If anything is my "jam," it's the RPG space opera. These games usually have confusing plots that don't make much sense in the end, but it's all about the journey, right?
The new journey will be called Infinite Space, coming to Japanese DSes in June. MadWorld makers PlatinumGames will be releasing Infinite Space at home (Japan) first, though Siliconera says that the game slated for a worldwide release.
In this RPG you'll create a fleet of spaceships, pilot them, and work your way up the ranks to eventually become a captain for the fleet. Naturally, with this kind of setting there's a story mode, but there's also local wireless spaceship duels to be had. Sounds good to me!
Unfortunately the screenshots show us nothing in the way of game play yet. Just pretty pictures, heavy on the anime style. But I'm already digging the concept and the art, so we'll mark this one down as one to look forward to.
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4:10 PM on 03.30.2009
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*I'm looking at you, Rogue Galaxy*
Mass Effect
Martian Succesor Nadesico (Anime)
Harlock (Anime)
Some consider Robotech/Southern Cross/New Generation (Anime)
Outlaw Star (Anime)
Star Wars
Battle-Star Galactica
It's also referred to by it's sub-genres, Space-Western/Space Romance. Honestly, it's very broad, and a lot of people consider anything in space to be a space opera.
They showed plain looking screenshots of some gameplay stuff a long time ago and it was just a bunch of space ship data and stat looking screens. Really excited to see what the actual gameplay will be, considering who it's coming from.
And what the hell is going on here?