The DanMan

I'm just gonna play it safe and say two of Capcom, Namco, Bethesda, and Ubisoft are getting characters in. ...Honestly, it's a bit hard to make rational predictions at this point after Nintendo proved "bringing in new audiences" was meaningless PR and went for stroking nostalgia boners with Banjo.

Thank you. Was just in a discussion over whether or not Hero was male exclusive and the 3rd tier healing class female exclusive, so was a bit worried. Brought this up elsewhere and it was pointed out to me the gender descriptor would only be one or two characters and very hard to spot.

Can anybody look at this and try to decipher if Hero and Bishop or whatever are gender exclusive?

http://jin115.com/archives/52259460.html From what people are saying (and from what garbled google translate results seem to corroborate), NIS had a massive stock sale and has quintupled the executive pay-cap. Seems like they're a sinking ship and the higher-ups just want to grab as much loot as they can before it's sunk.

Everything that can be said about Steve can be fired Villager's way. Didn't stop the Villager from having a creative moveset.

And Minecraft isn't the single most prolific game in existence... wait. It's an infinitely bigger and more relevant game than Banjo's entire series ever was, being an indie game that over a period of less than 15 years has become the single most prolific game ever made. I personally don't care for Banjo, but I'm not running around trying to rain on the parade of people who are excited for him. Yet it seems like instead of just being happy they got their character in, many Banjo fans have to go out of their way to bitch about a far more popular character relevant to gaming history and rife with moveset potential not getting in.

There's a difference between saying "I personally don't like this" and "FUCK THIS, I'm glad it got screwed over".

And this is why I personally can't stand a lot of Banjo fans. Their absolute hatred and mockery of other Microsoft IPs that are infinitely larger than the one they happened to grow up with.

Mercedes is looking very much like an Askr unit here: the tip of her ponytail even appears to be pink like Sharena's hair

...The hell? That's... a mistake, right? It's gotta be... .

She's a Cordelia expy. Take a guess which it is.

...Everyone of them keeps their main weapon and gains a Sword and Authority preference on promotion. Don't know what you're saying.

All the protags seem to promote into "Lord" and gain Sword and Authority bonuses on top of their main weapons. Thieves can now use Bows and Archers can now use Swords, which PKs also can use now (and are back to being female only). Knights also pick up Axes by default. PKs have Canto and apparently Armored units don't learn class skills?

They're hardly better, with throwaway motivations and still looking obviously evil. I don't see how a horned skull helmet is much more on the nose than giant evil grin and spikey shoulderpads. Besides, since NOE's facebook advertisement for the game already confirmed the Church is going to be our main villains, these guys are probably gonna end up with at least attempted sympathy and might actually be recruitable-- as they're stated to have a serious grudge against the church and the monastery. They're far more likely to be attempted anti-villains/anti-heroes in the end. (Also all the SF translation is calling him the "Reaper Knight"-- the "death god" bit probably comes from the Japanese text likely calling him a "Shinigami", which is literally "death god" but 95% of the time gets translated as "reaper")

Gharnef is literally the first villain in the franchise and he has black skin and distorted facial features, Ashnard has the smug look of a crazed maniac by default and is wearing spiked armor, Nergal's got the evil Shaman look to a T and is named after a Mesopotamian god of pestilence, and Izuka is an ugly hunchback with emaciated skin. The series has had plenty of obviously evil looking antagonists from the start.