AAA RPG cunfermd anyone?

apparently the pre-launch even was brilliant.....saw some pics of it on Famitsu with some loose translation from neo-gaf.

anyways....good night all now

LOL MYSPACE ON PS3! WTF? (Guess it stops people trading in if it catches on)

CONSUMER IMPRESSIONS:

"The show started with a Speech from President Hino, he talked about Dragon Quest then moved on to how they finished White Knight tory earlier than expected. He went on to talk about Dogma Senki, a webcomic prequel to White Knight Chronicles that started today with episode 0, it can be viewd on the official site. It's another story about the White Knight and adds more depth to the world. He finished by talking aboput how WKS will be continued for a long time through Downloadable Content such as new quests.

The next part of the show was a live demonstration, two members of SCE played alongside Aki Higashihara & Kazushi Sakuraba.It was an escort mission where they had to defend the convoy and defeat the boss, pretty simple.

After that we were shown to an area where there were many demo kiosks set up, finally we get to play it!

I started by making a custom character, people will probably spend hours doing this but I just made one quickly to get into the game. Starting the game, my custom character can be seen in the beautiful opening cinematics. There were many options available, save game, item transfer and network, but since this was an offline play stall they couldnt be accessed.

Into battle! Monsters can be seen and encountered on the field and the combat takes place right there and then. your party members are always on the field too. You can tell if there's a giant monster around because the screen starts to shake. Depending on the creature the screen will pan out to show them in their entirity so you can see just how much bigger than you they are.

The game has many features you can take ingame screenshots there was a list of trophies but they all said ??? You collect many items like monster parts, I assume for synthesis but I didnt get to try it out.

In conclusion White Knight Chronicles ~Ancient Pulse~ is a great game for all PS3 owners and especially JRPG fans."
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source -- NEO-GAF

Very good job SCE and Level-5, this game keeps getting better and better...

Online mode:
Geonet Social Network System
Screenshot function called Crystal Shot
There appears to be an ignore list function
The Knight Robert escort quest is a lvl 41 quest (characters were level 50) but is rather challenging.
The draw distance in online mode is noticeably lower than in offline mode, but not bothersome
Online quests appear to have quite a bitof volume. Robert escort quest is estimated at 45min. Final boss is Gigas + trash mobs
Load time is pretty fast, or atleast, the poster thinks it's pretty fast
1 avatar per data (details very vague)
No voice chat. Dev staff wants to be able to incorporate it in the future but no specific plans
Skills are distributed to weapons and magic. Depending on skill distribution, combo (hitcount?) increases, status increases and what not can be observed.
Equipment has durability...need to repair occaisionally
Even warriors learn some level of healing so not necessary to force one person to a healer role
No transformation in online mode
Quests can be done w/o 4 people. Leader accepts quest, others see that and participate
Quest rewards are distributed similarly to monster hunter

Other comments:
No lag/slowdown even with a large number of enemies
As in the '06 PV, select area -> start quest
Even trash mobs can transform. Depending on enemy, some may transform rather frequently
White knight can equip a sword and shield. There were spaces for 2 other types of unknown equipment.
Shield block can be done at lvl1. Can only block when the option is available? Block time is long.
Equipment changes in movies as well
Additional quests will be distributed via PSN

Like I've been saying. SOUNDS EPIC!

@CGI-quality

where is the Famitsu review!