News - Landstalker developer plans new action RPG
Posted by
Josh Freund
at 04:26:16 PM EST on 8.11.2005.
According to GameFront,
Climax, known for past action RPGs such as
Landstalker (Genesis) and
Dark Savior (Saturn), is working on a new action RPG. Climax plans to reveal the project at this year's Tokyo Game Show in mid-September.
Sure, that's not much to go on, but it's a good bit of news for those who enjoyed Climax's previous efforts.
Source:
GameFront
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generic badass 8.13.2005 at 08:38:44 PM
Drakken, I'm talking about the developer info for Climax you have listed in the article. That is Climax Studios (located in the UK), while the one that made Land Stalkers and Dark Savior is Climax Entertainment (located in Japan).
The one making this new game: http://www.climax.co.jp/
The one that made Sudeki: http://www.climax.co.uk/
And yeah, I do frequent GFF. Why?
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beavis christ 8.13.2005 at 08:22:02 PM
There are two Climaxes, one from Japan and one from Europe. I think one is Climax Entertainment and the other is Climax Inc or some other second word.
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drakken 8.13.2005 at 01:20:04 AM
generic badass, what are you talking about?
Btw, do you post at GFF?
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jj984jj 8.12.2005 at 08:31:45 AM
It's Monolith all over again. :\
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generic badass 8.12.2005 at 06:33:20 AM
Hey, I go so far as to post a list of developed games by THIS Climax (courtesy of IGN):
Dreamcast
Climax Landers (aka Time Stalkers)
Super Runabout
Super Runabout: San Francisco Edition
Time Stalkers
Genesis
Landstalker
Shining Force
Shining in the Darkness
PlayStation
Felony 11-79
Runabout 2
Runabout Climax
PlayStation 2
Runabout 3: Neo Age
PlayStation Portable
Tenchi no Mon
Saturn
Dark Savior
Super NES
Lady Stalker
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generic badass 8.12.2005 at 06:31:14 AM
Actually, now that I look...
Wrong Climax, GamesAreFun.
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generic badass 8.12.2005 at 06:29:33 AM
Wrong Climax, jj.
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jj984jj 8.12.2005 at 04:15:58 AM
Sudeki wasn't THAT long ago onizuka.
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dmgice 8.12.2005 at 02:39:43 AM
For what system?
*crosses his fingers for GBA or DS*
Hmm.. now that I think about it..
There are a ton Genesis games out there that need to just be repackaged and shipped out in GBA cartridges, I mean.. seriously. They could still make money off of that. If Sega sold just a straight port of Sonic 1 on the GBA.. I would pay full price for it.
That said.. Landstalker is awesome and I still play it on my Genesis 3.
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onizuka sensei 8.12.2005 at 02:31:40 AM
Well I'm glad to see Climax putting on their rpg boots for another adventure after so long.
Sure it's been a while but lets hope it gets onto a system that deserves it games. We need a long overdue champion to Landstalker.
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scoville 8.12.2005 at 01:53:55 AM
They didn't make Alundra. Alundra was done by a company called Matrix, not Climax. The confusion comes from Working Designs' marketing. Back when they released Alundra 1 they kept saying it was "from the creators of Land Stalker". I guess a couple people from the Alundra team were former Climax coders, but I really don't know.
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abercrombie 8.12.2005 at 12:20:08 AM
"I didnt even know they made Alundra, I never even played it."
Crap, I wrote that? Sorry, I wasn't thinking, I have both Alundra's. lol, my bad my head was definitely somewhere else when trying to write a comment.
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kokichi 8.11.2005 at 09:38:43 PM
Omg, I freaking LOVED
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aztec triogal 8.11.2005 at 08:20:16 PM
Well, a sequel can be bad regardless of whether or not the original was good or bad. Given that, he wouldn't have to know how the first one played. Still though, I know what you mean. It's just that he's not comparing it to the first and saying it was worse, he's just saying it was bad in general.
Although I'm speaking for this person without actually knowing, I just assume I'm correct.
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daislite 8.11.2005 at 08:17:59 PM
How do you know it was a horrible sequel if you never played the first.....?
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abercrombie 8.11.2005 at 08:16:23 PM
Landstalker was an awesome game, I enjoyed every minute of it although I wasnt able to finish the game. I didnt even know they made Alundra, I never even played it.
Hopefully it'll be good, Alundra 2 was a horrible sequel.
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bluelander 8.11.2005 at 06:10:24 PM
I never got too far into Landstalker, but I love Alundra. That was one of my first PS1 games. Hopefully this will be a 2-D game.
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beavis christ 8.11.2005 at 06:00:30 PM
Climax hasn't made a good game since the early 90's. They did help with Shining Force and Shining in the Darkness, though, so I can never dislike them. Wait, they did Alundra so scratch the first sentence entirely. They also took the programming they did from the first SF and turned it into FEDA, which I bought assuming Japanese couldn't be THAT hard to just pick up after a few sittings.
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sugoi 8.11.2005 at 05:27:06 PM
Darnit, Daislite. You mentioned Ladystalker and I didn't even notice. Grumble.
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sugoi 8.11.2005 at 05:25:22 PM
Drakken, my desire to hit you over the head with a plushie has never been so strong. =P
Seriously, Landstalker is one of my all-time favorites. The high difficulty, combined with the intelligence of the puzzles makes it a real classic.
Dark Savior was a real disappointment though; the difficulty was so much lower that while it was a great technical achievement for the Saturn (it was programmed entirely in assembly), fans who were hoping for a game that took Landstalker's gameplay to the next level found themselves pretty sad.
Also, it is worth mentioning that there was another game in the series between Landstalker and Dark Savior - Lady Stalker (SFC). Although I must admit that I only played the import for about 5 hours, it seemed like a fairly solid game.
Needless to say, I am incredibly excited by this news!
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lmekko 8.11.2005 at 05:19:05 PM
WOO! I agree on Time Stalkers 2! I loved that game ^_^ Then again, I love it when random dungeons are done correctly :P
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generic badass 8.11.2005 at 05:03:32 PM
I want Time Stalkers II. :(
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daislite 8.11.2005 at 05:03:24 PM
hasn't Climax been on a bit of an unfortunate downward slope, though?
after Landstalker and Ladystalker, Climax Landers/Time Stalker was kind of a letdown. Okay, it was a huge letdown (although quite a decent game in it's own right).
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lilhawke 8.11.2005 at 04:28:28 PM
Landstalker is an old Gem =D
can't wait to see what they have in store...
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drakken 8.11.2005 at 04:26:39 PM
I've only played part of Landstalker, but it seemed pretty solid, if a bit boring.
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