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So... this is the sort of big budget, graphical powerhouse we'd be getting more of if the Wii had never been created, right?

All that aside, I'm sure it will be a fun game.

I purchased Disgaea 2 on account of another thread where I was raving about Fire Emblem for GC which spurred Schild et al. to begin raving about Disgaea.  I couldn't get into it. 

You might like Soul Nomad more then.

I remember you liking Kefka.

You'll DEFINATELY like Gig (the main evil mind in Soul Nomad).

but for the writing, and , well, just really juvenile plot and..."acting"?

What? Joke post?

Not to mention the names of items, and the descriptions...good god.

:headscratch:


You're no fun. At all.

:headscratch:


You're no fun. At all.

I think it was just the whole presentation, i felt like i was watching some pre-teen show about..high school, were the drama is non stop... or something... It just felt very juvenile, and not in a fun way, in a really scary way, and annoying.

I'm pretty sure it was a parody of that style of overly-dramatic-take-myself-way-too-seriously thing.  Which in other words means that you take yourself way to seriously.

Killer penguins and characters that hit every single point of the stereotype that they are based on in exaggerated detail would be a clear give away to most people.

Not liking awesome games and favoring crappy robot/military anime just isn't my style.

I don't understand why they HAVE to go to the DS over the PS3 or 360. Is it because the PS3 doesn't have the market penetration, while the 360 probably doesn't have the right demographic makeup?

The thing I don't like about that is I don't normally play portables. I play at home, and I don't feel like craning my neck to look down at my PSP.

Oh well.

Sitting in the floor using a PSP as a wired controller for a game with terrible visuals isn't nearly as cool as it might seem.

Why are they stack-attacking in reverse? Could this be a useful tactic? Stack at start....pummel everything within a 20 step radius lol.

One of the combat mechanics that has given the series a unique feel among strategy RPGs is the ability to stack characters on top of each other and toss them around the battlefield. You'll still be able to do this in Disgaea 3, but now, you've got a few more uses for your human totem pole. You'll be able to use what are called tower attacks to go after enemies in a variety of ways. We were shown a clip of a tower acting as a 10-person cartwheel to roll over and do damage to those caught in its path. There was also a moment with one person grabbing the entire tower and swinging it around, as well as several bizarre chain reactions where characters are shot from the tower like bullets from a loaded magazine.

Another new feature is the skill merge, which takes skills you've acquired throughout your various battles and fuses them together to achieve hybrid results. You can also use an ability called magichange to transform your character midbattle. A few other enhancements include the ability to deal damage up to a million points at a time and a class world that gives you access to 40 randomly generated battle stages per character. With 270 characters in the game, that should add up to quite a bit of space.

Beyond these, one of the bigger features added to the battle system is the idea of geo blocks. These introduce a puzzle element to the fights. They're multicolored blocks that can be stacked and arranged on the battlefield, which can then be taken out in chain attacks to achieve all manner of strange results. We're not yet sure about the specifics of the geo block placement (how much of it is done by the player and so on), but suffice it to say, they should take an already deep battle system and make it even more extravagant.

And PSP development is all but dead.

I bet your little boy thinks you're the coolest person ever when you do, though.  Well, it's mostly the sitting on the floor being short like him, probably, but still!