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Hironobu Sakaguchi's new game announced (iOS)
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Microsoft and Nintendo both tried. His games didn't sell or Sakuguchi isn't interested enough to pursue working for them, that's basically it.
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It took a decade + but my last attempt at Lost Odyssey (finally beat it!) really made me appreciate its battle system. The game limiting your leveling forces your hand and makes you consider very carefully the tons of options at your disposal. And I found the slow pace of it kinda refreshing but I understand that that's not for everyone.
As for Last Story and Blue Dragon I would agree. But I feel like giving them another chance now that I'm done with LO.
Nintendo worked with him on the last story, but there's also a limit to how much a company of 15 people can do. A full HD modern game might just be too risky for them to consider doing it while they're still having mobile success.
It's what google and wikipedia say anyway, they've always been a small company. As a result, they've typically outsourced development of elements other than the story (and music?), for almost every game before they went mobile, according to wikipedia. They might like the freedom of mobile development entirely being in their hands.
Pretending like those games were good doesn't mean they are.
I think the biggest barrier to doing business with him is that Mistwalker is just an ideas studio, and you'd have to pair them with another studio to handle the actual development of the title. If they were a complete studio with the ability to internally develop all facets of a title, I think they'd have a lot more takers.
This is Sakaguchi's worst announcement since Cry On's cancellation.
Got no Apple device. Guess I ain't playing his game.
Hey I paid full price for Last Story! ...And bought Lost Odyssey used. And never bought Blue Dragon at all.
I'm sorry.
Got no Apple device. Guess I ain't playing his game.
Hey I paid full price for Last Story! ...And bought Lost Odyssey used. And never bought Blue Dragon at all.
I'm sorry.
No gameplay and I'm kind of skeptical of mistwalker after the complete disaster that was Terra Battle 2.
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What? Get over yourself and go be passive aggressive somewhere else.
No one is asking him to make a AAA experience, just small budget RPG that isn't on mobile phones.
i hope one day sakaguchi returns to development in console games
edit: btw this is a good studio to either microsoft and sony to buy and would be something good for everyone, sakaguchi creating AAA games again
edit: btw this is a good studio to either microsoft and sony to buy and would be something good for everyone, sakaguchi creating AAA games again
Sure thing buddy. As soon as you're done repeatedly informing everyone of how wrong they are for liking the games you don't like.
could be nintendo too, but we havent heard nothing about nintendo wanting to get more studios, just because of that.
Having a really hard time thinking of any reason why Sakaguchi would want to sell his company.
You are wrong. The Last Story and Lost Odyssey are great games.
This... The notion that you have to make a AAA game if you work on consoles these days is laughably outdated, by almost 2 entire gens now. The budget that it takes to make a mobile game wouldn't likely be exhausted by going the indie console route. I mean, look how well Octopath Traveler did for Square.
Have to believe this is satire.
I think this might actually be Cry On, and that's what the 'game that shouldn't exist' refers to. Girl standing over a golem in one of the screenshots...
i have the impression of reading stuff that octopath was a medium budget game. But i agree if sakaguchi made something like that for consoles i would be hyped, unfortunately he's only focused on Mobile for some time =/
Yep. I hope Sakaguchi will do at least one more traditional RPG before he retires. He's expressed interest in the Switch, so god willing...
i completed lost odyssey, but i thought it was a huge slog, so it made me hesitant to try blue dragon. lost odyssey really killed any hype i would give sakaguchi nowadays on name alone.
Do you guys know much about how Sakaguchi works and what Mistwalker is? Mistwalker is a title studio in Japan that he started made up of literally a handful of people. Sakaguchi himself lives in Hawaii with his family, and only commutes to Japan when there are important meetings he can't handle via Skype. He does not live in Japan and that is why he prefers to take on a supervision "ideas man" role along with Mistwalker making either small mobile games (that his daughter and her friends can also help playtest) or partner with bigger studios so they can make a game while he provides some ideas and supervision without having to be in a studio physically day to day.
The idea that Square Enix should rehire him, like he actually needs a job or wants to live in Japan fulltime, is simply not logical. The idea that Mistwalker is a good studio for MS or Sony to want to "buy", is also strange when you look at the reality of the situation.
i knew about that, but his games for consoles are good so that's a good reason why to buy it, but i can see why sakaguchi wants a calm life in hawaii without a boss, and dont want to sell it.
But are they good because of Mistwalker entirely or because of the studios that developed the games? Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, and Last Story were all made by AQ Interactive studios that had a lot of console experience back in the day - Cavia and Feel Plus. None of those people are Mistwalker employees so buying Mistwalker would not get you any of that talent. Those were people who worked on Legend of Dragoon, Nier, Shadow Hearts, etc.
we cant know for sure, what sakaguchi made in those games to see what was mistwalker or the other studio, if mistwalker had a bigger crew would they develop an rpg of the same quality? there's no answer to that. Besides sakaguchi name and if he will do a good job or not (because sakaguchi also failed before) its an investment in sakaguchi name if he can manage to do the same he done for square or not, and create great games.