It's one of Falcom's perfect best two games ever (the other one released three months prior).You guys really need to buy Xanadu Next. I've been loving it.
Vita has been dropped by its manufacturer and it's harder to localize sth if that something dont have much to localize from your parent company.
I'm talking about this year because we were talking about a trend, which is dropping Vita and focusing PS4/PC. When you talk about an upcoming trend, you generaly focus on what's next.
Unfortunately, I'll end up moving away from XSEED if good games like Xanadu fail and garbage like Akiba do well. But I'm happy for them.
Got a source for that? I have seen people on other boards accusing XSEED of being that publisher that's gone full ecchi since Senran Kagura happened. At some point Siliconera even joked about XSEED being the likely publisher to bring over Gal Gun.XSEED, in the past, has said that they don't want to be seen as "that company that brings over ecchi games", so I can only assume that - while they're fine with continuing to bring over Senran Kagura, because that ship has sailed and they're already on it - they didn't want to touch Valkyrie Drive. Might be a similar reason why they haven't done Uppers.
To be fair, if you're a new user and looking at both, Xanadu is an old game and not that appealing to the majority of people. It's not really something saying one game is deemed better than the other.
Sorry mate, you've lost me. You say it's harder to localize if you don't have titles from your parent company; so I pointed out a host of titles from their parent company, but suddenly we're not talking about that anymore because it only matters if they came out this year?
Shrug. I don't get it.
It's a huge shame when Akiba's Trip does well and Xanadu Next doesn't.
Got a source for that? I have seen people on other boards accusing XSEED of being that publisher that's gone full ecchi since Senran Kagura happened. At some point Siliconera even joked about XSEED being the likely publisher to bring over Gal Gun.
Yeah, definitely. I hope every title they release turns out a profit, even if it's something I really dislike.
I just hope that they'll still be able to throw people like me a bone once in a while, like they just did with Story of Seasons 2, for example. I'm really looking forward to TitS3, and I'll be relieved when they announce CS3 as well.
It is speculation, but the least improbable kind. What do Tokyo Xanadu and Ys 8 have in common? They were originally Vita-only games from Falcom. They're also the first new Falcom games in nearly a decade to be published in the west by someone not named XSEED. XSEED has been skipping Vita-only games from their partners and even their parent company.
Yes, I'm sure a company that publishes Senran Kagura and Oneechanbara would find VD objectionable ...
Got a source for that? I have seen people on other boards accusing XSEED of being that publisher that's gone full ecchi since Senran Kagura happened. At some point Siliconera even joked about XSEED being the likely publisher to bring over Gal Gun.
I see, but If you follow XSEED's Brittany on Twitter you know that they aggressively campaigned for Ys VIII and lost, so it's much more likely that they got even more aggressively outbid by NISA rather than any shying away from platforms in that specific case.
I won't blame XSEED for being cautionary about Vita exclusive titles, but given that Falcom is a publisher close to them, I'd rather assume that they were just pushed out by Aksys and NISA willing to drop big guarantees and price them out.
It's a huge shame when Akibas Trip does well and Xanadu Next doesn't.
Xanadu Next is amazing, my God. Everyone buy it when you get a chance.
I hope that now, it makes more sense to you.
XN is near the top of my Steam wishlist and all, but this is a hard sale in 2017. You need some mighty word of mouth to convince you that this PS2 game is awesome.
Wait wait wait. Estival Versus is coming on the 17th? That's the day Nier drops! Come on XSEED!
Well, first of all, it's not a PS2 game, it's a PC game.
Secondly, I thought GAF was all about the gameplay, and not graphics.
Thirdly, it's a game which can be likened to taking some of the best of Ys (of the best era, that is Origin/Felghana) and adding more RPG elements into it. It's awesome.
It's not the graphics, but the art style that may be a turn off for people unaware of how good it is, or at least for me it's a turn off and I wouldn't have it on my wishlist if it wasn't for the praise that steamgaf gives it (will buy it eventually, just other games take priority for me right now).Well, first of all, it's not a PS2 game, it's a PC game.
Secondly, I thought GAF was all about the gameplay, and not graphics.
Thirdly, it's a game which can be likened to taking some of the best of Ys (of the best era, that is Origin/Felghana) and adding more RPG elements into it. It's awesome.
Senran Kagura doing "extremely well" on Steam is certainly a highlight despite not being in the topic title.
Valkyrie Drive wasn't even localized by a seed, that's PQube (they also localized Steins;gate).
To be honest, they along with Atlus (outside the given internal titles like SMT and Persona), dropped the ball when localizing great stuff this gen, only to be picked up by like say... NISA.
Their localizations last year were so much more and better than their stuff this year.
That date was decided before Nier's was announced
Info on the PC version of Nier didn't start coming out until just recently
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1343365
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1349247
Unfortunate timing though
It's not the graphics, but the art style that may be a turn off for people unaware of how good it is, or at least for me it's a turn off and I wouldn't have it on my wishlist if it wasn't for the praise that steamgaf gives it (will buy it eventually, just other games take priority for me right now).
It's no surprise that it didn't sell much really. x-x
Yo Durante, think you can make a write up of Xanadu Next and post about it on PCGamer or the like?Well, first of all, it's not a PS2 game, it's a PC game.
Secondly, I thought GAF was all about the gameplay, and not graphics.
Thirdly, it's a game which can be likened to taking some of the best of Ys (of the best era, that is Origin/Felghana) and adding more RPG elements into it. It's awesome.
Wonder what's in XSEED's pocket for this year? Senran Kagura and Cold Steel III are pretty much locks but I want more worldwide reveals from them. Marvelous say they have some Switch projects going on but I want the reveals to come from XSEED. It's not hard to do simultaneous worldwide releases anymore. I mean, they're getting pretty close, there were just 3 months between Japanese and western releases of Fate/Extella. They can do much better.
Valkyrie Drive wasn't even localized by a seed, that's PQube (they also localized Steins;gate).
Is Cold Steel III really a lock, though? People thought that about Ys VIII and Tokyo Xanadu.
Wonder what's in XSEED's pocket for this year? Senran Kagura and Cold Steel III are pretty much locks but I want more worldwide reveals from them. Marvelous say they have some Switch projects going on but I want the reveals to come from XSEED. It's not hard to do simultaneous worldwide releases anymore. I mean, they're getting pretty close, there were just 3 months between Japanese and western releases of Fate/Extella. They can do much better.
Valkyrie Drive wasn't even localized by a seed, that's PQube (they also localized Steins;gate).
To be honest, they along with Atlus (outside the given internal titles like SMT and Persona), dropped the ball when localizing great stuff this gen, only to be picked up by like say... NISA.
Their localizations last year were so much more and better than their stuff this year.
By artstyle I meant the artsyle during gameplay, that is, artstyle of the character models and environment, it just looks so... drab I guess, at least from the screenshots in the store page.It's a real shame... the tone of the game is fantastic too. Here's a shot for all you wishlist holders.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Wew.Secondly, I thought GAF was all about the gameplay, and not graphics.
I had no idea what Valkyrie Drive was. Went to youtube and yeah I can see why they didn't touch it. Which games are you expecting from both Atlus and Xseed? I know a lot of people are disappointed with how Atlus handled some PSP games and many hate the child ogling game they've localized but otherwise it seems they are pretty good? You have to take into account that as each company gets bigger they need their localization to sell better.