Square's Next MMOG For PS3/Windows 79
Gamespot reports that Square/Enix's next Massively Multiplayer Online Game will be a PS3/Windows Vista title. From the article: "While talking up Treasures of Aht Urhgan--the game's latest expansion--FFXI producer Hiromichi Tanaka commented that his team is now working on a new massively multiplayer online role-playing game for Windows Vista and the PlayStation 3. He also shared his thoughts on porting games to new hardware, including bringing FFXI to the PS3 as well as the PlayStation Portable." More details are likely at E3. Update: 04/20 14:03 GMT by Z : Link fixed.
WoW envy (Score:1, Flamebait)
Victory is theirs!
-Eric
Re:WoW envy (Score:2)
Re:WoW envy (Score:2)
People said the same thing about keyboard and mouse for FPS games a few years ago. While that may be ideal, there are a large number of FPS games on consoles nowadays and most of them play just fine. Just because nobody has figured out a good way to translate MMOG controls to a console controller yet doesn't mean they won't be able to in the future.
Re:WoW envy (Score:1)
My wife and I even had two televisions set up next to each other, her on her PS2, me on mine. We had some great times and I even wish my PS2 could handle EQ2 because I'd be back on the couch in a second.
Re:WoW envy (Score:1)
a) If they put console-players and PC-players in the same world/realm/whatever. I'd love it if Halo 2 supports console vs PC
b) If they dumb down/scale the UI/game so it functions better on Console (see Oblivion)
Re:WoW envy (Score:2)
Well, at least consoles have the capability of doing voice chat, which most PC MMORPG's still don't support. Having a limited number of controls on the controller will be a disadvantage, but it's good that teammates will be able to communicate with each other without having to use Teamspeak or some other 3rd party solution.
-Eric
Re:WoW envy (Score:2)
Ignoring that- I find a good teamspeak or ventrillo server is FAR better than any built in voice chat I've ever used. I'd rather just have in game bindings for connecting a TS client to a given server and room than having them write a voice comm program as part fo the game.
Re:WoW envy (Score:2)
Besides, if you really want to RP and don't want to hear it, it's just like any other channel. You can just turn it off.
-Eric
Re:WoW envy (Score:2)
That said, I still don't think a portable MMO is worthwhile, since the only time I am on the move for that long at once is on road trips... whic
Re:WoW envy (Score:1)
Little tidbit of info for you:
Asheron's Call was doing this in 1998.
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Re:WoW envy (Score:3, Interesting)
The problem that I had with FFXI was their requirement of a 5-person party for everything. I didnt enjoy having to sit in zones typing "42THF LFP" for an hour so that I coul
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Re:WoW envy (Score:1)
It might interest some people who think that this game is "dying" to know that the new expansion has (in my area) completely sold out in every store, forcing me to possibly buy it online and wait to get it shipped. Hundreds of copies of this game vanished the first day it was available. Do people buy expansions to dying games? No.
Re:WoW envy (Score:2)
unless Blizzard can get their act together and see that computer gaming is on its way out.
Stop.
Just... Stop.
When you can play F.E.A.R., counterstrike:source, C&C Generals:zero hour, Eve Online, and Civ IV without a mouse and a high-def monitor 18 inches from your nose, let me know.
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Re:WoW envy (Score:1, Informative)
Because being #4 means no one plays it...
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Re:WoW envy (Score:2)
few pre-orders = we don't want any extra.
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what gives? (Score:2)
Re:what gives? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:what gives? (Score:2)
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6147946.html [gamespot.com]
I'd also like to point out another article that SquareEnix themselves published:
http://www.ffxifestival.com/devpanel.html [ffxifestival.com]
That second one doesn't refer to a PS3 version at all actually. It only talks of a new MMORPG for the 360 and Vista. It's near the bottom:
During E3 2005 we announced that the FINAL FANTASY XI development team had begun work on a next generation MMORPG for the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista. We can't talk too much
From the article (Score:3, Funny)
huh?
Obligatory batman sounds (Score:1)
*ZONK!*
Allow me to summarize this descriptive article (Score:3, Funny)
- it will be released
- sometime between now and the destruction of the universe
Re:Allow me to summarize this descriptive article (Score:2)
Jumpgate Mk2 (Score:1)
And nobody showed up.
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Re:Kind Of Early To Be Abandoning The 360? (Score:3, Informative)
Which is virtually the opposite. So why are they annoucing it for the PS3 then saying it could take a few extra years
Re:Kind Of Early To Be Abandoning The 360? (Score:2)
http://www.ffxifestival.com/devpanel.html [ffxifestival.com]
During E3 2005 we announced that the FINAL FANTASY XI development team had begun work on a next generation MMORPG for the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista. We can't talk too much about the next generation MMORPG, but we're sure you'll find it very exciting.
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Re:Kind Of Early To Be Abandoning The 360? (Score:2)
Vista is actually the most logical "second" platform for them to code for since PCs are still the main base for MMOs. Consoles are growing in this area, but they're a very small percentage overall so far. Sony is probably paying Square a pretty penny for the exclusive console rights for the nex
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Re:Kind Of Early To Be Abandoning The 360? (Score:2)
Next.
Re:Kind Of Early To Be Abandoning The 360? (Score:2)
Please cease and desist.
In other news, the Bush administration has been caught posting on religious forums with quotes like "now that Islam has pretty much been abandoned by most people...."
Re:Kind Of Early To Be Abandoning The 360? (Score:2)
[gamespot.com]http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/brothersina rms3/news.html [gamespot.com]
"Next chapter of Gearbox's Brothers in Arms franchise named, confirmed for PS3, Xbox 360, PC; dated for holiday season."
Time for something New (Score:1)
PSP FFXI? (Score:1)
Then there's the issue of the reduced battery life when the wi-fi switch is on. Anytime I've wanted to play online with my PSP I've always found myself becoming attached to the nearest wall unit via an umbilical charging cable, which I feel sort of defeats the purpose of a handheld unit. The party mechanics of the game also somewhat dooms t
Re:PSP FFXI? (Score:2)
in order to play a MMO, you have to be in range of a wi-fi point anyways, so i dont agree with your major gripe with being plugged in. you can move around and plug in when necessary. otherwise, you can spring for one of those external battery packs, or one of the new larger capacity batteries.
Re:PSP FFXI? (Score:2)
I just got this image in my head of people all across the country looking like the tech-mining Chinamen in C&C Generals.
Re:PSP FFXI? (Score:2)
A new Square-Enix MMO? Hooray! (Score:1)
In all seriousness, though, I hope they make it better than FFXI, which was essentially a tear-your-hair-out collection of aggrevating timesinks. Since quitting, WoW and EQ2 have shown me how fun the MMO genre can actually be without resorting to things like having "very easy" mobs kill you more often than not and instituting a crafting system where you still
Re:A new Square-Enix MMO? Hooray! (Score:2)
The only fun things about FF Online (and EQ2, etc) was checking out the almost-nude girls (woo that was xciting for about 2 seconds) and the inte
I refuse... (Score:3, Insightful)
Vista offers nothing of value or interest and I really don't see a mass switch to Vista happening so the least amount of sales MS sees should hopefully stop this new "trend" of claiming new games will be Vista-only.
Mod parent up (Score:2)
Re:I refuse... (Score:2)
There is also the change is how hardware is going to be DX10 certified. Now your hardware must support every feature in hardware to claim compatibility. So no more ATI X8(0/5)0s
Re:I refuse... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I refuse... (Score:2)
That's because selling stuff is what companies do. It can't have escaped your notice that Apple, too, makes a habit of restricting new technologies like Spotlight to the latest version of their OS. There's no reason why Spotlight couldn't be ported to Panther, Apple just WON'T. Because it wouldn't make any business sense to.
developers right now need to reach the largest audience as possible to a
Sadly... (Score:2)
So, people developing games for the Mac won't topple MS. Why? Because it won't be too much work to make them work on Windows (which also has OpenGL), or hell, even on Linux. If developers find Windows lacks the features they need from OpenGL, Nvidia and ATI will rush to support them, if as many developers start doing this as y
Why care about such silly things? (Score:2)
If your purchasing the Revolution because your favorite games or genre of games will be on it then kudos to y
Re:Why care about such silly things? (Score:2)
Media format wars are not a major issue in other tech industries like the PC market, but in a console it is a life or death venture. Blu-Ray has been widely accepted as having only 30% market penetration by a number o
My Dvorak-like prediction: (Score:3, Interesting)
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