Now is the time to act. Things that won't work 1. Petitions don't work. Everyone knows that there's a huge difference between a person signing an online petition and that same person actually putting down the money to support the game a few months later. In any case, there aren't enough people who want an English translation of the game included with the Japanese release to make a petition worthwhile. Kickstarter (or another crowdfunding solution) is probably not an option. It seems like the perfect solution: Capcom lists the English subtitle translation for the game on Kickstarter, sets a realistic target to avoid seeming greedy and watches the money roll in, then ships out Japanese copies of the game to everyone who supported the campaign.
Then in 2010 Capcom released Sengoku Basara 3 to the US under the title Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes. Along with the games release the famous anime dubbing company Funimation took licensing issues of the anime series based of the video game and dubbed Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings seasons 1 & 2 as well as the movie. Then in 2010 Capcom released Sengoku Basara 3 to the US under the title Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes. Along with the games release the famous anime dubbing company Funimation took licensing issues of the anime series based of the video game and dubbed Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings seasons 1 & 2 as well as the movie following it.
A decent subtitle script which flows properly in English and maintains the 'flavour' of the original Japanese takes a considerable amount of effort. So, if subtitles cost money anyway, why not push for a full English dub and localisation? Dubs, needless to say, cost an order of magnitude more than subtitles. If it costs $10,000 to dub a single episode of anime into English, localising a game like Sengoku Basara 4 would be tremendously expensive due to its large cast and the sheer amount of dialogue.
• Instead, it's best to be polite and make your message positive. Saying 'I'm looking forward to seeing Keiji in Sengoku Basara 4!' Carries a much stronger message than the dramatic 'If Keiji isn't in Sengoku Basara 4, I'll never buy a Capcom game again!' Even if you're serious about it, statements which sound like threats are a bad idea.
And Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes was a failure as well. In fact, it reportedly sold about the number of copies as Devil Kings despite rumours that it performed well. When you consider that the game was priced lower than normal even though the localisation would have been more expensive than it was for Devil Kings, it's easy to see why this would be a shock. There were plenty of reasons given for the poor performance, from the dub-only presentation to complaints about the characters having their names in western order. It's also true that the marketing effort by Capcom's overseas branches was weak. I only knew that Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes was coming out here in the UK after an interview was posted on an American anime website I happen to read, which is absolutely ridiculous given how much I love the game.
上杉の塩 Enemies have Double the Health, and give more Exp Title 400P 跳躍の刺客 Jump Attack has50%Chance for +3 Gold - 戦刻の布陣 戦刻ブースト装備時は、ブーストゲージの増加量が2倍戦極ドライブ装備時は80人撃破ごとに溜まるようになる 25000両 暗君の陣幕 Allies don't Follow, and no Basara Assist Title500P 鍛錬用木刀 資源で上昇した能力を全て無効にして出撃する Title 600P I'm curious, what is 200P? I want to get Tasogare to play in battle but I'm not sure how to get it:Xtitle 200p means you need 200 title points then you get the item: like: finisihing unification gives you 10 points or so in the screen were you check the titles/fans at the top is a number thats your total points Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:05 pm. 上杉の塩 Enemies have Double the Health, and give more Exp Title 400P 跳躍の刺客 Jump Attack has50%Chance for +3 Gold - 戦刻の布陣 戦刻ブースト装備時は、ブーストゲージの増加量が2倍戦極ドライブ装備時は80人撃破ごとに溜まるようになる 25000両 暗君の陣幕 Allies don't Follow, and no Basara Assist Title500P 鍛錬用木刀 資源で上昇した能力を全て無効にして出撃する Title 600P I'm curious, what is 200P? I want to get Tasogare to play in battle but I'm not sure how to get it:Xtitle 200p means you need 200 title points then you get the item: like: finisihing unification gives you 10 points or so in the screen were you check the titles/fans at the top is a number thats your total pointsAh thank you I understand it now, I checked my profile and I only have 160, 40 more to go! Thanks again!, also this guide is very helpful Sun Nov 20, 2011 10:44 pm.
Stages Caution: Spoilers. Japan's Event Mode A: Mission Number and name. B: Mission difficulty (1 star = lowest.
Upon selecting this mode you will be given a choice of two different sub-modes. The first (on the left) is standard. The second (on the right) has you bet on who the last army standing, besides yourself, will be. You'll be selecting territory to attack which you will take over upon completion. The CPU will be doing the same until only you and one other army remains. Defeating that army clears the mode.
He takes Yukimura's place as the best Dash Cancel character in the game, able to Dash Cancel out of all his skills, and ANY hit during his Square String. Also, if you whiff any of his attacks, it causes the enemies to spin and stun momentarily. You can also dodge cancel out of his square string at any point, and he has the second best dodge in the game with Matsunaga having first. I can't describe how powerful he is during Furinakazan with his arts, they break guards real quick and it's just crazy. Spoiler fail.
Petitions don't work. Everyone knows that there's a huge difference between a person signing an online petition and that same person actually putting down the money to support the game a few months later.
Ootsumuji - Great Whirlwind 5. Aruhei Shuriken - Shuriken of Existing Peace 'A terrible weapon that is said to be able to swarm ants around the defeated enemy.' Kobayakawa Hideaki 1. Shundouraku - Season Hobby 2. Mamakari Ginshari - Silver Rice of Mamakari 3.
Posting stolen fanart, illegal scans and DVD rips on your Tumblr account. This may well 'spread the word' about the series online, but it weakens the series commercially and annoys existing fans or creators whose work has been misappropriated. It doesn't help efforts to convince Capcom that foreign customers will pay for more Sengoku Basara games, and it may even discourage Japanese fans and producers from wanting to support foreigners in their campaigns. Creating your own fan works is a much better way to stimulate interest in the series. Re-posting Capcom's videos to YouTube for no reason. Capcom released the most recent Sengoku Basara 4 trailer on YouTube instead of using their own website - and within a week a bunch of people had re-uploaded the exact same video to YouTube alongside it.
The complicated situation that Sengoku Basara is in simply isn't well-understood in the western gaming industry. Even though it's unfair when there are so many superfluous Kickstarters funded every day, Capcom have a lot more to lose from damage to their reputation than the fly-by-night companies who exploit Kickstarter for their own vanity projects. The only chance I could see for this to work is if someone uses their connections in the gaming press to educate gamers about the situation. Asking Capcom to persuade another company to license the game and release a translated edition overseas. It's a shame, because the most lucrative solution to having a small audience which can't support a budget release is to shift to making that small audience pay more (as with the Kickstarter idea).
The mainstream media doesn't care about an over-the-top action romp based on another country's history when they could be hyping up the latest macho shooter game instead. 30,000 sales per game may well be the maximum that the series can support in the west. That's a huge number of people in absolute terms, but a tiny minority when you're investing heavily in a localisation and courting the media across several continents.
It should also be noted that this game has a parody of itself made by, namely an called, the seventh in the series with different gameplay setup (for obvious reasons, though both are quite good games in their own right), but both share the idea of taking a very version of history, embellishing it with tons of, and turning the whole thing into a. Not to be confused with the shoujo manga.
Even if you don't receive any response, someone will have read that message and others like it. Arctic monkeys music. It might be the first step towards something bigger. If subtitles aren't your goal and you want a dub, getting Capcom's attention will be a little harder.
I appreciate all the work you guys do on this site to make it the best Koei fans dream site possible. Thanks again, though of course i know this isn't soley just for me hahaha. Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:22 am. 上杉の塩 Enemies have Double the Health, and give more Exp Title 400P 跳躍の刺客 Jump Attack has50%Chance for +3 Gold - 戦刻の布陣 戦刻ブースト装備時は、ブーストゲージの増加量が2倍戦極ドライブ装備時は80人撃破ごとに溜まるようになる 25000両 暗君の陣幕 Allies don't Follow, and no Basara Assist Title500P 鍛錬用木刀 資源で上昇した能力を全て無効にして出撃する Title 600P I'm curious, what is 200P? I want to get Tasogare to play in battle but I'm not sure how to get it:Xtitle 200p means you need 200 title points then you get the item: like: finisihing unification gives you 10 points or so in the screen were you check the titles/fans at the top is a number thats your total points Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:05 pm.
Just make it a gold path or even easier, a choice after you pick the character. Like so: Pick story mode from main menu > pick character > choose history play or normal play. The maps for history play can have special events within them however they are only choose-able by those who go through em. Anywho, I'd get another game for this series. You can count on that. I can agree with that.
It seems strange because countries like Germany and France seem to be able to sustain local dubs much better even for what I'd consider extremely niche titles. I guess having the infrastructure in place from dubbing lots of television shows/movies brings costs down (I'm not sure where you're from, but I'm guessing it's a similar situation). The link in my post is from a company which released a few unprofitable anime DVDs before abandoning their efforts so I trust it, though implies that the $10,000 figure also includes Blu-ray production costs nowadays. An older (which is rather less well-researched) postulates that American dubs are substantially more expensive than those produced overseas (and also that they're higher quality, which I don't agree is always the case). I know that in the UK, anime companies used to dub locally back in the 1990s but they can no longer afford it for anything other than the occasional family movie.
Yet fans kept demanding more Sengoku Basara, and in 2010 Capcom made their next attempt to push the series overseas with Sengoku Basara 3. Renamed to the more descriptive Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes for the benefit of English-speakers, this time Capcom pulled no punches. The localised version contained all of the gameplay and characters from the Japanese release. It was given a faithful translation through an expensive English dub with some relatively big names. It came out for Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3, and at a discounted price right from the start. The English version of the anime was timed to come out around the same time to draw more attention to the game (and vice versa). Capcom weren't holding back.
This will not delete your SB3 data. In fact, you can continue to build characters in SB3 and sync the updated data with Utage through Utage's options menu. Contents [] Navigation/Translation • Translations/Summaries of many of the menus/displays you will find in Sengoku Basara 3 Utage. It is recommended that you try to have some fun with the game as much as you can without browsing too much info due to spoilers and whatnot.
NOTE – Download this game for ver PC (windows, Mac): Featuring unique playable characters, as well as supporting generals who will make it easier to command and lead armies, players will see the battle from the perspective of each military commander with the ultimate goal of re-writing history to rule all of 16th century Japan. In the dynamic new “Hero’s Story” mode, the player’s decisions impact history with a redesigned story mode. Based on choices made by the player, new drama unfolds as friends become enemies, enemies become friends, and a new Sengoku story unfolds.
I don't know how Sengoku Basara 3 did, but I also hope it wasn't a complete failure. But then, while I'm not a gamer at all and I'm not familiar with the gaming scene, my impression is that fans behaving badly aside, the game never really had a chance in the US. I don't think I have the charisma to convince anyone who isn't already crazy enough to read my blog. If you send one, I think we have four people writing postcards/letters though, so every little will help!
Once bought, these items can be used by all characters. Certain weapons, such as the joke weapons, and personal items are also purchased in the store, ranging in price from 5,000 zenny to 500,000. It's recommended to use a lottery ticket to purchase the more expensive items. Materials from Sengoku BASARA 3 are available in the store and give stat bonuses to the currently controlled character. Unlike equipped items, the purchase of these is unique to each character.
He also has additional effects in Furinkazan form: Fire punch: At the end it sends a huge meteor down to the crowd he just punched. Spinning Axe: He sends out a huge tornado at the end to suck up enemies. You can also press Triangle during it to stop your spins and just send a tornado out. Does great hits. Earth rocks: He creates 3 tiers and the 2nd and 3rd get an extra earth rock spike. This can take up the whole screen and kill people fast.
There were plenty of reasons given for the poor performance, from the dub-only presentation to complaints about the characters having their names in western order. It's also true that the marketing effort by Capcom's overseas branches was weak. I only knew that Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes was coming out here in the UK after an interview was posted on an American anime website I happen to read, which is absolutely ridiculous given how much I love the game. And Capcom's European office did little to change that: shops didn't know about it, and as soon as the sales figures failed to make an impact in the first couple of weeks the entire company started pretending the series didn't exist at events. There wasn't even any attempt to pull in extra revenue from the people who did buy the game; my plea that Capcom Europe should make the avatars and themes from the Japanese edition available for purchase on our local PSN fell on deaf ears. However, it's a fact that there simply aren't enough Sengoku Basara fans in the west to justify continuing producing expensive failures. The anime discs included subtitles and a dub and they still sold poorly in both the and the compared to similar titles.
Comments like these seem to crop up wherever the new Sengoku Basara 4 trailer is shown. Every time, someone has to break it to the eager fan that the game probably won't be coming to the west, and every time there's surprise and disappointment in their response. It's heartbreaking.
• If you don't speak Japanese, no problem: use English. It's much easier for a Japanese person to read a simple sentence written in English than it is for them to decipher the weird Japanese which comes out of online translation tools. • Keep it short. Capcom employees are all busy working on the game right now so they probably won't appreciate a long letter. A simple postcard from a foreign country with 'Sengoku Basara is great! Please include English subtitles in Sengoku Basara 4!'
Stat bonuses include +300 health, +10 attack, +20 defense, and an unknown amount of luck. Character stat bonuses are no longer given by hunting down 'fugitives' as in the previous game. Now they give out weapons. Gallery Utage features a gallery, similar to Sengoku BASARA 3. However, it also includes the option to play back cutscenes present in the eight stories. Character information and quotes, as well as most of the music present in the game are viewable in the gallery.
However, it's a fact that there simply aren't enough Sengoku Basara fans in the west to justify continuing producing expensive failures. The anime discs included subtitles and a dub and they still sold poorly in both the and the compared to similar titles. 'Dynasty Warriors'-style games get a lot of bad press in general, too, to the extent that gaming news sites weren't interested in devoting any significant coverage to Sengoku Basara to support its release. That's not Capcom's fault; after all, how many accurate reports about Sengoku Basara 4 have appeared to date on major English-language gaming websites?
Is there a versus mode? The 'Decisive Battle' mode is the versus mode. Is there online co-op here?