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Trails of Cold Steel III pushed back to October 22nd for both NA & EU
- Thread starter jrpl
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This is good news. Hopefully they use the extra time to really polish up the localization.
Surprised that there's going to be a demo.
Surprised that there's going to be a demo.
Good that they are honest and acknowledge that launching in September is not the most fruitful thing for the franchise, nothing to be ashamed about. The year is still stacked, though, so I don't know if I will be able to get it this year.
They literally say why in the tweet
september is a bad month to release it at
Not really. It'll probably just be the demo we got to play at AX in the Keep.
Ys VIII PC players got a story or two for you dood.
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If it was a translation thing, they mention something along the lines of "needing time to polish"? But they just state there "The release of #TrailsofColdSteelIII will be postponed to October 22 in NA and EU to ensure as successful a launch window as possible" feels like they're delaying to dodge a few titles or something
Yeah after Ys Viii I'm still a little cautious thanks
Probably the translation, but Trails in the Sky SC literally took over 9 years to localize due to technical issues
I'm almost finished with Cold Steel 2, but I need to go back & play the Trails in the Sky games now that I've discovered the series. Hopefully they're working on a PC release as well :D
This is more than a little misleading - this was because no attempt was made until many years after initial release, not because it took 9 years to do the work.
play the sky games and once you're done with those try to find a way to play the crossbell games too (zero and ao). Hopefully the geo front translation is out sooner rather than later since the current translation is just barely serviceable for Zero. Ao's Fantranslation isn't amazing either but it's leagues above Zero's
Yeah that's fair, but it was still delayed for years after FC came out due to issues
Yeah this. I was planning on getting it no matter what but want it to do as well as it can.
Same, I love the Cold Steel series but I'm kinda glad lol September is nuts as it is.
Seems like Geofront's editing has stalled out quite a bit. Zerker seems burned out and I don't know that anyone else is hammering through as much as he was.
That or things are going smoothly and they are just being really oddly silent about it.
They weren't really technical issues though. FC didn't sell well enough for XSEED to be sure about committing so there was a delay between FC and even starting SC, then they partnered with Carpe Fulgur, which worked out for the translation but the personal issues came up during the editing which stalled things. So XSEED had to take it back in-house to finish it.
For me it's the former, he used to answer questions on Twitter about the translation and he used to post pictures of his work in progress, I know he recently got a job so I totally understand that the project may have stalled.
I've been playing through Cold Steel I very slowly. I think I beat Chapter 4 last month, and it'll probably be next month until I beat Chapter 5. I'm going on vacation next week. I still have to go through Sky SC, Sky TC, CS II, and (hopefully) fan translated versions of the Crossbell games. Probably won't be ready to play this until late next year, anyways.
What you forget in this equation is that for a while Falcom did not even let XSEED start on SC because the sales of FC where so disappointing.
In the them taking it back was necessary anyway, in the past Hatsuu has spoken quite candidly about how bad CF was handling the project including making things up completely. (she gave an example of Weissmann going on a tangent during a scene admitting he was responsible for the death of Kloe's parents, which is completely made up). In the end they had to scrap a lot of translation work to the point where Hatsuu said they better would have restarted from scratch.
smart, late september was far too busy, specially with a lot of RPGs:
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening [Switch] – September 20
- Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch [Switch] – September 20
- Ni No Kuni Remastered: Wrath of the White Witch [PC, PS4] – September 20
- Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition [PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 24
- Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear [PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 24
- Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition [PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 24
- Contra Rogue Corps [PC, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 24
- Dead By Daylight [Switch] – September 24
- Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition [PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 24
- Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition [PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 24
- The Surge 2 [PC, PS4, XBO] – September 24
- Code Vein [PC, PS4, XBO] – September 27
- Dragon Quest 11 S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition [Switch] – September 27
- FIFA 20 [PC, PS4, XBO] – September 27
People were talking about that being ready by last summer, I wouldn't be surprised if it's another year away
Yeah it is just wishful thinking from my part lol
I'm finishing up my replay of the Sky Trilogy and I'm dreading the current Zero fan translation, but oh well. Sacrifices need to be made.
All of these games could cease to exist and I wouldn't notice. CS3 was the only one on my radar.
...okay except DQXI but I've already played that anyway.
You are the minority tho, CS3 sales would suffer if they had kept the Sept release date
Wow. So happy that I've already played through (and had my fill of) DQ11 and Ni No Kuni. I'll grab Link's Awakening one day, but not at launch. What an incredible month, especially for those who like JRPGs and have never played the aforementioned games.
that's just the last 10 days of the month btw, the entire month is really packed, with the biggest titles of the first 20 days being gears 5, catherine, monster hunter world iceborne, destiny shadowkeep and borderlands 3. monster hunter and borderlands will absolutely dominate many people's time for the month.
- Catherine: Full Body [PS4] – September 3
- Conan Chop Chop [PC, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 3
- Last Oasis [PC] – September 3
- Phoenix Point [PC, XBO] – September 3
- Spyro Reignited Trilogy [Switch] – September 3
- Warsaw [PC] – September 4
- Gears 5 [Xbox Game Pass] – September 6
- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne DLC [PS4, XBO] – September 6
- eFootball Pro Evolution Soccer 2020 [PC, PS4, XBO] – September 10
- Gears 5 [PC, XBO] – September 10
- GreedFall [PC, PS4, XBO] – September 10
- Borderlands 3 [PC, PS4, XBO] – September 13
- Daemon X Machina [Switch] – September 13
- Grid [PC, PS4, XBO] – September 13
- AI: The Somnium Files [PC, PS4, Switch] – September 17
- Destiny 2: New Light [PC, PS4, XBO] – September 17
- Destiny 2: Shadowkeep DLC [PC, PS4, XBO] – September 17
- FIFA 20 [EA Access] – September 19
- Truck Driver [PS4, XBO] – September 19
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening [Switch] – September 20
- Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch [Switch] – September 20
- Ni No Kuni Remastered: Wrath of the White Witch [PC, PS4] – September 20
- Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition [PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 24
- Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear [PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 24
- Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition [PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 24
- Contra Rogue Corps [PC, PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 24
- Dead By Daylight [Switch] – September 24
- Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition [PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 24
- Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition [PS4, XBO, Switch] – September 24
- The Surge 2 [PC, PS4, XBO] – September 24
- Code Vein [PC, PS4, XBO] – September 27
- Dragon Quest 11 S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition [Switch] – September 27
- FIFA 20 [PC, PS4, XBO] – September 27