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snausages · 23-03-2013 12:04am

More FFXHD stuff. It looks really good. Who'd have thought that Square would be the ones to buck the trend and actually put some effort in a HD re-release?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=527949

The FMVs are cropped, annoyingly. They look HD though so they're probably not just ripped from the PS2 iso or something like that.

BrianG23 · 23-03-2013 12:09am

snausages wrote: »

More FFXHD stuff. It looks really good. Who'd have thought that Square would be the ones to buck the trend and actually put some effort in a HD re-release?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=527949

The FMVs are cropped, annoyingly. They look HD though so they're probably not just ripped from the PS2 iso or something like that.

No love for Halo Anniversary?

Retr0gamer · 23-03-2013 12:11am

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Anyone buy Atelier Totori for Vita yet, I always meant to pick up the PS3 version but HMV was the only place to stock it and it never went down in price, is it worth the price tag of €39.99 on Vita.

Is it even getting a western release? A friend of mine loves the game but it is part of a trilogy and seeing the story and characters evolve during the three games is part of what he loves so much about it.

RobbingBandit · 23-03-2013 4:50am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Is it even getting a western release? A friend of mine loves the game but it is part of a trilogy and seeing the story and characters evolve during the three games is part of what he loves so much about it.

It's on the PSN now, was a sneak release this past Wednesday, I need to buy a new memory card in order to have space for it myself.

https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-ie/games/addons/atelier-totori-plus-with-bonus-/cid=EP4108-PCSB00291_00-B000000000000269

Sephiroth_dude · 23-03-2013 4:32pm

RobbingBandit wrote: »

It's on the PSN now, was a sneak release this past Wednesday, I need to buy a new memory card in order to have space for it myself.

https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-ie/games/addons/atelier-totori-plus-with-bonus-/cid=EP4108-PCSB00291_00-B000000000000269

Lets us know what you think.was tempted to get it myself.

Gunmonkey · 26-03-2013 11:31am

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/03/25/phantasy-star-online-2-delayed-in-the-west-confirms-sega/

So PSO2 has been officialy delayed to release over here. While sad, at least we have some info on where it was, rather than the blackout since last year.

Retr0gamer · 26-03-2013 1:27pm

Square Enix's president has stepped down and is being replaced, they are expecting to make massive losses this year. I'd say it's down to Dragon Quest X and FFXIV underperforming spectacularly.

Gunmonkey · 26-03-2013 2:46pm

http://www.destructoid.com/etrian-odyssey-remake-coming-to-the-3ds-this-year-249683.phtml

Etrian Odyssey 1 is getting remade for the 3DS, with new stuuf and a reworked soundtrack.

Find myself tempted by IV if I ever get a 3DS purely for the fact you draw your own map

Retr0gamer · 26-03-2013 2:47pm

I finished EO 1 recently. It's honestly one of the best games I've ever played. EO4 is meant to be better and little bit easier.

megaten · 26-03-2013 3:12pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Square Enix's president has stepped down and is being replaced, they are expecting to make massive losses this year. I'd say it's down to Dragon Quest X and FFXIV underperforming spectacularly.

X has already made back it's development costs apparently.
Interesting to see the first Etrian Oddessy is being remade as a more story based game. I plan on getting IV since I generally like dungeon crawlers apart from the actual difficulty. IV seem like a good start from what I've heard.

Retr0gamer · 30-03-2013 8:02pm

Might be of interest to people here. We covered the Phantasy Star series in the latest episode of the arcade and retro podcast:

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-retro-podcast-15-phantasy-star-retrospective/

RobbingBandit · 01-04-2013 2:35am

I bought Atelier Totori a couple of days ago, the two bonus outfits are quite scary:o, I have only played the game for about 15 minutes so far, it is full of tutorials very frustrating at times, the cut scenes are amazing quality,storyline seems interesting enough,fun game overall by the looks of things.

Retr0gamer · 02-04-2013 3:39pm

SMTIV is confirmed for a summer 2013 release in the US.

Sephiroth_dude · 03-04-2013 3:24pm

Playing trails in the sky atm on vita,what a great game.

penev10 · 03-04-2013 4:00pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Playing trails in the sky atm on vita,what a great game.

Good price in the Spring Sale on PSN too. Decided to play it safe and went for Persona 3P instead though. Hopefully we'll see Growlanser with a similar reduction in the Summer Sale.

Also picked up Generation of Chaos for €2.69 which looks quite like Spectral Force Genesis (i.e. insane)

Sephiroth_dude · 03-04-2013 4:24pm

penev10 wrote: »

Good price in the Spring Sale on PSN too. Decided to play it safe and went for Persona 3P instead though. Hopefully we'll see Growlanser with a similar reduction in the Summer Sale.

Also picked up Generation of Chaos for €2.69 which looks quite like Spectral Force Genesis (i.e. insane)

Indeed,my only regret is I didn't get the trails in the sky and persona 2 together as a bundle

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Gunmonkey · 04-04-2013 2:36pm

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/04/03/bravely-default-flying-fairy-will-be-localized-for-the-west/

Good news out of the whole Square-Enix restructuring.

megaten · 04-04-2013 9:15pm

Got Devil Survivor Overclocked today. I don't want to open it until Ghostlight fixes the bugs though.

penev10 · 06-04-2013 4:35pm

megaten wrote: »

Got Devil Survivor Overclocked today. I don't want to open it until Ghostlight fixes the bugs though.

I've only played the DS original but I don't recall any bugs.

Retr0gamer · 06-04-2013 10:36pm

They are bugs introduced by the European versions coding.

Retr0gamer · 07-04-2013 11:07pm

Bravely Default localisation looking good:

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/04/03/bravely-default-flying-fairy-will-be-localized-for-the-west/

blackwave · 08-04-2013 1:59pm

tales of xillia is getting a release in america no date yet for the EU, have to say there seems to be a lot of good jrpg's coming for the Ps3 in the next while.

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2013/04/08/ps3-rpg-tales-of-xillia-gets-release-date

megaten · 09-04-2013 11:45am

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/04/08/nis-america-tell-us-about-their-european-publishing-arrangement-with-atlus/

Things seem to be looking up a bit in terms of Atlus games in Europe. I really hoping they're not judging what 3DS games they bring over on how Etrian Odyssey performs though.

Sephiroth_dude · 09-04-2013 4:08pm

blackwave wrote: »

tales of xillia is getting a release in america no date yet for the EU, have to say there seems to be a lot of good jrpg's coming for the Ps3 in the next while.

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2013/04/08/ps3-rpg-tales-of-xillia-gets-release-date

Great news,looks awesome.

martineatworld · 11-04-2013 6:52pm

blackwave wrote: »

tales of xillia is getting a release in america no date yet for the EU, have to say there seems to be a lot of good jrpg's coming for the Ps3 in the next while.

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2013/04/08/ps3-rpg-tales-of-xillia-gets-release-date

And a European release has been confirmed...

Here

Retr0gamer · 17-04-2013 7:12pm

A live gig of Persona music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGwVvhhQNbI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8hk5iZtsuM

megaten · 26-04-2013 1:17am

http://nisamerica.com/pressreleases/SoulHackers_PAL_20130425_NISA_F.pdf

Soul Hackers is getting published here! I was worried since I thought it was going to get passed over since SMTIV got announced first. Pretty happy since this is the game I was most interested in of the current Atlus 3DS batch.

Retr0gamer · 03-06-2013 12:43pm

Good news for people that missed out on the superb Tales of Symphonia, it's getting a rerelease on PS3 with it's kind of crap sequel:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-13-tales-of-symphonia-and-sequel-getting-hd-ps3-remake-report

Sephiroth_dude · 04-06-2013 1:42pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Good news for people that missed out on the superb Tales of Symphonia, it's getting a rerelease on PS3 with it's kind of crap sequel:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-13-tales-of-symphonia-and-sequel-getting-hd-ps3-remake-report

My favourite tales game,I'll definitely have to get that when it comes out.

carbonkid · 08-06-2013 10:38am

Are the Tales of games connected in anyway...or can you jump in at any title like a Final Fantasy?

megaten · 08-06-2013 4:23pm

carbonkid wrote: »

Are the Tales of games connected in anyway...or can you jump in at any title like a Final Fantasy?

Well each game is a completely new world and scenario but they tend to follow the same beats.

Sephiroth_dude · 09-06-2013 12:16am

carbonkid wrote: »

Are the Tales of games connected in anyway...or can you jump in at any title like a Final Fantasy?

You can jump in at anyone.

Tales of Xillia trailer.

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/tales_of_xillia/b/ps3/archive/2013/06/07/tales-of-xillias-e3-trailer-released.aspx

carbonkid · 09-06-2013 6:25pm

Checked out trailer...got to say 3D was very pretty, love the anime style models and hand drawn textures. The theme seemed very series too. One thing im always afraid of with these anime inspired games is that it will be very goofy and magic girly. This will be my first...cant wait to try it when its available for PS3.

Retr0gamer · 09-06-2013 11:39pm

carbonkid wrote: »

Checked out trailer...got to say 3D was very pretty, love the anime style models and hand drawn textures. The theme seemed very series too. One thing im always afraid of with these anime inspired games is that it will be very goofy and magic girly. This will be my first...cant wait to try it when its available for PS3.

What the hell is wrong with Magical Girl!

megaten · 10-06-2013 12:53am

I would kill for a well done game where the main character is a magical girl.

Retr0gamer · 10-06-2013 2:29am

megaten wrote: »

I would kill for a well done game where the main character is a magical girl.

Have you seen the Puella Magi Madoka Magica dungeon crawler on PSP? It looks fantastic. Pity they never got localised, I'd say it would have done well considering it's so popular and is basically he Evangelion of Magical Girl anime.

megaten · 10-06-2013 11:13am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Have you seen the Puella Magi Madoka Magica dungeon crawler on PSP? It looks fantastic. Pity they never got localised, I'd say it would have done well considering it's so popular and is basically he Evangelion of Magical Girl anime.

I only seen small parts of it but not enough to see what it's like. It quite possibly would've sold well since I think Fate/Extra did quite well for Aksys and that would be a franchise with a similar sort of popularity.

carbonkid · 10-06-2013 1:39pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

What the hell is wrong with Magical Girl!

megaten wrote: »

I would kill for a well done game where the main character is a magical girl.

LOL...ok enough said. Maybe that wasnt the best phrasing on this thread. I just meant ive seen some really goofy horrible trailers for magical girl stuff. Hell ive even sat through that camp anime series...least first season anyway...magic knight rayearth.

This will be my first anime game...unless valkyria chronicles counts as one even though theres no 2D. I am looking forward to it.

Retr0gamer · 10-06-2013 2:02pm

There's plenty of terrible magical girl stuff but when it's done right it's great. The original Sailor Moon in it's japanese language is one of the funnist animated shows ever made and Puella Magi Madoka Magica goes from bland dull and happy magical girl anime you have seen before and then turns into one of the darkest and best animes in the last 10 years.

I think you mean more than awful 'moe' stuff that is infecting japanese animation lately and yes that stuff can **** right off.

megaten · 10-06-2013 3:40pm

Cardcaptors/Cardcaptor Sakura is a classic too.

Retr0gamer · 10-06-2013 4:14pm

Yep, very very generic but a lot of fun

penev10 · 13-06-2013 10:08am

Growlanser and Gungnir are finally at a more sensible price (€14.99) on PSN for their E3 sale. No discount for PS+ members on these though.

Sephiroth_dude · 13-06-2013 1:27pm

penev10 wrote: »

Growlanser and Gungnir are finally at a more sensible price (€14.99) on PSN for their E3 sale. No discount for PS+ members on these though.

Is that for each or for both?

Retr0gamer · 13-06-2013 1:36pm

Atlus's parent company is under investigation for fraud. Hope it doesn't mean bad things for Atlus but so far they have been left to their own devices.

penev10 · 13-06-2013 2:24pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Is that for each or for both?

Each unfortunately. They were €30 each before that which is a ridiculous price for last-gen handheld titles (Growlanser is 10 years old!)

Retr0gamer · 13-06-2013 4:37pm

penev10 wrote: »

Each unfortunately. They were €30 each before that which is a ridiculous price for last-gen handheld titles (Growlanser is 10 years old!)

It's not, it only came out last year.

penev10 · 13-06-2013 8:50pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's not, it only came out last year.

On PSP but it's a conversion of an older PS2 game.

Retr0gamer · 13-06-2013 9:02pm

penev10 wrote: »

On PSP but it's a conversion of an older PS2 game.

I suppose so but it never got a release in the West. Atlus usually don't drop their game prices for over a year anyway, I was expecting it to be that price for longer.

I bought it boxed and it remains unplayed :pac:

Sephiroth_dude · 13-06-2013 11:36pm

Tales of Xillia - E3 2013 Combat Gameplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThGSCj8Zn1g

Sephiroth_dude · 13-06-2013 11:38pm

Coming for vita

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfi3CQHSGLg

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