Naruto RoaN: Japanese voices

BlimBlim
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | 11:58 PM
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Xbox 360

Finally! The Japanese voice pack for Naruto: Rise of a Ninja is available on the Marketplace. For just a tad less than 60 MB you'll finally be able to get some decent voice work for that nice little game. Video of some dialogs early in the game inside.

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Optimusv2

Commented on 2007-11-23 01:28:04

Massive improvement :)

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Joergen

Commented on 2007-11-23 02:05:14

And this is a good example for people who think voices take up a lot of space on a game dvd or bluray. Welcome to the age of digital compression; they do not!

Thats what is and was so hilarious about things like Heavenly Sword having "20 gigabytes of audio" when even an AC3 track with 5.1, where EVERY second is new material, is only 400-600MB for a two hour movie. (But PS3 is 7.1 you say, go jump in a hole). Game audio assets are not a continuous stream but SAMPLES mixed together on the fly, and voices that are sampled into a 3D engine and scene are not in stereo, unless the devs are idiots and/or a person can have two mouths to speak in stereo (the key being 3D, not fixed or predetermined camera motion).

For voices and 3d-world samples a decent bitrate and sampling rate is all that is needed. Ambient, cinematic and nondirectional sounds can of course be the dogs balls and moonshine. But unless your game has a two hour realtime cutscene, you're unlikely to have more than a few hundred megs of audio.

How fanboy can you get to believe BS like that when everybody knows a CD full of uncompressed audio (thats 74/80 minutes, 700-800MB of 44khz stereo PCM - deviced in the late 70's) fits snugly into 60-90MB of quality MP3, AAC or WMA. Never underestimate the stupidity of average joes.

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And this is a good example for people who think voices take up a lot of space on a game dvd or bluray. Welcome to the age of digital compression; they do not!

Thats what is and was so hilarious about things like Heavenly Sword having "20 gigabytes of audio" when even an AC3 track with 5.1, where EVERY second is new material, is only 400-600MB for a two hour movie. (But PS3 is 7.1 you say, go jump in a hole). Game audio assets are not a continuous stream but SAMPLES mixed together on the fly, and voices that are sampled into a 3D engine and scene are not in stereo, unless the devs are idiots and/or a person can have two mouths to speak in stereo (the key being 3D, not fixed or predetermined camera motion).

For voices and 3d-world samples a decent bitrate and sampling rate is all that is needed. Ambient, cinematic and nondirectional sounds can of course be the dogs balls and moonshine. But unless your game has a two hour realtime cutscene, you're unlikely to have more than a few hundred megs of audio.

How fanboy can you get to believe BS like that when everybody knows a CD full of uncompressed audio (thats 74/80 minutes, 700-800MB of 44khz stereo PCM - deviced in the late 70's) fits snugly into 60-90MB of quality MP3, AAC or WMA. Never underestimate the stupidity of average joes.

psy

Commented on 2007-11-23 07:14:33

^^ was there any need for that?

anyways thanks for the new vids, might get this now

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twoism

Commented on 2007-11-23 12:48:57 In reply to Tellatus

Posted by Tellatus

Offtopic: I hate Sakura, she annoys me to no end.

Anyways, japanese voices ftw!
Strange that it wasn't on the disc to begin with though,
I hardly believe that there wasn't enought space for it.

I don't really think space was the issue here, perhaps they just ran out of dev time, and had to finalize & publish the game before completing the Japanese voices.

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Getpwned

Commented on 2007-11-23 20:23:00

Jesus. More screaming kids. I'm afraid I'll have to pass. I don't usually make it a concern of mine what little boys are doing in my games. Hehe.

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blinx01

Commented on 2007-11-24 00:18:00 In reply to Getpwned

Posted by Getpwned

Jesus. More screaming kids. I'm afraid I'll have to pass. I don't usually make it a concern of mine what little boys are doing in my games. Hehe.

That makes no sense what so ever...
This isn't DBZ with the screaming power ups etc...

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Getpwned

Commented on 2007-11-24 07:20:00

Oh, cuz for a second there I thought I heard screaming boys. My bad.

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Mikeey_kakashi

Commented on 2007-11-24 08:15:46

Naruto is without any doubt one of the best anime series out there. it has fight scenes yes but it's not all about the fight scenes.

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pantyhelmet

Commented on 2007-11-28 19:35:00 In reply to Joergen

the sequel should rock.. but i'll never understand why the didn't go up to the end of the first (true) era..the ps3 Naruto is also looking promising ..handled by the Narutimate ninja/Accel team, covering the entire first era.

Posted by Mikeey_kakashi

Naruto is without any doubt one of the best anime series out there. it has fight scenes yes but it's not all about the fight scenes.

well said.

Posted by Joergen

you must not know how many languages the game contains..cutscenes? theres about an hour and a half worth each language..UNCOMPRESSED in every format ..HS's audio claim that has already been validated, your post was baseless.

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[quote=Mikeey_kakashi]Naruto is without any doubt one of the best anime series out there. it has fight scenes yes but it's not all about the fight scenes.[/quote]
well said.

[quote=Joergen]And this is a good example for people who think voices take up a lot of space on a game dvd or bluray. Welcome to the age of digital compression; they do not!
Thats what is and was so hilarious about things like Heavenly Sword having "20 gigabytes of audio" when even an AC3 track with 5.1, where EVERY second is new material, is only 400-600MB for a two hour movie.[/quote]  
you must not know how many languages the game contains..cutscenes? theres about an hour and a half worth each language..UNCOMPRESSED in every format ..HS's audio claim that has already been validated, your post was baseless.

michaelgor14

Commented on 2020-11-14 12:48:14

Where's the download link?

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