Games you are playing

[caije]

[Vapour Trail]

not too long hopefully. seems like it uses the etrian odyssey engine, so i'd imagine it would appeal to just about everyone here. actually, i'm surprised there hasn't been more interest in this game...

[caije]

Well it's kind of flying under the radar right now. If it get's some decent marketing I'm sure it'll stir up some public interest.

[scy]

It's a big budget title and is a main entry (at least all signs point to it) in the SMT franchise. It isn't a question of coming over or not but when. Though, it is weird to have heard nothing after like two weeks when Trauma Team was announced the day after the JP announcement.

I just hope it does better than Devil Survivor did.

[Rodger]

Strange Journey has had my interest since the first leak, finding out it used the same engine as EO was just bonus. More information would still be nice, regardless, but I'm really digging the scenario they've painted for it at least.

By the way...

http://www.siliconera.com/2009/08/04/a- ... e-trailer/

Trailer for Trinity Universe popped up. I was originally only interested because its another crossover, but it actually looks pretty interesting in its own right. Still too early to say if it'll be good or not really, but I like the looks of it so far. Here's hoping NISA will localize it, though I don't see why they wouldn't at this point after they localized Cross Edge.

[scy]

That reminds me, I forgot to pick up Cross Edge.

Anyway, Trinity Universe is definitely looking less low-budget than Cross Edge did. The voice cast doesn't seem so bad, but remembering the English Cross Edge voice tracks still hurts me (plus missing lines >>) and makes me a little cautious if it does come over. Then again, if it does, it'll probably be with a full JP track anyway so I wager this is a pointless worry.

If nothing else, wtf 3D.

[caije]

[scy]

Luminous Arc 3 announced recently which makes me wonder just how "off" this is going to be (Busty witches > Busty Witches + Engagement -> ?!). There's also what seems like the 20th fucking Higurashi game (Higurashi Daybreak Portable Mega Edition - PSP) coming. That reminds me that I still need to get the DS ones, assuming the translation works ever got off the ground.

[spoiler]How is there a BAD END to some of the arcs? How? I thought most of them were BAD END anyway.

I mean, sure, some of them make sense when they add a different ending (Someutsushi-hen is Onisarashi-hen's BAD END route ... if you can call Onisarashi-hen a GOOD END) or like, Akasaka dying in Himatsubushi-hen (but then that just means it's the normal past, since he's "supposed" to die).

But I mean, the rest aren't exactly "happy flower time" END or anything. I guess it just means you can Game Over before the real Ending of the route but still.[/spoiler]

Edit: Oh boy, new teaser site. New teaser site? NEW TEASER SITE?! FUCK!

http://newrpg.sega.jp/

Anyway, no countdown just a date (8/20) and really, just these two images there not counting WHEEL OF FATE IS TURNING over there in the top-right (size):

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speculate away~~~

[spoiler]Shining Force Gear (Wii)

Though PSP2 or something else PS related is a possibility, it seems to match SF artwork a bit more imo.

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[spoiler]ps, bring 7th Dragon over fuck[/spoiler]

[ZetaBladeX13]

* Monster Hunter 3 (Tri-) [Wii]

* Puyo Puyo 7 [DS]


Also, about the localized version of X-Edge:
Do you have the option of switching to the Jap VA?
Because any game with main characters voiced by Satoshi Hino and Tomoe Hanba is worth buying XD

[Kimiko]

Class Of Heroes

It's a nice game so far, although I still haven't figured out how to get a decent income. Most stuff you get from fights sells for only a few gold, while it costs 100 gold to have just one party member sleep to recover hitpoints (which is needed after every one or two fights at first). So far I've gotten by by enrolling fake students, stripping them of their uniforms, expelling them again, then selling their stuff for money. That can't be the intended way of making money though, and it's very annoying too because it only yields 50 gold per student. Meh.

The character art is very cool (anime style). The monster art and music in particular don't live up to that standard though. The menu interface could have been smoother as well (often requires more steps than necessary).

Oh, and randomness is bad. One hit will do 1 or 2 damage, then the next will do 15 suddenly. Not so bad when they're my party's hits, but deadly when they come from monsters. I mean, you're plodding along, barely surviving battles, then bam! in one round two members die and you wonder how you're ever going to get back to the entrance. All game developers should be required to take a course in statistics to learn the superiority of the normal distribution.

Main party: Maxine (thief/human/f), Kino (devout/drake/f), Noodls (monk/dwarf/f), Kimiko (wizard/elf/f), Trance (wizard/erdgeist/f), Elyse (summoner/felpier/f)
Stay-at-home appraiser of items: Scy2 (cleric/erdgeist/m)
Names are limited to 6 characters, hence 'Noodls'. Scy the first was lost to the above cheat before I switched to using extras (named AAA, BBB, etc.).

[Rodger]

I can't help but think the weapon wielded by the male silhouette looks out of place for a Phantasy Star game. Also, it seems likely that this character would be the main character for whatever the rpg is and yet the weapon doesn't seem to match up with any in that picture you posted. The gear/wheel thing would seem to suggest Shining Force Gear, though. I doubt it'd be Phantasy Star anyway, that's already been announced more or less.

I'd be surprised if 7th Dragon doesn't make it here eventually. If SEGA isn't planning to do a localization itself somewhere down the road, then I can see Atlus or XSeed picking it up in 2010. SEGA seems to be pretty slow on the localization front with these RPG's, though. World Destruction came out in September 2008 in Japan and we're not getting it until at least early 2010 at this point (release date seems to keep getting pushed up, it was originally a Q3 2009 release I believe)

I need to get Class of Heroes at some point...maybe one of the GameStops in Halifax will have a copy. That and Crimson Gem Saga.

[Kinokokao]

Halifax... NOVA SCOTIIIAAAA?!

And, yay, Kimiko named a character after me!!

[ZetaBladeX13]

DX </3

[scy]

The artwork is for a different Shining Force game, though it definitely seems more like a PS weapon than SF. The character outline looks more like SF than PS though.

[Rodger]

I see...Shining Force Gear might make sense if that thing in the corner is supposed to be a gear but it kinda looks more like a ship's wheel thingy.

Kino: Aye >.> I live in Cape Breton, which is a couple hundred kilometers away from the nearest Game Stop but there's like 4-6 within the vicinity of Halifax.