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This week's OMGWTF Japanese mag news (Wii Vanillaware game!)
- Thread starter Jonnyram
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Well, Vanillaware is a starting company so they'd have to go for smaller budgets. I'm wondering if they would consider a PS2 version.
I'm somewhat disappointed because I really don't want an Odin Sphere type game controlled by waggle slashing. I doubt I could do the hardcore no-hp level up Odin Sphere gaming with the Wii interface.
I'm somewhat disappointed because I really don't want an Odin Sphere type game controlled by waggle slashing. I doubt I could do the hardcore no-hp level up Odin Sphere gaming with the Wii interface.
Wow.. great news to wake-up to!
King's Story last week, and now..
Vanillaware game this week.
What is this weird feeling I'm experiencing? Is this.. is it.. hope? Actual, honest-to-Nayru hope that third parties are slowly awakening?! Wow. It feels good!
(And note to self: bitter tears make for a delicious dessert-like topping for pancakes and waffles.)
King's Story last week, and now..
Vanillaware game this week.
What is this weird feeling I'm experiencing? Is this.. is it.. hope? Actual, honest-to-Nayru hope that third parties are slowly awakening?! Wow. It feels good!
(And note to self: bitter tears make for a delicious dessert-like topping for pancakes and waffles.)
manzo said:
Making console 2D games nowadays is considered grade A risk, even for Japanese publishers. That's why Iga & co. keep dodging the bullet when it comes to console 2D Castlevania.
Putting said 2D games on consoles marketed and priced as "CGI powerhouses capable of life-like graphics" roughly doubles the risk. Also, the fact that said consoles aren't selling as well in Japan boosts the risks even further.
M3d10n said:
Yerrr too many casuals wanting to see 3D it makes me kind of sad. I mean, what you said, it applied to Okami. It was excellent and it got killed by sales.
Sad panda insert here.
On the side note about 2D Castlevania, I'm pretty sure the franchise name would give it sales and the DS and soon to be PSP fanbase translates well to consoles. 2.5D that is in Dracula X Chronicles doesn't look too shabby. I'd rather have a side scroller than..... Curse of Darkness. Which was okay but soooo unpolished.
Mithos Yggdrasill
Banned
jj984jj said:
2nd post of the thread. Wow. I knew someone would say that, but not THAT soon.
Kurosaki Ichigo
Member
I...I wet my pants like 4 times...SO, SO2, SO4, Vanilla's game....just wow.
Very suspicious move with SO4...I wonder if they are waiting to see how Last Remnant does before deciding, it doesn't look like SO4 is going to be out even during 2008.
Very suspicious move with SO4...I wonder if they are waiting to see how Last Remnant does before deciding, it doesn't look like SO4 is going to be out even during 2008.
Mithos Yggdrasill
Banned
creamsugar said:Vanillaware game scan
Acc... It's really awesome. A Third Party Wii game that looks great ?!?? I'm really surprised. Maybe because FINALLY someone has understood that Wii need art design and not brute realistic graphics...
Weisheit said:
Richtig !
Most likely PS3, knowing how heavy S-E's role in VP2's development was.Pureauthor said:
And wow, those Vanillaware scans are awesome.
ST DS I'm going to wait and see, I'm still not sold on how it's actually going to work. A dungeon RPG sounds like less ADV and more game to me.
SouthernDragon
Member
You are 8 pages late.
vanillaware fuckin rules. i haven't actually played my copy of odin sphere yet, but the pace at which they're releasing gorgeous 2d games gives the lie to all the bigger developers who exaggerate the difficulty, recycle like mad, or deny us 2d games altogether. i won't name any names.
on a totally unrelated note, koji igarashi.
on a totally unrelated note, koji igarashi.
Magicpaint
Member
:loldrohne said:
Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
creamsugar said:Vanillaware game scan
More stuff like this should be for made for the Wii, I would take high res 2D anyday.
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Takuhi said:
:bow
Thanks for the translation!
- First and foremost, I hope it retains the ARPG battlesystem, I for one really liked SO3's battlesystem.
-Secondly, lol at "Edge Maverick"
-Lastly, living up to its name? Finally! I liked the past Star Oceans but you would only get a tast of the interplanetary stuff near the end. I'm guessing the game will start out with you already in the know about other living beings inhabiting various planets in the Universe. Not unlike SO3 but you won't be stuck on a fucken Middle Age planet for a good portion of the game!
Cannot wait!
Stormbringer
Member
creamsugar said:Vanillaware game scan
Nice. Seems like Marvelous will have plenty of cool stuff for the Wii at TGS.
Error said:
Bomb? Odin Sphere did fairly well actually for what it was. It sold as much if not more then Princess Crown *the game it was shooting for*.
GrimGromorie bombed though.
TheWolf said:
Agreed why do people even care? I mean HD doesn't make that much of a difference in a 2D game. Besides I'd much rather have them think of ways to utilize the controller then see a higher resolution.
OnWarmerMusic
Member
Holy christ, there's a lot of awesome in this thread. The Vanillaware game looks gorgeous, but how on earth are they managing to crank games out so quickly? They're machines lately.
Heh, well played.drohne said:
Jonnyram said:Star Ocean Remake (PSP)
Star Ocean 2 Remake (PSP)
Star Ocean 4 (next-gen)
OMG.... omg omg omg omg omg! SO4 sounds absolutely mindblowing... Vanillaware game also looks shit-hot too, I was kinda worried of the lack of cool next-gen RPGs but looks like those feelings have been put to rest.
Howard Alan Treesong
Member
duckroll said:
3D pixels require more volumetric picture information than 2D pixels. Scientists showed in 1991 that the maximum effective 2D resolution is 320x240. Anything higher than that, and the human eye can't discern it.
Mithos Yggdrasill
Banned
Synthesizer Patel said:
Interesting. I didn't know that. Who said it ?
Van Gunsteren - Joke :lol
Vanillaware game looks AWESOME. Love the art style mingled with a classical Japanese theme. It really is Okami + Odin Sphere. :lol
This, in particular, looks outstanding.
QFT. Guys, this is what you've been waiting on! A game that's built from the ground-up for the Wii remote. Most of the failures have come from developers taking ideas that were developed without the Wii in mind and adding waggle. At least wait and see if they work before you complain. I mean, if you don't won't the element of Wii controls, why should they even bother to put it on the Wii at all?
This, in particular, looks outstanding.
ethelred said:
QFT. Guys, this is what you've been waiting on! A game that's built from the ground-up for the Wii remote. Most of the failures have come from developers taking ideas that were developed without the Wii in mind and adding waggle. At least wait and see if they work before you complain. I mean, if you don't won't the element of Wii controls, why should they even bother to put it on the Wii at all?
Takeda Kenshi
blew Staal
Angelo said:Star Ocean 2 Remake (PSP)
I want this game so bad. Star Ocean 2 goes to my 20 best JRPG games of all time list, and thats a big thing coming from a JRPG fanatic.
Now, lets pray that Square-Enix would actually consider bringing this baby overseas, along with a solid voice acting.
This... game.... shall.... be.... mine....
As will SO1.
Mama Smurf
My penis is still intact.
Anyone else still playing Yosumin? I've got a free levels into having all the colours active a couple of times, and just got my first full screen clearance, as in all 4 corners of the grid were (in this case) yellow. I thought it'd do something cool, like just automatically take me to the next level, but it just made the screen shake and I imagine there was some sort of fanfare or something, I had the sound down.
FateBreaker
Member
Jonnyram said:
it's definitely confirmed for one platform, whichever that platform is, jonnyram?
Hopefully they do something with the Wii Controls so it's not "wiggle for slashes x infinity."
Lovely looking game though. It hurts that we probably will never see a Vanillaware game with the art in it's native res (I believe the art used is all 1080p then shrunk down for 480i/p. Least it was for Odin Sphere), but oh well.
Lovely looking game though. It hurts that we probably will never see a Vanillaware game with the art in it's native res (I believe the art used is all 1080p then shrunk down for 480i/p. Least it was for Odin Sphere), but oh well.