General News IV: A New Hope?

[Stranger]

In case anyone is interested:

Interest: Toronto Comic Arts Fest Head to Speak on Manga Censorship
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...nga-censorship

it will take place on the 23rd of February at 7pm in the Lillian H. Smith Library, it will last for an hour and a half. Free registration is required, open the link above for details.

[Vatina]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/02/16...ox-360-remake/

Oh, how sad that they are releasing all these great ports on a region locked console :( Nice to see the game get a revival though.

But... 3d models? I am sceptical about how well that is going to fit with the 2d event cg's and everything :S

[Moogy]

The 3D models look quite terrible: http://www.famitsu.com/news/201102/i...Hf1du7A8Q.html

I sure hope Robotics;Notes doesn't end up looking like this.

A little news on the progress of the Tokimemo Girls Side 2 DS translation: http://gbatemp.net/t242269-tokimeki-...post&p=3462355

Originally Posted by Moogy

The 3D models look quite terrible: http://www.famitsu.com/news/201102/i...Hf1du7A8Q.html

I sure hope Robotics;Notes doesn't end up looking like this.

Robotics;Notes is using 3-D as well, so yes it is going to look like that.

The question is, how does that even look? In Motion? You can't really say much from a small screen like that, it looks exactly like how she looked in the original. Dead eyes and all.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Robotics;Notes is using 3-D as well, so yes it is going to look like that.

Why would a game done by an entirely different staff look the same as that?

[Moogy]

Well, they're both 5pb and coming out fairly close together, so it's not unthinkable that they would use the same guy(s) who made these crappy models for R;N as well.

Which would of course be bad. I'm already probably going to finally have to suck it up and buy a JP 360 for that game, at least make it look good. :(

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Why would a game done by an entirely different staff look the same as that?

One could use logic to figure out that rendering 3-D models requires a nice graphics engine and it's not financially sound to make new engines for every game.

The only difference will be the art style, and perhaps Robotics;Notes' character design will lend themselves better in 3-D.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

One could use logic to figure out that rendering 3-D models requires a nice graphics engine and it's not financially sound to make new engines for every game.

So according to your logic every game made in the same graphics engine would look similar. 5pb probably didn't even code the engine.

Ever17 360 is also being done by the 5pb/Cyberfront staff, probably the same guys that have been doing those recent Memories Off games/ports, R;N is the usual 5pb/Nitroplus staff. And while Ever17 is a port where they obviously don't care that much (cropped cgs and stuff), R;G is the next game in the Science series, definitely their main focus right now, I doubt they will do such a poor job with the 3D models or that this port is any indicative of how R;N will look.

[Moogy]

Well honestly it's not like R;N can look much worse than huke's art anyway lol

Originally Posted by Unregistered

5pb probably didn't even code the engine.

Uhh, then who did? 5pb makes their own engines in house. The current 360 engine was made by them.

Ever17 360 is also being done by the 5pb/Cyberfront staff, probably the same guys that have been doing those recent Memories Off games/ports

That is also false. We honestly don't know who's doing the new remake at this point, but with the amount of content it's proposing, there's no way a simple port staff is all that's on it.

R;N is the usual 5pb/Nitroplus staff. And while Ever17 is a port where they obviously don't care that much (cropped cgs and stuff)

No Nitroplus this time, sir. Which also probably says goodbye to your R;N PC port. As for Ever 17, cropped CGs of the original maybe, to avoid wasting time redrawing but they obviously care enough to make new CGs, so it's pretty likely they're putting a lot of effort into the remake.

If they didn't care, they would have just done a straight port of the PSP version and called it a day.

The final part of the Mangagamer interview on Siliconera ( http://www.siliconera.com/2011/02/18...for-mangagamer ) doesn't have any dramatic revelations. But it does talk about the possibility of localizations of iOS ports, the possibility of more games with physical releases, good/bad about doujin games, difficulty getting on PSN and Steam, and selling translated comics online.

[Shii]

This is hardly related to visual novels, but some people here were interested before and nobody else on the Web seems to care, so:

http://shii.org/awatake/ <-- I've released chapter 4 of Intake Tower, it owns, please download it.

If you already have the Japanese version I will send you the English one.

edit: On an unrelated note, why does MangaGamer block purchases from Japan...?

Originally Posted by Shii

edit: On an unrelated note, why does MangaGamer block purchases from Japan...?

Uncensored Porn.

So some of us have taken steps to try to push for the Ever17 remake's localization over at Aksys.

http://www.aksysgames.com/forums/topic/1101

If anyone is interested in seeing this game the game localized, please help support us!