It's a Namco IP - I guess they'd have to greenlight it. And wasn't tri-Crescendo heavily involved as well?Minsc said::lol :lol :lol
Wait... that can't be enough. Nintendo give the go-ahead? :lol :lol :lol
It's a Namco IP - I guess they'd have to greenlight it. And wasn't tri-Crescendo heavily involved as well?Minsc said::lol :lol :lol
Wait... that can't be enough. Nintendo give the go-ahead? :lol :lol :lol
wsippel said:It's a Namco IP - I guess they'd have to greenlight it. And wasn't tri-Crescendo heavily involved as well?
Why not get the EU release? It's all English.Vinnk said:Ok, I give up hoping for a US release. I'm gonna buy the Japanese version. I know the speech is all in English but is there a lot of game-necessary text that's only in Japanese? My spoken Japanese is OK but my kanji level is very low.
Aaron Strife said:Why not get the EU release? It's all English.
WTF are you talking about?PolyGone said:This could have been the Wii's ace in the hole this holiday, but no, NOA sucks dick
Black-Wind said:WTF are you talking about?
(Do people really think this game is "a ace that would make the core happy"?)
+ Sky Crawlers, Tenchu 4, 428Vinnk said:Very true. One game is not enough to make the core gamers happy. But perhaps "less pissed off".
Now if the holiday lineup was:
Disaster, Fatal Frame IV, Captain Rainbow, and something like a new Pikmin or (dare I dream) and on-line Excitetruck, THEN they might be at least appeased.
As it is now, it's pretty dismal for traditional core gamers.
Tenbatsu said:+ Sky Crawlers, Tenchu 4, 428
At least the Japan side is getting decent games, NA is getting shit.
Yeah!Vinnk said:Yeah, I forgot about those. Isn't NA getting Tenchu 4 though? I played an English version at TGS.
-WindYoshi- said:I'm starting to get really tired of NOA's actions.
TAKE SOME DAMN RISKS YOU COCKY ASSHOLES!
Absolutely yes. Baten Kaitos was kick ass and I want another one. I actually never played the second GCN game so I'll definitely have to pick that up if a third game comes down the pipeline to round out the trilogy.
Dude, Baten Kaitos Origins is WAY, WAY, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better than the original! Go out and buy it now!UraMallas said:Absolutely yes. Baten Kaitos was kick ass and I want another one. I actually never played the second GCN game so I'll definitely have to pick that up if a third game comes down the pipeline to round out the trilogy.
vareon said:Nintendo's best title is about an italian mushroom-eating plumber who saves a princess from being kidnapped by a dinosaur/dragon/turtle/thing who wants to marry her.
Less pissed?Vinnk said:Very true. One game is not enough to make the core gamers happy. But perhaps "less pissed off".
Now if the holiday lineup was:
Disaster, Fatal Frame IV, Captain Rainbow, and something like a new Pikmin or (dare I dream) and on-line Excitetruck, THEN they might be at least appeased.
As it is now, it's pretty dismal for traditional core gamers.
I was wondering why people were saying "Nintendo! Greenlight this!".wsippel said:It's a Namco IP - I guess they'd have to greenlight it. And wasn't tri-Crescendo heavily involved as well?
Death_Born said:They sold so many Wiis, they don't have to release another game in the next year and they'd still have windfall profits.
This is the same as for me.lsslave said:Its not much of a laughing matter... the company was doing good but now I have lost all faith... I went into this generation a N fanboy and have now almost abandoned my camp... the last game I got for the Wii was Mario Kart when it came out >.<
SabinFigaro said:Please, please, please give me a new Baten Kaitos. I was wrong all those years ago to dismiss it as another "card RPG', and I now consider one of the finest titles of last gen. Who is in charge to give the go-ahead?!? Give me his/her name!!!
Jazzy Network said:This is the first I've heard of people actually caring about Baiten Kaitos or whatever it's called.
Europe has Disaster, US have Baten Kaitos Origins.Kevtones said:Disaster is probably never coming out here
Fuu said:Watch NoA not localizing a new Baten Kaitos.
sphinx said:BATEN KAITOS!!!!!!!!!!
omg, omg.....
:O:O:O:O
something, please DO SOMETHING! just make a fucking DS game or whatever but DO NOT let the franchise die!!
zigg said:Man, I forgot about the DS possibility. BK3 would be sweet on the DS. Furious card tapping action go!
lsslave said:Im still waiting for my freaking Soma Bringer... and Disaster... and SCREW YOU NOA AND YOUR SHITTY FUCKING RELEASES
AniHawk said:Why did Nintendo buy these guys again? Because they could?
charlequin said:Disaster not coming to the US for no fucking reason, Baten Kaitos ready to be developed on Nintendo's okay (aka never), and apparently else nothing in development worth talking about. Awesome. :/
RpgN said:In fact, it was announced along with Xenosaga ds and not just a rumor. After a long time of silence, people just forgot about it and it died a slow death.
How is Moeblo going to convince anyone? It's paint-by-the-numbers.Zerodoppler said:You'll understand when you've played Soma Bringer.
This one was turned into BK Origins, if I'm not mistaken.Ramenman said:Wasn't BKDS already rumored in the early DS days ?
It gives Nintendo access to some NBGI IPs without any licensing issues (NBGI still owns a small part of the studio), as well as some exclusives. It's similar to the TGDS deal with Square back in the day I'd say, basically Nintendos way of moneyhatting exclusives. Monolith still develops for NBGI after all, but the games have to be Nintendo exclusive. I expect at least one of the Wii games they're working on to be a Namco game - maybe Xenosaga or SRW, maybe even the next Tales.AniHawk said:Why did Nintendo buy these guys again? Because they could?
As I recall, back in the GameCube days, Nintendo and Bandai both had the same banker handling their money for them, Bandai was on the ropes, and Nintendo was famously able to earn money on anything they did (even failures), so the banker suggested that Nintendo should take over Bandai that way Yamauchi could step in and turn Bandai around.AniHawk said:Why did Nintendo buy these guys again? Because they could?
Huh? Nintendo owns Monolith, how does that great them access to Namco IPs without any licensing issues when it's up to Namco if they want to work with Monolith on a game? Nintendo did not get any IPs when they bought Monolith. This isn't anything like TGDS either, all those people are still at Square-Enix. This was not a way to moneyhat exclusives, Q-Fund on the other hand was.wsippel said:It gives Nintendo access to some NBGI IPs without any licensing issues (NBGI still owns a small part of the studio), as well as some exclusives. It's similar to the TGDS deal with Square back in the day I'd say, basically Nintendos way of moneyhatting exclusives. Monolith still develops for NBGI after all, but the games have to be Nintendo exclusive. I expect at least one of the Wii games they're working on to be a Namco game - maybe Xenosaga or SRW, maybe even the next Tales.
What in the world? When did this happen? :lolruby_onix said:As I recall, back in the GameCube days, Nintendo and Bandai both had the same banker handling their money for them, Bandai was on the ropes, and Nintendo was famously able to earn money on anything they did (even failures), so the banker suggested that Nintendo should take over Bandai that way Yamauchi could step in and turn Bandai around.
To do this, the bank bought up as much of Bandai's loose stock as they could in Nintendo's name, and when Nintendo was one of the biggest shareholders, proposed the idea of the president stepping down from his position and selling enough of his stock to give controlling interest to Nintendo.
Bandai's president said that Nintendo ownership would jeopardize his company's vital relations with Sony, and that Yamauchi would drag Bandai down along with Nintendo (who was doomed, obviously) rather than save it, and that he'd fight any takeover attempt. So Nintendo and the bank gave up on the idea. And Bandai merged with Namco.
Nintendo presumably sold the Bandai (turned Namco-Bandai) stock they had picked up in the endeavor to whoever it is that's currently in charge of Namco-Bandai, in order to strengthen their leadership position, and Nintendo was paid with Monolith stock.