It sounds like they paid the cost of the localization, so they didn't pay anything TO Namco, just paid for the voice actors, translation etc.
Fool us once, shame on us... fool us twice... well, didn't work twice, I guess.
Wasn't Outrun on PSN, but got pulled due to some weird licensing issue with Ferrari? It's not on XBL any more either.
It is a pretty poor example, really. Amazing Microsoft paid for this, though. Was it a worthwhile investment, really? Vesperia sold next to nothing.
Hopefully they still have lots of puzzles and stuff. Don't go too actiony!
Ahh, the interview with Mark (Male Shep voice) will come later ;)
Game of show
Maybe. Look at the bollocks on them for doing this, though.
Though, I'd disagree - Fable 1 was like a 7, Fable 2 a 9, Fable 3 and 7 again. Up and down.
Not on rails indeed.
Game looked better than Fable III by a pretty large margin imo, and what's nice is that it doesn't look like a typical Unreal game for whatever reason. Whatever Lionhead have done, you wouldn't have told it's unreal without being told.
I can't really say this enough - FF13 was flawed but wasn't a bad game at all. At all.
Probably. SE needs the money now; but is MS really all that interested after how FF13's performance wasn't up to FF7 or even FF10 standards?
I think that's the big fear yeah, but they are also showing they WANT to change it up... hopefully they do.
FF13 is deeply flawed but isn't a bad game by any stretch of the imagination.
After so many years and such a huge budget, to stay console specific and potentially limit sales seems crazy. FF13 still sold around 2m on 360, after all. So... maybe.
By the time versus comes we could be looking at next Gen... will it be too little, too late?
Unlike FF13 this preview doesn't take a third of the way in to get interesting. ;)
Longest damn preview of all time. ALL TIME.
Cool right up until the moment it crashed. :p
@rob6021 Said "it sounds like" - not a fact, just speculation, but the way she talks it sounds a lot like that might be the case. That's how these deals happen. Like, with FF13, Microsoft never 'paid' Square, but they did offer up co-marketing dollars - MS ponied up a significant chunk of the marketing budget for the game and in return they got some stuff and Xbox 360 name only on the ads. Same for COD.