Does Atlus even have an EU branch?
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Persona 4 Arena |EU OT| Heartbeat, Heartbreak
- Thread starter Dantis
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Does Atlus even have an EU branch?
You do realise that's exactly what they did, right?
Which is why it bothers me so much that the characters don't look closer to Soejima's designs.
Atlus / Arc Sys is just too incompetent to secure a long lasting publishing deal with any of the european publishers. Arc Sys is at fault here I think tho, since they are the ones who fucking didn't chang 1 line of code and sent out the master.
£24.99 at Grainger Games.
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That's exactly what they did.
Nope. That's pretty much the heart of the problem, too. Hopefully their relationship with NISA in Europe will mean sooner releases. Ghostlight have gotten release dates down to about 4-5 weeks later than the US, so we know it's possible to get it done quickly.
Now I know.
It definitely looks like it. The sprites are pretty bad. They rotoscoped them and couldn't even bother to make them on-model? lol
ScraftyDevil
Banned
Andrefpvs
Member
That reminds me of Persona 4 Golden's online messages, is it the same message style in P4A?
Why shouldn't it? Titles show up in-game in every fighting game that has titles.
Master_Funk
Member
Atlus better have EU publishing sorted for Persona 5 . This delay was absolutely ridiculous.
Andrefpvs
Member
Anything more than a month's delay for P5 will break me.
ScraftyDevil
Banned
I think your hate for this game is reaching critical mass.
Don't go Tetsuo on us, Dantis!
Never bank on timely Atlus releases. Plan to import and hope it's region free. Maybe the release date will be very close to the US one and you can support the local distributor (almost certainly NISA), but be ready for a wait otherwise.
I actually think I'd import a US console if it is region locked, mind. I really don't want to suffer through this again.
Tbh, that isn't even the problem. The fucked up region lock was.
You haven't lived until you've been beaten by a person using "Aroused Salty Fighting God" as their title.
The sprites don't look terrible to me, but the animation looks really stiff and awkward as if there isn't enough frames.
China Dont Care
Banned
My biggest issue with the game is that Chie's VO sounds like she is from northern Canada.
I can't tell if it is the same VO from P4:The Animation but I don't like it.
I want old Chie Back
Go Back and listen to the old VO it sounds like a Old Women talking, I really dont care but new VO has grown on me. I though she was great in P4A
SousedLouse
Member
Well, it is an ArcSys fighting game - the animations for the character's moves usually aren't all that fluid in their 2D games.
I remember Guilty Gear looking pretty good.
Yup. None of those are HD though. HD Sprites take up a ton of RAM.
Haha, that happened like back in August. I'll try and keep it together though.
I really do dislike most of what I've seen of the game though, and I've seen a fair old amount.
Skullgirls #1
SousedLouse
Member
Guilty Gear is definitely one of their best series when it comes to 2D animation; it and the Blazblue series are ArcSys' babies. But even within those two series, they reign in the amount of detail on certain moves. The moves that characters depend on, like Johnny's Iai slashes or Ragna's drives, are usually very fluid, but some of their normal moves will have sparse animation. It's stuff like punches and kicks that just sort of come out in an instant, moves that hit multiple times but use one static frame, or big slabs of color that emulate quick swings and slashes - little stuff like that. It's just kind of their style. It's not like they're cutting corners or anything, it's more like a compromise between adding detail to the sprites and making sure that the controls are as tight as they want them to be.
It's a little more noticeable in the fighting games that they make for other companies, though. One could argue that when they made their Hokuto no Ken fighting game, they were just trying to match the show's style for everything, but I don't think that the same logic applies to Sengoku Basara X or Persona 4 Arena.
I think that every fighting game they've put out, save for the original Guilty Gear, is still more fluid than most of the other entries in the genre - I'm not really an animation buff, though, so I could be totally wrong.
Correct!
Also correct!
Haha, that happened like back in August. I'll try and keep it together though.
I really do dislike most of what I've seen of the game though, and I've seen a fair old amount.
Heh, I know people in real life that referenced your posts in the game's first OT. They lurk in a lot of forums, though, so it's not like you were truly infamous - you were just 'that guy who really doesn't like the game'.
KoFXIII is not HD?
If that's accurate, I never would've guessed KoF XII/XIII's sprites were smaller than GG's.
Was waiting for this response. SG's definitely up there.
And personally, I don't find the sprite-work too bad, but yeah, ASW needs to step it up.
Was waiting for this response. SG's definitely up there.
And personally, I don't find the sprite-work too bad, but yeah, ASW needs to step it up.
Might just be placebo on my part but isn't KOFXIII substantially smaller than KOFXII? The latter looked absolutely hideous when I played it because those sprites are clearly not made for big screens. In contrast I remember former looking far less worse and I could notice far less pixels. It made it all look so much smoother.
Yeah, KOF XII zoomed far too close to the characters.
Oh dear, haha!
I.. er... really didn't like what I saw.
And now this Friday I get to see how accurate my thoughts were!
Ragingnight
Member
P4A is still my favorite fighter of the past few years. Too bad some character balance ruin it.
In terms of fighters for me its
3s> Sc2/MvC2/P4A > umvc3/SC5 > everything else
In terms of fighters for me its
3s> Sc2/MvC2/P4A > umvc3/SC5 > everything else
CambriaRising
Member
I thought it sounded like she was. Its not that I don't like it, but I think her performance in The Animation is way better than Arena. Can't speak for Golden.
what do you mean by sprite size? kof13's are clearly smaller than bb's in the picture. or are you comparing to something else?
http://youtu.be/0L3bjbsl11M?t=2m32s
"Now this vinyl I believe is a mockup" - wait, what?
I've stuck a preorder on it but doesn't that pretty make the item pretty much worthless?
"Now this vinyl I believe is a mockup" - wait, what?
I've stuck a preorder on it but doesn't that pretty make the item pretty much worthless?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Wait seriously?
They can't even be bothered to press them?
They can't even be bothered to press them?
Oh wow the back of the vinyl has the fucking url for the "digital goodies" printed behind it. You can see it completely clearly in the video.
Not only is it worthless, it's not even exclusive.
Yes the vinyl in the video is a mock up. The actual release will have a real working vinyl record with music on it. Everyone calm down.
Wait, what? Could you elaborate on what this means?
It doesn't mean it's an imitation, does it?
Ah. That's better then.
Just tried the URL and it works. Is that worth putting in the OP? Is that against the rules? Is it legal?
Input please, chaps.
Delusibeta
Banned
This is what test prints are for, people!
Also, lol at the digital pack leak. Just an URL? Really?
Also, lol at the digital pack leak. Just an URL? Really?
China Dont Care
Banned
cj_iwakura
Member
The backgrounds are gorgeous, if nothing else. But I love the sprite design too, so ymmv.
ArcSys backgrounds are always full of life, and P4A's are no exception.
The backgrounds are excellent. I'll agree with that at least. My only thing there is that the literal environments are so uncreative. Where is the Velvet Room? Or Tartarus? Or Gekkoukan?
Crisis averted, thanks.
Looking at the digital goodies, some of the images in there are OT worthy material.