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Katamari Damacy Sequel Announced
GamesIndustry.biz has the news that a sequel to Katamari Damacy, the best selling ball rolling game, is going to be coming up sometime next year. From the article: "Namco is working on a sequel to its quirky and innovative PS2 title Katamari Damacy and plans to release it in Japan on the PlayStation 2 during its 2005 financial year, according to a report on US website IGN."
Are us lowly Old-Worlders going to be allowed to buy it this time?
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That game is so weird. Why anyone would want a sequel...I just won't understand some things, I guess.
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Hope it stays $19.99(USD) like the first one was.
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So a game that stands out for being innovative, interesting, and new amidst a sea of sequels gets....a sequel. And the cycle continues....
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Seriously, if you've never played this, give it a try. I'm a typical gamer (currently playing HL2 and GTA: San Andreas), and I never would have thought to try this game, but my buddy brought it over and got us hooked. The next day my GF bought it at EB ($12 CDN used, plus she had $5 store credit, so it was $7). Its a helluva lotta fun for $7.
Its more fun if you have spectators, as they can see (and call out..."Ha! You picked up a cow!") all the wacky things you pick up, which you tend to miss as you are busy trying to control where the silly thing goes.
PTFG!
You've obviously never played it.
And it's not the fans demanding a sequel... it's Namco's sales figures. The game was made on a budget and sold for a budget, but obviously did well enough to make them want to sell more.
I love this game so much, I bought a PS2 just to play it.
Seriously. (EB refurb, but still.)
In fact, it's still the only PS2 game I own. The other games I like are all on the xbox or mac/pc, but I couldn't pass this one up.
I mean, it's... well. Hard to explain. And now a new one? I just hope the dialog is as silly, and the music is as cool.
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Dont quit your dayjob to be a psychic, cuz you're dead wrong. I dont see its appeal even after playing it. Try sticking to matters of which you have concrete knowledge, mkay?
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Super Monkey ball is the best game wherein you are rolling a ball. I will hear no arguments contrary to this.
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Why?
Yes, I plan on renting it within the next month or so, if only because I think it looks interesting and quirky.
But how far can you really take "roll around the ball and watch it get bigger"? I read the review from Mr. Roberts on InsertCredit.com and got pretty much all i needed to know (and in true Mr. Roberts style, more than I bargained for) - but what could you do in a sequel?
Well, other than make Namco more money, I guess.
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katamari damashii (jp title) or "clump soul" is one of the best games of 2004. If you havent tried playing it, you should go buy it now for only US$19.99
This Japanese Katamari official website (english version) is a better website that tells you what it is, and there are also wallpaper images for download (one of which i am using)
Come down off your "High and Mighty" stool there buddy.
Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean thousands of people have to not like it.
It's one of the few games I can get my non-gaming friends to play.
Theres nothing high and mighty about not understanding the appeal behind a game. I am friends with a lot of gamers (we did little else in college) and exactly one of them likes KD. The rest of us scratch our heads and try to figure out why. We certainly don't try to force him to stop playing it or make him not like it.
Stop posting as an Anonymous Coward and use an accout, and we'll have a real discussion if you want. You might even be able to explain it to me if you know how to carry on politely. But I'm done talking to ACs for the day.
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Katamari is the first game that has -ever- made me seriously doubt my decision not to get a PS2. Why oh why can't it be released for Xbox or Gamecube or even Dreamcast? It seems like it would fit perfectly on the latter two.
Done talking to ACs for the day? Good. Because it's a very fine thing that you've done there, signing up for a Slashdot account and EVERYTHING.
The hype is undeserved (since Americans treat it like some kind of golden calf of gaming, while it's really just YA-cool Japanese game), but KD is a good game by merit of its own qualities. And I guess that's the final word, coming from an AC other than the one you've been diddling with.
When you start making a game, you normally have a huge list of features you want. Over time that list gets smaller as you weed out the ideas that a) don't work or, b) you don't have time to add. Once you release the game, you feel regret for each feature in that second category that you couldn't add.
My hope is that they have a whole bunch of these features for KD2. :)
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heh, heh... "sticking to matters". Are you sure you didn't like it?
The American version of Katamari Damacy.
How are they going to make a sequel to this game? Katamultiplayer (either timed competition or FFA snowball fight)?
What's next, McDonald's Happy Meal tieins: "Get your ball started with this goop, and add random household objects and Chicken McNuggets!"?
Katamari Damacy 2: Polygons
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Reasons for the first game:
1. Gameplay/Level freedom (3 massive levels)
2. Music ("Naa nana na nananana na nana nanana!", or "You're lonely rolling star!") Kinda sticks in your head.
3. Precisely because it's weird. It's different. It's not FPS version #10^100.
4. 19.99!
Reasons for another one:
1. Possibliity of decent multiplayer. (Just imagine: continent sized multiplayer levels; each person starts off in some little random nook; Games end based on time limit or... "There can be only one"). Create network adapter support, and THAT would be cool.
2. Possibliity of more cool music.
3. Encouragement of cool, non-violent games: Note that you don't kill anything (although you would assume that little tweety birds you pick up initially would be crushed if you were picking up islands, whales, Petronas Towers, etc.)
4. 19.99? (pretty please?!?)
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If you look at this picture you can clearly see two analog sticks on the controller. They replaced the 4 C buttons from the Nintendo 64 controller with a "C stick".
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[Witty retort]! [Contradictive argument].
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Its a new day so I'll bite on the AC thing.
/. troll can come along and hijack things. You never know if you're talking to the same person, and it generally makes a reasonable conversation next to impossible beyond one or two posts.
Talking with ACs is near impossible, as any
Hence why I generally prefer talking to folks with accounts, so at least then I know I'm getting a consistent opinion from someone, rather than 5 trolls taking turns being idiotic as AC.
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/. mods can suck my dick, if they're gonna rate this as flamebait and ignore some of the other posts in here.