New PS3 announcements from Japan

Bligmerk wrote:
> -Konami announced that Hideo Kojima will be revealing a new game title
> at Tokyo Game Show on September 22 between 3:10 - 3:40PM.
>
> - Level 5 announced a new PlayStation 3 RPG called White Knight Story,
> it was one of the secret project the company is working on.
>
> - Tecmo announced Ninja Gaiden Sigma for PlayStation 3, the latest work
> of the series. The game is an enhanced version of Ninja Gaiden for
> Xbox, the female protagonist Rachel will be a playable character, there
> will be additional levels, weapons, and new combat system not found in
> the original. The game is currently 25% completed.
>
> - Sony confirmed that Genji: Days of the Blade and Ridge Racer 7 are
> both launch titles for PS3 in Japan on November 11, 2006. Sony's
> driving simulation game Gran Turismo HD will be released in Japan in
> December.

I'm impressed, Blig actually made a rational, coherent post. Ok, sure,
it's OT for the Xbox group, but it's nice to see something from him
that's not ranting and raving.

BTW Xbox Live has the following TGS content so far:

Tenchu Senran Trailer (63.2 MB)
Half Life Ep. 2 Trailer (95.40 MB)
Aragorn's Journey Map Pack 1 (7.65 MB)
Northern Badlands - Map Pack 2 (10.36 MB) 350 Microsoft Points
TGS/X06 Picture Pack (156 KB)

- Jordan
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"Jordan" <lundj.DeleteThis@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>
> Bilgemerk wrote:
> > -Konami announced that Hideo Kojima will be revealing a new game title
> > at Tokyo Game Show on September 22 between 3:10 - 3:40PM.
> >
> > - Level 5 announced a new PlayStation 3 RPG called White Knight Story,
> > it was one of the secret project the company is working on.
> >
> > - Tecmo announced Ninja Gaiden Sigma for PlayStation 3, the latest work
> > of the series. The game is an enhanced version of Ninja Gaiden for
> > Xbox, the female protagonist Rachel will be a playable character, there
> > will be additional levels, weapons, and new combat system not found in
> > the original. The game is currently 25% completed.
> >
> > - Sony confirmed that Genji: Days of the Blade and Ridge Racer 7 are
> > both launch titles for PS3 in Japan on November 11, 2006. Sony's
> > driving simulation game Gran Turismo HD will be released in Japan in
> > December.
>
> I'm impressed, Blig actually made a rational, coherent post.

Because it's not the real bilgemerk. The real bilgemerk is curled up in a
corner somewhere waiting for at least one piece of good news about the PoS3.
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Jordan <lundj.TakeThisOut@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I'm impressed, Blig actually made a rational, coherent post. Ok, sure,

... by copying and pasting from the-magicbox.com's Sept 20th
update. Seriously, there wasn't a single unique sentence in there. (The
style, most notably the substitution of commas for semicolons, is nearly
unique to whoever it is who runs that site.)

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poor?' they call me a communist!"

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getrich DeleteThis @1upandup.com wrote:
> Bligmerk wrote:
> > -Konami announced that Hideo Kojima will be revealing a new game title
> > at Tokyo Game Show on September 22 between 3:10 - 3:40PM.
>
> Yep. Hideo announces a 360 Exclusive title as his next project!

They also pulled a sony and pushed back the release of the game... its
now Fall 2007

>
> > - Level 5 announced a new PlayStation 3 RPG called White Knight Story,
> > it was one of the secret project the company is working on.
>
> So secret, they were doing it in the paper and pen storyboard PS3 dev
> kit.

I believe that was a dry erase board and a sharpie permenant marker.
You know, harder to work with.

>
> > - Tecmo announced Ninja Gaiden Sigma for PlayStation 3, the latest work
> > of the series. The game is an enhanced version of Ninja Gaiden for
> > Xbox, the female protagonist Rachel will be a playable character, there
> > will be additional levels, weapons, and new combat system not found in
> > the original. The game is currently 25% completed.
>
> FINALLY Sony gets Ninja Gaiden in some form. I guess it will replace
> Shinobi as a relatively decent ninja game for Sony's console.

Yeah, i missed Shinobi. I had it for my Sega Master System. Good to see
Sony get some Ninja loving.

>
> > - Sony confirmed that Genji: Days of the Blade and Ridge Racer 7 are
> > both launch titles for PS3 in Japan on November 11, 2006. Sony's
> > driving simulation game Gran Turismo HD will be released in Japan in
> > December.
>
> Ridge Racer! It's Ridge Racer! And also real-time launch title game
> change! Yes, in a blink of an eye, all traces of Killzone are removed
> and replaced with Resistance!

LOL. Someone should make a website dedicated to all the ways you could
make fun of that.

You know, i dont think the guy meant to say 'real-time weapon change',
i honestly think he meant to say 'real-time character change'. Because
i think changing characters on the fly is alot more 'revolutionary'
than weapon changing. Honestly, weapon changing has been around since
Castle Wolfenstein at least.

I wonder if that guy has commited suicide yet?

>
> - Richard Hutnik
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Brenden D. Chase <brenden.chase.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>You know, i dont think the guy meant to say 'real-time weapon change',
>i honestly think he meant to say 'real-time character change'. Because
>i think changing characters on the fly is alot more 'revolutionary'
>than weapon changing. Honestly, weapon changing has been around since
>Castle Wolfenstein at least.

I dunno. In FPSes, weapons have maybe two or three animations.
In 3D third person melee games like Genji, I honestly can't think of a
current game where you don't have to go into a pause menu (thus hiding
animation load times) to change weapons. I snarked too, but when I read
the explanation of the phrase (probably on GAF), it made sense to me.

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"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to
explain to us what the exit strategy is,"
-- George Bush, April 9/1999
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Andrew Ryan Chang wrote:
> Brenden D. Chase <brenden.chase.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You know, i dont think the guy meant to say 'real-time weapon change',
>> i honestly think he meant to say 'real-time character change'. Because
>> i think changing characters on the fly is alot more 'revolutionary'
>> than weapon changing. Honestly, weapon changing has been around since
>> Castle Wolfenstein at least.
>
> I dunno. In FPSes, weapons have maybe two or three animations.
> In 3D third person melee games like Genji, I honestly can't think of a
> current game where you don't have to go into a pause menu (thus hiding
> animation load times) to change weapons.

Does Fable not count? Or Enclave? I must not understand what you're
trying to say.

Swi
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Jordan wrote:

> BTW Xbox Live has the following TGS content so far:
>
> Tenchu Senran Trailer (63.2 MB)
> Half Life Ep. 2 Trailer (95.40 MB)
> Aragorn's Journey Map Pack 1 (7.65 MB)
> Northern Badlands - Map Pack 2 (10.36 MB) 350 Microsoft Points
> TGS/X06 Picture Pack (156 KB)

More:

Portal Trailer (93.81 MB)
Team Fortress 2 Trailer (206.81 MB)
KUF: Circle of Doom Trailer (63.2 NB)
Fusion Frenzy 2 Trailer (76.31 MB)
Vista Gaming Montage Trailer (81.9 MB)
TGS Press Briefing (288.53 MB)
TGS/X06 Bringing It Home Theme (1.34MB)

- Jordan
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USAF LM <none RemoveThis @nowhere.com> wrote:
>Andrew Ryan Chang wrote:
>> I dunno. In FPSes, weapons have maybe two or three animations.
>> In 3D third person melee games like Genji, I honestly can't think of a
>> current game where you don't have to go into a pause menu (thus hiding
>> animation load times) to change weapons.
>
>Does Fable not count? Or Enclave? I must not understand what you're
>trying to say.

Haven't played Fable or Enclave. But from their FAQs at Gamefaqs,
I don't think this is what I was talking about. What I meant was in, say,
Ninja Gaiden, you wield a regular sword, or a huge sword, or a war hammer,
or a staff, or nunchucks, but only one of those at a time, and each weapon
has a large distinct set of animations. I think Genji's the same way.
If in Enclave or Fable, you can switch weapons real-time and instantly get
a large number of animations unique to that weapon*, then yes, that would
be what I mean.


* Even in Ninja Gaiden, you can switch real-time to the bow, but that only
has the one animation, unlike the melee weapons.

--
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to
explain to us what the exit strategy is,"
-- George Bush, April 9/1999
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In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Andrew Ryan Chang <archang.RemoveThis@sfu.ca> wrote:

> I dunno. In FPSes, weapons have maybe two or three animations.
> In 3D third person melee games like Genji, I honestly can't think of a
> current game where you don't have to go into a pause menu (thus hiding
> animation load times) to change weapons. I snarked too, but when I read
> the explanation of the phrase (probably on GAF), it made sense to me.

Ratchet & Clank allows you cycle through a (small) selection of weapons
with just the tap of a button. If you hold down the button, the game will
pause while the full menu comes up. However for most situations, just
cycling through your favorite 3 is good enough.
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Jordan wrote:
> Jordan wrote:
>
> > BTW Xbox Live has the following TGS content so far:
> >
> > Tenchu Senran Trailer (63.2 MB)
> > Half Life Ep. 2 Trailer (95.40 MB)
> > Aragorn's Journey Map Pack 1 (7.65 MB)
> > Northern Badlands - Map Pack 2 (10.36 MB) 350 Microsoft Points
> > TGS/X06 Picture Pack (156 KB)
>
> More:
>
> Portal Trailer (93.81 MB)
> Team Fortress 2 Trailer (206.81 MB)
> KUF: Circle of Doom Trailer (63.2 NB)
> Fusion Frenzy 2 Trailer (76.31 MB)
> Vista Gaming Montage Trailer (81.9 MB)
> TGS Press Briefing (288.53 MB)
> TGS/X06 Bringing It Home Theme (1.34MB)

Still more:

Fuzion Frenzy 2 Demo (293.43 MB)
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