Well, to be fair, it ain’t their fault. It’s not like they sent some random guy to troll everyone with bogus screens, and some fell for it. :xeye:
I should remind you guys that shortly after Exia was revealed for GvG Arcade, the PSP port for GvG was announced. So it’s likely there’s a hint of truth in this.
If it gets ported, I guarantee it will have online. The arcade setup is 4 cabs and the game can’t really be played split screen.
Anyway, this is my main competitive game (well GVG first then GvGN) since I’ve moved to Japan. The game is pure awesome. I just wish I could find more tournaments for it. :crybaby:
Doesn’t matter if this is fake. The game is so popular, there’s no way that there wouldn’t be a console port.
My heart is broken!!!
Damn the PSP, we want GvG for home system with online play!!!
They should at least port it for XBLA and PSN, that would kick ass!
Yeah when I was in Japan It was so crazy. Like how many people were playing the game. At HEY arcade they had like 16 or 17 rows back to back cabinets of the game and they were all full.
Still no Crossbone Gundam love, sigh. The Gundam X and Crossbone dream team will never be complete.
We can still hope. If Gundam Unicorn can get an anime adaption, then Crossbone should have a decent chance as well. Some of the characters are already voiced (from the cutscenes and battle sequences from the Crossbone scenario in one of the SD Gundam games) so turning it into a full anime/OVA should be feasible.
i feel like because we’re talking ps3 here, and blu rays are the size of jojo’s figurative nuts, that they should put an english translation on the disc and not localize it. at this point on the ps3 there are no borders, no region locks or whatnot, so IMO they should just do the game all at once and ask if you want to put it in english. at least then they don’t have to worry about the whole localization process and everybody who would buy it at an import site would still get something in english. i mean it’s not like it’d come out here right?
if it comes out here after i import i’m going to be sad, only because i’m totally gar for gundam dub
…And that’s exactly the reason why they have NO reason to invest in such a thing.
I mean, invest in an english translation…for a game based off of a franchise like Gundam, that barely skates by with a “niche” status in the West?
…Not to mention the fact that the few times they’ve tried to release the Vs. Gundam series over here, both times did more to be a spectacular failure? How much more in the way of sales could be expected in the type of thing you suggest, among those willing to pay import prices?
I’m sorry, man, but it just doesn’t sound like such a thing would be in the cards…
Any way, some more buzzing I’ve heard, checking around 2ch and such.
According to this blog, there may be some degree of confusion to be had.
At the center of this confusion is the fact that there are TWO different magazines involved. One is “Games Weekly”, the other is “GamesWAVE”
The first scan in that blog, is from Games Weekly. They’re the ones who fed into the whole thing relating to that thing from the Hong Kong GAF.
The other, GameWAVE, is the one that supposedly has the “real” scoop, and was probably victimized because of everything relating to the confusion between the two publications, and the badly timed hoax.
Like the blog suggests though, it may be just for the best to wait it out until Famitsu tomorrow, or tuesday. We should get the truth on whatever this new Gundam turns out to be by then.
does anyone know if this game has 4player battle royal because all i’ve seen are team matches a battle royal would work for this game fun factor online:smile:
It’s only 2vs2, but a battle royal type thing would be fun.
Damnit I hope Famitsu announces it, because I was getting Hype for this :sad:
You talking about the games that used the OG Gundam and Zaku on the cover? That’s the problem. Namdai didn’t take into account the ratio of casual to hardcore Gundam fans in the US. Put Wing Gundam on the cover and results would have been better, even if Wing Gundam wasn’t in the game(s).
2v2, it’s built as competitive game so a battle royal wouldn’t work. It would be interesting but working as a team really makes this game insane.
guilty gear and street fighter alpha were built as competetive games but their console versions has dramatic battle modes. So i would hope they could do the same here for the ps3 version a console version always are supposed to have extra modes right:smile:
but i do understand where your coming from Shouta hopefully they can make it competitive and fun with friends. Not saying 2vs2 isn’t fun but i don’t usually work in teams though that wont stop me from giving the game a go
Maybe, maybe not.
Let’s not forget, there have been a GOOD number of Gundam related releases on the PSX, PS2, and later, PS3, that saw release in the US, over the years. And yeah, a number of them had Wing Gundam in the mix.
The only release that’s really done anything outstanding? Gundam Musou (Dynasty Warriors: Gundam). And that likely has to do more with the fact that it’s a Musou game, which has a respectable following in the US, rather than because it has Wing Gundam and Heero Yuy in it.
I could stand to be wrong, but everything points to the notion that Bandai-Namco has more or less made up their minds when it comes to Gundam in the West. Unless it’s Musou-based, it’s likely not going to sell well. And it doesn’t help that they don’t even want to make a real effort to spend the money on advertising…
Anything new…waiting for the possible okey doke to get the ps3.
Yes I’ll get a ps3 just for this. Damn Right.
hey what about the battle assault series? didn’t those do very well here in the US as well? (specifically battle assault 2). I mean the gundam games that have a more diverse set of series for the roster usually do better don’t they? i mean most people just want to see the lead gundams going around and wrecking things. IMO GvG Next is a great game to introduce if only because it follows a similar formula as Dissidia or Gundam Battle Assault 2 or any vs game: your favorite _______, fighting your favorite _______. the gameplay can be there but if the roster isn’t, people here might not like that.
I mean personally, i hated battle assault 3 because it was mostly SEED units to begin with.
I don’t know if it’s really all about Namco-Bandai with regards to Gundam stuff coming out in the US. For several reasons, Gundam is a niche franchise here and they failed to capitalize when the iron was hot. It’s hard to point fingers because there were several factors involved.
Gundam Wing came to the US. Love it, hate it, whatever, that show was a HUGE success here. I mean for crying out loud you could find a Gundam model in Toys 'R Us! Speak to people at anime cons that are not Gundam nuts. Most of them will tell you that they love Gundam Wing. Hell at a mini anime event, I was interviewed on some random online J-Pop radio station since they talked to audience members and I mentioned that Two Mix (they sang the original opening and a few other songs) was one of my favorite J-Pop bands. The crowd literally went nuts… And this is after a slew of names I mentioned… :wonder:
Then it was all downhill from there after Wing…
They followed this up with a bunch of other shows. I don’t recall the exact order the shows aired, but…
The original Gundam series - It’s really dated and does not hold up very well, after you show any kid some ‘pretty’ Gundam Wing well it’s really hard to get them to sit down and watch the OG series.
Mobile G Fighter Gundam - This show confused most of the audience, I like it for what it is (hell I like every Gundam show pretty much) but it’s not for everybody. It was basically a fighting anime made for small children in Japan, not what Wing was about. And a lot of the toys flopped too, because some the designs were really ‘out there.’ LOL at Toys 'R Us being filled with Toro Gundams. 
Eighth MS Team - One of my favorite Gundam shows. Not airing the final episode on TV really didn’t help Gundam’s cause… Strange…
Gundam Seed - By the time this came along the audience was gone. In a perfect world Seed would come right after Wing and the popularity would be mantained, but it just didn’t work that way.
Bandai messed up even further with the Gundam Igloo series. See, in Japan people are fine paying 80 dollars for TWO EPISODES but no one in the US is going to do that and they really went wrong pricing the series that way.
Anyway after all of this, Cartoon Network doesn’t want Gundam anymore so now 00 is on SciFi… um… ScyFy it’s called now. I think it’s doing alright and it’s wrapping up the end of the second season. Of course we live in such a different world now where people who wanted to watch it saw it on the net already and it’s not on the big CN. Though at least there seems to be more interest in 00 then there has been with seed.
I still think Gundam has quite a way to go before it gets it’s US Wing Glory. If that ever happens well who knows if they will be more open to bring us more games.
Sano puts mean hat on:
ALL YOU BASTARDS WHO SAW GUNDAM 00 ONLINE ALREADY JUST LEAVE YOUR STINKING TV ON WHEN IT COMES ON SCYFY ALREADY ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A NIELSON BOX AND BUY THE DVDS GAWD I WANT MY GUNDAM MODELS BACK IN TOYS 'R US AND MORE VIDEO GAMES MAN WHAT’S SO FREAKING HARD GOSH DARN IT ALL TO HECK… :annoy:
Sano takes mean hat of:
Support Gundam! 00 is on tonight at 11:00! 
If I recall correctly, BA2 did…“decently”, as a game released towards the end of the PSX’s life time, and also as a 2D fighter, when the majority of the fighting game scene had left 2D behind.
BA3, Never Ending Tomorrow, etc., though? I think the very notion that you don’t even hear those games mentioned that much should point to the overall thing relating to that game.
NEXT could definitely be a great game to promote…but, again, only if Namco Bandai sees it that way too.
I like to think that, as well as the Vs. Gundam games have been doing in Japan, Bandai, Capcom…SOME BODY would make a nice-sized push, and make it so that they would give the game a nice shot over here. Because whether you’re a Gundam fan or not, the Versus plays quite well, with enough to make it so casual and hardcore alike will have something to like.
But again…this can only happen if some body is willing to take that first step…
Maybe so, but I would still think that marketing, or rather, just the poor decisions that were made with the series, were what caused the franchise to tank after a while. And, honestly, who else can really be blamed, BUT Bandai? It’s their franchise, they should have treated it better, if they really wanted it to take off with the West.
I mean, I fully agree with you that, even as much as I love the OG Gundam, it wasn’t the best thing to try to promote to “keep the fire burning”. And the fact that it was basically CANCELED, in light of the events of 9/11, made it so that it was hard to even see the end of the series. They put that stuff on at like 12-2AM in the morning, if I remember correctly. Who the hell was supposed to see that, even if they wanted to?
Logically speaking, in a perfect world? Even if SEED wasn’t available at the time, they probably should have moved on to Gundam X. That show would have at LEAST done some thing along the lines of “more of the same”, coming after Gundam W. By the time that series was over, SEED would have been next, and etc.
It wouldn’t have done any favors for UC Gundam fans, but hey, maybe they could have aired those series late at night, and at least gave the old school series their fair shake, even as the newer series were for the kids. This would have included “Superior Defender Gundam”. 8D
But, be as it may…Gundam is in the state it is in, and really, Bandai did the most to shoot themselves in the foot. There’s not much else that could be said in this light, in my eyes.