it comes to Senran Kagura.
Technically Burst is the second game, technically.
...which only has one chapter out so far, and that chapter is being scrapped and rewritten from scratch in Unity right now, so there's absolutely nothing we could possibly release for a long time.
Plus, Book of Shadows definitely counts as a Corpse Party 2 all its own! It's just 5pb Corpse Party 2, rather than GrisGris Corpse Party 2.
How do you account for EVERY SUBSEQUENT YS GAME, then?
Hmm? We've only ever announced it once. And we've never "failed to publish it." A delay -- especially a reasonable one that was wholly expected from the very start -- is not a cancellation.
-Tom
I think his logic is simple: If it's not Part 2 then it's safe. Once you guys have a part 2 to localize after a part 1 we're fucked, or have to hope someone else manages to pick up the torch.How do you account for EVERY SUBSEQUENT YS GAME, then?
EDIT: However, we all seem to forget about Valhalla Knights.
UberTag
Member
Let's reminisce by reliving the 22-page reply thread when SC was first announced last September.
Just look at all of those happy people so enthused about giving XSEED their money. Many of whom actually plan to purchase the game on both PSP and PC.
So very excited.
ShadowgeistX
Member
Man, my wallet can barely catch a break with all these XSeed releases. I'll be getting every game on that list except for Corpse Party.
IrishNinja
Member
so happy that more people will get to experience Corpse Party! played that one & Sweet Home last Halloween and they were both perfect.
charlequin
Banned
So mostly I'm just giving you guys a hard time, but:
That's... not true?
http://www.xseedgames.com/news.php?id=107
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=395404
That's... not true?
http://www.xseedgames.com/news.php?id=107
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=395404
You announced it twice.
In 2010, your company released a press release that contained this paragraph.
It was at this time that XSEED was publicly committed to releasing the Trails in the Sky trilogy in English. This counts as an announcement.
It was most certainly a mistake, but you can't pretend it never happened.
Rinaldimanc
Banned
Xseed made dekamori better
Oh ma got bon appetit this is so perfect thank god for xseed I love this company
Oh ma got bon appetit this is so perfect thank god for xseed I love this company
I suppose you could wave around technicalities, that they got the RIGHT to release the games but didn't explicitly say they WOULD. But when you announce it like that you give the impression we're getting all three, and right now we're lucky to possibly be getting SC someday. Though I supposed making PC relevant here means we have a better chance of seeing 3 now than when that deal was announced, even if it's an awkward position for Zero onwards.
It's great that you're bringing Corpse Party to PC. I've played the PSP version and it was nauseating to walk in the game due to PSP screen's blur/low response time. Made the game a miserable experience, really.
Can't help but feel Brandish is send out to die though. No PC version? PSP digital release? Do those really sell enough to offset translation costs?
I also feel TitS PC chance of success is slipping away due to all the delays. Both Ghostlight and Square Enix have been releasing jRPG ports with more to come, loads of RPG Maker games which cater to the same niche as well. Buyer's fatigue may set in soon if this keeps up, not to mention the fact that you will have to fire up the PR machine for the third/fourth time...
It wasn't a mistake! We announced the trilogy, and we never reneged on that. We still have every intention of releasing it in its entirety, and have been fighting this whole time to do just that. For a while, it was in danger due to turbulent market conditions... but we never cancelled it. That first announcement very much stands.
Really, our "second announcement" was just a confirmation that we're in the home stretch with game #2.
The game's small text size and high level of polish is precisely why it's a very safe bet, even in 2014. Dungeon-crawler fans and Falcom fans alike are more concerned with high-quality gameplay and atmosphere than cutting edge visuals, and since the game plays perfectly on Vita (which is an up-and-coming system if ever there were one), I see no reason dungeon-crawler fans and Falcom fans alike won't flock behind this title.
And since it's mostly gameplay, with very little text, the amount of resources we need to dedicate to its localization is small enough that the risk is absolutely minimal -- especially considering the extremely high level of quality in the game itself, which would turn heads and get people talking even if it were an NES title.
The reaction you've seen from people in this thread alone should go to show you how special a game Brandish really is. Believe you me, it's got some great potential!
-Tom
Come on though, Brandish! And maybe a side of farming.
You realize it's the funding from our other titles that keeps the Trails project alive, though, right?
-Tom
Zeyphersan
Banned
I'm really interested in Brandish because of Falcom alone. I had never heard of it before this thread. So that's a win there for you, XSEED!
Hours Left
Member
:/You realize it's the funding from our other titles that keeps the Trails project alive, though, right?
-Tom
This a troubling statement.
Again, it sounds to me like you don't know Brandish very well.
I've listened to music from first three (and VX) for hours, does that count?
Not going to port beg anymore (although I will say I have bought all of your Steam releases, and plan to continue to buy them down the line), I really hope you get some good sales, enough to fund, say, Secret Game: Killer Queen translation.
I've listened to music from first three (and VX) for hours, does that count?
Not going to port beg anymore (although I will say I have bought all of your Steam releases, and plan to continue to buy them down the line), I really hope you get some good sales, enough to fund, say, Secret Game: Killer Queen translation.
Oh, believe me, if we COULD port it to PC, we would. And maybe one day we will! But that day is not today, because Sara is already half-dead from working on Trails in the Sky and Corpse Party, and we don't want to kill her the rest of the way with a portable-to-PC port job, the likes of which she's never attempted before in her life.
But one day! We can always hold out hope for one day.
-Tom
That's kind of the core of every business really: what they're selling today funds what comes tomorrow. Though I'd take that more as a point to not senselessly boycott them over not getting SC out yet, if you won't get games until then it should be because none of them interest you.
Yeah, that's a bit more what I was getting at. It's obvious from his statement that the Senran Kagura games wouldn't be for him, and possibly not Akiba's Trip (though I must reiterate, it's not a fanservice game at its core, but a satire!)... but Brandish, Corpse Party and Story of Seasons are three very disparate games, to the point where I imagine at least one of them must appeal to just about anyone who posts on this forum. And if a game interests you... you should play it! Senseless boycotts achieve nothing.
...Though I suppose I'm not one to talk, since I've boycotted games for reasons of censorship plenty of times in the past, pretty much achieving nothing but a feeling of self-satisfaction for having stood up against the baseless "puritanizing" of art. So I'll just shut up now.
-Tom
Hours Left
Member
I understand the realities of business, I just don't like thinking that SC (and future Trails titles) hang in the balance of the success or failure of unrelated games.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I think it hangs on the success or failure of unrelated games as much as xseed hangs in the success or failure of those games.
Well, that's arguably changing a product you wanted into a product you didn't want. In contrast if he seriously was interested in any of those games but was going "nope not until you give me SC" then it's the very epitome of a senseless boycott. There's no greater message, you're not disgusted with a company's practices, you're just acting like a child whose refusing to eat dinner because they demand cookies. Even though the food smells good....Though I suppose I'm not one to talk, since I've boycotted games for reasons of censorship plenty of times in the past, pretty much achieving nothing but a feeling of self-satisfaction for having stood up against the baseless "puritanizing" of art. So I'll just shut up now.
-Tom
Well, to an extent we're talking calculated risks too. They know they can roughly expect X number of sales on those games, especially if Senran Kagura exceeded expectations.
ShogunDarius
Member
please get the Senran and Brandish games to EU
Hours Left
Member
Again, that's not really the message I was trying to get across! See above.
-Tom
I'm just so ready for a large Trails presence in the west. Like, beyond ready. I plan to support it with reckless abandon, and I'd like to think we can get the series to stand on it's own feet by getting the word out.
Though in the meantime, I'll still be supporting XSEED with their other projects that interest me. I'll be getting Story of Seasons and Brandish for sure, though maybe not right away. And depending on how good the male strip portraits turn out for Akiba's Trip, I'll probably be getting that too.
But have I mentioned how ready I am for more Trails games? I'M READY.
ghostlight_ross
Ghostlight
Must admit I'm really curious about Brandish. I've loved every Nihon Falcom game I've played and since we did Elminage last year I've been getting more into dungeon crawlers. So a Falcom take on the genre is definitely something I'm interested in .
(Please note this is personal interest only)
.(Please note this is personal interest only)