Hi there ,
i?m Rynex , Senior Editor from the German Game Magazine GAMEFRONT (www.gamefront.de) and we picked up a rumor from the US OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE, that a new Panzer Dragoon Episode for a “NEXT GENERATION” System in in the works.
That?s all at the moment. If the rumor will be true, i?ll post new information ASAP.
PS: I would die for Saga 2.
Regards,
Joerg (Rynex)
Welcome Rynex 
Ah yes…
I’d die if the nex PD isn’t out on the XBox (I spent 300? on this thing for crying out loud!Gimme an Xbox sequel!!)
Thanx for the info man.
If this is true I hope it will be a launching title. the lack of RPGs on Xbox is one of the reason why the system didn’t sold very well.
I would like to see what the marvelous technical skills of PD programmers can do in a extremely powerful new system.
it’d be one of the most stupid ideas to bring a PD5 out on the xbox.
I want a game as this to sell. you sepnd 300 bucks on an xbox just for PD? then you are hardcorefanboy (no offence intendet)
I hope if sega really is making a new title, it will be a launch title for the xbox2 or even better multiplatform.
2 reasons:
launch titles have to feature supreme graphics
(almost only) RPGs sell well in japan.
Was that directed at me?Yes I bought it with Orta in mind.I already have more than 12 games (in an year) that means something of course…
I bought it for Orta, but there are other games I wouldn’t mind having.
I plan to spend 300 bucks on a Xbox because of PDO, so I’m a hardcore PD fanboy too!
But, of course, there are many other really good games for the system and it is the most advanced console of the current generation. So it’s a win-win situation for me.
I know I bought my Xbox with Orta in mind, but in the end it’s probably the game I’ve least played.
All of the next generation consoles, including Sony’s worthless Playstation hardware, is going to be powerful enough to basically do anything - therefore, it would be wise if the next Panzer Dragoon is multi-platform to reach a wider audience.
Supposedly the PS3 is going to be using the BLUE-RAY DVD discs and Xbox NEXT is supposedly going to be using 4 gig flash memory cards.
Just imagine a Panzer Dragoon game that’s over 40 gigs in size? Wouldn’t that be neat?
Many thanks for the info, Rynex. A rumour from an official magazine is never a bad starting point, and I’ll look forward to seeing whether or not this evolves into something more.
As to the Xbox / PDO thing, I bought my Xbox with Orta primarily in mind as well, but of course I didn’t buy the system simply for playing that game and that game alone. Every mainstream system in the world has games worth buying for it, so buying an Xbox never seemed like an odd thing to do, even if I might not have bought it immediately if PDO didn’t exist; because of course I knew that I’d fill up with other great Xbox games after PDO.
Right now, I’d be happy to see the series continue on any console. Well, except for Sony’s next machine since I despise Sony with every fibre of my being.
Anyway… I hope Sony doesn’t gain such a huge share of the market again. The Playstation 2 still hasn’t delivered everything the hype said it would, and now Sony is facing some real competition.
Personally, I think a new Panzer Dragoon RPG would work wonders as an Xbox 2 launch title.
It would be neat, but realistically it won’t happen in the next few years. Most games don’t even come close to filling 4.7GB DVD.
[quote=“Kadamose”]All of the next generation consoles, including Sony’s worthless Playstation hardware, is going to be powerful enough to basically do anything - therefore, it would be wise if the next Panzer Dragoon is multi-platform to reach a wider audience.
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Well, that would be great except that I’m a little afraid that the sight of a Panzer Dragoon game on a Playstation would induce projectile vommiting.
My thoughts are similar, although I think I’d buy a new PD game whatever next-gen console it came out on, the new Sony machine included. I don’t exactly have much sympathy for Sony, but I’m certainly not going to be picky about a possible PD sequel.
I agree that it would be a wise launch title though, if it’s at all possible for Sega / AV to arrange such a thing. Launch-title status always brings a game to the forefront of the media, and I can’t help thinking that it never hurts a game’s sales.
Has anyone else noticed that being in the official magazine seems make this rumour more true than, say, being on Gamespot?
Only because it’s (remotely) more likely that it came from something like an official source. Still, this thread’s nowhere near the status of that old “Panzer Dragoon GENOS” thread, so it’s good to see that people aren’t getting carried away.
I hope MS will not make the same mistakes they did with Xbox since the launch day. A VG market totally dominated by Sony is my worst nigthmare.
I’m almost rulling Nintendo out of competition. They appear to be lost and I don’t think they will find their path again in time to compete at the same level of MS and Sony. The only good thing about nintendo now is that they are not losing money…yet.
Don’t count Nintendo out just yet. As long as the pull their collective heads out of their asses and drop this connectivity BS, I can see them making a comeback.
Actually, I hope Nintendo stays out of the race - I despise Nintendo just about as much as I despise Sony. The reason for this being the fact that Nintendo does NOT innovate and never has.
What I would absolutely LOVE to see is NEC to come back into the VG hardware biz, and totally dominate the market with the new PC-Engine 2. It would be every hardcore gamers wet dream.
Developing a new RPG as a launch title will mean less competition with similar titles (if any) available for the same platform as well. Consumers will be forced to choose from a limited range of titles when the new console dawns on them. This alone will help draw more attention to a new RPG.
Nintendo has always been more conservative than Sega and look at how far the company has come because of it. Innovating means taking risks, which for Sega, is almost more trouble than it’s worth now.
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Nintendo has always been more conservative than Sega and look at how far the company has come because of it. Innovating means taking risks, which for Sega, is almost more trouble than it’s worth now.[/quote]
I don’t mean to be argumentative, but why exactly do you guys believe that Nintendo is less innovative than Sega, or that Sega is more innovative than Nintendo? I’ve been an equal fan of both companies for a long time now, and - for the sake of argument - they seem at least equal in the innovation stakes to me (if these things can be quantified at all).
The only really “non-innovative” gaming giant seems to be Sony as far as I can tell, but - as they’re consciously attempting to be the most utterly mainstream - that’s understandable enough.