Happy 30th Anniversary!

>>381316234
literally who

And to celebrate, NISA will ruin the franchise!

>>381316234
Wow, really?
That's really something
When was the last time we got a game again?

Currently playing through Celceta and it's such a slog. Help me get through it.

>>381316796
Dana is literally coming out in a few months.

>>381316234
Adol is one of the best silent protags out there

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>>381316875
>eats gods for breakfast
>defeats weapon that can't be harmed by normal weapons with a normal weapon
>saves the world over 100 times
>has heavy metal band follow him everywhere he goes
>kickstarts age of discovery
>evergrowing harem
>best friend punches walls for a living
>his descendant was probably on the titanic

Adol is the best protagonist.

>>381317457
Best design there too, he's best as a hotheaded swordsman wearing that cool as fuck armor. His new look is awful

>>381316234
who

>>381317520
Dawn Adol is best Adol, but at least he looks better in Dana than he does in Celceta. Fuck whoever drew the art for that game.

I loved Ys games and especially the OST up to Ys IV.
But after Ys V I just don't know what the fuck happened with the series, played III remake and it's so awful, it's like they took every bad aspects of the series and made a remake based on it while making the OST worse.

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>>381316234
Will there ever be another vidya franchise with as kick-ass music as Ys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrQQ5_4Wl1I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emB8n8REu3g

>>381318046
Never
https://youtu.be/YYIfxP858IU

>>381316234
>Ys VIII coming to Steam
BASED NISA.

>>381316234
Maybe one day this series will be called out for what it is. An action game with RPG elements. Instead of being branded a real JRPG.

>>381318279
Ys is an action JRPG. Stuff like 2D Zelda are just action games with RPG elements.

>>381318279
>>381318386
JRPG means Japanese RPG, it doesn't have to have turn based combat, since JRPG only refers to where the game was made (in Japan)

>>381318279
Not once in its entire existence has Ys been branded as a JRPG. It's always been an Action RPG.

>>381318174
Like it should. Ys was always a PC series.

>>381318660
Sure but the console versions were better

>>381320723
Hardly. Voice acting aside Eternal shits all over any console version of I & II.
>b-but muh redbook audio
You can mod it in and it takes a total of 5 minutes to do so.

Wanderers was utter shit, Felghana fixed everything wrong with it.
>b-but muh redbook audio
You can mod it in and it takes a total of 5 minutes to do so.

Also PC Felghana > PSP Felghana (looks awful, voice acting is questionable, the voice acting as well as all the soundtracks can be modded into the PC version, the difficulty got fucked over and it feels far less responsive at 30FPS than it does at 60)

PC Ark > PS2 Ark (3d models look uglier than the sprites, 30fps, shit voice acting, Alma's trials sucked) > shit > PSP Ark (top lel)

I'll give you Dawn because its the best piece of fanfiction I've ever sat through, though. It's better than both Celceta and Mask combined.

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>Waiting for VIII

>>381321827
It's just your opinion my friend, OST version depends on your preference, I like X6800 versions the best.
Plus what you mentioned here were PC exclusives, those were ported to PS2 and PSP and added few things to keep things fresh.
What I'm talking about is that back then when PC-88 versions were released, they made ports after ports improving those games like X6800, PC-Engine, Saturn versions.
Ys III was good on MD and X6800 and had great soundtrack too.

>>381322408
Game is already out for over a year?

>>381322521
I can't read pockyrunes

>>381322574
Ys VIII is not a book, you can play it fine with a controller

>>381316867
Just drop it if you aren't enjoying yourself. Hopefully the next game will be better.

>>381322436
In that sense I agree with you. The old console ports were better than the PC-88 originals (though I still disagree on Wanderers being good aside from the soundtrack). However all of them have been remade on PC and those versions of the games are the definitive ones.

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>>381318046
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAKgYhfqzUo

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>>381323964
Fuck Celceta for butchering that glorious soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEgkwE_lMXc

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Already played Ys 8. Hummel is best boy

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I played Ys Origins as my first Ys game, and after a 30 minute unskippable cutscene I was dropped into a generic hack and slash with only like 3 different attacks and boring blocky level design.

The music was cool but the game just felt boring and simplistic, kind of like Dynasty Warriors. I didn't feel the need to continue playing with how boring the beginning was.

>>381316234
I've only played felghana, how should I play the rest of the series (what order)? I want to experience extreme bump combat.

>>381325728
Careful you don't summon the origin defence force I hate Origin as well, but for other reasons.
>>381325790
Aside from I & II which are essentially two halves of the same game, order doesn't matter. If you want extreme bump combat play any version of I & II (aside from the DS one), Mask of the Sun and Dawn of Ys. Maks is pretty average, though.

>>381325728
It's better to start off with the first two, they set up the series very nicely.

>>381325971
>>381326416
So what's the best version for each game?

Guess I'll play through Ys VI today then.

>>381318660
Falcom stopped making PC games a while ago.

>>381326508
I & II: Chronicles on PC
III: Felghana
IV: (non canon) Dawn, (canon) Celceta on Vita
V: SNES but its still a shit game
VI: PC
Origin: PC
Seven: PSP
Dana: Either PS4 or PC depending on the port

>>381326508
>>381327134
Forgot PC for Felghana.

>>381327134
>>381327273
Thanks, I'll get started on I&II soon.

>>381326508
I&II - Chronicle+
III - Oath in Felghana
IV&V ps2
don't play VI
The rest does not have more than 1 version

>>381327384
Enjoy, anon. If the bump combat doesn't put you off you're in for a wild ride.

>>381321827
PSP VI was much better than PS2 VI. It's only real flaw was the UMD loading times, which can be circumvented by playing it form the memory stick.

>>381327385
>IV&V ps2
>don't play VI
Holy fuck, kill yourself
The Taito remakes are pure cancer and VI is one of the best games in the series.

First boss for 8 already starts with a hype as fuck ost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h17_m1hJ2wg

I regret hearing the theme for the final boss too, how hyped would I have gotten if I had waited to get there myself, but fuck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcgRChiLlG8

Happy Anniversary Ys!
Still one of the best action RPG series out there.

>>381327494
I played a bit of Felghana on my friend's computer and really enjoyed it. So I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series.

Is Adol a Virgin?

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>>381327385
>IV&V ps2
>don't play VI

>>381327582
>The Taito remakes are pure cancer
they're as shit as the snes ones
>VI is one of the best games in the series.
if best mean shittiest

>>381327732
He's married to adventure. He saves girls only.

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>>381327690
Just go into them with an open mind, don't listen to Felghana/Origin purists and you'll have a great time.

>>381327804
No, the Taito remakes are literally the worst versions of any Ys game bar none.

>>381327732
I'm pretty sure he humped everything to death in I & II.

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>>381318174
T-thanks nisa...

>>381316234
It went to shit after 7 when they turned it into trails lite

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>>381327887
>Just go into them with an open mind
Will do!

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>>381327690
My first Ys was 7. I got it on a whim for psp while looking for something to play. That shit was insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNH7wj8nyU "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!"

>>381328138
>implying Ys hasn't had ridiculous boss and enemy names since forever
You fags don't know shit.

>>381328170
Eat shit, Seven was great.
t. fan for 20 years

>>381328280
I knew this series was going to be good when I stumbled onto this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fb9KLewxoI

>>381328437
Mein ningen

Frankly, the Ys fanbase took a serious nose dive when it got released on Steam. I'm glad it's getting popular in the west, I've been a fan for a long time and it's disheartening to see these Felghanababbies cry that every game isn't Felghana and keep complaining about Falcom exiting the PC market even though that was nearly a decade ago.

>>381328437
I'm sorry I don't like pointless crafting and bloated HP pools

>>381328594
Tell me about it. You can barely get a good Ys discussion these days without the Steambabbies storming in to shit everything up. That's why I barely bother to discuss it with people anymore outside of private chat.

Guess I'm making an exception today since its the 30th anniversary and all that.

>>381328321
Yeah that's not the problem here https://twitter.com/distantvalhalla/status/876448564767010816

>>381329382
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCyO0SdUIAADGZ4.jpg:large

>>381328594
What's the whole thing with Felghana?

>>381329382
You can't just translate literally.
You have to translate the feeling that the name brings across and Merciless Shivering Vase works well for that.

>>381329612
It's a good game and also happens to be the very first Ys game that most people today have played. They get caught up in their personal nostalgia and complain that every game besides Origin isn't exactly like Felghana.

>>381329815
Oh ok, that makes sense. So it's like how Gundam Wing and SEED were in the mid to late 2000s? In terms of the fanbase, not the quality of course.

>>381329612
Nothing. The game is absolutely amazing (it's my personal second favorite), but the moment it hit Steam it completely ruined the fanbase like >>381329815 said.

>>381329612
Similar to how RE4 affects RE discussions, it's often called the best one but plays completely different to the first ones.
Sometimes you just want to talk about the first ones but Oath in Felghana is gonna get brought up sooner or aater.

>>381329631
You can't blame the translator. You blame the editor.
Just saying.

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>>381327134
>>381327273

>>381330381
>You can't blame the translator. You blame the editor.
>Just saying.

What? That's fucking stupid. Of course you blame the translator; they can't read Japanese and that is literally their job.

>>381330663
>No lighting engine
>60FPS patch still hasn't been fixed completely
>Music playback issues
>Xinput controller is a pain to set up

Yeah no, Vita version is better even if it has slowdown in a few places.
And before you say vaseline filter that's only a problem on screenshots. On the actual Vita's screen it looks fine.

>>381316234
30 years of kickass falcom music goodness

first played this shit on TurboGrafx

>>381316234
Should we meme Xseed to release Ys: Memories of Celceta on PS4 and Steam?

don't forget we also have Zwei II coming July 14

>>381329631
I literally don't think that's a vase

>>381331225
First we get Tokyo Xanadu VITA version on the 30th June.

>>381330948
My fellow simian.
That shit blew my mind when I was 5 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT-y7bZlpJM

>>381329535
oh no was I memed on and that wasn't actually what NISA's translation was?

Tokyo Xanadu eX+ also coming this year
this cute playing violin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyImQGox5BA

>>381331446
NISA retweeted this to the tweet you posted.

>>381331446
>>381331537
https://twitter.com/NISAmerica/status/877233337122701312
There we go.

>>381331537
>>381331648
ok good, I figured it was just a matter of "rough first draft that hasn't gone through editing yet" but with NISA you never really can tell

>>381325728
>playing a series out of release order

You being a pleb aside, Ys is about taking very simple combat mechanics and pushing them to the absolute limit. The heart of the gameplay is in boss fights, which allow almost no room for error on nightmare difficulty. It's like the Tetris of action games, without a single superfluous mechanic. Every mechanic must be mastered if you want to survive.

It's best to start with the first game. Play through it on normal to get accustomed to it's unique combat mechanic and then play it again on nightmare. Then play the rest of the series in release order on nightmare.

>>381325971
>I hate Origin as well, but for other reasons

>what if a boss spawned enemies that healed him lol
>dude what if they all did lmao

>>381317457
You neglected to mention he died alone in an ice cave at the age of 60 wistfully remembering all the friends he met on his adventures

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>>381316234
When will falcom make good games again?

>>381331778
That didn't even bother me that much.
My gripe with Origin is:
They make a prequel to two of my all time favorite games. They should have made it so you revisit locations from the original games with new and improved visuals and generally have an adventure (which is what Ys is about). Instead I got told to climb the same shitty ass tower 3 times in a row (I first played the nip version), do almost the exact same shit and fight 80% identical bosses with 2 Adol reskins and one character who was actually unique, just so I can fight an extra boss who wasn't even as fun as his 2001 counterpart.

Fuck Origin and fuck the people who think it's the best Ys ever.

>>381332535
It's still better than anything that came after. Falcom went downhill after they moved to consoles. Ys: Party AI members, crappy mechanics, shitton of crap and useless dialogue, cutscenes, grinding, quests, difficulty = HP sponge Kiseki: Generic school anime with the worst characters ever, broken battle system Xanadu: Press x to win persona clone (on any difficulty)

>>381332821
Seven was great, Nayuta was great, Celceta was decent, Cold Steel was great and VIII is the best Ys game I've played in years.

Go back to steam and stay there.

I'm new to this series and just beat Ys 1 a couple of days ago. Playing through Ys 2 right now. I just got to the town in the middle of the lava area. I'm really enjoying it so far. The bump combat is questionable but it's serviceable enough. What really keeps me playing is the tone, story, and characters. I'm actually vey impressed with how much personality they managed to give all the characters, especially with so little dialogue.

I actually find myself caring about helping the villagers when they need something. Right now that girl who helped me at the beginning of the game has been kidnapped and I'm actually motivated to save her. The way the villagers keep changing dialogue to discuss what is currently happening goes a very long way towards making Ys feel like a real place.

Over all I'm very impressed and a big fan of these two games. I can only hope that as they improve on the combat the series will get even better.

I have a vita and a pc, I was planning on just playing them all on vita, are the pc ports actually superior or is the vita fine?

>>381333065
Seven was passable, but start of downhill due to party members. Celceta was absolutely crap, and VIII is the same shit.

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Please god give us Ys V Remake.
I really don't want to play the original to have beaten all the games.

>>381333078
Ys lore is amazing and while the stories aren't anything to write home about they are all very enjoyable. Falcom being autistic about world building is kinda their thing.

As for your question grab Seven and Celceta on Vita, play everything else on PC.

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>>381333212
It's not THAT bad who am I kidding it's worse. Play the SNES version, it has absolutely no difficulty whatsoever so you can run through it in no time. The story is pretty good even if everything else is shit.

>>381333078
Play any version you want, experiment.
Just because someone likes stretched out 2D sprites on blocky 3D environments won't mean you will like it too, there are so many versions of different Ys games that you will find something for yourself in terms of graphics and music.

If you guys haven't played it yet, play fuckinbg Xanadu Next

It's also a Falcom game, it's essentially Ys with ARPG elements

>>381331729

>Re"translate" the title of the boss
>It's still fucking nonsense that has nothing to do with the original.

That's NISA for you.

>>381333615
Still waiting for XSEED to patch the fucking thing before I replay it a second time.

Loved the dark fantasy vibe it had. Falcom need to try something similar again one of these days.

>>381332821
For me, new Ys games look like some cheap singleplayer MMO RPGs
Back then the series was genre defining with cool ideas, little details and great soundtrack.
Now the series seems like some cheap jap indie game with zero improvements, just bland generic shit.

>>381333791
Slimes still explode in the whole room?

>>381333956
Yep.

>>381333615
I didn't like the skill/magic system of Xanadu Next.
You constantly have to open the menu and switch them around because they all have separate MP bars.

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>>381316234
>tfw you finally find out Celceta had a PC version
Fuck what have I been doing in life

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Trying to get into Ys, I've played ys I and II, is this image still accurate for play order?

>>381334332
It's not worth it, anon. Play that version only if you're desperate.

>>381333791
The lore was pretty gud

>>381334417
Sure

>>381334417
That image was never accurate and was always pure shit.

You've played I & II. You should now play VI, followed by Felgahana and Origin. After that, play Seven, Celceta and you're caught up.

>>381334417
You've already played the ones you need to play in order. The order of the rest doesn't matter, just pick whichever strikes your fancy and roll with it.

>>381334586
>The order of the rest doesn't matter
Doesn't 7 have a character from 6 reappearing?

>>381334417
I hate this image so much. Confusing droves of new fans. The moron who made this image was obviously incredibly new to the series and had no business trying to recommend playing order to others.

>>381334658
Yes, but aside from saying that you've met in the last game he says nothing relevant to that game's plot.

>>381334436
Something wrong with it? It's 60fps and scales to higher resolutions. I hear they may be a glitch or two but there are workarounds.

>>381334736
what order would recommend instead?

>>381335051
I > II > IV > OiF > Origin > VII > Celceta > VIII

>>381334840
To quote my old post.
>>381330906

>>381335171
>IV
Meant VI

>>381318479
Ummmm sorry sweetie but JRPG denotes a specific genre not country of origin.

>>381335197
>no lighting engine
The Vita version looks bloomy so maybe it's not so bad after all.

I didn't realize they patched it for PSTV either so maybe I'll get a Vita version if things get shitty halfway down the line on the PC version.

Tokyo Xanadu on pc plz!

>>381335634
Play it on an actual Vita. It looks fine.

>>381335480
No

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>>381335715
Is Tokyo Xanadu eX+ okay?

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Fuck Nisa apologists. Translating Japanese is not hard. It's not an alien language and people have been translating it into various Western tongues for 500 years. It's not some secret art form.

If this turns out shit it's either because the project was understaffed or under bid. Or worse: the script was deliberately fucked with.

I consider Nisa to be more on the incompetent end of the spectrum rather than malevolent.

>>381336029
Not how it works, hunny.

Ys 8 is day 1 pirate thanks NISA

>>381337668
No

>>381339046
Define jrpg.
Go ahead, I'll wait.

>>381339119
japanese role playing game

>>381339252
Yes and in Ys you are playing the role of Adol Christin

>>381339438
yes