Chaos Wars - what in the CRAP

[Kitsune Sniper]

My friend Gideon Zhi gave me this video link. I know, we have a Youtube thread, and I apologize for not posting this there, but this video DESERVES ITS OWN THREAD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAtC1SzWSXg

Just... just... what in the fuck were they thinking! *headdesk*

[VACRMH]

Hol-e Shit.

"No, really, it's great"

Thank god for a Japanese option huh?

[Cinder6]

...Wow. It's as if they were just reading the lines. Almost no inflection, whatsoever. Resident Evil's VA was better...

[Brisco]

Wh....why? Did they want to get through it?

The horror...

[Gapporin]

The introduction is much more glorious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyNjSAv_OuY

"There is this...pillar of light..."

[VACRMH]

God, that ???? guy should be saying

"Loooook Mommy...."

[TonyTheTiger]

This makes the actors in Tales of Destiny II (Eternia) and Mega Man 8 look like Marlon Brando.

It's not even funny bad like Castle Shikigami 2. It's just...sleep inducing.

[Press_Start]

Plz tell me that we have the option of Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Plz tell me that we have the option of Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.

Yes, it says so right there on the video info. But honestly, the script is painfully bad... and don't go visit their forums, they've been overrun by porn spammers of the really nasty variety.

[TonyTheTiger]

Guess they weren't kidding about the "chaos" part.

[Press_Start]

Yes, it says so right there on the video info. But honestly, the script is painfully bad... and don't go visit their forums, they've been overrun by porn spammers of the really nasty variety.

How can ya tell the nasty spammers from the garden-variety kind?

[Kitsune Sniper]

How can ya tell the nasty spammers from the garden-variety kind?

You want to find out? Go visit their forums. I'm not saying anything else, my eyes are being soaked in bleach at the moment.

[Wraith Storm]

!!! WTF??? That dub has to be intentionally bad. There is NO WAY someone could be THAT uninspired naturally!

Also, what is this sacrilege!?!?!? Why the HELL did they take a BAD @$$ like Yuri and change his name to Uru? Then to make things worse they got some guy with a lisp to do the dub.

Seriously, I have heard bad dubs before, but this is a whole new genre of bad dubbing!!! Props to O3 entertainment!!!

[layzee]

The English voice "acting" was "performed" by the CEO's family members:

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gen...topic=43497999

[heybtbm]

All joking aside, Chaos Wars has the potential to be one of the rarest (in the truest sense of the word) and hard to find games of the PS2 generation.

All the pieces are there: Insanely small print run, Single store exclusive (Gamestop), not even enough copies to fulfill initial pre-orders, solid SRPG gameplay = future collectors item. Horrible voice-overs aside, you need to pick this one up NOW if you care about such things.

[jedimind7]

lol... wow. I had heard about the voice acting but this is my first time hearing it. How terrible. How is this game for anyone thats played it?

[Daria]

This makes the actors in Tales of Destiny II (Eternia) and Mega Man 8 look like Marlon Brando.

I like Tales of Destiny 2's voice actors.... except Meredy.

This however, is enough to warrant the Japanese option. I have never set any game to the Japanese option before. :P

[incubus421]

All joking aside, Chaos Wars has the potential to be one of the rarest (in the truest sense of the word) and hard to find games of the PS2 generation.

All the pieces are there: Insanely small print run, Single store exclusive (Gamestop), not even enough copies to fulfill initial pre-orders, solid SRPG gameplay = future collectors item. Horrible voice-overs aside, you need to pick this one up NOW if you care about such things.

listen to the man
got a sealed copy waiting for me at work...will be picking that up today. As seeing as I don't have the time to play it right now it will sit around sealed for a long time...hopefully gaining value.

Just to give a little insight on the rarity of this game...GameStop is the only store getting this item...I live in a pretty decent sized city of which has 3 different GameStops...of the 3 there are a total of 6 copies floating around the city (2 came to each store). With no word of getting anymore in as of yet.

[Xexyz]

I'm pretty sure this game's store exclusivity and future rarity is due to O3's half-assed translation and dubbing. Seriously, they couldn't source the voice acting to a professional dubbing studio?

It wouldn't surprise me if this is O3's swan song.

[Bojay1997]

All joking aside, Chaos Wars has the potential to be one of the rarest (in the truest sense of the word) and hard to find games of the PS2 generation.

All the pieces are there: Insanely small print run, Single store exclusive (Gamestop), not even enough copies to fulfill initial pre-orders, solid SRPG gameplay = future collectors item. Horrible voice-overs aside, you need to pick this one up NOW if you care about such things.

What are you relying on to claim it has an "insanely small print run"? There are over 3,800 Gamestop/EB stores in the United States. If every store just got 2-3 copies as has been reported, that's 10K copies just at retail. I would assume they did an equal number for on-line sales as it's back in stock. That's 20,000 copies. I'm guessing the number is more like 25K which is a lot for a game that is unlikely to sell to even the hardest core gamers given it's poor reviews and production values. I suspect this one will get a price drop before selling out.