Isobe changed formats a few weeks ago. It used to have two 7-page chapters per issue, one of which was in the middle (the "actual" ranking) and the other was at the end, in the traditional gag slot for Jump. Now it has shifted to one chapter in the final slot, 11 pages long.
Posts made by stephen
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
Sorry, I meant, the banter between the two lead characters is really bad.
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
Cyborg Roggy is a lot of fun. The banter between the two lead characters is really funny. Hope you guys who are SJ subscribers enjoy that. (I'm doing the Jump Start)
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RE: General ALPHA Questions & Discussion
Looks like that was an elaboration on the part of the translator for that volume. In the Japanese he only says they're tasked with crucial government missions.
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RE: My Hero Academia - Gomu Gomu no Gentle Fist
Guess I'll have to hope another group picks this up then.
garbage masquerading as human confirmed
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RE: General Zelda thread
Majora's Mask 0.5D
Quests now have checkpoints. No more forgetting to hard save before a crucial quest. Game gives you a prompt to try again if you fail. If you fail too many times, Rosalina from Super Mario Galaxy 2 would appear and offer to do the quest correctly for you. In some events, she replaces the 4 giants and stops the moon and finishes the game.
Reviewers everywhere consider these great changes by recording footage of themselves failing Kafei's quest over and over to propaganda their frustration to the masses likely to believe them.
-From the future of good game design.
this is the only way all the crying in this thread could actually be justified
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RE: Better Call Saul
I'm sure this will be good and I fully intend to watch it, but I HATE the way they cut that trailer. They make it look like such a USA series with all the wink-and-nod audio cues. All it needs at the end is "Starring Rob Schneider. Rated PG-13"
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RE: General Zelda thread
I've never played Majora but now I'm kind of tempted to only play the remake just to spite these fucking obnoxious purists
! (just kidding, I'm not going to play it at all)
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RE: My Hero Academia - Gomu Gomu no Gentle Fist
@CCC:
Does ameri-jump generally allow 2nd-tier curses like shit? Or just 3rd-tier stuff like damn crap bastard. I can't recall.
Respectively: No, yes.
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RE: Chapter 775: Love for Lucien
FYI: all of the scanlations I've seen so far have completely missed/fucked up an enormous detail in this chapter that is staring them right in the face
on a related note, Shonen Jump is still free for the next issue or two and you can get a year's subscription for 20 bucks now~
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RE: Tales of Series
Even if they DON'T do a PS4 CE remaster, I don't know if I can fully recommend it to anyone but series completionists. Everyone has their favorites because each game is a different iteration on the basic (great) formula, but like every part of this game has been done better by one of the previous games. It doesn't even look better than Xillia (or hell, Vesperia) so you can't rely on the shiny new coat of paint.
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RE: Tales of Series
Well, it looks like Ban-Nam has hit a new low.
I'm about 6 hours in, I think I'm getting close to having all of the mechanics revealed so there's still some room left to affect my opinion but so far this has been thoroughly underwhelming. It's still a mothership Tales game with all the stuff you'd expect - lots of interlocking systems, same old fun battles, skits, you name it - but nothing is really standing out and they committed the mother of all bullshit DLC whoppers.
First off, the game does not look a single bit improved graphically from Xillia. It still has the same engine, maps, bubbles over the people you can talk to, insane pop-in given the low level of environment detail, and weird animation adjustment where if you're more than 20 feet from something it animates with like 4 frames a second. The maps ARE larger than in Xillia, but they don't actually have more detail or stuff in them. They just take longer to run across. This is even more apparent because unlike Xillia and its insanely monster-stuffed maps, there are way too FEW encounters in Zestiria, so you're just running through endless empty plains or dungeons. I've been through three different dungeons, all ruins that looked like palette swaps of each other. Also, there are numerous glaring slowdowns, not just in cutscenes where there's no possible reason it should be having trouble, but also every once in a while during fights if the number of onscreen agents is it at the maximum. For a game that doesn't look very good to begin with, that's embarrassing.
You do have fights within the environment, but they suck. It's not like a free-roaming game where you just run up and start bashing, it still does the wipe and redraw when you touch a monster, you just reappear exactly where you were on the map. Because there's now obstacles, walls and such, the camera gets hung up on everything, there's no benefit or interest to having obstacles within the fight arena, it just fucks everything up and the camera is AWFUL. It's a half-measure toward changing the way you approach battles that serves no benefit, so they should have either gone all the way and let battles happen freely open-world style, or just left it the way it was. The battle system is still all right but it feels less responsive and smooth than Graces, which is what the control scheme is modeled after.
I haven't gotten very far with upgrading/replacing equipment so I am waiting to see if it clicks for me, but so far I don't like it. You get lots of randomized drops with various "skills," of which there are a TON, and the game does a poor job of outlining if something is an improvement or not. They seem to be stuck between wanting you to get better ranks of equipment for better base stats, and wanting you to cover as many skills as possible to provide a variety of benefits. I have no idea if what I'm doing is smart or not, there's just a million choices that all seem arbitrary.
Some things that are interesting takes that I'm enjoying so far: every character has support skills that you can have one active at a time. They serve various purposes like noticing/alerting you to nearby chests or items, auto-healing as you walk, generating potions/gummies/food, and so on. It's a simplistic system but they serve a handy purpose. They also have an AP system where you can equip generic skills that allocate a certain number of your AP (mid-air recover by hitting Square, auto-defend skills that halve your Grade, stuff like that) and as you play further it tells you what you need to do to earn more skills. Leveling up increases your stats and gives you new combat artes but does NOT increase HP, that only happens with special items you get from beating bosses. So there's a bit of a systemic limit to how tough you can be at any point.
More dumb things: there are no item icons, which always bugs me in a JRPG that has tons of items. Way to make your game more bland than before. The cutscenes seem even longer than ever, and I noticed a number of really awkward scenes that a competent game director would have adjusted or removed (that's not exactly new for Tales, but you'd think they would learn how to do this by now). The shops have been consolidated into one type (phew) but each one has its own shop level, and at least the first few shops didn't seem to give me shit when I upgraded them. Not sure what the point is.
But the mother of all fuck-ups, and the reason that people on Amazon JP have managed to lower the review score to 1.5 stars, is the DLC. They apparently pulled a really low-rent Aerith maneuver and kick the main heroine out of the party in the middle of the game - reviews made it sound like it's super hamfisted and awkward. Then, a few days after the release of the game, they announced a DLC pack for 1300 yen that is an epilogue/expansion focused on that character. It's apparently so brazen that as you get to the very last dungeon, the shops start to offer her weapons again, even though she is not in your party. Well they got slammed with bad reviews and have now promised to make the DLC free for a limited time, "out of appreciation for the fans" (fuck you)
It's still a Tales game and I'll keep playing it but what a shitshow. Don't know if the series will recover after this.
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
That is true, it doesn't really have a unique spark. It's just well executed with enough quality to stick around.
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
It's pretty good. The character art is both clean and detailed, the characters are fairly good, and it does make sumo come across as really cool
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RE: Borderlands 3
I passed on the pre-sequel but I could see myself giving BL3 a shot IF they rebalance the stats/loot better. There's nothing worse than being stuck in a spot where the weaker enemies give you 0 EXP but can still easily kill you, yet fighting tougher enemies sucks because you can't get a good gun because their loot system is such an extreme hit-or-miss thing. That's what wore me down with BL2
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RE: Tales of Series
Dammit…when I preordered they said it was likely to arrive on Friday...now Fedex is saying Monday
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RE: The Viz Media Thread
The text for the dialogue is all digital. It is on its own layer and you can remove it with the click of a button, copy it into a different program, whatever you want to do. The sound effects are part of the art, so they have to be altered by hand by the letterer.
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
float like boob, sting like boob. be the boob.
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RE: The Viz Media Thread
I'm talking about this Japanese script that is not in speech bubbles, 'thought text'
! http://i.imgur.com/q1S6MOi.jpg Does Viz have to erase the Japanese text or do they get their pages without any text at all?
In the case of One Piece (and probably with others) the printed text is a data layer, so you can copy/paste/delete however you want
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RE: The Microsoft / XBONE 180 thread
That's a low bar to clear because that game was AWESOME
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RE: Kingdom Hearts 3
Completely absofucking not going to come out in 2015. That is crazy pants talk. I don't even believe they're getting FF15 out this year.
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RE: The PlayStation Thread
Boy that Playstation Now service is going to be a smash hit when Lizard Squad takes it down for a few days every month
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RE: The Viz Media Thread
DO:
- Tell them you have lettering experience
- List your software expertise
DO NOT:
- Tell them your experience came from scanlating
- Mention how many volumes you scanlated
Companies probably have lettering tests if you don't have any professional examples to show them, and they can assess your work that way. Bottom line is that they want people who can do the job (and everyone knows that most people cut their teeth on scanlation first these days) but they do not want the kind of person who is going to act proud of that and claim it as an admirable reason to get hired. Some pubs will just outright reject you if they see that.
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RE: Tales of Series
Yeah it's a bummer, Hearts on the DS was SUCH a pristine little gem, the transition to 3D with the exact same engine/battle as Innocence R really sucked all the charm out of it.
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RE: General Video Game Discussion
Seems way more likely to be Samsung/Apple/Amazon than Nintendo to be honest.
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RE: General ALPHA Questions & Discussion
They always refer to the gum fruit as "The fruit of the gum gum tree", is this translation convention for "gomu gomu no mi" or something that oda used but abandoned later?
The other question is, in the gaimon chapter nami talks about one town in the red line, I'm guessing it's Marijoa, and that's the only town (or city) in the continent. Is this interpretation correct?
1. I think this was an adaptation choice. There's no reference to trees in the Japanese, but they probably did that originally for style/flow reasons and it didn't become apparent until later on how shrouded in mystery the details are.
2. She doesn't say there's only one town, in either Japanese or English. She says there's one certain town (I agree it's Marijoa) and that's the point on the Red Line that the Grand Line intersects.
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
the clownings will continue until this series is gone
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
LOOK AT THE ANGLE OF HER TORSO
that's not a human being that's a fucking centaur missing its front legs
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
Mitsukubi Condor was terrible. Its poor ranking was completely justified and understandable.
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RE: Dragon Quest thread : DQXI on PS4, 3DS & Switch
Anyone else excited about DQ Theatrhythm….?
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
Sporting Salt…
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RE: Gakkyuu Houtei
I think they probably knew what they were doing from the very start.
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
I thought Takujo no Ageha was surprisingly good, Erobot was/is obviously going to fail, and Obata has a built-in audience and recognition, plus the series also resembles Ace Attorney. There's no way they wouldn't pick that one up out of the three.
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RE: Chapter 769: Pirate Bellamy
Just an FYI: "Research" is a generic term as used by manga magazines. Sometimes it actually does mean research (typically, an author traveling to take lots of pictures for reference) but it can also mean "a pre-determined break" or "they missed the deadline" or "they needed a vacation." Basically, anything that isn't a medical emergency or sickness falls under the blanket term of "research."
It doesn't mean that Oda wanted to do something different for the next chapter and had to skip a week to go put his glasses on and run to the library so he can pore over scrolls like Gandalf in LOTR
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RE: General ALPHA Questions & Discussion
The omission at the end of Chapter 765 was an oversight by Viz, but the omission at the end of Chapter 769 was an oversight by Shueisha. Everybody gets some of the blame!
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RE: SQUARE ENIX - Single Player RPGs are dead?
Everything in that post is smart.
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RE: Chapter 769: Pirate Bellamy
No, Oda's comment was not sarcastic, and no he did not get in trouble or ruffle any feathers. "You gotta love Jump for sticking to their guns" is a direct and straightforward statement. He is not calling out anyone. This is not an interpretation or a devil's advocate position - I am stating the plain truth. Controversy over.
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RE: Übel Blatt
You guys should pick up the Yen Press edition that just started coming out, CCC worked on it
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RE: The "Shueisha" Thread
Jesus christ I thought Sporting Salt STARTED OUT bad, and now there's like a four-year-old tantrum-throwing high school student speaking pidgin Japanese. please tell me this development was the sage advice of an editor who recognized this crap needed to be tanked the fuck out of the magazine
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RE: The Viz Media Thread
The official release uses the same digital data they use to print the actual WSJ magazine. The scanlators use the crappy printed version and apply a bazillion filters that flatten out all of the details and screentones.
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RE: #SkeletonGate
the Sarkeesian Effect, the documentary series/thing hosted by a White Supremacist Bond Villain and a guitar-teacher-ponytail sporting dude who talks about his favorite strip clubs, now prominently features comments provided by Jack Thompson