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You realize that's a 100% bullshit excuse right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
You interact with NPCs that are part of the game. Changing shit up into stupid drivel about present politics kills the mood of the game overall. The NPCs in that world are meant to pull you into the world to interact and understand where you are and who the people are that live there. WD's constant breaking the fucking 4th wall kills that.
Stupid video & it still doesn't change the point that interaction is still part of an RPG. Of course it's much more fleshed out in this current day and age but back then getting an RPG with a good story helped you progress in the game. Dragon Force while a very good game had some of the stupidest comments from characters. One I recall was a Vampire Lord who joined up with your army. When having him build and fortify a castle he makes the comment "Playing with Legos really paid off!"Quote:
Originally Posted by SegataS
*facepalm.
Don't think I ever played a working design game tbh. I just know their games go for high prices. I never felt NPCs in JRPGs added much of anything. They may as well say nothing at all and I would not feel any different. Like a GTA NPC. Sounds like WD was trying to be cute and didn't work that well. Couldn't care less if they all said shit fuck cunt fart. NPC's dialogue never ads anything for me on thoseolder RPGs. I like what Octopath Traveler does with them. Making them useful for a change. Can help level up your character and such.
No its a view and an opinion. In the Making of Lunar 1 and II. The games writers Studio Alex said they made a big effort with village speak as in most other RPGs, the talk was rather pointless and did nothing to the game and a lot of people skipped pass it. In most RPGs of that era, you didn't really need to talk the villagers and have small talk to process. WD did fantastic work on the Lunars series and I love their ports on the PS and Mega CD and to me their voice acting sometimes was better than in the Japanese originals esspeicaly on Quark for the 1st game or Zophar in the 2nd game.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonusKun
No it's bullshit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
Well, even the writers of Lunar, weren't that impressed with other RPGs small village talk and looked to change that with Lunar.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonusKun
I've been playing through Zelda III again these past few days, and I'm struck by how virtually every single NPC you talk to says something that's a hint in some way, or otherwise fill some function that's relevant to what's going on. It's never just useless padding, and none of them seem without function. That's how it should be done.
Reminds me of Phantasy Star. The villagers pretty much tell you where to go and what to do (although not always directly).Quote:
Originally Posted by Lion
Yet Phanstar Star saw plenty of text changes, and even characters changed for the western versions, I gather over the years there’s been various fan translations, SEGA did the same with Dark Savoiur too with the prisoner dialogue made a little jollier and also silly things like cigarettes changed to chocolates . And most people I knew were able to finish the Japanese version of Zelda III on the Snes with out understanding a line of the text.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gryson
The chocolate in Dark Savior was different though, as that was clearly censorship rather than somebody taking liberties with the script.Quote:
Originally Posted by Team Andromeda
I want to mention that Tengai Makyou IV on Saturn is also an excellent game. From what I played of it, the voice cast and story and everything is very well done and certainly worthy of getting a fan translation.
It's more likely that the (somewhat) censored PSP port will get a translation eventually, since Saturn is a pain to hack. I hope Tom gets there someday, since he really likes the TM series, and wants to do the PCE-CD ones first. I really enjoyed the Saturn version of this game, anyway - especially that it takes place in a completely bonkers version of the US, seen from the Japanese point of view. This means that lots of freedom talk, gun-toting, racism, and other popular stereotypes about the US are in there (and also, it's established very early on that Canada is a part of the ocean, and Alaska is an island, because of course).Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeckidy
As to the 4th wall breaking... I can understand that if the game itself does that frequently. It makes sense then to carry that over. Otherwise, it mostly depends on the nature of said game. I can't really imagine that being done all the time in, say, Phantasy Star 4 or older Final Fantasies, but in Earthbound it's nothing strange.
Yeah, this one would be at the top of my wishlist too, right up there with Legend of Xanadu I and II on PCE. The game looks like a blast. Marica is another I'm curious about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeckidy
I think both are equally as bad myself and goes against the original. Also, SEGA made changes to the script as they have done with Phantasy Star, Panzer Dragoon Saga and also Skies and yet no outrage. Can't help but think many jump on Lets Hate WD bandwagon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lion