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Trails of Cold Steel 3 releasing September 24th
- Thread starter Kalor
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Can't wait to play it, but man, Sean Chiplock sounds weeeeird to me in that trailer. Odd, considering he's one of the best performers in the first two games.
It's not machine translated. It's a complete translation by real people, it just doesn't have any editing done because it was leaked before they started doing that.
Millium's new voice sounded great here. Almost forgot that she had gotten a new VA. It was only like 3 words, but still.
Yeah good to see all the same VAs for the original calls 7 return sans Millium. Her new one sounds good though so no complaints.
I'll look into trying to start Zero/Ao. I really hate we never got an official version on our end but given the platform and state of localization at the time I suppose nothing could be done.
I'll look into trying to start Zero/Ao. I really hate we never got an official version on our end but given the platform and state of localization at the time I suppose nothing could be done.
100% this. I know people rather wait for a better option for Zero since its in such a bad state but its not likely the Geofront translation gets finished in time for Cs3 and even if it did it would have to come out with enough time for you to play through it and Ao before CS3 comes out (assuming you plan to jump into it day 1 which you should). The translation for Zero is garbage but I played through it and got through it just fine as did several others and was genuinely surprised by how much better off Ao is. Ao's translation is not great but its leagues better then Zeros and doesn't have anywhere near the problems Zero's has.
My point being, Zero and Ao are important for CS3/4 and if you want to be caught up now is the best time to do so even with the rough translations. Best you are going to otherwise get is to read through summeries of those two games but I'd argue against that because Zero is really good and Ao is easily one of if not THE best game in the series.
A PC port is all but officially going to happen, but NISA mentioned that they're working on making sure the PS4 version comes out first.
Probably for the best if you know this company's severely problematic history with their last Falcom PC port.
The first two Cold Steel games didn't have day one PC versions under XSEED, either. NISA likely wants to take their time and make sure the PC version is solid after what happened with Ys VIII.
The PC port of CS1 didn't even come out until almost a year after CS2 came out on PS3.
I need it.
Yeah, it seemed similar enough yet not as annoying. Like she just might have matured a bit.
Yeah, it seemed similar enough yet not as annoying. Like she just might have matured a bit.
Neat. My expectations aren't very high after CS2, but I've been replaying the series from the beginning and enjoying it, so I'm looking forward to probably seeing a lot more familiar faces from the earlier games in 3. Not sure when I'll get to actually play it, though, considering that I'll have to experience Zero and Ao somehow before it too. If there are no fan translation news to be found when I'm done with CS1 and 2, I guess I'll just suck it up and watch Youtube walkthroughs with the shitty (and somewhat less shitty for Ao) translations lol.
What a merry translation.
What a merry translation.
If it makes you feel better, saves don't carry over for CS3. Unless you don't own a PS4, then I don't know what to say!
It's more about that a PS4 version can't offer me unlimited bond points, a day zero new game plus save and 4k gaming.
Also i don't like fracturing my gaming library over multiple plattforms espacilly a for series like Kiseki.
Man, i have mixed feelings about this annoucement. It's really nice to finally have a release date, which is a good one, like skipping November, as we need CS3 to get good sales for CS4. But also I was kinda hoping to get a release date like December to let Geofront enough time to finish Zero's editing.
Oh well, i guess i'm going to start Zero with its current translation next month.
Oh well, i guess i'm going to start Zero with its current translation next month.
Forgot I had the CE of this ordered. I still need to play the first 2, hopefully I can get to it before this one comes out.
To be fair, there's no guarantee Geofront would have been done by December.
(This isn't a dig at them)
The PC version of Cold Steel was releases almost two years after it came out on PS3/Vita. Don't expect this to be any different especially considering NISA's previous fiasco with Ys VIII.
You don't want to play it on day one. You want to wait at least six months for NISA to iron out all the bugs they'll add during the localization.
Glad to see people excited about the release date! If you are looking for more details and impressions we'll be having a demo of the start of the game at SEGA's booth (if you are at the show) and running press interviews all week, so please stay tuned.
If you are a fan of JRPGs, you'll want to keep an eye out for coverage, this week is only starting!
If you are a fan of JRPGs, you'll want to keep an eye out for coverage, this week is only starting!
You should never have expected a day one Steam release, the previous two games didn't have them and this game is a much bigger undertaking than Ys VIII was.
Any chance of you guys uploading footage of the demo to Twitter/Youtube later this week for the people at home?
NISA could have at least something said along the line "A Steam release is also planned but it will take a bit more time that we can assure a good port. So we can't give you release date right now" which would have been 100x better than the current situation where pc kiseki fans don't even know if it ever will be released on gog or steam.
We are allowing limited capture for those we are interviewing with so expect to see some footage creep online in the next week or so.
I'm having my team prepare B-roll for those we couldn't accommodate, so you should see something coming around soon in some form!
XSEED didn't announce PC versions at first, either. Falcom probably told them not to say anything yet, I'd be extremely surprised if there's no PC version of CS3 released before this time next year given the fact that nearly all the localized Falcom games released in the past decade+ are on there.
Its not 2013 anymore. Day-to-day PC releases are a thing, even for JRPG or least an announcement for a port.
The difference is NISA needs to make the port themselves since Falcom never made a PC version, compared to most big JRPGs which are brought over by their own developer and not a licensor
I know, I play a lot of multiplats on PC myself. I'm just saying that a day one PC release is not always feasible for smaller publishers.
Wonderful news.
For anybody who's on the fence about playing the rougher Zero/Ao translations, I do urge you consider going through with it. Zero is easily in a far worse state, and it's really hard to ignore that I admit. That being said I felt like the strength of the world and characters were still able to shine through and I had a great time. Ao's condition is significantly better, so if you get over that hump you're in for a significantly smoother (although certainly still not professional) ride. And it's a ride that's well worth it, one that I imagine it will pay off even further once CS3 releases.
For anybody who's on the fence about playing the rougher Zero/Ao translations, I do urge you consider going through with it. Zero is easily in a far worse state, and it's really hard to ignore that I admit. That being said I felt like the strength of the world and characters were still able to shine through and I had a great time. Ao's condition is significantly better, so if you get over that hump you're in for a significantly smoother (although certainly still not professional) ride. And it's a ride that's well worth it, one that I imagine it will pay off even further once CS3 releases.
This really shouldn't surprise anyone, porting it to extra platforms was always going to take time
On the one hand, true.
On the other, the PS4 code has been final the entire time, so if they had given it over to Durante when they got the rights, it would have been done by now. (That said, I can understand the desire to not even start on it until the localization is finished and incorporated, so you don't have two branches to maintain with two sets of problems to worry about.)
Regardless, they need to hire on Durante from the start. Their past work shows that they're just not very good at much of anything, so better to bring on the experts with a proven history of getting it done.
time to go pre-order.
It' a shame none of my saves can be ported over, but oh well. It'll be a clean slate; I'm still going for the canon route.
It' a shame none of my saves can be ported over, but oh well. It'll be a clean slate; I'm still going for the canon route.
