keiji Inafune's new game

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/10/05/marvelous-aql-already-made-a-subtitled-kaio-king-of-pirates-trailer/

Looks like a mix between one piece and Chinese anthros.

Three hundred characters.
Holy shi—

I AM ERROR

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300 Characters!? Is he joking? How many abilities!? O_O

Always looking for a good MMORPG with a great community...

Did even the Dragon Ball games ever reach that number?

I have a message from another time...

Oh, an animal pirate war story!

I wonder how the game will play, though.

I spread my wings, fly away. The wind sweeps me off my feet, blowing me away yeah. Trees whispering to me. I'm feeling free now.

Looks amazing I might get it if the Gameplay is decent.

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.

From what I've been hearing, it's Romance Of The Three Kingdoms (in Dynasty Warriors flavor, anyway) meets One Piece meets The Legend Of Zelda The Wind Waker WITH FUNNY ANIMALS! (I hope that last bit doesn't cause it to attract a huge fanbase for the wrong reasons...)

It would be better if we could see some gameplay footage (can't have a game without gameplay, after all), but that will come with due time. Not the first time I've seen a concept trailer have a reasonably successful game spawned out of it.

I thought it looked like Dynasty Warriors.
I also have to note that there's an 88.888888% chance I'll use dragon characters almost exclusively since there seem to be at least two or three.

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Looks cool, actually. I might get it if I have money for a 3DS.

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The worst thing that will cause is bad fan art.

Let's hope it wont get unnecesarry hate from using animal characters. That'd be worse for the game if it's actually good.

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"The worst thing that will cause is bad fan art.

Let's hope it wont get unnecesarry hate from using animal characters. That'd be worse for the game if it's actually good."

That's a better way of looking at it, though I get the feeling that the former tends to cause the latter sometimes. You know, hatedoms developing out of fan hatred and all that. I don't want this falling prey to the same issues that befall a certain couple of CyberConnect2 games...

It's not always easy after some of the crap I've seen on the Internet over the last few years, but I do yearn for the days when people didn't care what species the characters were and just enjoyed the game.

I'm with the "I wish I could see some actual gameplay" camp here. It looks rather impressive so far, but there's very little information about the actual game to go on.

Funny thing is, I actually just glossed over the "300 characters" part in the article and it didn't quite hit me until I saw the quoted post. Maybe Inazuma Eleven 3 and its 2000+ characters has desensitized me to 3-digit character counts. Or maybe 'cause I've never bothered to count up the total number of Touhou characters, although that number is probably much lower than 300.

edited 5th Oct '11 9:32:26 PM by PoochyEXE

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Yeah, trilaer looked cool, but as always, I'd rather see gameplay too.

Sonic hates SOPA

I guess it depends on how deeply Inafune wants to explore those 300 characters. The newer I11 games get their massive rosters from being parts of an extended franchise with tons of carry-overs, while this guy seems to be creating 300 characters at once from whole cloth.

I salute him if he's also intending on making each of them wholly unique as well as even Suikoden had trouble diversifying each game's 100+ (there are some carry-overs in each game, I believe) star roster thoroughly.

edited 6th Oct '11 6:45:09 AM by Recon5

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/11/02/keiji-inafune-talks-about-king-of-pirates-in-english-and-shows-off-his-new-office/

Hmm, well played, Inafune-san.

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So, 3DS only?

Sonic hates SOPA

Possibly, but I doubt it.
If its going to be as big as Inafune says its going to be, he's going to go for

saturation of as much of the masses as possible.

The reference is a stretch, but I thought it was funny.

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