I came across this (http://www.cubed3.com/news/7237/1/Original_Japanese_RPGs_Coming_to_DS_&_Wii) article today and it contained this interesting portion of information:
"In addition to this, the owner of Image Epoch, and director of Luminous Arc, Mikage Ryoei, has brought another project lead to the company - Hiroyuki Kanemaru, who was previously at Telenet Japan and then moved to Namco's Tales Studio, where he worked as scenario script director and level concept designer on Tales of Symphonia.
Kanemaru-san has been put as the director of an original RPG called Project Ray, which he has gone on record as stating will be influenced by old-school RPGs from systems such as the PC-Engine/Turbo-grafx (a format he has worked on in the past)."
Depending on what Telent RPGs this guy has made, Project Ray could turn out to be a pretty cool game. Does anyone know what games Hiroyuki Kanemaru has worked on exactly and what his job was? Kaminari, I'm looking at you 8) .
Very interesting :-k
Well, a cursory Google search points towards him playing some role in the making of Emerald Dragon and Fang of Alnam.
Sounds awesome, Tales of Symphonia was a great game. What platform is the RPG going to be on?
Too bad almost all Japanese RPGs are junk nowadays.
Quote from: GUTS on 04/10/2007, 03:41 PMSounds awesome, Tales of Symphonia was a great game. What platform is the RPG going to be on?
I don't think it has been announced yet. That article was focused on DS and Wii RPGs, so it's possible it could be on either one of those.
Telnet games? Fuck that, those are WAY geeky. Who the hell gets on a MUD these days when we have EQ and WoW, not to mention Second Life!?
Well I don't get on either of those nor MUDs, but that's besides the point. Ever since Meridian 59, the first commercial PC graphics MUD (AberMUD was first but for the less popular Amiga), text-based MUDs have been dead in the water.
So if this guy wants to try and sell Telnet games, good fucking luck. Try the Linux community, I heard they still get their rocks off to text...
HAHAHA, no not Telnet MUD RPGs! I was talking about Telenet Japan, the company that made a bunch of games for PCE, like Cosmic Fantasy, Final Zone II, Avenger, etc... Though MUD RPGs are pretty cool too.
Oh, my bad. #-o That's WAY cooler than telnet games, lol!