Anybody for tea?

Post by **Segaholic2** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:42 am

Delphine wrote:You deliver the damn carpets by talking to the person you're supposed to give them to. Geeze.

The control system is a test. Real men have no problems controlling the trot.

So are you a real man?

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:53 pm

More real than you, bitch.

Yami CJMErl · Post by **Yami CJMErl** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:58 pm

Bah, if I want a japanese meme I'll stick with Okkusenman, thank you very much.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:20 pm

Zeta wrote:The story did get ridiculously emo towards the end, which is my major complaint with the game.

I dunno. I mean, it wasn't happy or anything, but I never thought of it as 'emo'. Probably because the game starts out so ridiculously upbeat and chock-full of rainbows and puppy dogs. It sort of balances out.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:34 pm

Oh, it's a realist game. You can't do something nice for someone without ruining someone else.

The control is kind of balls, but the one thing that irked me to the very end were the load times. There are problems with it, it's not a game I recommend to everybody - but it tickles my fancy on a few different levels.

Also, apparently nobody has thought it out enough to realize, but BUMPY TROT IS A GODDAMN ENGLISH NAME YOU FLAMING HALFWIT PIG FUCKERS. A much more interesting one than the highly generic "Bumpy Trot" (which is even misleading because the robots do not run on steam power) and on top of that easier to type, SO.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:20 pm

See, I bought it 'cause I have a thing for steam-powered robots. Now I just feel foolish. Thing is, the issue I have with the name "Bumpy Trot" is nothing to do with its country of origin or the language in which it is presented. It just sounds fucking painfully ridiculous. Maybe you should let your Jap-hackles down and see what we're trying to say here.

Delphine wrote:You deliver the damn carpets by talking to the person you're supposed to give them to. Geeze.

There's four people in the entire Goddamned hotel that I can talk to, and none of them are called Jacques. Now the place is on fire, so my chances of finding him are slimming. infos plz

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:36 pm

Try gamefaqs, I don't friggin remember.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:07 am

I did. It didn't help, that's why I came here. Don't think for one second that you guys were my first choice, because although I know for sure you've all played it, I also know for sure that you're all complete bastards.

<3

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:59 am

I remember having a hard time with this as well. I think he's in the back of the building or in some area you normally wouldn't expect, but seems kind of obvious afterwards.

aso · Post by **aso** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:17 am

What I'm interested in knowing is when Bumpy Trot/Bumpy Trot 2 is due to be released.

Also, that guy is definitely around the hotel. I don't quite remember where... I've never had problems finding him... but he's there, all right.

gr4yJ4Y · Post by **gr4yJ4Y** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:05 am

I think Bumpy Trot is a better name myself. It sounds more like an adventure game. While Bumpy Trot makes me think of airships, trains and the typical steampunk background.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:40 pm

Is it really that hard to open an faq and search for the word "carpet"? I have to assume someone's covered it somewhere.

Senbei · Post by **Senbei** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:05 pm

I remember having a bit of trouble with the carpet delivery. You have to talk to the guy behind the counter at the Hotel. And by behind the counter, I mean you have to be behind the counter when you speak to him. Then you can ask him if he's Jacques.

Er, I actually had to look it up to remember. It's right there on Gamefaqs under Side Quests.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:34 pm

See, the problem is that "Bumpy Trot" is a plain-jane cut & paste name culled from a dictionary of marketing buzzwords by a 22-year old college dropout with a ridiculous goatee (I am of the opinion that NObody under the age of, like, 40 should have facial hair of any kind) who is excited because he got a job in a "hip" industry - at a company totally unrelated to the one that developed the original game, I might add - and thinks anything he does matters and is justifying his job by making unnecessary changes. The US title, of course, is designed (along with the ho-hum box art) to appeal to the Tokyopop manga-reading tweenies who wear bad wigs to noisy conventions, play nothing but banal Squaresoft sequels, and have never seen an anime older than about 1998 - this is the demographic that Atlus caters to. I myself find it bit of a tragedy that something as pivotal to a game's identity as its title can be changed for the sheer sake of marketability, but of course I am old and bitter.

Or, if I may borrow my father's terminology, IN THIS HOUSE, WE CALL IT BUMPY TROT

By the way, Jacques is the guy behind the counter. I think you actually have to walk behind the counter to sell him the carpets - I only did it once or twice, so I don't remember.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:46 pm

Green Gibbon! wrote:Or, if I may borrow my father's terminology, IN THIS HOUSE, WE CALL IT BUMPY TROT

In what context does your father use this term, I'm curious.

"IN THIS HOUSE, WE CALL IT BEING A FRUITY FUCKING FAIRY. TAKE YOUR DOLLS OUTSIDE, JARED."

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:48 pm

My father is bald and insane. He plays World of Warcraft every waking minute.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:49 pm

Way to avoid the question.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:04 pm

Really? I kind of thought it explained everything.

Post by **Crazy Penguin** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:32 pm

All this time I've been reading it as "Steamboat". What the hell is a Steambot?

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:37 pm

It's like a steamboat, except it's a steambot.

Post by **Esrever** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:50 pm

When I first heard the name "Bumpy Trot", I assumed it was a horse racing game and proceeded to completely ignore it. Maybe that was what they were trying to avoid when they changed the title.

I'm generally strongly against altering content during localization, but surely we can make an exception for the Japanese thanks to their bizarre fetish for mangling the English language. I don't want to see a good game sunk by a stupid sounding name all for the sake of integrity. I would rather have developers keep the game itself intact and focus on tricking people into buying it by completely selling out on the packaging.

FlashTHD · Post by **FlashTHD** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:09 pm

phpBB has a word filter feature in the admin CP, right?

Just saying.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:28 pm

When I first heard the name "Bumpy Trot", I assumed it was a horse racing game

Me too, actually. Of course the unorthodox title is also what drew me to look into it in the first place.

I'm being idealist, of course, there's no such thing as a game created without marketability in mind, but the fact that people respond so well to banality is a tragedy of the human race itself. Certainly we're better than that.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:34 pm

FlashTHD wrote:phpBB has a word filter feature in the admin CP, right?

Just saying.

That would kind of make me a fascist, though it is tempting. Perhaps later.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:43 pm

I heard the name Bumpy Trot and assumed it was some sort of intestinal disorder.