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[duckroll]

Oh well, this thread had a good run of 6 pages...... It's kinda sad everytime we have to put an animal down, but after infection there's usually no hope for a cure.

 

[Chrono]

Are there any other impressions other than tim roger's?

Sorry I didn't go through the entire thread but from that single impression it sounds like it had an effect like MGS4 back at TGS...


Definitely more interested in the game now.

 

[Aryuken]

Oh well, this thread had a good run of 6 pages...... It's kinda sad everytime we have to put an animal down, but after infection there's usually no hope for a cure.

We need a video, at TGS this thread will fly like a beauty. Too bad it will bring a system war with it.

 

[AlanHemberger]

FFIX is the weakest FF out of FFVII-X in terms of gameplay and story.

QFT

 

[duckroll]

Okay, here's the deal.

20th to 29th Sept = TGS06 and X06. Expect playable demos of Lost Odyssey and most likely Blue Dragon, and tons of videos.

29th Sept = Weekly Famitsu Blue Dragon interview blowout (like the Lost Odyssey one this week)

30th Sept = Famitsu Xbox360 and Famitsu Wave will both have huge Lost Odyssey features, probably covering all the playable demo content that was at TGS, with tons of screens and information on characters and scenario


LET'S GET EXCITED OKAY?!

 

[Karma Kramer]

Okay, here's the deal.

20th to 29th Sept = TGS06 and X06. Expect playable demos of Lost Odyssey and most likely Blue Dragon, and tons of videos.

29th Sept = Weekly Famitsu Blue Dragon interview blowout (like the Lost Odyssey one this week)

30th Sept = Famitsu Xbox360 and Famitsu Wave will both have huge Lost Odyssey features, probably covering all the playable demo content that was at TGS, with tons of screens and information on characters and scenario


LET'S GET EXCITED OKAY?!

Ooooh looks like Microsoft is going to seriously start pushing these titles.

I can't wait to these games in motion!

Duckroll do you think the Japanese market will embrace the 360 more because of these games? Do you think it will have much affect?

 

[Adam Blade]

Okay, here's the deal.

20th to 29th Sept = TGS06 and X06. Expect playable demos of Lost Odyssey and most likely Blue Dragon, and tons of videos.

29th Sept = Weekly Famitsu Blue Dragon interview blowout (like the Lost Odyssey one this week)

30th Sept = Famitsu Xbox360 and Famitsu Wave will both have huge Lost Odyssey features, probably covering all the playable demo content that was at TGS, with tons of screens and information on characters and scenario


LET'S GET EXCITED OKAY?!

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

:O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[duckroll]

Duckroll do you think the Japanese market will embrace the 360 more because of these games? Do you think it will have much affect?

No, not really. It's a lost cause. But as long as the game are still being released in Japan, Japanese developers would be interested in developing for the system since overseas sales usually fetch good returns. As long as MS puts up a show of continuing support in Japan, the developers won't abandon them.

 

[DarknessTear]

:lol All they'd need to do is remake Dragon Quest 1 or 3 for the 360.

 

[Karma Kramer]

No, not really. It's a lost cause. But as long as the game are still being released in Japan, Japanese developers would be interested in developing for the system since overseas sales usually fetch good returns. As long as MS puts up a show of continuing support in Japan, the developers won't abandon them.

Well as long as it gets support then I am happy.

 

[Tat]

since overseas sales usually fetch good returns.

so how about that em and n3 huh? :lol

 

[thetrin]

Ff13 what?

Lost odyssey is where its at baby.

God, it`s like nothing but retarded diarrhea comes out of your mouth. It`s ****ing annoying.

 

[MrMeltdown]

so how about that em and n3 huh? :lol

if they suck in USa and Japan, they universally suck

 

[Tat]

if they suck in USa and Japan, they universally suck

i was only pulling his leg

 

[duckroll]

i was only pulling his leg

Still sold more than in Japan though. :lol

 

[BigBoss]

God, it`s like nothing but retarded diarrhea comes out of your mouth. It`s ****ing annoying.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[MrMeltdown]

Important points bolded

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3818&Itemid=2


4 Page article by Tim Rogers

In this week’s Japan column, we look at Hironobu Sakaguchi's Lost Odyssey, the game that could steal the Tokyo Game Show and reverse Xbox 360’s fortunes over there…

At TGS, there’s still plenty of hope that some game will emerge and shock the daylights out of us all the way Dead Rising did last year. Lost Odyssey could be that game.

Readers of this column will remember my being almost unreasonably excited about this game. It's developed by Mistwalker, a studio founded by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the man whose Final Fantasy series raised a tiny developed called Squaresoft to the status of a workhorse, a man whose Final Fantasy VII, ten years later, turned Squaresoft into an internationally acclaimed producer of world-class entertainment. The gamers' reaction to Final Fantasy VII, which used copious full-motion video to earn players' awe, was that it looked better than other videogames. It was huge. It spawned legions of fans.

When creator Hironobu Sakaguchi once again flexed his ambitions to engulf the world, it was in the form of a computer-generated movie with the Final Fantasy name on it, which was a colossal box-office failure. Square assigned Sakaguchi to the proverbial Desk in the Corner, and went about creating sequels that capitalized on Japanese animation trends, appealing solely to the consumers who had been most wowed by Final Fantasy VII.

Years later, Sakaguchi stood up and left his office. He started a developer called Mistwalker. Sakaguchi's idea was to craft "new" games. Games that didn't owe anything to the past. Games with big themes, telling moving tales. The first two announced were Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, both for the underdog Xbox 360 system, which Japan, even until now, has been rejecting like a bad kidney transplant.

Iconic comic artist

Both games are designed mainly by Sakaguchi, and have music by much-adored composer of the Final Fantasy soundtrack, Nobuo Uematsu. Blue Dragon will feature the art of iconic Japanese comic artist Akira Toriyama, and Lost Odyssey will feature characters and landscapes imagined by Takehiko Inoue, a manga artist who got pop-culture mass-fame for writing a long-running comic series about high school basketball, and now takes the breath away from readers once weekly with "Vagabond," the drop-dead amazing, literature-worth re-telling of the life of the legendary rival swordsmen Musashi Miyamoto and Kojiro Sasaki.

Furthermore, the story for Lost Odyssey would be written by Kiyoshi Shigematsu, a renowned novelist. That game's pedigree was astounding. But while it jumped into the Famitsu weekly magazine's "most wanted" polls here and there. It never stuck around too long. Well, I suppose now would be the time for it to start sticking around.

Sakaguchi was interviewed in this week's pre-TGS Famitsu, and he laid out a lot of details. He talks about how Takehiko Inoue was precisely the artist he imagined when the idea popped into his head. He talks about the importance of the scenario, and quality. He talks about how absolutely important it is that the game's visuals stay consistent -- the same character models used for cut-scenes, battles, and exploration phases (for this purpose, they used the Unreal Engine).

Reading this, I think how Sakaguchi has really come into his own. After the economical failure that resulted from his first foray into filmmaking, Sakaguchi seems to have really learned how and when to lean on people. He has indeed amassed a team of the "best people" -- his "favorite people," as he's said. This week's showing in Famitsu is splendid. Though only a few shots appear -- detailing a robot, a battle menu screen with heroes fighting a monster, and a long view of a city -- they combine with the words to create a very sure aura around the game.

The city suggests Final Fantasy VII grown-up 100%. Sakaguchi has explained how making Lost Odyssey is a delightful procedure for him because he's free to be create and encourage creativity without being tied up with too many expectations. For example, every Final Fantasy game needed to bring back popular characters or risk alienation from series fans. This is why furry characters like Moogles and Chocobos returned time after time, even when they were terribly out of place in some instances. (To spare myself emails begging an explanation, I will mention: "Final Fantasy VIII" and "Chocobos".) Lost Odyssey is a clean slate. There are no expectations other than that it's made by the man who created Final Fantasy.

Sakaguchi said his goals were, first and foremost, to tell a story, and second, to evoke an atmosphere. It was the atmosphere of Takehiko Inoue's samurai romance "Vagabond" that he wanted to evoke -- desolate, sweeping, gray vistas, long travels to and from decadent cities, and men of honor seeking fulfillment in a confused age. With these two goals in mind, Sakaguchi would create a videogame with the help of the "best people".

The systems, too, seem interesting. The battles are a near-direct translation of Final Fantasy, which is by no means a "rip-off", because it's Sakaguchi's system. He's merely using familiar tools. However, Sakaguchi guarantees multiple intriguing hooks all over the surface of the game. For example, the main character is somehow cursed with immortality, and can't die -- if his hit points are reduced to zero, he'll stand back up after a few rounds. However, all of the other characters can die, and die forever. Yet when they die, the hero absorbs their abilities.

Piece of work

From all that's been written on paper, this game is a Final-Fantasy-class piece of work, at least. The easiest way to determine this is to look at the credits, and note the overlap. Furthermore, the pedigree is, to say it again, astounding. Anyone who's disappointed that Final Fantasy character designers Tetsuya Nomura or Akihiko Yoshida aren't doing the character design probably plans to dress up as Sephiroth at their wedding, so they hardly count as general consumers. Besides, Takehiko Inoue is a world-class artist, whereas Tetsuya Nomura and/or Akihiko Yoshida are, to put it quite bluntly, guys who can draw real well and also design characters for videogames sometimes.

The question is, are people willing to buy an unpopular system to have a chance to own this game? Hironobu Sakaguchi's gall is legendary -- he is pitting this game and Blue Dragon, on Xbox 360, against Final Fantasy XIII on PlayStation 3. When Blue Dragon launches, Xbox 360 will only cost around the equivalent of $250 in Japan. What Microsoft needs at Tokyo Game Show is a game to stand against everything on the PlayStation 3, and swat each game down one at a time. They need something that people can look at, and say, "That looks really good."

Well, I have seen the demo of Lost Odyssey in action. The game is so very grown-up and pieced together with such seamless virtuousity that I really don't know what to say. I'm impressed as I've ever been with a videogame. It is beautiful. I'm about as excited about it now, as a fully functioning (really), independent adult, as I was excited about Final Fantasy VII as a college student, as I was about Final Fantasy IV as much younger man. I look forward to this game.

Seeing (and playing) is believing, and I am a believer in Lost Odyssey. My immediate judgment is a belief that it will sell this console to at least a million Japanese gamers. And Microsoft must think so too –it’s going to make sure this game is everywhere. It will be featured most prominently at the company’s booth at Tokyo Game Show, and, if its promise to host all show-floor demos on Xbox Live holds true, that should mean this game's demo will be available for download next Wednesday night.

In addition, Sakaguchi proudly announces in the interview that the demo will be packed in with the issue of Famitsu released on October 20th. Quite auspicious -- just two weeks before the Xbox 360 price drop and three weeks before the PlayStation 3 launch. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft announced at Tokyo Game Show that Blue Dragon was being released on the same day as PlayStation 3.

There are people all over the Japanese game industry who doubt Lost Odyssey will have an impact. These people mostly quote sad statistics about how sequels sell, and they're safer business bets. These statistics are called statistics for a reason, yes; still, it's inspiring to have someone like Hironobu Sakaguchi around to defy them. He wants to make new games. Some are skeptical that he's giving Microsoft "false hopes" and just "using" the money to throw together a game. I say this is not the case, because the creative people he has making his game, if the demo tells no lies, are getting paid very well to make a hell of a product. If it's positioned as well marketing-wise as it's starting to look like it is, Sakaguchi might just make a miracle, and might just strike a resounding blow against the syndrome that's been plauging the Japanese games industry for a decade, that being the syndrome that fols people into believing "People don't make games, NUMBERS make games."

Square’s TGS Games

Also in this week's Famitsu is a detailed spread on Square-Enix's Tokyo Game Show titles.

Heroes of Mana is a strategy-RPG based in the "Mana" world, for Nintendo DS. The "Mana" world is, yes, one of Square-Enix's franchises, which has a cult of devoted fans who believe "Mana" games are better than all other games -- people whose memories cannot EVER be betrayed, because their memories have no enemies. All Mana games look positively brilliant to a Mana fan. They're never disappointed. This is the kind of audience post-Final Fantasy VII Square has excelled in creating. My impression of the screenshots is that the enemies' life bars take up most of the damned screen. Also, the hero's name is Roger...

Also, there's Seiken Densetsu 4 for PlayStation 2 -- that's also a "Mana" game. It looks like it's going to play like Kingdom Hearts, except with no Disney, and no Final Fantasy.

Square is also releasing the first Seiken Densetsu for cellular phones! Be still my beating heart! I was starting to worry that the Game Boy Advance remake's price drop to a sub-floor 500 yen meant we'd never get to replay that game again!

Oh, I'm kidding -- kind of. I'm sure all of these will be games more well-made than, say, licensed anime fighting games, or whatever other sludge pours out of the pipes on a regular basis.

Same goes for Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, which is a Final Fantasy XII game set in a super-happy pre-war era, starring the main characters Vaan and Penelo as they hop around being delighted at air-piracy. All I can say now is that the art for the game looks cute, and that reusing characters from Final Fantasy games in their own new adventures is now, officially, something Square-Enix does professionally.


More zany news keeps flowing in -- Yasumi Matsuno, who left the Final Fantasy XII project after an illness incurred when large numbers of his key staff walked out to join Sakaguchi, showed up at the Nintendo Wii unveiling Wednesday in Tokyo, to preach about how much he loves the system. He loves the way the controller works, and how it can be used to express nuances deeper than, say, first-person-shooting. He announced that he is designing a game for the system. The developer is not announced, though it was clear from his attitude that he is, once again, a working man. And that the developer isn't Square-Enix, because Square-Enix does not let a developer speak in public without a Square-Enix logo visible somewhere nearby.

Rumors earlier this year pointed to Matsuno's involvement with Cavia, a little studio beloved for its workmanship by many quirky hardcore gamers. I have observed Cavia with great interest, lately, and have prescribed, above all else, that it hires someone with narrative and dramatic flair. I believe Matsuno to be a perfect fit.

Of note is that Cavia falls under the AQ Interactive umbrella of developers, which also includes Hironobu Sakaguchi's Mistwalker. This means, if Matsuno is working there, he's tangentially working with Sakaguchi again.

Sakaguchi had previously called Matsuno the most talented man in the Japanese games industry.

Wii Late to Japan

You know this already, probably. It's coming on December 2nd, and for 25,000 yen. Damn it.

It will, however, be region-free, so maybe I can purchase an American one?

It will not contain a pack-in game in Japan. Games will be sold between 4,800 yen and 6,800 yen. Wii Sports is one of the 4,800-yen games. Gameboy Advance games, for comparison, usually sold for around 6,000 yen. DS games sell for between 4,080 and 5,890.

None of the Wii launch games for Japan look too overly interesting. Taito and Hudson are releasing some real groaners, like FuriFuri, a throwaway party game where you use the Wiimote to spin wheels or throw darts. It has an unexplainable "puppies and kittens in feudal Japan" look from the screenshots. Games like THE DOG Island are pretty groan-worthy as well -- "THE DOG", in case you don't know, is a brand of stationery, featuring dogs photographed with fisheye lenses. How can you make a game out of a stationery mascot? I guess you just celebrate the dogs for being cute? You pet them with the Wiimote.

Certainly, as with the DS, this console will not explode sales-wise until it has that game that cracks it open. Brain Training cracked open the DS. I take it Super Mario Galaxy will crack open the Wii. I could be wrong -- Wii Sports could be immediately amusing enough to enough people to cause crazy sales. It's all up in the air.

Personally, though Wii Sports is a reasonable game, as clear about how the Wii works as a system as a frying pan is, visually, a lesson in frying hotcakes, at present, from where I'm standing, The Nintendo Wii Ain't Hotcakes. It's just a buttered frying pan.

Ahh, hell, I'll get one, anyway.

--you can email tim rogers at tim108(at)gmail(dot)com

 

[Tat]

did he actually play/see the game or did ms tell him to write that lo will sell 360s in japan? i mean come on

 

[Aryuken]

God, it`s like nothing but retarded diarrhea comes out of your mouth. It`s ****ing annoying.

The humourous thing is that such retarded comments only come from ppl like you, if you catch my drift.

did he actually play/see the game or did ms tell him to write that lo will sell 360s in japan? i mean come on

Yeah he must be lying....i mean cmon man...

Very good read, very good.

 

[Sir Speedy]

Wow he really seems to dig the demo.


I love the idea that you can't die but your teamates can, and you absorb their powers if they do, nice consilation.

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

did he actually play/see the game or did ms tell him to write that lo will sell 360s in japan? i mean come on

I hate Tim Rogers just as much as the next guy but I can assure you he actually played/saw the game. Also IIRC he mentioned something about working for Sony so he's not getting a paycheck for writing all this.

EDIT: This game is going to rock.

 

[Sir Speedy]

did he actually play/see the game or did ms tell him to write that lo will sell 360s in japan? i mean come on

Did you read the column?

 

[PhatSaqs]

Cant wait to see this shit.

 

[Tat]

Did you read the column?

i stopped at dead rising "shocked the daylights out of us all" at tgs05 :lol

this guy sounds like a complete xtard

 

[Uncle]

if its promise to host all show-floor demos on Xbox Live holds true

What? Where did they promise this? I dare not get my hopes up.

 

[sangreal]

For example, the main character is somehow cursed with immortality, and can't die -- if his hit points are reduced to zero, he'll stand back up after a few rounds. However, all of the other characters can die, and die forever. Yet when they die, the hero absorbs their abilities.

glad to see this confirmed in proper english

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

i stopped at dead rising "shocked the daylights out of us all" at tgs05 :lol

this guy sounds like a complete xtard

Oh for christ's sake. ::cue the gif of guy beating himself to death against keyboard::

 

[Sir Speedy]

More of Tim's LO impressions:

**** famitsu i have a demo disk

why the **** is this so good?

probably shouldn't say any more!!

just -- holy hell. i didn't know they were allowed to make stuff like this. you'd figure from all the ****ing bullshit that's been plopping out of game companies that making an "RPG" like this was illegal or some shit.

yeah . . . well. well!!

mother****!! i've only just watched the intro and am fighting some robots, though ****!!

this is the demo that'll be available on the TGS show floor, if you AHEM what i mean.

also they'll be giving it away in weekly famitsu in november.

yeah, yeah -- they can do it. ****, put previews in ****ing movie theaters of this.

holy shit. holy shit sakaguchi brought the ****ing hammer down.

also, takehiko inoue is god.

nobuo uematsu is a ****ing one-winged angel.

**** final fantasy!! **** that bullshit! this game is dark and ****ing weird and ****ing creepy as shit.

holy lord!!

my froth has been flash-boiled, so that there is no froth left, before any froth hath been expended

just look up the famitsu scans for, uh . . . pictures, and then imagine it moving

i mean, it's really smooth

the battles are, well, kind of final fantasy ATB, which sakaguchi can use he wants because it's his ****ing system

it's just -- the overall QUALITY of it is so perfect, plus it has some serious VISION and BALLS and some creepyass music that reaches a hell of a techno-pound when the battles roll around

most of my froth that was is visual; it looks like what final fantasy vii's opening ten hours wanted to look like, only it accomplishes it 100%

if sakaguchi is aiming for squeenix's throat, and if blue dragon is half as good as this -- he's got them, he's got the ****ers

while they're selling their souls remaking SEIKEN DENSETSU FOR CELL PHONES, here's sakaguchi, saying he's going to make a masterpiece, and then putting a **** OF A LOT OF MONEY where his mouth is

yeah, i think the xbox 360 is sold to japan -- i think this is it, i think microsoft can do it with this game, that's what i'm saying

yeah, squeenix is dead

LOL. Seems to be sounding like a real comeback of sorts.

Not an actual article per say, but the demo looks to be making the rounds and impressions.

http://forums.insertcredit.com/viewtopic.php?t=8161

 

[duckroll]

What? Where did they promise this? I dare not get my hopes up.

http://www.xbox.com/ja-jp/live/BringItHome

 

[Uncle]

http://www.xbox.com/ja-jp/live/BringItHome

Very helpful, thanks.

 

[MrMeltdown]

Question: Is sagakuchi really making this type of game exclusively for 360 just to get back at Square Enix? From every article ive read it starts with "once he was high up in Squeenix until he was somehow demoted, he quit and formed a company to develop exclusively for 360, a console failing in japan". Economically and Attention wise for his NEW studio it would make sense to make it on Playstation 3, but no he went for a japanese based game solely for the Japanese audience for a console he knew would suffer in Japan. its all confusing. Help me answer this question.

 

[Ceb]

the battles are, well, kind of final fantasy ATB, which sakaguchi can use he wants because it's his ****ing system

Except Sakaguchi didn't invent the ATB system. Try again, Tim.

A more appropriate question might be: does anyone really care if it lifts a couple of things from FF?

 

[Aryuken]

Question: Is sagakuchi really making this type of game exclusively for 360 just to get back at Square Enix? From every article ive read it starts with "once he was high up in Squeenix until he was somehow demoted, he quit and formed a company to develop exclusively for 360, a console failing in japan". Economically and Attention wise for his NEW studio it would make sense to make it on Playstation 3, but no he went for a japanese based game solely for the Japanese audience for a console he knew would suffer in Japan. its all confusing. Help me answer this question.

Well, 1st it was MS who approached Sakagushi, then MS helped Sakagushi "build" Mistwalker, and then they said "Now, we will fund your big games". And here's a thing, a JRPg doesn't have to be made solely for a japanese audience, that doesn't make any sense at all, a JRPg, like Square has been doing, can be made with worldwide audience in mind, just like any other game can.

So i don't know whats confusing.

 

[BuddyC]

More LO impressions:

LOL. Seems to be sounding like a real comeback of sorts.

Not an actual article per say, but the demo looks to be making the rounds and impressions.

http://forums.insertcredit.com/viewtopic.php?t=8161
Hopefully he will post a proper write up soon on : http://www.insertcredit.com/

Not the most solid set of impressions (squeenix is dead?), but eager to hear more details and impressions.

EDIT: Oh, I see Tim Rogers has that taken care of. Neat.

EDIT 2: Well, kinda of. I'm interested to just read a set of impressions that focus on the game instead of how it will turn Japan into 360 Land.

 

[Hunter D]

Question: Is sagakuchi really making this type of game exclusively for 360 just to get back at Square Enix? From every article ive read it starts with "once he was high up in Squeenix until he was somehow demoted, he quit and formed a company to develop exclusively for 360, a console failing in japan". Economically and Attention wise for his NEW studio it would make sense to make it on Playstation 3, but no he went for a japanese based game solely for the Japanese audience for a console he knew would suffer in Japan. its all confusing. Help me answer this question.

Maybe he wants revenge aganist those who wronged him. Revenge aganist square for demoting him after he built them up. Revenge aganist sony because, well, they are sony.
Or maybe MS showed him such a huge number when dealing with him that he couldn't turn them down.

 

[Sir Speedy]

Maybe he wants revenge aganist those who wronged him. Revenge aganist square for demoting him after he built them up. Revenge aganist sony because, well, they are sony.
Or maybe MS showed him such a huge number when dealing with him that he couldn't turn them down.

I'm sure it's a combination of things, I don't doubt he would have teamed with Sony if they were able to seal the deal. But that is just my guess.

 

[Uncle]

Economically and Attention wise for his NEW studio it would make sense to make it on Playstation 3.

Wouldn't be so sure about that. Would Sony be willing to pay him to do another FF/DQ-style game, when they are getting the real deal already..? And the fact that he is working on games for a Japanese audience for a console that is dying in Japan gets him tons of attention.

 

[Yoboman]

More of Tim's LO impressions:






LOL. Seems to be sounding like a real comeback of sorts.

Not an actual article per say, but the demo looks to be making the rounds and impressions.

http://forums.insertcredit.com/viewtopic.php?t=8161

Credibility redefined by Tim Rogers!

 

[Tat]

Revenge aganist sony because, well, they are sony.

wtf

why would sakaguchi have anything against sony?

god i really hate xtards (who suddenly have turned into jrpg fanboys.. really makes you wonder how you guys managed for all this time without any jrpgs to play)

 

[Sir Speedy]

wtf

why would sakaguchi have anything against sony?

god i really hate xtards (who suddenly have turned into jrpg fanboys.. really makes you wonder how you guys managed for all this time without any jrpgs to play)

xtards? :lol

 

[Aryuken]

wtf

why would sakaguchi have anything against sony?

god i really hate xtards (who suddenly have turned into jrpg fanboys.. really makes you wonder how you guys managed for all this time without any jrpgs to play)

It would be fun if you stopped with the X tards comments.

 

[Orodreth]

Both Lo and Blue Dragon demos on Marketplace ? Rolling Thunder indeed.

If both games end up being as good as they promise then i refuse to think it will not become a moderate change and only mean a little peak in 360 sales.

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

god i really hate xtards (who suddenly have turned into jrpg fanboys.. really makes you wonder how you guys managed for all this time without any jrpgs to play)

Man you are really on a roll.

 

[Tat]

It would be fun if you stopped with the X tards comments.

sure when you stop being it

act more like blimblim and maybe people wouldnt have any problem with your kind

 

[PhatSaqs]

sure when you stop being it

act more like blimblim and maybe people wouldnt have any problem with your kind

:lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[Hunter D]

wtf

why would sakaguchi have anything against sony?

god i really hate xtards (who suddenly have turned into jrpg fanboys.. really makes you wonder how you guys managed for all this time without any jrpgs to play)

Its a joke you dumbass. God, I hate fanatical, know it all fanboys. Your head is going to blow up if you don't lighten up.

I've been playing jrpgs for a long time guy. Don't assume things.

 

[Blimblim]

wtf

why would sakaguchi have anything against sony?

god i really hate xtards (who suddenly have turned into jrpg fanboys.. really makes you wonder how you guys managed for all this time without any jrpgs to play)

Nice to see you're back. We missed you.
Edit: haha, talk about perfect timing
Edit2: Annnnnd he's gone already. That was a drive by trolling.

 

[Uncle]

really makes you wonder how you guys managed for all this time without any jrpgs to play

Maybe they are like me. I wouldn't buy a console for JRPGs, but if an interesting title is coming to a console I already own, I will be interested. On a somewhat related note in the past I didn't like JRPGs that much, but a conversation here on GAF on the subject made me change my view on them. I used to think them as, well, RPGs, but I never actually got to play a role, so I was a bit dissapointed. Now I think them more as adventure games and found out that I actually enjoy them more that way.

 

[charlequin]

Question: Is sagakuchi really making this type of game exclusively for 360 just to get back at Square Enix?

No, he's doing it because Microsoft will give him fat sacks of cash money to make it. Duh.

 

[sprsk]

Hes whining about you guys in irc btw.

Also, can't wait to play this.