Square, Kingdom Hearts 3, and the PS3

[Septimus Prime]

I remember hearing that Yoichi Wada comes from banking, so I guess it kind of makes sense regarding his current decisions, where Square is diversifying its titles and milking IPs to beyond death.

[bajor27]

Originally Posted by Hedchekr

It would be wise for them to make it a PS3 exclusive

I really don't understand what would be wise about it. The extra copies they would sell being multi-platform should more than make up for the costs of porting.

Count me in as another who understands the need for 3rd party developers to go multi-platform. It just costs way too much to develop games these days.

As for the FFXIII issue, the only thing surprising to me about it is that if there was 1 game I thought Sony would be willing to pay to keep exclusive, it would be that one - well, maybe that and GTA (timed exclusive).

BTW - I think this poll should have the option "I'm not mad at Square"

[dk3dknight]

The only fear I have with multi platform is OAR...

Was the directors intent furfilled, if not why, did he have to dumb down his vision to get it to work on every system... so there could be 1 unified vision or did he get to make it to his perfect as he possible could do...

I worry that the painters paintbrush is not always his own...

But I guess ill go in my corner and just hope that each directors vision was fulfilled..

[Cordre69]

SO4 being on the 360 bothers me but I'll wait until I play it to worry. Infinite Undiscovery was bad. Blue Dragon was...meh. Lost Odyssey was good, but not a system seller. So far I have been underwhelmed by the RPGs this generation...except for Tales of Vesperia (which after 120 hours I have finally completed and am extremely pleased with myself)
Folklore, Enchanted ARMs, Eternal Sonata...not system sellers. WKC looks a lot closer...but the reviews are very mixed. Series like Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy sell systems. New series and/or 1 shots seldom have lasting power.

[air_max]

Originally Posted by bajor27

BTW - I think this poll should have the option "I'm not mad at Square"

i thought about that after i made the thread. oh well

[dk3dknight]

Originally Posted by air_max

i thought about that after i made the thread. oh well

Nah that just means there in denial...

[Terjyn]

Originally Posted by Cordre69

SO4 being on the 360 bothers me but I'll wait until I play it to worry. Infinite Undiscovery was bad. Blue Dragon was...meh. Lost Odyssey was good, but not a system seller. So far I have been underwhelmed by the RPGs this generation...except for Tales of Vesperia (which after 120 hours I have finally completed and am extremely pleased with myself)
Folklore, Enchanted ARMs, Eternal Sonata...not system sellers. WKC looks a lot closer...but the reviews are very mixed. Series like Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy sell systems. New series and/or 1 shots seldom have lasting power.

Valkyria Chronicles should be a system seller, just that nobody has heard about it.

[Cordre69]

Originally Posted by Terjyn

Valkyria Chronicles should be a system seller, just that nobody has heard about it.

It really is an amazing game, yes. It should have been hyped up and advertised like CRAZY!
It's not too late SEGA! Start running commercials!

[Pepelutivruski4]

Originally Posted by Cordre69

It really is an amazing game, yes. It should have been hyped up and advertised like CRAZY!
It's not too late SEGA! Start running commercials!

it's being repackaged and reprinted... apparently it'd been halted in the first week of january... so that they can re-release it w/ some marketing to make ppl feel like it's a virgin again.

probably because i came out the same day as fallout 3 and all those other big titles that came out that day. wouldn't have mattered how much marketing they put to it, it'd be overshadowed outside of japan anyway.

if there are any major differences, i would not hesitate to buy the new copy.
i think i heard there were more side missions kinda like the castlefront st. stuff that were in the japanese games that we didn't get in NA prints.

also, the anime project is refinancing a new budget, seems like the sales of hte game demand more of the anime, assuming it's for better key animators and in betweeners... it's all good news i say.

edit: for those who didn't know the anime series will be for japanese TV and will run atleast 24 episodes.

[joeorc]

Originally Posted by Leopold BUTTERS

How can you forgive a company for making something for more than one system....they used to work for nintendo only, so isn't this kind of hypocritical?

that's not what i think its about. Square said they wanted to be more multi-platform this generation, but yet the 360 got last Remnant first but yet FF13 is being delayed to be released at the same time. that's the real issue.

that's the main problem:

SQ:E is a "PUBLISHER"
pay them enough and you get treatment like that, don't and you see what happens
Sony is not going to get into the Pay to play, instead invest into 1st and 2nd party
and it's showing. uncharted, kz2 .etc

[justinbaily]

I grabbed Valkyria Chronicles and it is amazing-with 1 complaint.
When moving the units and freelooking it's like a 3rd person shooter HOWEVER
try and aim down crosshairs and it's not on the freelook stick but the movement stick. It should've been freelook /aim not move/aim that's just
unnaturial.

Not a game breaker but a minor annoyance for sure. SEGA ought to know better
than to screw up basic controls like that. There's no option so you could change the aiming to freelook
even so updateing the game can fix the only minor flaw making it perfect.

When i came back to my pc this was still unposted so if it's a double post
that's why.

[Pepelutivruski4]

Originally Posted by justinbaily

I grabbed Valkyria Chronicles and it is amazing-with 1 complaint.
When moving the units and freelooking it's like a 3rd person shooter HOWEVER
try and aim down crosshairs and it's not on the freelook stick but the movement stick. It should've been freelook /aim not move/aim that's just
unnaturial.

Not a game breaker but a minor annoyance for sure. SEGA ought to know better
than to screw up basic controls like that. There's no option so you could change the aiming to freelook
even so updateing the game can fix the only minor flaw making it perfect.

When i came back to my pc this was still unposted so if it's a double post
that's why.

you crazy man... i like you, but you crazy...

[justinbaily]

Well i'm a left handed gamer who uses customizable playstation controlers as
default is useless to me,sans little big planet and the lego games.

Any game where there's a "freelook" stick and a "movement" stick i need a certain way.

While games like Resistance allow full customization most don't and without
THRUSTMASTER'S help i simply couldn't play them. That means no MGS4,GTA4,WARHAWK,SOCOM etc.

http://www.amazon.com/Dual-Trigger-R...2305960&sr=1-1

This controler has a FULLY reprogramable set-up,works on ps2,ps3 and pc but
best of all has real gun triggers. So even if all you did was send l1/r1 to l4,r4
you'd still have a better layout. It's only flaw is being wired rather than wireless.

In order to send the right stick to the left i 1st pushed preset then maping
which sets it up to swich something then 1 direction at a time maped it to the left sticks click and sent it from the click by pressing again 1 direction at a time where it was going then the left sticks click to send it there.

For whatever reason simply pressing left on the left stick then left on the right stick to send it there doesn't work but clicking the left stick then press ing left on the right stick and repeating by pressing left on the left stick then clicking the left stick works fine.

Buttons map much easyier than sticks. On mine x,o^ and [] are moved over to the d-pad. In games they call it southpaw or left handed though some even use legacy which is even more convoluted as is mixes default and southpaw into a frankenscheme which some prefer to either default or
southpaw. This controller could be set up for that as well.

I even had someone re-wire my 360 pads to be southpaw funny enough
wii is ambidextrous and works for all. A simple matter of switching hands
so my wiimote is in my left hand not my right.

[Pepelutivruski4]

i reiterate my last comment.