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My estimates by the clock leave around (give or take) 9 days. | |
No, Keane. Square-Enix teases NEW GAME. | |
You know, that's how I typed out the headline when I first wrote it. | |
Not another clock... the Metal Gear Solid : Rising reveal clocks were a big waste of time; as is this... | |
My guess: For Kingdom Hearts 4 - Kingdom Hearts being so gret it skips 3 and goes straight to 4. | |
I think this is an awesome idea. You have everyone spreading rumors of what they had to do to KH3. It would be like the old school Final Fantasy games all over again, which is pretty appropriate. Dang Japanese with their non-existant copies of Kingdom Hearts 3. | |
Maybe it's a completely NEW GAME... and it's just called "4." No, I don't really think so. | |
I think it'd be hilarious if this was a teaser for a movie called NEW GAME. That'd show us! ... before it came out and sucked like Square's other movies... And what's up with all the clock-teasers? The only game that I think that really worked for was the Chrono Trigger port to DS, for obvious reasons. | |
I think I remember that...It was on an episode of Machinima's Inside Gaming, they looked into the web script (laugh at me) and figured out that the larger number meant how many times the actual timer had to count down...The date that it was timing down to? E3... | |
Yep, but someone on The Escapist realized one of the clocks was about to finished so a group on the forums waited for 45 minutes to see what would happen - another clock appeared. | |
I really hate teasers. Just tell us what it is or go back to your hole and make me some more games. | |
Maybe for fun it's like Breath of fire, though the music slightly reminds me of FF9. I don't know. I am highly doubting Kingdom Hearts. Maybe for awesome good times it'll be Ogre Battle. | |
The Japanese sure like clocks. | |
my guess is: I don't give a crap. In all seriousness though I think it'll be a new IP... the background suggests that it miight be a cell-shaded game, similar in art style to Valkyria Chronicles. | |
This clock'll end at about 4am on the 6th of July, in the UK at least. Just thought I'd work that out for ya. | |
Well KH2 is actually the third game so far, but the SaGa answer makes more sense | |
De ja vu, it seems that all game developers have gotten this silly idea in their heads that this serves a "useful" purpose, in reality all it does is waste time as you say. | |
Really? So a game company is going to put out a game? Gosh; consider my mind blown. | |
My guess is Grandia 4. If that's what it turns out to be, I want some kind of prediction prize or something. | |
All the fourths that it could possibly be don't warrant a countdown clock. Seriously, what's the benefit of making people wait for the ANNOUNCEMENT? I already care less about this game than if they had just come out and said, "By the way, we're making this game..." Although if it, for whatever reason, ends up being the DS remake of Final Fantasy 5, I guess I'll forgive them. | |
Doubtful. I don't know the details of the Game Arts/Square Enix partnership was but the last game tanked. | |
Even better yet: Kindom Hearts Forever | |
Maybe NEW GAME is the actual title, and the game is about a developer trying to create a game from the inside...or something. That would be surreal. | |
anyone else here think that it sounded like they were teasing a new game, like making fun of it? | |
Well, by discussing it we're giving them exactly what they want. Truthfully though we're making an assumption in that "4" means the 4th game in a series, it could very well be a game being developed with 4 in the title, or to which the number 4 is intristic. That said, I'd much rather they work on a Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross game than just about anything else right now, but sadly that doesn't seem likely, and there is no real way "4" could be linked into that (which I can see at any rate). A proper sequel to Xenogears (Which Xenosaga was supposed to be, and broke away from) would also be very nice. | |
I have BoF4 on my PSP (and BoF3) It's super sweet :D. I love Breath of Fire. Something about being an uber dragonkin that just makes me all warm inside. | |
CHRONO BREAK?! Hah. I wish... I seriously do though... but I'm capable of realizing it won't be... | |
I'm going on a totally different direction here and say that the new game (if ever) will be a horror or thriller. Four is death in Japan peoples! | |
THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU 4?! I'd be happy if that was the case. | |
u no how only part fo the image is revealed, u dont think the will be really ghey and count down to when the enxt part is revealed, and tht there are 4 parts left do you? i just had this thought come up reading about all the other stupid clocks there have been tbh im not sure id be that excitied anyway, the only sqeenix game ive really played is FF and they are already making 10 of them at the same time | |
Would it feature Bill, Francis, Louis, and Zoey? | |
I hope not. I've still to finish the first 3! | |
I would hope that it is the fourth game in the Chrono series. | |
I think that when the clock counts down... the number will simply change to 3. | |
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Square-Enix Teases New Game
Square-Enix has a mysterious new teaser site up with a countdown clock. Judging by the title of the site, we're guessing it's for a new game.
Head to this url on Square-Enix's Japanese site, and you'll be greeted with a quaint little sketch of a pastoral scene. The number 4 rests on the right hand side of the window, with a countdown clock currently ticking down from the 200s sitting above it. Whatever purpose could this site serve? Well...I don't know, guessing from the title of the site my browser is displaying, I'm guessing it's for a NEW GAME.
Subtlety, clearly, is not the forte of whoever put this little package together. As a teaser it definitely meets its aim, however, namely: to tease. I don't have many guesses to wager as to what NEW GAME this site is hinting at, though that 4 seems awfully indicative. Square fans have already put two and two together and figured that this could be for Romancing SaGa 4, or maybe a new Secret of Mana (the main series would be on its fourth title in Japan, where it's Seiken Densetsu).
SaGa seems to be the more likely of the two possibilities, considering the familiarity of the art and music on the teaser site. SaGa has always had a very painterly art style, which reached its peak in the watercolor-esque graphics in SaGa Frontier 2. The series has never really had the same sort of mega-success that Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest do, but hey, you guys are always complaining that Square needs to do different stuff.
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