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Aquanaut's Holiday (PS3) announced
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Phife Dawg
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Sorry to go off-topic. I'm not living in an english speaking country, but isn't that considered a racial slur?Gekko87 said:
momolicious
Member
holy moly, this is like my dream game. It better be good and come here. Can US ps3 play import games no problems?
poking cow
Neo Member
This looks relaxing and addictive as hell =P
I really hope it turns out to be good
I really hope it turns out to be good
Mr. Pointy
Member
Fuck this looks nice.
Endless Ocean was my surprise hit of last year, so I'm looking forward to this one. Hoping for custom soundtracks.
Endless Ocean was my surprise hit of last year, so I'm looking forward to this one. Hoping for custom soundtracks.
BlazingDarkness
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momolicious said:
yep
TheDarkKnight774
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ooh an endless ocean type game in HD? Sign me up!!
radios shipping overview
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AH1 doesn't hold up that well. AH2 had a more alive-feeling world and pseudo-goals that were a lot more fun: a concrete - though mysterious - list of interesting things to find and huge lists of sea life to identify. Plus, it had several areas that represented varied aquatic biomes, with sea life to match each.
Clearly this isn't gonna go over well with people who think something's wrong if they're not shooting everything in sight. But it really needs to come over, and it's culturally nonspecific enough (hey, look at the old white guy in that screen) that localization would be a snap.
AH1 doesn't hold up that well. AH2 had a more alive-feeling world and pseudo-goals that were a lot more fun: a concrete - though mysterious - list of interesting things to find and huge lists of sea life to identify. Plus, it had several areas that represented varied aquatic biomes, with sea life to match each.
The prehistoric biome, with its icthyosaurs and tylosaurs, was BADASS.
I sense your sarcasm, but: play.2real4tv said:
Clearly this isn't gonna go over well with people who think something's wrong if they're not shooting everything in sight. But it really needs to come over, and it's culturally nonspecific enough (hey, look at the old white guy in that screen) that localization would be a snap.
Templar Wizard
Member
I would be great if some of the Designers took a look in the ocean, and modified the style of the game to reflect it. it just looks like aHD endless Ocean, which IMO was crapola.
JoshuaJSlone
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You should see their PS1 games. I can't claim to have played all PS1 games, but Tail of the Sun is the ugliest I've got.acevans2 said:
I haven't seen anything of theirs post-PS1, so the fact that their PS3 game doesn't look like a budget Wii game seems a step up from my expectations.
New Trailer (HD): http://cdn.jp.playstation.com/4m/pv/4m_aquanauts_full.wmv
Youtube version: http://youtube.com/watch?v=sV1oZQgm-GE
Youtube version: http://youtube.com/watch?v=sV1oZQgm-GE
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
You sure about that? If consoles started and ended in Japan, PS3 would very likely be the last home console you would see from Sony. Their Japanese PS3 business is absolutely abysmal in terms of sales. I normally don't really care about sales, but when they are so low as to endanger future business, it's only normal to be worth a mention.STG said:
drakesfortune
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Hmm, this could be the first Japanese game I ever import, assuming it has everything in English, which it appears that it does. I'd rather they just create a US version, but this game looks very appealing to me.
travisbickle
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reminder said:
Wow!
With this and Afrika are Sony trying to educate the userbase, and they must think Westerners are too dumb to appreciate it.
Twin pack for £40 and I'd buy.
drakesfortune
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Nolan. said:
Is it confirmed we need to know Japanese for this? The menus look like they're in English. So sad if there's no way to play this game in English.
Has it been confirmed?Tormentoso
Banned
I wonder if the Rock Beauty will be see on the same sea as the Powder Blue tang,since in real life the Rock Beauty is a caribbean fish,the Powder Blue is not.
Tormentoso said:
Srsly?
This looks great. I had the original PS1 game and played it to death, and I've always had a thing for this flavour of relaxing explore-athon. Endless Ocean was fine and all, but this type of gig is a purely visual affair and as such really needs HD. Hope to hell it gets a western release, or is at least playable in its japanese form.
wayward archer
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The first one was one of the most overrated 'cult-classics' ever made. Good for curing insomnia though.
This one looks MUCH better, however.
This one looks MUCH better, however.
AranhaHunter
Banned
Is this like Hakuna Matata but in the ocean?
Kagari said:
Which is a mistake. Seriously all you need to do is compare the sales of Afrika to IU and ToV in the similar time frame.
Not saying the game sucks or anything, but Sony really isn't in the position to make these types of games when they are struggling in userbase sales. It made sense during the PSone/PS2 era because they were the market leader.
BlazingDarkness said:
Maybe it's time to spam the Playstation blog with request for this. When those of us complained about the lack of RPG, it seems they listened. Ditto with the Little Big Planet segregated world. So maybe it's time to tell them that we want this and Afrika on the west.
Phife Dawg
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Then again the effort put into the respective products can't be compared anyways. Or put this way: The team that is responsible for this couldn't have done a ToV or a IU in the same timeframe with the same budget. It's not either or imo, Sony needs these titles as well.klee123 said:
Phife Dawg said:
I'm just trying to say is Sony should be more concerned in pleasing the hardcore gamers first in Japan. I don't think the hardcore gaming otaku would be interested in Afrika.
Artdink has many a lot of different games in the past, so they should be capable in making games like rpgs.
Phife Dawg
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I see where you're coming from but there is White Knight coming out this year for instance, a project of quite a bigger scale. AH is just the PS3 version of an old concept and doesn't involve all the work which would have to be put into an RPG. Whether or not Artdink could pull off something like WK is another story.klee123 said:
And to be frank, the market for classic RPGs seems to be dwindling outside of the big names. You need new impulses, the tastes are changing. Catering first and foremost to a niche market like the hardcore gaming otaku wouldn't really do anything to improve Sony's situation in the market siginificantly. Games like this help to diversify the portfolio with very little effort involved.
Zoc said:
What rpgs? oh you mean WKS which is the first original jrpg on the system after 2 year old 360 ports?
Yeah another damn jrpg indeed.......................
Phife Dawg said:
I dunno may it's just that when I can see new IPs such as Blue Dragon pulling 200K copies on a system which hasn't even broken a million, new IPs do have a chance.
Goldrusher
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Thanks for bumping this thread, making me think it was announced for the USA and/or Europe.reminder said:
BoilersFan23
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Actually, many of the RPGs SCEI published on PS2, sales really dwindled during the PS2 era compared to PS1. If the last installments of PoPoLoCrois, Arc The Lad, Wild Arms, Legaia, and many others sold good, they'd probably continue making them. Square Enix and Namco were publishers who could sell RPGs, that's why SCEI just let them do it. Plus, it's not like new installments of these games are coming since some devs are already working on projects elsewhere (like Media Vision working on DS). If you badly want RPGs now, just get a 360 (even spamming the PS Blog won't don't much because SCEA barely cares about bringing over most RPGs from Japan in the first place (Coded Soul on PSP is still Japan only as an example, and they almost didn't bring Folklore stateside)).klee123 said:
That's why they aren't the most concerned. Their top first party sales in Japan were GT and Hot Shots Golf, and both are not RPGs.
As for AH, the game sounds pretty cool and I'd like to give it a shot.
Phife Dawg
Member
Considering the people involved with BD the expectations were high, even with the low userbase of the 360. I'm not saying Sony shouldn't go after that market, I just think that concentrating on it and canning little projects like this here wouldn't really benefit them all that much - if at all. I'm pretty sure Artdink couldn't churn out a BD-esque project in the same timeframe and with the same budget like AH.klee123 said: