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Only you can help name some of Disgaea 4's attacks

by Griffin McElroy on Oct 23rd 2010 3:00AM

If you've got a penchant for giving your boring, monotonous daily maneuvers wildly eccentric titles like "Flying Eagle Bagel Spread" or "Tsunami Power Work Commute," you seem like the perfect candidate for Atlus' newest promotion. All you have to do is check out a few videos from some heretofore nameless special attacks from Disgaea 4, and provide each of them with a fittingly outrageous title.

Of course, submissions are limited to ten characters, so the examples provided above wouldn't exactly be eligible. We're sure you can still blend brevity and exuberance, though. Here, watch this: "METEORGUN." Yeah, that's solid gold stuff, right there.

Via: Siliconera
Source: Disgaea 4

Tags: atlus, contest, disgaea-4, Nippon-Ichi-Software, playstation, ps3

Reader Comments (28)

Why are they limited to 10 characters? Did NIS put so much effort into FINALLY upgrading the visuals beyond that of a playstation 1 game that they didn't have the budget for enough characters to make attack names over 10 characters long?

@Kanjimari

Whenever I see nonsense like that in current gen games, I always have to wonder how much of it is a technical limitation caused by lousy design, and how much is a conscious decision to keep things in an "old school" style.

@Kanjimari
It's 10 characters in Japanese, which is more than enough.

10 charact
ers? That'
s hardly e
nough room
to write a
nything.

@Alexisonfire

10 japanese characters are more than enough

@omgwtfhax
Yeah, I realized AFTER posting that this was for NIS Japan.

Why this is being advertised on Joystiq is beyond me. NISA doesn't give two shits what the fan input on these abilities will be.

"DEATHBLASTER"
"KILLINATOR"
"SHITWRECKER"
"DOOMRAY"
Man, I'm full of these.

@Mach2
I'm sorry sir, but "DEATHBLASTER" and "SHITWREACKER" exceeds the character limit.

@CrimsonRyan
And I'm pretty sure "SHITWREACKER" exceeds the limit too.

Man, I just grabbed a used copy of Disgea 3 a week ago, and this game is so goddamn confusing to the point of frustration. So little of the game is actually explained that you spend half your time just guessing at how shit works. The only reason I keep playing is that my girlfriend loves the music. That and I have a faint (faint faint) hope that one day everything is just going to click, but I seriously doubt that. It's quite like likely that, once I finish the (very weird but kind of charming) story, i'm just going to shelve it. Oh well.

@dxrebirth : Have you taken into consideration just how much Disgaea games tend not to follow logical sense?

Not saying a little "RTFM" ever hurt anybody, but Disgaea games are a little notorious for having illogical and arbitrary elements to them.

@dxrebirth
The Disgaea manuals hardly help with the more complex aspects of the depth of the game's battle system. If you want to be able to actually beat the game you either have to grind for hours or learn how to take advantage of the special dungeons and combination mechanics.

I remember putting in over 80 hours for Disgaea 1 and still could barely beat the final boss.

@MachDelta try gamefaq

PEEPEEPOOP!

I already named a few of them in my head, including the axe one. "French Revolution." Now I just need to find a way to enter it without making a fool of myself in terms of Japanese grammar structures. And Google Translate doesn't help that much when it comes to grammar.

@Faren22: "Axtoinette" has a nice ring to it.

1) Sword tech: Quartrhack
2) Axe tech: Axtoinette
3) Gun tech: Quickndead
4) Spear tech: Evisperate
5) Fist tech: KO'Clock
6) Bow tech: GripAndZip

This is all very interesting, but considering the lack of solid stratagy RPG's for the 360, when the hell is this coming to the 360?

I mean, for real, homeboy.

Atlus? Atlus?! What does Atlus have to do with Disgaea? This is embarrassing, 'Stiq.

he's a couple super moves for ya:

ahem...

"I TAKE YOUR WALLET!"

"WRAITH OF GINGER"

"IF THE GLOVE DONT FIT"

"KHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN"

....wait ten characters?....

:(

i guess the "Khaaaaann!" super will have to do....

I would have to put
DOUBLEKILL
TRIPLEKILL
:O wait those won't work

Cray Z Kill!
Amay Zing Kill!

Get it?

I just picked up the first disgaea on the psp and I gotta say I'm loving it so far, although I'm beginning to notice the difficulty in the game....
...can't wait to finish it and see what the other entries are like! >:D

DoodBeam
DoodBlast
DoodSlice
DoodWTF

ShutUpCut (Mute)
TardCannon (Confuse/Prinny launched for line attack, random results)
Puff-Puff (Charm/Use imagination/Female only)
PooFling (Virus/Poison)
Pantzdanz (Area effect confuse)
CatThrow (Throw an angry cat for line attack)
PrinnyPowr (Drunk Prinny's run around singing then trip and explode for confuse/damage AoE/Random )

...those are just a few out of the blue.

u so mad (summoning a troll spell)

oh and it's me

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Posted: Oct 23rd 2010 3:04AM Kanjimari said

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