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Forums - Sony - What's up with The Last Guardian, Agent, FF Vs 13? And why the hype?

Jay520 on 25 February 2013
richardhutnik said:

Splinter Cell is a stealth game.  What you have with an spy game is not only stealth, but also RPG elements where you interact with characters and so on.  Splinter Cell doesn't do this.  It is just they really haven't done that, like they hadn't been able to do a superhero game for a long time.  A big issue is scope, and trying to narrow down to what works.  Alpha Protocol, for example, ran into problems here.  And others don't even try to do this.  Agency promised this, but possibly ran into problems.


RPG elements aren't a requirement for spy games. Not sure where you got that from. As long as you take control of a spy, it's a spy game.



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Kantor on 25 February 2013

I wasn't aware there was any hype for any of those games.

At this point, I am fairly convinced that FFVXIII and Agent are never going to be released, and The Last Guardian will probably be a PS4 title if they don't can that too.



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richardhutnik on 25 February 2013
Jay520 said:
richardhutnik said:

Splinter Cell is a stealth game.  What you have with an spy game is not only stealth, but also RPG elements where you interact with characters and so on.  Splinter Cell doesn't do this.  It is just they really haven't done that, like they hadn't been able to do a superhero game for a long time.  A big issue is scope, and trying to narrow down to what works.  Alpha Protocol, for example, ran into problems here.  And others don't even try to do this.  Agency promised this, but possibly ran into problems.


RPG elements aren't a requirement for spy games. Not sure where you got that from. As long as you take control of a spy, it's a spy game.

Idea is to have an experience you can customize to your play style and develop.  The norm with this is character development or an RPG-like experience.  XP is a way to have this done.  The issue run into is exactly how does one define what it means to be a spy,  Spy stuff has to be more than stealth, because it involves deception and so on, and picking the path to infiltrate.  One can get cute and speak of Team Fortress 2 as having the ability to be a spy, but the experience of being a spy is different.

There have been attempts at doing spy stuff, like Bond games, but nothing has broken out yet to be the prototypical spy experience.