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Aug 25 2008, 07:49 PM Post #1 |
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When is TGS? Starts Oct 9th - Oct 12th Games that will be at the show TGS 2008: One of the most anticipated game shows of the year is near at hand as Tokyo Game Show starts on October 9-12. What to expect at TGS? It's the biggest game convention in Japan, and one of the biggest in the world -- this is where Sony and third-party publishers like Konami and Capcom announce many of their highest-profile games each year. Of the three console makers, Sony Computer Entertainment is widely regarded to be the premier player at Japan's annual gaming mega-expo, the Tokyo Game Show. This year, the publisher is again planning on making its presence felt at the show. Today, in a Japanese-language announcement, the game maker revealed that 14 new games would be shown for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable for the first time at TGS 2008, 12 of which are being internally developed. Unsurprisingly, the bulk of the soon-to-be-revealed games will be for Sony's flagship console. The publisher plans on debuting nine games created at its internal studio for the PS3, with Konami and R-Type creators IREM each also slated to make a reveal at the show. The new games complement 17 previously announced games that will be on display for Sony's console, including Konami's Metal Gear Online, Capcom's Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5 (known as Biohazard 5 in Japan), and Sony's long-promised virtual world Home. Sony also plans to unveil three new games for its resurgent handheld. Although all have been internally developed, the publisher also said today that 15 other games will be on show for the PSP, including Square Enix's Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Namco Bandai's Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2, and new installments in Koei's Dynasty Warriors and Warriors Orochi franchises. Running slightly later this year, TGS 2008 will open its doors to Japan from October 9-12. Last year's event drew a staggering 193,000 attendees, and event organizer CESA expects that more than 217,000 will check out this year's show. GameSpot will be on scene at the Makuhari Messe to provide more coverage as events unfold. The Big TGS List: 2008 Edition Here is the list of confirmed TGS 2008 games that will be shown: (Note this is not the full list... I couldn't find all of the confirmed games.) Arc System Works - Lair Land Story (PSP) - Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus (PSP) - Guilty Gear 2 Overture (Xbox360) Acquire - New title - Ken to Mahou to Gakuen Mono (PSP) - Tenchu 4 (Wii) - Samurai 3 (PS3) Interchannel - 2 new titles SNK Playmore - KoF 2002 Unlimited Match (PS2) - KoF ‘98 Ultimate Match (Xbox360) - ADK Spirits (PS2) - Samurai Spirits Rokuban (PSP) - Kimi no Yuusha (DS) EA - Boku to Sim no Machi Kingdom (Wii/DS) - Fifa 09 World Class Soccer (PS3/PSP/Xbox360) - Fifa 09 All Play (Wii) - Mercenaries 2 (PS3/Xbox360) - Mirror’s Edge (PS3/Xbox360) Koei - Saihai no Yukue (DS) - Shin Sangoku Musou 5 Special (PS2) - G1 Jockey Wii 2008 (Wii) - Neo Angelique Special (PSP) - Nobunaga’s Ambition Online (PS2) Silverstar Japan - 6 different WiiWare cheapo board games - 2 DS cheapo board games Sega - Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (PS3) - 428 (Wii) - Sonic World Adventure (Wii/PS2/PS3/Xbox360) - Culdcept DS (DS) - Infinite Line (DS) - Blazer Drive (DS) - Shiren DS2 (DS) - Garnet Chronicle (PSP) - Hatsune Miku: Project Diva (PSP) - Phantasy Star Portable (PSP) D3 Publisher - Simple DS Vol44 The Gal Mahjong (DS) - Magical Brain Power!! DS (DS) - Shinsengumi DS (DS) - Unknown Soldier (DS) - RIZ-ZOAWD (DS) - Simple DS Vol43 The Host Shouze! (DS) - Detroit Metal City DS (DS) - VitaminY (DS) The Behemoth - Castle Crashers (Xbox360) - Alien Hominid HD (Xbox360) From Software - Tenchu 4 (Wii) - Ninja Blade (Xbox360) - Demon's Souls (PS3) Sony Computer Entertainment - Patapon 2 (PSP) - Locoroco 2 (PSP) - Sarugetchu Piposaru Senki (PSP) - Bleach Soul Carnival (PSP) - Mainichi Issyo Portable (PSP) - Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaiki Da or2 (PSP) - 14 Unannounced titles Square Enix - Dissidia: Final Fantasy (PSP) - Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep (PSP) - The 3rd Birthday (PSP) - Final Fantasy Agito XIII (PSP) Marvelous Entertainment - Arc Rise Fantasia (Wii) - Avalon Code (DS) - Rune Factory Frontier (Wii) - Oboro (Wii) - Little King Story (Wii) - Hitman Reborn! (Wii/PS2) - Romantica (PS2) - Zero no Tsukaima (PS2) - ToLoveRu (PSP) - Ikki Tousen: Eloquent Fist (PSP) - ToLoveRu (DS) - Yasoukyoku (DS) - Harvest Moon Wakuwaku Animal March (Wii) Yuudoo - Aero Guitar (Wii) Level 5 - Layton 3 (DS) - Inazuma Eleven new title - White Knight Chronicles (PS3) Big games recently revealed Xedge demo Impressions  Whether you called it X Edge, Cross Edge, or Xross Edge, it's all referring to the same game. I'll refer to it as X Edge; a game mash-up reeling in the cast of several JRPG's and the cast of Darkstalkers. Yeah, I'm confused, too. Regardless, the Japanese PSN store recently updated with a demo for this PS3 exclusive and I'm here to tell you what I thought of it. From the roster given to you in the demo, you've got characters from Darkstalkers, Ar Tonelico, Mana Khemia 2, Atelier Lise, and Atelier Marie right off the bat to fiddle around with. You'll run across Etna and a Prinny from Disgaea in the demo, but confound it all if I couldn't recruit them. Enough about the ensemble... what happens in the demo? To be honest, I don't know. I can't read or speak Japanese. But I know that as the demo progresses, you fight a Prinny, then a Prinny with Etna, finally a scene where you recruit Felicia from Darkstalkers. There may be more to the demo, but it probably requires some understanding of Japanese and I didn't want to blindly try to solve the mystery. What the demo shows you is the interface the game uses, some of your "camp" options, and the general flow of battle. I'll start with the real meat of the game -- battle. At any time, you can hit R1 to summon up a random battle (as opposed to running around to initiate one... this is helpful for level-grinding purposes) and after a noticeable lag, which I'll blame on the demo reading entirely from the hard drive as opposed to a disc (an excuse to be sure), your lovely 2D sprites and the enemies pop up on two separate grids. It's a set-up reminiscent of Koudelka or the Dreamcast title Time Stalkers: where your characters and enemies land on their respective grids affects their attack range and ability to use items on one another. Each character has four attacks to choose from, each mapped to a face button on the controller. Each move takes up a certain amount of AP, and each character has a different amount that rolls over between attack phases similar to Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter or Chrono Cross. Unlike those games, however, you can switch the attacking character between each selection, sometimes creating "Chain" attacks. It's not as fluid as Valkyrie Profile, but it does have more menus to float through between attacks, so it's not too noticeable.  I'd go into things like "Break", "Down", and "Burst", but I simply couldn't understand the battle system enough to really dive into its complexities. Yes, it is a pretty deep battle system that can easily be mistaken as shallow. I know that if you successfully deplete an enemies Break, Down, or Burst gauge, you get a swell of AP to keep your chains going. I also discovered that after a successful attack round, you might have charged up your SP for an "EX Skill" by pressing R2 and then selecting the corresponding face button, assuming you have adequate AP. These can be chained together, although I was never able to pull it off. To be perfectly honest, the game is definitely going for Disgaea levels of damage and combos. Expect an end-game party to be dishing out hundred of chains and billions of damage. On the overworld map (yes, an overworld map... seems JRPGs haven't forgotten what those are, after all) in the demo, you can enter a small hut and choose from four options: buying and selling items, upgrading, converting, and enhancing equipment, searching the area around the camp (a vital point in advancing through the demo), and what I assume is a place to change a character's clothing. I wasn't able to do that. Anyway, I couldn't understand a lot of it, but it seems there will be a ton of weapon and armor upgrading going on.  Another thing to note is during cutscenes, you can fiddle around with the face buttons to activate different options. You can choose to hit circle and "stop" the game from progressing and stare at the pretty pictures, you can hit start and let the game scroll through the text on "auto", or hit triangle and let the game speed up and "skip" all the dialogue. Of course, there's probably more you can do, but I was impatient. Should I comment on the music? It's your standard uber-rock for these types of games. It can get annoying, but it's never in the way of enjoying the title. The voice acting sounds good, but I don't speak Japanese so who knows -- they could be as bland and nasty as fruitcake and I'd be none the wiser. All in all, the game seems pretty interesting for JRPG-ers. Some strange lag when battles start up, some sprites seem a little more well done than others (Shurelia and Lyner are like two completely different levels of quality), the battle system seems a bit slower than all the options would make it sound, but I've very little to complain about. It's fun and there's a lot of customization and party formations to mess around with. While it's uncertain if this licensing nightmare will exit Japan, rumors have gone around that it might. I certainly hope so, because this game is pretty promising for JRPG fanatics. Demon's Souls' first screenshots and details!!  Demon's Souls is one of the games for the PS3 that have been unveiled as playable at Tokyo Game Show. When we first reported on the game we included some Famitsu scans for your viewing pleasure, but now we have actual information on the game as well. Demon's Souls will be released some time in 2009 and it is a spiritual successor to King's Field, a PS1 title that was never officially released in the US. The game takes place in the kingdom of Boletaria, where you play an unnamed protagonist who roams around in an "extremely open-ended" world -- you can choose to save the world from the king who will awaken "an ancient monster" in his sleep, or not. It's all up to you. The game's director, Hidetaka Miyazaki, is attempting to "make the fun and charms of a classic RPG interesting all over again with the latest technology at hand." For example, instead of placing traditional restrictions on item usage, it uses the game's physics to place more realistic limits such as "long weapons bump into walls, lighting the area in real-time with the torch in your hand." Sadly, the director appears to have implied the game will be lacking multiplayer; instead, he will opt to "find a way to use the Internet to make the single-player mode more interesting." Arguably, there has yet to be a game that mixes mechanics of a good ol' RPG with gameplay elements only possible on this generation's hardware. Will Demon's Souls be the first? We'll find out when we check the game out at TGS. Also, be sure to check out the 11 screenshots in the gallery below. http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/10/03/demons-souls-first-screenshot s-and-details/ http://www.jp.playstation.com/scej/title/demons-souls/index.html Edited by Neo Metallix, Oct 5 2008, 09:34 AM.
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| Red Ranger Eater | Aug 25 2008, 08:37 PM Post #2 |
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I've heard the name, but i dont really know what it is |
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Aug 25 2008, 08:44 PM Post #3 |
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It's a big game show. The E3 of Japan, but is actually bigger than E3 now. Plus I think the best stuff gets announced there, it did last year at least. |
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| cap | Aug 26 2008, 01:21 AM Post #4 |
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Hmm, I wonder if we'll see more from Sonic Unleashed. Actually, more likely we'll see more from Sonic and the Black Knight. But either way, I'm happy enough. I'm just interested to see if anything that looks good pops up at Tokyo. |
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| Flamenblade | Aug 27 2008, 12:41 PM Post #5 |
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Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. |
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Aug 31 2008, 02:08 PM Post #6 |
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Hmmm, I've never played a Kingdom Hearts game, but I have heard many great things about it. I think I'll get Birth By Sleep when it comes out for PSP. Anyway here's something interesting for you KH fans about Kingdom Hearts 3.
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| wowzaa1 | Aug 31 2008, 02:16 PM Post #7 |
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Never heard of it. |
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Aug 31 2008, 02:18 PM Post #8 |
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You seriously have never heard of Kingdom Hearts? It's that RPG game with disney characters in it. |
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| Reflection | Sep 13 2008, 08:28 AM Post #9 |
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Tokyo Game Show, eh? Is there a list of games confirmed to be at the show or anything? D: |
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Sep 13 2008, 08:51 AM Post #10 |
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Nope, not yet. I'm expecting a lot of RPGs to be revealed there though. Possibly White Knight Story, Kingdom Hearts 3, and even never before seen ones. It's some time in October. Can't wait, TGS is usually pretty good. Last year it was better than E3 in terms of games shown. |
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| Lord Bowie | Sep 16 2008, 07:26 PM Post #11 |
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PAX is better and bigger than E3 also, but the Northwest events are always forgotten I suppose. >_> Tokyo Game Show should have some announcements but I don't expect too much major news considering most of it is already out in the open in terms of the announced games and their features. |
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Sep 17 2008, 08:48 PM Post #12 |
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Hmmm, perhaps for Microsoft and Nintendo... Sony and third parties have a lot to reveal yet, I think. They don't announce everything at E3 or Leipzig. They usually wait for TGS to unveil RPGs. |
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| Lord Bowie | Sep 17 2008, 11:40 PM Post #13 |
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I suppose that there could be some last minute blockbuster announcements before the holiday season, especially considering the JRPG, Infinite Undiscovery, which looks to be spectacular but still has a lot hidden behind closed doors. Maybe some Unleashed info will break out as well with any luck. |
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| prince10bee | Sep 18 2008, 02:23 PM Post #14 |
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Kingdom Hearts (キングダムハーツ, Kingudamu Hātsu?) is an action role-playing game developed and published by Squaresoft (now Square Enix) in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 video game console.[2] It is the result of a collaboration between Square and The Walt Disney Company. The game combines characters and settings from Disney animated features with those from the Final Fantasy series, developed by Square. The story follows Sora, a young boy, as he is thrown into an epic battle against the darkness. He is joined by Donald Duck and Goofy, classic Disney characters, who help him on his quest. |
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| Reflection | Sep 19 2008, 02:41 PM Post #15 |
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Actually, Nintendo says they're organizing a conferance on October 2nd, meaning they could be planning to reveal new games at the Tokyo Game Show. Man, I hope I get to see more info about God of War III. <3 |
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