THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Borys on February 20, 2015, 04:18:03 AM

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Post by: Borys on February 20, 2015, 04:18:03 AM
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Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: archnemesis on February 20, 2015, 04:21:03 AM
Woo! I guess that means Valkyrie Profile III is already completed. Right, guys?
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: Beezy on February 20, 2015, 07:15:09 AM
 :fbm
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: tiesto on February 20, 2015, 07:49:39 AM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  :-\
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: Rufus on February 20, 2015, 08:13:13 AM
...Might be a good reason to finish Resonance of Fate now.
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: Positive Touch on February 20, 2015, 08:27:02 AM
lol get with the times you rubes
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: kick51 on February 20, 2015, 08:29:08 AM
making resonance of fate, infinite undiscovery, and star ocean 4 back-to-back will do that to a company
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 20, 2015, 09:05:19 AM
making resonance of fate, infinite undiscovery, and star ocean 4 back-to-back will do that to a company

Except that Resonance of Fate was a pretty great game, it just didn't make any money at all.
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: kick51 on February 20, 2015, 10:26:53 AM
making resonance of fate, infinite undiscovery, and star ocean 4 back-to-back will do that to a company

Except that Resonance of Fate was a pretty great game, it just didn't make any money at all.

(http://i.imgur.com/p82Gs.gif)


it's certainly the best of those 3 though
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: demi on February 20, 2015, 10:41:53 AM
IU > SO4 > RoF

They also worked on Valkyrie Profile DS, which was pretty decent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie_Profile:_Covenant_of_the_Plume
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: Beezy on February 20, 2015, 10:59:36 AM
Maybe I should finally get IU and SO4. PS3, SO4 came out in the US, right?
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 20, 2015, 11:22:05 AM
Awesome! I always wanted to read huge tutorials for needlessly complicated games on my phone.
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: demi on February 20, 2015, 11:22:38 AM
Star Ocean 4 is on PS3 yes, Beezy
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on February 20, 2015, 12:10:22 PM
it seems like the buyout sum was paltry, like less then $5 million.

I'm supposing if they had any substantial projects running that this wouldn't have happened.  So I guess that's indicative of something too, that nobody wanted to roll the dice with these guys again.
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on February 20, 2015, 12:27:21 PM
RoF is the last RPG I've played that dedicated a substantial amount of resources to really throrough character customization for your whole party, completely for vanity purposes since none of it affected combat. Hair dyes, individual contact lenses, accessories, three different "styles" of outfits per characters with tons of clothes for each style, etc., to the point where you could screw yourself over from spending too much money on clothes. Gun porn that involved customizing guns in the most unwieldy shapes to max out stats, with tons of little add one and tools to fill out your customization grid.

 And not a single thing was DLC. I'll love the game just for that.

Also: http://youtu.be/fcvrfEBrdaM
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: demi on February 20, 2015, 12:27:27 PM
Maybe I should finally get IU and SO4. PS3, SO4 came out in the US, right?

GameFly has IU for ~12

http://www.gamefly.com/#!/game/Infinite-Undiscovery/131510
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on February 20, 2015, 06:08:45 PM
yeah VPDS was good
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: Beezy on February 20, 2015, 08:26:28 PM
Maybe I should finally get IU and SO4. PS3, SO4 came out in the US, right?

GameFly has IU for ~12

http://www.gamefly.com/#!/game/Infinite-Undiscovery/131510
Thanks, but I've never bought games from them before. They're reliable?
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: demi on February 20, 2015, 08:47:08 PM
Yup
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 20, 2015, 09:51:51 PM
They got bought by Square-Enix?
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: pilonv1 on February 21, 2015, 06:49:02 AM
They got bought by Square-Enix?
:dead
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: Supermanisdead on February 21, 2015, 08:30:02 PM
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Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: thisismyusername on February 21, 2015, 11:57:03 PM
IU > SO4 > RoF

Outside of the stupid story in IU... I'd agree with the only stipulation being switching RoF/EoE and SO4 around.

it seems like the buyout sum was paltry, like less then $5 million.

I'm supposing if they had any substantial projects running that this wouldn't have happened.  So I guess that's indicative of something too, that nobody wanted to roll the dice with these guys again.

Well, their titles didn't really set the world on fire. What's bizarre is that since Sega ported Valk Chron to PC, they didn't license or get a deal with Tri-Ace to get a PC porting house to do the work for RoF to be put on Steam. You'd think Sega would attempt to cash in that gold rush with a niche "popular" title.
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: kick51 on February 22, 2015, 12:43:12 PM
is RoF really niche-popular though?  It doesn't have half the hype of VC.  Vanquish (or bayonetta if the deal with nintendo doesn't block it) seems like it would be next.
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: Rahxephon91 on February 22, 2015, 03:51:03 PM
No. No one cares about RoF.
Title: Re: tri-Ace bought by a mobile company
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on February 23, 2015, 04:16:13 AM
its a hardcore RPG, if it can't sell on PC, where can it sell?  And the cost of porting can't be less then what is gained by having years of present and future sales on an active and growing (digital) platform.

Sega, where we never follow through on our good ideas.