E3 08

[Apelila]

I have nothing to add other than this, which I feel sums this situation up remarkably well:

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...0_/124vxfq.gif

[Xavier]

Hilarious.

[melbufrauma]

so um question, how come RE5 looks like a House of the Dead with better graphics? i hate that, one of the things that i liked about the old resident evils was that the zombies were almost believable now in the new one they are all jacked and have bigass gay hammers and are more mutated and shit

[Xavier]

Its obviously because they were black.

[Akiyama]

Damn blackies messing up our games.

[Aymee]

Anyone notice how the new XIII screens on IGN are 640x480 (released on the same day as this announcement), instead of the 1280x960 all the ones from last year were? This... greatly concerns me. I'm far more concerned with reduced output of the game/engine to fit the weaker 360 and disk size than I am that it'll be on 360...


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EPIC ANGER with Sony. You'd think if you lost a billion dollars just to launch your console you could toss a few million (tens of millions?) extra at SE to keep new FFs exclusive. XIII is supposed to be the last thing that gets everyone who hasn't had an excuse to buy a PS3 to get one (like me, dammit).

...Then again, since I find no enjoyment in shooters, there's still no reason to buy an X360. *Sigh* PS3 it is.


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Do we know if XIIIvs is still exclusive? I might hope so, or that would have been part of the 'bombshell'.

[Xavier]

Versus is still exclusive.

I really don't think the 360 is -that- much weaker than the PS3, the big exception being disc formats (blu-ray vs. dvd). Besides that, Square admitted that FF13 is only currently running on the PC anyway, and hasn't even been adapted for the PS3 at the moment.

[Aymee]

...Interesting. Well, immediate grumbling aside now I did think of a way they could make this up to me...

HAY SE! Since PS3 is regionless anyway, when you spit out a jpn release of XIII could you pretty please have an option for english subs so those of us with even a stupidly limited japanese vocabulary might enjoy it? Probably rake in a lot of extra cash with that... since you know there are hundreds of thousands of NAs who just wouldn't want to wait longer (myself included). Announce that and you've got my $80 preorder on playasia as soon as I can grab my purse.

Edit: Better yet, say that you'll leave the japanese voice acting in as an option in the eventual NA release. Might as well use that bluray disk space for something . . .

[Sythe]

I didnt want to make a whole new thread for this but Too Human just got put up on xbox market place. I was worried about choppiness but it plays smoothly. Pretty fun overall.

[Sythe]

oops

[TacoTaru]

The problem would be they would still have to translate all the non cutscene text into English, which would then make the American version anyway. By the time that is done, it would probably be right on schedule with the normal release date anyway. (Unless I missed something entirely and the entire game is voiced).

[Xavier]

I don't understand why they have to wait for the game to be 100% completed before they begin such a massive localization process. Presumably by the time a game is well into development, the locations, characters, items, weapons and armor are pretty well set, with most of the story and dialog already firmly in place.

Its not even as though development would lose members to a localization process as it would presumably be done by another team simultaneously. Just seems like so much time is lost and I absolutely hate having to wait 8-10 months for a Final Fantasy game to be released in America after Japan.

[Aymee]

Subtitles are already an option in every RPG for the native language, so why not add an english subs track? There's no way that could take that long to do. I'm not asking for full translation of everything asap... we've known for 10+ years they're far too lazy for simultaneous release (a japanese to english translation job with SE would be the laziest thing on earth, I swear)... just a subtitles track on CSings... between that and what would be an obvious community of NA FAQs and Forums for the JP release it would probably be mostly enjoyable.


I read into the IGN stuff more and SE said that they're going to try to make the 'localization' to EU and NA faster. I suppose that word is open to interpretation, but less than 9 months would be nice. The hierarchy seems to be JP PS3 > Start X360 conversion > NA/EU PS3 > X360s > Profit... though they said both versions would have the same features. Blah. Better not ninja in extra bosses or anything.

[Jefe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-uTnqYHZ-I ?

[TacoTaru]

OH LAWD

[Lee]

Banjo-Threeie... Where art thou?

[Akiyama]

Behind Banjo's gigantic blockhead.

[Semitry]

Banjo-Threeie... Where art thou?

There's been a ton of info released about it recently.

[Akiyama]

Nevermind. I'm a dumbass who can't check links.

In other news, that video of the fanboy is incredibly funny.

[Jedimasta]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=k-uTnqYHZ-I

I present you: The type of gamer that gives us gamers a truly bad name. Naselly-sounding voice, giant fucking glasses are giant, and a fucking moron to boot.

I swear t his has to be some sort of joke.

Im literally crying from laughing so hard watching this guy rant.
Milk + Wine Glass = Classyyyyyyyyyyyyy