Namco and Telenet create new company

[NeoZeedeater]

http://www.the-magicbox.com/gaming.htm

Namco and Telenet are establishing a new company called Namco Tales Studios.

I'm hoping this will somehow result in the resurrection of old Telenet franchises like Valis. It's a long shot though.

[Ex Ranza]

Valis was great, but I'm holding out for a Gaiares sequel. I can dream, I suppose.

At any rate, I had no idea Telenet was still around.

[Frogacuda]

Presumably this is because telenet owns Wolfteam, who have made every Tales game except for Narikiri Dungeons 2 (which was made by Alfa system, oddly enough). I really hope this is mostly going to be Wolfteam staff under new ownership.

[skelly]

Valis games suck.

I base that on having played 1-3 on a friend's Duo recently. Talk about not aging well... yuck.

[NeoZeedeater]

I don't see why it wouldn't be mostly Wolfteam staff. Telenet's other teams don't make too many games anymore except for Pachinko games.

BenT, Valis 1 and 2 do kind of suck but 3 and 4 were pretty good.

[Frogacuda]

Yeah, I expect it will mostly be a corporate reformation of Wolfteam, since Wolfteam hasn't made a non-Tales game in a very very long time. As long as that's the case, I have no real problem with this. I suppose it does show a continuing intrest in pumping out far too many of these games, but so far the quality hasn't been slipping so I can't complain (but my wallet can!).

[NeoZeedeater]

Maybe this is Namco's way of assuring they don't lose Wolfteam to another company. Between this new company and the formation of Monolith Soft., it seems as though they're trying to strengthen their RPG presence.

[gameoverDude]

Originally posted by Ex Ranza
Valis was great, but I'm holding out for a Gaiares sequel. I can dream, I suppose.

At any rate, I had no idea Telenet was still around.

I was thinking the same thing about Gaiares. I'll also take a Granada 2... with Namco being the developers of Assault, G2 could be the bomb.

[Frogacuda]

Originally posted by NeoZeedeater
Maybe this is Namco's way of assuring they don't lose Wolfteam to another company. Between this new company and the formation of Monolith Soft., it seems as though they're trying to strengthen their RPG presence.

If only they would bring them to the US. And preferably not butcher the hell out of them.

[Melf]

I'll take sequels to:

- Gaiares
- Arrow Flash
- Arcus Odyssey
- El Viento

...as well as a new Valis. A new Gain Ground would be cool too.