I’m sure a lot of us have been wondering what several of the unannounced titles are going to be at the Tokyo Game Show this year. This is pretty much a marathon of sorts every year in the industry and we always leave it to Japanese-insider, Famitsu, to break the story and spill the beans. This year, we’re hoping to get a minor jump on those boys across the ocean and release the names of three PlayStation exclusives that will be revealed at TGS ’09.
1. Grandia 4.
2. Ar Tonelico 3.
3. Legend of Dragoon 2.
While these games may not come as a surprise to many — our incredible inside source has confirmed several times that development and production on these games has started. Whether or not Sony decides to show them off this week is entirely up to them; however, we stand by the fact that these titles do exist and should be unveiled this week.
Hell, most of us would be happy with a PS3 remake of the original, right?
Another post on this article, just to keep it updated =]. In my opinion, Grandia 4 is the obvious one. No matter the popularity of their games, they keep coming out with them. After FFX was released, they went ahead with Grandia II, with greatly inferior graphics, and didn’t care less.
I think Grandia 4 will be coming sooner or later. The outlandish claim is Legend of Dragoon 2, as that was finished as a PS1 game, but has recently gained massive popularity and rarity, with the games being sold for £60-70 at some stores. They could release it on PSN for £40 and people would be spending money on this masterpiece.
Playstation has always been a name synonamous (?) with JRPGs, and these three titles would revitalise their next-gen position, as the 360 already has a few exclusive RPGs worth mentioning.
I’m not saying this is bullshit at all, the guy’s reputable, and he’s sticking by it, not backing down. I think he has an unquotable credible source. My two cents.
Just wanted to inform you guys that Ar Tonelico 3 has officially been announced.
So, hi.
heard about it today. i guess lod 2 and g4 are pretty much confirmed now.
People can say I made this all up, but it’s pretty convenient this was announced so soon after TGS as though they already had all of the promotional work done for it and were finalizing the exclusivity of the announcement with Famitsu. I stand by this article still, despite Sony not announcing this stuff at TGS.
Does anyone think KATCX will be back to comment now? LOL
Nah, he probably said his trollish schpiel and disappeared, as trolls are wont to do.
Still (being the devil’s advocate and not any sort of dissenter), were I to put odds on which games would be produced, I’d put Ar at first, Grandia a close second and waaaaaay in the back, LOD third. I’m having trouble understanding why they’d wait so long between sequels…
That said, credit to the Dean where credit’s due. Good call.
While I was let down that they didn’t announce LOD2 or G4 I did hear that White Knight Chronicles and Wild Arms 6 were shown behind closed doors! Let’s hope That’s at least true.
Has anyone heard any more on LOD2?
LOD was/still is my favourite game of all time, and whilst newer games can outclass it
with their graphics, I doubt anything will top the storyline/enjoyability (probably not a word, but i think the meaning is clear). Of course i must confess i’m slightly sceptical due to the hundreds of previous LOD sequel/prequel rumours that’ve been flying around in past years. Mind you, Fallout waited for damn near a decade for their third instalment and so I hope LOD operates on the same principle.
Please respond if anyone has more info
LoD is also my favorite game of all time… and I believed in these rumours of a sequal for a long time with nothing but disappointment..
Dean, if it doesn’t come out you will get flamed like no other… and even if you are right and it does come out… as far as we’know, you could have just made a good guess based on common sense (considering how well the the original sold, how many fans it has). I thought there would be a sequal some day when I was 12.
The point is… no matter the outcome you will never win so stop getting peoples hopes up with no evidence to back it up. It’s been done enough times already and us true LoD fans certainly don’t appreciate it.
If things i heard about about LOD2 (from my sources) are true, it is no wonder they didn’t show it last TGS. From descrpition that was told to me, it basically makes FF13 look like last gen.I doubt we will see anything about it until FF13 get realeasd in west(March) and then add one or two months. Same goes for FF13 Versus. Doub SE will show anything before FF13 is out in West, mark my words. This isn’t any inside info just common sense.
To add in my own 2cents, if you look at the history of LoD’s original release, it was released almost simultaneously with Final Fantasy 8. And because of the hype and large fanbase of Final Fantasy, Legend of Dragoon was vastly over-looked and didn’t do as well in American Markets as Sony had hoped.
So I think the best bet of hearing something will come after FF13, (possibly after FF14, as well.) Because they want to avoid having the same thing happen again. Also, I believe they’ve said FF13 and FF14 will be released in close succession of one another. So I don’t think it’ll be too long of a wait.
So to be fair… I’ll give it to the end of the year. And if we haven’t heard anything by around November-December of 2010, then I’ll call “Bullshit” on it. But until then… Very, very hopeful.
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Well, it’s been 9 months (more than that… almost a year) and there’s been no word on both Grandia 4 and Legend of Dragoon 2.
Now, I’d like to think that I’m an eternal optimist, but when it comes to LOD, I’ve been disappointed so many times it’s hard to take something like this with good humor, particularly when it appears that the name has been dropped as a bait-and-switch for another, lower quality game.
See, here’s what I think’s happened: your “incredible insider source” has a game he wants hyped. It’s not a terribly remarkable game – it’s main drawcard is heaps of eye candy and some debatably risqué conversation choices and doesn’t have much meat on those bones when it comes to past success with the series. So what to do? Advertising directly is kinda hard with the main artistic focuschosen and word of mouth is too unreliable.
Easy – they go online, find two RPGs that have had sequels requested for years and years, advertise the okay game with two games that would be instant bestsellers and get free air time. Then, when the other two games don’t eventuate, say “Oh well, I never said they were a sure thing. Besides, I got one right”.
I apologise if I am coming off as antagonistic and be aware that this is only a hypothesis, but it appears to me that you should disown that inside source – he’s mooched free advertising off you.
It also seems that you have gotten it wrong, at least in this case. If you’re willing to say “I told you so” in your follow-up reports, you have to be able to take criticism when things fall through. Next time, I beg you to double-check the info before giving false hope to the sequel-hopers. We’ve been #$*@ed around enough.
So, almost 2 years later and still nothing. Some great source you had there.
@kaiser6012
While what you said is probably true, Ar tonelico 3 was announced nearly a month before this article was written. Everyone that would’ve been interested in it had already known about it. So whatever ‘source’ this was, really only accomplished one thing: pissing people off about lack of LoD2, again.