Disgaea 2 announced

[Phades]

Gamespot (http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/09/28/news_6134627.html) has the story.

According to the latest issue of Dengeki PlayStation magazine, Nippon-ichi Software is developing a sequel to its hit Strategy RPG game, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. The sequel will be titled Makai Senki Disgaea 2 in Japan, and is slated for release in 2006.

The first Disgaea was an awesome game so this is great news. They may look a little dated, but Nippon Ichi makes some great strategy games.

[Tricky Thumb]

Oh sweet lord!

The return of the horse wiener!

Wooooooooo!

[FunkyPoopMonkey]

The day Nippon Ichi learns the word "balance", is the day I give a damn about their games.

[Abash Alarmist]

While your rant was brilliantly and eloquently stated, could you please, for the love of Jack Thompson, explain to us what the hell you mean by that?

[Kelegacy]

Fuck yeah! Go, Nippon Ichi, GO!

Love these fuckers.

[Deadend]

As long as the game has the same level of insane humor in the story, I am all over it.

[Kefkataran]

As long as the game has the same level of insane humor in the story, I am all over it.

The big rumor in Famitsu is that they're making this one into a soap-opera-esque drama, story-wise.

[frederec]

Game balance may be an issue, but that's only if you try to play these games just like you play other turn-based strategy games. I found these games are most fun if I get my enjoyment out of crushing everything in sight before it even moves. The fun is actually in building cool characters, not in the strategy of battle itself. It's a little strange that way, but it works.

I hope this and the Disgaea anime are both good and make it over here before too long. That is definitely something that hasn't been as present in the recent NIS games. The humor. Makai Kingdom got some of it, but it wasn't nearly as amusing as Disgaea.

[baz]

Game balance may be an issue, but that's only if you try to play these games just like you play other turn-based strategy games. I found these games are most fun if I get my enjoyment out of crushing everything in sight before it even moves. The fun is actually in building cool characters, not in the strategy of battle itself. It's a little strange that way, but it works.


Yep, I reckon you're spot on there. I'm still playing disagea a couple of hours a week, and probably will till 2 comes out. Its just fun making extroadinary badasses.

[ElectricMonk]

i've heard such good things about this they really need to do a re-print

you can't get it cheap anymore

[Cubfan]

I dunno I had Disgaea back in college, and couldn't shake it no matter how many different antibiotics I tried.

[bean19]

Loved Disgaea. . . thought I had won free from Nippon Ichi after their lastest game "Makai Kingdom". The story bits there were still good, but instead of having a good story bit after every fight like Disgaea, there are a lot of stages to complete. It was too long and wanted me to spend too much time leveling.

I much preferred Disgaea's way of letting you beat the "main" game fairly quickly but also putting in just as much content for insane people (or cheaters like my friend who showed me the stuff) to access by leveling up to obscene you-play-too-much levels.

Damn the man.

[normyk]

Awwww yeeeaaaaah.
I love me some Disgaea.
I hope this can live up to the high standard of the original.

I have to wonder if they are going to try to make the release co-incide with the release of the Disgaea anime and get the hype train rolling for both.

[Rirath]

Having invincible characters and all these "exploits" may be fun to some, but other people would actually like a game in there. Disgaea has a lot of presentation value, but very little follow through. Some call it purposely exploitable, but I say they just threw in every 'cool idea' without a care of balance.

Give me Final Fantasy Tactics (Advance) any day.

[Carnisaur]

Disgaea may be unbalanced, but there's always levels in the iem world that will be incredibly challenging/fun no matter how high your level.

[Mason]

Well to be fair Nippon Ichi doesn't really make tactics games, their main challenge is figuring out how to increase your characters' power the most possible in the least amount of time. Which isn't a trivial problem by any means, but on the other hand it does invalidate any concept of tactics that the game's actual battles might require.

Tactics Ogre and FFT are the places to go for real tactics games. Nippon Ichi games are sort of in their own genre. Still, they're quite fun, although Disgaea is sort of the dark horse when it comes to having a funny and interesting plot.

However, it's worth pointing out that Orlandu + Excalibur doesn't equal balanced. The entire Holy/Dark/etc Sword line of attacks was sadly unbalanced, because they pass right through virtually all defenses. Calculators are also a problem. It isn't the same sort of "unbalanced" as Disgaea, but if one chooses to pay FFT a certain way they can easily invalidate most of its challenge. But one could easily make the point that these unbalanced aspects of FFT are incidental (and a proper sequel could easily fix them), while Nippon Ichi games incorporate invalidating-challenge-by-outleveling-it as a core game mechanic.

And FFTA never had any challenge to begin with.

[Major Scud]

darn double posting

[Major Scud]

Any word on which system its being released for? If this is ps3 exclusive then damnit, I was gonna wait a while to pick one of those up....well its back to selling organs for me. :)