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Microsoft Picks Up Skulls of the Shogun

The spiritual successor to Advance Wars is coming before the end of the year.

If you've been bummed out by Nintendo ignoring Advance Wars the last few years, a savior has appeared through Skulls of the Shogun, which Gamasutra reports has been picked up by Microsoft.

Horray!

I've seen Skulls of the Shogun, looking better each time. It strikes the same wonderful balance between complexity and depth Advance Wars did, making strategy games accessible to people (like me) who don't usually care for strategy games.

All we know about a release date is sometime before the end of the year. Can't come soon enough.

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I don't know if I'd call the Advance Wars games "accessable" after the first handful of missions. AW kind of kicks your ass around a bit.

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That Quick Look seems like it was years ago!

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Are they going to announce how they invested in this game like Sony did lol

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Hoping it will be released on Steam in the near future.

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Looks kinda cool, I liked Advance Wars so I'll keep an eye on this.

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The gameplay will suffer without having a grid.  An essential part of any turn-based strategy game is being able to quickly see how far you, and the enemy, can move.  Taking away that precision of unit placement and there is a real danger of it becoming a mess of fiddly blobs of units. 
 
I'll take a fresh look at it when it comes out, as I love TBS games, but so far this looks nothing special.  Certainly nothing to appeal to a huge Advance Wars fan like myself.  For one thing, the story and the characters will need to be better than generic skeleton dudes floating around.  Presentation will be everything.

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Definitely on my watch list. Always happy to see small developers games get publishers. Congrats.
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Are they going to announce their investment just like SONY does lol ...poor sony btw playing catch up oh well karma is a bitch arrogant bastards.
 
on topic i hear it has something to do with the advanced wars team?

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Wow I honestly forgot all about this game, hasnt it been almost like a year?

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fuck you microsoft I wanted this game

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Microsoft is also publishing Orcs Must Die. That will also come out for the PC. It seems Microsoft is happy publishing game  with 360/PC releases.

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Good for Haunted Temple.