Namcos\' XENOSAGA

http://www.zdnet.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2702907,00.html

Spring TGS 2001: Namco announces Xenosaga

 
Namco is publishing the next RPG from the team behind Xenogears.
 
Namco confirmed today at TGS that Project X is, in actuality, an RPG by Monolith Soft, the team behind Xenogears--the acclaimed 1998 RPG published by Square. The game is titled Xenosaga, and it will be released for the PlayStation 2 this coming winter. Aside from the game\'s title, however, no other details have emerged.
Monolith Soft is a wholly owned subsidiary of Namco, and Tetsuya Takahashi, the producer of Xenogears, will head development of Xenosaga.

Stay tuned to GameSpot for more information on Xenosaga as it develops.

Dammit, I was about to start this thread.  Almost didn\'t believe it when I saw it. This is good...real good...

HOLY ****!!!!
Thank you very much Ddaryl!
You just made my night.
YES!
I mean, look at the title, it has to be at least based off of the Xenogears universe.
I remember there was a thread about this just a few days ago, and the person who said it might be a new Xenogears got harrased.
I thought he was missing a few screws as well.
So, whoever that was, I apologize.

Its a Xenogear sequel

no doubt about it

just like i said in that other post.  Couldbe a sequel under a new name. damn man this is great. i\'ve been waiting for the good rpgs.

Jawsome.
I loved the storyline, the battle system and the mechs from Xenogears.

I wonder if this is being based on the war that took place before.
The one between the two powerful groups(ah....cant remember there names).
It had Fatima...that war.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!

That´s it !!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVED Xenogears...
IMO it was better than Final Fantasy !!!!!!!!
GREAT ! GREAT ! GREAT !!!!!! :nut:
*droll*

Wow!
I hope this is only the begining of Sony\'s biggest TGS yet. So far the X-Box stole the show by anounncing Panzer Dragoon and DOA3 as in development titles. But this announcment certainly counters well against the Panzer Dragoon one. Xenogears was a brilliantly concieved poorly executed game, but as most of the complaints are readily addressible I have high hopes for the game.

This is absolutely great. It\'s just the first example of competition driving the market. X-box is trying to make a name for itself, and PS2 is trying to deliver a pre-fight knockout punch, but its pretty obvious that Sony is taking it very seriously. No more slacking Sony,its time toshow what you\'re made of.  As for X-Box, it has to prove itself a contender and its doing a great job so far.


Gamers rejoyce, the renaissance is upon us!

How was Xenogears poorly executed.
Summoner was poorly executed.
Xenogears was very proffesional.

Well in the end the title just got to ambitious for it\'s own good. The story got fairly muddled, whether this is as a result of poor translation or the writters digging themselves in too deep I\'m not sure. And you spent the last CD playing more or less a history text book with interactive battles.IE "Then General Patton brought his tank briggade within range of Berlin and prepared for the attack. But he was troubled in his midn because his father...blah, blah, blah" Then you push a few buttons, win the battle and start off again. I just don\'t feel that the end product was the original intent of the gamemakers.

Ah...I can see where you get that from.
I just wish they hadnt brought the big monster into the story and just left it as the Ground-dwellers versus the sheperds.
That would have been better.
Still, it was a wonderful game.

Originally posted by Faithdies
Ah...I can see where you get that from.
I just wish they hadnt brought the big monster into the story and just left it as the Ground-dwellers versus the sheperds.
That would have been better.
Still, it was a wonderful game.

That it was. *wipes tear from his eye*
    I especially loved the visual style (still love it actually), I hope they\'ll be able to preserve the handrawn anime look, although it seems doubtful, the characters are almost guaranteed to be polygonal.

Namco did make Seven which supposedly has a hand drawn look to it, but I\'m not sure how well it went off. Not very well I heard somewhere.

Does anyone know? Did anyone import it?

I thought is was out in Japan, but I might be totally off.

Its out in Japan right now.
It didnt do that bad.
I want them to bring it to America so bad.
It looked like a great game.

Ummm... If your talking about xenogears it\'s been out here for a looooong time.  It\'s kinda hard to find though.

Originally posted by dbv23
Ummm... If your talking about xenogears it\'s been out here for a looooong time.  It\'s kinda hard to find though.

Nope. We\'re talking about a PS2 game by NAMCO titled Seven. It\'s supposedly a sword fighting 2-d action game.

-Faithdies
Any idea when, and if Seven is coming over?
I was also wanting to check it out.