Tokyo Game Show 2008

[Darragh]

Tokyo Game Show 2008:

Sony

- TGS website
- Demon's Souls (PS3 RPG) announced, published by SCEJ and developed by From Software, from the director of AC4 and a "spiritual successor" to King's Field. Playable at TGS. TGS footage: http://www.gamersyde.com/news_7180_en.html
- White Knight Chronicles TGS trailer: http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/21931
- PSN Store for PSP will go up on 15 Oct. Adhoc Party service on PS3 for PSP multiplayer will be launched on 30th Oct. More info here.


Microsoft

- TGS website
- Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts demo walkthrough: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/3272.html
- Meteos Wars (XBLA) preview: http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/917/917355p1.html
- Ninety-Nine Nights 2 announced for 360 exclusively.
- Halo 3 Recon announced, TGS trailer: http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/21936
- Metal Slug 7, Arkanoid Live, Space Invaders Extreme, R-Type: Dimensions and KoF '98 to XBLA. Gameplay video: http://www.gamerbytes.com/2008/10/yg...rcade_mont.php
- New Xbox Experience dashboard update will be released on 19th Nov 2008.


Sega

- TGS website
- 7th Dragon (DS) TGS trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/10316.html
- Bayonetta (PS3/360) TGS trailer: http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/21934
- Ryu ga Gotoku 3 gameplay trailer: http://www.gamersyde.com/news_7185_en.html
- Phantasy Star 0 (DS) gameplay video here
- Sega's TGS line up videos: http://tgs.sega.jp/2008/movie


Square Enix

- TGS website
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (DS and Wii) TGS trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/40901.html
- The Last Remnant (360) TGS trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/40829.html
- Star Ocean 4 (360) release dates: Feb 19 2009 Japan, 3rd March 2009 US. TGS trailer: http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_8914_en.html ; gameplay video here.
- FF Versus XIII character names revealed: The prince is called Noctis, and the heroine is Stella.
- Dissidia cast complete: Butz, Exdeath, Tina, Cloud, Chaos, Cosmos.
- The 3rd Birthday is developed by Hexa Drive.


Capcom

- TGS website
- Resident Evil 5 TGS trailer: http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/21840
- Monster Hunter tri (Wii) gameplay video here.
- Bionic Commando (PS3/360) TGS trailer: http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/1...GS_100808.html


Marvelous Entertainment

- TGS website
- Exclusive Little King's Story producer Q&A: http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3170402
- Little King's Story TGS trailer: http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/21869
- No More Heroes 2 announced for the Wii. TGS trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41032.html
- Pre-TGS Muramasa The Demon Blade interview: http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3170405 ; TGS extended gameplay video: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/5552.html
- Marvelous announces a new game for WiiWare - Discipline. It's from the creator of Doshin the Giant, Kazutoshi Iida.



Namco Bandai Games

- TGS website
- Tekken 6 Bloodline Rebellion for PS3 and Xbox360.
- Nobi Nobi Boy (PS3) gameplay video: http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/21946
- Fragile (Wii) gameplay video: http://www.gamekyo.com/videoen13287_...-from-tgs.html


Konami

- TGS website
- Metal Gear Online Meme Expansion trailer: http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/tgs_..._hd/index.html
- Iga announces new Castlevania for PS3/360 at the Castlevania stage event, no details yet.


From Software

- TGS website
- Ninja Blade (Xbox360) demo walkthrough: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/10208.html


Tecmo

- Quantum Theory (PS3) announced. Fantasy themed third person shooter from Keisuke Kikuchi, the producer of Fatal Frame and Rygar, and the head of Team Tachyon. TGS video: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/10366.html
- Undead Knights (PSP) teaser video: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41079.html

[Darragh]

WoW. Nice post. Thanks alot!


No More Heroes 2, cool!

Halo 3 Recon, cool?! Not sure how the game will work without a shield system if they go that route.

Sexy List:

Demon's Souls
White Knight Chronicles
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolt
Bayonetta
Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3)
Star Ocean 4
Resident Evil 5
Monster Hunter tri
Little King's Story
Fragile

[Max]

A Halo game announced at TGS, wtf??

Not sure how the game will work without a shield system if they go that route.

Apparently it will "require players to employ more elements of stealth and cunning than ever before" - makes sense.

Damn, I hadn't realised White Knight was a Sony game.

[Darragh]

It's the game Microsoft pulled from E3 because they wanted to focus on their casual games. Fools. I don't like stealth games. I played mgs4 on easy so I didn't have to stealth. Hopefully this will offer an action style approach too.

Capgod have two impressive trailers. Both Resi 5 and Street Fighter 4 look really nice.

[Max]

I don't like stealth games. I played mgs4 on easy so I didn't have to stealth. Hopefully this will offer an action style approach too.

It won't be a stealth game with action elements, it'll be an action game with stealth elements. Or perhaps it just means it'll have a 'cover system'...

I'd love to know why I get excited by a two minute CGI trailer for this when I was so bored by Halo 3 I stopped playing a couple of levels in. That's just the way of the game boner I suppose.

That said, the Last Remnant trailer just made me queasy, although I dug the brilliantly unsubtle FFVIII reference.

[AlexSP]

my concern for SF4 is how will it be playable on a controller? VF5 or whatever the crap i have works just and just because a lot of the moves are crap like back forward or forward forward punch, but SF always had fluid movements (tatsu maki senpu kyaku for example) (no i didn't have to look that up! ) which don't lend themselves very well to the ps3 controller as there's only 4 directional buttons. or using the tiny joystick also seems rather tough. i can't imagine ever getting a shoryuken down right with it, much less zangief's spinning piledriver ... not that i ever got that to work more than once or twice...

[Max]

my concern for SF4 is how will it be playable on a controller? VF5 or whatever the crap i have works just and just because a lot of the moves are crap like back forward or forward forward punch, but SF always had fluid movements (tatsu maki senpu kyaku for example) (no i didn't have to look that up! ) which don't lend themselves very well to the ps3 controller as there's only 4 directional buttons. or using the tiny joystick also seems rather tough. i can't imagine ever getting a shoryuken down right with it, much less zangief's spinning piledriver ... not that i ever got that to work more than once or twice...

If you can quote nona-syllabic Japanese move names, you may well like Street Fighter enough to invest in one of these.

[Darragh]

...or one of these (My brother has this model, it's very good).

Both the PS3 controller and 360 controller are awful for fighters. In fact there hasn't been a good d-pad for fighters since the sega saturn controller.

The trailer was really epic and nice.


Off Cam Dragon Quest IX trailer. Looks really nice for a DS game. I've almost cleared Dragon Quest 4 which I really like. Doing a bit of grinding going to and from work really helps the time pass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q31il7zBPBg&fmt=18

Charming

[Darragh]

I continue to double post but this section is so misused...

I would like to draw your attention to a new Level 5 RPG (Makers of Dragon Quest VIII and IX, White Knight Chronicles and even the Professor Layton series). They announced a game for the 10th anniversary and it looks like they've made quite a special game.

Animation: Hmmm, should we let our internal team animate our cutscenes? Nope, I don't think we will. Lets get Studio Ghilbi to do it instead. They seem to be pretty competent.

Music: Now seen as we've gone all out on the animation it would be a shame to tone the score down. Let's get that guy Jo Hisaishi. Who? You know, the guy who composed the music for Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Oh THAT Jo Hisaishi, ok.

I guess that's enough then. Ye know I was thinking maybe we could have the game in a special box and we should package in a hardback spell book to explain things about enemies and spell casting. You mad?! It's on DS. Oh, I see you are sane.

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Now we pray for it to at least makes the states so I can import AND understand it.

[Max]

I would like to draw your attention to a new Level 5 RPG (Makers of Dragon Quest VIII and IX, White Knight Chronicles and even the Professor Layton series). They announced a game for the 10th anniversary and it looks like they've made quite a special game.

[.......]

Now we pray for it to at least makes the states so I can import AND understand it.

The Another World? If they do localise it for the West, I'd suggest choosing a less grammatically redundant name. Not that it's a scratch on Infinite Undiscovery. Actually, I suppose nonsensical names are part of the charm of JRPGs.

.I've almost cleared Dragon Quest 4 which I really like. Doing a bit of grinding going to and from work really helps the time pass.

Totally off topic, but you seem to have played pretty much all the DS games I've lusted after but been unable quite to bring myself to buy. Assuming you haven't traded them in or something, would you be interested in selling any to me for a little less than gamestore pre-owned prices? They'd be easy to post, and if you want I could send them back when I was done with them. (I'm gonna get a blockbuster-style game rental thing, but I'll be using the two game allowance for 360 games for the foreseeable future (here's looking at you, Fallout 3 and Fable 2).)

[Darragh]

Poor Max. I do actually trade in my DS games because of all games I buy they seem the biggest rip off.

However, I have no problem sending you Dragon Quest 4 as long as you send it back whenever you are done with it (1 month, 3 months, whatever, I don't mind) because it's a game I'd like to keep in my collection. Just send give me the address to send to in a private message. No charge.

[Max]

Poor Max. I do actually trade in my DS games because of all games I buy they seem the biggest rip off.

In future, let me know when you're going to trade in anything I might like, and I'll give you more than whatever the shops do - given the size of the mark-up they put on them, there's plenty of room for us both to save something (unless the strength of the Euro overwhelms the difference...).

However, I have no problem sending you Dragon Quest 4 as long as you send it back whenever you are done with it (1 month, 3 months, whatever, I don't mind) because it's a game I'd like to keep in my collection. Just send give me the address to send to in a private message. No charge.

Awesome! DQIV would really hit the spot right now. I'm sure one of these days I'll be able to do something in return. I have Tomb Raider: Anniversary for PC at home, but no longer a computer capable of running it, if you're interested/haven't played it already?
The address is just Churchill College, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

[Darragh]

Yep, I'll let you know about other games. I'll be going for Sonic RPG next (eep!). Don't worry about returning the favour, I'm glad to loan games to someone who appreciates them and I really am spoiled when it comes to gaming with the slight drawback of never having enough money to move out.(If you ever come across a gameboy colour and a copy of Link's Awakening DX I'll gladly take it!) DQ4 is really good, it's battle system is very simple but it oozes charm and is genuinely original to me in some ways.

I shall send it to Mr. Max, Churchill College, Cambridge, CB3 0DS?

Edit: Do you still have a Gamecube?

[Max]

(If you ever come across a gameboy colour and a copy of Link's Awakening DX I'll gladly take it!)

I think that may be one for the emulator...

DQ4 is really good, it's battle system is very simple but it oozes charm and is genuinely original to me in some ways.

I've heard it has some brilliant characters - something about a shopkeeper?

I shall send it to Mr. Max, Churchill College, Cambridge, CB3 0DS?

Max Trevitt, yes, sorry.

Edit: Do you still have a Gamecube?

I have it back home - I didn't bring it because the only game I have is Twilight Princess and I've completed that. There are games I'd love to play on it but which are virtually impossible to get hold of: Wind Waker, Metroid, RE4... If you could loan any this winter I really would be happy to cover postage at least (I just got sent a card-reader by my bank which makes online payments very simple).

[Darragh]

Ah shame, I actually rooted out Zelda, Resi and Metroid to send along with it but if you just send me a PM or even send Dragon Quest back around the time you are breaking for Christmas and I'll send them on to you.

I'll send that in the morning on the way to work. Hopefully it won't take to long.

I think that may be one for the emulator...

Yeah but there is something wrong about playing portable games sitting at a p.c. I think I may be able to get one running on my PSP once I figure out how to downgrade the firmware and whatnot.

[Max]

I'll send that in the morning on the way to work. Hopefully it won't take to long.

Cheers. It'll be just the thing because my work load is insane at the moment, but there are often times when I'm too tired/hung over to work, read, or even play a console game because they're too harsh on the senses. What I need is a nice, traditional RPG to play on a little screen while lying down, with plenty of the delightfully mindless grinding DQ is (in)famous for.

Yeah but there is something wrong about playing portable games sitting at a p.c.

True, yes, one game I definitely want to get for the DS after it comes out is Chrono Trigger, as when I was playing a ROM of it I just couldn't properly appreciate or enjoy it.

[Darragh]

Sent yesterday. I have a save game on the cartridge so try not to write over it by accident because I will have to destroy you.

I've cleared the game but there is a bonus chapter with some fun stuff to do.

Couple if things. L and R rotate the camera, I think I played the game for about 10 hours before I realised this, I kept wondering why they were putting doors building on the far side of the camera view. You may need to use gamefaqs at some point because they don't always indicate clearly what the hell you have to do.

My largest hit in the game is around 350. It's refreshing to play an rpg with small numbers. I think my hero only had around 370 health at level 38. I hope it sold well enough in the west because the 5th game is already out in Japan. Dragon Quests work in trilogies so 4,5 and 6 are all linked.

[Max]

Sent yesterday. I have a save game on the cartridge so try not to write over it by accident because I will have to destroy you.

I still have trauma from playing Crash Bandicoot as a child and not knowing the difference between 'load' and 'overwrite', so I'm always very careful about game saves.

Dragon Quests work in trilogies so 4,5 and 6 are all linked.

I can't imagine DQIX is going to be linked to DQVIII? I played the latter exclusively while more or less stoned, and while listening to an odd assortment of podcasts, so my associations with it are rather bizarre.

[Darragh]

Dragon Quests work in trilogies so 4,5 and 6 are all linked.

I can't imagine DQIX is going to be linked to DQVIII? I played the latter exclusively while more or less stoned, and while listening to an odd assortment of podcasts, so my associations with it are rather bizarre.[/quote]

As far as I'm aware it's set in the same world. So I'd imagine it will have similar npc's. I don't think I ever finished 8, it was an impressive RPG though.

[Max]

Sent yesterday. I have a save game on the cartridge so try not to write over it by accident because I will have to destroy you.

Got it today, you rock. The little bit I played earlier made me smile lots.

I saved in Slot 3 to be extra careful.