/cog/ - Traditional & Video Gaming

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I can't remember the last time TGS was this awesome. I heard that Metal Gear fashion show announced that you can now just buy Big Boss' robot hand.

>>190281
For some reason, what's most remarkable for me is that the girl almost looks like a girl and not like some realdoll with a weirdly colored wig.

>>190281
Tetsuya Nomura is one of the few visionaries this industry has left.

>>190293
In general or for RPGs? Because I'd say for the latter Tetsuya Takahashi is still around trying to make his dream a reality.

>>190281
God damn.
I can get behind that.

Thats... oddly so refreshing.

>>190298

With fire

Kill it

Not all news is good news: SWERY's new game was announced to come out... well today. Basically its being sent out to die. Also Yakuza's finally being translated... into classical Chinese. But don't worry, Sega Console Girls is coming to English!

>>190296
In general. And Nomura is noteworthy for how much passion he puts into his projects, and pushes hardcore for them to happen. Not to mention him having actual control over his shit. I mean KH3 is fucking happening after 10 years, despite dwindling interest and sales, and it looks incredible. You can't say that about many visionaries like Kojima and Keiji Inafune, who were used and exploited, having their influence on their creations ripped away from them. Or even in America with people like Tim Schafer, struggling to hold onto a career.

>>190291
It's so weird how his character designs fluctuate between amazing and god-awful. X and XIII were terrible (VII wasn't all that great either, but it's still better than those and it was his first job anyway) but this and VIII are great.

>>190307
That's because they called in a pro fashion designer to influence the outfits for FF15.

//youtube.com/watch?v=B9An7rhOpm8
>>190307
>You can't say that about many visionaries like Kojima and Keiji Inafune, who were used and exploited, having their influence on their creations ripped away from them. Or even in America with people like Tim Schafer, struggling to hold onto a career.

Are you sure you pay attention to the industry because aside of Inafune losing Megaman you're totally wrong about these. Double Fine has only been growing (they're a fucking PUBLISHER now) and Kojima basically runs Konami. He continues to make Metal Gear just to fund the other weird shit he does.

>>190311
>He continues to make Metal Gear just to fund the other weird shit he does.

He was forced to make more Metal Gear. He didn't want to after MGS.

>>190315
Yeah that was 15 years ago dude.

>>190307
>Or even in America with people like Tim Schafer, struggling to hold onto a career.

Tim hasn't been struggling to do anything in like five years, dude. Doublefine is doing gangbusters.

>>190317
He has next to nothing to do with the fucking series anymore.

>>190320
Have... have you not paid attention to ANY Phantom Pain press at all?

>>190320

Holy shit, I found a fucking time traveller!

>>190309
It fucking shows. Nice seeing people dressed in actual clothes.
It does make the game more *grounded* but at the same time, in that same sense of groundedness, it does feel more Japanese.
Like, the characters in the game and unmistakeably Japanese.
Personally, I feel that's a good thing! Identity is a good thing to have. But I can understand if that view varies from person to person.

>>190307
Dude, Double Fine is doing Fine.

>>190285
We need more video games where you drive cars across country roads to reach monster fights.

>>190331
All it needs to achieve that is a modicum of playability.

If the soundtrack to the new Final Fantasy is anywhere as good as Shimomura's contributions to Xenoblade that's enough reason to get hype.

>>190333
Personally I think her best work was on Legend of Mana.

>>190331
Man, those wind accents give it so much.
I didn't know I needed to hear that but my life feels just a bit more complete for since reason.

>>190335
Fully agreed.
It's a shame that series has become so cheap feeling.

More FFXV footage.

//youtube.com/watch?v=BRlej2SG9Qk

Wait.

>Tetsuya Nomura is no longer the director, instead it's Hajime Tabata

Oh god oh jesus. Please don't let this be another XII.

Tabata made Crisis Core and Type-0, he's also Nomura's protoge.

Well, blond prettyboy dude looks a lot better facewise compared to his previous more generic appearance. And Glasses Touchdown is looking NMH as usual.

>>190362
That resolution is giving me eye cancer.

>>190371
No, they seem more like Carl's Jr kind of people.

>>190371
Oh that game should have fast food venders all over the map. Achievement for hitting them all and ordering everything.

>>190387
That's because an actual fassion designer was involved this time.

>>190389
>>190309
http://www.novacrystallis.com/2013/03/final-fantasy-versus-xiii-fashion-designer-roen-outs-final-fantasy-xv/
Is Roen the same guys they did that ultra-creepy "photo shoot" of the FF13 trilogy characters with?

The only costume I dislike is the main characters weird shorts boots combo.

While the faces and most of the designs look pretty great the hair on most of them is atrocious. Nomura's spikey bishie hair designs look OK when it's still rendered in 2D or stylized 3D like Kingdom Hearts/Crisis Core, hell it was sort of OK even for Advent Children. But for a realistic 3D style, you just end up with the technicolor kooshball afros everyoone had in Final Fantasy XIII.

>>190396
>While the faces and most of the designs look pretty great the hair on most of them is atrocious.
Have you seen Japanese scene hair? Because that's what it looks like.

Ahahaha, thank you.
http://www.vg247.com/2014/10/03/final-fantasy-15-car-meme/

>>190664
But now it's not cool anymore.

>>190666
Welcome to the current internet.
If this was 2004, it could have lasted at least a couple of weeks.

>>190715
What I mean is, if anyone makes a car meme now, it feels like we're participating in viral marketing, and nobody wants that.

>>190719
It's doing the exact same thing.

You're not "viral marketing" any more or less than you where before they gave you a clean template.

It's good that there is something apparently being worked on after all of this time, JRPG boy band roadtrip simulator or not, but SE has been pushing this game up to 9 years in development before they're starting to decide to even show that there actually is a Versus 13/15. And fuck trying to make the demo part of a $59.99 preorder deal for a lack-luster PSP game being sold as a PS4 title. You could have at least bundled it with Agito.

At least the lady Cid is cool.

>>192601
>Agito
Agito is basically the Chinese knock off of Type 0, do you have any idea what you are talking about?

>>192602
Yeah, its still not worth the money even if you have the sad mobile attempt at Fire Emblem: Awakening where you're the goddamn anime messiah.

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-final-fantasy-xv-episode-duscae/2300-10027/
Fuck me. I really want to play XV now.

>>193882
THOSE MONSTERS LOOK SO FUCKING MUCH COOLER THAN ANY FINAL FANTASY MONSTER EVER

>>193887
All of the monsters.

>>193882
This game looks really really good I think. And I haven't been into a final fantasy post-nintendo.
Dunno if that says more about me or the game.

>>193889
Not even 9 or 10?

I'm going to be very cautious with this one.
I'm not sure if I'm going to like the gameplay.

>>193890
Especially 9 and 10.

>>193891
I am amazed at how basic the combat is honestly, like I see what it's going for but it's a million light years behind everything else doing it, like there is much more here than there is in Tales of Symphonia, just a bizarre stealth system, running out of magic causing a status effect and the teleport sword.

Also I've never seen a game plant it's feet SO FIRMLY in the Uncanny Valley, everything about the characters makes your brain scream "THIS IS WRONG, THIS DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT."

>>193895
Not liking the design =/= design is in the uncanny valley, graphical fidelity is not an issue, they look human just fine, they're just poorly dressed (also those are just 3d versions of classic monster designs, go look up the elephant guys for example)

>>193896
No, I find the design just fine, but they've tried to make them look too human, it's like Advent Children, it's uncanny valley, not disliking the designs.

Maybe its because I'm finally getting on the MonHun train but man, its really clear how the series has started to lay its prints in the industry. First Metal Gear with PW and now the MH jokes I felt were totally appropriate. For a moment there I did think he was gonna carve up the creatures he killed!

>>193895
>Also I've never seen a game plant it's feet SO FIRMLY in the Uncanny Valley, everything about the characters makes your brain scream "THIS IS WRONG, THIS DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT."
It actually looks really good, I think. There's a degree of stylization that fits in just right (the hair is the big standout for saying "hey, brain? this aint real, take it easy for a while, I got this.")

The one issue I've got is the english lip syncing. It looks really fake and overdone, but hopefully it can be filed under "growing pains".

>>193896
>they're just poorly dressed
They're the best dressed JRPG characters in history. so yeah, their outfits suck

Actually no, I really like the main character's outfit. Its clearly for a certain body type and skin tone so it'd never fit me, but the shirt and trouser cuts are actually what's being worn casually today in european and asian cities. And I really like the colour accents on the boot treads.

Man, the Midgar parts of FF7 were so fucking cool. So fucking cool. I just remembered those out of the blue. I don't know why.

>>194002
I know, right? Like, the game opening up was awesome and all, but those first few hours in magic-cyberpunk-ville got me hype as fuck.

>>194002

I found it pretty dull and tedious, but I played it long after it first came out.