Yahoo! Mobile Japan is pleased to announce today that Namco's original Tales of Phantasia is now available on mobile phones.
Meodia.com - Retro - Analysis of early SNES role playing game Tales of Phantasia.
After mere months on the App Store, Tales of Phantasia iOS will soon stop being available or even playable in any way. As Touch Arcade discovered, Bandai Namco quietly posted an update on the app's iTunes page, noting it will remove the game from the store on August 28. Not only will Tales of Phantasia iOS not be available after that, but Bandai Namco says "the app and all associated services will become unusable." That's likely because of server shutdown, since the game requires players be online to save.
My biggest gripe about online-only games: you can't play once those servers go down. Unless the game is hugely popular, like the PS2 days, where people actually emulated servers so others could play online.
Look at Titanfall in 10 years. It'll probably not have any servers, so if you wanted to "relive the past" - too bad...
It uses cloud servers, so these servers adapt on the fly to host any game that supports them, so since the cloud servers aren't locked to Titanfall, there's no reason to end support for it.
I hate this logic. I'm not going to a give a single FUCK about Titanfall in 10 years.
titanfall was an EXAMPLE. How about Destiny then. 10 years from now and the player base dwindles, if expansions cease to release. There goes your money. No going back and playing whenever you want on your saved game. No playing at all.
If only they localize this, without the microtransaction of course, for Vita/3DS :( . I'll be glad to buy it on day 1.
"There are just some things that should just stay on consoles.
That’s right. Sorry Square Enix. Sorry Atlus. We know that Shin Megami Tensei‘s first English port will be in the form of an iOS and Android version and it could be decently playable, but we’re not holding our breath here.
While it’s admirable to see some ports of old school games for new audiences, it just seems shameful to see things like sprites getting watered down (re: Final Fantasy VI) or changing games to feature in-app purchases. Games with illustrious histories that stir up emotions within its fanbase deserve to be played, but maybe not with microtransactions. Nostalgia does not need to be nickeled and dimed. However, it’s been done. And it’ll probably happen again.
Either way, these travesties have lingered on in the collective gaming consciousness, and beloved franchises should be spared from the malignant disease that is mobile platforming.
So here we have it ladies and gentlemen. From the Tales of series to Fallout, here are franchises that we would like to never see on mobile. Ever." - Pixelitis Staff
Now where's the iPad version? ^^
525 yen = $5.76 , just in case anyone was wondering...