JRPG fans, why don't you.....

[Michael-5]

Wright said:

Michael-5 said:

Lucky you, but I'm not going to learn a new language just to play a few more games. For most of us, this is a 360 exclusive.

Wright - Never give up hope. ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat for DS was also a 2009 game (I think) and the guy who made the patch apparently finished and was in the beta testing stages. Then he all of a sudden left, and didn't release the patch, leaving many Mistwalker fans sad. A few months ago, the patch somehow got leaked, and now I'm working on it (however the cutscenes still have Japanese dialogue and no subtitles). You might get lucky, most AAA games like this eventually do see fan translations.

I don't tend to give up hope. But I'm somehow pissed that these companies sometimes don't listen to gamers feedback. Just look at Operation Rainfall (Was it the one that brought Last Story, Xenoblade and Pandora's?). These people is blind sometimes. Lot of potential wasted because they just don't consider localization...

 

Thank god we have XSEED.

Well Project Rainfall was really called for because Nintendo of Europe localized all 3 of those Wii games, and Nintendo of America only had to pay royalties to NoE to use their voice actors work/localization. NoA really didn't have to do anything to localize those games.

XSEED saw that and offered to buy the rights and pay the royalties, and make a small profit, plus grown a fanbase (I respect XSEED so much after this, and now all their games are on my radar).

Localizing Tales of Vesperia is a different story because they would need to hire voice actors. Either new ones, or the same ones who localized the 360 version (there is more dialogue in the PS3 version). That takes planning, and yes it's a lost profit, but Namco/Atari (publisher in Europe) are not the biggest companies and have to weigh their priorities. It is a shame, but at least you still have the option to shell out $130 for an arcade 360, and then $30 for this game, plus maybe another $20 for Lost Odyssey and $10 for Infinite Undiscovery and Magna Carta 2 each.