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RUMOR: Project Beast (From Software/Sony Japan Studio, PS4) [Port begging = ban]

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I am, yes. I don't really know how to explain it. I guess it simply takes away the surprise at E3. I'll probably be like "Oh, here comes that game that's been leaked over a month ago." instead of something like "Hey, what's this new game that I haven't seen ever before?"

Ok, the surprise is gone, but from the pictures in the OP we really haven't seen anything. It will still be very exciting.
 
To be fair, there were rumors that FFXV were being developed with the help of Japan Studios (IIRC) and we all know how that ended. But then again the Souls series has the precedent of already having a title codeveloped by a Sony Studio while Final Fantasy doesnt, so who knows.
 
I say "winning E3" is having the best content. It's odd to go to a majority rules argument when the Souls series is still pretty niche. It's not clear if Beast Souls on PS4 would even outsell Zelda on Wii U.

If being cool at E3 is not giving a shit about a brand new Zelda reveal, then I guess I'm officially not cool anymore.
I'm pretty sure I didn't mention cool at all.

And while I would expect a Zelda U to outsell Beast Souls, I don't think that's really related to what I said at all. The 'majority' don't pay attention to E3.

But this is off topic, if you wish to make a 'who will win E3 thread', I will happily post in it.
 
Christ all mighty. I just saw a few more "b-b-but PC!" posts in the past couple pages. I honestly didn't anticipate the amount of PC 'master race' crying in this thread, but I probably should have.

I am not ashamed of wanting a hype new game for one of my favorite franchises ever on PC. I played Dark 1 and Dark 2 on PC, and I am pretty much exclusively a PC gamer and didn't really want to buy a next-gen console until maybe a bit more than a year after coming out.

Also yeah everyone is getting angry and quoting me, sorry I didn't know it was apparently being assisted by SCE again like they did for Demons. I missed that somewhere during the hype. Sorry about that.

It's just kind of sad to see Fromsoft turn their back on the PC gaming community when they finally started tuning an ear to us for once, which most Japanese developers never do. They even developed Dark Souls 2 for the PC in mind first.
 
Whats with the massive sony bias, if it's not Demons 2 it's not going to be an exclusive.

Why now would they make an exclusive when they got so much cash off the Dark Souls series being multi-plat?

Don't you folks want to see it come to xbox and pc too? I mean PC version will always be superior anyways if it's like all the ps4 games out so far and won't reach 60fps. 60fps in Dark Souls 2 makes it absolutely incredible.

This is not about what anyone wants. Why do you get that impression?

Of course we'd all love to have a PC option.

The thing is, it looks like this is being co-developed by Sony Japan Studio. Which means Sony probably owns the IP, or at least partially owns it and are likely putting a lot of their own money into the project, if not funding it entirely.

Why get all angry about an exclusive when a platform holder partially owns the game? It's futile.
 
Why? Because they want to play the game in other platforms?

Herp.

Not every game comes to your platform of choice. You have deal with it. I loved Halo CE on PC and I REALLY wanted to play the other Halo games on PC, but it never happened...

I didn't cry about it in every single Halo thread.

Demon's Soul was a Sony funded game, it was neglected initially by Sony, but it managed to take off without their support. Realizing they had made a huge mistake they set things right by funding Project Beast. It is simple...

deal with it! I wouldn't be surprised if Sony signed a trilogy agreement with From
 
Project Beast |OT| Brought to you by the A-Team

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Real time lighting/shadows, cloth physics, smooth animations, large variety of environments ... Dense forests with wraiths lurking in the branches for any unsuspecting passer-by, Colossi sized monsters lumbering across misty moors ... I want it!
 
PC port begging is getting annoying now -_-

Well I don't mind port begging usually, it's good to know that people are interested, it's just misplaced.

I mean I wouldn't expect this to be on anything else seeing as it's being developed by both From Software and Sony. It's co-developed, not just funded, co-developed!
 
Project BEAST getting 100K+ more views than CODAW on the same leak day. Well then.

Is GAF growing up?

The demographic that GAF has is far more interested in a Soul's game than CoD.

That and it's not like it's shocking CoD got announced.

Having another exclusive Soul's game? Now that's a bomba.
 
I say "winning E3" is having the best content. It's odd to go to a majority rules argument when the Souls series is still pretty niche. It's not clear if Beast Souls on PS4 would even outsell Zelda on Wii U.

If being "cool" at E3 is not giving a shit about a brand new Zelda reveal, then I guess I'm officially "not cool" anymore.
Nobody cares about Link. This isn't Middle Earth. Shut up Shinta.

This is my most productive post of the day. I feel like I contributed now.
 
So is it confirmed an exclusive? Isn't From a third party studio?

Yes, they're third party. Which means that they're free to take offers to develop exclusives for consoles. They developed Demon's Souls exclusively for the PS3. They also developed Ninja Blade exclusively for the 360.
 
Crazy ass dream scenario:

TLG
Beast Souls
UC4
AGENT
FFXV new trailer
P5 trailer

Not that crazy. The less likely one is Agent but Rockstar needs to announce something. They never go one year without releasing a game, its strange enough that they didn't announce something already for 2014 as well as something for 2015.
 
you mean like the last licensed gundam game they made between DaS1 and 2?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_Unicorn_(video_game)
i simply cannot view this (Project Beast) as anything more than reactionary to "whats hot with the kids right now". they revitalized an increasingly formulaic genre (action RPGs) with a lot of new ideas (asynchronous MP) and some old ones that fell out of favor (roguelikes) and have essentially created their own market in which they are the top provider. i just don't want to see 'Souls' style games become the next Dynasty Warriors in which every release is marginally iterative on the last one, and people just keep buying them "because it's hard and there's fucked up enemies and stuff".

i realize that i'm being exceedingly hyperbolic AND reductive here. i'd just like to see a little more innovation and novelty in their games going forward. just stop basing everything off the same core template of "shit's dark, everything hates you, and it looks vaguely like medieval Europe".
 
this looks quite good, but i'm curious about what type of game it is

first impressions make me think this is just the same type of game like Dark Souls, only with different graphics and guns
 
Nobody cares about Link. This isn't Middle Earth. Shut up Shinta.

This is my most productive post of the day now. I feel I contributed now.

It would be nice if you actually made one concrete prediction about E3 for something we didn't know about.
 
In the US (NPD) the Dark Souls 2 split was 51% PS3, 49% 360. I thought the split would be higher honestly.

Which means there's plenty of 360 owners who may end up going with PS4 due to this game. In a way, it's good that we know this kind of early, a lot of people on the fence can now make a proper decision.
 
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