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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: huckleberry on October 19, 2007, 09:19:24 PM

Title: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: huckleberry on October 19, 2007, 09:19:24 PM
Seriously....wtf?  :yuck


It looks like someone too vaseline to my PSP screen.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: Ichirou on October 19, 2007, 09:20:05 PM
Sounds like you have AIDS.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: huckleberry on October 19, 2007, 09:21:37 PM
that is besides the point.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: Ichirou on October 19, 2007, 09:24:02 PM
Try other games on your PSP.  If they all look like someone put vaseline on the screen, it's just an AIDS symptom and something to put up with while you die a slow and agonizing death.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 19, 2007, 09:28:01 PM
WASH UR HANDS AFTER JACKIN OFF AM I RITE?!?! LOLOLOL
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: demi on October 19, 2007, 09:28:12 PM
That's what happens when you deal with a silly PSX port.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: TVC15 on October 19, 2007, 09:30:32 PM
They added some sort of blurring in order to make the sprites look not pixely, I guess.  So it looks shitty now.  Just wait like 12 days and get Disgaea and cummmmm
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: Ichirou on October 19, 2007, 09:31:35 PM
They added some sort of blurring in order to make the sprites look not pixely, I guess.  So it looks shitty now.  Just wait like 12 days and get Disgaea and cummmmm

On your face? :hyper
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: MCD on October 19, 2007, 09:32:06 PM
Disgaea sucks.

Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: huckleberry on October 19, 2007, 09:32:47 PM
Same thing with VP Lenneth.  I just wish the could clean up such a goddam good game before they port it.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: Smooth Groove on October 19, 2007, 09:33:13 PM
Mondain says that the PSP slim will fix this problem. 
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: demi on October 19, 2007, 09:33:30 PM
According to TVC the slowdown is intentional, I am sure he has some wild and zany excuse for this
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: TVC15 on October 19, 2007, 09:38:46 PM
I do think the slowdown is a stylistic effect.  I see no reason to think otherwise.  Maybe when they were correcting the slowdown for the US release, they left that lil' bit in.  It only happens during special attacks.  Even if it is a technical thing, I'm sure it being stylistic was cited as a reason to not fully fix it.

Also, Disgaea is better than FFT.  That's an objective fact. FFT was fun for its time but the game is not balanced at all and it has a totally clunky interface. 
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: demi on October 19, 2007, 09:39:48 PM
WOAH DONT GET TOO CRAZY ON ME, I DONT THINK I CAN CATCH UP
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: MCD on October 19, 2007, 09:42:20 PM
In term of gameplay maybe, but in term of story/characters, lol no.

Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: huckleberry on October 19, 2007, 09:44:34 PM
I am going to have to go back and finish playing Jeanne D' Arc.  Storyline sucks so bad but at least my eyes don't water.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: Ichirou on October 19, 2007, 09:44:58 PM
I am going to have to go back and finish playing Jeanne D' Arc.  Storyline sucks so bad but at least my eyes don't water.

Guess you don't like French history.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: TVC15 on October 19, 2007, 09:46:15 PM
I am going to have to go back and finish playing Jeanne D' Arc.  Storyline sucks so bad but at least my eyes don't water.

Guess you don't like French history.

I must have missed the bit in history class where english people were shitty monsters, and everything was constrained by a shitty, arbitrary time limit.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: Ichirou on October 19, 2007, 09:47:00 PM
I am going to have to go back and finish playing Jeanne D' Arc.  Storyline sucks so bad but at least my eyes don't water.

Guess you don't like French history.

I must have missed the bit in history class where english people were shitty monsters, and everything was constrained by a shitty, arbitrary time limit.

You were probably cutting class that day.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: huckleberry on October 19, 2007, 09:51:42 PM
I am going to have to go back and finish playing Jeanne D' Arc.  Storyline sucks so bad but at least my eyes don't water.

Guess you don't like French history.

I must have missed the bit in history class where english people were shitty monsters, and everything was constrained by a shitty, arbitrary time limit.

The time limit is arbitrary, but I can at least work with that.  It's the goddam way the characters speak...having to try to read someone speaking with a shitty French accent sucks.  Fighting the same douche so many times doesn't help either.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: demi on October 19, 2007, 09:52:07 PM
Jeanne D'Arc is poopy poo
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: Ichirou on October 19, 2007, 09:53:39 PM
Jeanne D'Arc seems to be a pretty short game.  The 8-4 translation is pure shit, tho.  These guys really suck...the Tales of the World translation was pretty sucky too, and Eternal Sonata had a whole ending bit left untranslated.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: Mondain on October 19, 2007, 10:04:30 PM
Jeanne D'Arc seems to be a pretty short game.  The 8-4 translation is pure shit, tho.  These guys really suck...the Tales of the World translation was pretty sucky too, and Eternal Sonata had a whole ending bit left untranslated.

and yet they have a ton of "fans" on GAy even if their work is poor to average... fucking pathetic brown nosers

they praise John Ricciardi even if that guy doesn't do shit for the company's translation works
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: MCD on October 19, 2007, 10:06:28 PM
Jeanne D'Arc seems to be a pretty short game.  The 8-4 translation is pure shit, tho.  These guys really suck...the Tales of the World translation was pretty sucky too, and Eternal Sonata had a whole ending bit left untranslated.

and yet they have a ton of "fans" on GAy even if their work is poor to average... fucking pathetic brown nosers

they praise John Ricciardi even if that guy doesn't do shit for the company's translation works

Namco or Level 5?

i don't like Level 5 myself.

Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: Ichirou on October 19, 2007, 10:08:33 PM
Of course they get praised, john tv is one of the admins, and he works there.

Seriously, Tales of the World's translation...Jesus, at the very start of the game you choose the gender of the character, so the dialogue needs to be NON-GENDER specific, but there are DOZENS of instances where NPCs call your character male (I went with a female character).  Things like "You're the right man for the job" or "You're a guy I can trust"...I can understand not being able to change terms like "lawman" or "swordsman" into gender-neutral terms, but how hard is it to change these other instances to stuff like "You're the right person for the job" or "You're someone I can trust"?!

8-4 fucking blows.  Completely mediocre.  Their work on Jeanne D'Arc is cringeworthy at times.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: bluemax on October 19, 2007, 10:10:06 PM
I'm not a big FFT fan, but I find the PSP game playable.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 19, 2007, 11:19:09 PM
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Maybe when they were correcting the slowdown for the US release, they left that lil' bit in. 

According to people who actually bothered to do a direct comparison, there's no difference between the slowdown in the Japanese and NA/EU versions.  The US reviewers were just imagining things.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: Synbios459 on October 19, 2007, 11:29:08 PM
FFT ROX :D
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: TVC15 on October 20, 2007, 01:35:06 AM
8-4 does some good work.  Eternal Sonata, shit animu content forgiven, had a pretty good localization.  Brave Story had a good localization (though it didn't really elevate the way generic material).  Um, Wild Arms 4 had a fairly good localization, though it had some issues.

I don't know offhand what else they've done.  Any examples?
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: Ichirou on October 20, 2007, 01:42:27 AM
Didn't they do WA5 as well?
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: TVC15 on October 20, 2007, 01:46:29 AM
I'd assume so, bt I haven't gotten around to playing that yet.  I have heard that it is also very animu.

If something ranks high enough on the animu meter, it is largely unfixable.  The localization could be done by Shakespeare, but you can never wash away the terrible, overlong, distinguished mentally-challenged animu metaphors and the nonsensical japaspeak that gives us concepts like FIGHT MEGAMAN FOR EVERLASTING PEACE or the Giant Robot-tasticness of I CAN'T STOP FIGHTING IF I WANT THERE TO BE PEACE OR THERE WILL ALWAYS BE FIGHTING!  This is also the problem with Eternal Sonata and its precious little girlisms.
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: Mondain on October 20, 2007, 05:12:49 AM
8-4 does some good work.  Eternal Sonata, shit animu content forgiven, had a pretty good localization.  Brave Story had a good localization (though it didn't really elevate the way generic material).  Um, Wild Arms 4 had a fairly good localization, though it had some issues.

I don't know offhand what else they've done.  Any examples?

XenoSaga Episode III

looks like John TV lost one of his numerous GAF fanboys with you learning that
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 20, 2007, 08:04:05 AM
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The localization could be done by Shakespeare, but you can never wash away the terrible, overlong, distinguished mentally-challenged animu metaphors and the nonsensical japaspeak that gives us concepts like FIGHT MEGAMAN FOR EVERLASTING PEACE or the Giant Robot-tasticness of I CAN'T STOP FIGHTING IF I WANT THERE TO BE PEACE OR THERE WILL ALWAYS BE FIGHTING!

I don't think these concepts are particularly Japanese.  They have a long and thoroughly international pedigree.  World War I was the war to end war, etc.  A taste for long extended metaphors (preferably about food) seems to be endemic among Japanese game developers, though, e.g. the recent Mario Galaxy interview
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: TVC15 on October 20, 2007, 08:11:38 AM
8-4 does some good work.  Eternal Sonata, shit animu content forgiven, had a pretty good localization.  Brave Story had a good localization (though it didn't really elevate the way generic material).  Um, Wild Arms 4 had a fairly good localization, though it had some issues.

I don't know offhand what else they've done.  Any examples?

XenoSaga Episode III

looks like John TV lost one of his numerous GAF fanboys with you learning that

I never played it. And again, I doubt the source material was anything wonderful to begin with.  Going by dates, that would probably be an early effort, too.

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The localization could be done by Shakespeare, but you can never wash away the terrible, overlong, distinguished mentally-challenged animu metaphors and the nonsensical japaspeak that gives us concepts like FIGHT MEGAMAN FOR EVERLASTING PEACE or the Giant Robot-tasticness of I CAN'T STOP FIGHTING IF I WANT THERE TO BE PEACE OR THERE WILL ALWAYS BE FIGHTING!

I don't think these concepts are particularly Japanese.  They have a long and thoroughly international pedigree.  World War I was the war to end war, etc.  A taste for long extended metaphors (preferably about food) seems to be endemic among Japanese game developers, though, e.g. the recent Mario Galaxy interview

I see your point, but the old horse seems to get dragged out a lot in animu, particularly of the giant fightin robot variety. 
Title: Re: Why does Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP make my eyes burn?
Post by: BlueTsunami on October 20, 2007, 06:03:57 PM
Yeah, the filter they've applied to the game is total ass