Miyamoto Working On A New Title

Recovery after my surgery is so far so good, I've been keeping off my feet lately and been playing Dead Island (I'll try to get a review up and going) and re-playing Metal Gear Solid. Now that I'm doing a bit better, I'm going to start updating The Reading Gamers a little more now; oh how I have missed blogging.

The creative man behind Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda series is working on three different games, two of them being sequels and one being a brand new undisclosed title.

In an interview with Zoomin.tv, Shigeru Miyamoto explains what's going on about the retirement situation from last month. Along with that, the interview talks about how Miyamoto is working on already announced Pikmin 3 for the Wii U and Luigi's Mansion 2 for the 3DS, but that isn't all that Miyamoto is working on; there is a new title he is working on, but what it could be is a complete mystery at this time.

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Saints Row 4 already in the works

Saints Row the Third has still yet to be released (only one week to go!) but Volition has already announced that the next installment in the series is already on the drawing board. Senior Vice President Danny Bilson was interviewed on G4 concerning the fourth game.

How can it get crazier than this?

"I already know what Saint's Row 4 is about, and it is wilder than this one. It's a good example of how you take what you have and you say, 'What can happen in the next?'"

Bilson's interview and more on Saints Row 4 can be seen here.

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RAGE will be huge.

How huge will it be? The 360 version will span across 3 discs and the PS3 version will take up 8GB of space.
In a recent interview at Eurogamer Expo, Creative Director Tim Willits discussed on working with Sony to make the game this big.

"Sony was great. Kudos to Sony for letting us do that. They don't allow every game to do that. So definitely, hats off," he said. "What we were able to do is install all the textures to the highest level. What is nice about the PS3 platform is that it's just one platform. Everyone has one Blu-ray drive, one hard drive, it's all the same. Some of the other systems you have... should I install it on my 360? Should I not install it? So yes, it's very nice."

However Willits reassured 360 owners not to worry about using 8GB if you plan on installing it on your hard drive.

"We recommend installing the game to the hard drive, but you don't need to install all three discs," he said. "If you don't have the space available on your hard drive, don't stress. Install the first disc, the first chapter, the first half of the game, then when you're done, uninstall and install disc two. You don't really need to install the multiplayer disc if you're really tight on hard disk space."

Then he continues on about making the game for three separate systems.

"There are more similarities between them than most people realize, so they developed a codebase that would take care of these multi-core systems," Willits said. "It makes a lot more sense than taking on old technology and shoving it into a modern day console and then having to multi-thread. So the basic gamecode is the same, the basic engine is the same and it's only the graphical APIs, and a few sound things that are really different on all the three systems, which is really nice."

The whole Interview can be found here.

Rage must take a while to play if it takes that much space. the game will be released on October 4th.

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Mass Effect 3 Questions Answered

With an interview with Casey Hudson and Derek Watts some questions about the upcoming Mass Effect 3 was answered. One answer given to a question has already started getting fans hopes up and some hoping that Tali's unmasking doesn't happen.

"We changed Tali - that was tough because people were very passionate about her. A lot of people want to have her face revealed and obviously people are going to be pissed off either way.

Like "I thought she was going to look beautiful!" or "I thought she was going to be the most hideous thing ever!" So we've had a lot of debate over Tali's face, but that's the one we kind of dread a lot. We're always "well, let's talk about something else for a while!" That's something we're going to have to decide."

 

BioWare staff is considering to show Tali's face once and for all, but I hope they won't go through with it. Her mysterious face behind the mask is what makes her interesting, she just won't be the same to me anymore. If they do reveal her face, hopefully BioWare will do it right so not as many fans will get mad. 

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