3D Dot Game Heroes is one of the games I am most looking forward to next year. Already out in Japan, the game is heavily laden with Zelda references and has a fantastic art style that really makes it stand out. If I love it as much as I hope I will, then it will not leave my wallet alone, because it will support plenty of DLC.
A free update is hitting the Japanese version this Holiday season a loading screen, an optional hard drive installation, and the aforementioned DLC support. Don't worry though -- the DLC is looking to be incredibly reasonably priced.
The first DLC pack is scheduled to arrive Christmas Day, and will include ten stages for the game's Block Defense mode, as well as ten custom character models for players to edit. It will cost 250 Yen ($2.75). On January 8, ten more custom characters will be released for 100 Yen ($1.10). Not too bad, although the custom characters would have to be pretty amazing to be worth any cash.
Atlus has revealed no DLC plans for the game's North American release, but you can be sure that some are in place. In any case, I'm mega hyped for this one, so stay tuned for more news on 3D Dot Game Heroes over the coming months, including one or two surprises.
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1:20 PM on 12.07.2009
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The game looks charming and brilliantly clever, I just hope it lives up to the expectations.
Don't you mean it's a Zelda clone?
/troll
Try "homage". Besides, you play video games. There are only about 5 formulas that all games use. At least this game has a sense of humor about it and an awesome art style. Also going to be released at a lower price point. I see nothing bad there at all.
No. This game and doom clones aren't even on the same page, unless you're retarded or something. This game is extremely tongue and cheek and has a lot of Zelda references, using the formula in a new way with a new presentation, while "paying respect to the work in which it is indebted". That is a homage.
Dante's Inferno is a game designed to play exactly the same as God of War in order to imitate it's success. That is a clone. That's not my opinion, that's actually English. If you don't believe me, feel free to look in a dictionary.
Then I suppose you don't know what the word homage means. Or perhaps you've never played a video game. They boil down to only a handful of formulas. Almost all FPS games play, more or less, like a finely tuned Doom. And all RPGs are basically Wizardry, Megaten or Final Fantasy. This game will play like Zelda, but pays homa- wait, that word is too hard for you... Respect to it's forefathers while expanding on the formula with a unique art style, presentation, and unique elements like customizable characters and an customizable sword that can be increased to almost fill the screen.
The reason people care is that is not that it really changes the quality of the game, but it does change the reason of why it is good ( is it a clone or homage). It's kind of like calling a brown box red; the argument won't change the box but it looks brown dammit.
Wrong, but good attempt at reading comprehension. A Homage is "something done or given in acknowledgment or consideration of the worth of another". It's dialog makes references to Zelda and pokes fun at itself and other games like it, while greatly paying respect to Zelda and other 8-bit games. The game even references that in the old days it was a 2d world that became a 3d block world over time. That's something different then a clone, which is also different then a parody or a pastiche.
These 4 words have different meanings, although I can understand that from your lack of knowledge on the game and your desire to jump to conclusions that you could make that mistake and believe it is a clone, because from a completely ignorant standpoint in which ignores it's gamer and metagame references, it does look suprisingly like a clone. I don't think anyone argues that Lego Batman is a clone of Arkham Asylum just because they contain action based game play, Batman, and similar scenes (wow! /both/ contain the Bane breaking Batman scene, what a rip-off!).
That's true. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. Some people are too stupid to understand the complexities of the English language, or even the meaning of some complex words, and I'm fine with that. If you want to continue being wrong, that's fine with me.
Wow, you sure are good at saying people don't know what homage means! My point is that if the gameplay is copying the mechanics from Zelda, then it is a clone. You are probably confused by thinking that I actually acknowledge this as a homage, and from what I've heard of it, I don't
No, I knew you decided from your very limited knowledge of the game that it was a clone. I was attempting to inform you otherwise. After all, Ignorance is the default state. Unfortunately, I clearly fail, as pointed out man who attempts to insult me after informing me that insults get me nowhere. Brilliant.
But, if it makes you happy, you can continue to believe that this is a clone, or that fish live in space or whatever other nonsense you want.
In the mean time, I'll play this fun and entertaining game that you're too close minded to consider.
PS: Bravo Bigmoose85, by using an image of George Carlin informing me that I fail /clearly/ you succeed.
I really can't refute that. I do see that I came off as an elitist asshole. And for that, I'm sorry. I would like to point out that you sling insults just as readily as I, so I wouldn't say I'm all alone here.
I'd love to see a collector's edition, but I doubt it will happen. The game is already being released at bargain price right out of the gate. I hope I'm wrong though!
I don't see anywhere here where you actually talked about the gameplay, all you said is that it references Zelda. Also, there are way more than 5 types of games.
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