Famitsu has gone up with its first online preview of the newly announced PlayStation 4 version of Figureheads, Square Enix’s free-to-play, online, tactical third-person shooter currently available for PC in Japan. The robots controlled by players in Figureheads are composed of two types of category parts: “2Foot” and “Figureheads.” These parts are produced by various …
Pre-orders for the recently announced PlayStation 4 version of Figureheads are now available via the PlayStation Store in Japan in the form of a “Pre-Order Exclusive Pack: Xenogears Set” for 1,500 yen.
It’s worth noting that Figureheads is free-to-play. If you don’t want the Xenogears-themed content, you can just download the game for free when it launches.
Square Enix seems to be fully determined to bring back a few of its most glorious mecha franchises, but maybe not in the way most fans would expect.
You could say that this is pretty much awesome and horrifying at the same time. After teasing it last week, Square Enix fully revealed their Xenogears crossover with their upcoming mecha game Figureheads, which will enter its pre-beta phase on PC on February 25th.
I just have a feeling in my heart we will see Xenogears Remake at E3.
Come on Square, you revived FFVII Remake and you are making Dragon Quest XI and Star Ocean V.
Xenogears and Vagrant Story deserves the same treatment.
And make a Parasite Eve Remake while you are at it :)
Id honesly rather see what kind of "treatment" they give ff7 before id have them touch Vagrant or Gears. And i think what we really need to be concerned with is the fact that they have WAY too many games in development rightnow anyways, so many that theyre gonna release ff7 and hitman in episodes? This isnt a good thing eventhough it may look exciting.
At least with Hitman, you arent forced to pay 60$ upfront to get all the episodes, you can buy it one episode at a time or wait for the final release.
If it have enough content to last until the next episode then i dont see why people cant play it early.
And even if they have WAY too many games in development, Square Enix is a HUGE Company so they can manage.
@DarkOcelot
I wish i could be as optimistic, but ive not played a square game that i liked since the ps1 days. Ive gotten over it and just let the company go in my mind. So i really dont like the idea of them fucking my old games up, considering the shit they pumped out the last two generations of consoles. Not trying to step on anyones toe's but this is a concern of mine.
Let them release FFXV, KH3, FF VII Remake first and then we would be able to talk about anything else. They are great at announcing games, not so about actually releasing them.
I'm not sure how I feel about that without Takahashi being involved. Since he's now with Monolith Soft, and seems to have given up on trying to make Xenogears/saga a thing, and with so many legal IP restraints on direct sequels, reboots, or remakes, he seems to have opted to take his brand of games centered around the philosophies for the Xeno series into different genres and brands, which have found their home on Nintendo platforms.
I wouldn't mind an improved version in the vein of FF7 PC port for PS4, since it's just a graphically improved version, because I doubt SE could screw that up.
I wouldn't mind if Nintendo brought the rights to Xenosaga and allowed him to continue work on it if he wanted to, or at the very least a remaster of the 3 xenosaga games. I'd even settle for the PS2 classics versions being released on PS4 if that's all I could get, because they are some of my favorite games. Would be nice if they could get Xenogears as well, but if SE is now merchandising the IP, the chances of that are slim to none.
Last thing I want is a shallow spin off, although if the toys sell well, it's likely to come, and remove what made Xenogears so unique in the first place. However, with the first trailer, it looks like they're just using the mechs to make another game be more appealing.
I don't see Square Enix doing much with Xenogears since the devs that made that game left to forge Monolith Soft to create series such as Xenosaga, Baten Kaitos, and Xenoblade.
That's not necessarily true. In this industry, IPs are often taken beyond their original developers. That's why ownership of a successful IP is basically the most important asset a company has.
Square Enix has owned the rights to Xenogears for 18 years and hasn't done anything with it. It's safe to say they'll never do anything significant with it going forward.
