The Tokyo Game Show 2015 is brimming with new trailers, teasers, some disappointments and even vague release dates for the rest of 2015 and next year. There's a 10-year-old surprise too.
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00:32 - Nier 2 Way More Platinum Than Square
01:29 - Platinum can solve Nier's problems
02:48 - Holy crap, a positive Kickstarter Story!?!?
04:25 - Teens love their game boxes! (This is news?)
07:29 - Video game music saving the symphony
09:00 - "Bleeps and bloops"
11:08 - Cultural differences in reception for Video Games Live
13:15 - "The Uncharted Guy" confuses Uncharted 2 for Uncharted 4
14:55 - TGS is not super English friendly. Should attending writers speak Japanese?
16:30 - Miscommunications happen even if you do speak Japanese
18:32 - The Placebo Effect changes how you view games, says study
19:45 - Blame Game
25:56 - IGN joins the party with incorrect images
28:33 - Hey, I like single-player shooter campaigns. Where are they going?
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There's no excuse for posting a huge editorial blasting Naughty Dog for "Uncharted 4" when the writer was playing Uncharted 2. There might be reason for him to make the mistake in the first place, because the Nathan Drake Collection looks great and it's been years...
But the editor absolutely should have realized that Uncharted 4 wasn't at the show. No one else was writing about Uncharted 4 at TGS, so wouldn't he realize something was wrong?
I don't agree with the finding of that placebo effect using Don't Starve. The second time they played it they were told the AI was more adaptive and a lot of people said they could tell it was better. Well ... the first time they played it they just 'played it', while the second time they played it they were signposted on what to look for, which they did. That's not a good test at all. If they were told to look at the AI in their first playthough and THEN told it was improved on their second playthough, then that would have been a valid test.
From what I've heard I don't think video game music translates well to the symphony. The older stuff that was "chiptune" to begin with, I mean.
“Best of” TGS Awards followed by quickfire game evaluations of a whole stack of others.
00:45 – Best New Game in an Old Game’s Clothing Award
04:09 – Best Game Existing in an Archive Award
05:09 – Best Surprise (that we actually kind of knew about)
07:47 – Actual Surprise Award
09:25 – Biggest Letdown Award
14:59 – Other letdowns
16:14 – Blackest Ops Award
18:47 – Least Charted Award
20:55 – The Darkest Soul Award
23:42 – Rudest Bear Award
23:51 – Listener question
26:06 – Pavilion
29:30 – Thumper and Mushroom 11
36:27 – Other rapid-fire impressions: Walden
37:29 – Ace Attorney 6
38:59 – Hyrule Warriors for 3DS, YIIK: A Postmodern RPG
40:18 – Zodiac, Sara and the Viper’s Crown, Back in 1995
43:51 – Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!, Kineo and Usuko, Reel Blade, and Rabi-Ribi
Tokyo Xanadu needs a western release. XSeed does Falcom stuff these days...but are they bogged down with too many other projects?
Tokyo Xanadu looks really good but i feel like we don't get to see this until fall next year :(
Pat keeps sending me to the Tokyo Game Show “because it’s cheap” even though all I do is get lost and interview Omega Force over and over again.
Here's a round-up of TGS happenings:
Bloodborne: The Old Hunters - November 24th, 2015.
The officially announced expansion to Bloodborne continuing the merciless action RPG.
"With new story details, learn the tale of hunters who once made Yharnam their hunting grounds, meet new NPCs, and discover another side of the history and world of Bloodborne. Here’s a brief glimpse of just some of what lies in store for you when The Old Hunters launches on 24th November, including Simon’s Bowblade weapon, and new boss enemy Ludwig."
Everybody's Golf (Hot Shots Golf) - 2016
A new entry in the golfing series was also unveiled and it seems this one will have some open world features. There's no concrete date from the TGS announcement except that it's for PlayStation 4.
Gravity Rush 2 (Gravity Daze 2) - 2016
Announced as a PlayStation 4 exclusive coming next year, as well as confirmation the original PlayStation Vita Gravity Rush will be re-releasing on PlayStation 4 as well in 2016.
King of Fighters XIV - 2016
A new contender in the brawling franchise as SNK name the latest successor to the crown. No firm date in 2016 yet but we do get a painfully short teaser from the TGS 2015 presentation.
World of Final Fantasy - 2016
Tiny characters and tiny battles in World of Final Fantasy arrives next year on PlayStation 4 and Vita.
Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness - 2016
It's still happening and its scheduled for sometime next year for a Western release on PlayStation 4 whereas Japan can enjoy their faithless integrity adventure late this year on both PlayStation 3 and 4.
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Prologue - 2016
Yes that's the name they're going with - it just rolls off the tongue doesn't it? It's a compilation that brings Kingdom Hearts [Dream Drop Distance] to the PlayStation 4, and has additional content that serves as a lead into Kingdom Hearts III.
Umbrella Corps - 2016
Capcom infected the event with their own announcement of this competitive third-person shooter. It's based in the Resident Evil universe but we're hired mercenaries taking on other mercs in biological warfare. Battles take place in iconic Resident Evil locations.
NiOh - 2016
This little gem was supposed to have happened ages ago and was announced back in 2005 originally for PlayStation 3, but now its dropped the hyphen and is simply NiOh. It's also become a third-person action samurai title as KOEI Tecmo unveil how they've rebooted the project. It's main character does look like he's trying some Geralt of Rivia cosplay.
It's now coming to PlayStation 4 next year, unless it needs another decade of rebirth...
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My wallet will be destroyed Kaboom!
Was I the only one extremely disappointed by the SCEJA Press Conference? Nothing on Persona 5 or Kingdom Hearts 3. Oh wait, I forgot they just announced Kingdom Hearts 2.8 to try to placate the fans (not cool SE). The conference was all over the place where they were just showing random clips and then random guys would come out and awkwardly talk. There are some great looking games coming out in Japan, so kudos to them. However, there were games I expected they would talk about (the above along with some others)and they did not touch on anything that was predicted. Oh well, I just hope that Sony has more to show throughout the whole Tokyo Game Show!
If it already wasn't obvious enough after Capcom and Square Enix started shifting focus to PS4 exclusive development, it's obvious that after this TGS, it's absolutely a return to form the Japanese development scene. Cell architecture and HD development was a set back last-gen. Now, these folks are graciously back where they belong, and thankful for it.
The next few years are going to be utterly glorious for the PS4. Absolutely insanely glorious.
PS2 levels of glorious.