Random Gaming Talk Thread

[tiesto]

Japanese video game developer Neverland Co. Ltd. announced on its website on Friday that the company is suspending operations as of Friday and will in a few days start bankruptcy procedures in Tokyo District Court.

Neverland stated in its announcement that in recent years the industry has changed, and as a result the company's sales have been sluggish. Neverland added that repayments on loans from various banks had also become an excessive burden, and its financing efforts deteriorated. Neverland said it tried with a great effort to reorganize the company with sponsor support, but eventually its hopes for gathering more financing were dashed, and the company reluctantly had to make this decision to suspend operations and file for bankruptcy.

Neverland apologized to all those involved, including its creditors, and also thanked all its fans for their patronage until now.

Neverland Company was founded on April 14, 1993, and currently has 36 staff members. The company is mostly known for its Lufia, Shining Force, and Rune Factory series of games, but also produced a Record of Lodoss War game for the Sega Dreamcast, as well as the Chaos Seed, Estpolis, Disney's Magical Park, Egg Monster Hero, and Las-Boss Hunters games, and the Petit Rock Shooter game for the iPhone.

XSEED Games most recently released Rune Factory 4 for the Nintendo 3DS in North America on October 1.

Fuck  :'( :'( :'(

[Mr. Gundam]

Did something happen with import game shipments this week?  I see NCSX' shipments were delayed as usual, but even P-A didn't ship anything this week and most of the releases from Thursday have "Ships in one week" on them.

AmiAmi shipped my copy of SRWOG Infinite Battle on Thursday.

[bork]

Did something happen with import game shipments this week?  I see NCSX' shipments were delayed as usual, but even P-A didn't ship anything this week and most of the releases from Thursday have "Ships in one week" on them.

AmiAmi shipped my copy of SRWOG Infinite Battle on Thursday.

I saw some others saying the same thing I did elsewhere.  Something was definitely causing delays- I finally got a tracking number on Friday, but there was no activity on it until yesterday.  But even though it was picked up yesterday, it's already been delivered- it typically takes at least a day longer to get to me, not that I'm complaining!

[MCD]

Akihiko Yoshida (FFT, TO, Vagrant Story, FFXII) confirms that he has left Square Enix: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=728806

[Positive Touch]

all my heroes are dead

[magus]

Akihiko Yoshida (FFT, TO, Vagrant Story, FFXII) confirms that he has left Square Enix: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=728806

guy is making his own "almost FF" wannabe on cellphone so that makes sense

[Rahxephon91]

Well there goes the best artist at Square. They might as well just close down the Japan side at this point. It really is over.

[magus]

Well there goes the best artist at Square. They might as well just close down the Japan side at this point. It really is over.

but nomura is still there

[demi]

I like Nomura art, he can stay.

[MCD]

It's a shame he is still stuck making FF15.

[Great Rumbler]

It's a shame he is still stuck making FF15.

That's basically purgatory. No way out.

[hampster]

I love Yoshida's artstyle. What is Matsuno up to these days? Those two need to hook up some more and give us more beautiful game babies

[Rahxephon91]

I like Nomura, but I think Yoshida's art is preferable. Mostly, because the pretty high fashion stuff that Nomura puts out gets overdone sometimes. I really was hoping for another main FF with Yoshida's art behind it. Does the series have any other artist it can switch between instalments?

The other artists that have worked on the XIII games offer really nothing intersting. It just all seems like a bunch of random and nonsencial designs trying to emulate Nomura.

I hope Square can find another good artist so that FF is just not Nomura.

But I guess Yoshida is probably moving unto smaller projects. I wonder how future 14 expansions will go. I know he wasn't the only person on it, but he was the main art director and really the main reason 14 was appealing.

[hampster]

I like Nomura's 2D art but not his 3D art / the actual character models. Dissidia and Kingdom Hearts have such great character portraits but something feels lost in the transition to 3D

[Takao]

If Nomura ever finishes FFXV and KH3 we all know he's going to be sent to cheap phone game hell.

[Joe Molotov]

If Nomura ever finishes FFXV and KH3 we all know he's going to be sent to cheap phone game hell.

The true reason behind FFXV's delays, finally revealed!

[BobFromPikeCreek]

So on top of getting Game Maker for free, I now have Multimedia Fusion 2 which I got for a buck. Which is more versatile/easier to use/generally better? I want to dick around in one of them and maybe make a game during vacation time.

[magus]

i know i basicaly come here every week saying the same thing over and over but...



megaman coming into capcom musical PAD clone

oh and apparently there is a limit mode that when triggered make your character pull out a giant robot (this is a sentai themed game after all) this is what the megaman giant robot looks like kinda goofy and stupid looking,they should have gone with the giant robot in megaman 8



to be honest the actual game looks kinda interessing



EDIT: oh boy the gaf reaction is priceless

[Positive Touch]

PAD with megaman bosses

i will play this

[ferrarimanf355]

Watching clueless big pubs throwing random shit at the wall trying to catch some of that PAD success is one of my new favorite hobbies.

PAD? Is this some acronym I don't get?

[Joe Molotov]

Puzzle and Dragons

[demi]

Ask your sister

[Positive Touch]

Penis and Dicks

all the bore is enjoying it

[Himu]

Well there goes the best artist at Square. They might as well just close down the Japan side at this point. It really is over.

He will still do art for SE. Just freelance. Why are people being distinguished mentally-challenged about this?

[Rahxephon91]

I'm not sure how people are being distinguished mentally-challenged. They have freelancers do their stories and  music, but when have they had a freelance artist do an entire mainline FF? What mainline FF game or FF game in general has had their art director be free lance?

[Himu]

S-E completely axed their music division and everyone they get now is freelance, iirc. Yoshida worked on how many main series FF's? Very few. Unless you count FF3 remake, FF4WOL, BD, FFTA, FFTA2, to be main series.

So he's only really got FFXII and XIV under his belt, and I doubt after XII and XIV - both colossal fuck ups in the production end - he'd want to do it again.

Plus, as Oscar said, Yoshida was one of the few remaining guys left from the original Quest team. Those were his bros.

Amano has done a lot of work as a freelancer. Yoshida can and will likely carry on the same tradition. That's why it's distinguished mentally-challenged people are raging: because this is good for everyone EXCEPT Square. Gamers get more games with pretty Yoshida art, Yoshida gets to do his own thing and likely with old cronies again, S-E still gets Yoshida action when they want to.

[Rahxephon91]

Amano does logos and promotional artwork. Thats hardly being the creative person behind the art. Sorry if I'd like Yoshida to do more then pr work on a FF game. You said people were being distinguished mentally-challenged, but how? I already acknowledged that writers and musicians have been freelanced so I'm not sure why you felt the need to explain that. My question is what free lance artists have been used as the main creative person behind a FF game? Doesn't seem like either. Could it happen, but it dosen't seem likely.

Yeah he did few main FF games. Thats a shame, that's why him leaving sucks. Its doubtful he'll do another one. Thats a shame. Did he want to do another one? I doubt it, 14 was probably tiring. And I'm sure Square would have done anything to keep him, since I'm sure his work is the main appeal of this game they've spent tons of many on twice. Even if he didn't that dosen't change the fact that it's a real shame that we won't see another main FF game form him.

Yeah I'm sure we'll get games form him. Mobile games. Oh boy.

[Himu]

His mobile game looks really good though. If it's a good game, why does it matter what platform it's on?

[Mr. Gundam]

Amano was involved in this...



Yeah...

[Great Rumbler]

 

[Mr. Gundam]

There's a demo on the JP Playstation Store...

[chronovore]

Another Amnesia Fortnight demo is being prepped to become a full game. Those prototypes seem to do well for them, and now that they're going publisher-less by eschewing consoles, I hope it works out for them.

[demi]

Fable Anniversary Feb 4

http://www.lionhead.com/blog/2013/december/12/fable-anniversary-release-date-and-bonus-content-announce!/

[archie4208]

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Volvo

[Joe Molotov]

You defeated?

[archie4208]

Dark Souls reference. 

[Himu]

[G The Resurrected]

Anyone know of any good places to trade a new game for another game?

[Mr. Gundam]

Anyone know of any good places to trade a new game for another game?

Is it sealed? Lots of stores will let you return unopened items without a receipt once or twice a year.

[G The Resurrected]

Anyone know of any good places to trade a new game for another game?

Is it sealed? Lots of stores will let you return unopened items without a receipt once or twice a year.

Unfortunately both Walmart and Target no longer do no receipt returns for media. I tried that already in hopes that due to the holidays they might have relaxed that policy.

[Shadow Mod]

I've been playing Rocksmith to learn guitar.

[CajoleJuice]

I've been playing Rocksmith to learn guitar.

i kinda want to do this. how's it going?

[Shadow Mod]

I've been playing Rocksmith to learn guitar.

i kinda want to do this. how's it going?

Improving a bit each time I try. Easy to get frustrated but just do short daily sessions and work at it a bit. Hardest part is getting the fingers where they need to be since it takes a really specific grip.

[Himu]

methodis told me it's good if you had experience with band classes so I'm going to get it sometime. I'm a fast learner when it comes to instruments and last time I took a class, it sucked. We just worked on chords the entire class, didn't learn an entire chord, and this was an entire semester.

[Beezy]

I'm also playing RockSmith. The guitarcade games are fun as hell. Is there a set path of lessons? And what exactly do you need a UPlay account for? I haven't made one yet.

[archnemesis]

It's a decent tool (and most importantly fun!), but you need to combine it with something else if you want to learn how to play properly.

[Bebpo]

NFS Rivals is actually decent looking on consoles now that they patched the screwed up framerate, yay.

[magus]

galaga-chan

[Great Rumbler]

So is that what Andrew Hussie has been working on instead of the Kickstarter game that people gave him $2.5 million to make?

[Himu]

galaga-chan

what the FUCK 

[magus]

you can actualy play it like right now on your browser but only a few of the character arc are free and you need to register to namco site

http://shiftylook.com/games/namcohigh/

[magus]

you know i kinda regret poking fun at this because it's actualy enjoyable... all of the scenario are really short (20 minute at best) and it's hilarious to see namco character reimagined as visual novel stereotypes with troubles and stuff... for example everybody avoid the mappy cat because cats in mappy are the villain,and the galaga ship plays the role of the spoiled rich girl that nobody understand

i think the writer themself realized how silly everything it is because all the scenario ends in the same way,some tragedy happens then 8-bit pacman comes from nowhere and tells you to "be true to yourself" even when it makes no sense ,then somebody kidnap's him and you and the character you picked go save him

one special mention goes to the lolo (klonoa partner) scenario

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they reworked her as a depressed bitter person suffering from abandonment issues and it's kind of a downer when compared to the other scenario where you tell the galaga ship that "she has a great hull"

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[ferrarimanf355]

So is that what Andrew Hussie has been working on instead of the Kickstarter game that people gave him $2.5 million to make?

Wait, what?

[Great Rumbler]

So is that what Andrew Hussie has been working on instead of the Kickstarter game that people gave him $2.5 million to make?

Wait, what?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game

$2.5 million, no update since January.

[Joe Molotov]

Sean Lockner on Dec 15
Only 29 more days until the one year anniversary of the last update! Who's excited, I know I am. If you're planning to celebrate the occasion, I recommend throwing a thick stack of cash into a smoldering fire. To remind yourself of the spirit of this project.

Kickstarter

[demi]

Vic Ireland set to release Class of Heroes 2G -- the console version of Class of Heroes 2... plus some

[ferrarimanf355]

So is that what Andrew Hussie has been working on instead of the Kickstarter game that people gave him $2.5 million to make?

Wait, what?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game

$2.5 million, no update since January.

That's shady. Good thing I don't care about Homestuck.

[The Sceneman]

Sean Lockner on Dec 15
Only 29 more days until the one year anniversary of the last update! Who's excited, I know I am. If you're planning to celebrate the occasion, I recommend throwing a thick stack of cash into a smoldering fire. To remind yourself of the spirit of this project.

Kickstarter

Only Kickstarter I would have backed was Barkley 2, but I was filthy poor at the time. Development of that title seems to be coming along great though

[Takao]

Vic Ireland set to release Class of Heroes 2G -- the console version of Class of Heroes 2... plus some

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They cobbled together some Wii U-like stuff:

You register the PSP/Vita for remote play, but this is not remote play per se. The PSP/Vita screen is intependent of what's displayed on the PS3 screen.

The PS3 is still the main game, but the PSP (or Vita) displays sub information like the labyrinth map outside battle (with number of tiles completed as well as the percentage), or the character full stats (affinity, etc) when selecting in battle, or the monster picture and full stats (with drops) as you choose which to attack. In towns/Schools, it shows the overworld map as explored with a marker for where you are at the moment. When none of that applies, it shows a really nice stat summary screen that shows how many of what you've killed, times, etc. It's really neat, and should have been done on an RPG long before now. I'm sure we'll get feedback to make it even better in the next title we use it on. We'll have a video up of how it works (with the PSP/Vita screen inlaid on the PS3 screen to give a good idea of what you actually see while playing) soon.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=94336741&postcount=152

[Great Rumbler]

So is that what Andrew Hussie has been working on instead of the Kickstarter game that people gave him $2.5 million to make?

Wait, what?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game

$2.5 million, no update since January.

That's shady. Good thing I don't care about Homestuck.

Nobody actually cares about Homestuck, except ironically.