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[Augemitbutter]

the first Ys game with trophies. nightmare mode will be even more fun now! (if they don't disappoint)

 

[linkboy]

Yea, I'm getting a VITA now, just for this game.

Love me some YS.

 

[hauton]

thank you based Falcom.

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[duckroll]

 

[Salsa]

id prefer a new one, but cool!

 

[jackdoe]

Haha. Adol has a huge freaking sheath.

 

[Cwarrior]

where is that gif of the guy open the door to go wahhhh then shut it when you need it.

 

[SpaceDrake]

Hmm, not as pretty as I was expecting from a Vita game, but still awesome.

Who the hell is the white-haired guy though, that isn't Dogi. :O First new party member confirmed!

Also looks like they've been mucking with Karna's design a whole lot.

Also also I love Adol's huge sword and new blazer look. Fuck I'm pumped already.

id prefer a new one, but cool!

Honestly, this is to Ys IV what Oath in Felghana was to Ys III: a desperately needed remake from Falcom themselves. They've never actually made their own version of Ys IV; it will be nice to see the team's original vision realized.

 

[casabolg]

Is that screens from the new one?
Wow, that's pixelated

 

[Dreamwriter]

id prefer a new one, but cool!

Um, it is a new one. Saying this isn't new is like saying Oath of Felghana wasn't new when it first came out for PC.

 

[nincompoop]

pics

That's just the PSP version upscaled to Vita resolution, right? ...Right?

 

[Aeana]

It looks just like Ys 7, so that's pretty unimpressive. Oh well.
Also, they kept Adol talking. Boo.

 

[jackdoe]

Hmm, not as pretty as I was expecting from a Vita game, but still awesome.

Who the hell is the white-haired guy though, that isn't Dogi. :O First new party member confirmed!

Also looks like they've been mucking with Karna's design a whole lot.

Also also I love Adol's huge sword and new blazer look. Fuck I'm pumped already.

Haha. He looks like Yuri from Vesperia.

It looks just like Ys 7, so that's pretty unimpressive. Oh well.

Minus the dithering with larger environments. I'm personally pleased with the end results. Falcom isn't going to be chucking large amounts of cash and use super advanced shaders to compete with a game like Uncharted.

 

[jj984jj]

This must've been in development for PSP for a little while before it was moved. It looks exactly like Ys 7 with a larger scope.

 

[Vandiger]

Looks ugly, the better put some filtering in there.

 

[Zierath]

Disappointing graphics but still excited.

 

[SpaceDrake]

Haha. He looks like Yuri from Vesperia.

Man you say that like it's a bad thing.

Minus the dithering with larger environments. I'm personally pleased with the end results. Falcom isn't going to be chucking large amounts of cash and use super advanced shaders to compete with a game like Uncharted.

The dithering is the one thing I don't get; that's caused by the PSP not having the memory/horsepower to do 32-bit color quite right. It shouldn't be an issue on the Vita, so what the hell is up with that.

 

[Father_Brain]

That's just the PSP version upscaled to Vita resolution, right? ...Right?

Niche publishers like Falcom simply can't afford the budgets to develop games to a significantly higher graphical standard than the PS2/PSP/3DS range, so this sort of thing is going to be fairly common. We've seen that on PS3 for a while now.

 

[hauton]

This must've been in development for PSP for a little while before it was moved. It looks exactly like Ys 7 with a larger scope.

This is exactly what's happened IMO

Given the 2012 release date and Falcom's regular dev schedule I would say this will be pretty close to the finished product - maybe they'll fit in quick and easy improvements in visual quality, but no engine overhaul or anything substantial.

Still, super duper excited (who played Ys for gr4phx? Portrait pictures aside, of course)

 

[jackdoe]

The dithering is the one thing I don't get; that's caused by the PSP not having the memory/horsepower to do 32-bit color quite right. It shouldn't be an issue on the Vita, so what the hell is up with that.

That's not dithering in the screenshots. That's horrible JPEG compression that JP gaming websites love to do to their pics.

 

[Vamphuntr]

Looks like a PSP game

 

[Aeana]

Trailer showed up briefly but got pulled... hope it shows up again.

 

[rollingstart]

yeah, that had to be a PSP game at one point

I'd be fine if it's 60fps with near perfect image quality, but those shots are baaad.

game will still kick ass

 

[FoxSpirit]

Antialiasing, what does it do??

Also, horrible compression.

 

[magawolaz]

Look at the HUD; the screenshots are low quality.

Anyway I don't like Ys that much. But I'm looking forward to a new The Legend of Heroes (Trails in the Sky was amazing).

 

[Palette Swap]

That's awesome news, I'm looking forward to a Falcom made Ys IV.

But damn, it's hard to sell a system with that. It really looks like an upscaled (?) PSP game.

 

[FoxSpirit]

Also, this must be way from done:

You can still see the bounding boxes around the big blue balls

 

[Augemitbutter]

it does look like it was made for PSP originally, but i'm sure it will look a whole lot better in motion. it's hard to pull new people in with these screenshots though.

no matter, i'm super pumped and adol's new costume is neat. can't wait to taste the newly arranged music too......

 

[kuroshiki]

YS games has been always awesome kick ass music with super speed action.

Play YS7 and see and listen what I mean.

 

[Ferga]

awwwww maaannnn i don't want to buy a Vita though

 

[jackdoe]

You can still see the bounding boxes around the big blue balls

Haha. That's a screenshot that shouldn't have been released.

 

[Ratrat]

...

So that's why they kept out the trailer.

 

[Dreamwriter]

YS games has been always awesome kick ass music with super speed action.

Play YS7 and see and listen what I mean.

At least after the first 40 minutes of wandering around town before they let you out Ys 7 had the worst intro ever, longest time until combat by far. After that it got awesome, though...

 

[Akselziys]

A picture from the start of the Ys IV Celceta, Sea of Trees trailer before it was taken down

 

[Netto-kun]

Aw yeah, another Vita game to the must buy list.

 

[Suzzopher]

Awesome! I have never played Ys IV before. This is the game I was hoping to be announced. Should tide us over nicely until Ys 8

 

[Espada]

Oh god, yes! I loved Ys VII and its party system, and to have another game on the way using the same one? Day 1.

 

[Hours Left]

Aeana, you got your wish!

This looks really hot.

 

[Corto]

So nice to wake up to this news! As if I needed more reasons to buy a Vita. hehehehe

 

[krYlon]

This is what I've been waiting for. Falcom always deliver!!
I think I'm going to play Dawn of Ys in anticipation

 

[wrowa]

Well, that might be the ugliest Vita game yet. Looks like it was meant to be a PSP game one day.

That being said, it's Ys. And Ys is awesome.

 

[Foffy]

Well, that might be the ugliest Vita game yet. Looks like it was meant to be a PSP game one day.

That being said, it's Ys. And Ys is awesome.

Shinobido 2 is the ugliest game on Vita. But these games have reasons for not being Uncharted.

 

[Zwei]

Looks like a PSP game

I came to post this.

Still, it's more Ys, so very nice.

 

[PixyJunket]

Oh God. Those screenshots. Why did they not just keep it on PSP?!

id prefer a new one, but cool!

This is a new one. Basically. Ys IV has never actually been made by Falcom.

 

[kiryogi]

Oh God. Those screenshots. Why did they not just keep it on PSP?!

This is a new one. Basically. Ys IV has never actually been made by Falcom.

This... and as neat as the news is, visually this is something that's not very Vita worthy. Was this a PSP up port?

I know it's first gen, but this is practically PSP level here.

 

[ULTROS!]

Looks like a PSP game but whatevs, I'll platinum the fuck out off this game.

 

[Ruud_Luiten]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE

 

[Ratrat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE

wtf, i thought you were posting the trailer here.

 

[Durante]

Dear Japanese developer,

thank you for developing a Playstation Vita game. You may not be aware of it, but for over a decade now a rendering method called MSAA has existed that can improve your game's image quality. It does so by taking multiple samples for each pixel with slightly different offsets and averaging them for edge pixels. This reduces the aliasing artifacts introduced by the fixed resolution sampling required to render an image.

Playstation Vita features a PowerVR SGX graphics architecture, which uses tile-based deferred rendering. On such an architecture the whole scene is divided into tiles and rendered in an on-chip buffer, greatly reducing external memory bandwidth needs. All this happens automatically and in hardware. What does this mean for you? It means that the performance impact of enabling MSAA is minimal and well worth the massive image quality improvements.

Please, think of the pixels, use MSAA.
Best Regards,
Durante

PS: Anisotropic texture filtering is also a great thing. I can send you more information if you like.

 

[Oneself]

Hopefully it will run at 60fps. =(