Chief Mendez
Smash Master
10.9.08 - - - - - - TGS'08 - - - - - - 10.12.08
Alright! Hot off the heels of the (generally) awesome Nintendo Fall Media Summit from last week, today Japan's premiere videogame expo began, and already there's tons of stuff to talk about. The best part so far has been seeing awesome stuff from non-Nintendo sources, like the announcement of Halo 3 Recon.
...The only bad thing is the lack of Nintendo and Sony. Technically the latter's there, but they've chosen not to give an awesome keynote speech like Microsoft already has. And Nintendo's...just not there at all (though apparently this is almost always the case). But despite that, there's still plenty of Nintendo love to go around from various 3rd party publishers, so without further ado...the list!
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Key:
Green = XBOX 360-related
Red = PlayStation-related
Blue = Nintendo-related
Yellow = Multiple Platforms
List:
>Castlevania on 360 and PS3 (ASDFGHJKLWARGHlBLARBL!!!)
>No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle
>Halo 3 Recon (new hero, new campaign)
>Sonic and the Black Knight has a debut trailer: [link] (STUPID THEME SONG CONFIRMED!)
>Resident Evil 5 set for 360 release on March 12th
>Discipline (Wii Ware, made by the Doshin the Giant guy)
>Demon's Soul (an Action RPG from the Armored Core guys)
>Monster Hunter 3 (tri~) supports Classic Controller, split-screen co-op
>Star Ocean: The Last Hope
>Tekken 6 (PS3 and 360)
>Little King's Story (one of the job classes is "Carefree Adult". AWESOME)
>Muramasa: The Demon Blade has a new trailer: [link]
>The Another World finally has a trailer [link] (Screw the awkward name--it's a Ghibli RPG!!)
>LittleBigPlanet to include Solid Snake and Sephiroth [link]
>Flower, Sun, and Rain coming Stateside in 2009
>Gyakuten Kenji has a new trailer [link]
>LocoRoco 2
>Klonoa: Door to Phantomile in action here [link]
>Arc Rise Fantasia finally confirmed for US release
>Undead Knights is a medieval zombie-commanding action/strategy game for PSP [link]
>Again: Eye of Providence [link] (from the Hotel Dusk/Trace Memory guys at CING)
>Final Fantasy XIII has a new trailer...sort of Video is under embargo for now, but you can read about it here [link]
>Final Fantasy Versus XIII has a new trailer...sort of Video is under embargo for now, but you can read about it here [link]
>Prince of Persia, the TGS 2008 trailer [link] (This is how videogame trailers are done, people.)
>Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep first gameplay footage [link] (Holy moley Terra is mobile in the air...)
>Resident Evil: Degeneration comes out in December for 40$
>Meteos Wars takes the cake as "WTF XBLA Game of the Year" [link]
>Parasite Eve: The 3rd Birthday is now a PSP exclusive. Also, pretty poster! [link]
>The Last Remnant has a really cool battle system [link]
>Fragile
>Gran Turismo is coming to PSP...eventually
>Culdcept DS(!) makes me ridiculously happy [link]
>Street Fighter IV is finally coming to consoles, and it's got a new trailer to prove it [link] (And if you haven't heard, Sakura, Sheng Long, and...Rufus--I think--are new to the console version)
>Ninety Nine Nights II (now with even MORE enemies!)
>King of Fighters XII
>Bayonetta is the perfect formula. Crotch shots + spandex = win! [link]
>Final Fantasy XIII Agito is a PSP exclusive, and focuses on multiplayer
>Shining Force Feather, that little tidbit tucked away in Nintendo's big trailer from two weeks ago, debuts, in trailer form [link]
...That's the big stuff for now. There are some rumors floating around (a new Vs. Capcom game, ICO 3 QUEEN, and so on), so there's definitely more good stuff to come (or at least, there should be). TGS runs until Sunday, so be prepared to be happy for a while.
If anyone finds out more stuff, please make a note of it, and I'll get it up here as soon as I can. Until then: discuss.
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[Updates!]
>Monster Hunter 3 has a really cool control diagram [link]. Just click on the black boxes next to each section to see the control in motion.
>This has nothing to do with TGS, and will probably make some of you angry, but I think it's adorable [link]
>Microsoft has some more details to say about Halo 3 Recon. In short, it's a standalone game, not an expansion pack, playing as an ODST rather than a Spartan's going to be a bit more "dangerous", and it's still basically the same gameplay we all know and love.
>Just thought I'd share this with you all...
>Castlevania now has a viewable teaser trailer [link]. I swear, if that's Alucard...I'll actually have to finally get around to buying my own 360. ^.^;
>Okay more Sonic Unleashed stuff. I won't say anything concrete yet, but if this gameplay video [link] is anything to go by...I might have to eat some of my more incendiary words...
>Tatsunoko vs. Capcom...is probably not being published outside of Japan, according to various Capcom execs when questioned about the title. It's not a definite, though honestly I wasn't expecting it to happen, but it still sucks regardless.
>Resident Evil 5 has a secondary control scheme called "Shooter Mode", in which you can strafe. Also the not-zombies drop ammo when you kill them. ...Is it just me, or is anybody else worried by this?
>Apparently the Flood are an enemy unit during the campaign (not multiplayer, for some reason) of Halo Wars. Those of you that know your Halo mythos should be exploding right about now...
>"PSP Plus" system allows you to link your PSP to your PS3, which will essentially let you play PSP games with a DualShock 3. It's like the GCN/GBA Link Cable crossed with the GameBoy Player...only still better.
>TGS went public today. That looks like hell.
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>>>Well, that's it. TGS has officially ended. I don't think the entire event had as many awesome reveals as Ninty's Media Summit, but there were some pretty big shows, and quite a few unexpected surprises for those willing to look (at this post). So, I enjoyed it while it lasted, but this thread really doesn't serve much of a purpose anymore. As soon as the current topic of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 peters off, I'll see about closing this puppy up with dignity.
I didn't think that they would make a sequel for NMH so soon! It doesn't help that there are other games that I'm already plannning to get( Wario Land: Shake it!, Mad World, Oneechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers, Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Lego Batman(possibly)).
