There we go then! This is the best case scenario in my eyes.
A Raidou 3 co-developed by Team Ninja would actually genuinely be neat too, particularly if they kept TN's artists away from it.
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There we go then! This is the best case scenario in my eyes.
A Raidou 3 co-developed by Team Ninja would actually genuinely be neat too, particularly if they kept TN's artists away from it.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Really? REALLY?
Where is my "slutty" acting bayonetta?
This is bayonetta i knew
not this all covered motherly looking person
About mario & co, just a pair of examples:
You have got to be fucking shitting me.
You have got to be fucking shitting me.
Cosmonaut X
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...and the FF game for 3DS. I suspect the belief has taken root because FF has pretty much become a de facto Nintendo exclusive over the past generation. Tecmo either have no interest in pursuing FF on other platforms, or they have some kind of agreement with Nintendo concerning the series.
that's true. nisa has other distribution lines though. atlus just tends to work with the big ones. i think tecmo koei handled the atelier games before they went out and purchased gust.
thanks for the clarification. it probably originated in some weird press release that had something lost in translation. still, i could see them at least protecting that one game in the event a rival company thought to shut it down.
Mara: now with jiggle physics!
Earthpainting
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I hope the company that saves them forces them to make another Trauma game in their contract.
They havent done a great job with GameArts. Dokuro and Ragnarok Odyssey were decent the turtles game was dire. Nothing even vaguely in the same stratosphere as the Grandia games
Magicpaint
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That...is scary.
MagicWithEarvin
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Why, yes. If it wasn't for Nintendo, then there wouldn't have been a Bayonetta 2.
And it's still being made by PlatinumGames, so it's going to be ace regardless. Can't wait!
Mihael Mello Keehl
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What in the hell are you talking about? We've seen out fair share of Bayonetta ass. You want her face to be her ass too?
Maybe that's more a problem with GameArts than GungHo.
IrishNinja
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think we can all agree: this thread is now about the questionably low level of sluttiness present in kamiya's DMC slut-simulator
encephalon
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Can the Grandia series be attributed to GungHo? That's Game Arts ...
edit: beaten.
Series originally published by ESP.
edit: beaten.
Series originally published by ESP.
This.
Lets see if Sony is really listening.
#SonyBuyATLUS
#SonyBuyFROMSOFTWAREwhileyour@It
Well, the agreement is that Nintendo funded the last few games. The IP is still entirely Tecmo's though (while Nintendo owns the Spirit Camera IP).
Tecmo just released the PS2 games on PSN. Wouldn't be happening if Nintendo owned parts of the IP.
ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
It's not GungHo's fault GameArts became crappier, it's because the loss of Studio Alex (Lunar). Studio Alex sued GameArts because of Lunar: Silver Star but GameArts countersued because of Magical School Lunar. Studio Alex lost and went bankrupt afterwards.
Probably won't happen and I'm also not convinced they'll let them do what they want.
Indeed.
In fact, look at this demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xw1LaOP6de0
She still goes 'nude' when summoning and starts with a sexy opening shot showing her body.
Bayonetta 2 is looking better than every before imo.
IrishNinja
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....shit, didn't know this is how it went down either. saddest revelation of the thread.
This. Atlus has a nice little ecosystem of franchises, and neither their teams should be separated from them, nor should the IPs from each other. I hope for a complete buy-out from a company that is looking for expansion rather than someone who just safely looks to get hold of more properties.
NinjamicWZ
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Wasn't that way, way in the past? With the exception of Grandia 3 the Grandia series was definitely up to par to the Lunar series in my book and to my knowledge Studio Alex had nothing to with those games.
Only in the AO version.
encephalon
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They countersued over a Sega Saturn game? What?
are you seriously arguing gamearts are worse than they were in 2001 because of people that left in 1995? who worked on entirely different IPs?
If they let Ueda dick around for 8 years...
If they let Toyama make something like Gravity Rush after the "success" of the Siren games...
If they let CAMP make games like Tokyo Jungle, Game Republic make Folklore, and From Soft - Demon's Souls...
They'd let Atlus do what they want if their ideas were good enough (they're not). Now Sting on the other hand...
ULTROS!
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Sorry. they countersued due to damages and trouble over Magical School Lunar theatrical animation.
encephalon
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I'm so confused ... I take it that this was nowhere near recent?
I get a feeling Sony is a lot more hands off with their studios, you only have look at some stuff that were green lighted.
#TeamNintendoCheckingIn
Nintendo should pounce on this. They're about the only hardware maker that still cares about Japan. Sony is more western focused and MS isn't ever going to gain traction in Japan.
SE has also become too western focuses. I'd much rather that a company who still maintains eastern focus take advantage.
Gungho would be OK as long as the output remains similar and we don't see a shift to MMO for SMT or other franchises etc.
Nintendo should pounce on this. They're about the only hardware maker that still cares about Japan. Sony is more western focused and MS isn't ever going to gain traction in Japan.
SE has also become too western focuses. I'd much rather that a company who still maintains eastern focus take advantage.
Gungho would be OK as long as the output remains similar and we don't see a shift to MMO for SMT or other franchises etc.
encephalon
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Sony was crazy enough to publish Rule of Rose. Who knows. I don't really want to see them go 1st party, though.
The case was on court in 2003.
redmetal86
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ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
No.
I dunno but the way I see it, after the fall of Studio Alex, which was the developer of the Lunar series, an important and identifying IP of GameArts, GameArts' stuff went total downhill. Grandia III was their biggest title but was very average.
I'm not saying GameArts became pure crap after the loss of Studio Alex, but they lost good talent because of the loss of Studio Alex, which made the actually good Lunar games.
I just saw this tweet on Twitter : https://twitter.com/p_kouhou/status/350207574882254848
It's the official Persona series PR account, and they're saying: "Good evening. We're sorry to worry everyone. We are working very hard in order to bring fun games to everyone, and we want you to believe that. Atlus will live forever!"
I'm thinking this is nothing more than a bravado from the PR, but hey, it's something.
(Thanks RyougaSaotome for the retweet, wouldn't have seen this otherwise).
It's the official Persona series PR account, and they're saying: "Good evening. We're sorry to worry everyone. We are working very hard in order to bring fun games to everyone, and we want you to believe that. Atlus will live forever!"
Original Japanese message is full of beary funny talk. OR NOT, I HATE THE WAY HE TALKS.
I'm thinking this is nothing more than a bravado from the PR, but hey, it's something.
(Thanks RyougaSaotome for the retweet, wouldn't have seen this otherwise).
CrazyArcadia
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Thanks to some people, this thread really is more 'tragic comedy' than 'tragic'. How Nintendo still has the knack of being -only- children's games is beyond me. Bayonetta 2 looks like Bayonetta 1 with volume turned on to max (if anything, her new outfit shows more skin than her old one -_-). The Fatal Frame and Resident Evil series are known to be games for kiddies, though, yeah... right. Really, Nintendo buying or at least investing in Atlus would be great IMO, even though I'd love to play all Persona games on my Vita. I feel Nintendo might just bring back Japanese gaming which does not try to emulate Western gaming in the West (if their handling of the 3DS software library is any indication)... But that's offtopic, anyway, and I feel trolled. So whatever.
Now the tragic part would be loosing Atlus. I could see Atlus USA becoming independent or merging with some other translator/publisher so I don't fear too much for them. And I don't believe one of the big 3 would buy Atlus. Really, GungHo or Marvelous -especially Marvelous- seem the most likely.
In the end, if Index is so full of incompetence and mismanagement, I could see Atlus belonging to someone else as an improvement rather than a danger. Somehow they seem to struggle in regard to console development the last few years, and maybe that has to do with mismanagement? Dunno. Maybe they could break off and be independent again. Or, lol, merge with Platinum Games
I also don't fear for already finished games. And Persona as a series seems to big in Japan to just vanish.
Now the tragic part would be loosing Atlus. I could see Atlus USA becoming independent or merging with some other translator/publisher so I don't fear too much for them. And I don't believe one of the big 3 would buy Atlus. Really, GungHo or Marvelous -especially Marvelous- seem the most likely.
In the end, if Index is so full of incompetence and mismanagement, I could see Atlus belonging to someone else as an improvement rather than a danger. Somehow they seem to struggle in regard to console development the last few years, and maybe that has to do with mismanagement? Dunno. Maybe they could break off and be independent again. Or, lol, merge with Platinum Games
I also don't fear for already finished games. And Persona as a series seems to big in Japan to just vanish.
Who do you think they lost? Do you actually know who was part of studio alex?
I'd presume that Nintendo would be one of Index's creditors in this case due to SMT x FE, so they're going to have some influence on how this plays out.
Any of Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft buying a controlling share and making games exclusive to their platforms seems unrealistic as the other creditors probably wouldn't approve that business plan.
Any of Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft buying a controlling share and making games exclusive to their platforms seems unrealistic as the other creditors probably wouldn't approve that business plan.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't be happy for bayonetta 2 or that i won't be a great game, but imo bayonetta(the character) is different.
Imo there's a big difference between a bullet that accidentally passes near bayonetta's low parts(so you can see them, but it's bayonetta's "fault") and bayonetta doing sexy things on her own will.
Am i wrong? Ok, i have no problem admitting it if true, i have probably miss some slutty scene, in this case could you show me that?
I have forgotten that.
AkimbO_Arcana
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Sexual harassment inducing train station promotion or bust! Tired of Nintendo kiddifying our games!
Plus future unannounced 3DS and Wii U game's have surely been affected. Nintendo has been splitting publishing rights with Atlus for a while now.
It's a coincidence, though. GameArts didn't work together with Studio Alex since the 90's. SA had never anything to do with the Grandia series.
Psycho_Mantis
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Nintendo fanboys want Nintendo to buy them and Sony fanboys want Sony to own them. Typical Persona 5 thread.
Worst choices:
MS (exclusivity to Xbox)
Nintendo (exclusivity to Nintendo)
Sony (exclusivity to PS)
SE (probabaly will make it an ios game)
Capcom (will give the rights to a western dev)
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