UNSUNG STORY: TALE OF THE GUARDIANS: TRPG KICKSTARTED BY YASUMI MATSUNO

[Cat Rage Room]

Check it out.

Some of you are aware that Yasumi Matsuno, (mastermind of Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, and to an extent, FFXII) are among the list of 'game creators I'm most likely to fellate'. A few years ago Yasumi Matsuno stepped down from Square Enix and went freelance, and this is his next big project he's trying to fund with Kickstarter. Unsung Story will be in a similar creative vein as he's previous projects, with a tactics RPG approach with a detailed world, usually based off of real world themes.

At the time of this topic, about 250,000 dollars has gone into Unsung Story, and since it's Yasumi fucking Matsuno, I'm pretty confident in it. Talk about this!

 

[Hisako]

Filled with intrigue, warfare, betrayal, alliances and espionage

In other words, the same shit he's been doing since Tactics.
Which Tactics?
... Yes.

jks though, this looks fucking awesome. Dude's a RPG genius.

 

[Geostigma]

Check it out.

Some of you are aware that Yasumi Matsuno, (mastermind of Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, and to an extent, FFXII) are among the list of 'game creators I'm most likely to fellate'. A few years ago Yasumi Matsuno stepped down from Square Enix and went freelance, and this is his next big project he's trying to fund with Kickstarter. Unsung Story will be in a similar creative vein as he's previous projects, with a tactics RPG approach with a detailed world, usually based off of real world themes.

At the time of this topic, about 250,000 dollars has gone into Unsung Story, and since it's Yasumi fucking Matsuno, I'm pretty confident in it. Talk about this!

/attentionwhoring

Poasted first

http://thelifestream.net/forums/showpost.php?p=559647&postcount=378


/attentionwhoringdone.

jk'ing.

Im pretty excited I love his work and I think Mobile really lends itself well to the genre, I'd love to take a crack at this on my tablet.

That said though the game is coming to Droid/iOS regardless if this Kickstarter is successful. Heres the interesting bit (and honestly its way to hidden on the page), if they reach the goal the main platform for the game will shift from mobile to PC/Mac (and 3ds?) and they will modify the game to be based on a more serious platform.


So heres hoping they reach goal because the game would potentially be much much better with the extra cash.

 

[Yuri Lowell]

The best thread ever created. Funding this shit now. Only plebs and casuals wouldn't be interested in this, or those uninitiated to his genius.

The French guy he's teaming with seems mighty cool too. Yoshida looks way too creepy for someone who's obsessed with asses but I'm glad he's on board too.

 

[Cat Rage Room]

Yeah I'm trying to spread the word on this as well. The pace is going good and I definitely think it'll reach its base goals, but I'd really like it to hit some of those stretch goals.

 

[Novus]

Looks interesting, Vagrant Story stands at #3 on my favorite games of all time list.
FF Tactics might be amazing as well if I can figure out how to play it.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

6 dayssssss. $130k still needed for initial goal.

PLEASE HAPPEN.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.


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[Yuri Lowell]

Looks interesting, Vagrant Story stands at #3 on my favorite games of all time list.
FF Tactics might be amazing as well if I can figure out how to play it.

What do you have trouble with? Your posts are always insightful so I wouldn't mind helping.

The strategic key to success at FFT largely hinges on trajectory and distance, press a button to figure out an enemy character's range and where they can attack, so put a square between you and their blue radius.

Make it difficult for mages to scoop you into spells as they hit adjacently. Hell, game's a cinch.

 

[ForceStealer]

So this is crazy. Apparently FFT wasn't designed to have Charge times?

Q: "FFTA and FFTA2 moved away from Charge/cast times, which I felt heavily took away from the depth of those games. Will Charge/Cast times be a core component of this game? One of my favorite mechanics in FFT was casting time."

A: Sorry, there won't be casting times in this game. In fact, the reason why FFT included a casting time system at all was to allow the game time to load graphic effects. This was a necessary consideration due to PlayStation loading times and memory concerns. Speaking as a developer back in those days, I can tell you that we weren't happy with it.

So much of the game seemed based around charge times, it's almost hard to believe it wasn't originally supposed to have them.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Holy shit. That's an eye opener. No wonder so many Jobs became obsolete and just stupid to use.

 

[Strangelove]

Do you have to back using Amazon.com, or am I just dumb and not seeing the other options?

 

[X-SOLDIER]

KickStarter is via Amazon.



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[The Twilight Mexican]

Sakimoto is now on board:

http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/11/54...-composer-hitoshi-sakimoto-joins-unsung-story

The Tactics dream team is reassembled. For great justice!

 

[X-SOLDIER]

51 hours and $72k needed.

Man this thing is makin' me nervous.


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[Strangelove]

KickStarter is via Amazon.



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Do you have to go though Amazon.com, or is there an option for Amazon UK somewhere?

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Fuck you guys. For not donating more money sooner, I mean. I actually just backed this thing ($20). I know I've said I was going to donate to kickstarters before, but I actually did it this time because I want this badly enough and it's so fucking close, but it's still so fucking far.

Just fuck you guys. With a polearm. Each and every one of you.

Please let this happen.

 

[Fangu]

Well fuck you too.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

I'm holding you to that.

 

[Strangelove]

if i donate $20 i will be in my overdraft and i can't have that

 

[X-SOLDIER]

if i donate $20 i will be in my overdraft and i can't have that

IF they hit the KickStarter goal, they'll do what Project Phoenix did & set up a PayPal, so that they can keep gathering funding for the stretch goals.

44 hours and $52k to go.


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[The Twilight Mexican]

It's not going to make it. =(

 

[Fangu]

44 hours and $52k to go.

It's not going to make it. =(

37 hours and $42 to go. It will make it.

What usually happens for larger fundraisers (or what you call them) as this is companies who wants the PR tends to wait until the last minute to throw in their contribution, hoping it will gain them some kind of publicity.

Edit: Also I backed it with $25. Thanks for reminding me

Edit II: $2,000 in 2 hours, guys. $40,000 to go, 35 hours left.

Edit III: $35,000 to go, 32 hours left. Catching up!

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Gah, my hopes are building again. XD

 

[Fangu]

Wow. $22,000 to go with 25 hours left. 'Detta går rettveien' as we say here.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Indeed, things are falling into place.