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1UP's Jump Festa 2008 Report

1UP Staff, 12/23/2007:

"We really should hate attending the Jump Festa videogame and comic show. But the promise of Square Enix titles making their playable debut is way too much to pass up."

"At this year's event, open to the public on Saturday and Sunday, Square Enix was once again the main attraction for the videogame crowd. With the promise of playable debuts for the Final Fantasy fighting game for PSP, Final Fantasy: Dissidia, the new DS Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, and the new mobile Final Fantasy IV spinoff, Final Fantasy IV: The After."

"This year's showcase had Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy XIII sandwiching short clips of the Parasite Eve mobile sequel and the Blu-ray version of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children."

In addition, Sega, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Nintendo, and Microsoft all have booths at the Jump Festa this year. 1UP's report briefly covers all of them.

UnblessedSoul5970d ago

1up still think final fantasys going multi-plat they are stupid as usual

Chris3995970d ago (Edited 5970d ago )

My favorite excerpts include:

"In case you were wondering, both clips ended with "Only For PlayStation 3." Square Enix apparently isn't ready to go multiplatform. At least not yet..."

And..

"Sony was at the show as well, although it took us a while to find the company's small booth. The usual Bleach titles for the PSP and PS2 were on display. PS3 was represented by Eye of Judgment, which is almost like a new title since no one bought it when it was released earlier in the year."

That's the problem with gaming journalism nowadays, almost every report/ preview/ review is an opinion piece. I'm looking for news, facts, pictures. I don't need someone's smarmy take on a console war tainting my information.

Oh, and according to 1up, this:

http://media.1up.com/media?...

Is - and quote - an "up to 60 minute wait" to see Microsoft's lineup. How long did they have to stand there to get a picture with that many people in it? And actually take a gander at said photo and we're only looking at around 40 or so (I counted) persons; some of which are white-clad booth babes or onlookers. Unless everyone else in the photo is being a controller hog, I don't really see a 60 minute wait.

I call shenanigans on the whole gaming industry. At least if I go to a gaming blog (Kotaku), I know that it isn't entirely professionally run and what to expect from it. It would be nice to have news, reported by people with integrity, not just people with strong opinions. And this isn't a 360/ PS3 thing, it's something that affects the entire credibility of the gaming media and in turn the development of games as a part of our culture.

Just my two cents.

Cheers,
- C

vloeistof5970d ago

omg again with the ff xiii multi thing.

there both ps3 only and then comes 1up with there multi-blabla.

Mercutio5970d ago

1 UP Their's are just retards, retards....

Darkiewonder5969d ago (Edited 5969d ago )

I hope they check out the other companies to see what they are announcing and any games that's about to come out.

Tales of Vesperia has me interested. ;3

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Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."

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VersusDMC7d ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

VersusDMC7d ago

Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.

Still a good game though.

Exvalos6d ago

What a weird name, it's essentially devil may cry, devil may cry lol

Cacabunga6d ago

Best to good for me: 3, reboot, 1, 5

2 and 4 are trash, didnt like any of them.
5 has very good gameplay variety but i hated the foes.. it is just insects the whole time. Reboot has the best foes for me

Friendlygamer7d ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

monkey6027d ago (Edited 7d ago )

2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

Yui_Suzumiya7d ago

1 and DmC. The rest are unimportant.

DarXyde7d ago

Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...

5, 3, 1, 4, 2.

I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.

But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me

SeTTriP7d ago

This right here is my order as I thought DMC 5 was amazing and obviously 3 comes after 4 was great and 1 for the nastilgic value it holds 2 was so terrible that my local GameStop gave full refunds to people who returned it.

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Here Are The Games Leaving PS Plus Extra & Premium In May 2024

Here are the games that will be leaving the Extra and Premium tiers of the PS Plus subscription service in the month of May, 2024.

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gold_drake10d ago

crazy, glad i own the ones i wanted to revisit and play

ChasterMies10d ago

Absolver Downfall
Abzu
Adrift
Ashen
Elex
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X | X-2
Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age
Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition
How To Survive 2
I Am Dead
Jotun
Last Stop
Minit
Moster Jam Steel Titans 2
My Friend Pedro
Observation
Sundered Eldritch Edition
The Artful Escape
The Messenger
This Is The Police
This Is The Police 2
World of Final Fantasy

Asterphoenix10d ago

Glad that I absolutely can't stand subscription services.

Petebloodyonion10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

I don't recall Sony forcing you to subscribe like nobody forced you to go to Blockbuster to rent games instead of buying them.

SonyStyled10d ago

Pay-per-view was almost cheaper than the cost of gas and rental fee from Blockbuster. Blockbuster doesn’t exist today. Are you being sarcastic?

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Final Fantasy XV Review – A Royal Road Trip

Gary Green said: With my fondness for (most) Final Fantasy games and my side goal of finishing off games in my collection with loose ends, a return to Final Fantasy XV seemed inevitable. It also serves as my third Final Fantasy platinum trophy after VII and VIII, a reasonable substitute since Final Fantasy IX is nigh on impossible to master.

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