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Drag-on Dragoon 3 (Drakengard 3) announced for PS3 [Details in OP]
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Somehow I doubt he had enough money to actually retire.
cj_iwakura
Member
Yeah, it's entirely possible they got the Nier team doing it, even if Cavia was dissolved.
Let's hope anyway. After the positive reception the game
received, hopefully they plan to capitalize on it.
Let's hope anyway. After the positive reception the game
's soundtrack
BrokenEchelon
Banned
Really?
MarvelousAQL ate Cavia, no? They're not against working for other companies.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Well this was unexpected and being for PS3 also .
Will see how things go .
Will see how things go .
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Perhaps.
I have a bad feeling this is going to be something like an iOS title.
That manga image does not exactly inspire confidence to be honest.
GhostOfLawlight
Banned
What does that mean? It seems to me that we now have the highest chance of it being localised.
Yeah, Marvelous AQL is basically a super group of Artoon, Feel Plus, and Cavia.
MvmntInGrn
Member
Second game has better gameplay though its not amazing or anything. Its been awhile but I recall only certain chapters in Drakengard 1 allowing you to play as other characters but each character in Drakengard 2 has a large array of weapons and you can switch between them actively. On the first playthrough you can only access who is available according to the story but on subsequent playthroughs you can access everyone whenever regardless of story. You have to play the whole game through 3 times, I think, to get the final ending. Last I checked I was 2/3 the way through my third playthrough I believe.
Story wise it doesn't get quite as weird as the first game but its still got some awesomely strange characters.
EDIT: I didn't really get into but this announcement makes me want to give it another chance. Lord knows game loves it enough.
I am expecting a game that actively trolls the player and is made by a crazy person.
I'm sure that I'm excited as FUCK.
Double the excitement if the Nier team (or at least parts of it) is on it.
They need to get whoever did Nier on the localization job. It's one of like 3 JRPG localizations I'd actually call good.
cj_iwakura
Member
The bad news is that this means no Nier 2
Never tried Drakengard games, but I know all the infamous stuff of the first part.
It doesn't mean that. It just means they wanted to continue Drakengard instead of Nier for some insane reason.
RPGCrazied
Member
No.
The bad news is that this means no Nier 2
Never tried Drakengard games, but I know all the infamous stuff of the first part.
Remember when Nier was announced, and everyone was like "shit this means no Drakengard 3
", well the cycle continues now!valentine71
Banned
Who named the game?
Whatever reason that is, I'm ok with it. Nier doesn't have enough dragon riding.
I think 8-4 did the localization for Nier, although I may be wrong.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Well, this was unexpected. Completely from left-field.
Wonder who's going to be on the dev team.
Wonder who's going to be on the dev team.
GrayFoxPL
Member
No it's about hack and slash + dragon shooter with fucked up story and characters.
Remember when Nier was announced, and everyone was like "shit this means no Drakengard 3
[Major Nier Spoilers]
But Nier is Drakengard 3!
No.
SS is saying that because there's no 360 SKU it may show a lack of interest in bringing this game to the west. A 360 SKU is pretty common for Japanese games that target western audiences. However, I doubt Drakengard 3 is being positioned for the west, and few PS3 RPGs stay Japan-only. Heck, Kingdom Hearts is a bigger series internationally than in Japan, yet 1.5 HD Remix is PS3-only, and getting localized.
AranhaHunter
Banned
Maybe SE is reviving their old franchises? I don't care about Drakengard much, but some Chrono or Mana would make me a happy panda.
PS3 isn't a dead platform like PSP; SE should have no issues bringing it over.
Yep. They did a seriously fantastic job.
A new Chrono game would probably not even be as good as CC, let alone CT.
cj_iwakura
Member
Viola of the Abyss
Member
Hmmm interesting... I might give it a try in the future then.
The bad news is that this means no Nier 2
You never know, if this game sells millions (yeah, right...) S-E might decide to give the series a second chance, it's still better than nothing.
We have to know who's working on this before anything else though.
Cool stuff you can do in Drakengard:
- Fly around big levels (Ps2 big) with a dragon.
- Exterminate hordes of enemies while riding said dragon.
- Slaughter hordes of enemies with huge swords.
- "Where are the children? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
- The story is quite the WTF for what I remember.
Again, nothing like Nier even in the trolling aspect, but still worth a try.
electroplankton
Banned
Remember when Nier was announced, and everyone was like "shit this means no Drakengard 3
Way better having Drakengard 3 than Nier 2
Thanks God!Yesss. They have to go full-bore back into the deluge of messed up shit in the original. Pedophilia, necrophilia, incest, cannibalism, and a good dose of pan-dimensional voracious demon babies. The works. Dragoon 2 may have been a slightly better game, but it had none of the glorious dementia of the original.
You're correct; I think John Riccardi even listed that as one of his examples of being a localization that they worked on where the developer gave them free reign on the script.
They just launched Circle of Mana!
Viola of the Abyss
Member
Do I remember correctly that Drakengard 1 was quite butchered in its western release back then?
No 360 SKU in Japan for any game at all basically means jack shit at this point. It's a non-platform in that region. It doesn't even mean the game isn't actually multiplatform.