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Takashi · Posts: 820

So, Famitsu says Idolmaster is in the process of getting a home version (40% done), X360 Live enabled.

brainiac · Posts: 941

official site for the Animal Crossing anime movie is now online: http://www.doubutsunomori-movie.jp/

you can view the poster, a trailer, and download some wallpapers at the site.

the movie is scheduled for release in japanese cinemas on december 16.

ReroRero · Posts: 2148

TF2 trailer.

Gideon Zhi · Posts: 118

How can you make a movie about running errands and digging up dinosaur bones?

I dunno, maybe I just didn't play enough of the game, but I tried Wide World on the DS for an hour or two and it really just rubbed me the wrong way. It just seemed to tell me, "You're now in a crazy amount of debt. Here are a bunch of pointless, time-wasting errands won't really make much of a dent in that debt, but may make you feel better better about yourself for trying to pay it off. Have fun!"

B coma · Posts: 1455

ReroRero wrote:

TF2 trailer.

those new models look terrific in the video. I wonder If they'll animate anywhere near as well during gameplay.

ReroRero · Posts: 2148

According to the press release everything was created using Source.

brainiac · Posts: 941

B coma wrote:

ReroRero wrote:

TF2 trailer.

those new models look terrific in the video. I wonder If they'll animate anywhere near as well during gameplay.

hey that video is lorvly. i wanna play TF2 play it play it play it NOW.

Isfet · Posts: 510

so apparently Level 5 is developing an SRPG that, story-wise, is sort of a silly version of Joan of Arc. and it's coming out for PSP.

here are some scans. it looks...pretty damn nice.

what's with the historical fiction RPGs?

TOLLMASTER · Posts: 1977

Isfet wrote:

so apparently Level 5 is developing an SRPG that, story-wise, is sort of a silly version of Joan of Arc. and it's coming out for PSP.

here are some scans. it looks...pretty damn nice.

what's with the historical fiction RPGs?

japanese dude 1: we need an idea for an srpg with a story

japanese dude 2: we need to make a game with a main character our audience can jack off to while pretending to be better than everyone else who does the same thing

I'm pretty sure how this works. This doesn't look like a level 5 game, though I think that this might be on purpose: Level 5 has always had that very Level 5 look to it, even with a property they didn't own (DQ8) and now they're trying to diversify, even if just a little. It's still probably the second original PSP game I'm thinking about buying.

SJ · Posts: 414

TOLLMASTER wrote:

japanese dude 1: we need an idea for an srpg with a story

japanese dude 2: we need to make a game with a main character our audience can jack off to while pretending to be better than everyone else who does the same thing

Tollmaster, you should be in the industry.

TOLLMASTER · Posts: 1977

And, well, I wasn't going to bring this up, because it's going to sound retarded, but what the hell:

taidan · Posts: 493

TOLLMASTER wrote:

And, well, I wasn't going to bring this up, because it's going to sound retarded, but what the hell:

Level 5 has announced a new strategy RPG for the PSP, entitled Jeanne d'Arc. The game takes place in a world inspired by the life and times of the real Jeanne d'Arc.

The story begins in the ancient past with the "War Against the Gods of Death." Evil gods commanded armies of demons and attempted to invade the human world. However, they were foiled by five chosen heroes, who created five magic bracelets and used them to seal away these gods.

???

I would think that if you were making a game about a historical figure, that you should follow the actual history as close as possible, or at least get a story in the vein of that period and location. I mean! Joan of Arc doesn't need much dressing up with death gods and magic bracelets. It's a story of a woman (supposedly led by God himself!) who starts a war to free the French people, and is successful despite everyone else failing and she having no real military training. According to the story, she dug of a holy sword at a church after a vision! This is pretty epic stuff as it is.

I'm not saying this will be a bad game (again, it's the second original PSP game that actually interests me for what will be a horrible price) but really: I wouldn't want to play a game about George Washington who has to fight his way through a random dungeon to procure the Holy Sword of Tiamat so his Minutemen can slay the God of Destruction (who may be manipulating the entire British Empire). No Japan. Bad Japan! Sit, boy, sit. Good boy.

Yeah, this whole warping of historical fiction is indeed strange. This kind of how Trusty Bell looks to have very, very little to do with the actual life of a famous composer. Is it simply Japan taking the history of other corners of the world and giving it the "anime-zation" treatment, or is it just being used as very light inspiration for other tales?

EU03 · Posts: 164

http://xbox360.qj.net/Swords-Zombies-and-Underwear-in-Oneechanbara-X/pg/49/aid/59259
Oneechanbara on 360. What the hell?

Mister Toups · Posts: 4943

TOLLMASTER wrote:

I wouldn't want to play a game about George Washington who has to fight his way through a random dungeon to procure the Holy Sword of Tiamat so his Minutemen can slay the God of Destruction (who may be manipulating the entire British Empire). No Japan. Bad Japan! Sit, boy, sit. Good boy.

Actually, that's a fucking brilliant idea.

LW Joestar · Posts: 1358

Mister Toups wrote:

TOLLMASTER wrote:

I wouldn't want to play a game about George Washington who has to fight his way through a random dungeon to procure the Holy Sword of Tiamat so his Minutemen can slay the God of Destruction (who may be manipulating the entire British Empire). No Japan. Bad Japan! Sit, boy, sit. Good boy.

Actually, that's a fucking brilliant idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc9y5ayeeb4

Moogs · Posts: 928

Isn't that Andrew Jackson in Samurai Spirits: Tenkaichi Kenkakuden?

I thought that was pretty cool.

dmauro · Posts: 933

LW Joestar wrote:

Mister Toups wrote:

TOLLMASTER wrote:

I wouldn't want to play a game about George Washington who has to fight his way through a random dungeon to procure the Holy Sword of Tiamat so his Minutemen can slay the God of Destruction (who may be manipulating the entire British Empire). No Japan. Bad Japan! Sit, boy, sit. Good boy.

Actually, that's a fucking brilliant idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc9y5ayeeb4

I'm going to assume that's a link to Brad Neely's Washington video. Being that we're so early on in the 21st century, I'd hesitate to call him the hero of the century if he wasn't so damn brilliant.

tacotaskforce · Posts: 571

Mister Toups wrote:

TOLLMASTER wrote:

I wouldn't want to play a game about George Washington who has to fight his way through a random dungeon to procure the Holy Sword of Tiamat so his Minutemen can slay the God of Destruction (who may be manipulating the entire British Empire). No Japan. Bad Japan! Sit, boy, sit. Good boy.

Actually, that's a fucking brilliant idea.

Well, they've already made something like that, but it takes place during the reconstruction instead of during washington's time.

professor_scissors · Posts: 1033

Mister Toups wrote:

TOLLMASTER wrote:

I wouldn't want to play a game about George Washington who has to fight his way through a random dungeon to procure the Holy Sword of Tiamat so his Minutemen can slay the God of Destruction (who may be manipulating the entire British Empire). No Japan. Bad Japan! Sit, boy, sit. Good boy.

Actually, that's a fucking brilliant idea.

Seriously, I'd play that.

antitype · Posts: 1148

Gideon Zhi wrote:

How can you make a movie about running errands and digging up dinosaur bones?

I dunno, maybe I just didn't play enough of the game, but I tried Wide [sic] World on the DS for an hour or two and it really just rubbed me the wrong way. It just seemed to tell me, "You're now in a crazy amount of debt. Here are a bunch of pointless, time-wasting errands won't really make much of a dent in that debt, but may make you feel better better about yourself for trying to pay it off. Have fun!"

Yeah, it kinda leaves the rest up to you. It's a sandbox, in a much truer sense of the word than when it's applied to GTA.

I'm not sure how it's supposed to work as an anime, though. Unless there's some kind of Haibane Renmei thing going on.

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

?!!!?

Mister Toups · Posts: 4943

Persona-sama wrote:

?!!!?

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

Maztorre · Posts: 1175

Kate Bush wrote:

Joanni

All the banners stop waving
And the flags stop flying
And the silence comes over
Thousands of soldiers
Thousands of soldiers

Who is that girl? Do I know her face?
Who is that girl?

Joanni, Joanni wears a golden cross
And she looks so beautiful in her armour
Joanni, Joanni blows a kiss to God
And she never wears a ring on her finger

All the cannon are firing
And the swords are clashing
And the horses are charging
And the flags are flying
And the battle is raging
And the bells, the bells are ringing

Who is that girl? Do I know her face?
Who is that girl?

Joanni, Joanni wears a golden cross
And she looks so beautiful in her armour
Joanni, Joanni blows a kiss to God
And she never wears a ring on her finger
Joanni, Joanni, Joanni, Joanni blows a kiss to God
And she just looks beautiful in her armour
Beautiful in her armour

:(

bort · Posts: 319

the historical bastardizations don't really annoy me as much as how they vomit ANIME all over it. i would love to play a game about george washington collecting magic swords as long as it wasn't so goddamn cute.

sucks that a single artistic style has that much of a stranglehold over an entire genre, (and pretty much an entire country's output for the most part).

TOLLMASTER · Posts: 1977

UNFAIR COMPARISON, PERSONA YOU FUCK

that girl on the right is actually an anime version of king arthur, not joan of arc

no seriously dudes

that's king arthur

on a quest for the holy grail and everything

Frankfurt · Posts: 68

Dead or Alive X 2 will play like WaveRace? Well, Itagaki did say that was his favorite jet ski game...

http://www.xboxyde.com/news_3206_en.html

ReroRero · Posts: 2148

DoA X2 will be awesome.

extralife · Posts: 3316

Stupid fucking RPG companies are making these "historical" games to coverup the fact that they're really just making the same magical fantasy evil empire little kid bullshit they've always made, only now they want to hide it so the people might think their shit is different and pay more attention to it. If this was MAGICAL FANTASY GOD KILLER RPG with a heroine named Sakura or Uzumi or some shit, no one would care, but if you call her JOAN OF ARC, someone is at least going to remember it.

TOLLMASTER · Posts: 1977

extralife wrote:

Stupid fucking RPG companies are making these "historical" games to coverup the fact that they're really just making the same magical fantasy evil empire little kid bullshit they've always made, only now they want to hide it so the people might think there shit is different and may more attention to it. If this was MAGICAL FANTASY GOD KILLER RPG with ha heroine named Sakura or Uzumi or some shit, no one would care, but if you call her JOAN OF ARC, someone is at least going to remember it.

Except this is a game made by Level 5, for the PSP.

I mean, they could release FURRY FIGHTER: SCATOLOGICAL SHOOTING and it would still be a better purchase than most of the PSP games on the market.

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

TOLLMASTER wrote:

UNFAIR COMPARISON, PERSONA YOU FUCK
that girl on the right is actually an anime version of king arthur, not joan of arc

no seriously dudes
that's king arthur
on a quest for the holy grail and everything

LegatoB · Posts: 1546

brainiac · Posts: 941

LegatoB wrote:

JUST LIKE IN HISTORY! move over, genji 2!

TOLLMASTER · Posts: 1977

Persona-sama wrote:

TOLLMASTER wrote:

UNFAIR COMPARISON, PERSONA YOU FUCK
that girl on the right is actually an anime version of king arthur, not joan of arc

no seriously dudes
that's king arthur
on a quest for the holy grail and everything

resisting urge to fap itt

Persona, that is the best thing ever created. Seriously, the amount of pure emotion that is going through my soul is causing my eyes to water. This more than makes up for the time that DeusJester stopped me from having sex with Saber. Thanks, man. Thanks.

Now, I can choose life, and live!

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

I do it for you, Tollmaster!

RobotRocker · Posts: 297

brainiac wrote:

LegatoB wrote:

JUST LIKE IN HISTORY! move over, genji 2!

Giant Enemy Englishmen!

the vinculum gate · Posts: 2868

i appear to have stumbled into the axe

anyway!

c/o #insertcredit:

Heroes for the Wii, by Suda51's grasshopper manufacture, published by Spike and Marvelous, it seems. There is a trailer! There are lightsabers! There are transforming gun-arms!

There are damp pants in Kentucky!

Maztorre · Posts: 1175

You are the 11th best hitman!

dark steve · Posts: 3002

Suda please adapt Branded to Kill okay

Mister Toups · Posts: 4943

the vinculum gate wrote:

i appear to have stumbled into the axe

anyway!

c/o #insertcredit:

Heroes for the Wii, by Suda51's grasshopper manufacture, published by Spike and Marvelous, it seems. There is a trailer! There are lightsabers! There are transforming gun-arms!

There are damp pants in Kentucky!

that looks hot

TOLLMASTER · Posts: 1977

Mister Toups wrote:

the vinculum gate wrote:

i appear to have stumbled into the axe

anyway!

c/o #insertcredit:

Heroes for the Wii, by Suda51's grasshopper manufacture, published by Spike and Marvelous, it seems. There is a trailer! There are lightsabers! There are transforming gun-arms!

There are damp pants in Kentucky!

that looks hot

the game, or the damp pants?

can i get a NYORO~n over here?

the drunken samurai · Posts: 4645

TOLLMASTER wrote:

Mister Toups wrote:

the vinculum gate wrote:

i appear to have stumbled into the axe

anyway!

c/o #insertcredit:

Heroes for the Wii, by Suda51's grasshopper manufacture, published by Spike and Marvelous, it seems. There is a trailer! There are lightsabers! There are transforming gun-arms!

There are damp pants in Kentucky!

that looks hot

the game, or the damp pants?

can i get a NYORO~n over here?

extralife · Posts: 3316

Did Suda scour the depths of the American anime industry for the worst voice actors he could find?

FocusRambo · Posts: 829

travis TOUCHDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EU03 · Posts: 164

extralife wrote:

Did Suda scour the depths of the American anime industry for the worst voice actors he could find?

I think that was the point.
"Your shining armor and fine words won't get you anywhere!!"
*whistle* "I like THAT!"

(What did Sylvia say on her first line?)

I'm already hot and bothered for this game, more so than I was for Killer7.

FocusRambo · Posts: 829

It certainly talks more than Killer7.

Take that as you will.

chevluh · Posts: 183

FocusRambo wrote:

Take that as you wii.

FIXED!

...sorry.

RobotRocker · Posts: 297

http://thefraudcast.com/site/?p=163#comments

Half hour Video Gaiden?

TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!!!!

mechanori · Posts: 623

Silent Hill PSP to be more action-oriented?

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

well we saw how good SH3 was.