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April 8, 2008 - omgRPG Smattering: 6 things that matter, like GTAIV being delayed, and other stuff

Apr. 8 11:10 PM by Mark Burnham

1. First up, and perhaps the most grave news today, is that Grand Theft Auto IV might be delayed. Until Xmas, 2008. Seriously. If EA buys out Take2 successfully, then EA would find it more profitable to wait until the holiday season to release the game. Just wild. The game is still currently slated for its scheduled release date later this month, April 29. Pray.

2. Baroque, a rare RPG on the Wii (also the PS2, but still...), has been released today. And to somewhat sour reviews. Well really one review, Nintendo Power, who spats "All in all, Baroque has few redeeming qualities, and your money is better spent elsewhere." Ouch! I was sort of looking forward to the magical potential of that one. Despite the fact that it has perhaps the blandest, most indistinguishable title out of any game in years. Is the follow up sequel Classical next? Guess we should instead push forward to Chocobos beating things up in dungeons on the Wii.

3. Ikaruga is out on XBLA tomorrow at 9 A.M. You might be saying that Ikaruga is not an RPG. You'd be wrong though. It skillfully puts you in the role of the most tortured, defeated and yet somehow entertained gamer on the face of the planet. The plush and frantic top-down shooter was first in Japanese arcades in 2001, then the Dreamcast in 2002 and finally the GameCube in 2003. Ever since, it's been the obscure-awesome-title-scoured-for-on-eBay-and-used-stores, and now it arrives in its glory for 800 MS points. Get it.

4. City of Heroes Issue 12 has entered closed beta, titled "Midnight Hour." But it's extremely closed. Friends/family/pets, sort of thing. There are no patch notes, and the WarCry source even mentions that you can't view Epic Villain Archetypes yet either. A torturous bit of news, really.

5. According to a recent survey in the Korean Times, MapleStory has 63 million players worldwide. That's just a staggering number. Waaaay more that WoW, for instance, which clocks in at a dwarfed 10 million. Just thought that was pretty crazy.

6. CVG has some compelling quotes from Warhammer 40k Online MMO creative director Joe Madureira, who boasts that the characters will have "tons of cool stuff hanging off of them, weapons, scrolls... we are going to have the coolest looking characters of any MMO, ever. Once we begin releasing images, feel free to call me on that." Which is such a good idea we're shocked it's going to take two years to arrive.