Destructoid writes: Contrary to reports, Spider Games is not developing an Xbox 360 version of PC and PlayStation 3 RPG Mars. In an e-mail conversation with Destructoid, Spider CEO Jehanne Rousseau said an Xbox 360 version of the game was a logical step and is being planned, however, taking the game to the Microsoft platform would require help from a publisher.
"For now we're still searching for a publisher, so in one way the 360 version relies on them," Rousseau said. "But we do actually have a PC version and we're planning to develop for 360 as well, as it seems very logical. I'll be able to give you the final answer about the different platforms when I have the contract in hand."
In a recent interview, Rosseau indicated that the lead platform for Mars was the PlayStation 3. In his words, the choice was made because "the PS3 is a very complicated platform." Spider would rather jump whatever hurdles now, as opposed to later. Good call. Run a mile, then take a walk.
Aside from being dated in terms of graphics and gameplay and riddled with bugs even in an early state; the game was just boring and no fun to play. But here is a look at the pending game.
BNR: Mass Effect. Skyrim. Final Fantasy XY Chromosome. Tell me, what do these games have in common? For starters, they’re clearly RPGs- popular ones, at that. They’re also massively expected, hyped, promoted. It seems that this generation has been a good one for roleplaying games. Unfortunately, it seems that plenty of (awesome!) RPGs tend to get overshadowed by bigger, more popular ones.
Yeah there are several games that people forget like Data Fly...what happened to that it wasn't cancelled I know that.
Aw man, I was just thinking about that game! If it was an RPG, the list would've been 6 ;)
Am I the only one who got no audio whatsoever for the trailer to that "Mars" game?
Anyhow, I always love hearing about new, under the radar RPG's (that's how I found Risen, diamond in the rough if you ask me), good article/research.
WarDevil and Data Fly both struck me as extremely suspect and possibly frauds. Why a company would want to fake a game being in development, I have no idea.
I'm not sure that it's "Nobody Remembers" with these. It seems to be "nobody has ever heard of".
Those are the 2 rpgs I'm looking forward to also.
I was really hoping ni no kuni would have released either in Jan or Feb to get my jrpg fix now while hoping that VS13 releases by the end of this year to get another great jrpg fix at the end of the year and by that time I should've been satisfied with my time spent on ni no kuni.
@kreate
13-2? HELL NO! lol
As for the other games you mentioned, those aren't my type games to be honest.
Scrawl: "Mars, Spiders-Game’s role-playing game set on the mysterious red planet, has been put “in pause”, we’ve learned today."
Meh, didn't everyone already place this one alongside the debacle we've had with Wardevil anyway? These games, both of them, had about one update every 18months since being announced(and Wardevil's usually includes wild promises, like 1080p, 60FPS and so on, and a platform dancing announcement!)and NEVER anything like a solid hands on for the press or anyone else.
I'm seriously surprised theyu bothered saying this as I'm certain everyone with half a brain already wrote Mars off over a year ago-maybe more. When you think how many people work on games like these, how much a team of one or two manages on a million indie games and it starts to make you wonder if they EVER started on the actual games post trial demo stage/presentation/concept footage. Certainly ALL we ever saw of either was vague and ion Mars case looked shoddy anyway while Wardevil was always what seemed to be animated target renders and little else. Doesn't anyone else feel we might have actually seen gameplay of both by now had there ever been funding and a team working on them?
Suffice to say we have very little idea how Mars would have played as a game beyond the odd dev interview here and there(best I ever made out was that it was a WRPG/Hack and Slash hybrid of sorts but with a game like that, see FO3, you NEED to see how it meshes the genres and we only got glimpses of combat or a few clues as to how and what you might get to level up). Bethesda made sure we knew all about VATS and so on before we got to play the game, see it for ourselves in the flesh or anything else and I think Mars would have done too, a long time ago, were they ever seriously going on it.
Sure, it's sad to see a game looking like it's biting the dust but I'd run out of hope for this one a while ago, tbh.
this game existed today. But, it's never gonna get released. Never good when something gets canned.
IDK, I wish they HAD canned quite a few games recently! Where's the justice when a promising idea gets stiffed and Wet sees the light of day to pollute our consoles? And half hearted efforts get through, like Eat Lead:The return of Matt Hazard, which looked like a decent idea that they can NEVER have had either the licenses(a few actual game characters would have made for an hilarious gaming parody but generic wizards and FF chars made it weaker than it should have been and in the state we got it they would havce been better off not bothering at all. Both ways there's a shame to be made) or the cash to fulfil decent premises.
Nier, was another game that just, for me, justified existing in the threadbare state it did(honestly, some of the worst current gen graphics/textures and models and animations can be found within SE's seemingly mistreated baby-was it Cavia's?)while a bit more time and money would have possibly made it one of the freshest and most imaginative rpg twists for a while. Seems to me there's a big issue with funding and it's luck whether your new IP or sequel to a near forgotten franchise gets made and HOW well the dev is capable of making it right now.
There must be so much money wasted in this industry on half finished ideas, ideas that get green lit but then canned and then budgets awarded that make making the game a travesty of what it should and could have been. Personally, I wonder if they would be best finding out what makes a great idea earlier in the process, invest some more in this area to save all the half done, canned along the way and under developed games we seem to get more than ever.
But, yeah, it's always sad as every game is SOMEONE'S idea, someone's baby and as such it's sad not to get to see them being played. Notr that we dn't all seem to have a bif backlog of unfinished, half finished, just started and not even started games year round anyway but, yes, still a shame.
A PC/PS3 RPG? That's weird considering how closely the architecture of the 360 is to a PC. Who's publishing the title for PS3 and PC?
"Hey MS, we hear you like to buy games - show us some money!!!"
Maybe they have concerns about how they'd deploy suitable servers on xbox Live. Maybe.
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If these guys still can't find a publisher then the game can't be very good. Prove me wrong Spider Games.
i wonder how hard it must be to program a XB2 version?