Lunar 3?

[xS]

http://www.lunar-net.com/lunar3.shtml

This article is a bit old, but it's still a nice read for fans of the series.

[Dyne]

dont do this to me actually ive always wanted the 3rd game to be a prequel following the original heroes and fleshing out the once friendly bond between dyne and ghaleon.

[Andy]

[Yoshi]

Unfortunately, Final Fantasy procreates like the vermin it is, while greatness like Lunar is tougher to breed than a pair of homosexual orangutans.

[ferricide]

hahah.

lunar 3.

the reason we never saw lunar 3 was because WD controlled the contract. now that it's been liberated, we might see it. on the other hand, i don't see what motivation gamearts has to continue the series as it's not considered to be overly popular.

personally the length of time since lunar 2 and my distaste for lunar 2, has added up to my not giving a crap. then again, if they started releasing details/art/screens for lunar 3 and it looked really lunar-y, i might get interested.

i didn't bother reading that article, but just about every time vic thought GA was working on lunar 3 it was just another project they happened to be doing and he was projecting his hopes onto it.

he's been promising it for years when it's not his to promise. now, finally, it's not his concern. however, i wouldn't become excited all the same at the prospect of it materializing.

i think that GA on-again off-again thinks about making lunar 3 from what i've heard. and that there have been planning documents for years. but planning does not a game make.

in the good news column, if it ever does come out here square-enix would publish it, which means it'd probably get a very solid localization and good promotion. (enix took some sort of stake in gamearts after GX and i assume that transferred over after the merger)

[DarkCrow676]

I really hope the world of Lunar stays 2D. It just wouldn't feel the same if it was 3D.

[Werewolf]

Originally posted by Yoshi
Unfortunately, Final Fantasy procreates like the vermin it is

You know the same could be said about Star Wars games

To be honest it surprises me that Lunar 3 hasn't come out, if I remember the Lunar series was quite popular in Japan at it's time so it puzzles me that they only made two Lunar games (3 counting Lunar Magic School)... a new Lunar game is long overdue

[ferricide]

Originally posted by Werewolf
To be honest it surprises me that Lunar 3 hasn't come out, if I remember the Lunar series was quite popular in Japan at it's time so it puzzles me that they only made two Lunar games (3 counting Lunar Magic School)... a new Lunar game is long overdue

i already explained this -- after gamearts saw how well lunar SSSC did in the US they didn't want to make another lunar game while they were locked into a contract with WD. seriously.

japanese publishers hate dealing with WD. they're not going to get good games in the future. they're percieved as slow, too fanboyish. developers don't want to go with them because they're afraid their games will come out a generation behind the competition and then look old. i know of a specific game i won't name where WD bid significantly more money than the other company but the other company got the game for these reasons.

it hurts WD that they don't have japanese-speaking staff or a presence in japan. also they ask for so many changes in development. that can also effect who gets a game license. another game (not WD related) that i know about happened to go with one license over another because the one company wanted fewer changes made in the localization.

anyway, now that lunar is free of WD the series is kind of dead. in japan and in the US it's not percieved to be a sure thing. grandia is where they took their ideas and inspirations.

like i said, they have been perpetually kicking around ideas for a new lunar game but it seems like it's never going to go anywhere. i'd like to be proven wrong. i don't really like grandia that much.

[xS]

Ah well, I'd settle for a new Grandia. G2 is probably the 2nd best RPG in this generation.

[sggg]

I don't have much to add, except that I want a new Grandia (not Xtreme) and a new Lunar... those are two of my favourite series ever.