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Post by Paine on May 12, 2005 14:45:43 GMT -5
ok i didnt know where to post htis but here goes. we all hear rumors that falcom is having trouble making games so they let konami do VI and taito to do III,IV,V
taito made lufia so far no new lufia games. i think lufia is dead.
the reason taito is getting the contract is because i beleive taitos a company that is almost extenct without the cotract.
you see taito was bought out by the kyocera corperation and since then taito hasnt made many games.
so i think the reason we wont see Ys III,IV,V stateside is the fact is there is no taito us corperation anymore.
anyways please speak your mind and thoughts on this
thank you
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Post by Inochi 命 on May 12, 2005 15:07:39 GMT -5
I dont know anything about Taito closing it's US corperation, but...
"taito made lufia so far no new lufia games. i think lufia is dead."
Lufia is certainly not dead.. Taito published the first Lufia game, FoD. Natsume published Lufia II and TLR on GBC, and Atlus published the newest one that just came out 2 or 3 years ago called Ruins of Lore on GBA. All of them are develioped by Neveraland, which isnt dead either cuz it's working on 3 other series right now (one of them being Shining Force Neo, along with Sega).
just wanted to point that out... i havent seen any taito games in the US for a while, not even arcades.. so I dont think we'll see taito bringing games to the US in the future.
but remember, thats just the US. In Japan, Taito is still very much alive. It's just created a new Arcade system that uses microsoft windows and released a new arcade shooter for it. They also develope/produce a number of other japan-only games. So even if Taito did develope Lufia games, they wouldnt be dead.. they'd only be dead for the US
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Post by Paine on May 13, 2005 1:27:18 GMT -5
That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. The various ports of Falcom's games have historically always been done by third-party companies. As has been repeatedly stated (not that you seem to have noticed), Falcom has not done console development in years. In fact, the only console-specific game I've ever heard of from them was Ys V on the Super Famicom, a full ten years ago. Quit rumor-mongering. Or if you insist on it, at least try to do it with rumors that have a grain of truth to them. acually if you look up kyocera corperation you will find they bought out taito completely and they dont have a us subsidary anymore. as for them making Ys V only. thats very intrested and i learned something new. and no i dont make rumors i was sharing what i learned about taito being bought by the kyocera company. |
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Post by Paine on May 13, 2005 1:33:45 GMT -5
I dont know anything about Taito closing it's US corperation, but... "taito made lufia so far no new lufia games. i think lufia is dead." Lufia is certainly not dead.. Taito published the first Lufia game, FoD. Natsume published Lufia II and TLR on GBC, and Atlus published the newest one that just came out 2 or 3 years ago called Ruins of Lore on GBA. All of them are develioped by Neveraland, which isnt dead either cuz it's working on 3 other series right now (one of them being Shining Force Neo, along with Sega). just wanted to point that out... i havent seen any taito games in the US for a while, not even arcades.. so I dont think we'll see taito bringing games to the US in the future. but remember, thats just the US. In Japan, Taito is still very much alive. It's just created a new Arcade system that uses microsoft windows and released a new arcade shooter for it. They also develope/produce a number of other japan-only games. So even if Taito did develope Lufia games, they wouldnt be dead.. they'd only be dead for the US i sent a letter to taitos old illinois branch. hopefully they will reply. otherwise they outta business as i cant find a active mailing adress for them. just a old adress from the late 90s. yes i know taito prodcuded FOD stateside and natsumi produced 2 and lefia the legend returns and atlas produced the lufia ruins of lore. i have to agree i think we wont see any taito based games to the united states unless the japanese company contracts lufia out to natsumi or atlas or another party too do for us. i know taito is still alive in japan. but its still sad they are owned by the kyocera company. i beleive taitos lufia games are dead all around the world till they give us another one. if we did see see Ys III,IV,V for the ps2 i would hope konami got the contract for it. |
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Post by Inochi 命 on May 13, 2005 2:04:18 GMT -5
Taito developes and produces. they only produced one lufia game.. the first one ever. they never developed it, the japanese game developer called Neverland always has. So I realy dont care who publishes it, wither it's Taito or Natsume or even Square Enix. Neverland is still making them, the last one just released 2 years ago in April. So Lufia is not dead, and "taito lufia games' have been "dead" since 1994, cuz they only decided to produce and bring one lufia game stateside. sure hope that they never produce neverland games again, because that would mean that we would never see a western release, atleast not by Taito.
I know our not trying to say lufia is dead or anything and that it's just taito.. i just wanted to point that out. Taito's bigger series was producing Bust A Move/Puzzle Bobble, and they havent been doing anymore ports of those anymore either. So im pretty sure their dead here as they were never realy popular here, it's better for them to stay in Japan now.
You know, i think another company could bring Taito's remakes of Ys stateside if they wanted. So who cares if Taito is gone from the states? This is the first im hearing of Kyocera owning them tho. maybe you'll get an interesting reply for that email you sent.
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Post by FM-77AV on May 13, 2005 3:39:37 GMT -5
In fact, the only console-specific game I've ever heard of from them was Ys V on the Super Famicom, a full ten years ago. Are you sure about this? I've heard rumors Koei developed/co-developed YsV. I can't know for sure though. There are no Koei credits as far as I can tell. Edit: Oh, and Falcom made Popful Mail for Super Famicom too. |
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Post by SinReVi on May 27, 2005 11:30:29 GMT -5
Of course Lufia is not dead!  *throws stones at everyone who says that Lufia is dead* Wrong, all of them are developed by Neverland, except Lufia The Ruins of Lore (and the cellphone Ancient Cave ) |
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Post by Inochi 命 on May 27, 2005 12:21:05 GMT -5
Lol, sorry bout that SinReVi  guess I didnt realy want to get into strong details. I didnt want to go back and check, since I thought I remembered clearly that I got Ruins of Lore in April here. Ill have to check on that again  I can correct that further, though  Ruins of Lore technicaly was not the last Lufia released... it was the cell phone game, although that was Japan only (from my knowledge). And I always had in my mind that Neverland developed every Lufia. They didnt do Ruins of Lore?? What the... then who did develop it? |
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Post by SinReVi on May 27, 2005 14:55:31 GMT -5
Taito did develop it...
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Post by Paine on May 28, 2005 15:20:17 GMT -5
theres a cell phone version of the anciant cave?
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Post by FM-77AV on May 28, 2005 15:50:20 GMT -5
Wow, this really belongs in "General Ys discussion".
Moving to Gamer's Realm.
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Post by SinReVi on May 28, 2005 16:58:25 GMT -5
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Post by Justin on Jul 12, 2005 19:49:02 GMT -5
god is the lufia series good, anyone like the last one "ruins of lore", alot of people hate it but i loved the damn game
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Post by SinReVi on Jul 14, 2005 11:05:38 GMT -5
Finally somebody who doesn't hate Lufia RoL... It's my 2nd fav GBA game.  I think a lot of people don't like it because: 1) The story, it is not done by the original writer. Actually the whole game is done by a different company. And it is a sidestory that has nothing to do with the Sinistrals. 2) Battlesystem, the original "equip weapon/scroll to use an special attack" IP system is replaced with a monster installing IP system. I love them all four! You should play Lufia II, it is like Ruins of Lore, except with better and more puzzles, better storyline, better characters (Dekar is in it too and funnier), better battlesystem, it still has the monsters but they are called Capsulemonsters and you can't install them. There are also only 7 Capsulemonsters, you can't catch every monsters like in RoL. The seven Capsulemonsters are hidden on different places on the world. Bleh, I talk too much and Foomy rocks |
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*throws stones at everyone who says that Lufia is dead* 
guess I didnt realy want to get into strong details. I didnt want to go back and check, since I thought I remembered clearly that I got Ruins of Lore in April here. Ill have to check on that again 
Ruins of Lore technicaly was not the last Lufia released... it was the cell phone game, although that was Japan only (from my knowledge).
