Dear games industry,
Please stop putting up countdown teaser sites for upcoming games. Either just announce the bloody things or shut up forever. Putting out teasers is basically an admittance of arrogance on your part, and the endless speculation you get is mawkish and annoying.
It's not like Square Enix has even put out much of anything recently that deserves" a teaser, and they can use all the pretty music and "mysterious" number fours that they like, the whole thing will still come off as stupid and pretentious, like all teaser sites invariably do. Could the teaser be about Romancing Saga 4? Who even cares? I'll give a crap when I actually have an announcement.
I hope you take the message of my letter into consideration, and make more of an effort to be inventive, rather than dreary, in your future marketing efforts from this point onward.
Yours lovingly,
Jim Sterling of Destructoid.
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10:40 AM on 06.26.2009
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I'm off to get some lunch, but then I'll be RIGHT BACK to that site to look for new developments.
By god, I'll figure this thing out yet!
Golden Sun 3, it happened, and out of nowhere.
I called that shit.
Someone in another comments section said Atlus is the new Square Enix.. and they were right on the money.
**I hope to be wrong...
And it won't be until people STOP talking about it that they go away. Right now, this article is doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Pointing people at the hype building timer.
gg
You know what else generates hype? Actually announcing the game.
Anyway, I'm gonna say its probably another crappy Seiken Densetsu game, why they keep making them is beyond me. The last good one I played was Secret of Mana on the SNES, hasnt been worth mentioning since then.
It seems like Square is bound and determined to put out anything and everything that isn't a Chrono Trigger sequel that's worth a damn.
HEYO
Or if this is S-E announcing SaGa 2 for the US, this will be the best year of the millenium.
But here is some mindless speculation anyway:
FFV DS. :P
Also, Unlimited Saga was a badass game with a badass learning curve.
A good example of Kojima Sindrome...
A little dose of endless spam in Squeenix email box should take care of this.
realistically though Romancing SaGa might be nice. They have butchered the SaGa series and it'll be interesting to see if they can bring it back.
But hey, I could go for a remake of Grandia 2. HD'd up the arse and all.
Grandia 3 came out for PS2 a few years ago. You mean Grandia 4?
I'd love to see Grandia 4 on PS3.
which is why I read the articles.
Boo - yah!
call me crazy but i have bin wondering what could it be so im here cant sleep i open the page with the time i have no music on everything is quiet and i mean silent all of a sudden when i put my head on my bead i hear music coming from the timer site im like ......... and its romancing saga song playing im not crazy gooo to the page and raise ur volume to max and put your head near the speakers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!