In past generations such as the NES, Genesis and PlayStation 2 eras one thing was abundantly clear; when it came to role-playing games, the Japanese ruled the roost. Yeah, the PC guys had games like Baldur’s Gate and, even further back, the Ultima series, but they didn’t have Sephiroth, or KOS-MOS, or whacked out concepts like “evokers” that were basically psychic weapons shaped like guns that teens put to their heads to shoot. Console RPGs meant Japanese RPGs, and for many years, that was a distinguishing point between PC versus console gaming.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
Lol bring it on .
PS: didn't read yet .
Western rpgs did this last gen.
Bioware has done a great job with Dragon Age and Mass effect also the Witcher 3 is amazing. I hope we get sequels to Kotor and Jade Empire.
I guess this means as far as presence is concerned. Which is fine by me. Though I've enjoyed a WRPG here or there, there isn't a franchise out there that catches my attention like a Persona, Tales , Kingdom Hearts, or FF. And don't get me started on the stuff that hasn't had an entry in a while, like Xenosaga(which we may never see again), Legend of Dragoon(c'mon, Sony, you know you want to), .hack, and so on.
An entry in any one of the franchises above- and quite a few I haven't mentioned- would instantly trump ANY Western RPG for me in terms of priority.