For the first time, I watched an E3 conference that resembled my Twitter feed more than the corporate celebration that E3 has become.
Xenoblade Chronicles series composer Manami Kiyota has possibly finished the final orchestra recording for the next Monolith Soft title.
Darryl Linington from Notebookcheck.net writes: "Early hands-on time with Marathon, spanning roughly 10 hours, points to a distinctive extraction shooter with strong shell-based class design, layered faction progression, surreal presentation, and a dense UI that still needs smoothing out."
The new studio founded by Yakuza series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi is reportedly facing closure after publisher NetEase indicated that it will pull funding for its debut title.
One of my most wanted games after I saw the preview at the game awards. Fingers crossed that someone grabs this team or at least funds the studio.
They may have to defect from NetEase and start their own studio if at all possible
Sony should help out, they did a lot of damage to their reputation by closing bluepoint, this would go a little way to restoring it.
You think so? I think it might do the opposite.
"Sony's closing their own studio and funding other games" would probably be the flavour of outrage for every comments section.
But more importantly, this is surprisingly one of those situations where I can weigh in with a personal anecdote. In my deeply unconventional life, I've met a grand total of two people that are Yakuza in my life (well...*were* is more accurate), both times in Shinjuku during different visits and eight years apart. They're fascinating people, and I remember something from them that might be relevant here: they're a bit thin-skinned. Not on a personal level, but flying too close to the organized crime sun gets a response. They don't really hide their existence, but they do engage in some reputation laundering to appear more innocuous than they are. My guess? There has been some pressure to kill this project. Like a Dragon doesn't take itself seriously and it makes them look fun. GOD looks to be a bit more...accurate, and I suspect it flies too close to the organized crime sun I'm talking about.
Sony, still being a longstanding Japanese corporation, probably has a lot of cultural cache. And if Nagoshi goes to Sony, I suspect they'll either say no upfront or would be talked into pulling support before long (which would do even more damage).
It's a shame because the game looks interesting, but this kind of thing comes with precedent. I would compare it to The Last Temptation of Christ ,or even Sony's own experience with The Interview.
Absolutely hilarious because the criticisms were so valid. Probably the best thing to come out of E3 in a very long time.
It was great.
This conference gave me a good laugh and it was pretty creative. It's really sad to see what the gaming industry, along with some gamers have become.
That was a wtf show.