I honestly can't see anything else coming out this year aside for maybe Another World. Inazuma Eleven 2 is due Oct 1st. It makes no sense for Level 5 to publish another 2 major releases within the next two months. Another World might be right for a Dec release, and could sell really well, but that's about it. Another thing to note is that both their PSP games are also slated for "mobile" release. Aka: ROID.
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Level 5 Vision 2009 confirmed - 25th Aug, 3 new titles
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Die Squirrel Die
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No Ushiro? Unless they flubbed and Ushiro is one of the new projects.
Uh oh, I just checked. Level 5 STILL fucked up, lolz. The first issue of Famitsu to be moved to a Thursday will be the Aug 20th issue. Which means on the week of Level 5 Vision, Famitsu will be out on Thursday, and leaked on Tuesday. Since their conference starts at 7pm in Japan, by then everyone will already know what's being announced. :lol
DevilWillcry
Member
Dark Cloud 3 incoming.
SolidSnakex
Member
Die Squirrel Die said:
Inazuma Eleven Break isn't listed either.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
i wish they'd take a break from announcing titles and get around to releasing them.
duckroll said:
Level-5 consoles games ...uh .
I srsly didn't know that , I thought they will focus on handheld , ya know the platforms where they made good games , when will they ever learn
DevilWillcry said:
Sony should hire another developer for this , Level-5 are very busy with their own stuff right now .
It's entirely possible that the "known titles" are the ones they are giving much more details about, because they might have a release date/window at the conference. The 3 new titles will be new announcements. That doesn't mean everything else has been canned, it might just mean they don't have a big role in the conference because they're due some time later.
SecretBonusPoint
Banned
Where is Ushiro... 
Looked amazing, very Persona inspired.
Looked amazing, very Persona inspired.
Near said:
IIRC a brief trailer was shown last year, but I don't think you can say it has been "officially" announced. Maybe I'm wrong..and if I am, I'm guessing it has either been cancelled or moved to another platform.
StealthGoblin
Banned
Excellent. I'm really liking the fact that Level-5 are getting more well known and can self publish titles. As for the new TBA titles, I think they'll be ones Level-5 are self publishing, like the games they spoke about last year. TGS should be interesting. I've been waiting for a particular announcement from them for quite a while.
I really wish that their localisation process would be quicker though. The wait for WKC in the EU is really annoying, and I waited ages for Professor Layton and the curious village. I don't know how the localisation process works. Do they outsource loads of it?
I really wish that their localisation process would be quicker though. The wait for WKC in the EU is really annoying, and I waited ages for Professor Layton and the curious village. I don't know how the localisation process works. Do they outsource loads of it?
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
This. And get around releasing "overseas" versions too.Stumpokapow said:
From the list, Sloane and McHale 2 is also missing (although it comes out like a week after the event).
Level-5 is just too small to manage all the stuff they want, either they start focusing a little or the situation will continue to suck as much or even more than right now, which sucks a lot.
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
I don't really agree with this. If you mean sucks as in "damn they have all these titles announced but I can't play them and I have to bitch about it on a forum instead!" then sure. But in terms of being a publishing and development business, Level 5 is hitting all the right notes. They're expanding at a brisk rate, and all their IPs are doing well. Even with the delays for overseas releases, it doesn't seem to have a huge impact on the sales. After all Layton 1 is *still* selling well in the US.
StealthGoblin
Banned
duckroll said:
Cool, thanks for that. WKC is taking longer because westeners demand Voice Chat and more online features.
Does anyone know how many people are employed there? I'd imagine it must be quite a lot because of the number of teams they have. The PS3 team alone must be rather large.
StealthGoblin
Banned
Kagari said:
Yeah. I'd also like a Jeanne d'Arc sequel at some point. I found that to be very refreshing. Sony would publish that though, so thats not going to be one of those TBA's even if it is in development.
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
The actual outcome is still good for them sure, but not for us (and I doubt it'd be worse for them if it improved for us). There's always something with their games (DQ8, DQ9, Rogue Galaxy, WKC, Layton, Inazuma, PSP ones...), outside the japanese Layton releases, it seems they are totally incapable of getting their games out on a regular, planned basis, specially worldwide.duckroll said:
Even if they still do good, its a 'quiero y no puedo' situation (which I don't know how it translates into english but it should be something 'I want but I can't") with their lineup. Thus why I'd like them to focus on what's left to localize and release from their already announced or released games rather than hearing about 3 more new games like they aren't behind schedule enough already.
near
Gold Member
idlewild_ said:
The size and scale of some of there projects don't seem all too demanding in my opinion. Most are on portables and are sequels; which would help since the framework would be already be in place. Also considering tentative release dates announced, I'd imagine they've had the majority of the titles in development for quite sometime, which would allow the company and staff to simultaneously work on other things. That said, I'm still not expecting 3 new games.
I'd really like to find out about Cardboard Senki, and Ushiro, I've been waiting for those games for a long time.
I'm surprised Sony hasn't contracted Level-5 to make more console games, now that they have the engine down. By this time they already had two PS2 games out for Sony, were most of the way finished with DQ8, and were starting on Rogue Galaxy.
I'm surprised Sony hasn't contracted Level-5 to make more console games, now that they have the engine down. By this time they already had two PS2 games out for Sony, were most of the way finished with DQ8, and were starting on Rogue Galaxy.
Thought Dark Cloud 2 was pretty addicting, albeit it tended to drag as you got farther through the game, and the story was pretty silly. I am a sucker for the whole village-creation element, the ARPG+town creation reminded me of something like a modern-day Quintet game.
Wish we got Inazuma Eleven over in the US, even though we stereotypically hate soccer and don't care about RPGs over here.
Wish we got Inazuma Eleven over in the US, even though we stereotypically hate soccer and don't care about RPGs over here.
Maybe Inazuma Eleven Break made publishers hesitant, why localize/push a new IP when a supposed remake's been announced? I don't think it matters much to Level 5, they might be involved in localization of their games but at the end of the day they aren't the publisher outside of Japan, they're concentrating on pushing their IPs in Japan.speedpop said:
Shadowlink
Member
Has level 5 released games on the Wii? I want to see what they can do on the Wii.
Inazuma 11 not being localized is probably my biggest WTF localization decision this generation thus far, above the US not getting Disaster, lack of Soma Bringer, or Fatal Frame IV, or anything. It just seems like it would be insanely successful here in Europe and yet... nothing. God damn.
Anyway, I'm really most excited for Another World and Cardboard Senki, so I'm happy to see they'll be appearing. Though with the previously mentioned Inazuma 11, I am terrified about the games even being localized.
Seriously. Where the hell are Nintendo, or Atlus, or XSEED, or Ignition, or fucking anyone on this?
Anyway, I'm really most excited for Another World and Cardboard Senki, so I'm happy to see they'll be appearing. Though with the previously mentioned Inazuma 11, I am terrified about the games even being localized.
Seriously. Where the hell are Nintendo, or Atlus, or XSEED, or Ignition, or fucking anyone on this?
Inazuma Eleven, woo. I love watching it on TV every friday. I die a little every time I walk to the Gamestop downstairs and don't see it with the rest of the DS games. Why oh why must America not get all the awesome things Japan does? I thought we were supposed to be the center of the universe and get everything(Yeah, right).