NIS America will make million happy localizing OnePiece UCSP

[Teddie Sage]

We can't help but being pessimists when companies localize shonen games. Most of them are terrible. I rarely see a shonen game selling well outside of Japan, except fighting games. Though, I have a feeling this one game could be fun to play. It's just too bad you can't play with friends online.

[vampko]

True that the chances of any other company but namco localizing this is zero, but it also has a high chance since namco decided not to localized the original, they might not care much if a different company decides to take the reigns.

And to those saying they prefer NIS not to do mainstream anime games, the way i see it is since NIS decided to localize BLEACH SI they are trying to branch out into other games and genres, to widen their audience, searching for a challenge and increasing their experience with different games. Which any self respecting game publisher should do.

We should be supporting NIS for trying this instead of saying stuff like

Exactly... let's all hope that Bleach was a fluke and they won't be wasting any more funds on localizing games like that after that one is released.[/quote][/quote]
You're talking to a largely JRPG fanatic crowd. Sorry, but your words are falling on deaf ears.

I like the choice of the Bleach game, but I'd rather them stick to only 1 or 2 non NISA like games in a year. And they've already done Cavestory and Bleach. That's MORE than enough for me.

Plus, this would be a HORRIBLE choice. The game's LOOOOOOONNNNNG and Drawn out. I've played it. The One Piece Wii games are a terrible bore. They're just too open-ended, and yet not. There's not enough direction in the games.

They'd be better off working on something like Gigant battle or somehting. But, not this game. This was the worst decision for a 3DS port they could have ever chose, in my opinion. It would have been better if they did something with the Grand Battle series. Which is infantismally better.

[alucardXlll]

I am aware most people here are JRPG fans, so am i, otherwise i wouldn't be a member. if the game is long that's great. Does not bother me since most JRPG are long games as well, the story for the game was created by Oda Eiichiro the creator of one piece, so any one piece fan is going to like it. The bleach game is an interesting one because it looks like the combination between samurai warriors chronicles and the control of a DBZ fighting game and i do not know if that's a good combo.

All i see is NIS branching out. Cave story is going to be AMAZING and as much as it hurts me to say it, my beloved JRPG are slowly dying. Which might be why NIS is branching out. I hope the FFXIII Versus and the next persona game breath some life into the JRPG's.

Gigant battle is going to be released for the DS in europe and since the DS isn't region lock there is no need to bring it to america. I respect your opinion that you think it was a bad idea to port Unlimited Cruise SP, but it if was a really bad idea

1. It wouldn't have sold 80,000 in 3 days after launch

2. Namco wouldn't have ported the game.

[Shizuka]

US isn't Japan. That said, I want to sympathize with all requests made here, but this is a practically impossible one. You really should spend your energies with Namco US, if you want to spend your energies at all. I know what is like to want a game so bad but the chances are next to zero. Don't get your hopes high because NISA's doing an anime game.

[vampko]

I am aware most people here are JRPG fans, so am i, otherwise i wouldn't be a member. if the game is long that's great. Does not bother me since most JRPG are long games as well, the story for the game was created by Oda Eiichiro the creator of one piece, so any one piece fan is going to like it. The bleach game is an interesting one because it looks like the combination between samurai warriors chronicles and the control of a DBZ fighting game and i do not know if that's a good combo.

All i see is NIS branching out. Cave story is going to be AMAZING and as much as it hurts me to say it, my beloved JRPG are slowly dying. Which might be why NIS is branching out. I hope the FFXIII Versus and the next persona game breath some life into the JRPG's.

Gigant battle is going to be released for the DS in europe and since the DS isn't region lock there is no need to bring it to america. I respect your opinion that you think it was a bad idea to port Unlimited Cruise SP, but it if was a really bad idea

1. It wouldn't have sold 80,000 in 3 days after launch

2. Namco wouldn't have ported the game.

People in Japan are obsessive about One Piece.

As a One Piece fan, no I did not like this game. The story was decent, but when I'm always stuck on how to go further, and there's no actual indication on how to go forward, and random luck/wandering ends up finding me something that I need, THAT is a problem. And that is the One Piece Unlimited Cruise games. Even the first Wii one was similar. Cept, it was easier to get further in the story.

The game IS NOT long. It just lacks any sense of direction. And since I already lack a sense of direction, this game just was really boring.

The combat's decent enough. But, when you've been wandering around the same area for hours, and just keep on fighting the same respawned fight over and over again, it gets tiresome.

And...JRPGs are nowhere near dying. And they're only getting better. I've been playing games since the Atari, and I only had one small week that I felt that there were no JRPGs around for me. That quickly changed, and I've been sad on how many of them I've had to miss out on.

[alucardXlll]

They are definitely dying, in 2010 the number of JRPG released was very small, if you look up the releases of JRPG for 2011 even smaller. Last Story which looks like a great game and has created alot of Buzz hasn't even been confirmed to be localized, if you looks at the line up for E3 starting next week there barely any mention of noteworthy JRPG's. Websites like IGN, GameTrailers, Gameinformer, 1up all they talk about are games like arkham city, legend of zelda, mass effect 3, uncharted and you know the likes.

but anyways this is getting WAY out of topic. All i want is that NIS employees at least give this forum an earnest look.

[vampko]

They are definitely dying, in 2010 the number of JRPG released was very small, if you look up the releases of JRPG for 2011 even smaller. Last Story which looks like a great game and has created alot of Buzz hasn't even been confirmed to be localized, if you looks at the line up for E3 starting next week there barely any mention of noteworthy JRPG's. Websites like IGN, GameTrailers, Gameinformer, 1up all they talk about are games like arkham city, legend of zelda, mass effect 3, uncharted and you know the likes.

but anyways this is getting WAY out of topic. All i want is that NIS employees at least give this forum an earnest look.

I disagree with you. I had PLENTY of GREAT JRPGs to take up my time in 2010. And this year has been even better, and is only getting better with Atelier Totori and possibly even a 13-2 localization.

You want to discuss that they should be focusing on anime games, instead of JRPGs, because in your opinion JRPGs are 'dying'. Which I disagree with. Which is why I think they could do better than this game.

Becuase there's much better choices out there that ARE JRPGs. Also, if I were to list Japan releases, you'd realize that JRPGs are way better off than you said. But, you seem to not want to include those to somehow prove your point.

And, E3 is E3. It doesn't prove much of anything. JRPGs outside of Final Fantasy have never really been a big E3 thing. They're a TGS thing.

[alucardXlll]

I never said they should be focusing on anime games, i said they should branch out to other genres like they are doing with cave story and from a personal stand point i am bringing the idea of OP to them. With publishers if they do not branch out and show they can handle different genres than big publishers will never come to them to request they publish their games.

regarding E3 and TGS, it is required that JRPG make some kind of impression at places like E3 otherwise less and less JRPG's will be localized to America. It cannot be just dismissed by saying E3 is E3.

And if it is true JRPG's are getting better. can you name me at least 10 good quality JRPG's that are coming to the states this year so i can add them to my buy list?

[vampko]

I never said they should be focusing on anime games, i said they should branch out to other genres like they are doing with cave story and from a personal stand point i am bringing the idea of OP to them. With publishers if they do not branch out and show they can handle different genres than big publishers will never come to them to request they publish their games.

regarding E3 and TGS, it is required that JRPG make some kind of impression at places like E3 otherwise less and less JRPG's will be localized to America. It cannot be just dismissed by saying E3 is E3.

And if it is true JRPG's are getting better. can you name me at least 10 good quality JRPG's that are coming to the states this year so i can add them to my buy list?

This year is almost over >.>

And, as I said, E3 has never been a very big place for JRPGs. It's also been a rather disappointing thing since many E3's ago.

JRPGs don't come out in droves like they did on the PS2. I do agree with that. But, that doesn't mean it's dying. And I listed a bunch of examples of great JRPGs that are coming our way. Sure, some of them are JP releases right now, but those are still JRPGs.

Now, I realize that you're only referring to the US. Which I realize is our main problem here.

But, Atlus is bringing over Persona 2 IS. Forget not that. And of course NISA is bringing over Atelier Totori, my second most anticipated game of the year ~ (With Meruru being the most anticipated), and Disgaea 4 a SUPER amazing game to be sure ~ Then there's Record of Agarest War Zero, which many people on here will highly recommend.White Knight Chronicles 2 should be a huge step up from White Knight, and many are highly excited for this one. Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor Overclocked. That would be 6 games, and December could hold any number of surprises, and I really doubt you'll have a hard time finding four more quality JRPGs in that shuffle.

[LAMV]

We just don't want NISA to "branch out" too far and forget what they originally, otherwise we'll end up with another one of these:

[Venus]

As long as they keep making Megami Tensei games I'm fine.