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Tenchu 4 (Wii) screens , triology on the way

ivysaur12 said:
Interesting.

Well, like No More Heroes, this will receive ZERO marketing in the west, which sucks.

But...

SpyBorgs
Fatal Frame IV
Tenchu 4
Rune Factory Frontier

All 3rd party (I know FF4 is being published by Nintendo...) Wii games that look great. What is going on?
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The end is....I mean, the winds are changing?

It was pretty clear that niche sagas , like those, would end on Wii...

And Spyborg it's no near great looking, at least graphically...

WotS3 is canned
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Wat.
 
jarrod said:
If Ubi's throwing cash around Japan, they need to hook up with GA and kickstart the GCN Grandia remake for Wii.
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Yeah, if they're not going to develop anything worth a damn themselves, at least giving others the option to is nice. Throw some of that 'Top 3' money around, Ubisoft. I'll still hate you if and when you don't advertise this at all though.
 
jarrod said:
If Ubi's throwing cash around Japan, they need to hook up with GA and kickstart the GCN Grandia remake for Wii.
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There was going to be a GCN Gradia remake?!

Relaxed Muscle said:
The end is....I mean, the winds are changing?

It was pretty clear that niche sagas , like those, would end on Wii...

And Spyborg it's no near great looking, at least graphically...
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Not really. I didn't really expect Rune Factory to get a console upgrade. After Tenchu Z, who expected a Wii version? And did you see the tears in the Fatal Fram IV thread when it was first announced? No one thought that would be coming to the Wii.

And SpyBorgs isn't the prettiest game, but when I said "looks great", I meant it has the potential to be a great game.
 
Relaxed Muscle said:
The end is....I mean, the winds are changing?

It was pretty clear that niche sagas , like those, would end on Wii...

And Spyborg it's no near great looking, at least graphically...
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I'd say it's more regional than genre dependent. How many notable JP games have been announced for PS3 or 360 this year?


ivysaur12 said:
There was going to be a GCN Gradia remake?!
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We were robbed. :(
 
For some reason the video runs like a series of screenshots for me :-\ Will have to watch it later.

Edit: Working now. Looks decent.
 
Nice trailer, I guess. Kind of hard to tell what was gameplay and what wasn't though, or was any of it gameplay?
 
jarrod said:
I'd say it's more regional than genre dependent. How many notable JP games have been announced for PS3 or 360 this year?
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Yeah, that's more correct.

Not really. I didn't really expect Rune Factory to get a console upgrade. After Tenchu Z, who expected a Wii version? And did you see the tears in the Fatal Fram IV thread when it was first announced? No one thought that would be coming to the Wii.

And SpyBorgs isn't the prettiest game, but when I said "looks great", I meant it has the potential to be a great game.
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I don't mean Rune Factory itself, I mean the harvest moon games and their iterations. And werent the Rune Factory games pretty succesful? A console upgrade on a console like Wii, wasn't that much strange, at least for me.

I expected a lot of Japan support after insane Wii sale in Japan, and with the debil situation of X360/PS3, even more with those niche games which compañies like From Software. Although Fatal Frame caught me off guard....

Nice trailer, I guess. Kind of hard to tell what was gameplay and what wasn't though, or was any of it gameplay?
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Just some tidbits here and there were actually ingame, but they looked good, at least better than their last gen iterations.
 
jarrod said:
I'd say it's more regional than genre dependent. How many notable JP games have been announced for PS3 or 360 this year?
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Agreed.
 
Trailer looks hot. The game looks great
for a Tenchu game

Please sell well.
Please actually market this one Ubi
 
Wada (pres of MMV) mentioned Rune Factory Wii casually in an interview last year iirc, though I'd kinda wondered if it was still coming (this was before RF2 was unveiled either I think).

I bet King's Field V is Wii-bound too.
 
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BJs by the hotspring? What a life.
 
Wow, trailer looks good. Still no faith in me that the game will be as good as it looks, but it sure is a great trailer.

For a Tenchu game.

And for a Wii game.

CHUCKIE EGG ROCKS!
 
jarrod said:
I bet King's Field V is Wii-bound too.
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i wouldn't, but i hope you're right. i think a spiritual follow-up is more likely (hopefully keeping the slow pace and lonely atmosphere). did these sell a lot better in japan than they did in the west?
 
Ehhh, the gameplay shown in the trailer looks pretty bad graphically. Definitely not late-PS2 era.
 
I wasnt expecting that trailer to look good, yet it suprised me.
First the spyro boxart of greatness, then this tenchu trailer...what is going on...
 
Fuck rapidshare and that cat shit. I swear they include that feature to cut down on the number of free downloads because people can't tell what the hell is what and don't know what to do. In other words I haven't seen the trailer and the streaming is taking forever off of the official Japanese site. I don't suppose there's a Youtube'd version yet?

EDIT: Here's the youtube version of the trailer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXSQESbPV84
 
jaundicejuice said:
Fuck rapidshare and that cat shit. I swear they include that feature to cut down on the number of free downloads because people can't tell what the hell is what and don't know what to do. In other words I haven't seen the trailer and the streaming is taking forever off of the official Japanese site. I don't suppose there's a Youtube'd version yet?
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LOL it seriously is annoying, they all look like cats to me.
 
K.Jack said:
Ehhh, the gameplay shown in the trailer looks pretty bad graphically. Definitely not late-PS2 era.
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I disagree. This looks notably better than any of the PS2 Tenchus especially the lighting and detail on the main character models.
 
jaundicejuice said:
Fuck rapidshare and that cat shit. I swear they include that feature to cut down on the number of free downloads because people can't tell what the hell is what and don't know what to do. In other words I haven't seen the trailer and the streaming is taking forever off of the official Japanese site. I don't suppose there's a Youtube'd version yet?
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Haha, I had no idea what you guys were talking about until I tried to download the file myself ... :lol Seriously, what the fuck is up with this new system ? Gotta find a new hosting service now...

[edit] Done.
 
Shaheed79 said:
I disagree. This looks notably better than any of the PS2 Tenchus especially the lighting and detail on the main character models.
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Until we have something more respectable, this does not calculate IMHO. There is nothing spectacular on the latest Tenchu yet except the hype, much like the latest 3 Acquire Shinobido games (2 x PS2 and 1 x PSP).
 
That trailer looks like a trailer. It's kind of hard to make any sort of judgement on the game when virtually nothing concrete is even shown.

I've purchased and played virtually every Tenchu with the exception of the Japan only Tenchu on the PSP and Tenchu Z. Every time I play one of those games it's like stepping into a time warp and re-experiencing late 90's 3D all over again.

The idea of being a ninja and scaling huge environments undetected, leaping out from the shadows for the kill and slink unseen back into the darkness is so damn cool but the core mechnics haven't evolved at all. Why is it that the modern Tenchu games still use the same clunky controls? Why haven't the platforming and combat evolved at all? It's like every team that's ever worked on these games purposely ignored every advancement made in 3D games in the last decade.

Why does Prince of Persia move more like a ninja than Rikimaru and human tank crew? Evovled platforming mechanics like wall running and the likes could lead to more adventurous level designs and gameplay solutions. I understand that direct combat isn't the purpose of the games but there are boss confrontations and perhaps the moments where you screw up, so why is the combat system still so clunky? You are a ninja, you should be able to dance around average foes and with deeper mechanics maybe the boss fights would be meaningful. Stealth would still matter over all for the ratings at the end of the level, it just wouldn't hurt to have better combat.

My disatisfaction with the series aside...

Maybe now that Acquire's developing the game we will see some sort of advancement in the series.
 
jaundicejuice said:
That trailer looks like a trailer. It's kind of hard to make any sort of judgement on the game when virtually nothing concrete is even shown.

I've purchased and played virtually every Tenchu with the exception of the Japan only Tenchu on the PSP and Tenchu Z. Every time I play one of those games it's like stepping into a time warp and re-experiencing late 90's 3D all over again.

The idea of being a ninja and scaling huge environments undetected, leaping out from the shadows for the kill and slink unseen back into the darkness is so damn cool but the core mechnics haven't evolved at all. Why is it that the modern Tenchu games still use the same clunky controls? Why haven't the platforming and combat evolved at all? It's like every team that's ever worked on these games purposely ignored every advancement made in 3D games in the last decade.

Why does Prince of Persia move more like a ninja than Rikimaru and human tank crew? Evovled platforming mechanics like wall running and the likes could lead to more adventurous level designs and gameplay solutions. I understand that direct combat isn't the purpose of the games but there are boss confrontations and perhaps the moments where you screw up, so why is the combat system still so clunky? You are a ninja, you should be able to dance around average foes and with deeper mechanics maybe the boss fights would be meaningful. Stealth would still matter over all for the ratings at the end of the level, it just wouldn't hurt to have better combat.

My disatisfaction with the series aside...

Maybe now that Acquire's developing the game we will see some sort of advancement in the series.
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You played Tenchu DS? I'm sorry.

And this looks better than the PS2 Tenchus from the trailer. Which isn't saying much, sadly.
 
Shaheed79 said:
I disagree. This looks notably better than any of the PS2 Tenchus especially the lighting and detail on the main character models.
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From what I've seen, the PS2 Tenchus aren't exactly the best looking PS2 games.
 
Shaheed79 said:
I disagree. This looks notably better than any of the PS2 Tenchus especially the lighting and detail on the main character models.
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Also looks better than Acquire's PS2 games. I don't it's exactly fair to hold them up against high end games from Square or KojiPro, what we've got here is a definite step up from anything really comparable on PS2.
 
jarrod said:
Also looks better than Acquire's PS2 games. I don't it's exactly fair to hold them up against high end games from Square or KojiPro, what we've got here is a definite step up from anything really comparable on PS2.
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It's the little guys that're gonna make the big boys bleed.
 
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