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Tales of Zestiria Import Thread - Turning Legends Into Hope
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Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Some people either don't want to wait and/or don't care about the story enough to need the English version.
GayForMaster
Banned
I'm just curious, are people really that impatient that they'll go through a WHOLE jrpg reading a faq to translate every piece of story dialogue? Unless you can read and understand Japanese then nevermind, but the former seems like such a fucking chore. I just don't see how anyone could enjoy a jrpg that way.
GayForMaster
Banned
Chances are it'll be dual audio or subbed only I bet.
Sakura
Member
Er I can understand it just fine in Japanese. Though I don't know if the game would be any fun to people that can't understand any.
...Maybe they can understand Japanese? Why are you being so rude?
I don't know which is the stupider assumption here: that the people importing all can't read japanese, or that we don't know there's an English version launching later this year.
edit: Or 3) that there's gonna be a translation FAQ for the game the day the Japanese version comes out.
dakkumauji
Member
if that's how you play japanese games, more power to you.
GayForMaster
Banned
Yeah that's why I said it makes sense for those that understand, but I just find it odd for gaijins that have not a single clue how to translate Japanese at all to play a JRPG. Japanese games are fine to import but for software to boast nearly 100+ hours of gameplay? I'd rather wait the 6 months to play it in a language I can understand. I'm a bit envious by the way. The only thing holding me back from importing is my lack of Kanji knowledge. I'm not sure how to go about learning that.
I said nevermind to those that can read and translate Japanese. I'm only baffled at how those with 0 knowledge of it would import the game.
RyougaSaotome
Member
Nope! Hahahaha. The one before this was the P5 protag with Mara's face on it though.
And yes, Raven. It was Kaoru at one point or another.
As someone who isn't Japanese proficient, I also just really enjoy the gameplay of these games. Being someone who plays fighting games competitively, it also scratches that itch of figuring out combos while putting it in a JRPG package. I've played enough of the series to usually know what's going on mechanics-wise. Most of the modern Tales games are pretty linear too.
Tales of games also don't come over all the time (at least until recent years), and while this game is confirmed to come over, it's just kind of tradition for me to grab the latest game asap.
Tales of games also don't come over all the time (at least until recent years), and while this game is confirmed to come over, it's just kind of tradition for me to grab the latest game asap.
Some people want to play it sooner than later?
Mines was shipped and should be here by next Tuesday assuming no customs issues :/.
You could probably play this game without knowing much if any kanji, as long as you know the kana and have a decent grasp of the spoken language. Tales games aren't really that complex, usually.
btw here's an odd thing:
http://www.play-asia.com/playasia.c...s-for-import-titles-paOS-17-74-5xp-49-en.html
Might be useful for some folks I guess depending on how long translations take. There is an example of what it will probably be for Zestiria on their website (J-stars translations)
http://www.play-asia.com/playasia.c...s-for-import-titles-paOS-17-74-5xp-49-en.html
Might be useful for some folks I guess depending on how long translations take. There is an example of what it will probably be for Zestiria on their website (J-stars translations)
R_thanatos
Member
Nice Edit ..your number 3 is clearly the funniest of the lot , lol
Aizo
Banned
If I can play a game in Japanese, I usually do.
Is there no more multiplayer in this entry?
Last I checked there is but you can only control humans? (someone correct me if I'm wrong but I thought I read this the other day)
ChasingComets
Member
Plenty of Japanese learning websites feature kanji-a-day, why not bookmark one of those? Besides, in my experience with the Tales games, the kanji was never frequent or difficult enough to pose much of a problem. (Granted, I come from a Chinese background and both languages share a lot of characters)
Wouldn't say it's 0 for me but yeah.
Worst case scenario it doesn't have dual audio, I rip both my NTSC-J and PAL discs and do a replace the English sounds/cinematics with Japanese ones in a "legal" for lack of better word way and there I have my Japanese audio full subbed game.
It has dual audio, well I spent 60 euros on a double dip instead of idk alcohol or whatever else.
keisuke999
Member
GayForMaster
Banned
You realize you're not representing how everyone feels? That's such a ridiculous thing to say. If you don't care about story either, is it fun to spend 10-20 minutes of trial and error finding out what menu does what and which artes do what? Yours and anyone else that thinks like you have a terrible definition of fun.
I'm also kind of waiting for a possible PS4 release.
Pretty sure the person was not serious.
You realize you're making a bunch of silly assumptions when they were making a joke?
That being said, I'm not a huge fan of the stories either. A good story in a Tales of game is a nice bonus but it's not why I play the games (battle systems + subsystems like Eres Pot and such).
Also even if you don't attempt to read the menus, there's so many visual indicators of what stuff is that there's no way it'd take 10-20 minutes unless you're new to the series. Apple Gummis still look like Apple Gummis and so on.
:lol
dakkumauji
Member
I mean sure if you never played a Tales game before.
keisuke999
Member
I know a good Proctologist who can help you get that stick out of your ass, if you're interested.
It was just a joke. I just meant that even if you miss most of the story, you aren't missing much in the grand scheme of things, since gameplay is king in Tales games.
Recognizing the poster, I'm not surprised.
I can'f wait for this Tales game. So will this be PS3 only?? Or a PS vita version too?? My Tales of backlog is getting bigger each year
PS3 only.
dakkumauji
Member
btw, does this game allow you to take in-game screenshots from the PS3's XMB like Xillia 2?
Or has anyone found out if you can or can not? That was one of my favorite features in Xillia 2.
Or has anyone found out if you can or can not? That was one of my favorite features in Xillia 2.
That sucks, sorry to hear that.
dakkumauji
Member
wait, what
this is being a roller coaster of emotions for you
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Do us all a favor and stop shitting up the thread with stupid eh? the OT clearly states this is the import thread therefore means people here will want to discuss both the fame in general and the import (jp language) version.
As pretty much for the most part your recent posts add nothing useful to the discussion here.
People have various reasons for wanting to import something and who are you to judge that.
It's weird. I guess the support team and the warehouse guys aren't exactly in sync.
The anime collaboration ones don't make it over due to licensing. Everything else usually does.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Man that sucks weird too considering seems like when there is a jp & asia release at the same time asia usually gets it pretty quick too.
Thing like this is why I no longer to care to link folks to PA when it comes to people asking about imports
hope i can make it home in time to get my copy delivered (´・ω・`)
None of the anime stuff comes out for western releases, mostly just the old game ones and regular stuff.
dakkumauji
Member
Half and half success rate.
For Graces f: We didn't get Asbel's .hack costume, Sophie's Miku costume nor the idolmaster costumes.
For Xillia 1: We didn't get the Star Driver outfits but did get idolmaster.
For Xillia 2: No Code Geass Akito nor the Madoka ones.
Ok, it's more like pretty unlikely we'll get any collaboration ones unless they are a Bamco property. And that's still a maybe.
It seems like it's fine now, since they're packing the order.
I usually use P-A for games at release because they can ship it to me faster than anybody else. If it's a product that is already out that I want to buy, I'll usually try somewhere like HMV JP.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
oh nice! HMV JP also does international shipping? how are they?
Yes, and they're really good. You pay Lawson retail price and get Lawson points and everything. You can even get Lawson-specific preorder bonuses from them.