So who is this release for?

[Fragile]

Everyone who's ever really cared about Fate has played the fan-translation, and this one is going to once again carry the odd localization changes Nasu pushed for in FGO, like Saber's name being changed. There's also the issue of not having 18+ content the fan translation offers. You can make the argument people are "filthy pirates" for using a fan translation, but people have always been able to buy the game elsewhere to make up for that.

[kiteless 凧無し]

Fate is 20 years old

Plenty of younger people never played the original or fan translations

You talk as if time stands still and there isn't a new audience generation to sell this to.

[Halko]

Buying an import version that is not in your native language for double or triple the cost of an average game is not something you can say is a good alternative. Requiring the pirating of the game is also not a good alternative. Releasing the game in an official channel where it is easily accessible to a huge group of people for a reasonable price so you can support the creators IS a good thing to be happy about. There is literally no downside to an official release so complaining that there is one is the dumbest thing someone can do.

[Sixtyfivekills]

It's for me, I specifically ordered it, sorry about that.

[SWABteam]

The 18+ content is about as cringe as it gets. I for one welcome the ability to legit buy the game since I loved it but obviously fan translation has been the only way to read it.

Some people actually do care about supporting creators. Especially since I don’t really like Gacha but love Fate.

[DarklordKyo]

TBH, let's be honest, the first thing people are gonna do is add an 18+ patch to add back the sex scenes, either way.

[Ryou]

Originally posted by DarklordKyo:

TBH, let's be honest, the first thing people are gonna do is add an 18+ patch to add back the sex scenes, either way.

No the first thing people are gonna do is patch Altria to Artoria.

[kiteless 凧無し]

Originally posted by DarklordKyo:

TBH, let's be honest, the first thing people are gonna do is add an 18+ patch to add back the sex scenes, either way.

There is no patch because this release is based on fate stay realta nua, there was never any H scenes in that version to begin with

The original 2004 H scene PC release was not voiced.

The voiced realta nua version (i.e. this verison) has a lot of seiyuu's in it that don't do eroge work, so there was never any chance they would voice the H scenes to begin with, hence why they were removed, even more so after the series went mainstream with the 2006 anime, that they obviously voiced before the VN re-release

Ayako Kawasumi, Kana Ueda and Noriko Shi-taya aren't eroge actors.

Mai Kadowaki (aka Anzu Mitsu) has done ero games, but Illya didn't have any scenes so that's kinda a moot issue

[Exile]

The vast numbers of people who've been exposed to the Fate franchise in some way but who couldn't be bothered to pirate a 20 year-old VN that was never released outside of Japan?

[Seba]

Hard to say i probably would buy it but mostly to support the vn itself, but true the fan translation is probably way better.
They tent to localize a lot of the nuance of the writing. having played the tsukihime remaster even though i loved many things bothered me like translating akiha's "nii-san" as shiio or "Senpai" as Ciel (second one kinda affect the story).
Other stuff to how they handle the fact that are 2 character named shiki but technically written differently.
As for the lewd stuff is a big meh the ps2 version did that but added so much in return voice action and new fight cgs.

Honestly it would be great if someone make a patch to user the fan translation instead of the whatever comes out with this

[Velber]

Originally posted by Fragile:

Everyone who's ever really cared about Fate has played the fan-translation, and this one is going to once again carry the odd localization changes Nasu pushed for in FGO, like Saber's name being changed. There's also the issue of not having 18+ content the fan translation offers. You can make the argument people are "filthy pirates" for using a fan translation, but people have always been able to buy the game elsewhere to make up for that.

i never played the VN and id rather have it from steam than some sketchy website

[kiteless 凧無し]

Originally posted by Pseudomonarchiadaiymo:

Originally posted by Fragile:

Everyone who's ever really cared about Fate has played the fan-translation, and this one is going to once again carry the odd localization changes Nasu pushed for in FGO, like Saber's name being changed. There's also the issue of not having 18+ content the fan translation offers. You can make the argument people are "filthy pirates" for using a fan translation, but people have always been able to buy the game elsewhere to make up for that.

i never played the VN and id rather have it from steam than some sketchy website

The original Japanese builds, obviously not ideal to a non Japanese speaker would require you to use locale emulator to run a Japanese exe file on a western OS build, so you got that hurdle to overcome for people not in the know.

The actual fan translation builds, like the ultimate edition have community pages dedicated to them, so I wouldn't call them dodgy

but nonetheless, yes it's way easier, convenient and straight forward for people just to play the steam version and supporting the actual developers is great too

I bought this game countless times, I own all the physical pc and ps2 versions, so may as well add this to the list

[Velber]

Originally posted by kiteless 凧無し:

Originally posted by Pseudomonarchiadaiymo:

i never played the VN and id rather have it from steam than some sketchy website

The original Japanese builds, obviously not ideal to a non Japanese speaker would require you to use locale emulator to run a Japanese exe file on a western OS build, so you got that hurdle to overcome for people not in the know.

The actual fan translation builds, like the ultimate edition have community pages dedicated to them, so I wouldn't call them dodgy

but nonetheless, yes it's way easier, convenient and straight forward for people just to play the steam version and supporting the actual developers is great too

I bought this game countless times, I own all the physical pc and ps2 versions, so may as well add this to the list

youd need an emulator? thats even worse, last time i tried using one of those i got a cease and desist letter from capcom

[kiteless 凧無し]

Originally posted by Pseudomonarchiadaiymo:

Originally posted by kiteless 凧無し:

The original Japanese builds, obviously not ideal to a non Japanese speaker would require you to use locale emulator to run a Japanese exe file on a western OS build, so you got that hurdle to overcome for people not in the know.

The actual fan translation builds, like the ultimate edition have community pages dedicated to them, so I wouldn't call them dodgy

but nonetheless, yes it's way easier, convenient and straight forward for people just to play the steam version and supporting the actual developers is great too

I bought this game countless times, I own all the physical pc and ps2 versions, so may as well add this to the list

youd need an emulator? thats even worse, last time i tried using one of those i got a cease and desist letter from capcom

not that type of emulator

Japanese PC games will have Japanese characters, your western OS can't read them so it creates unicode like garbage icons for the file names so you need a program called locale emulator to run them on a western OS. It tricks the exe file into thinking the correct language versions are being used. I have hundreds of raw Japanese visual novels so this is just second nature to me

As for game emulators, the emulators aren't the issue, it's the actual roms

[Velber]

Originally posted by kiteless 凧無し:

Originally posted by Pseudomonarchiadaiymo:

youd need an emulator? thats even worse, last time i tried using one of those i got a cease and desist letter from capcom

not that type of emulator

Japanese PC games will have Japanese characters, your western OS can't read them so it creates unicode like garbage icons for the file names so you need a program called locale emulator to run them on a western OS. It tricks the exe file into thinking the correct language versions are being used. I have hundreds of raw Japanese visual novels so this is just second nature to me

As for game emulators, the emulators aren't the issue, it's the actual roms

oh okay, didnt know there were different kinds of emulators
though im pretty sure nintendo is trying to shut down certain emulators too so they must think the emulators are the issue

[KhakiTurtle]

Well I'm a University student who hasn't touched any fate properties except for season 1 of the UBW series so I'm quite excited to play an official release of this 20 year old game