Bandai Namco Teases "New RPG" Reveal, Taking Place This Week

The trailer... looks pretty generic. I hope its good!

We’re still yet to get a whole lot of footage for The Blood of Dawnwalker and Bandai Namco’s got another new RPG in the works.

An announcement for an announcement.....at this point just reveal the thing already....

Tales of Remake

I hope it’s a new Xevious 😅

Hope this is teaser for something coming out relatively soon. I think a lot of games get announced way to early

@tseliot Looks nothing like the already released games.

I personally prefer the family games with exploration from Bandai Namco like Go Vacation.

Since it's only one character and is a real time action game this could be a Dark Souls sequel maybe a Dark Souls IV. It's likely not going to be a Tales game since Tales game had multiple people in it.

I assume it's a new tales game, they haven't made a new one since ages.

That was giving me SAO vibes tbh.

Edit: Looks like I was right.

I think its highly unlikely to be anything from FromSoft, we surely don't hear anything from them until after Duskbloods is released.

Also think it's unlikely to be a Tales game, they've already had a big Tales anniversary stream which would surely be where they'd have announced a new mainline game.

Clearly a new Tales of.

I have only played Symphonia back in the day from this series lol, so I'm not particularly interested.
Maybe when I finally get to try Arise and Berseria...

The Tower of Druaga!

the rpg takes place during this specific week? that's a bold choice given it'll be very outdated when it comes out

@Ironcore They're teasing an RPG, hence I doubt it's Xevious-related. It's not that they couldn't set an RPG in the Xevious universe, but the odds are very much against something out of deep left field like that...

Hoping it's not a new Tales of going the Final Fantasy route with a Full Action game with just one character.

I could honestly see it happen.

My bet would be a Tales game, seems like it has that kinda vibe. Also looked quite old school so could be a revival/remake or something?

Not getting my hopes up for a Switch 2 version because NL will write the inevitable follow-up article it (desperately) wants to stating it's "not coming to Switch 2."

Why hasn't Bandai/CC2 yet redone .hack//i.m.o.q. ?

this does not look like Tales at all, I don't get why people think it does

@GoldenSunRM

I don't know, that feels like it'd be awfully fast turnaround for a trend chaser. At least, if it were chasing after FF16, as opposed to independently following the same inspiration.

@Anti-Matter Of course you do.

Someone obviously made a mistake: the teaser looks nothing like Scarlet Nexus 2.

Honestly I'm pretty hyped for what appears to be a fairly straightforward fantasy RPG experience. I think too many RPG's have tried too hard to reinvent the wheel in recent years, both mechanically and aesthetically. For all of E33's praises, I really hate the aesthetic of traveling around the overworld with what appears to be a large sack of a Nightmare Before Christmas reject. I just want that standard, pretty airship to fly around in, thank you very much.

The same way with combat systems. I don't need an overly complex QTE dodging system, or an overly unique party system. I just want a straightforward, simplistic combat system that feels really palpable and kinetic, and focus on a beautiful game world to explore, compelling character design and a fun story that doesn't try too hard with any particular plot point.

The arc of trendy game design has bent so far away from the norm that now I yearn once again for the norm itself.

Seen some people say it’s a new SAO game, which underwhelming enough for me to believe it

@BrewsterTea Methinks you'd enjoy the Dragon Quest series if you haven't already. You described it to a T

@BrewsterTea God forbid developers create something unique and interesting that reflects their creative vision.

@MonsterMike Well, like I said in my original comment, if everyone tries too hard to avoid the norm, then all that practiced uniqueness actually becomes quite mundane. Everything old becomes new again, as they say. It's just an observation on trends within an industry rather than some sort of restriction on creatives as you imply.

@Wakkawipeout I did actually just buy DQIIIHD2D! I'm loving the setting and aesthetics as you said I would, but the sluggish battle script is trying my patience. The battle script hesitates for so long for every little thing to be explained, so I had to switch the setting to fast forward. I guess that's where Pokemon got it! Scarlet/Violet had a terribly slow battle script as well, its most underrated performance shortcoming IMO. Such a relief returning to FRLG and remembering just how fast and snappy the battles are.

I hate it when I'm right