Playstation Discussion Archive

[Calza]

Final Fantasy meets 24?

 

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

It reminds me of VIII for some reason, I guess it's the train.

[McMad]

More government aspects? God, I hated those aspects in FFXII, just give us back over dramatic 'save the world' adventures with a soppy love story please.

[Dante]

FFXIII Scans

[Ashley]

The multiple situations split screen was used before 24

 

(Changing Rooms has been using it for years)

[Guest Jordan]

Wow, they're definintly moving the Unreal 3 engine in a new direction. It'd be suicidal not for them to release this on the 360... I mean come on, 90% of 360 games run on the U3E

[Calza]

I thought it's on the 'White' engine or something like that

[Guest Jordan]

I thought it's on the 'White' engine or something like that

 

Yeah, you're right.

 

From wikipedia:

Square Enix recently announced they had licensed Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 to use on a number of particular next generation titles, but will still use the White Engine for Final Fantasy XIII.[14]. In February 2007, an interview with Square Enix President Yoichi Wada in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun misstated that the game would no longer use the White Engine, and use the Unreal Engine 3 instead to reduce development costs. This statement was recognized as an error by the editor. While the use of Unreal Engine 3 is true for other upcoming Square Enix games, the White Engine is still being used for Final Fantasy XIII.[15]

[Jon]

It is the white engine, the unreal engine is for other Square Enix endeavours.

[McMad]

I thought it's on the 'White' engine or something like that

 

XIII has been confirmed to be still running on the White engine but all other Next Gen S-E games are now be using the Unreal 3 engine except XIII which is too far in development, it's still not clear which engine Versus XIII uses though.

 

Hopefully Versus and XIII make it on to the 360 though.

[Caris]

Wierd, i thought it was the steam engine.

 

get it?

[Dante]

Looks like that rumour wii game of Beautiful Katamari Damacy is only for PS3 & Xbox360.

[Ashley]

Or a) the 'Wii' part is cut off, afterall you can only see "S3" or b) it will be so different it will have a different name...?

 

Im waxing optimistic here, I want it.

[Dante]

Better scans Ash.

Beautiful Katamari Damacy is online.

[ReZourceman]

Can you both read...Japanese? Or Chinese? Forgive my ignorance on not knowing visual differences.

[Guest Jordan]

Thats Japanese.

I thought the creator of Katamari said he wouldn't be making any more? O_o

[Mr. Bananagrabber]

Thats Japanese.

I thought the creator of Katamari said he wouldn't be making any more? O_o

Guess someone twisted his arm ($$$).

Should be good though, Katamari is an absolute gem of a game.

[immy]

Thats Japanese.

I thought the creator of Katamari said he wouldn't be making any more? O_o

 

 

 

His not making, but namco still are

[Domstercool]

Thats Japanese.

I thought the creator of Katamari said he wouldn't be making any more? O_o

 

They are making it without him.

[DiemetriX]

Finaly got a ps3 at home (not mine)

My "gamerTag" is DiemetriX.

 

I must say I'm tempted to buy one now. Blue-ray movies look awesome through the HDMI connection. Hope I get tired of the ps3 when now so that I don't have to buy one :P

[Dante]

Shares of Sony Corp., the world's second-largest consumer electronics maker, rose to a two-month high after the Nikkei reported operating profit this fiscal year will beat analysts' estimates on Bravia television sales.

 

The stock gained 2.7 percent to 6,510 yen at the close on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, after rising to a five-year high. Operating profit for the year ending March 31, 2008, will probably reach 400 billion yen ($3.4 billion), exceeding estimates for 350 billion yen, the newspaper said today, without saying where it obtained the information.

 

``The Nikkei numbers are just estimates and we can't comment on it,'' said Mami Imada, a spokeswoman for Tokyo-based Sony. Sony is scheduled to report fiscal 2006 earnings on May 16. The company in January said it expected operating profit to gain 20 percent to 60 billion yen.

 

Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer targets an operating profit margin of 5 percent by March 2008, about double the current margin. Tokyo-based Sony confirmed today that it will only sell a more expensive version of its PlayStation 3 game console in North America, a strategy it adopted for the European market to bolster margins.

 

``Profit margin will probably exceed 5 percent if Sony doesn't lower the price of PlayStation 3,'' Hitoshi Kuriyama, an analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co. wrote in a report dated yesterday. He rates the stock a ``buy.''

 

Shares of Sony gained 28 percent this year, compared with a 0.8 percent advance in the Nikkei 225 Stock Average.

 

Sony will stop selling the 20-gigabyte PlayStation 3 model in North America, and will only offer the 60-gigabyte version, said Satoshi Fukuoka, a Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. spokesman in Tokyo, confirming a separate Nikkei report.

 

`Consumer Needs'

 

``It's in line with our strategy as we had planed to choose models based on consumer needs,'' Fukuoka said. The larger model, which retails for $599 in the U.S. and is $100 more expensive than the smaller version, accounts for about 90 percent of sales, he said.

 

The company is also considering introducing the model with a bigger hard disk, Fukuoka said, without providing details.

 

Sony also denied a Nikkei report that it aims to ship 10 million PlayStation 3 units in the year to March 2008, a 66 percent increase from the projected 6 million units for the fiscal year just ended.

 

Bloomberg

[KKOB]

have you saw that new video by the guy who notoriously called the PS3 the PStripple, and actedlike a dick? hehe Kotaku have a link and it made me cry laughing a lil

[Hero-of-Time]

Anyone know where I can get a some official White PSP headphones or were they just available with the Value Pack?

 

EDIT: Dont matter guys just won some brand new ones off ebay for a fiver! Bargain!

[That Guy]

What the hells Katamari and should I buy it for PS2?

[Hero-of-Time]

What the hells Katamari and should I buy it for PS2?

 

Its a very very quirky game and I highly recommend it. I bought it after Christmas and never looked back. I think I posted some impressions in the PS2 topic which should be a couple of pages back on the main Other Console board.

[Dante]

DMC4 Scans

 

New DMC4 info:

 

The game is said to be long, the longest DMC yet. The bestiary is larger than all previous games combined.

 

 

 

 

Dante is approaching 40. I don't know if it's literally 40 or the character designer was told to model a guy appearing to be that age.

 

Both Nero and Dante are playable. However, Nero is the focus so Dante in DMC4 is a replica of his DMC3 combo system, but this time they've added instant 'style' switching to the instant weapon switching. They also updated the animations. (For the people that want to bitch, Dante isn't the highlight, Nero is the focus. So don't bust a cherry about him havin some re-used combat from DMC3)

 

1080p / 60 fps

 

Hands on impressions let them fight against Bariel and the twin frost enemies. Says, each boss has to be killed in a unique way. (none of that god of war / shenmue shit either, apparently it has to deal with using the devil arm in unique instances -- for example, "slamming the twin frost demons together via devil arm to finish them off)

 

"Dante is getting too powerful" says Hiroyuki Kobayahi, and said that "making him the main character would take all the challenge outta the game".

 

PSM prefer Nero over Dante

 

-This game ran at 1080p and 60fps when they played it.

-DMC4 is a mixture of the best bits of DMC1 and DMC3:SE

 

-gameplay is very polished, solid, and responsive, it shames games like Genjiawn of Blade (this doesn't really say much, but sure -- sounds good)

 

-Two levels were playable, the seaside setting level with the docks, and the Ice level with the enormous gothic cathedral and snow capped mountains.

 

-Frosts are hard mofos to kill. They can disappear, recharge their health by freezing themselves, and when they freeze, their health is revived almost to the stage when you first started fighting them.

-The move "accelorator" is very handy in this battle, since its "spewing flames and steam" out of the sword.

 

-Demon arm could be used to slam the frosts.

 

-Plenty of green orbs spew out if you successfully defeat Frosts.

 

-Press "select" for neros taunt, in which he says "scum"(Hint to Vergil and Nero similarity?)

 

-Variel is now known as Berias?

 

-Nero mocks him by saying "he doesnt tan"

 

-Berias's face is his weak point. Nero is capable of double jumping to his face.

 

-When he gets pissed, he sends nero flying backwards with a deafening roar.

-Using guns eventually start ti diminish ihis flames.

 

-Accelarator gives it the slight edge of doing extra damage(Sword goes firey red when he puts that petrol handle down)

 

Neros moves:

-Grim Grip: Lets neo stretch out his arm like the bendy one outta fantasic four. he can chuck enemies around, but its main use is reaching distant objects.

Fly Over: While Dante is stuck to the ground - Excluding cutscenes where he regularly darts up the side of buildings, Nero can use the grim grip to pull himself across caverneous gaps. You can do this at set points,so keep an eye out for the blue markers.

-Devil Bringer:Not only does this contiune the fine capcom tradition of "arms that do stuff"(God Hand, Onimusha), but happens to be one of the most interesting things in the game. It gives nero an extra egde over Dante in combat.

-The Red Queen: Neros sword is bettar than neros because it has a motorcycle rev in the handle, if you press R2 in time with your attacks he revs until it glows red, which unleashes nasty flame attacks that get steadily more damaging, so long as you keep your rhythm.

-Another shot of CGI Nero Vs Dante, except this time, without pointing guns at each other, they are weilding their swords.