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The X Button - The Hardest Walk

I wish Ikaruga would come out on PSN. It's my favourite shooter ever, even though I totally suck at it.

I also wish they had had more copies of the ToS: Chronicles Collector's Edition for pre-order. It's going for over twice the price on ebay right now. Frig that.

...Tales of Symphonia was a solidly enjoyable game.

...and has the various improvements...

I never got why Mystwalker seemed to blow off Sony. They even made 2 games for the 360 which was not terribly popular in Japan, and a few games for Nintendo. Yet Sony which out of the consoles (not handhelds) is traditionally viewed as the most JRPG friendly, nothing. Was this Sony refusing to work with them or them just not bothering with Sony.

Will it be enough to stand alongside Vesperia and Xillia and the upcoming Xillia 2? And if it doesn't, will fans buy the special edition anyway, just for the figures and soundtrack and fully translated mini-novel?

CrownKlown wrote:

I never got why Mystwalker seemed to blow off Sony. They even made 2 games for the 360 which was not terribly popular in Japan, and a few games for Nintendo. Yet Sony which out of the consoles (not handhelds) is traditionally viewed as the most JRPG friendly, nothing. Was this Sony refusing to work with them or them just not bothering with Sony.

Because they make games for whoever funds them. MW is like Red Entertainment and Armour Project. They come up with the ideas and have someone fund them and work with another developer to make them.

MS funded them at first. Then I guess that was it. Which is a shame, because Blue Dragon and LO didn't sell poorly relative to other jrpgs not called FF.

Then Nintendo funded them.

Sony hasn't funded them, but what big Japanese made projects has Sony really funded for thier recent consoles?

White Knight Chronicles? Folklore and Genji? Which both probably did nothing and thus probably stooped thier relationship with Game Republic. Demon Souls? I don't know, nothing really big like a console jrpg. Maybe Sony just isn't interested or maybe Mistwalker just isn't interested.

I wish Ikaruga would come out on PSN. It's my favourite shooter ever, even though I totally suck at it.

CrownKlown wrote:

I never got why Mystwalker seemed to blow off Sony. They even made 2 games for the 360 which was not terribly popular in Japan, and a few games for Nintendo. Yet Sony which out of the consoles (not handhelds) is traditionally viewed as the most JRPG friendly, nothing. Was this Sony refusing to work with them or them just not bothering with Sony.

Because they make games for whoever funds them. MW is like Red Entertainment and Armour Project. They come up with the ideas and have someone fund them and work with another developer to make them.

MS funded them at first. Then I guess that was it. Which is a shame, because Blue Dragon and LO didn't sell poorly relative to other jrpgs not called FF.

So it was more of an issue on Sony's end.

I will say as much as Nintendo has disappointed me over the last decade, they have been alright for the jrpg crowd. They have kept Fire Emblem going, and we are going to get the crossover with Atlus. They got monolith. Have a good relationship with Atlus for the 3ds rpgs. And supported Mystwalker. I can't say much else about them, but kudos for that.

Nintendo recognized that they need hardcore gamers to serve as a seed. That said, they view these things as mere gateways to the "real" goal (the mainstream market, such as with the Wii and DS), so I hesitate to call it genuine support.

3rd parties have complained that they're being treated as filler to help build the initial userbase before the real product takes over..

Rahxephon91 wrote:

CrownKlown wrote: I never got why Mystwalker seemed to blow off Sony. They even made 2 games for the 360 which was not terribly popular in Japan, and a few games for Nintendo. Yet Sony which out of the consoles (not handhelds) is traditionally viewed as the most JRPG friendly, nothing. Was this Sony refusing to work with them or them just not bothering with Sony. Because they make games for whoever funds them. MW is like Red Entertainment and Armour Project. They come up with the ideas and have someone fund them and work with another developer to make them. MS funded them at first. Then I guess that was it. Which is a shame, because Blue Dragon and LO didn't sell poorly relative to other jrpgs not called FF.

Quoting for truth. This is just like how people complained that Bayonetta 2 was coming out for the Wii U--it's not Platinum's fault that Microsoft and Sony weren't willing to put out the big bucks for the game. Nintendo backed them, paid them extra to keep the game exclusive (I imagine), and that was that.

Regarding the Collector's Edition of Symphonia it was available for months. I pre-ordered it the day they made it avaliable and that was back in November. You could still pre-order it in a few places in late January and maybe even early February. Its a little late to complain about a game that is actually a # limited edition coming out next week.

Not only that, from what I hear they actually add 3,000 copies to the run for exactly that reason.

Levitz9 wrote:

Rahxephon91 wrote: CrownKlown wrote: I never got why Mystwalker seemed to blow off Sony. They even made 2 games for the 360 which was not terribly popular in Japan, and a few games for Nintendo. Yet Sony which out of the consoles (not handhelds) is traditionally viewed as the most JRPG friendly, nothing. Was this Sony refusing to work with them or them just not bothering with Sony. Because they make games for whoever funds them. MW is like Red Entertainment and Armour Project. They come up with the ideas and have someone fund them and work with another developer to make them. MS funded them at first. Then I guess that was it. Which is a shame, because Blue Dragon and LO didn't sell poorly relative to other jrpgs not called FF. Quoting for truth. This is just like how people complained that Bayonetta 2 was coming out for the Wii U--it's not Platinum's fault that Microsoft and Sony weren't willing to put out the big bucks for the game. Nintendo backed them, paid them extra to keep the game exclusive (I imagine), and that was that.

But in Sony and MS defense Bayonetta was not a great seller, nor was it a unique game they needed especially with DMC reboot doing as well as it did. Sony also has the GoW series, so they are kind of set on 3rd person action adventure games.