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| Grave
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|  "Re(1):About the Y's series......"
, posted Sun 5 Jan 16:19
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I saw pics of the Y's 1 and 2 remake Falcom is making and I was wondering, has this series ever been released here in the states?
and what are the chances of the remakes ever being release in america? This game has Working Designs written all over it. I really hope they pick it up. PLEASE GOD!!!!
just look at these shots Y's 1&2
come on WDs
papa needs a new pair of Action RPGs!!!!
I think the last Ys that came out here was the SNES version of Ys III. But since then, nothing. I was hoping the PC remakes would come out in the US, but if not, the console version would be our best bet.
If anyone releases it here, I hope WD stays FAR away from it. WD has this nasty little habit of thinking they know better than the developers and editing the actual game itself, not just the dialogue. It's largely irritating. That, and I just don't like Vic Ireland. If someone else would pick it up, though, I'd love to see it make it over.
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| Guymelef
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|  "Re(2):About the Y's series......"
, posted Sun 5 Jan 20:08
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I saw pics of the Y's 1 and 2 remake Falcom is making and I was wondering, has this series ever been released here in the states?
and what are the chances of the remakes ever being release in america? This game has Working Designs written all over it. I really hope they pick it up. PLEASE GOD!!!!
just look at these shots Y's 1&2
come on WDs
papa needs a new pair of Action RPGs!!!!
I think the last Ys that came out here was the SNES version of Ys III. But since then, nothing. I was hoping the PC remakes would come out in the US, but if not, the console version would be our best bet.
If anyone releases it here, I hope WD stays FAR away from it. WD has this nasty little habit of thinking they know better than the developers and editing the actual game itself, not just the dialogue. It's largely irritating. That, and I just don't like Vic Ireland. If someone else would pick it up, though, I'd love to see it make it over.
Really?! I know that they change the dialogue in thier games to make them ...."funnier".... but what else have they changed?
and besides i dont think anyother puplisher would even look at this game other then WD or Atlus. As long as somebody brings it over ill be content, and if Sony approved Growlanser i think there is a slightly good chance they will approve Y's *fingers crossed*
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| Grave
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| "Re(3):About the Y's series......" , posted Sun 5 Jan 21:04
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Really?! I know that they change the dialogue in thier games to make them ...."funnier".... but what else have they changed?
and besides i dont think anyother puplisher would even look at this game other then WD or Atlus. As long as somebody brings it over ill be content, and if Sony approved Growlanser i think there is a slightly good chance they will approve Y's *fingers crossed*
WD's gameplay edits are usually little, inoffensive things, like mapping a shortcut to an unused button in Dragon Force, but sometimes they cross the line, and end up breaking really nice features from the developer.
An example of an edit I favored had to do with Albert Odyssey's ridiculously long boss battles. This was a pretty mediocre RPG as-is, so-so in most aspects, but it had a lot of charm. However, most of the boss battles in the game were exercises in excruciating tedium... in the US version. And WD had cut a LOT of HP away from the enemies! The end of the game nearly put me to sleep, and that was after WD's edits. Can't really complain about that one, but Albert Odyssey purists (uh, does such a thing exist?) might not be too pleased about this.
Raystorm is a shooter I like quite a good deal. Still haven't played Raycrisis, but I like Raystorm and Galactic Attack/Layer Section/whatever you want to call it quite a lot. Now, this game has an amazingly cool difficulty system. If you play a lot of shooters you probably won't have a tough time with the game period, but the game allowed you to tweak the difficulty level of each stage independently. Good at a level? Crank it up to the max! Still struggling with one? Lower it a little bit. Great idea, right? WD didn't think so! They saw it fit to make it that once you lower ANY level difficulty below the normal point, you're no longer allowed to pass level 4, effectively breaking the system for those who want to take advantage of it. Like I said, it's a manageable game, and it's not a big deal, but I thought that feature was a great idea, and WD broke it.
And by changing the prices of items in Silhouette Mirage, WD absolutely ruined the way the game played. You now need to go out of your way to beat enemies for money until you have enough to get by, instead of playing the game as it was meant to be played. I had heard it mentioned that Treasure was okay with this change, but I think it hurts the game.
I just can't respect WD. They're a childishly, arrogantly-run company (remember their feuds with Sega and Gamefan?), and their translations are full of low-brow humor that's often unnecessary. That's not to say that kind of thing can't be enjoyable. It can, when it was originally intended! Sometimes WD's scripts just ruin moments in games. I just wish they'd learn that they DON'T need to alter a developer's original game, they rarely improve them, and their little preorder presents and overpriced deluxe boxes don't make up for it. I'd still like to play the Arc the Lad games, but I'm not going to pay $80 for a box filled with extras I didn't really want in the first place and three PS1 RPGs with what I would imagine are pretty painful translations.
Sorry for the rant. If you couldn't guess, I'm not a big WD fan. Heheh. 
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| MilkManX
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Occasional Customer
| "Re(4):About the Y's series......" , posted Mon 6 Jan 23:34
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Really?! I know that they change the dialogue in thier games to make them ...."funnier".... but what else have they changed?
and besides i dont think anyother puplisher would even look at this game other then WD or Atlus. As long as somebody brings it over ill be content, and if Sony approved Growlanser i think there is a slightly good chance they will approve Y's *fingers crossed*
WD's gameplay edits are usually little, inoffensive things, like mapping a shortcut to an unused button in Dragon Force, but sometimes they cross the line, and end up breaking really nice features from the developer.
An example of an edit I favored had to do with Albert Odyssey's ridiculously long boss battles. This was a pretty mediocre RPG as-is, so-so in most aspects, but it had a lot of charm. However, most of the boss battles in the game were exercises in excruciating tedium... in the US version. And WD had cut a LOT of HP away from the enemies! The end of the game nearly put me to sleep, and that was after WD's edits. Can't really complain about that one, but Albert Odyssey purists (uh, does such a thing exist?) might not be too pleased about this.
Raystorm is a shooter I like quite a good deal. Still haven't played Raycrisis, but I like Raystorm and Galactic Attack/Layer Section/whatever you want to call it quite a lot. Now, this game has an amazingly cool difficulty system. If you play a lot of shooters you probably won't have a tough time with the game period, but the game allowed you to tweak the difficulty level of each stage independently. Good at a level? Crank it up to the max! Still struggling with one? Lower it a little bit. Great idea, right? WD didn't think so! They saw it fit to make it that once you lower ANY level difficulty below the normal point, you're no longer allowed to pass level 4, effectively breaking the system for those who want to take advantage of it. Like I said, it's a manageable game, and it's not a big deal, but I thought that feature was a great idea, and WD broke it.
And by changing the prices of items in Silhouette Mirage, WD absolutely ruined the way the game played. You now need to go out of your way to beat enemies for money until you have enough to get by, instead of playing the game as it was meant to be played. I had heard it mentioned that Treasure was okay with this change, but I think it hurts the game.
I just can't respect WD. They're a childishly, arrogantly-run company (remember their feuds with Sega and Gamefan?), and their translations are full of low-brow humor that's often unnecessary. That's not to say that kind of thing can't be enjoyable. It can, when it was originally intended! Sometimes WD's scripts just ruin moments in games. I just wish they'd learn that they DON'T need to alter a developer's original game, they rarely improve them, and their little preorder presents and overpriced deluxe boxes don't make up for it. I'd still like to play the Arc the Lad games, but I'm not going to pay $80 for a box filled with extras I didn't really want in the first place and three PS1 RPGs with what I would imagine are pretty painful translations.
Sorry for the rant. If you couldn't guess, I'm not a big WD fan. Heheh.
I am with you. Screw WD. Leave my Ys alone. Let infogames have it or something. Ill take import over a US WD version myself
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