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Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 6:46 am
by cj iwakura
Figure you all would like knowing about this:
Victor Ireland's spearheading these releases himself, despite Working Designs' death.
He's awesome. Quote's from the NeoGAF thread.
Hard is the new black. Demon's Souls proved that.
Seems like a great time for Alundra to show this new generation what gaming means.
I still own Arc, but I'm definitely getting Alundra.
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 12:40 pm
by Sonix
Any chance of this releasing on European PSN?
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:36 am
by Solana
Wow, I haven't played Alundra in years. It might be fun to pick up and see how it compares to my memories. (Never knew it was a Working Designs game, though. You learn something new everyday.
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Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 11:53 pm
by Final Night
I'll probably end up getting Alundra. Once upon a time I owned it, but traded it in for something at some point. Back then I thought Action RPGs were just awful. I've come around to them more recently though.
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:17 am
by Imperial Knight
It would be fun to give Alundra a try. I bought a copy once, but it was a gift for a friend so I never got to experience it myself.
I personally found the Arc the Lad games somewhat underwhelming, so I'm less interested in those.
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:41 pm
by Monde Luna
Thanks for the info! I haven't played either so I might pick one of them up at some point. Thanks to the PSN I just finished playing Suikoden I for the first time.
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:43 am
by localflick
They're both in the US PSN store now. The Arc The Lad Collection let you use memory card data for bonus content in each sequel which was kind of a nice incentive to play the trilogy in order. If Arc II and III are released on PSN I'm not sure that continuation feature is possible without some kind of customization. Still 1 of the 4 games for $5.99 is incredible considering that the original set was around $80.
Arc I was awesome, but short. I really hope Arc II comes out on PSN too.
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 5:01 pm
by cj iwakura
Arc II is coming as well. ESRB rated.
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 5:04 pm
by localflick
cj iwakura wrote:Arc II is coming as well. ESRB rated.
Sweeet! I hope they do work in the continue from a previous save feature somehow. Arc II was really fun.
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 3:03 am
by Final Night
I ended up buying both of them. I want to encourage more things like this happening.
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:57 am
by Elie
I've always wanted to play Alundra, so this is certainly good news. Maybe even Arc the Lad III will come out if all goes well (that one's my personal favorite of the three).
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 4:26 am
by Silver Phoenix
For anyone interested, Arc the Lad 2 is "supposed to" arrive on PSN next week.
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 7:17 am
by Monde Luna
I still haven't made it through Arc the Lad. I think I need to level more but I don't enjoy leveling anymore. bah....
end rant... But overall I actually liked the part I played, it was alright.
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:40 am
by Silver Phoenix
I haven't played Arc the Lad games, but the second is said to be vastly superior to the first in every way.
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:16 pm
by localflick
I haven't played Arc the Lad games, but the second is said to be vastly superior to the first in every way.
The second one is really good, and one of the things I was really impressed with was they way they solved the game duration problem. The first one was great, but only about 6-10 hours until the end. Some players liked it short, but others wanted it to be longer. They solved it by adding the Hunter's Guild which is a location in each town where you can get side quests. They are usually pretty well written, and my friends and I had the same experience where we weren't going to go through all the side quests going into it, but after trying a few we went through the rest because they were so well put together. There are still fetch quests once in a while, but typically they come with twists and things that make them interesting.
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:46 pm
by maravida
wow, im pretty stoked you posted this!
lastnight, my roommate told me that Arc the Lad was on PSN but didnt mention Alundra. i rarely use the PS3 as its in the living room, so i dont browse PSN that much. i will deffinitly be grabbing Alundra. i picked up Alundra 2 when it came out (which was NOT a working designs release?) and then found out about Alundra (being from working designs, which i had fallen in love with fairly recently at the time) but never came across a copy!
Re: Working Designs lives on: Alundra & Arc The Lad for PSN
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:20 am
by localflick
Arc II just came out in the US PSN store, and as an added surprise so did Arc Arena. You can also purchase them both in a bundle for $8.99.
Arc Arena lets you fight the enemies you've captured/tamed against each other and is a pretty decent side game. Plus it only takes up 75MB which is nice.