[quote name='Special Needs Tricycle' post='69562' date='Sep 29 2009, 10:37 PM'][quote name='aine' post='69557' date='Sep 29 2009, 05:17 PM']
Ghibli game FUCK YEAH![/quote]
Awesome news. Hopefully the Ni no Kuni's actual gameplay is good. The trailer didn't show much. <img src='
http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... #>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' /> Looks nice, though.
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Gameplay feels like pretty standard cRPG. Maybe even slightly archaic, because I couldn't really see much difference between that and Chrono Trigger or FF VII - which are the only major cRPGs I've played and finished - and I assume things have slightly changed since then. The drawing of the signs comes out as more of a gimmick that they put in because they could, unless it later evolves into something less trivial than just drawing the 2-stroke sign displayed on the top screen when prompted. It brought to my mind the teleportation system in the Betrayal at Krondor, however, and now that I think of it there's a lot of room for quite awesome implementation of that. Because, when was the last time when you have actually took notes while playing a game?
It surely does look absolutely gorgeous, though. The Ghibli-quality animated sequences are one thing, but everything in the game is drawn, modelled, and rendered Ghibli-quality. This is especially visible in some close-up scenes where you have the detailed 3D characters against beautifully drawn backgrounds, and it's almost seamless. In the wide shots it isn't even "almost", it just is seamless. I'm pretty sure that for quite a while this game will be held as the reference of what can be done on the DS graphics-wise.
And it better comes out in English, and NOT dubbed. <img src='
http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... dammit.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':drunk:' /> Although I'm not sure if that's officially possible, with how some 2/3rds of the dialogues are fully voiced.
[quote name='Ap2000' post='69624' date='Sep 30 2009, 08:13 PM']It's not like I love Sony/Nintendo. (I used to love Nintendo though, but as I said, I'm not a fanboy anymore and I also don't have a Wii)
However, seeing Microsoft trying to break into another market at all costs and all the people just seem to not care about how Microsoft tends to be very asshole-ish in all the other markets they're in, I really can't understand how you can support such a company by buying their console.
I'm not disagreeing with a third force entering the console market again, but I strongly disagree with it being microsoft. Hell, I'd rather have fucking apple make a console, which would just a dumbed down console and pay double the price.
The console market used to be near and dear to me, but it's not anymore. To me, if you let a company like microsoft being really successfull in a new market, it just goes to show that you actually really do not care about the market.[/quote]
Aww, Ap's just like me some 5 years ago. <img src='
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' /> I'm definitely not a fan of the MS company and would prefer them to go away altogether, but I can't get myself to care too much about them entering the console market. It's not like the Japanese would let them monopolise it. And, some competition of ideas from a different cultural sphere is not a bad thing. I'm curious to see what round 3 will bring. From the perspective of a generally not involved and uncaring observer (never had a big console), PS3 was way overhyped and only seems to be recovering now, Wii is underutilised and can't get rid of the "casual" stigma, while the 360 provides probably the most levelled-out offering, although plagues by the ridiculous amounts of RRoD.
But in the end, it's the games that matter. So if I may ask not to turn this thread into a console wars grounds, there's other places for that. <img src='
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