Etrian Odyssey 3 confirmed!!!

[jeffx]

Will link to scans sooner or later, unless someone beats me to it.

Still some of the best games to grace my DS.

Wonder which we'll get first, 7th Dragon or EO3?

[Enzeru]

I just started the suggestion thread, too, before seeing this thread. xD

http://i45.tinypic.com/2gvrct0.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/33p9bf8.jpg

EDIT: Same time post, Leetshoe. xD

[leetshoe]

here are the scans
http://i45.tinypic.com/2gvrct0.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/33p9bf8.jpg

[jeffx]

Thanks for the scans. Well I suppose the two threads should be merged... but to which forum?

EXCITE GET!!!!!!!!!

[Enzeru]

Thanks for the scans. Well I suppose the two threads should be merged... but to which forum?
P3P has two threads, as well, though.EXCITE GET!!!!!!!!!
And I always love a good engrish joke. xD

[Dave3]

Pumped!!!

[massaker]

Damn, I was hoping beyond hope that this would get a big console release, it so deserves it. Wonderful series. I'm not a big handheld gamer, would love it if the Atlus release scedual wasn't DS, DS, DS, DS, DS and some more DS.

Hyped for Shiren, though I'll have to buy another Wii...

[Tivor]

Woo-hoo!!!!!

[nciox]

Nice! :D

[MrPopo]

This is an instant-buy for me.

[Jazzy]

Heck yea! Can't wait, total excitement, I remember awhile back hearing from someone that the Etrian team broke off and things didn't look promising for a 3rd. Was quite a surprised when the same someone sent me a link to the scans :D

I need to get back into 2 and do some more 4-koma scanlations to celebrate!

[poiuiu]

Repost from other thread:

Official japanese site is up but with absolutely nothing of note (until 12/14).

http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/

Also, there's this:
http://i50.tinypic.com/6oq1dy.jpg

[AdrianMorales]

Etrian Odyssey meets Star Ocean.

[jeffx]

Etrian Odyssey meets Star Ocean.

Did you mean Suikoden IV?

[poiuiu]

Etrian Odyssey meets Phantom Hourglass.

[sfried]

Etrian Odyssey meets Phantom Hourglass.
I can't wait to name my Pirate "Linebeck".

[Marcail]

More info and good picture links:

http://nintendo.nyleveia.com/2009/12/13/etrian-odyssey-iii-announced-in-famitsu/

and

http://nintendo.nyleveia.com/2009/12/14/additional-eo3-media/

[AlexiaCarcera]

this
(http://alexiacarcera.webs.com/apps/blog/show/2334980-etrian-odyssey-3-)
and

fan mail <:3c

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/1824/lolsdfsd.png
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4147/lol2dfdfd.png

[jeffx]

^ funny AND creepy. good first post, jr. member.

[AlexiaCarcera]

^ funny AND creepy. good first post, jr. member.

I sent the first 1 like, less than an hour after the site opened. I bet atlus staff over there is like "whaaaat the..."

[poiuiu]

The official site (http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/) has been updated with story, characters (the first 5) and system pages. No alternate character portraits.

[Enzeru]

The official site (http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/) has been updated with story, characters (the first 5) and system pages. No alternate character portraits.
I guess that had to be done, what with all the classes, but still...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Also, uploaded videos to YouTube:
System 01 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3MZTfvyBBc)
Story (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmuJ9zzT31U&feature=channel)

[AlexiaCarcera]

The official site (http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/) has been updated with story, characters (the first 5) and system pages. No alternate character portraits.

aaaaah thank you so much for reminding me, updated my post.

[Superkenon]

The official site (http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/) has been updated with story, characters (the first 5) and system pages. No alternate character portraits.
I guess that had to be done, what with all the classes, but still...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Couldn't it just be that they're not showing them yet? It seems like it was awhile before the alternate EO2 portraits showed up.

[Marcail]

http://nintendo.nyleveia.com/2009/12/22/final-etrian-odyssey-3-classes-named/

Reposted from other thread, remaining classes unveiled!

The official website hasn't been updated to reflect this though, and I think it'll be quite some time before we get all the portraits/versions.

[Enzeru]

Party of Farmers for the win! Too cute to pass up. xp

[sfried]

Party of Farmers for the win!
How the heck can you get away with that? Your farmers will be slaughtered!

[Tivor]

Party of Farmers for the win! Too cute to pass up. xp

It'll be a farmer's rebellion!!! XD

[poiuiu]

Just gonna post this once since it's silly to do this twice every time something small happens.

But for the people who are afraid the speed of SQ3's battles may be a problem (which there shouldn't since it's the same type of battle system and there's no confirmation of anything otherwise),
http://i45.tinypic.com/2n718g3.jpg

Edit: Also, according to the blog (http://sq3-blog.atlusnet.jp/blog/2009/12/post-ee15.html), it seems like you can erase grid lines (http://i45.tinypic.com/21bljev.jpg) now as well as drawing them back in (http://i48.tinypic.com/1ibkvs.jpg).

[poiuiu]

Why, it's Christmas Mr. Scrooge!

And with an update twice the size of Tiny Tim.

Famitsu updates with more information (clean art of known characters and a monster, a female warrior is shown and another key NPC character).

http://www.famitsu.com/game/coming/1230671_1407.html (copy and paste this to load famitsu properly)

Edit: Update on the official site: http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/special/index.html

[AlexiaCarcera]

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/4157/loveletter3.png

<3

also. new video up on http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/system/sys02-1.html

and classes revealed on http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/character/index.html

[poiuiu]

All Shinobi portraits revealed in a scan:
http://i49.tinypic.com/2dc68vk.jpg
Personally, I'm kinda disappointed there are still only two per gender. :(


Screen shows 6 party members probably because one character dupe him/herself with Shinobi clone ability.

[Jinkies]

I heard the shinobi sacrifices half their HP and TB for the clone. Also heard you can control the clone. Need more confirmed info to be sure of all this.

I want more portraits of the other classes to come to light ASAP.

[sfried]

Oh God, it's Ryu Hayabusa! The other female looks like the girl from Tenchu.

Edit: Any more scans?

[poiuiu]

No other scans from what I could find, but the blog updates with stat ratings of each character type. Stats translate to Attack, Special Attack, Defensive power, Support ability and Speed. Characters: Prince/ss, Warrior, Phalanx, Pirate, Shinobi, Monk, Zodiac, Beast King, Ballista, and Farmer.
As suggested, Farmers are terrible in battle and Monks are the designated healers.

http://sq3-blog.atlusnet.jp/blog/2010/01/d-afe5.html

[poiuiu]

Sekaiju no MeiQ 3 blahblahbalbahbal has been delayed to April 1 (http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1231335_1124.html) (not an April fish joke (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9SSOWORzw4)).

But the boxart surfaced on Famitsu's website (http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1231335_1124.html).
http://i46.tinypic.com/2ihmtn9.jpg

No other information.

[jeffx]

^ shift everything down by an inch, ETRIAN ODYSSEY III on a single line at the top, et voila, NA cover.

[poiuiu]

New scans. Princes/ses, Pirates, Phalanx, and Monks.
http://i48.tinypic.com/2rpd6k8.jpghttp://i45.tinypic.com/e1drlw.jpg

And there's a monster on the second page that looks like Cotrangl from Etrian 1 stratum 3 in one of the battle screens; hopefully it returns.

[dungeon_man]

Sekaiju no MeiQ 3 blahblahbalbahbal has been delayed to April 1 (http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1231335_1124.html) (not an April fish joke (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9SSOWORzw4)).

But the boxart surfaced on Famitsu's website (http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1231335_1124.html).
http://i46.tinypic.com/2ihmtn9.jpg

No other information.

The Princess is asking to join my party.

[poiuiu]

Another SQ3 famitsu.com update:
http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1231363_1124.html

Contents include:

A few more screen shots
Clean images of revealed characters
And Atlus fans will love this one: Preorder soundtrack (or something) with 6 songs/tracks.
http://i48.tinypic.com/xkmwro.jpg

[poiuiu]

First gameplay video of sailing is up on the site. As one has guessed, it looks boring. :yawn:
http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/system/sys03.html

Nothing else to note other than stuffs we've already seen (http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/character/index.html).

[JinzouTamashii]

Etrian Odyssey will be far from boring, I promise you that. I even have my little sister hooked on the fifth one and that's saying something. ("Hey! Look at this flower on here, it's beautiful!" "Yes.")

The art is cute as always, and I'm impressed that Atlus (ATLUX?) and the Faithful will be able to get it out by two months.

[Ephidel]

fifth? Do you know something we don't?! ;)

[MrPopo]

fifth? Do you know something we don't?! ;)
He's from the future. And a glorious future it sounds like.

[poiuiu]

All character portraits are up on the official site and there's three new gameplay movies.

http://sq3.atlusnet.jp

[elf_boobs]

I've never played EO before, Is this something I could pick up with the thrid game in terms of story, or do I need to try to snag the others first? Is this coming to the U.S.?

[Ephidel]

Although you could carry forward your guild name, the first two games were pretty much independent of each other anyway, and were set in different locations.
The third one is another location again, and has reworked the class system so the old classes have been replaced, so I'd think you could go into the third with no problem at all if you wanted to.

And theres no news yet. I hope so though *crosses fingers*
I'm already considering party makeup :P

[sfried]

I've never played EO before, Is this something I could pick up with the thrid game in terms of story, or do I need to try to snag the others first? Is this coming to the U.S.?Considering they take place in different periods, you can pick up EO3 right off the bat without knowledge of the first two. Be forwarned, however: the Etrian series is known for its difficulty and old-schoolness, and while EO3 represents a major overhaul in structure, you still have to prepare your team by assigning skill points ahead of time. You can't just mash "Attack" or you'll get brutally slaughtered by regular enemies.

[dungeon_man]

You can't just mash "Attack" or you'll get brutally slaughtered by regular enemies.

That's new-gamer-speak for, "This game doesn't play itself like some other RPGs on the market."

[Enzeru]

[quote=elf_boobs;173945]You can't just mash "Attack" or you'll get brutally slaughtered by regular enemies.
Eh, people always say that about EO but once you get about halfway through that's exactly what I did. Maybe because I suck at puzzles and thus I fight a lot of random battles, but I think the real difficulty is only in bosses, FOEs (which don't even give experience anymore), the beginning of the game, and as post game.

[dungeon_man]

[quote=elf_boobs;173945]You can't just mash "Attack" or you'll get brutally slaughtered by regular enemies.
Eh, people always say that about EO but once you get about halfway through that's exactly what I did. Maybe because I suck at puzzles and thus I fight a lot of random battles, but I think the real difficulty is only in bosses, FOEs (which don't even give experience anymore), the beginning of the game, and as post game.

Really? I remember fighting at least 80% of my battles quite carefully in the fifth stratum. Though, my characters were all levels 58-63 when I beat the boss, so you may have been a higher level or had a better skill/party setup than I did.

[poiuiu]

New scan shows portraits now have an alternate colour scheme.
Source is in the image address.
http://img.nyleveia.com/2010/02/eo3_famitsuFebmid.jpg

[moss257]

So... None of the older classes are returning?

I'm going to get this no matter WHAT. But are those classes the only ones?

I can't be an alchemist that looks like the one in 1 and 2?

If so... I'm going to have to start thinking up names.:question:

[Tivor]

Yeah, none of the old classes are returning. It's a shame, but at the same time, I'm very much looking forward to forming a party with the new classes.

As I wrote in the other EO3 thread (http://www.atlus.com/forum/showpost.php?p=162019&postcount=91), I already have the names picked out for my party too. :D

Anyway, that's awesome that we'll now have alternate portrait colors. I love it. :)

[Shikoku]

I've already thought up names and backgrounds for several characters.....but the whole "alt colour" thing leaves up a few choices in the air. Hope to see them all soon.

[OokieSpookie]

Day one for me, one of the best series going

[MidiPour]

@^
That would be amazing if each WiFi user had a roll in the adventure that would make the party rely on one another, where teamwork is a must! Good news indeed.

[poiuiu]

More alternate character palettes and more screens courtesy of famitsu.

http://www.famitsu.com/game/coming/1232257_1407.html

[Ephidel]

Heh, its strange really. I actually quite like the idea of the palette swapping just to give a little more variety to the party, but at the same time very few of the swapped colours actually appeal to me as much as the original ones did.

The large paragraph looks like its talking about weapon customisation, is that right?
If it is, that nice clear weapon attribute display in the shop wouldn't necessarily be for displaying the attributes/effects the weapons already have, but the attributes you could add to them? That could be interesting.

[poiuiu]

Two blog posts with a few interesting bits.

First:

Map icons that auto move your party with the press of a play button. This will make trips to grind tough bosses less of a hassle. Hopefully these icons are independent of regular map icons.

Also, map listing feature where you can jump straight to a specific page of a map without having to flip through every page in between.

And that's just the stuff shown in the vid. More stuff in the blog page but I don't understand moonspeak.

blog link: http://sq3-blog.atlusnet.jp/blog/2010/03/61-db5e.html


Then they have a radio program thing plus some pictures and a sketch or two. More moonspeak for you moonspeak pusher guys who want japanese moonspeak in your games!

blog: http://sq3-blog.atlusnet.jp/blog/2010/03/2-5603.html

radio show: http://game.biglobe.ne.jp/colweb/shoku/2010/100304/100304.html

[Stealth20k]

This will probably get announced for a US release after luminous arc 3

[poiuiu]

I know a lot of guys here love their japanese in their games, so here's a list of compile moves and skills that were either revealed from various sources or were found some other way. Happy readings. (http://www39.atwiki.jp/sekaiju_maze3/pages/58.html)
:devil:

Note: This being a japanese fan community website, don't wander too much in the posted links and hyperlinks; this especially goes for those at work.

[Matman]

^Wow, excellent find! Thanks!

At the official site you build your own guilds now:
http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/special/sp_blogparts.html

Here's mine:
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/matman125/etrian%20odyssey/eo3/baddudes.jpg

I wish I came to this forum sooner. This whole time I was scrapping for info and uploading it my blog (http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/matty125), but everything is posted here first!

Last time I was here was when EOII launched and one of the mods posted his EO doujin album collections (which I started a healthy one of my own!).

[poiuiu]

Also note that the party builder thing mentioned above also previews the alternate colour swap of the other 5 classes that haven't been revealed yet (Warrior, Balista, Beastking, Farmer, Zodiac). Warrior M2 as a blonde = yes!

Edit: All male blondes.
http://i42.tinypic.com/12161x0.jpg

[poiuiu]

All alternate colour palettes are up on the character section of the official site. I shouldn't need to direct link them since the link has been posted several times in this thread already.

Also, wallpapers for the remaining characters are up as well.

Edit: mobile phone app as well:
www.famitsu.com/game/news/1233240_1124.html

[poiuiu]

Sekaiju no Meikyuu 3 has successfully made it out of its niche status and into casual gaming territory ... or at least in terms of its famitsu review score (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4458262511_dd2ae52e9f_o.jpg).

Only a week left before the japanese release.

[Chronoshale]

35/40? Really? That's so awesome. Hopefully that secures an EO4... ;)

Kind of awkward to release this on April 1st though. I half expect an "APRIL FOOLS, this game is coming out next year!"

Still haven't decided whether to break down and import it or wait for the inevitable English release, though.

EXCITEMENT.

[Shikoku]

Oh Joy, a Famitsu review. I'm very interested in what they have to say about anything regarding reviews. Massive sarcasm there. : P They are great and fantastic for news, but any mag that scores "Nintendogs" with the max score isn't totally trustworthy with reviews, imo.


April 1 is the start the of a Japanese business revenue cycle, IIRCC. Koei and Tecmo merged on that day in Japan last year.

[Enzeru]

Oh Joy, a Famitsu review. I'm very interested in what they have to say about anything regarding reviews. Massive sarcasm there. : P They are great and fantastic for news, but any mag that scores "Nintendogs" with the max score isn't totally trustworthy with reviews, imo.
On the contrary, I thought that game was very well done and showed of all of the DS' features quite well. But this topic isn't about that game. :]

The Famitsu score is promising. Of course, I expect nothing less than excellent from EO.

[poiuiu]

Oh Joy, a Famitsu review. I'm very interested in what they have to say about anything regarding reviews. Massive sarcasm there. : P They are great and fantastic for news, but any mag that scores "Nintendogs" with the max score isn't totally trustworthy with reviews, imo.


If anything, Famitsu is far more respectable than the typical english publication we're all used to since, let's face it, at least famitsu wears their moneyhats on their sleeve. They're not afraid to show they get moneyhatted, unlike others where they have to have a ruling to force them to show the swag they get with review code (http://gamepolitics.com/2009/10/05/ftc-freebies-must-be-disclosed).

And personally, I found the score a little too high. Main reason; all my favourite games got an avarage of 7s for each individual reviewer, give or take a point, and that's the kind of standard I prefer. High scores consisting mainly of 9s mean 'this game is for everyone' ie, it's an easy game.
:devil:

[Chronoshale]

I doubt SQ/EO will ever become an overly easy game, since it's mostly intended for that hardcore niche.

Though I like this high score. It's nice to see the series become more mainstream and attract players beyond its intended niche. I don't consider myself a part of the niche that SQ/EO was intended for, since it's the character designs and music that draw me in. But if the series can extend further and keep up good scores...

We're getting more.

[jeffx]

After playing SMT: SJ, I can only hope that EO3 improves on plenty of features from its predecessors. Otherwise it's gonna be a hell of a transition for me.

[poiuiu]

You'd have an argument if SJ was any way related to EO series other than their developer (Lancarse), but as it is, SJ is a mainline follow-up direct sequel to SMT3: Nocturne and has nothing to do with EO series.

And even then, ironically enough, EO3 isn't developed by the same group of coders as the previous two games but but presumely is done inhouse at Atlus (since Lancarse was busy with SJ). One of the header guys is even an Atlus inhouse employee who worked on SMT games! at least from what I've heard

In addition, from what I played of SJ so far, the idle animations doesn't really make me wish EO would have them as well since, well ... they're just idle animations and nothing else. If it was like DQ DS games, then you'd have a stronger argument since they have idle animations and also a few attack animations as well. If anything, being so familiar with EO games make me wish SJ had map drawing tools, since I keep thinking "I want to make a marker here even though I already got this and that!".

While I admit there are a few small touches in SJ I would like to have in EO3, it's nothing to start a revolt over.

I doubt SQ/EO will ever become an overly easy game, since it's mostly intended for that hardcore niche.


I was being facetious.

[poiuiu]

Discuss.
http://i42.tinypic.com/2mqmhra.jpg
http://gonintendo.com/wp-content/photos/etrian_odyssey_3_scan_3.jpeg
:devil:

[Chronoshale]

...Is that a new class or are they NPCs? o.O I don't see them in the class part of the site.

[Tivor]

Whatever it is, I like it!!! :D

[Chronoshale]

Engh, my Japanese sucks so much. The caption pointing at the girl has Warrior in it, and if the names have anything to do with anything then the one highlighted in the picture next to the girl says "arukutorusu" while the one highlighted next to the guy says "koru/karori".

I wanna know what it is so badly. ;__;

[poiuiu]

Third hand info from someone who got it from someone else who did a rough translation of this scan:

Large text next to "Shogun": Wields a sword; looks mean.

"Robot thing": Is it a machine? Living thing? or is it ...

Top screen caption: Looks like a warrior. They use a sword, but will it be any different from a Warrior or Shinobi.

Bottom screen caption: Never before seen, has a robot body. What makes it move?

Also, something from Yuji Himukai's twitter:
http://i43.tinypic.com/2uizms5.jpg

Unrelated but still from his twitter because it's humorous:
http://u.nu/4gux7

[Chronoshale]

LOL, awesome picture. Princess is <3.

So it's two new classes? Shogun and... robot-thing? Full of epic.

[poiuiu]

Only two days before release and the SQ3 developer blog updates with a couple videos of them sailing in co-op (or something) (http://sq3-blog.atlusnet.jp/blog/2010/03/9-4164.html).

Also, official site updates (http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/system/sys06.html) with small blurb about the two pair and something about post game and leveling up or something.

Also, beware of F.O.E. crossing (http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/special/dwl/sq3_015_1900x1200.jpg).

[poiuiu]

"Clean" images of the two ... whatevertheyares, via Dengeki online (http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/249/249893/).

http://i40.tinypic.com/24mxon8.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/2db80n6.jpg

Also, I think this is the first time I've seen a "clean" version of the unique princess art.
http://i43.tinypic.com/30at45j.jpg

[Tivor]

Judging from rough online translation of the Dengeki article, it appears those two *are* unlockable classes.

And it looks like there are many stuff (like extra dungeon, extra items, extra skills, increased level cap, etc) that get unlocked at 2nd playthrough. Or maybe *after* 2nd playthrough. Online translations can be rather vague. :|

[Chronoshale]

Yay, reasons to keep playing!

[poiuiu]

Hopefully the game's retiring mechanic is more like EO1's where retiring a certain character give a certain stat and not EO2's where retiring any character automatically boosts all stats by 5 and gives 8 bonus skill points.

However, the level 70+ retiring mechanic from 2 is more than welcome to stay.

And now, we wait for the rest of the portraits of these two new guys (hoping for extra limbs for the robot things :D).

:grouphug:

[dungeon_man]

Why is "clean" in quotes?

You mean plain background, right? Putting it in quotes makes it sound like you're talking about porn.

[poiuiu]

It's kinda hard being snoop da EO3 v-a-n (http://sq3-blog.atlusnet.jp/blog/2010/03/d17-00d5.html).

Rolling down the streets of Akihabara,
handing out coasters,
pimpin' out EO3!
http://sq3-blog.atlusnet.jp/blog/blog_img/100330_01.jpg]
http://i40.tinypic.com/2l937s7.jpg
Also, I do not think the adaption is very clever either. >:P (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bakWKHj051I)

Also, massive spoilers ahead:
http://i43.tinypic.com/4r9a9y.jpg

Why is "clean" in quotes?

You mean plain background, right? Putting it in quotes makes it sound like you're talking about porn.
"Clean" because the Dengeki online watermark is the most obnoxious of most other big website's watermark, that's why. :angr

[Stealthbox]

I am happy to see the new Co-Op Feature which i really want NAO ;_; also i can't wait for a water stratum or something of the sort, and the whole having a ship is awesome!

[fintilgin]

Just found out about this! Etrian Odyssey was the reason I bought my DS and it would have been worth it for just that game alone.

Very much looking forward to Atlus announcing the American release. CAN'T WAIT. HURRY!

[poiuiu]

Someone did some fan-made CG in flat shading 3d models of some of the characters. Neat to say the least.

EO2 Medigirl 1 (http://www.cg-site.net/products/62184)
EO2 Gunner girl 1 (http://www.cg-site.net/products/62155)
Princess 1 white (http://www.cg-site.net/products/62177)
Princess 1 black w/ action pose (http://www.cg-site.net/products/62187)
Shogun F1 (http://www.cg-site.net/products/62196)
Prince 2 (http://www.cg-site.net/products/62176)
Balista F1 (http://www.cg-site.net/products/62206)
Pirate F2 (http://www.cg-site.net/products/62172)
Shinobi M1 (http://www.cg-site.net/products/62202)

Do refrain from going straight to the panty shots. >:p

[poiuiu]

Just a heads up, reports say all the portraits of the two new character types are already floating around the net. And considering how quickly this happened, the two new characters are either unlocked at the end of Strat 1 (like EO2) or somewhere in the middle of Strat 2 (EO1).

In addition, some stuff from Dengeki online (http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/251/251168/#eid251165).
http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/251/251166/c20100401_sq_02_cs1w1_509x720.jpg
The development offices had this one as a poster hanging on their walls.

http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/251/251165/c20100401_sq_01_cs1w1_720x526.jpg

[Tivor]

Do refrain from going straight to the panty shots.

...................;;; *runs away*

[InvisibleMan]

So, how come we haven't heard about this over here?!? Ironically, April Fool's is the first day I heard of this, and it is also the launch day for the game in Japan!

Atlus, how about a U.S. launch date? PLEEEEAAAASE??

[Shikoku]

Here's a minor quabble I have for when you do release the game in the US, Atlus. Can you just go ahead and put up sections for the Shogun and Androids when you create the website, so we can have decent looking hi rez art of the alt and second colours? They aren't a mystery anymore, after all....

[poiuiu]

Official site updates.

A lotta vids showing examples of what you can do with the subclass system (http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/play/play03.html).

[fates]

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but good news... FOEs give EXP again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHxzhsvz6bk#t=6m05s

[sfried]

I know I'm just reposting news from the other thread, but EO3/SQ3 leads the charts in Japan (http://ds.ign.com/articles/108/1082917p1.html).

Atlus had better advertise the crap out of this game when it gets localized, and by that, I don't mean a few online ads...

[Onion of Mystery]

Atlus had better advertise the crap out of this gam

I, for one, do not want to invite people to check out my gams.

[illogicaldreamr]

Official site updates.

A lotta vids showing examples of what you can do with the subclass system (http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/play/play03.html).

In the last video, the character has some sort of cloning ability where it looks like it sacrifices half of its HP to create a clone in battle, then the clone can do it as well to create a full party. That's so cool!

[fates]

Official site updates.

A lotta vids showing examples of what you can do with the subclass system (http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/play/play03.html).

In the last video, the character has some sort of cloning ability where it looks like it sacrifices half of its HP to create a clone in battle, then the clone can do it as well to create a full party. That's so cool!

I think that's a Shinobi skill.

Best abuse: Get a Phalanx/Defender the Shinobi subclass, use the clone skill, have a double tank. One to use F. Guard, the other to use B. Guard :devil:

[Superkenon]

Has it been said anywhere whether EO3 exists within the same continuity as the previous games? EO2 takes place soon after EO1 for instance. Does this game have a place in the timeline, or is it being regarded independently?

[fates]

afaik it takes place a long time after 2.

[poiuiu]

Has it been said anywhere whether EO3 exists within the same continuity as the previous games? EO2 takes place soon after EO1 for instance. Does this game have a place in the timeline, or is it being regarded independently?

See anyone you recognise?
http://i44.tinypic.com/6y1q87.jpg
Hint: top row, middle panel

[Superkenon]

Egads! Is that... Medi-Girl?!

[Shikoku]

Bikini protector is next to her, too. ;D

[lunarXskies]

Has it been said anywhere whether EO3 exists within the same continuity as the previous games? EO2 takes place soon after EO1 for instance. Does this game have a place in the timeline, or is it being regarded independently?

See anyone you recognise?
[img]
Hint: top row, middle panel
Where was that image from? The OST or Yuji Himukai's site?

On another note, some other classes from the previous games were in a 4koma for the Pre-order CD >

[poiuiu]

His twitter (and the companion twitpic) account, actually (http://twitpic.com/1dm518). Though a much higher res version of the same pic can be found on the remnants of his original blog.

And I know about that bonus disc manga. It features the old cast along with Gunnergirl (with water guns) and MagusM1 with an ice cream staff, going on vacation (or something).

[Laethiel]

Since the Game Suggestions thread for this was locked, I guess I'll have to throw my support in this thread. I wish I had gotten into Atlus games earlier, so I could've bought new copies of EO1 and 2 to show my support, but I'll do what I can in the future (going to pick up Strange Journey pretty soon).

I love the alternate colors, and especially the ones that are more than just palette swaps (headband and bearded Shougun (http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/character/chara11.html), both "male" Androids (http://sq3.atlusnet.jp/character/chara12.html)).

I'm really hoping that with Atlus finishing up a bunch of games recently we'll get a localization announcement for EO3 soon. (Zeno Clash Ultimate came out in NA basically the day that EO3 came out in Japan, and 3D Dot/Trauma Team/Hexyz Force have been/will soon be released, which will leave only P3P for Coming Soon. Plus, this is the only recent 1st-party Atlus title I know of that hasn't been announced for NA).

[Steavemaro145]

We all support a localization

[Kishou]

New Trailer out: What's your Story?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFHOAabOXH8

the narrating, while kinda neat, is a bit shallow. You could tell the guy is all the different voices in different tones.

Still, wouldn't mind to play another 'old-school roleplaying game' since Class of Heroes. (Still can't decide on the five party members though.)