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4PP Video Blog - Juan & Street Fighter IV

Juan's been busy with his new job. But he wasn't so busy that he couldn't stop by and pick up Street Fighter IV.

Dead Space for the Wii? Approved

Dead Space was my "Game of the Year 2008" and was by far one of the most original horror games in years. It was ambitious in the fact that it tried so many new things in regards to it's mechanics and overall game design. Games like "Alone in the Dark" tried equally as hard to do something new but ultimately fell short. The game shined from a technical standpoint as well so you can imagine my surprise when EA announced "Dead Space" for the Wii. While I was orininally skeptical, I am now excited because it seems that I will have a chance to delve deeper into the Dead Space lore in a way that could tide me over until the inevitable, next gen sequel.

EA has officially announced "Dead Space: Extraction", a prequel to the original game that will be coming exclusively to the Wii this fall. Aside from new story elements and the inclusion of "Wii Motion Plus", there are few details worth mentioning. I anticipate picking this game up day and date with release. Until then, check out the trailer below:



-Nick

Tomorrow...HUGE!!!!

So Good Thing or Bad Thing?

Brad,

You're a very hard person to read at times. Sometimes I'll call you with news that I think you'll be excited about, but you aren't. Other times the smallest thing we talk about for hours. I'm not sure.

But I do feel like this is news worthy so....

Thanks gray_snake for emailing me and letting me know that Ryū ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3 for PS3) will be getting a demo tomorrow on the Japanese Store. (Credit: vg247.com)

For those who are new to the blog we've been really supportive of mostly anything Sega. Valkyria Chronicles won Game of the Year from us for 2008. They are working with new developers like Plantinum Games on projects such as Bayonetta and MadWorld. And of course, they're always still putting out "high quality" Sonic titles.

Their biggest release of the year, however, has a chance that it won't even make it outside of Japan. It's a game that we've been really trying to push community support in an effort to let Sega know that there are people who want this game and they should take the time to bring it here.

Brad's been vocal about the OnlinePetition. Here's your chance to help out.

David

Chun-Li Got Hosed

Remember when they first announced Street Fighter IV. It had the cover with Chun-Li in the center and with Ken and Ryu squaring off beneath her. Then there were the other supporting characters in the background off colored. God I loved that cover. The cover that came out yesterday is an abomination compared to that one. You know the one, where it looks like Ken and Ryu are about to makeout. Yeah, sucks. What is worse is the spine, the street fighter logo is tiny. Why would they stack the two words on top of each other making them incredibly hard to read?

But back to more important things. Chun-Li getting screwed out of the cover. Why? Is it cause it's a man's world and women can't get the cover of a video game or magazine unless they're half naked? They can't be a powerful self sufficent character able to gather their own berries and hunt their own prey? Nah, that's probably not what this cover was about. I'm just annoyed by the crappy cover, so.....

I've been browsing around some sites looking for a cover that could print out and use as my cover.

Here's the one I chose for PS3. (By zero2000 of vgboxart.com)

And this one for XB360. (By Saint of vgboxart.com)
If you guys have any other suggestions, please send them in.
David - davidliao@4playerpodcast.com

Yeah. He's working on a Wii game.

So you may know him as some dude who used to work at Square-Enix. I know him as one of my favorite video game designers ever. You may know him as Yasumi Matsuno. I know him as Yazz. You may know him as that guy who worked on Final Fantasy 12. I know him as the guy who worked on these fantastic games:

Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen: Director, scenario and game design

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together: Director, scenario and game design

Final Fantasy Tactics: Director, script and game design

Vagrant Story: Producer, director and battle design

Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber: Script, scenario design

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: Producer, original concept (note that there is nothing about direction, story, or scenario design)

Final Fantasy XII: Original concept, scenario plotter, and supervisor

So the last known game he was confirmed to work on was Final Fantasy 12. He left before the game was finished, which is probably why the story in FF12 felt very rushed towards the end of the game. Since then, Matsuno had fallen off them map. No one knew where he was, and awhile ago there were rumors he was working on a Wii game. Well, he is indeed working on a Wii game. Luckily, it's a game I'm excited about. The project he is on could have hardly been predicted, as it is not what you typically expect from the great Yazz.

Platinum Games developer, Atsushi Inaba (best known as former CEO of Clover Studios and for his work on Viewtiful Joe, Godhand, Okami, and the Phoenix Wright series) has hired the great Yasumi Matsuno to work on the story for the upcoming (and hopefully spiritual successor to Godhand) Wii title, MadWorld. (Source)

MadWorld....

Yeah, this game:

This is strage, yet refreshing news. I hope MadWorld is great, but more importantly I hope that Platinum Games lets him work on his own project. The true spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics perhaps?

Thoughts?


Brad

From Around the Community

If you've been around chat for a while you'll know mod Corvus. He came in the limelight back when I was playing Majora's Mask and has been known to give me a hard time about playing games. I assure you viewers and chatters that we are good friends and have even talked about meeting up for Thanksgiving Dinner. Our Kid Link and Skull Kid friendship is a strong as ever.

As proof I have included a conversation we had last night, in the midst of my playing Metroid Prime. To Corvus I say, I am honored to be your favorite member and I will keep doing my best to make you proud. What are you doing for Spring Break?

In other news I am proud to display the draw for the Left 4 Dead Tourney. This was all orchestrated by some of our regular/long time chatters. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out to see how things develop. Our very own Travis Granger is competing as part of Team 1. We'll keep you guys posted on who moves on to the second round. It's even possible I could find some kind of prize for the winners of the tourney, provided it's not Travis. Actually, I'll announce that I'm putting out a Bounty for the Team who takes the so called "god" out.

Have fun,
David

Birthday Wishes - Tsuzura Saki

Today - February 17th - Tsuzura Saki from the Arcana Heart Series.

I've been trying to compile a list of video game birthday's for a while now. Each time I do, I end up losing the list or forgetting to add someone. So in a way to help put this together, I ask you the community to help out. If you feel like contributing, whenever there is a video game character's birthday coming up, send me an email at davidliao@4playerpodcast.com.

I'll add it to the list, make a blog post, and give you credit.
David