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duckroll · Feb 16, 2015

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201502/16071622.html

This week's Famitsu will have a preview on the story of the game, introducing the world and setting, the characters, the base of operations for the Awakened player characters, and so on. There will also be an interview with Nojima and the producer.

Edit: I guess not everyone knows writers by name so I'll add some background info. Nojima worked on the scenario for FF7-8 and 10, and KH1-2. He also worked on the scenario for Versus XIII (which has turned into XV). He has previously worked with Capcom before on the Imaegepoch developed RPG The Last Ranker, which was also produced by the DDO producer.

Dragon's Dogma's scenario was led by Makoto Ikehara, who was previously the series director for Breath of Fire. I guess this means he probably isn't involved in the story this time.

aravuus · Feb 16, 2015

Googled his name and turns out he's been the scenario writer for a bunch of Final Fantasies and KH games? Everything about DD's story and scenario was so bad it's good but damn, I guess DDO's could actually be good

Golnei · Feb 16, 2015

It could be a lot worse. At least people's expectations for DDO's story shouldn't be too high considering its predecessor.

ZiZ · Feb 16, 2015

well, it looks like I'm not going to play the game for it's story.

Earthpainting · Feb 16, 2015

Muntu said:
Googled his name and turns out he's been the scenario writer for a bunch of Final Fantasies and KH games? Everything about DD's story and scenario was so bad it's good but damn, I guess DDO's could actually be good

Eh. People often blame Tetsuya Nomura for changing the tone and feel of Square's output, but convolution-era Square seems to line up perfectly with the prevalence of both Nojima and Toriyama. The latter gets his fair share of flack, but Kazushige "kicking exploding blitzballs" Nojima has slipped under a lot of radars. I don't even know why, because there is so much overlap between their projects that it's hard to judge where one's meandering rambles end and the other's begin.

I also still remember when this guy was asked to pitch a story for Smash Bros Brawl's single player mode, and his grand idea was "all the characters met up one day because they took the same bus." At least, like you said, Dragon's Dogma never put the bar too high to begin with.

I do wonder what the guy's workload is like right now though. I'm not sure how far in advance a game's script needs to be ready, and how late into the development it can still be subjected to changes. FFXV is quite a big endeavour that's still a long way off.

Riposte · Feb 16, 2015

Dragon's Dogma actually had a very interesting narrative, but it's pretty much completely back-loaded. In one sense this works if

you consider the game based on videogame words, which becomes mostly interesting once you "break" out of it.

TheBryanJZX90 · Feb 16, 2015

Looks like all those characters have German names, guess the setting won't be whatever country Mercedes and Julien were from

ODDI · Feb 16, 2015

:/ I'm okay with this...I guess, it's not like the original DD strong point was it's story.

Dark_castle · Feb 16, 2015

I play Dragon's Dogma for its plot and characters. - said nobody ever

Augemitbutter · Feb 16, 2015

just keep the original story tone and i'm good. hiring a bigger name VG writer for a f2p game is a bit strange.

Mejilan · Feb 16, 2015

Yikes, this actually stands a good chance of being even worse than the first game, story-wise.

jiggle · Feb 16, 2015

Nice
Just st keeps getting better

I hope they keep the hilarious romance part of DD

darkside31337 · Feb 16, 2015

I really enjoyed DD's story. There was a lot of interesting stuff there. Bummer.

silvermember · Feb 16, 2015

I guess this might force people to realize how much of a hack he is.

Dark_castle said:
I play Dragon's Dogma for its plot and characters. - said nobody ever

Well you are wrong, stranger. That is what I did.

It is not a good idea to make sweeping declaration for a wide and diverse population.

Hades Hotgun · Feb 16, 2015

DDO plot summary...

They were all in an orphanage together, but they also had amnesia, and didn't realize they were already dead, as a result of the darkness in their hearts even though they were heartless themselves, but they came back to sing j-pop like angeals quoting poetry from the book of Genesis. Starring Gackt.

Clear · Feb 16, 2015

silvermember said:
I guess this might force people to realize how much of a hack he is.

Pfftt. FF7, 8 and 10 are pretty highly regarded by a lot of people. And let's face it they are all far better written than the shambling mess that is FF9.

Augemitbutter · Feb 16, 2015

Hades Hotgun said:
DDO plot summary...

They were all in an orphanage together, but they also had amnesia, and didn't realize they were already dead, as a result of the darkness in their hearts even though they were heartless themselves, but they came back to sing j-pop like angeals quoting poetry from the book of Genesis. Starring Gackt.

hmm. now i want to see that. i mean relive that.

Chaos2Frozen · Feb 17, 2015

Wow I can't believe i missed this.

I'm not familiar with the old FF games but judging from the responses, this won't be that big of a change in quality from the original game?

The Silver · Feb 17, 2015

whatever, they just need to get whoever did Grigori's voice to come back and talk constantly, so smooth.

Eusis · Feb 17, 2015

I have to admit Dragon's Dogma has an interesting bigger picture setup that gives the endgame a novel vibe, but most of the actual story was crap.

Well, as stated the bar wasn't high to begin with.

DiipuSurotu · Feb 17, 2015

I still remember when people were excited about FFXV's plot due to Nojima's involvement.

And then FFX-2.5 happened.

xtradi · Feb 17, 2015

duckroll said:
This week's Famitsu will have a preview on the story of the game, introducing the world and setting, the characters, the base of operations for the Awakened player characters, and so on. There will also be an interview with Nojima and the producer.

Is the awakened different from the Arisen? In The original dragon dogma, all NPC call the player the Arisen.

Still i like more being called Lethallin or Inquisitor hehehe

Pooya · Feb 17, 2015

this project is turning out quite good, who would have thought? there must be a catch somewhere...

Nojima's stories are many things but they are rarely ever boring, DD story was already madness, this is gonna be good

Rojo · Feb 17, 2015

miladesn said:
this project is turning out quite good, who would have thought? there must be a catch somewhere...

Nojima's stories are many things but they are rarely ever boring, DD story was already madness, this is gonna be good

yup shit is gonna be crazy like the epilogue.

prudislav · Feb 17, 2015

i still cant get over the fact its gonna be online game :-(

duckroll · Feb 17, 2015

xtradi said:
Is the awakened different from the Arisen? In The original dragon dogma, all NPC call the player the Arisen.

Still i like more being called Lethallin or Inquisitor hehehe

No, it's the same term. Sorry, for some reason I thought it was Awakened. Lol.

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