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Tokyo Game Show Frenzy Continues

Posted by simoniker on from the games-and-games-and-more-games dept.

Thanks to various sources for their continued Tokyo Game Show coverage, as GameSpot cover the show in full and GameSpy is also showcasing regular TGS updates, with their Tokyo Game Show pictorial giving a good flavor for the sights and sounds of the show. Elsewhere, IGN's coverage is spread all over their console-specific sites, and there's more personal takes from Video-Fenky, who comments that "Sony is to TGS what Nintendo is to E3 - they always rent out huge spaces not to show off new games, but to make a point to the game industry", and NFG, who noted that the "cellular phone gaming sector was booming... [and] is Namco's biggest source of profit by division."

10 comments

  1. Ok, this is important... by ihatesco · · Score: 1

    Disregard the first post...
    For the first year Piro of Megatokyo hasn't posted a TGS panel yet :(... lookie here.

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    1. Re:Ok, this is important... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Perhaps once Largo is done defending his l33t boxen, he will realize that he didn't get a chance to get his ass kicked by Kasumi this year. ;)

    2. Re:Ok, this is important... by ihatesco · · Score: 1

      Maybe he will do something stupid, and blow up the store or something. Do you remember WHO is Kasumi and WHERE does she live?

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  2. Front Mission Online! by DrEldarion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This could be really cool.

    Quote:
    The second game, tentatively titled Front Mission Online, will be a PlayStation 2 and PC game that will support players on both platforms and allow them to interact with each other, similar to the way Final Fantasy XI is set up. Details were scarce, but a demo movie showed that like other games in Square's Front Mission series, the new game will focus on mech combat. Like Ambrosia Odyssey, Front Mission Online game is currently slated to begin its beta phase in spring 2004 with a release sometime after that.

    Wow, this could be REALLY cool. I just hope they make it like a Mechwarrior MMORPG rather than a Mech Everquest when it comes to combat.

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    1. Re:Front Mission Online! by mrseigen · · Score: 1

      I just want them to make a game that won't disappoint me. Hopefully they won't butcher the Front Mission line of games, they're excellent.

  3. Final Fantasy VII by code_echelon · · Score: 1

    I am most excited so far about Final Fantasy VII, I am curious though to see what the developers are reffering to when they call it a new style of gaming which they name "visual content". If there is one thing we don't need is for them to cut more gameplay out of the game and add for cut scenes. However they when asked about "visual content" and if it was a movie they specifically said "no". Anyone know what they mean by this and what are they are planning on changing in terms of gameplay.

  4. Metal Gear Solid by Daetrin · · Score: 1

    The trailer for Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes looks awesome! (Spoilers for anyone who hasn't played the original Metal Gear Solid)

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  5. Gaming platform by bersl2 · · Score: 1

    and NFG, who noted that the "cellular phone gaming sector was booming... [and] is Namco's biggest source of profit by division."

    Am I only one who is skeptical about the cellphone being the gaming platform of the future? What is it supposed to do, obsolete dedicated handheld games, such as the Gameboy?

  6. 10th Post by Mod+Me+God · · Score: 1

    w00t

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