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dunit21
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Not sure if this jas been talked about but square enix has announced a new game called Infinite Undiscovery
Heres the announcement by square.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/821/821972p1.html
Sorry im not that much help with getting pics up
Heres the announcement by square.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/821/821972p1.html
Sorry im not that much help with getting pics up
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So I'd call it Tri-Ace's new game. But nobody asked me anyway.
Yep.
It's also the Star Ocean (and Radiata Stories) dev.
So, this worries me. Star Ocean 3 is one vile piece of junk.
Edit: What the fuck of a name is Infinite Undiscovery
It was. I reviewed it. I think I gave it a 92% or thereabouts. But most of their other recent stuff has been less than stellar.
And according to the IGN write-up, it's being compared to Star Ocean: 'Til The End Of Time and Radiata Stories.
I never played Radiata Stories. I heard it was good. I know eToychest liked it. But Star Ocean was...horrible.
Hopefully this won't be.
Final Fantasy will have 80.
See the irony?
SquareEnix - Final Fantasy
EA - [Insert Sport Game]
Konami - Metal Gear Solid [Debateable?]
Namco - Ace Combat [Possibly the Worst Example Here]
Epic - Unreal
You get the idea, I might be wrong in my examples, perhaps very wrong, but I guess every major company has a game that consumers would attribute it too, and Square is just doing what everyone wants to do, to make money.
Maybe a little more accurate.
Worst name since Divine Divinity, IMHO.
Fix'd it some more
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Yeah, I think they were trying to come up with a name more meaningless than Final Fantasy 13.
...unless there's actually an "undiscovery" mechanic in the game. Because that would be badass.
EDIT:
The finer mechanics are that you decide who gets brainfucked so hard by lizard men that they no longer remember there's a vaccine for polio. You get an achievement if you return years later and make them Undiscover the polio they've now been suffering from for years.
That's the Infinite part. This isn't a one time thing, son. You signed up for infinity.
i'd like to put Grim Grimoire in that list. Never played it, i heard plenty of good things about it, but that there is a name that turns me right off.
I laughed so fucking hard at this.
"Unkown discoveries" according to the wikipedia page. Now what the fuck that means is a mystery to me.
tri-Ace is seperate right? square just publishes all their games.
Edit: What you just posted hit me when I was starting up TF2. Yeah, unknown discoveries is an undiscovery... but what the fuck? Why would there need to be a difference between known discoveries and unknown ones? How is one unkown?
I always thought Tri-Ace to be a subsection of Enix (which published all their games), which all got caught up in the merger to form Squeenix.
To be fair, "Grim Grimoire" is actually a legitimate turn of words. "Grim" as in "Not Happy" and "Grimoire" as in "Book of Magic."
Actually that's an awesome name for a J-RPG.
NOT HAPPY MAGICAL BOOK
Coming soon for Wii and PS3.
Yeah, undiscovered is a state of being, not something you an do to something. I forget the proper grammatical terms.
It seems so long ago when the Japanese gaming market was original.
And the expansion disc:
NOT HAPPY MAGICAL BOOK: DISAPPOINT REVIVAL
We should honestly be in charge of this shit. Because you know it would be faburous. Er, fabulous.
The game market for the new generation I think really surprised most of the big companies, what with Sony dropping the ball on quality IP, Nintendo capturing a market people hadn't really thought of and XBOX360 dominating over Sony the way it has after a relatively weak first appearance with the original XBOX. This is really textbook game industry however. No company has ever been able to single-handedly dominate for more than two generations. Leaving out the pre-crash set, Nintendo dominated with the NES and SNES, then they dropped the ball with the N64. Next, Sony dominated for PS1 and PS2. Then, now it seems 360 may be the new major property for at least one more generation (given someone else doesn't knock that toucan off the branch).
Anyhow, back to Square. Personally I have been kinda disappointed in the direction Square has been going since post Final Fantasy 10. Final Fantasy 7 and 8 were obviously Square trying something new and they made a few mistakes, although these games were at least admirable for the attempt. Starting again, they went back to a point in their past and made 9 with concepts and references to the old game in order to attract some that may have been lost by previous fumbles. This is also the first and only Final Fantasy at the time to be a sequel to another game in the series. 10 they took what they learned form the first few in the generation and created what I thought was an admirable game, though I won't comment on X-2. This is the beginning. Next, Square starts releasing Final Fantasy Sequels for the first time with side games and games that have nothing to do with the series except common characters and such. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance they released as a shadow of the original and even re-used the name Ivalice but the game's story was nothing like the controversial original. Then came FFXI. Instead of releasing a new conventional Final Fantasy game, they make an MMORPG. Forgive me for those still enjoying this game, but it's another fancy Everquest clone like most of the rest. Then FFXII. Ivalice again, except they reused all the major concepts and character designs from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. Then they changed the battle system and broke the basic style of the series. This is honestly the first mainline FF I have not been able to finish and quit about 15 hours in when the story got convoluted. I understand some have like this new system and you are more than welcome to enjoy it as you have.
Somewhere in here, they lost Sakaguchi, taking the contracted(?) talents of Uematsu and Toriyama with him to start what seems like a serious competitor for Square. Blue Dragon for those missing the old school FF style and Lost Odyssey for those who have learned to appreciate the more modern flair. Mist walker backed the right pony this time and seems to be benefiting for it.
Square I think is unsure where their loyalties lie this generation. A couple of minor releases for 360 aside, they backed the product they knew, which was the Game Boy Advance/Nintendo DS. It seemed Square would back Sony's PS3 almost exclusively at first (as far as home console goes) though a somewhat lackluster representation has obviously made many of its previous backers nervous.
So anyhow, back to Infinite Undiscovery. I'd say this is a Square attempt to come back except that the games is being produced by Tri-Ace and Square is mostly just putting their name on it. And yes, it is a rather odd name for a game, but Japanese companies do really have a flair for mangling or manipulating English phrases. So next IP, FF13, will they make up for all the transition with this or merely cement Mist Walker's stance as some of the top RPG producers? I at least guarantee that if it does show up on PS3, it won't be exclusive and will probably appear on 360 as well. As for the wii, they're playing a completely different game, but they may have somewhat forgotten the old schoolers in favor of casual gaming (which they do seem to be making money with!).
Ready, attack!
Why are you all complaining?
The Last Remnant or somesuch.
3DS: 1607-3034-6970
not exclusive
3DS: 1607-3034-6970
well you said 360
i thought that's what you were talking about
Also didn't Blue Dragon do terribly?