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Shin Megami Tensei IV (3DS) - Trailer up! - TBA 2013 (New: Website update)
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Augemitbutter
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music was good, but the rest? nothing special.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Oh shit Duckroll you managed to grab the game already?
Looking forward to getting soul hackers tomorrow.
Ill see if I can play SH and GW2 at the same time! (This is going to end poorly D
Joseph Flemming
Member
I just started Strange Journey again after reading this thread!
jaundicejuice
Member
Don't really know what to think based off of what's in the trailer. I want to see more gameplay I guess. That will come in time.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Real life is colorful regardless of the time period.
Its like people who complained modern shooters are too brown / monotone and I went and posted pics of Iraq during a sand storm and the more colorful regions of Afghanistan. On another subject the bombed out monotone mess of a city that Grozny turned into during the Second Chechen war. Having been to my hometown Ishinomaki after the tsunami and such, it wasnt exactly the most colorful place either with all the wreckage mud and what not all mixed together. If you want an idea from a game that looked about right, think fallout 3 wandering around a wrecked out city. Not a pleasant feeling in real life let me tell you, nor scenery to look at 1000 fold for those living there seeing it on a daily basis. Thankfully its a lot better now with the constant work from various folks around the country / from other countries including my friends NPO.
Nothing against you personally but I really hate it when people complain about colors in a game. Its like they have never looked out of the windows of their homes before or something.
Real life is colorful regardless of the time period.
Its like people who complained modern shooters are too brown / monotone and I went and posted pics of Iraq during a sand storm and the more colorful regions of Afghanistan. On another subject the bombed out monotone mess of a city that Grozny turned into during the Second Chechen war. Having been to my hometown Ishinomaki after the tsunami and such, it wasnt exactly the most colorful place either with all the wreckage mud and what not all mixed together. If you want an idea from a game that looked about right, think fallout 3 wandering around a wrecked out city. Not a pleasant feeling in real life let me tell you, nor scenery to look at 1000 fold for those living there seeing it on a daily basis. Thankfully its a lot better now with the constant work from various folks around the country / from other countries including my friends NPO.
Nothing against you personally but I really hate it when people complain about colors in a game. Its like they have never looked out of the windows of their homes before or something.
You're absolutely right but it looks strange for a Shin Megami Tensei to have bright colors like that because I don't remember seeing that in SMT if,I,II or III (except for the intro before the apocalypse perhaps? )
I don't complain. We will see how that will turns out.
Just take it with you.
Member
Well, the previous games had ties to earlier entries, so I'd say that is a high possibility.
I also wonder if they'll toss in a Raidou reference somewhere, given what happened in those games. That's probably pushing it, though.
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Deleted member 57681
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The day this releases is the day I buy a 3DS.
cj_iwakura
Member
Love the music. Not sure about the VA, somehow I think it'd be better without it, but I guess we'll see.
ColossalLazy
Member
Nice trailer. Music was pretty good. Hopefully at TGS there will be more details.
mihon
Member
Interesting. It made me think how we (or at least I) expect more from low HWs then high end like PS3. I don't really care for high graphics and I don't remember when was the last time I turned my PS3 on (and I know it was to play Xenogears from PSN).
I makes me think how thinks were done more carefully back then.
Well, I'm certainly intrigued.
. I like the direction they're going.. it looks like you could maybe phase in and out of the different realities the trailer shows off? Weird that they don't show a single character's face. But, it creates an air of mystery that is excellent. So, yeah, excited.
Hyped beyond belief
Rest assured, smt is another thing than toryiama and his crew.So, are they trying to portray time travel in that trailer or parallel worlds? I am allergic to time travel since FF13-2.
Anyway 2013 is generic, I hoped for them to be near end development...
So, are they trying to portray time travel in that trailer or parallel worlds? I am allergic to time travel since FF13-2.
I already mentioned that earlier in the thread, I'm thinking the same thing Middle Ages vs Modern Day tokyo or something.
RPGCrazied
Member
Cool trailer, was the very end part actually ingame footage? Hard to tell.
Viola of the Abyss
Member
That trailer didn't really confirm that the game is third person though.
I really hope it is, I don't like playing games in first person.
I really hope it is, I don't like playing games in first person.
whalleywhat
Member
It seemed like it was shifting through a number of different time periods.
looked like it to me.
SpaceBridge
Member
A possibility (which I think Duckroll said in a previous thread) is perhaps the game starts in the future where humanity has reverted to a religious middle ages period, living in walled cities while in the outside world nature has reclaimed the ruined cities. Perhaps, the main cast travels back in time to find out what happened to the lost civilization and prevent it?
TurnipFritters
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At the end the camera panning around the hero in third person, showing a variety of different environments. Exploration will definitely be in third person. Who knows what'll happen with the battle system though.
There wasn't much to see unfortunately. Music in the trailer was delightful but outside of that there isn't much to say asides that it feels like a megaten game. The medieval era concept art seemed awkward at first but it reverted back to Tokyo later on so we will have to wait to see what is up with that. I'm glad the COMP and the demon summoning program seem to be back.
But yeah, like Duckroll said this "trailer" implies the game is quite early in development. The trailer is almost entirely made up of concept art or animation stills.
But yeah, like Duckroll said this "trailer" implies the game is quite early in development. The trailer is almost entirely made up of concept art or animation stills.
Extra Sauce
Member
I was expecting this to run on the Etrian Odyssey IV engine, since Strange Journey used the EO DS engine... now I'm not so sure since the game is not 1st person.
SpaceBridge
Member
It's better, cuz it might be running on the Nocturne engine.
Joseph Flemming
Member
I'm torn here, I loved Nocturne, but also enjoyed the EO games, & SMT:SJ. It took me a while to get into the first person dungeon crawls, but I really enjoy the immersion it brings now. In fact my RPG history is a strange one, I went from only playing JRPG's to the Etrian Odysey games, to Megaten, to western RPG's if it wasn't for Altus's dungeon crawls I would never have been able to get into Elder Scrolls.
I just watched Jeremy Parish's preview of EO4 so if they use that engine for SMTIV I'm not going to complain, looks nice.
Extra Sauce
Member
Loved that preview! I never really played EO games but it got me super psyched for IV.
Viola of the Abyss
Member
I don't know, it didn't seem so certain. Sure, why bother doing a character model if the game will be in first person? That's an indicator, however as you say it could be only used for exploration.
I think I could handle first person battles though.
Joseph Flemming
Member
They are really great games. I hope the wait for EOIV isn't long, in the meantime I highly suggest you play EO III, compared to I & 2 it is definitely more accessible, and have many of the features that have carried over into IV, perhaps not as refined. They are difficult, not impossible, and reward patient gameplay. If you have a aversion to high difficulty than maybe you should hold off until IV gets localized.. The trailer shows a casual mode included. But I highly recommend the series.
Magicpaint
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I don't think they'll bother making exploration third person if they're going to resort to first person battles, that'd be very jarring. Personally I hope for the option of first in both. First person dungeon crawlers are kinda rare enough already, so I want the option.
Joseph Flemming
Member
I love you.
First person dungeon crawlers are rare? The original DS/PSP were littered with them! Unchained Blades, Etrian Odyssey 1-3, Dark Spire, Strange Journey, Class of Heroes 1&2, Deep Labyrinth, King's Field Additional I&II, My World My Way (lol), etc. There's probably others I'm forgetting too. Oh, and Wizardry on PS3 is another one! There's PLENTY of modern day first person dungeon crawlers.
I mean, I like them as much as the next guy, but please, keep the first person an option/unlockable for SMT IV like it was in SMT III. We NEED a 3rd person RPG/SMT game in the vein of Nocturne, desperately.
I mean, I like them as much as the next guy, but please, keep the first person an option/unlockable for SMT IV like it was in SMT III. We NEED a 3rd person RPG/SMT game in the vein of Nocturne, desperately.
Joseph Flemming
Member
You know as well as I do that first person crawls are less likely to show up then 3rd person ones across all platforms. Look how many FF remakes/ spin off games was out on the ds alone, couple that with the radiant histories, the Solatorobo's, Contact mana games.. The list goes on and on.
I remember when SMT: Strange Journey was announced, people complained about the fist person mode...
Tell you what, let's split the difference, let's hope we can set the viewpoint from the options at the start of the game.
Edit:this is from the Ds RPGs list alone http://www.listal.com/list/rpg-world-nintendo-ds-edition
cj_iwakura
Member
They're pretty dang common, I think. Class of Heroes, Wizardry Renaissance, Unchained Blades, Dark Spire, Etrian Odyssey, etc.
Hope for more 3rd person goodness. Looks like Nocturne too.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Gabriel is one of the minor changes. Vetala for example, changes drastically:
Soul Hackers
SMT3
Persona3&4
They look so Messian it's criminal.
Real life is colorful regardless of the time period.
Its like people who complained modern shooters are too brown / monotone and I went and posted pics of Iraq during a sand storm and the more colorful regions of Afghanistan. On another subject the bombed out monotone mess of a city that Grozny turned into during the Second Chechen war. Having been to my hometown Ishinomaki after the tsunami and such, it wasnt exactly the most colorful place either with all the wreckage mud and what not all mixed together. If you want an idea from a game that looked about right, think fallout 3 wandering around a wrecked out city. Not a pleasant feeling in real life let me tell you, nor scenery to look at 1000 fold for those living there seeing it on a daily basis. Thankfully its a lot better now with the constant work from various folks around the country / from other countries including my friends NPO.
Nothing against you personally but I really hate it when people complain about colors in a game. Its like they have never looked out of the windows of their homes before or something.
Also, remember back to Kaneko's use of color in Megaten games: it's often garish hues in flat blocks, especially for blood, Magatsuhi, or demonic/alien/cult architecture.
Don't put him in the wrong mood, please.
Magicpaint
Member
I'll have to look into Unchained Blades and CoH, because those somehow slipped by me. But yeah, I'd still say they're probably slim pickings compared to your average third person RPG. But yeah, I think that even though we just got SJ, it's still important for SMT (imo) to at least have a first person option.
TurnipFritters
Member
I was talking specifically about the Seraphs Gabriel, Michael, Raphael and Uriel.
Holy Order Sol
Member
The music is awesome especially at 1:35. That's the kinda stuff I wanted to hear.
mihon
Member
Barakov
Member
One of the best rpgs of last gen.