Disgaea 4

[Jason]

(Disgaea 4)

So the game was announced today at the Tokyo Game Show (TGS), and they've said there's going to be a lot of improvements over the other games in the series, the main two that we know of so far is that the graphics have been majorly improved, and it now has an online mode in the same sense that Demon's Souls worked, you can invade other peoples worlds.

Spoiler: Two images showing the new look/sprites of the game, they're pretty big

Spoiler: Youtube video of the promotional video that was shown at their conference, it's in Japanese ofcourse and has a terrible song playing in the background, but looks to be another solid game, with improvements in just about every area

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L3zdx7I8oI

Spoiler: Youtube video of another promotional video, it's a long trailer showing off a ton of new skills and features, it's looking so good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPgxx1KSk5A

"Nippon Ichi Software introduced a project that "holds the fate of our company" -- Disgaea 4. The president of Nippon Ichi took the stage of a TGS press conference to announce the game wearing a Prinny suit to show "how serious we are."

Like previous entries in the series, Disgaea 4 is a hardcore SRPG with a comedic twist. NIS is promising "stupidity to the MAX" in this upcoming endeavor. Taking place in hell, the story will have a political theme, with players building their own political cabinets. "I'd love to have questionable politicians play this game," he joked.

New features for Disgaea 4 are the addition of network features which will allow you to invade other player's worlds, and vice versa. However, the primary new feature is the revamped focused on graphics. While the game will still retain its trademark 2D look, the resolution of the sprite art has been bumped significantly, and will look more like illustrator Takehito Harada's original drawings. "Wow, that must have cost a lot," the NIS host joked during the presentation.

Disgaea 4 will be releasing exclusively on PS3 on February 24, 2011 in Japan. A US release should follow afterwards."

Spoiler: If you'd like to see the Prinny suit, look no further!

Update: New video has been added, it's a 6 minute trailer showing off some pretty cool stuff, lots of skills are shown, as well as other features, I'll let you watch it yourself (It's with the other videos titled "Long Trailer" or something.

 

[Jason]

... By the way for those of you who are retarded and don't know what it is... it's Disgaea 4.

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

Disgaea 4, already!!??

I haven't played the third one.

It's on my to get list, though. ^.^

I loved the first two, so it's only natural I get the 3rd one. :3

 

[mawk]

scale those things down or put them in a spoiler, bro.

I'm really, really terrible at strategy games, but the one or two times I picked up Disgaea 2 I really liked it. the writing for basically any NIS property really bugs me since it's always full of dated references, lame jokes, and HEHEHEHEH BOOBIES ^_^;;, but the gameplay is fucking solid (even if I could never stand the randomly-generated battlefields.)

so yeah, I'll probably look it up when I have the time and money. I really like the Paper Mario paradigm they're using for the graphics. very simple, very clean.

any relevant information regarding game mechanics, characters, or story to add to the OP? can't say the OH SHIT YOU GOTTA SEE THIS MY BROMIDE thing is that informative.

 

[moog]

disgaea 1 was great

disgaea 2 was trash

havent tried 3

imo theyre all a bit more of the same, but i think thats a good thing in this case. awesome stuff though, ill prolly look into it when it gets closer to a us launch time.

whats with those ps1 gfx though? come on NIS its 2010 jesus

 

[mawk]

yeah come to think of it I'm sure they have enough vectors kicking around that black monolith to at least clean up the edges a little

 

[moog]

well the water coming out of the fountain and those prinny chairs look horrendously atrocious

 

[Venetia]

wow looks like a 1st-year art school student's attempt at taking a whack at 3d
paired with an accomplished cartoonist's foray into sprite-making
weird

anyway i can't stand sRPGs personally (so slow D but i know a number of people who love the disgaea series and'll look forward to this.

and yea jb like mawk said, if you're gonna make an 'OMG HOORAY GAMMZ" thread please put more info. even if everyone and their bro knows about what disgaea is, it'd be helpful to list some things the developer's changing about the gameplay etc.

 

[Jason]

Lol okay guys I'll make this into a proper thread, it's just that I woke up, checked the net and was like... well, yeah.

Edit ---

There we go, made it look like a proper thread now, you can get rid of all these comments if you'd like to clean it up, but if not it's cool.

 

[moog]

the good thing about disgaea is that while graphically its pretty much balls they spend A FUCK TON of time on the gameplay, which in this case is amazing.

 

[Venetia]

yea in the end gfx don't make a game anyway, gameplay does.

gfx are mostly just gravy

but the characters themselves in those screens look nice anyway; the art team should have just decided on sticking with either 2d or 3d.

there was another game a long time ago that tried the 2d+3d ... oh yeah xenogears

 

[mawk]

well the camera is fairly static and you'll be viewing most of the game from a bit of a distance, so it's not too bad. 'sides, they'd lose a sizable amount of support if they made the franchise less anime.

 

[Jason]

I've always liked the look of the Disgaea games, I love sprites and to be honest, I think Disgaea is one of the only franchises/games that can pull off sprites set in a 3D environment, although their 3D modelling isn't exactly the best, but meh, I don't care about it since they put so much effort into the gameplay and content it's completely forgivable.

 

[moog]

yeah i love sprites too. i thought the first disgaea had pretty good graphics for a 2D game, but then the other two came out looking exactly the same

but yeah like you said, the lore is so deep that its forgiveable.

 

[action]

I avoided the series because I hated he main character art and I bought it was a horrible character design
But seeing this I really want to play the games now

 

[Jason]

Bumping this thread, added a new video to the original post, check it out, pretty crazy stuff!

Oh also, as a note, if you guys find any info not in this thread (More than likely) and would like to contribute, just post it here for all to see.

 

[action]

I cry myself to sleep knowing this will never come to xbox

 

[moog]

I can cry myself to sleep knowing that it will always look like a super nintendo game

 

[mawk]

could be worse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV2CAcgvLY0

could be this

(I seriously don't mind the graphical style but I'll never not be weirded out by NIS's incredibly anime approach to writing)