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Bought it on Steam after CureVylash said it is a lot better overall.
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Bought it on Steam after CureVylash said it is a lot better overall.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
You can (almost) never go wrong with going for a PC version of a game when one is available.
You're in for a treat.
ShinMaruku
Member
Yup. From Kagura to Z2 chaos it's a real improvement. Z2 Chaos is so much better.
don't have a ps4 so i haven't tried z2 yet, i only picked up kagura on 360 a few weeks ago. z2 will likely be the first thing i get for it though.
is there any reason at all to keep kagura around in spite of z2's improvements or does it make z 100% irrelevant?
ShinMaruku
Member
Well Z2 has all 4 of the baneful blood girls. As well as expanded cool combo finishers like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ1TtsuWGcw
Kagura and Saya being half vampires also adds to it you can balance just baneful blood with half vampires, with the vampire sister's vamp skills as well as their blood recovery.
Kagura and Saya being half vampires also adds to it you can balance just baneful blood with half vampires, with the vampire sister's vamp skills as well as their blood recovery.
Augemitbutter
Member
come on, you know you want to! is the loc. effort higher than Ys?
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Oops, didn't notice the bold. I think it's pretty similar to the recent Ys games. It doesn't seem likely that it's going to get picked up, but it is being fan translated.
I'll wait for it as long as it takes, as for any Trails game or LoH game not yet released.
on PC in english
But Trails SC and TC is my top priority now. I hope you plan TC already, 2016 perhaps?
edited: can we hope for Rune Factory on PC in some not so distant future too?
Augemitbutter
Member
yup, maybe they can pick up the fan translation!
Tizoc
Member
If it gets a PC ver., I'll gladly take a mod that makes the stripper with the cowboy hat be wearing a badass western longcoat and clothes.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Neverland is gone, so that's probably not going to happen. Wouldn't be surprised if the Rune Factory series is done.
Why would it be? Marvelous owns the IP and it seems
like they've largely absorbed the RF team, so why would they stop developing new Rune Factory games? It's one of Marvelous's more successful franchises after all.
There are other outfits in the console version, too. I'm not sure how many, I don't think I unlocked all of them.
Rune Factory 4 was also the most successful game so far and Lord of Magna bombed so Rune Factory 5 is almost inevitable.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Did they? I guess it's easier and cheaper to hire people from a bankrupt studio than it is to just buy them out.
Still think it's unlikely they would go back and port a game for a PC release, but Marvelous ported HMH2 just to release it here so it's not inconceivable they would port a RF game I guess.
That will be amazing really. After sudden appearance of VC and it's success, things are getting exciting. But that might depend more on Marvelous side. Their games on Steam... Half Minute Heroes SC and Skullgirl(?). I don't get how Japanese publisher/developer works.
I'm itching for some farming action. Landwirtschafts Simulator 15 is too hard core for me.
Lord of Magna was reportedly developed by the team that made the Rune Factory games. I don't know how accurate those reports are and whether it's really the whole (or most of) the original team or if Marvelous just hired the core people. It does make sense to just hire the people instead of buying the studio, though, since Marvelous would have also acquired all of Neverland's debts if they went for the second option.
I agree that PC ports are unlikely, though. The console games didn't sell very well to begin with, so I don't see Marvelous touching either Frontier nor Ocean again. And getting the DS or 3DS games to look acceptable in 1080p is likely close to impossible...
ShinMaruku
Member
May never be a pc version, but luckily they have so much outfits that you don't have to be cowgirls. I put crowns on them or sun glasses and make them look like maids or secret agents.
And of course the goo bikini. :E
ShinMaruku
Member
Hopefully this is a indicator that outside of the traditonal AAA and indie markets the niches should be profitable as well.
Kresnik258
Member
I'm so so so so happy they are localizing Corpse Party: BD. So I can officially get excited for it now or is there some margin of error that the silhouette is sliiightly wrong even though it seems perfect
It doesn't look like it fits perfectly to me, but I'm really hoping it does. I want to see this series concluded!
Realistically, given that XSEED released both of the others digitally despite PSP's situation in the west, I do think Blood Drive is more than likely to come at some point, so it makes sense.
Considering they registered a domain for the game, yes.I'm so so so so happy they are localizing Corpse Party: BD. So I can officially get excited for it now or is there some margin of error that the silhouette is sliiightly wrong even though it seems perfect
ShinMaruku
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Xseed proving you can live in your niche and do fine.
You probably will, unless you're super busy and advance at a rate of a chapter every 2 months. Tom said Story of Seasons will definitely come out first, and that isn't dated yet. I can't imagine SC coming out any earlier than March-April.
Pretty sure that's a placeholder from Amazon or something, since XSEED hasn't officially announced it yet.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
It's not a very long game imo. Then again I was coming off Xenoblade when I finished it and it only took me 35hrs.
Did you guys do all the side quests?
My in-game timer is now at 10 hours and I feel like I've still just begun the game. I had kind of a slow start figuring out some of the early side quests though, which made me waste a bunch of time and I didn't realize that the monsters I was killing in the first area were barely giving me any XP after a few level ups, so most of that time was very unproductive, lol.
The whole of FC really feels like you're just beginning the game. The thing really suffers from a case of firstoftrilogyitis.
Still a great game, but a slow roller
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
I did most of the board side quests but I did not do the missable back track quests.
i did every quest, especially since skipping them is a pretty bad idea
It's very doable, though it took me
71
Still wondering why it took me so long. I guess I spent too much time getting absorbed into the world.
Yeah, I think of Trails FC as mostly one giant prologue. One of those games where I actually enjoyed it the 2nd/3rd/4th/???? time around much more than the first because you can focus even more on the little things in your next playthroughs.
Yes, I hope so too. Some rumours swirling about a retail release (with a possible collector's edition) excites me
Exciting times
Awesoooome. Not surprised people really want this one.
I also heard there is like, a Romantic Comedy spinoff game that is only in JP. Wish we could get that one, but I understand why we wouldnt
One day surely.
One day...
(well, theanimeman did a playthough of it - he's missing the extra chapter which is apparently canon though).
This is so very true. I'm following the npc conversions a lot more this time around, like Luke who you rescue early on and his dad being the guard at the checkpoint, or the shop owner in Bose and her husband stuck in Ravennue trying to move out to be with her. I'm hoping I'll get to meet these characters again in SC and see how their lives have progressed.
JoeyJungle
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Is Corpse Party PC the same as the PSP game? I remember seeing that the original PC game was different than the PSP version somehow but can't remember what the change was. Or are they porting the PSP version to PC?
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
PC version is the original, it was ported to PSP. Apparently the two versions are slightly different content-wise.
As Chaosblade noted, the PC version and PSP version are a bit different, though mostly the same where it counts. Basically, the game originated as an RPGMaker title in 1996 before being drastically rewritten/redesigned and released chapter by chapter for Windows starting in 2008. A few years later, right after chapter 4 was released for Windows (but before chapter 5), a PSP port of that game was released, which changed and added quite a bit of content.
The PSP port is what we released on PSN. It has slightly more detailed backgrounds and lighting effects, more voice-acting in the early chapters, different voice-acting throughout (the two games have totally different casts), different character art, slightly arranged music tracks in the early chapters, and a bunch of Extra Chapters that were created specifically for the PSP version of the game (only 3 of the 10 Extra Chapters from the PSP version are present in the PC version -- though admittedly, the missing ones are all the really short, story-only Extra Chapters).
The PC version, then, features this vastly different voice-acting (some of which is on par with or even better than the PSP version's, and much of which greatly changes how the characters come acorss), very slightly different dialogue in a few places, slightly arranged music in the later chapters (because remember, chapter 4 came out right around the time the PSP version was released, and chapter 5 came out much later!), a decent amount of new/added content in chapter 5 (including one of the most personally disturbing settings in the entire game), and one PC-exclusive Extra Chapter based on "Tooth" from Corpse Party: Book of Shadows (but played out in the style of the original Corpse Party, complete with original puzzles and lots of content not found in the more visual novel-esque approach that BoS took).
Oh, and the PC version also has the fanciest text boxes I've ever seen, but I don't think that really counts as a selling point. (They do look really cool, though -- they're quite heavily animated!)
-Tom
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
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Oh, and the PC version also has the fanciest text boxes I've ever seen, but I don't think that really counts as a selling point. (They do look really cool, though -- they're quite heavily animated!)
-Tom
I hope you guys don't use a system font again for the PC release.
I hope you guys don't use a system font again for the PC release.
What do you mean, exactly? I don't believe we've ever used a standard system font for any of our PC releases (and rarely for any of our console releases). Ever since we realized how picky gamers are about fonts, we've been very, very picky ourselves, always trying to match the look and feel of the game in question.
And for Corpse Party PC, we're using a proprietary English font provided by Team GrisGris that looks absolutely fantastic, much as the font provided by 5pb for the PSP game did.
You can actually see it for yourself in our E3 trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPHhqgLYlFc
-Tom
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Well I was actually talking about the PSP release with the font part! It was blatantly obvious it was "Chiller" but that was pretty much my only complaint about the PSP games. (Well maybe the Student ID thing... xP)
The font for the PC version is looking food though. I'll make it rain in the Steam thread whenever it gets released.
The font for the PC version is looking food though. I'll make it rain in the Steam thread whenever it gets released.