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[Mojojo]

:lol I stopped the vid after sonic became super-sayan. I couldn't watch it anymore it was too embarassing.

I stopped when Lise kissed Sonic.. goofy and somehow digusting at the same time.

 

[Cedille]

It may be next week when Famitsu covers DQXI and new FFT games. :-(

 

[ram]

Famitsu reviews
Motorstorm PS3 8,8,8,6
Sonic PS3 8,7,7,7
Sonic 360 8,7,7,8

"...motorstorm is a gajin game, it cant be good - even if our japanese superior games like sonic suck hard these days - must give a 6 to motorstorm..."

 

[cank stoochie]

after nintendogs, gundam and sonic i'm still surprised famitsu have still some sort of credibilty

 

[solarplexus]

 

[reminder]

All scores:

Motorstorm (PS3, Sony): 8 / 8 / 8 / 6 - (30/40)
Sonic The Hedgehog (PS3, Sega): 8 / 7 / 7 / 7 - (29/40)
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (Xbox 360, Capcom): 9 / 9 / 9 / 9 - (36/40)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Xbox 360, Sega): 8 / 7 / 7 / 8 - (30/40)
Seiken Densetsu 4 (PS2, Square Enix): 7 / 8 / 8 / 7 - (30/40)
Madden NFL 07 (PS2, EA): 7 / 8 / 7 / 5 - (27/40)
Monster 4X4: World Circuit (Wii, Ubisoft): 7 / 6 / 7 / 8 - (28/40)
A Ressha de Ikou HX (Xbox 360, Artdink): 7 / 6 / 7 / 7 - (27/40)
Metal Gear Portable Ops (PSP, Konami): 9 / 10 / 9 / 9 - (37/40)
Tales of The World: Radiant Mythology (PSP, Bandai Namco): 8 / 7 / 8 / 7 - (30/40)
Nounai Aesthe: IQ Suppli DS (NDS, Spike): 7 / 7 / 6 / 6 - (26/40)
Heisei Kyouiku Iinkai DS (NDS, Bandai Namco): 6 / 9 / 7 / 6 - (28/40)
Need for Speed Carbon (PS2, EA): 8 / 8 / 7 / 7 - (30/40)
Need for Speed Carbon (PS3/Xbox 360, EA): 9 / 9 / 8 / 8 - (34/40)
Need for Speed Carbon (Wii, EA): 8 / 7 / 6 / 7 - (28/40)
Need for Speed Carbon (PSP, EA): 8 / 8 / 7 / 8 - (31/40)
School Love! (PS2, Views): 6 / 6 / 6 / 6 - (24/40)
Intelligent License 2 (PSP, Now Production): 7 / 9 / 7 / 8 - (31/40)
NBA Live 07 (PSP, EA): 7 / 8 / 7 / 7 - (29/40)
Hamster to Kurasou (NDS, Interchannel): 6 / 6 / 5 / 5 - (22/40)

 

[Mr. Pointy]

FFCC details
Director: Mitsuru Kamiyama (FFCC coder)
Char. Design: Toshiyuki Itahana (FFIX, Chocobo)
Lead chars are twins: Yuri and Cherinka
Up to 4 players
Vertical position affects battles (i.e. there is a Y axis)
There's a new jump command.
No crystal gauge.
Not full voice but there will be some voices in it.
Single player involves changing between chars.
Theme is family love and brotherly love. There's a story? Does that mean I can play this as a 1P game and not get bored?
Multiplayer is currently not Wi-Fi - Square wants you to play in the presence of friends (oh noes). Dammit, every DS owner in Australia is either <8yo or a hikikomori.
Not even confirmed if there will be Wi-Fi content of any kind.
Kawazu is not involved. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

Still getting this.

 

[reriel]

so, gamelabo reports that square has 2 games in work for 360
source: gamefront

 

[Busty]

Famitsu reviews
Motorstorm PS3 8,8,8,6
Evangelion PS2 7,6,7,6
Mana 4 PS2 7,8,8,7
Madden 360 7,8,7,5
Sonic PS3 8,7,7,7
Sonic 360 8,7,7,8
Lost Planet 360 9,9,9,9
MGS P.Ops PSP 9,10,9,9
Tales: Radiant Mythology PSP 8,7,8,7
IQ Suppli DS 7,7,6,6
Heisei Kyoiku DS 6,9,7,6

Great work, thanks. But doesn't Famitsu have a news/rumours section? If so, is there anything of interest......

What with all three consoles out in Japan now I'm curious to see what all the 'chatter' is....

 

[Cedille]

<3

 

[Magicpaint]

Tales of the Tempest (DS) = owned.

BY a whopping 2 points!

I think the TotW score is dissapointing, but again, who gives a crap about Famitsu? I'm still probably getting it when I can.

 

[deathkiller]

<3

FMVs added? (same excuse as Valkyria Profile?)

 

[Bo130]

<3

That's hot. Hopefully the other will be for DS with Wi-Fi

 

[slaughterking]

Whaa? Where does the new FFT comes from? Never heared of this before.

 

[ivysaur12]

FFCC details
Director: Mitsuru Kamiyama (FFCC coder)
Char. Design: Toshiyuki Itahana (FFIX, Chocobo)
Lead chars are twins: Yuri and Cherinka
Up to 4 players
Vertical position affects battles (i.e. there is a Y axis)
There's a new jump command.
No crystal gauge.
Not full voice but there will be some voices in it.
Single player involves changing between chars.
Theme is family love and brotherly love.
Multiplayer is currently not Wi-Fi - Square wants you to play in the presence of friends (oh noes).
Not even confirmed if there will be Wi-Fi content of any kind.
Kawazu is not involved.

So there are actually characters and a story this time (FF:CC as much as I love ye, trying to make a story in the last 30 minutes doesn't cut it. But damn, wasn't that last boss battle awesome!). I really hope that FF:CC Wii has there Wi-Fi though.

 

[flipping_heck]

All scores:

Seiken Densetsu 4 (PS2, Square Enix): 7 / 8 / 8 / 7 - (30/40)

I said 'WOW!'

 

[Jonnyram]

so, gamelabo reports that square has 2 games in work for 360
source: gamefront

What would they be? Front Mission Online and Fantasy Earth?

 

[duckroll]

Jump scans! (Go to FFT thread for FFT scans!)

DQ9 DS




KH2 Final Mix+ (and part of the Crisis Core article)




Digimon DS

 

[Busty]

so, gamelabo reports that square has 2 games in work for 360
source: gamefront

Wonder what they are.....

A Dirge of Cerberus-esque Final Fantasy VII spin off and another (likely?) smaller project, maybe another side scrolling shooter of some kind...

 

[dejan]

Motorstorm (PS3, Sony): 8 / 8 / 8 / 6 - (30/40)
Need for Speed Carbon (PS3/Xbox 360, EA): 9 / 9 / 8 / 8 - (34/40)

*sigh*

 

[bloke]

so, gamelabo reports that square has 2 games in work for 360
source: gamefront

Hm, yesterday someone at 2ch spilled bunch of japanese 360 'rumors', including that one, as if one game's coming from Square side and other from Enix.

 

[Matix]

Jump scans! (Go to FFT thread for FFT scans!)

DQ9 DS




KH2 Final Mix+ (and part of the Crisis Core article)




Digimon DS

Hot diggity damn, I guess Famitsu knew about the DQ9 megaton for awhile now.

 

[Matix]

What would they be? Front Mission Online and Fantasy Earth?

- Itadaki Street: Master Chief -&- DQ Friends.
- True Final Fantasy Online (Level 5 tries again).

 

[Pureauthor]

New boss fights for both KHIIFM and KH:CoMR... nice, I guess.

It's never going to get localized, is it.

 

[Magicpaint]

Thanks for the scans ducky!

The DQIX scan has a few new screen and the game still looks very much like DQ to me. I like.

 

[Busty]

Hm, yesterday someone at 2ch spilled bunch of japanese 360 'rumors', including that one, as if one game's coming from Square side and other from Enix.

Interesting. Don't suppose you could post these rumours here, it would appreciated.

 

[Hunter D]

Motorstorm (PS3, Sony): 8 / 8 / 8 / 6 - (30/40)
Need for Speed Carbon (PS3/Xbox 360, EA): 9 / 9 / 8 / 8 - (34/40)

*sigh*

Someone finally noticed.

 

[bloke]

Interesting. Don't suppose you could post these rumours here, it would appreciated.

Well I thought it was another bs 2ch post with made-up stuff, but if that SQEX rumor is really written in Gamelabo mag, maaaaybe there's some actual truth to it...but probably it's still made up.

- there's another not yet announced JRPG to be published by MS
- around 10 new games by small/medium-size publishers to be announced early in the new year
- SQEX is developing 2 games for 360, one from SQ side and one from EX side
- there'll be another new (J)RPG from third party
- development of new Mizuguchi and Okamoto's games are going well
- Power Pro baseball will be on 360 and Live next year
- 2-3 new games from BandaiNamco to be announced early in the new year, along with release dates for Trusty Bell and Gundam OT

If anyone wants to bother with proper translation http://news19.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/gamenews/1165586614/445 ...post was originally from one of the yesterdays X360 threads on 2ch

 

[reriel]

Well I thought it was another bs 2ch post with made-up stuff, but if that SQEX rumor is really written in Gamelabo mag, maaaaybe there's some actual truth to it...but probably it's still made up.

- there's another not yet announced JRPG to be published by MS
- around 10 new games by small/medium-size publishers to be announced early in the new year
- SQEX is developing 2 games for 360, one from SQ side and one from EX side
- there'll be another new (J)RPG from third party
- development of new Mizuguchi and Okamoto's games are going well
- Power Pro baseball will be on 360 and Live next year
- 2-3 new games from BandaiNamco to be announced early in the new year, along with release dates for Trusty Bell and Gundam OT

If anyone wants to bother with proper translation http://news19.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/gamenews/1165586614/445 ...post was originally from one of the yesterdays X360 threads on 2ch

if there's something true, 360 will got some nice jrpg support. anyway beside square games, other rumors seem probable to me.

 

[Chris Michael]

Multiplayer is currently not Wi-Fi - Square wants you to play in the presence of friends

Ugh this is the same bullshit they pulled with CoM. SE is like the master of DS WiFi games, plzzzz make this online.

 

[Chris Michael]

Jump scans! (Go to FFT thread for FFT scans!)

DQ9 DS

ugh... I'm starting to doubt the DS can handle a full-fledged 3D DQ like DQ8.

 

[Magicpaint]

ugh... I'm starting to doubt the DS can handle a full-fledged 3D DQ like DQ8.

It's your own damn fault for expecting the DS to produce visuals beyond its limit, how the hell can you expect it to handle 3D like DQVIII when even most RPGs on the PS2 weren't able to. Everyday it's 3D this, 3D that, your complaints are getting really annoying. Guess what, these visuals look about what people with rational expectations of the hardware expect it to look like! Perhaps even better for some.

 

[Chris Michael]

It's your own damn fault for expecting the DS to produce visuals beyond its limit, how the hell can you expect it to handle 3D like DQVIII when even most RPGs on the PS2 weren't able to. Everyday it's 3D this, 3D that, your complaints are getting really annoying. Guess what, these visuals look about what people with rational expectations of the hardware expect it to look like! Perhaps even better for some.

I'm not even talking about the graphics. I'm talking about the overrall bigness of the game. But since you brought that up, I do kinda wish they used the DQMJ engine... I bet Level 5 could have expanded upon that wonderfully.

also, wow, so the 360 has 4 games whereas PS3 and Wii each have 2 games...? WTF is happening? DQIX to DS along with thousands of other SE games, 360 getting the most consoles support...

The world is turning upside down. Heh, actually this reminds me of when PS1 was getting so much support and Wonderswan was getting all the handheld support (because of Yamauchi though)... consoles ARE turning into handhelds confirmed? :lol

 

[Busty]

Well I thought it was another bs 2ch post with made-up stuff, but if that SQEX rumor is really written in Gamelabo mag, maaaaybe there's some actual truth to it...but probably it's still made up.

- there's another not yet announced JRPG to be published by MS
- around 10 new games by small/medium-size publishers to be announced early in the new year
- SQEX is developing 2 games for 360, one from SQ side and one from EX side
- there'll be another new (J)RPG from third party
- development of new Mizuguchi and Okamoto's games are going well
- Power Pro baseball will be on 360 and Live next year
- 2-3 new games from BandaiNamco to be announced early in the new year, along with release dates for Trusty Bell and Gundam OT

If anyone wants to bother with proper translation http://news19.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/gamenews/1165586614/445 ...post was originally from one of the yesterdays X360 threads on 2ch

Thanks man, great work.

Yeah, I know what you mean. They all seem to be too vague, saying alot without actually saying anything at all.....

Chief among them seems to be the BandaiNamco rumour. I'd be surprised if they commited to that many 360 projects without seeing how both Gundam 360 and Trusty Bell do sales wise, worldwide.

Unless of course they are merely ports or smaller titles from Bandai rather than Namco or original titles for XBLA.

 

[charlequin]

neo saves the day with a cool photo scan! Now we can talk about Ring of Fates instead of Famitsu scores.

It looks awesome! Finally something to satisfy my life-long desire to team up with three friends over the Internet to direct a squad of badass magical babies in solving the world's monster problem!

Seriously, though. Crystal Chronicles seemed like a blast but I didn't have enough friends who owned GBAs -- everyone just bought a used GB Player for $30 and played stuff on their TVs. Now I do have enough friends with DSes and even if I didn't I know enough people on GAF who do, assuming this really does have WFC. The graphics continue to look great, I feel like these are actually a little better than FF III. How come S-E is apparently 10x better at the DS than any other developer?

 

[solarplexus]

I hope we'll see the Ninja Gaiden Sigma scans soon.

 

[Busty]

I'm not even talking about the graphics. I'm talking about the overrall bigness of the game. But since you brought that up, I do kinda wish they used the DQMJ engine... I bet Level 5 could have expanded upon that wonderfully.

also, wow, so the 360 has 4 games whereas PS3 and Wii each have 2 games...? WTF is happening? DQIX to DS along with thousands of other SE games, 360 getting the most consoles support...

The world is turning upside down. Heh, actually this reminds me of when PS1 was getting so much support and Wonderswan was getting all the handheld support (because of Yamauchi though)... consoles ARE turning into handhelds confirmed? :lol

The size and scale of the PS3 SE games compared to the 360's SE titles simply aren't in the same league.

If SE put the sort of time and resources into a 360 title that they have out into something like FF XIII then it's a valid comparison.

 

[Chris Michael]

How come S-E is apparently 10x better at the DS than any other developer?

I really don't know... their upcoming DS stuff looks really amazing. I'd go even as far as to say I'm more looking forward to their games than Nintendo themselves.

Man, DS really is SNES2. Amazing SE support and actual NEW Nintendo platformers after all these years (even if they are stupidly outsourced >:|)... I loooooooove my DS.

 

[Magicpaint]

I'm not even talking about the graphics. I'm talking about the overrall bigness of the game. But since you brought that up, I do kinda wish they used the DQMJ engine... I bet Level 5 could have expanded upon that wonderfully.

Talk about being too hasty to judge... nothing in those screens suggest the kind of scale we should expect from the game, they are mostly indoor screenshots.

 

[charlequin]

Multiplayer is currently not Wi-Fi - Square wants you to play in the presence of friends (oh noes).

Goddammit! I wanted to make Y2Kevbug carry the bucket!

 

[klee123]

The size and scale of the PS3 SE games compared to the 360's SE titles simply aren't in the same league.

If SE put the sort of time and resources into a 360 title that they have out into something like FF XIII then it's a valid comparison.

The other problem is that PS3, Wii and DS already have the "big" games from Square. Unless they port some of those games to the 360, I agree that I doubt the 360 games would be as huge as the PS3 and DS games.

 

[Chris Michael]

Talk about being too hasty to judge... nothing in those screens suggest the kind of scale we should expect from the game, they are mostly indoor screenshots.

Will we see that on the DS!? I think not good sir!

The other problem is that PS3, Wii and DS already have the "big" games from Square. Unless they port some of those games to the 360, I agree that I doubt the 360 games would be as huge as the PS3 and DS games.

Wii doesn't have any big SE games. Unless you consider on-rails DQ and CC big games...

on the DQ note, I really wish they didn't waste such fabulous art on that game. I wish those characters were in DQIX instead. :\

 

[charlequin]

New boss fights for both KHIIFM and KH:CoMR... nice, I guess.

It's never going to get localized, is it.

I could actually see re:CoM getting brought over as a standalone title -- PS2's still vaguely alive til the end of 2007, IMO, and I think it would do decent numbers. Final Mix won't get brought over, but it should be in English, so you could always just import.

EDIT: Unrelatedly, would anyone have believed two years ago that right now the Xbox 360 seems to have the most potentially good jRPGs announced for it of any next-gen console? WTF, universe.

 

[Magicpaint]

Will we see that on the DS!? I think not good sir!

I own DQVIII and need no visual reminder of the scale of that game. I'm more or less thinking it's foolish to dismiss the possibility of a bigger game than DQVIII, one could argue that DQVII was the bigger of those two games. So while it's wise to not expect anything as big as DQVIII, merely jumping to conclusions is silly, especially based on quotes from the creator himself.

EDIT: Unrelatedly, would anyone have believed two years ago that right now the Xbox 360 seems to have the most potentially good jRPGs announced for it of any next-gen console? WTF, universe.

It's really strange, indeed. Props to microsoft too.

 

[Busty]

I hope we'll see the Ninja Gaiden Sigma scans soon.

There are new NG Sigma scans? Interesting. I'd like to see if there are any upgrades or improvements since TGS.

Was NG Sigma ever confirmed for the 360 or was it just rumoured to heading to it as well at some point?

 

[Amir0x]

I own DQVIII and need no visual reminder of the scale of that game. I'm more or less thinking it's foolish to dismiss the possibility of a bigger game than DQVIII, one could argue that DQVII was the bigger of those two games. So while it's wise to not expect anything as big as DQVIII, merely jumping to conclusions is silly, especially based on quotes from the creator himself.

Heh, he's not saying the game couldn't be bigger - here 'bigger' being length of the game, or time it takes to travel from one end of the overworld map to the next. Here it is about scale and one huge connecting freeroaming 3D world. In this, as we can already see from the direction they're taking, I can safely say DQIX will not replicate. Simply because the hardware cannot handle it.

 

[intheinbetween]

Well I thought it was another bs 2ch post with made-up stuff, but if that SQEX rumor is really written in Gamelabo mag, maaaaybe there's some actual truth to it...but probably it's still made up.

- there's another not yet announced JRPG to be published by MS
- around 10 new games by small/medium-size publishers to be announced early in the new year
- SQEX is developing 2 games for 360, one from SQ side and one from EX side
- there'll be another new (J)RPG from third party
- development of new Mizuguchi and Okamoto's games are going well
- Power Pro baseball will be on 360 and Live next year
- 2-3 new games from BandaiNamco to be announced early in the new year, along with release dates for Trusty Bell and Gundam OT

If anyone wants to bother with proper translation http://news19.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/gamenews/1165586614/445 ...post was originally from one of the yesterdays X360 threads on 2ch

wow, those rumors sound pretty nice, i hope they aren't bullshit

 

[Matix]

DQ9 will be the equivalent of FF-11, just on a much lower scale with the addition of insane sales. Also those scans obviously make DQ-IX look more shitty, than it really is.

 

[Magicpaint]

Heh, he's not saying the game couldn't be bigger - here 'bigger' being length of the game, or time it takes to travel from one end of the overworld map to the next. Here it is about scale and one huge connecting freeroaming 3D world. In this, as we can already see from the direction they're taking, I can safely say DQIX will not replicate. Simply because the hardware cannot handle it.

Well yeah, DQIX won't have the big draw distance and high poly enironments, that's pretty much guaranteed. I guess the word "bigness" is a little too vague here, especially as he said he wasn't talking about graphics.

 

[John Harker]

So FFCC DS is confirmed to NOT be online?

My goodness, what a waste. It has to be Nintendo, their infrastructure must just not support it. There is no other reason for all these co-op games to not be online.