![]() ![]() Over the years the series has produced a side scroller, RTS and multiplayer online game. However, when I was in Japan in 2008 for college and saw a cardboard cutout advertisement for 2089, and realized It wasn’t even reported on in the U.S., I wondered if America would never see another proper Front Mission game.Ĭ'mon Square! I'll buy 10 copies if this comes to America!įront Mission Evolved could be another spin-off, and maybe the next real title is on its way. I would even take an iteration of the series on iPhone. In a perfect world, Square-Enix would continue to release titles on the DS or even consider the PSP or digital downloads for new releases. If people would have bought Front Mission 4… In just four months - yes, four months - I could have bought 10 brand-new copies of the game for the same price of a copy on release day at Best Buy.Īfter that, gamers missed out on Front Mission 5: Scars of the War for PS2, Front Mission 2089 for DS in addition to a slew of others from earlier in the series’ lifespan like the all important second game in the series. It should have been kind of obvious that the series was in trouble after the PlayStation 1’s Front Mission 3.īack in 2004 I bought Front Mission 4 for PlayStation 2 on launch day and bulldozed through it and loved every minute of it. It’s economically dangerous to release old-school RPGs on home consoles nowadays - just look at Valkryia Chronicles.Īnd honestly, Front Mission’s problems began way before the shooter craze. If I were Square-Enix, I too would have capitalized on the shooter craze that seems to have defined the current generation of gaming on the Xbox 360. I don’t mind that ME2 is like that I love the game. In fact, it’s probably the only RPG in any of my shooter loving friends’ collections. Critics thought it would be too old school, but it worked - much like anything the developer touches.Īside from that though, RPGs don’t seem to perform so hot unless they have the appeal of Final Fantasy or put in shooter mechanics.Īny game featuring Yoshitaka Amano art is a winner.Īccording to BioWare’s Big Brother-esque stat tracking, most Mass Effect 2 players chose the shooter heavy soldier class when picking apart Collectors in their “RPG” quest. I thank BioWare endlessly for the game every night before I go to bed. Role playing games - turn-based strategy ones specifically - have taken a hit when it comes to appeal on our shiny red-ringers, fancy blu-ray do-it-alls and arm flailing gaming machines.ĭragon Age: Origins is one old-school RPG I have put over 400 hours into on current gen systems. What are some of the most successful games recently in terms of sales and mass market appeal? Call of Duty and Halo. Heck, sometimes we don’t even have a choice. Most gamers I meet who weren’t weaned on the RPG heavy Super Nintendo and PlayStation 1 are most likely first or third-person shooter fans.įront Mission 3. Now, I don’t mean Front Mission fans who went out and bought each title and loved customizing their little gun-toting Wanzers, but the gaming community as a whole. ![]() I never - never - thought I would type a sentence that had the words front, mission and shooter in it.įront Mission Evolved looks snazzy, but it seems to be just another ho-hum shooter.Īfter much bickering about Square-Enix and how they have betrayed fans of politically charged, strategic mech action, I realized something. The newest title, Front Mission Evolved, takes the strategic, turn-based mech-on-mech action into third-person shooter territory.
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