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Idolmaster western release! What you can do right now:
Lushe:
--- Quote from: Ferret on March 04, 2010, 02:40:51 pm ---
People say about lots of games they're too Japanese to be released here. Surprisingly many of them do get released, many by Atlus, and actually do well over here. You really just never know.
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Yeah, you have a point. XD
--- Quote ---At any rate, you can improve the reputation of the series by leaving your own corner and going out there. Tell other people what it's really about. Things don't happen by themselves.
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Unfortunately, I've been doing this since the day I bought my first Idolmaster game, but alas, it's really hard to get through the typical western gamer.
But hey, I guess it's too early to quit. I mean, you're right, Atlus may just pull this one off if enough people demand it. XD
iDOL15:
I hope it does make it here. I believe that THE iDOLM@STER has sooooo much potential for it to actually find a niche here in the US markets. I'm not saying it will probably be the next blockbuster game but it most likely won't be a huge bomb.
Sev:
Hell yeah i'll sign what have we got to lose. The odds are against us but then again there a better chance of a western release if we do something than if we just sit here. Whats the worst that can happen. Its all or nothing for me. 360 or bust.
s8C:
Maybe if they took the EBA approach to it and created a similar game with a new western cast.
I wouldn't really want to re-buy a sub of the game since I've already got so much invested in my current copy
And I don't think dubbing would work for a game so heavily focused on the character's vocals. However good a singer they got to be Makoto, I wouldn't be able to think of her as Makoto, because it's just not her voice.
Atlus is pretty good about making English versions of songs, so it might actually be good, but I think there'd need to be a new set of idols. Even when dubs are done really well they'll be compared unfavorably to the original, because of the tendency to favor the voice you've become used to.
iDOL15:
--- Quote from: s8C on March 04, 2010, 11:52:04 pm ---Maybe if they took the EBA approach to it and created a similar game with a new western cast.
I wouldn't really want to re-buy a sub of the game since I've already got so much invested in my current copy
And I don't think dubbing would work for a game so heavily focused on the character's vocals. However good a singer they got to be Makoto, I wouldn't be able to think of her as Makoto, because it's just not her voice.
Atlus is pretty good about making English versions of songs, so it might actually be good, but I think there'd need to be a new set of idols. Even when dubs are done really well they'll be compared unfavorably to the original, because of the tendency to favor the voice you've become used to.
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Doing a similar game would be a bad mistake. I don't really have much faith in the casting process but I hope they could they might find good voice actresses and when comes to the song localization, I'm kind of hoping they would take the Bust a Move (Groove) approach where they in most cases just wrote english lyrics to the songs that were in japanese.
Bust a Move(Groove)1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo0OZqmppGk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlH7IbsVoZw
Bust a Move(Groove)2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgmt2PqT4kc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZe75LwYQVQ
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