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Aokage · Mar 27, 2007

Game Spark is claiming the now-famous images that showed up on 2ch last week are from a focus group Namco held:

http://www.gamespark.jp/modules/news/index.php?p=1699

Dig the chastening tone! It's quite amusing how Western media associated these with the PSTriple and Cellius.

Apparently, the images are leaks from a Japanese focus group company hired by Namco. If consumer reaction was positive, they would be developed into game(s).

xaosslug · Mar 27, 2007

WickedLaharl · Mar 27, 2007

i told you guys that these games would change everything

u_neek · Mar 27, 2007

Aokage said:
Apparently, the images are leaks from a Japanese focus group company hired by Namco. If consumer reaction was positive, they would be developed into game(s).

Meh, see ya in 3 years :/

Linkup · Mar 27, 2007

u_neek said:
Meh, see ya in 3 years :/

Yeah, I know what you mean. Hope they picked Brave Arm.

Hitler Stole My Potato · Mar 27, 2007

Foolius!

le.phat · Mar 27, 2007

先日より海外で話題となっている謎のタイトル、Brave Arms、Chain Limit、Secondという3本の新作。 一部サイトではバンダイナムコとSCEの合弁会社、セリウスから期待の独占タイトル発表として紹介されたりもしているのですが、その"ファミ通のスキャン"だという画像、なんだかどうも妙な感じで

??

Andy787 · Mar 27, 2007

Hitler Stole My Potato said:
Foolius!

:lol

reilo · Mar 27, 2007

What the shit?

So they hired a focus group to test the public's reaction on a new IP before they start developing it? Is this what the gaming industry has come to?

What's next, Hollywood will pitch a movie idea to a focus group so that they can determine if it is worth making the movie?

Vark · Mar 27, 2007

reilo said:
What the shit?

So they hired a focus group to test the public's reaction on a new IP before they start developing it? Is this what the gaming industry has come to?

What's next, Hollywood will pitch a movie idea to a focus group so that they can determine if it is worth making the movie?

Please be sarcasm.

meltpotato · Mar 27, 2007

reilo said:
What the shit?

So they hired a focus group to test the public's reaction on a new IP before they start developing it? Is this what the gaming industry has come to?

What's next, Hollywood will pitch a movie idea to a focus group so that they can determine if it is worth making the movie?

uh.. this is standard practice in.. well, almost all industries. Hollywood much more so than gaming.

PleoMax · Mar 27, 2007

Well i hope the reaction was positive.

I'm all for some cinematic movie style games.

Busty · Mar 27, 2007

Linkup said:
Hope they picked Brave Arm.

Agreed. The other two looked a little...... well, shitty for want of a better word.

Part of me is disappointed that these were merely mock ups, I would have loved to have seen a developer really push one of the more capable formats to produce something like this.....

Hopefully in a couple of years we'll see games reaching that level of graphical performance?

But in saying that, when and if these games do finally show, I have absolutely no faith wahsoever that they are going to look anything like those renders/mock ups.

I'm not saying that it can't be done by a more talented developer or studio, I'm just saying that I don't think NAMCO (perhaps outside CELLIUS) have it in them right now to pull something like this out of the bag.

But as always, we shall see.

DarknessTear · Mar 27, 2007

What, no love for Chain Limit?

Adam Blade · Mar 28, 2007

reilo said:
What the shit?

So they hired a focus group to test the public's reaction on a new IP before they start developing it? Is this what the gaming industry has come to?

What's next, Hollywood will pitch a movie idea to a focus group so that they can determine if it is worth making the movie?

whatdog.gif

icecream · Mar 28, 2007

reilo said:
What's next, Hollywood will pitch a movie idea to a focus group so that they can determine if it is worth making the movie?

They actually do that, you know...

Busty · Mar 28, 2007

DarknessTear said:
What, no love for Chain Limit?

I'm afraid I have no love for the chain of events this game boasts.

icecream said:
They actually do that, you know...

You wouldn't believe some of things I've heard over the years. You really wouldn't.

All I'm going to say is this. Paramount trying to pitch Star Trek series concepts using not actors......but Puppets.

Seriously.

K.Jack · Mar 28, 2007

DarknessTear said:
What, no love for Chain Limit?

Hero freefalling out of an exploding something, inexplicably refusing to release his clutch on his favorite umbrella, whilst under attack from a MIG-29, which has launched a missile from point blank range directly targeted at HIS FACE?

Yeah, I was intrigued.

reilo · Mar 28, 2007

Sarcasm detectors people! Sarcasm!

Although I still don't like that some publishers/developers are doing this.

meltpotato · Mar 28, 2007

reilo said:
Sarcasm detectors people! Sarcasm!

Although I still don't like that some publishers/developers are doing this.

yeh dude... sure :lol

Fady K · Mar 28, 2007

Not that the-magicbox.com is reliable or anything, but they posted these three are new PS3 games :/ Any official confirmations yet?? Not sure what;s going on

Jonnyram · Mar 28, 2007

reilo said:
Although I still don't like that some publishers/developers are doing this.

Actually I wish more developers would do it. Then we would only have ourselves to blame when the game ends up being shit.

Tempy · Mar 28, 2007

Fady K said:
Not that the-magicbox.com is reliable or anything, but they posted these three are new PS3 games :/ Any official confirmations yet?? Not sure what;s going on

Please don't use the-magicbox.com for news. (don't use neogaf either for that matter

)

Kafel · Mar 28, 2007

reilo said:
What the shit?

So they hired a focus group to test the public's reaction on a new IP before they start developing it? Is this what the gaming industry has come to?

What's next, Hollywood will pitch a movie idea to a focus group so that they can determine if it is worth making the movie?

I totally agree, if editors have to ask gamers what games they will produce because the development costs are rising, it's pretty sad.

Beware at LOTR/GTA clones.

Feel the power of creation in the art of video-games.

hyonoid · Mar 28, 2007

First japanese site with the rumour.

i wait for famitsu or watch impress

or PR sony or namco.

hyonoid · Mar 28, 2007

le.phat said:
??

From the other day title of the puzzle which becomes topic in the foreign country, the new work 3, Brave Arms, Chain Limit and Second. With the part sight it is introduced and/or the joint corporation of [bandainamuko] and SCE, as monopoly title announcement of expectation from the cicely mortar it is, to have done, but the picture that, it is what, " the [huami] scan is, very with the strange feeling

Fady K · Mar 28, 2007

Tempy said:
Please don't use the-magicbox.com for news. (don't use neogaf either for that matter )

Yeah i know, the-magicbox aint very reliable, if at all. I just hope these are actual games and not focus group projects only >_<

jetpacks was yes · Mar 28, 2007

Busty said:
You wouldn't believe some of things I've heard over the years. You really wouldn't.

All I'm going to say is this. Paramount trying to pitch Star Trek series concepts using not actors......but Puppets.

Seriously.

what.

tell me more

Beer Monkey · Mar 28, 2007

Now that they aren't PS3-exclusive, those fake games don't look that great to me.

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