Official Microsoft Japan Summit 2005

Yep, maybe someone should invent a name for this new game genre
mmetparpg? massivelymultienemythirdpersonactionroleplayinggame?

 

Agreed, the games will quickly turn into one-button hack'n'slash.. although I must admit that's exactly what the Dynasty Warrior games are (minus the tons of enemies ) and I've thoroughly enjoyed them. Can't understand why though

But luckily having loads of characters on screen at once can be used for other purposes.. enhancing the flora and fauna, or finally creating a proper village/town/city for an RPG, one that actually has inhabitants instead of the odd bloke at the corner.

 

... that i can destroy with a nuke powered rocket launcher? Hell yeah!

 

I wake up to this?

I thought the results of the show would be larger and more significant, but that doesn't appear to be the case. RR6 is big news, though. Is this a timed exclusive or what?

 

no RR6 pics posted ? ingame that is not those car models

 

Don't know if it's the same version. I didn't really say that they would be, did I?

Sorry, I was wondering if the look of the game would be similar in...type/feel/setting.

 

[EM] Enchant Arm Trailer

http://www.xboxyde.com/news_1772_en.html

Worth a look

 

I'm hoping for a Gundam that is more Z.O.E. than Steel Batallian.

 

They are handled by different developers (PS3 = Beck, Xbox 360 = Dimps) so they will be different. FYI, Dimps is the developer of this Gundam MMO war sim ( http://www.universalcentury.net/ ) for PC.

 

Another Game Watch article
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20050725/xb360.htm

 

They showed a decent lineup of games, but none of this stuff is going to turn masses of casual Japanese gamers into X360 fans. If Sony's Japanese PS2 lineup is a 10 and the Japanese Xbox lineup is a 1, then the Japanese X360 lineup is a 4 IMO.

They need new Metal Gear Solid, Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Quest games to make that leap to the next level in the minds of Japanese gamers.

Don't get me wrong: I'm pretty pumped about playing 99 Nights, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssee, Dead or Alive 4, and Enchant Arm. These will be nice additions to the X360 lineup that will help round out the experience for many of us who like more than just racing, FPS, Western RPGs, and action games. I just don't think it's enough for the Japanese to take X360 seriously.

 

Taito bringing World Airforce out is some of the best news for me personally. A flight combat simulator that strives for realism while still being fun is the type of thing I'm looking for. It needs to have online dogfighting and to make its way outside of Japan and into other markets for sale. Taito is big into air combat simulators these days by the look of things.


The Far East of Eden remake could be neat. This game was a huge hit for the PC-Engine.

 

LIVE enabled dogfighting .... mmmmm

 

Insider only :?

 

weird it downloaded for me

 

you're right, when I saved it instead of opening it, it was fine

thanks

 

Insider is wierd sometimes it will let u download . Poor security haha



Rabbidrabbit , add kameo to your list of games lots of people on screen.

However as I said earlier in the thread , its more realistic than killing a bunch of guys walking foward and then guys running at you from behind and in front of you where they weren't there before .



Also watching all these videos now (Was sailing !!) PGR3 if real looks very very good and I think this is what we will see .

THe big buget games at launch will have the best graphics as the developers could throw money and man power at the games . Of course this isn't hte best solution . But when your team has 50 artists vs other teams with 10 your going to see a diffrence in the graphics .

I believe this will be the case for both systems for the first year and esp at launch. You have the big companys making graphicly impressive games while the smaller companys have things that look more like xbox 1.5 games . Its only natural as developerslearn the systems


As for the japan line up. I think its a good step. THey already have bigger games than xbox 12 had through out its life in japan . I believe this system would sell at least tripple what the xbox 1 sold and I think as its installed base grows in the rest of the world where halo will be huge , gow will be huge and other games will be huge japanese support will increase as they will want to tap into those other markets

 

I had the Kamoe on my list already
That cutting through a mass of enemies that keep on coming back at you with reminds me of gameplay of an old C64 or was it Amiga game, it was top view 2D and in it you had to shoot with a ship of kinds through a regenerating mass of cells or something other "organic" like stuff... I don't remember it's name just now... anyone??? I think it was by some of those then famous british programmers.

That kind of gameplay will be fun in short amounts, maybe like replacing some boss battles, but a game that mostly consists of such... that feels like a gimmick to me that's in danger of being exploited too much in early next gen titles. Maybe the devs have got a bit too excited with the dream of massive armies like in LOTR and many recent epic big screen movies and want to put that same experience to games, or maybe they just have to find a place put all those polygons somewhere, so I guess the easy way is to just put lots and lots more of those enemies on screen

 

Dont think I will find that gameplay to be fun very often. Its gets tiresome no matter the medium. In Matrix Reloaded the scene where Neo fights a thousand thousand Mr. smiths was cool like the first sixty seconds... next almost two minutes of him fighting them was NOT fun.

Focused battle where you are battling through hordes to get to someone of soemwhere while they are fighting their own battles to stay alive is much more interesting.