Would a rerelease have a more feithful translation that is uncensored?
I'd say my perfect translation would be one that has elements of Klay Vorlick and Chris Luchich's original English translation only with the references to alcohol and the other stuff restored. Although i wouldn't lose too much sleep if a (non-pozzed) different team retranslated everything either. And there'll always be mods too (if this hypothetical remaster/remake comes out on PC).
It bugs me when there's no option for the original translation, that's why I still prefer the old Chrono Trigger. How hard would it have been to include both?
Yu Suzuki is working on a range of Virtua Fighter NFTs
SUZUKI CO-CREATED AND DIRECTED SEGA’S FIGHTING GAME SERIES FOR MANY YEARS
In a collaboration between Sukuzi and NFT firm OASYX, a total of 1,000 Virtua Fighter NFTs will be made available.
“This range of NFTs will include 11 characters from the first three Virtua Fighter games into OASYX’s creative worlds, creating a unique and exciting experience for new and old fans of Virtua Fighter alike,” said OASYX.
The NFTs “will serve as a base for future Metaverse avatars”, it added.
Virtua Fighter owner Sega has licensed the IP for the project, but the company itself doesn’t appear to be directly involved in it.
Yu Suzuki served as director on the Virtua Fighter series from its launch in 1993 until his departure from Sega in the late 2000s.
“During my time as a director at Sega, I initially developed Virtua Fighter using innovative 3D computer graphics technology, which was cutting-edge and industry-leading at the time,” he said in a statement.
“Since then, the Virtua Fighter series has grown to be loved by many players and continues to be supported by numerous fans today.
“Through my work supervising the development of OASYX’s unique worldview, I am delighted to combine innovative technology in the form of blockchain-based NFTs, with three titles from the Virtua Fighter series to create new entertainment for a wide range of gaming fans.”
Sega has previously indicated that it’s interested in exploring NFTs, but little has come of it.
Speaking last year in the wake of player criticism of other companies exploring the technology, Sega CEO Haruki Satomi indicated he would be willing to walk back on plans to create its own NFTs.
“In terms of NFT, we would like to try out various experiments and we have already started many different studies and considerations but nothing is decided at this point regarding P2E,” he said.
“There have been many announcements about this already including at overseas but there are users who show negative reactions at this point.
“We need to carefully assess many things such as how we can mitigate the negative elements, how much we can introduce this within the Japanese regulation, what will be accepted and what will not be by the users.
“Then, we will consider this further if this leads to our mission “Constantly Creating, Forever Captivating”, but if it is perceived as simple money-making, I would like to make a decision not to proceed.”
Isn't Yu Suzuki notorious for not actually being into video games, joining Sega because they gave the most vacation hours, and destroying the company with Shenmue? Why does he have anything to do with Sega at all anymore? Shenmue III wasn't even published by Sega.
For me he's the Space Harrier and Out Run guy, if his legacy is to be the Shenmue guy it's a bit unfortunate.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
I would LOVE to hear their excuse for when they inevitably say they can't/won't. One excuse i can think of that they would probably go with is regards to Porting those games over due to how the saturn is coded would be hard work - Even though these games were already ported onto the PS2 for the "SEGA AGES" collection, so unless they lost the code, there's really no excuse for it. Hell, they can do what Sony did for the PS1 Mini and use an open-source emulator for the saturn (which there are a few)
Or just append more Saturn games to Dreamcast Collection.
tbh I don't even know what people are thinking would go on a Saturn mini, like what a full lineup of games would even look like. There are a bunch of "almost arcade perfect practically kinda" arcade ports but Sega already has a mini arcade thing and so does Capcom for that matter. If they really want to make themselves useful, give me a motion control for lightgun/fishing games.
Shenmue's on Steam if you didn't know it, it's just not in that collection. Rez too, and probably some of the other big names.
Getting the first party games out of the way, since those are the easiest:
Replace some of these ports with Deep Fear, Astal and Guardian Heroes.
That's why Minecraft is $80. And Hollow Knight. And Dead Cells. And the Xenoblade games. Yup. Makes sense.
Worst part? It's 8,980¥ in Japan. While that's still about 1,000¥ more then most releases, it's only about $65 USD.
