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Media Vision hiring for a PS4 RPG which may or may not be Wild Arms
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KZXcellent
Member
IT'S HAPPENING.
PoweredByHentai
Member
Please be Wild Arms, PLEASE BE WILD ARMS!!!!
Newtype-001
Member
Oh boy man when was the last time we got a wild west jrpg? I hope this goes well even if this somehow isnt Wild Arms.
brickarts295
Member
The year of dreams end this E3.
Berserker976
Member
Year of Dreams Pt.2 continues! Please be reeeeeal!
Claude Augario
Member
Play with my ARMs, please!
Leafhopper
Banned
Please by beating heart heart, hold together.
bobbychalkers
Member
Its clearly Rising Zan
Have a Nice Day
Member
I wouldn't categorize the Wild Arms games as sci-fi.
Holy shit. For real?
MEGATON
I'm ready for whistling simulator 2017.
MEGATON
for the extraordinarily small subset of people who care about wild arms
Well that's an interesting change of direction for white knight chronicles 3
Isnt it still year 1?
The heaviest.
JSoup
Banned
They still have sci-fi elements.
If they're not going to cheap out, why bother with that?
Killer Queen
Banned
Clearly sci fi souls you've been looking for.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
-Aliens
-Nanomachines (son)
-Overtech
-DNA manipulation
2 is probably the lightest overall, but the rest go ham on sci-fi.
Nightengale
Member
There's spaceships, airships, aliens, nanomachines and mecha dragons in Wild Arms.
This is the series I've been hoping to hear about for the last couple of years. I hope we a new Wild Arms with Michiko Naruke on music. The Wild Arms soundtrack is my favorite out of all rpgs and a new entry in the series with everything else we're getting would make this generation so amazing.
Jarod McChicken
Member
Wildstar also fits this genre mix... wild is a popular title word for this!
texhnolyze
Banned
Woah, it's happening, isn't it?
It's been years if not a decade.
It's been years if not a decade.
SolidSnakex
Member
The second half of Wild Arms starts blending in sci-fi elements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUgO4VWVOm0
People first think of westerns when they think of the series, but it's definitely a blend of western and sci-fi.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
I would LOVE this. And please be PS4 only...No more cross-gen Japan.
Well they seemingly only list PS4. Plus Sony would be publishing, and a PS4 exclusive is to their benefit.
OmegaDL50
Member
Even the first game had some advanced civilization overtones of a sci-fi nature.
The Metal Demons for example which were a race from another planet.
Even the Elw race had temples which technologies used computers, space stations with some kind of molecular teleportation tech, and even speculation of the creation of the ARMs weapons themselves. and of course the Golems.
In fact even one of the main characters
Rudy is apparently some sort of cyborg / artificial humanoid, to the point that during one of his battles his arm was destroyed and needed to be replaced via Elw technology.
Cow Goes Moo
Member
im gonna guess 2018
optimistically 2017
reveal sometime this year probably tgs
optimistically 2017
reveal sometime this year probably tgs
Newtype-001
Member
Valkyria Revolution looks Wild West to people?
also doesnt make sense to hide the name of the studio since that games has already been announced.
SolidSnakex
Member
That doesn't really add up for a few reasons. There doesn't appear to be any Wild West elements to Revolution. And if it were that then why wouldn't they specifically mention it? It's been announced already so there's no reason to be secretive about the company or the game.
wapplew
Member
Great, back to the hype train!
zxcv11223300xi
Neo Member
Bring Wild Arms backs!
LifeBrandRobot
Member
YOOOOOOOOOO pls be true. Wid Arms!
This is my Shenmue 3/Beyond Good and Evil 2/Half-Life 3.
This is my Shenmue 3/Beyond Good and Evil 2/Half-Life 3.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
What if it was Cowboy Bebop.
OmegaDL50
Member
What and not have some cool anime intro like the original Wild Arms had?
The art style of the Wild Arms series has been consistent. So I don't expect a 6th Wild Arms title to not change much in this regard.
Nightengale
Member
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I don't quite understand how there can be a "recruitment page" without the name of the company? How do you apply for a job without knowing which company you're applying for?
I'm probably missing something here.
But anyway this is exciting, I'd love a new WA. I hope they won't screw it up by making it all modern and shitty with lame "action" combat and waifus and whatnot. (And Michiko Naruke better be involved!)
I'm probably missing something here.
But anyway this is exciting, I'd love a new WA. I hope they won't screw it up by making it all modern and shitty with lame "action" combat and waifus and whatnot. (And Michiko Naruke better be involved!)
These are not recruitment ads for permanent staff, they are recruitment ads posted via employment agencies for temporary staff or contract staff. Usually when companies need additional staff for ongoing projects they might turn to such job portals to create a listing, sometimes they don't want to announce who they are because they themselves might be under contract for said project (ie: they're not the publisher), so instead they'll list the company's general location, the salary expectations, and some vague details about the project they're hiring for.
Not to crush dreams, but to provide some better context, it doesn't say that this project they're hiring for is a sci-fi/western blend or whatever. What OP is looking at is a bullet point about the unnamed company:
"A popular game development company that combined sci-fi and western settings."
There are two more:
"An office where staff that love making games come together."
"The perfect environment to easily express your opinion and sharpen your design skills and senses."
The only actual detail we know about the project is that it's a PlayStation 4 RPG, meaning that it could very well just be Valkyria: Azure Revolution (which is why people are suggesting that as a likely possibility --- it's not because Valkyria: Azure Revolution has any hint of a western setting to it). What's interesting about this job listing though is that Media Vision chose to specifically label themselves as a studio "that combined sci-fi and western settings" where they could have used plenty of other lurings.
Regardless of whether this ad specifically is actually for anything Wild Arms-related, this year is the series' 20th anniversary and the creator did tease that Sony had a meeting about it, so hopefully we'll hear something soon.
"A popular game development company that combined sci-fi and western settings."
There are two more:
"An office where staff that love making games come together."
"The perfect environment to easily express your opinion and sharpen your design skills and senses."
The only actual detail we know about the project is that it's a PlayStation 4 RPG, meaning that it could very well just be Valkyria: Azure Revolution (which is why people are suggesting that as a likely possibility --- it's not because Valkyria: Azure Revolution has any hint of a western setting to it). What's interesting about this job listing though is that Media Vision chose to specifically label themselves as a studio "that combined sci-fi and western settings" where they could have used plenty of other lurings.
Regardless of whether this ad specifically is actually for anything Wild Arms-related, this year is the series' 20th anniversary and the creator did tease that Sony had a meeting about it, so hopefully we'll hear something soon.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Ah, makes sense.
Uhm, crush my dreams all you want. Or rather try, with or without this I fully believe a new Wild ARMs is happening. Been way to much teasing for it not to happen.
Although I kinda feel like smacking it out of them, especially as Naruke-san and Kitaon are dancing around and messing with us on Twitter. Not to mention the little visits from both Kaneko-san and Naruke-san.
Although I kinda feel like smacking it out of them, especially as Naruke-san and Kitaon are dancing around and messing with us on Twitter. Not to mention the little visits from both Kaneko-san and Naruke-san.