[News] Parasite Eve 3 Announced

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.