Thay has nothing to do with Sony and everything to do with Square getting its head out of its ass and stop catering to FPS mainstream.
Are the rumours of the PS4 having a pay-to-use-online-multiplayer system false? I heard that bandied around Twitter late yesterday but I can't believe they'd take that step.
Oh one more thing... PS4 is region free!! Importers delight
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/11/playstation-4-is-region-free
I can't read the article; is the region-free playback true for all Blu-ray movies?
If so this is a slam dunk, no brainer, first day buy for me. Can anyone confirm?
KT
it doesn't say on there, just that ps4 isn't region locked. just shows a twitter post.
Yeah, da fuq happened to rpg games this gen?
They are the most expensive and longest hardest type of game to produce and aren't mainstream enough to sell 50 million units. Think about it, unique level maps and monster models for 60+ hours of play, all the animation for tens of dozens of characters, voice actors for 8+ hours of cut scenes, and having an entire musical score performed by a live orchestra that consists of more people than for the orchestra alone than most development teams.
And this generation for the most part was all about maximum return for least effort and pandering to the lowest common denominator masses with simple cookie cutter mechanics.
Damn, I sure hope that it's true. Kind of hard to believe to be honest, but if it's true, wow, so awesome for someone like me.
KT
I don't know what either of you guys are talking about. There were tons of great RPG's on PS3 and the biggest announcement yesterday was Kingdom Hearts 3 which is an RPG
I believe they are referring to only games being region locked. So, you can import titles. For movies, I highly doubt the MPAA would sign off on such a thing. Wasn't the PS3 also not region locked? Could you play other regioned movies?
The good large RPG's were on Wii. They can't make epic RPG's anymore when trying to worry about graphics whores. Sorry, it's just true. Even the CEO's/designers of games have said that. That's why most of the decent RPG's come out on the handhelds.
It costs way too much money and time to try to create the kind of worlds people want for the epic RPG's they also want. We're not talking Skyrim here, it's a completely different ball game. The RPG's put out on the Wii would not have happened on the 360/PS3 (and didn't) simply due to the graphics necessity.
Yes but it still pales in comparison to the glory days of 16 bit RPGs..
And many of the PS3 RPGs are borderline shovelware or TOO Japanese TOO anime/manga geared to the point of being annoying to all but the most niche diehard and desperate RPG gamers.
Ni no Kuni was really the first RPG since PS1/PS2 to sincerely capture the warmth and magic of the old 16/32 bit RPGs of the past. I seriously laughed in places I should have cried and cried in places I should have laughed just because I was so happy to feel that 16 bit allure again in a modern game FULLY taking advantage of a current gen platform.
Why aren't we talking Skyrim? It is a good example of an RPG with graphics & story. It's pretty much the best example.
And how exactly does it "pale in comparison"? You don't even have anything to compare yet. The game, let alone any details, aren't even out yet. You clearly made up your mind before any of the announcements, nevermind even playing the game.
I guess I shouldn't be shocked by that, though, given your posting history.
I'm referring to current gen as it has been, not up and coming.
Why aren't we talking Skyrim? It is a good example of an RPG with graphics & story. It's pretty much the best example.
No, it's not. It's not an RPG in that sense. It has bare minimum story. It's an open sandbox game with D&D style elements. It is in no way the type of RPG we are referring to here which is why I called it out because I knew people would be "but Skyrim is beautiful!" It is, but it also isn't an (eastern) RPG. The writing style for the game is completely different.
I'm not saying you couldn't make a game like Skyrim into a full fledged story driven RPG. I'm saying they don't want to spend the money/time to do it because the payback just isn't large enough in their eyes.
The game Exdeath is drooling on about is the right style, but the graphics are cartoony rather than realistic with 1000's of shaders/pixels/polys which is really not the same. That same game could have been released on the Wii (which is my point). It wasn't a graphically pushing game.
It's a trade off of what they want to spend their money on. Storyline and huge worlds or graphics. Some day maybe we can have both.