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[Jeels]

Man, that button mashing away at that Dragon.

And then the hoards of enemies looked cool until it was just button mashing through them as well, with no end in sight.

 

[Ultratech]

Think Monster Hunter. You have a base/town you do your shopping/crafting/meeting at and you go out on missions with specific goals. The more missions you complete the more missions you unlock and better materials you get access to. And like Toukiden/MH there's going to be giant boss monsters, which is a first for Musou outside of the recent Zelda one.

The Dynasty Warriors: Gundam games had some of those in the form of Giant Mobile Armors.

I remember them from 2 where they were kinda annoying to fight.

 

[Dead Prince]

Think Monster Hunter. You have a base/town you do your shopping/crafting/meeting at and you go out on missions with specific goals. The more missions you complete the more missions you unlock and better materials you get access to. And like Toukiden/MH there's going to be giant boss monsters, which is a first for Musou outside of the recent Zelda one.

DQ Swords had a semi-similar setup actually, mission based but with a central town. Square Enix also classified that as an action RPG too.

Is that close to strike force?

 

[SolidSnakex]

Producer Ryota Aomi asked Niconico viewers which Dragon Quest V character they would like to be playable. A questionnaire appeared on screen and four options were given. When the results came in, almost 50 percent voted for Bianca. In response to this, Koei Tecmo’s Kenichi Ogasawara said they’ll have to “seriously consider” adding her to the game.

Moving on, the PlayStation 4 version of Dragon Quest: Heroes will “run smoothly at 60 frames per second,” and its graphics are “beautiful enough to see the monster’s fur.”

And the bit about 8 and 11

Finally, yesterday, Japanese blogs picked up on an interesting level difference in the two Dragon Quest: Heroes gameplay demos shown during Sony’s Tokyo Game Show stage events. In the first demo, the player was level eight. Dragon Quest VIII was the last game in the series on PlayStation. In yesterday’s surprise demo from series creator Yuji Horii, the player was level 11. Dragon Quest XI is currently in development for unannounced platform(s). Using this as evidence, blogs deduced that Dragon Quest XI, is in fact in development for PlayStation 4. Ogasawara apparently playfully added a reference to the “level 11″ stuff becoming such a hot topic to Square Enix’s booth signage.

http://gematsu.com/2014/09/dragon-quest-heroes-playable-characters-previous-games

 

[zeromcd73]

Watching 2ch freak out live when they mentioned the controversial level 11 was amazing.

 

[Dead Prince]

obviously the secret game after bloodborne stream tonight.

 

[Loudninja]

Watching 2ch freak out live when they mentioned the controversial level 11 was amazing.

Haha this is pretty awesome.

 

[sn00zer]

Just realized this s a perfect game to release before DQ11....simple cash grab with established gameplay, and you get to build assets that can be transferred to DQ11

 

[Dead Prince]

Just realized this s a perfect game to release before DQ11....simple cash grab with established gameplay, and you get to build assets that can be transferred to DQ11

and help them have something up and running on ps4 and not take a bajillion years to develop

 

[Aeana]

The level 11 thing reads like that crazy Half-Life 3 confirmed stuff that people come up with.

 

[plenilune]

No thanks.

 

[crinale]

The level 11 thing reads like that crazy Half-Life 3 confirmed stuff that people come up with.

At today's showing Ogasawasa referred clearly to it, but yeah it doesn't guarantee anything yet.

 

[Dead Prince]

The level 11 thing reads like that crazy Half-Life 3 confirmed stuff that people come up with.

so what youre saying is HL3 is coming.

 

[Ravage]

Just realized this s a perfect game to release before DQ11....simple cash grab with established gameplay, and you get to build assets that can be transferred to DQ11

I'm actually hoping this is the case. The gfx and art style looks pretty awesome and it would be lovely if DQ11 looks anything like this.

 

[Aeana]

I'm actually hoping this is the case.

It's unlikely that any assets would be shared, DQ11 would be developed by an entirely different developer than Omegaforce.

 

[sn00zer]

I'm actually hoping this is the case. The gfx and art style looks pretty awesome and it would be lovely if DQ11 looks anything like this.

I think DQ11 will actually have the DQ8 cel shaded look....DQH looks about as standard as you can get rendering -wise, but the models can still be ported.

 

[crinale]

Today's show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teDEpw7NLDE#t=1722

 

[Loudninja]

Better quality gameplay
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26e1ih_dq_videogames?start=37

 

[crinale]

Better quality gameplay
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26e1ih_dq_videogames?start=37

The last day video the developer explained many things

Spoiler

that strongly resembles Toukiden

For first demo mission the reason enemies aren't attacking is not only this is musou game but also it is the very beginning of the game.
At later demo, while fatal blow was from that giant, Hammerhood whacked the player so hard right before game ends.

 

[5amshift]

Better quality gameplay
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26e1ih_dq_videogames?start=37

My god! Absolutely need this, regardless if it comes to the West or not. The art and action definitely seems up my alley.

 

[DeaviL]

I'm going to be needing a puff puff attack here.

 

[Thorgal]

I'm going to be needing a puff puff attack here.

too op .

 

[Shouta]

How is it not a Musou , yet it looks like one? Still hope you can play with DQ VIII characters.

Musou likely conjures a specific image to the JP developers as opposed to the fanbase. I don't really consider a game just having tons of enemies for you to bash to be a Musou anymore. It has to be a certain kind of setup, specifically in the Dynasty, Samurai, Gundam Warriors vein. They've added things to the game to differentiate them over the years to make them wholly different. Strikeforce/Multi Raid, Toukiden, etc

If this has an adventuring aspect, then it's not really musou anymore, =P

 

[Loudninja]

Musou likely conjures a specific image to the JP developers as opposed to the fanbase. I don't really consider a game just having tons of enemies for you to bash to be a Musou anymore. It has to be a certain kind of setup, specifically in the Dynasty, Samurai, Gundam Warriors vein. They've added things to the game to differentiate them over the years to make them wholly different. Strikeforce/Multi Raid, Toukiden, etc

If this has an adventuring aspect, then it's not really musou anymore, =P

Agreed.

 

[Dead Prince]

Musou likely conjures a specific image to the JP developers as opposed to the fanbase. I don't really consider a game just having tons of enemies for you to bash to be a Musou anymore. It has to be a certain kind of setup, specifically in the Dynasty, Samurai, Gundam Warriors vein. They've added things to the game to differentiate them over the years to make them wholly different. Strikeforce/Multi Raid, Toukiden, etc

If this has an adventuring aspect, then it's not really musou anymore, =P

as long as the level design isn't One Piece bad. (i haven't played OP2 so i can't comment)

 

[Sword Familiar]

I'm interested in seeing how gimped the PS3 version of this will be. I'm not worried about it not being 60 fps, but I'm wondering how much they had to scale it down in terms of number of enemies on screen etc.

 

[Aeana]

Musou likely conjures a specific image to the JP developers as opposed to the fanbase. I don't really consider a game just having tons of enemies for you to bash to be a Musou anymore. It has to be a certain kind of setup, specifically in the Dynasty, Samurai, Gundam Warriors vein. They've added things to the game to differentiate them over the years to make them wholly different. Strikeforce/Multi Raid, Toukiden, etc

If this has an adventuring aspect, then it's not really musou anymore, =P

Well, it obviously comes down to whether you're a fan or not. However, I think if the thing you don't like about Musou games is the tons of enemies being cleaved by single blows part, then it doesn't matter whether a game is "technically" a Musou game or one of the variants. The thing you're not a fan of is common between all of them, and that's what a lot of people are saying when they say "this is clearly a Musou game."

 

[SolidSnakex]

Square and Koei are starting a new web show called Dragon Quest: Heroes TV to give updates on the game

Square Enix producer Ryota Aomi and Koei Tecmo producer Kenichi Ogasawara will be on hand with the latest version of the game to demonstrate. And voice actress Shoko Nakagawa and Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii will also be present.

The broadcast will air via Niconico on October 28 at 16:00 Japan time.

http://gematsu.com/2014/10/dragon-quest-heroes-update-coming-october-28