Skies of Arcadia 2 for PC????

**Cid Highwind** · January 31st, 2004

I was searching the web for SoA downloads and came to this this French site.

Maybe someone with better skills can translate it?? Cause my interpretation might differ with the truth

And has someone else read something about this on another site??

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Story:
La suite de l'excellent RPG de Sega nommé Skies of Arcadia sortira bientôt et en plus, à été annoncé sur PC ... Que demande le peuple ?

Skies of Arcadia 2 arrivera donc sur PC, après un passage sur les consoles (DC et NGC) mais le hit est l'adaptation, qui n'a pas vraiment été paufinée, et qui n'offrira pas ni un meilleur graphisme, ni un gameplay rénové. C'est sympa quand même.

A noter que le jeu n'a pas de date européenne encore et sortira en Janvier 2004 au Japon.

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Kaiser Sigma · January 31st, 2004

I think it's referring to the upcoming PC port rather than a sequel... I dunno what's that "2" doing in there though...

**Cid Highwind** · January 31st, 2004

That was my guess also, cause I think it says:
No new graphics and no new gameplay.

Or something like that....

Geez.. I hope there WILL be a next SoA, since I love the original. Well let's just wait till someone can give an accurate translation (i don't trust internet translators that much) and till there will be something official.

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Kaiser Sigma · January 31st, 2004

Well, at first a supposed sequel for SoA was scheduled for the GC... sadly that ended on a port of the original game (and to make things worse it was a bad port). I really wonder at this point if we will ever see a sequel to SoA...

cloudvii · January 31st, 2004

what's up with Sega ? it's porting many games to pc now

may be that's better than waiting for DC to be emulated

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Kaiser Sigma · February 1st, 2004

Well the screens from the port look rather promising, I just hope that the requirements won't be too high... SoA ran a bit slow at times on the DC so I suppose that it might demand a very powerful system...

cloudvii · February 1st, 2004

well if it's a good port , tnt2 will run it fine (i mean tnt2 is better than DC's vcard powervr2)

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Kaiser Sigma · February 1st, 2004

Herrrmmm... I don't think so, in any case I still own a DC so I don't mind much not playing it on PC

**Kane** · February 1st, 2004

The Kyro2 (roughly equivalent to the DC's PowerVR chip) was a decent match (trouncing it thougoughly in some things and bad drivers accounting for roughly equivalent speed in others) for the geForce 2MX. The 2MX was roughly equivalent in performance to the original geForce DDR (IIRC) which destroyed the TNT2.
The reason the PowerVR got such bad press was for a number of reasons including:

No FSAA support (even tho the card could in theory handle it)
No HW T&L support. It was a DX 6 part
Bad graphics glitches in a number of games due to poor drivers
Lacklustre performance in seemingly random games, again most likely resulting from shoddy drivers

As you can see, had nVidia's driver team been behind it, the way things are today could have been quite different.

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Xion_Sonic7 · February 2nd, 2004

The GC's port of the game was ok except for the sound delays the happens during the special attcks

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Kaiser Sigma · February 2nd, 2004

Not really, the graphics were the same, almost 0 improvements... the speed was slightly lower than the DC at some points... as for the music, it wasn't even close to the DC version...

**Cid Highwind** · February 2nd, 2004

2 Kaiser: Three cheers for the DC!!
Ppl in my class say I'm crazy because I bought a DC this summer, I might even be the only DC owner of the complete school ( 900 ppl). Well, SoA and Soul Calibur is regretting them that they've never bought one!

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February 3rd, 2004

they'd better have SOA running decently on PC if they still want to sell a few copies; its graphically not even one of the DC's highlights; so they least they can do to let it still match with current games is making it run good on a low-end pc.

psicomaniaco · February 3rd, 2004

Errr.... don't call me stupid but... I've never heard of this game. Is it good??

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l3illyl3ob · February 4th, 2004

SoA is the DC's best rpg, and one of the best RPGs made this century (it WAS made this century, right?). It's got a decent story, but it's got reams of stuff to do on the side which always makes things interesting. I love its battle system, and its ship battles (the game is based in the air and airships are your transportation) are quite unique, though they could have been more plentifull (the only good ones were story battles), and with less predictable AI. All in All, SoA is a great game. If it comes out here for pc, you have to pick it up.

**Yeloazndevil** · February 4th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by psicomaniaco

Errr.... don't call me stupid but... I've never heard of this game. Is it good??

its one of Sega's best rpg's

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Kaiser Sigma · February 4th, 2004

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Originally Posted by l3illyl3ob

SoA is the DC's best rpg, and one of the best RPGs made this century (it WAS made this century, right?).

It was made this century, however I don't think it's the DC's best RPG. It was great back then, but RPGs like Izumo or Fragance Tale are far better RPGs... mainly because of the innovative factor...

February 4th, 2004

SOA eh? I've played a part of it;
I doubt it can compete with square's best. but its still decent.

**Cid Highwind** · February 4th, 2004

Well so far I love the story, gameplay, graphics and sound... So it's one of the best games I've ever played, yet I'm only at disc one (don't even know how far).
It's a great game, but the hand to hand combat was better in the other great DC RPG I have: Grandia 2. But I've now spend 3/4th of the time I spend on Grandia 2 to complete it. So I guess SoA is way bigger.

And those RPG's you mentioned Kaiser: Are they in English??
Or are you teasing me again telling it's japanese or something and that you do have the ability to play and I don't

Cause that happens all the times when I catch you talking about DC games

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l3illyl3ob · February 5th, 2004

gamefaqs doens't list a release outside of japan for fragance tale, but for izumo it has "n/a" over north america (whatever that means). I've heard of fragance tale, but never of izumo. I only counted English RPGs, since the majority of people here (including me) cant speak japanese.

edit: oh, it just came out a few days ago. I'm guessing it's not going to see an english release... oh well...

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January 31st, 2004	#1 (permalink)
Cid Highwind Human Metal Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Holland / Hungary Posts: 13,545	Skies of Arcadia 2 for PC???? I was searching the web for SoA downloads and came to this this French site. Maybe someone with better skills can translate it?? Cause my interpretation might differ with the truth And has someone else read something about this on another site?? Source Story: La suite de l'excellent RPG de Sega nommé Skies of Arcadia sortira bientôt et en plus, à été annoncé sur PC ... Que demande le peuple ? Skies of Arcadia 2 arrivera donc sur PC, après un passage sur les consoles (DC et NGC) mais le hit est l'adaptation, qui n'a pas vraiment été paufinée, et qui n'offrira pas ni un meilleur graphisme, ni un gameplay rénové. C'est sympa quand même. A noter que le jeu n'a pas de date européenne encore et sortira en Janvier 2004 au Japon. __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 / 1024MB / Core: 801 / Mem: 1000 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1) SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint, 32MB PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 19201200 Geometry Wars: 198.400 Lumines: 999.999 Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!*

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Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,305	The Kyro2 (roughly equivalent to the DC's PowerVR chip) was a decent match (trouncing it thougoughly in some things and bad drivers accounting for roughly equivalent speed in others) for the geForce 2MX. The 2MX was roughly equivalent in performance to the original geForce DDR (IIRC) which destroyed the TNT2. The reason the PowerVR got such bad press was for a number of reasons including: No FSAA support (even tho the card could in theory handle it) No HW T&L support. It was a DX 6 part Bad graphics glitches in a number of games due to poor drivers Lacklustre performance in seemingly random games, again most likely resulting from shoddy drivers As you can see, had nVidia's driver team been behind it, the way things are today could have been quite different. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

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January 31st, 2004	#2 (permalink)
Kaiser Sigma ~ Lord of Darkness ~ Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: A place darker than the night. Posts: 14,637	I think it's referring to the upcoming PC port rather than a sequel... I dunno what's that "2" doing in there though...

January 31st, 2004	#3 (permalink)
Cid Highwind Human Metal Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Holland / Hungary Posts: 13,545	That was my guess also, cause I think it says: No new graphics and no new gameplay. Or something like that.... Geez.. I hope there WILL be a next SoA, since I love the original. Well let's just wait till someone can give an accurate translation (i don't trust internet translators that much) and till there will be something official. __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 / 1024MB / Core: 801 / Mem: 1000 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1) SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint, 32MB PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 19201200 Geometry Wars: 198.400 Lumines: 999.999 Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!*

January 31st, 2004	#4 (permalink)
Kaiser Sigma ~ Lord of Darkness ~ Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: A place darker than the night. Posts: 14,637	Well, at first a supposed sequel for SoA was scheduled for the GC... sadly that ended on a port of the original game (and to make things worse it was a bad port). I really wonder at this point if we will ever see a sequel to SoA...

January 31st, 2004	#5 (permalink)
cloudvii Emunext fanboy Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Cairo , Egypt Posts: 4,241	what's up with Sega ? it's porting many games to pc now may be that's better than waiting for DC to be emulated __________________ Fekra Online magazine Fekra Magazine Fekra Magazine readers Facebook group

February 1st, 2004	#6 (permalink)
Kaiser Sigma ~ Lord of Darkness ~ Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: A place darker than the night. Posts: 14,637	Well the screens from the port look rather promising, I just hope that the requirements won't be too high... SoA ran a bit slow at times on the DC so I suppose that it might demand a very powerful system...

February 1st, 2004	#7 (permalink)
cloudvii Emunext fanboy Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Cairo , Egypt Posts: 4,241	well if it's a good port , tnt2 will run it fine (i mean tnt2 is better than DC's vcard powervr2) __________________ Fekra Online magazine Fekra Magazine Fekra Magazine readers Facebook group

February 1st, 2004	#8 (permalink)
Kaiser Sigma ~ Lord of Darkness ~ Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: A place darker than the night. Posts: 14,637	Herrrmmm... I don't think so, in any case I still own a DC so I don't mind much not playing it on PC

February 2nd, 2004	#10 (permalink)
Xion_Sonic7 Gonna Dig Up Emeralds! Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Around here and there Posts: 192	The GC's port of the game was ok except for the sound delays the happens during the special attcks __________________ Yuris here to say: "Yay Yay Whoa! Yaahhh! Wink! Wink!"

February 2nd, 2004	#11 (permalink)
Kaiser Sigma ~ Lord of Darkness ~ Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: A place darker than the night. Posts: 14,637	Not really, the graphics were the same, almost 0 improvements... the speed was slightly lower than the DC at some points... as for the music, it wasn't even close to the DC version...

February 2nd, 2004	#12 (permalink)
Cid Highwind Human Metal Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Holland / Hungary Posts: 13,545	2 Kaiser: Three cheers for the DC!! Ppl in my class say I'm crazy because I bought a DC this summer, I might even be the only DC owner of the complete school ( 900 ppl). Well, SoA and Soul Calibur is regretting them that they've never bought one! __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 / 1024MB / Core: 801 / Mem: 1000 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1) SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint, 32MB PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 19201200 Geometry Wars: 198.400 Lumines: 999.999 Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!*

February 3rd, 2004	#13 (permalink)
Samor Guest Posts: n/a	they'd better have SOA running decently on PC if they still want to sell a few copies; its graphically not even one of the DC's highlights; so they least they can do to let it still match with current games is making it run good on a low-end pc.

February 3rd, 2004	#14 (permalink)
psicomaniaco Eh?? Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: I'm ashamed to say... Posts: 1,645	Errr.... don't call me stupid but... I've never heard of this game. Is it good?? __________________ Goals: -Buy a new video Card; Buy F.E.A.R; Beat NOLF 1 and 2; Buy cat food.

February 4th, 2004	#15 (permalink)
l3illyl3ob Link to the Underworld Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Detroit Posts: 1,148	SoA is the DC's best rpg, and one of the best RPGs made this century (it WAS made this century, right?). It's got a decent story, but it's got reams of stuff to do on the side which always makes things interesting. I love its battle system, and its ship battles (the game is based in the air and airships are your transportation) are quite unique, though they could have been more plentifull (the only good ones were story battles), and with less predictable AI. All in All, SoA is a great game. If it comes out here for pc, you have to pick it up.

February 4th, 2004	#18 (permalink)
Samor Guest Posts: n/a	SOA eh? I've played a part of it; I doubt it can compete with square's best. but its still decent.

February 4th, 2004	#19 (permalink)
Cid Highwind Human Metal Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Holland / Hungary Posts: 13,545	Well so far I love the story, gameplay, graphics and sound... So it's one of the best games I've ever played, yet I'm only at disc one (don't even know how far). It's a great game, but the hand to hand combat was better in the other great DC RPG I have: Grandia 2. But I've now spend 3/4th of the time I spend on Grandia 2 to complete it. So I guess SoA is way bigger. And those RPG's you mentioned Kaiser: Are they in English?? Or are you teasing me again telling it's japanese or something and that you do have the ability to play and I don't Cause that happens all the times when I catch you talking about DC games __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 / 1024MB / Core: 801 / Mem: 1000 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1) SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint, 32MB PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 19201200 Geometry Wars: 198.400 Lumines: 999.999 Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!*

February 5th, 2004	#20 (permalink)
l3illyl3ob Link to the Underworld Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Detroit Posts: 1,148	gamefaqs doens't list a release outside of japan for fragance tale, but for izumo it has "n/a" over north america (whatever that means). I've heard of fragance tale, but never of izumo. I only counted English RPGs, since the majority of people here (including me) cant speak japanese. edit: oh, it just came out a few days ago. I'm guessing it's not going to see an english release... oh well... Last edited by l3illyl3ob; February 5th, 2004 at 00:11..