In Part 2 of an interview with DevelopMag, Microsoft Game Studios' general manager Phil Spencer discusses what Microsoft thinks of the Silicon Knights and Epic legal spat, why letting Rare develop for DS will aid MGS' design skills and how the company is catering to the widened games market.
Questions for Spencer include:
• How is MGS handling the lawsuit between Epic and Silicon Knights?
• How does MGS deal with an internal team that wants to make a game for a rival's format? (i.e., Rare for DS.)
• Would MGS let other developers take Rare's DS route?
• Is MGS planning expansion in the UK or Europe?
• Is MGS preferring the third-party partner/first-party publishing deal route?
The interview also touches on many Microsoft's first/second-party titles: Too Human, Mass Effect, Blue Dragon, Scene It?, and more.
I had it all wrong...Blue Dragon is awesome!
Lost Odyssey is one of the best jrpgs of that era but got killed because it was bought up and released on the "wrong" console.
Great game. The 360 had some really good turn based games back in the day. Absolutely loved Lost Odyssey too. I think they are both Sakaguchi creations.
This game together with Lost Odyssey, The Last Remenant and Tales of Vesperia convinced me to buy a 360. This game made my 2007 which ended off with mass effect.
Honestly, a fantastic game, especially if you were a fan of old-school JRPGs. I hate that this genre rarely can come back to these roots.
Destructoid: I remember where I was when Blue Dragon was announced. Although I already had an Xbox 360 and was ready for it, some folks I knew bought one just for it given who was involved (Nobuo Uematsu, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Akira Toriyama): as Mistwalker and Microsoft Game Studios made a mad dash to put out more games from Japanese studios on the Xbox ecosystem.
Blue dragon was fantastic. Love that game. It was my biggest reason for getting a 360.
i wanted to play it, but ...
1. its on xbox
and 2. i missed it when it was on gamepass ha.
I thought it was pretty good but I personally I think Lost Odyssey is better
Also, I know a lot of JRPGs are cheesy but damn…this one was amped up to 11.
I really wish Mistwalker would remaster these games... they're too busy with mobile unfortunately.
The Summer Game Fest 2023 revealed a new Akira Toriyama game called Sand Land, and it has more potential for greatness than a new Blue Dragon would.
Imma call bs on this. Sorry a blue dragon sequel would be dope and much needed. While this one I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I'm interested. I'm kinda stuck on vehicular action. That's where it's losing me.
Why can’t we just get both? In this gamer world of ours, it seems like it’s always one or the other. Games like these seem like they would print money for these development studios if they released multiplatform.
the rest is a junk!
and uncharted is much better in every way than mass effect
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well! ps3 has quality games!! 360 have also but its all on pc or ps3! and they are all shooter games!! BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
get off your fanboy thrown u troll like honestly all of you people need to get a life...they are different types of games and are different style types so shove both of these games straight up your A$$
Nintendo sells Rare to M$ for $375 million, and they still wound up making games for Nintendo.