After a few good threads leading up to the release of Cold Steel on Steam, we've had some surprisingly comfy threads on the topic. Considering there are no such threads in the catalog currently, I'll do the honors.
>inb4 all the comfy threads go to shit when the game is released as console-war shitposting overtakes us
Also, can anyone explain to me the difference in difficulties? I played it onVita on normal and am thinking either hard or nightmare this time.
Joseph Stewart
>implying undub mod isn't already being worked on
Sebastian Martin
Honestly, the dub did a better job at covering the identity of a major villain in the game than the jp version because they remembered that voice filters exist.
Tyler Richardson
I'm about to buy the same game for the third time. Is this that fabled autism you lot always talk about?
Cameron Wilson
Fuck off normie.
Ethan Torres
They haven't really said. It might be, but who knows?
Hunter Phillips
Welcome to the fold brother.
Michael Cruz
Th-thank you? Also, how much harder is "nightmare" over "hard"? I liked "hard" last time, I felt it was perfect balance-wise, and I'd rather re-experience that then have the game just add extra 0s to boss-HP.
Jeremiah Thompson
>recorded at 1080p but uploaded in 720p
Fucking, why? Who the fuck sits down and records for 2 hours, only to conclude that they're not going to upload in recorded resolution?
Jesus I know Africa doesn't have the best internet but step the fuck up.
Lucas Gutierrez
Uchiyama using his Banagher voice makes Rean sound like an even bigger faggot.
Josiah White
>trails shit call me when Ys5 gets remade.
Hudson Harris
>Caring about the worst Ys game
Jeremiah Adams
Not the guy you're replying too, but I agree. I tried playing the Jap version when it first came out and it makes him sound like a turbo-faggot.
Jayden Bell
Thats why I want it remade. Oath was pretty good and I liked Celceta
Parker Hall
The girls are great and some of the guys are solid but character that i'm going to be hearing the most sounding like a faggot ruins it. I hope that CSIII Rean doesn't sound like that.
Lincoln Carter
Wait, hold on. I haven't finished Kevin's game yet.
Ayden Ortiz
Why would you play a Trails game on anything but nightmare?
Joseph Brown
hello
laura is best girl
that is all
Nathaniel Cook
None of the Sky games were balanced around Nightmare mode (or even Hard) because they was added in later versions which is what the steam version that we got was based on.
Samuel Ramirez
hard was only fun for me in new game plus otherwise its really annoying
Matthew Kelly
>dub only
Connor Rogers
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Gabriel Garcia
>not caring about best Ys game
Samuel Wright
How will it run on my 970? I'm a little worried the old boy is starting to show his age.
Easton Johnson
This is some downright kys-tier opinion right here.
Xavier Flores
I can't imagine that it would require anything close to a 970.
Josiah Reyes
Do we know if the game is going to support 4k?
Jack Murphy
which cold steel 3 would you sen no kiseki
Christian Gonzalez
Because I'm casual as shit.
It is. It supports everything from 720p to 4k and everything in between.
Gavin Fisher
You shut your whore mouth.
Jacob Mitchell
The twist was still pathetically obvious
Anthony Roberts
Thank you based XSeed.
Logan Martinez
That little animation will never cease to amuse me. Bet she gives a mean handjob.
Zachary Cox
DLC should be available from the get-go, with a certain portion included while other DLC's sold separately. We won't know more until launch.
Difficulty balancing doesn't work the same between Ys and Trails. For Ys, higher difficulties are the benchmark, while Normal and Hard are usually more balanced in Trails. Cold Steel's Hard mode is still rather easy later on aside from a few boss fights (C, Loa, Ordine).
Ys V deserves the best remake it can get, not that weird Taito PS2 release. It's got all the foundation for a great adventure in a more unusual setting.
This port can run on a GPD Win with PS3-tier performance/features, and that's a fucking toaster. Durante's responsible for most of the port as we'll experience it and has tested on high-end rigs and crappy laptops; almost everyone will get an experience as good as they would on console, or better. CS PC's just that optimized and the game itself never was high-tech or technical to begin with.
And it definitely supports 4k and downsampling.
Still too small for Jaeger dick, that's why she mastered foreplay.
Eli Lee
>"Dawn of The Last Day"-edition.
So when exactly is this coming out? I have a great need to start putting money into this, but I never get what timezone Steam operates in.
Like are we thinking Jap-2nd-of-August, or what?
Logan Smith
Thanks for the info on the difficulties user. I think I'm gonna' go Nightmare then.
Anthony Reyes
>posts 39 >IPs 15
There is some hardcore samefagging going on ITT.
Levi Bennett
A 970 is fine for pretty much anything at 1080p and total overkill for a Tails of game.
I just barely upgraded to a 1080 and that was only because I run triple monitors and I got the thing for dirt cheap.
Luis Robinson
10 AM PST, so in a bit less than 12 hours. I'm not sure when Durante's last blog for the port process goes up.
If you really want to do Nightmare, make sure to level up Rean at least into the 70s. This has a lot to do with the true final boss, and it's a big pain on this difficulty. I'd honestly recommend Hard for a first run since Normal's just too easy but it's not as spiky as Nightmare gets starting around Chapter 5. Also research late-game Master Quartz if you want to have an easier time breaking combat.
Jose Rogers
>people having a conversation You know, if it was like 35/39 or hell even 30/39 I could have met you half-way and agreed that there was a lot of samefagging. But 15 people making a little over 2 posts each is not a stretch.
Grayson Powell
Teacher.
Charles Hall
That's such a fucking cute webm, holy shit.
Oliver Bennett
>10 AM PST
William Watson
Aurelia
Ethan Smith
That's true of the Sky games, yeah, but in the Cold Steel games they were there from the get-go and they're generally easy enough that you can probably muscle through them on Nightmare without serious difficulty. Hard is pretty much the same difficulty as SC Normal. Nightmare is a bit above that but not as hard as SC Hard. I never played below that so I don't know how easy it gets. You need to do two playthroughs anyway for 100% so if you only care about the achievement there's nothing stopping you from pussing out and doing it on NG+.
Here's a question for some of y'all who have played this game before.
What DLC is good?
I don't like stuff that breaks the game's balance in any way, so cheat-items and other "packs of in-game consumables" are garbage. But I will be willing to pay for costumes and stuff if it fits the lore and it looks good.
What DLC should I get/avoid?
Easton Cox
>of the ~40 characters depicted here, at least half of them are already confirmed to be playable >much of the remaining half has been playable before and is likely to reprise their role who's ready for balance to surpass cs2
Zachary Adams
>Language >English
This screen raises more questions than it answers.
Parker Smith
>Portable >CONSOLE >High >Maximum
Samuel Wood
No dual audio sadly. XSEED didn't want to use any money to give Japanese voices and wasted tons on making a badly done dub.
Samuel Martinez
>Console
Luke Diaz
Has someone made a JP audio patch yet? Otherwise I'm not interested.
Andrew Reyes
>dub only
will wait for undub patch, this one looks less interesting than TiTS thanks to being set in japanese highschool like some kind of persona game anyway.
Tyler Anderson
>Skip Intro Movies >Skip Startup Logo You'd think they wouldn't even bother with those as long as this was an option, right? Or is this some sort of contractual thing? Like if company X has contributed to the project, they HAVE to show up when booting the game, even though one can easily skip it?
Logan Thomas
The game isn't out yet you simpleton. And why the fuck would you want the jap-patch when the English VAs are actually good in this game?
Tyler Nguyen
It's a credits thing. They have to put the companies who contributed to the project in the credits, and some of those companies like it when they get a nice full-screen splash.
It's goofy, especially when it's skippable anyway, but there you go.
Jackson Thomas
>What DLC should I get/avoid? You can pretty much avoid all of it to be honest. Some of the casual clothes look good but they're individually overpriced and probably not good enough in general to be worth buying for everyone, and if you don't do so it makes the characters you did buy it for stand out in the first game due to school uniforms (though they carry over to the second game where this isn't an issue.) Pic related is sadly the best group shot I can find. All of the other DLC is shit and should be avoided. Frankly you should avoid the above too but I'm not going to stop you from letting you save your waifu Emma/Fie/Elliot/whatever from the shitty school uniform since that gets really tiring after a while.
>XSEED didn't want to use any money to give Japanese voices and wasted tons on making a badly done dub. To be fair here, Falcom did such a shit job with the original voices to begin with that Xseed had to dub new lines in the first place. Voice acting in general was a mistake and gaming was better without it.
Caleb Jackson
>English VAs are actually good in this game? Because they're poorly directed. I've played the dub on PS3 already and I know exactly how flawed it is, don't think you can try and shill the dub onto me. The only thing which would convince me to get the PC version is original audio.
Julian Williams
Xseed is shit, they also lied and said Falcom was the one that was not allowing the japanese voices in the localization.
Anthony Stewart
Thanks for the DLC info user. I'll keep my money locked in my wallet and maybe only buck-up for replays if I really need to.
Bentley Brown
No wonder Kondo went straight to BTFO them and gave Ys VIII to NISA instead.
Michael Perez
Fieposting is illegal ITT.
Isaac Wright
The funny part is the Steam forums are filled with SHILLS who keep spreading the fake news as an attempt to defend that dub-only release.
Luke Roberts
I implore you to reconsider.
Nathan Anderson
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Chase Kelly
>waifufagging
Why do this when the game's actually good? In Persona I can totally see it, because that's all they have, but Cold Steel is actually a good game.
Luke Wilson
>youtube.com/watch?v=In0eoFjSDmM Say what you want about this shitshow but fuck it has good music. Not TITS-good, but still good.
Dylan Rodriguez
Shit, I finally played through the first two Cold Steel games a few months ago. Guess I'll wait for a discount.
Colton Butler
>no pre-order
Why?
Josiah Gutierrez
Fieposting is highly preferable to shitposting about dual audio for the millionth time. And let's be honest here, attractive characters are part of what makes a game good. Fie is cute and pleasing to look at, therefore, posting Fie to build morale and lower tension in an environment that is otherwise highly volatile.
Andrew Powell
>Fieposting is highly preferable to shitposting about dual audio for the millionth time. Okay you got me on the ropes there.
Gabriel Cox
That's... actually a surprisingly good argument. As you were Fieposter.
Jaxson Collins
>Not TITS-good What the fuck are you smoking you fucking sub-human filth, Cold Steel's ost is miles ahead of anything in the sky triology. Get your fucking ears checked.
Nathan Taylor
>shills can't defend lack of dual audio so they resort to waifu fagging and pretend that's a good thing Can't make this up.
Okay I'll meet you half-way. That's pretty comfy. But don't just call any opinion you don't agree with bait, user. That's not cool.
Noah Walker
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Kevin Ramirez
I really need to get around to beating TiTS2.
Blake Miller
Fieposters need to kneel to REAL best girl.
Lucas Mitchell
>40 bucks for a 2 years port probably the 2nd one will cost the same too, I would buy it day one if this made them release the third one on PC same day PS4 gets it on the west but this is XSeed so I have 0 trust that will happen.
Justin Stewart
I'm still struggling with the first one. I swear I put 40 hours into that game and I'm sooo fucking close to done, but I just can't clear that final chapter. It's been such an endurance-round just getting this far and it's such a fucking slow-ass game.
I know it picks up near the end, but I'm practically burnt out already.
Cooper Cook
Hope you guys enjoy them.
Thomas Peterson
>40 bux Is XSEED fucking kidding? Are they taking us for retards? This game is gonna flop HARD.
Ryder Watson
I didn't have that much of a problem with 1, I just know I should beat TiTS2 before starting Cold Steel 2.
John Kelly
Man those are pretty covers tripfag. Especially that top one. Is that a special edition?