Parasite Eve 3 Announced
 

..but it doesn't matter since you'll never get to play it as it's a mobile phone game. :gonkmelt:

Just announced at the Square Enix Party that's going on right now with the news confirmed at NeoGAF's Japanese resident duckroll, so there are no details other than the title name, "The 3rd Birthday" and format. I've been wanting a PE3 for a hell of a long time now and was surprised Square missed the PS2 boat for the franchise and I was hoping for a PS3 outing so naturally this news leaves me bitter.

So, thoughts?

EDIT: Just realised I put this in the RPG forum but then the Parasite Eve titles were RPG/Action romps to begin with but mods, feel free to move to General if necessary.

OMFG now I hate SE >.< Parasite Eve is one of my favorite Square-enix series. I liked it so much and was so waiting for a third one and now it's a fucking mobile phone game? really this is just wrong ...

a ps3 PE3 would have been so much better ; ; well I hope after that maybe they'll think to continue the series on a console...

What is with the sudden explosion of exclusive series content on cell phones? I mean, you can't even import them! It's like a slap in the face to the rest of the world.

Someone needs to program a Japanese cell phone emulator so we raving fanboys can get our fix.

God, what the fuck is with Japan and cell fucking phone games? When I saw this thread I almost splooged my pants, only to find out it's on a system that's not even a system.

God. Somebody castrate Square-Enix already.

What's even sadder is that the original game was mostly done by the American side of Square.

I thought "The 3rd Birthday" was some project that hasn't been revealed yet? Did they confirm that it has to do with the new PE?

DAMN. For years I have waited for more Parasite Eve, and NOW they have to annouce it for the stupid Jap mobile phone?! The only sequel that I'm really interested it, and I won't even be able to play it! If only this was part of some new huge project like the Ivalice Alliance or the whole FFVII thing, and they would release a bunch of sequels, but I'm afraid that they'll screw us on this one.

I'll try to spin this and say that they're probably testing the reception of bringing back PE with this cellphone game, and then make PE4 for one of the consoles if it does well.

Best I could think of.

I hope that's the case. If not, I guess I can always go back to playing PE1.

Delicious Eve, you must melt for her.

God dammit, when I saw the title I was so excited. Only to be punched in the gut and shit on when I read it's for a fucking cell phone.

Fuck you square. FUCK YOU!

They should of given the series more love years ago. Stop depending so much on Final Fantasy. >=|

Nooo~
Although I really only liked PE1. PE2 was more survival horror-ish rather than an rpg. I was expecting PE3 to be a healthy compromise but this is actually a lot worse. I like to think there is hope still with the possibilty of an actual Parasite Eve 3 coming out for PS3, and this "3rd birthday" business only being a cell phone diversion.

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FUCK YOU SQUARE ENIX.

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I mean seriously, make it a PSP or DS game at the very least!

Bet you wish SE had been developing for the N-Gage now. :cool:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...Eve3inCell.gif

Dear god, what the hell is up with Square-Enix? We heard they were gonna show Nintendo some more love, along with several other new things. What we get instead is a new expansion for FFXI, about 10 seconds worth of new footage in the old FFXIII trailer (behind closed doors only), and PE3 on cells.

Hell, I'm at a loss. I think the only thing out of SE that could get folks more riled up than this is if they announced a FFVI/VII remake... for cellular phones in Japan. :tpg:

Edit: Ah, forgot about Dissidia. Apparently that was shown away from everything else, ala XIII.

I don't understand why everyone's complaining. We get Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon for Wii. Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon! Not to forget the Final Fantasy IV re-re-re-re-release (the funny thing about that is that it's no joke).

Anyone notice how Square Enix shifted nearly half of their games to the cell phone sector? I wouldn't be surprised if they announce the inevitable Final Fantasy VII remake for mobile.
Oh, and they'll announce Final Fantasy Overkill tomorrow. I wish they had never released Final Fantasy X-2.

Because Parasite Eve and Parasite Eve II were both released onto the Playstation, a GAME CONSOLE. MANY, MANY games have sequels on the PS2 or PS3, including Final Fantasy & other Square Enix games. Yes SE has released cell phone games before, but those were either side-stores or prequels (FFXIII Agito, FFVII Snowboarding, DoC Lost Episodes, Before Crisis) or extra little goodies which were not a part of the 'main' series of games, so for a game series to have its third proper game be released on a fucking CELLPHONE, is both insulting and an idiotic business decision.

Cellphones are used for making calls and/or playing music. The most I ever expect out of a game on a cellphone is snake or maybe tetris, not PARASITE FUCKING EVE 3.

tl;dr: Its fucking STUPID.

Haha, I was slightly interested until I saw this is being made for cell phones. It's like Square wants consumers to hate them at this point.

I'm not horribly crushed though, since I thought PE2 sucked pretty badly. I gave it a rental and never really made it that far. The only offline friend I knew who played it said it got better, but he bought it solely for the shower scene, so he obviously wasn't the most credible opinion.

change the topic title. this is straight up rainbow gay.

I am one of the BIGGEST PARASITE EVE FANS. This makes me so sad :( :( :( i wanna cry lol.

atleast we have more hope for a REAL SEQUEL possibly.

We should all get together and kick Simo's ass for posting this cause it's not 'news' and it's heartbreaking.

Now you know how I felt when I first heard the news. :gonk:

"The 3rd Birthday" was revealed to be PE3 behind the closed mega theatre. The trailer consisted of no footage but the PE main theme and a voiceover by Aya before the title "The 3rd Birthday. For Cellphones".

Ok, found this on the internets. So confirmed for Cellphones then.
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http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4...7763240lf4.jpg

As you can see, they mentioned "The 3rd Birthday". The NTT DoCoMo FOMA
is the same kind of phone as seen in Advent Children, if anyone care to know that nugget of info.
Damm you square enix. why do you pull this crap?

The more I think about this, the angrier I get.

One of my Nipponophile friends informed me that Japanese cell phones are much different than those in the USA and that cell phone games have a wider appeal over there. But I still don't see why a flagship title, which would probably sell more copies overseas than in the home islands, was selected for the treatment.

Worst of all, a kind of psychological barrier has been broken. I can see the press releases now:

"Final Fantasy XIV. June 2010. Only for NTT DoCoMo FOMA."
"In April 2009, Square-Enix unleahes Kingdom Hearts III for the NTT DoCoMo FOMA. Pre-order your copy today.
"Halloween 2009 is Dragon Quest X day for NTT DoCoMo FOMA owners. The rest of the world can go fuck itself."

Considering they also announced Friends of Mana for cell phones, that's not as crazy as it sounds. I mean, it doesn't look like it'll be a good Mana game (do those exist at this point?) but it does look like more fun than Children of Mana was. On the plus side, "DoCoMo FOMA" is fun to say out loud. Not much considering the overwhelming shittiness of these announcements, but hey, it's something!

Lame, stupid, moronic, and just plain assholes. My description for the Square side of SE at the moment. Its a bad business move, it alienates the entire world except Japan, pissing off many fans who hope for an actual console made sequel.

Aya doesn't look sexy in cell phone graphics that's for sure. I'm a girl and even I find her hot, and since Aya is obviously a icon in the series, and a sex symbol, you'd think they're smart enough to know that only current and next gen CONSOLES can exploit that, and they can't even do that. While I don't condone the whole female sex symbol deals like Lara or the DOA girls, you would think Square stupidity isnt low enough to not try to exploit that. Everything they are doing is opposite to what a business who wants moolah would do. I mean, Aya can't grow old thanks to the mitchondria! Like Kos Mos, it makes her the perfect poster child and sex symbol cause unlike Snake who grew old rapidly, she can NEVER grow old physically! Best way to show that? HOT Next gen graphics! They are IDIOTS to not use that.

And I know that its a lame move to put it on a dingy system that's suppose to be used to communicate, not play franchise sequel games.

God this is all just dumb... The only good thing that came out of it is that hot image of Aya. Makes me miss my Aya poster back in Hong Kong.

On a serious note, I feel very insulted. I ran a PE fansite for 2 years along site everyone elses, including the biggest now gone one ayabrea.net. We've all been waiting for a 3rd installement for a long time. So when SE finally decides to make one, it's going to be on a freaking cell phone, short as hell, craptastic graphics and a plot WE ALL know is going to be thrown together and have nothing to do with mitochondria and ANMC's. This is a good example of developers being lazy little pricks. A got damn CELL PHONE ISN'T A GAME CONSOLE, IT'S A FREAKING TOOL FOR C O M M U N I C A T I O N.

*sics the Ultimate Being in it's invincible form on every staffer in SE*

I liked the first game (not played far into the 2nd on)

Why can't they just make it for the psp if they wanted to make it portable? that way it would look nicer and can be taken outside japan if they wanted to do so. Also might give a few ppl a reason to buy a psp.

Probably cause more people have a cell phone in Japan than they do have a PSP. Which is true, since cell phones in Japan can do just about anything, you can put credit in it and use it to pay for food at 7/11 and vending machines. You can surf the web, and just about every person who has a job needs a cell phone.

Which makes it even more xenophobic since they know its a trend and technology that's only avalaible in Japan.

This is a bit of a shock o_O. I swear, SE is shooting itself in the foot in regards to their non-Japanese markets. They have to be aware of PE's fanbase in the states, and they are quite obviously abandoning them. I mean, playing games on a cell phone is a fun diversion when you have nothing else, but damn, that's what the PSP and DS are for. A mobile port, like say Oblivion and Saints Row did, would be a viable thing, but a full-blown sequel? Shoot me now.

I would love to have one of them phones myself, but from what I know it won't work here (you can play games, but no phone calls)

Like I said, strictly Japan, not even the Hong Kong or Taiwanese gamer geeks can get their hands on it. You're gonna need to get online through the phone to play it in the first place, meaning even if you got a useless phone that you can't talk on from Japan, you will need to be IN Japan to get the game in the first place. And who the hell is gonna buy a phone that won't work anywhere else?

well somebody need to get off there ass and make this tech work outside japan or just make a emulator for it and call it a day.

I see even Aya is suicidal over the announcement. Bravo SE.

ROFL I guess I would be to if I were her :P

DUDE METAL SPHERE. BEST PIC EVER. DID YOU MAKE IT? LOL.

Nah, I got it from meltdown thread over on GAF. I expected people to be upset or struck dumb by this move by SE, but they were just over the top. It's one reason why I said the only thing that could get more fans upset would be if FFVI/VII were remade on phones. At least we got a nice trailer for Crystal Bearers out of this party, eh?

BTW, nice catch with the picture, Simo. Even ole Aya isn't up for this. :tpg:

In all fairness, cellphone gaming is almost as popular as the DS here, people hardly do anything else than use the damn thing when they are in the line for something and riding the subway.

What sucks more is that Square chose only ONE of the three major players on the market, and it just happens to be the mos expensive one for students (AU KDDI is really cheap with the student discount, only like 20 dollars a month if you don't use the internet). The other players have started to allow games on their phones, I've at least seen some advertisements for Before Crisis and Pied Piper, but those are only available for a few specific models which happen to cost quite a lot more than normal phones.

Some providers have phones that CAN be used outside Japan (AU KDDI has a Nokia cell that supports the Japanese 3G network), but as far as I know, they don't have the same features as the JP-exclusive phones, and you can't play games on them.

Fine. I accept the fact that the Japanese LOEV phones, but Americans generally do not equate a phone with games. They might equate phones with music & taking photos (Thanks to all the new models out + Verizon's recent commercials & such), but the best thing would be for Square Enix to do this:

Port PE3 to the DS or PSP for the US/Europe Market.

So they port Parasite Eve 3 to one of the two major handhelds, (I do not know how far behind or advanced the euros cellphones are, just a guess but I bet they aren't like Japan's) and call it a day. Same thing for Before Crisis while they're at it.

Oh well, fat chance of that happening though. The only thing that could happen is that enough people get pissed off and SE gets a clue. It HAS happened rarely before in time.

Except the only people that will get pissed off are people who are NOT from Japan, and Square doesn't really give a crap about them.

As for the more expensive model phones, well, it shows that Square doesn't care about their fanbase either, considering most of them prob can't afford the phones in the first place. Its like an elitist attitude on top of the xenophobe.

Sounds to me that the Western world is slowly being phased out of the gaming market.

No its not, its just phasing out of Square's market. Capcom and Konami has always catered to all markets fairly. I mean when MGS gets a uber special edition, the US gets it as well, for example. Capcom even ported the US version of RE4 to the Asian region code so Asian fans can play it easier, since more people in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China will know more English than Japanese. Asian versions ever hardly happen, but even Sony has done them like for ICO and Colossus, with Chinese subtitles.

No, this is all Square's ridiculous xenophobic doing.

Do you know what xenophobic actually means?

Fear of the foreign. It kinda makes sense for the argument at hand. Square almost does seem afraid to release their best to the non-Japan market. Think about how long it took Square to release FF2 and 3 over here, and think about how many pined for games are still never coming here. It really does seem like Square fears us. Or at least fears the idea of a game not selling well.

Besides, the Japanese are well known as Xenophobes. They even have a term (gaikokujin kyoufu shou) describing it as a medical condition.

In Japan, most video game series spin off cell phone side games. Usually they're tie-ins with console releases, and not years-old games, so if you're really lucky it actually heralds an upcoming announcement, but that's unlikely.

Most likely the franchise is just on the back burner, and this is as much a marketing effort to keep it in the public mind (without spending millions of dollars) in between actual releases, and perhaps used to gauge public desire for a real sequel. If it fails, the series is finished; if it sells wildly, a new game will follow. (If it's just lukewarm, who knows.) Given that this will have no bearing on a future console PE release, unless it does extremely well or badly, why the intense hatred? Just petulant that the market realities of one nation are so different from yours? You can hold on until you get your PE TRIPLE on your PS TRIPLE.

Its more or less the fact that the game has a large non-Japanese fanbase that is getting ignored in the discussion of whether or not a true sequel will be made. I'd say we have good reason to be perturbed.

How many games since the SNES haven't they been releasing stateside?

Umm...congratulations on that trivia? :confused:

If anything you guys should be calling them ethnocentric (or the cultural/national/etc variation) since they seem to only care about the interests of their own people and not the rest of the people.

koifox, they could have easily done the same thing on any other handheld, be it a DS or a PSP. It would have better graphics AND can be sold to different markets. Cell phones means no one else other than the Japanese can play it, and regardless on whether or not we get a console sequel after this, the fact of the matter is that we will never know the story to THIS title and have to rely on translators who are willing to play and translate. A true fan would wanna know any side story of their fav series, why do you think people played KH COM despite it being card based?

This being only on cell phone, regardless if its a side story, a sequel or anything, is a clear sign of xenophobe, or as Racin has also stated, ethnocentric. Other fanbases should have the right to access this, but they chose not to. That's what we're pissed about.

There are games they haven't released, maybe not so much on FFs side, but other franchises like Front Mission, Itaki street, and of course every cell phone game. The real kicker to me is the international releases, like KH2 Final Mix. If Kojima can sell MGS3 Subsistence, why can't Square do the same? Other companies may have not released every title of their franchises, like Castlevaynia, but unlike Square, they are trying to fix it. Square only released titles that related to FF, anything other than that they seem to deem it not worthy enough of a remake or port or re releases.

I should hope it's because it's a good game and not because gamers are consumer whores.

COM is not horrible, but not everyone clicked with the card system. They still played it anyway though, cause they wanna know the story. With this PE sidestory, we can't even try to experience it. Have to rely on fan translations.

Sometimes its both =\

Hopefully this IS just a gauge of how much interest is left in the series, if that's the case, and this cellphone game is like some sort of 'prequel' to the proper console sequel game, then I will be relieved very much.

If it's a lousy game (I mean, how good can a cell phone game be) and you only care about the storyline, why should you be bothered you'll just be getting the game in novel form?

My point is I at least like the OPTION, and we don't even have that.

Final Fantasy VII: The Novelization.

hmm, I'd read it.

I'd much rather have gone through Xenosaga that way. =/

(Also, anyone know if anyone ever translated the Xenogears novels that Square put out or if they were any good?)

Maybe SE hasn't released certain games here because they sucked. Code Age Commanders or whatever it was called is just a horrible, HORRIBLE game, and yet people still complain that it didn'tget a US release so that they could find out what a piece of crap it was for theirselves, which would only result into more complaining about SE.

As for the comment about expensive phones, in general cellphones are ridiculously cheap in japan, it's the subscription that you have to take that can cost a lot of money. Seriously, the phone I bought half a year ago cost me 10000 yen (around 70 dollars I think), and it can do basically everything you'd need (internet, mp3 player, camera, e-mail, radio, instant messenger) aside from playing games, and with the new models coming up it only costs 1 yen right now. And EVERYONE here can afford a cellphone, it's basically a necessity, so just because I said that it kinda sucks that only Docomo gets PE3, doesn't mean that kids will have to pay tons of money to play the game.

You just have to face that the cellphone is kinda a respected gaming device here in Japan, and SE would be stupid to ignore it and only publish on handhelds, when it's a lot cheaper to produce a game for a phone than for he DS or PSP. SE is in the first place producing games for the JAPANESE market after all.

Do you mean xenogears? (because square had nothing to do with xenosaga)

but I wouldlove to have a copy of that :D

This is fucking bullshit. PE is one of the best games they ever put out, and marked their late-90s heyday wherein they produced their best material (Einhander, Vagrant Story, PE, Xenogears).

It's also their only remaining series whose lead character only looks like a woman because --SHOCK--



Release it on PS2. Release it on PS3. Release it on the DS for all I care. But for fuck's sake, release it on a real goddamn gaming machine.

Oh, and as long as I have your attention, no more bishie bullshit. And Advent Children sucked.

Fucking bastards.

No, I meant Xenosaga since that one would have been much, much better as a book instead of a game (Though it probably would have been even worse as a movie. Was anyone ever able to make it through the anime?). Xenogears at least had a fun game to go along with a pretty good story (well, minus the second CD's gameplay, that was kinda rough).

There's a Xenosaga manga series, and from what I've heard it sounds quite interesting (it's more character heavy and less religious terminology), but I haven't been able to find scans anywhere. It shouldn't be a stretch for Tokyopop to localize it, but there hasn't been any word.

I'll let you know as soon as I get around to watching it. Which if I'm motivated to do so, could be as soon as this weekend.

And here I thought GFF was dead for so long. Sigh.

I saw this news on a gamingsite a while ago. I have mixed feelings about it.

I absolutely LOVED the first PE. It was everything I hope it would be, and then came the sequel. To say it was a disappointment would be a understatement. I was a little surprised at first that it took them this long to make another sequel, but even more surprised that it turned out to be a cell phone game.

Until they decide to actually make a console, or if need be a handheld sequel, I'm not going to show the least bit of interest in this. It's just a waste of time.

XG Perfect Works was pretty damn interesting. It's not much of a translation in terms of the images in it and everything, but some site called u-tic.org (lol, Xenosaga pun), put out a translation on GameFaqs.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/psx/file/199365/15622

I've never been so disappointed upon entering a thread with a title of such sheer awesomeness. Upon reading the thread title I thought "Wow they're going to release PE3 finally! Probably on PS3!". The possibility that it would be for Japanese cel phones was the farthest thing from my mind. I don't like all these side stories on cel phones and if this is supposed to be PE3 proper... I don't think they can make it proper on the cel phone. PE is a series that deserves the power of a real console. SquareEnix can keep all their cel phone games. If they ever want to release a real PE game I'll gladly play it.

Yeah this is some serious bull-crap right here. I understand that cell-phones that play games are common in Japan. I recognize that it would be a wise business decision for squeenix to tap into this market. However, did they have to sacrifice such a beloved series in the process? One that hasn't really appeased its fans in quiet a while?

I don't even really want them to port this game to the DS or PSP cause I feel like cell-phones won't provide enough power to do this game justice. (Unless they totally remake the game from ground up if they were to port it but I'm getting way ahead of myself here)

Bottom line, there better be a proper and substantial new entry to the series following this installment. Soon.