Bandai Namco Shares First Blue Protocol Trailer & Reveals Closed Alpha Schedule - MMORPG.com News

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Bandai Namco Shares First Blue Protocol Trailer & Reveals Closed Alpha Schedule - MMORPG.com News

Bandai Namco has announced new details about its upcoming "online ARPG" Blue Protocol. Closed alpha testing will kick off this month with three days of testing for several hours each day. Four classes will be available to try out including Aegis Fighter, Twin Striker, Blast Archer, and Spell Caster. To help set the stage for the anime-inspired title, Bandai Namco sent out a new trailer and some information about the game.

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Nasa

Not my preferred style, but it looks decent.

cheyane

Love this art style.

JeffSpicoli

cheyane said:

Love this art style.

Agreed I'm not a anime fan but i do love the very cartoon like aesthetics and studio ghibli look. The big problem is Iv played both Soul Worker and KurtzPel and although they have fun combat and stunning visuals they were heavily instanced and very light on content ie repetitious . I'v said this before and i don't know if its technically possible but if they could bring this art style and gameplay to a open world MMO type environment i think these kind of games would be a HUGE hit.

ShadowStyleB

I like the art. It does seem to want to grab those fans of Sword Art Online which isn't a bad thing as long as the story and gameplay are good.

elveone

I would play the shit out of this!

Valentina

If it's an open world MMORPG then yeah it looks amazing, if it is heavily instanced like soulworker and kurtzpel then that's tragic.

Scellow

that's what i'm talking about, MMO of the decade

Albatroes

PSO2 vibes

Aeander

I would be totally happy with instances if it isn't another shallow hack and slasher like Streetwork- I mean Soulworker.

If you go with instances, use those instances to force unique challenges on teams.

If you go open world, take advantage of that open world with dynamic content and hidden explorable areas. A small, dense open world is better than a large, vapid one.

achmede

WE CANT SIGN UP FOR CLOSED BETA !!!

I doubt there are many players from Japan on this forum, so next time mention that first please.

vegetableoil

if it's open world like archeage, I'll play it. if it's like kurtzpel, soulworker, then absolutely not my cup of tea.

SBFord

achmede said:

WE CANT SIGN UP FOR CLOSED BETA !!!

I doubt there are many players from Japan on this forum, so next time mention that first please.

It's in the full article. It seems you didn't bother reading past the first post in the thread, but I'm in a good mood, so I'll quote it here for you:

Sign ups for alpha testing are being accepted, though it appears that only Japanese players will be accepted with a Bandai Namco account. 

JeffSpicoli

SBFord said:

achmede said:

WE CANT SIGN UP FOR CLOSED BETA !!!

I doubt there are many players from Japan on this forum, so next time mention that first please.

It's in the full article. It seems you didn't bother reading past the first post in the thread, but I'm in a good mood, so I'll quote it here for you:

Sign ups for alpha testing are being accepted, though it appears that only Japanese players will be accepted with a Bandai Namco account. 

Truth be told Suzie, Iv been coming here for 7 years and I'm lucky to make it past the first 2 or 3 sentences. The truth is like every other human on the planet id simply rather hear myself speak, err type.

Kajidourden

Albatroes said:

PSO2 vibes

Hopefully not, the shoebox play areas are complete crap in PSO2

Mikeha

Looks really good.

Hashbrick

It looks/feels almost like a .hack reboot or at least huge inspirations from it. Looks good to me.

Amathe

It's attractive. Can't say much beyond that yet.

Dragnelus

I love anime and I really love this style. Hope it will make its way to the west!

Truvidien88

I love the music!

cheyane

Hoping this comes out soon. I didn't check but is there a tentative release date?

ShinyFlygon

It's beautiful, but I don't have high hopes for the implementation. Please prove me wrong, Bandai Namco!

BizkitNL

Wow!

DAOWAce

Wake me when it's localized poorly in NA in 5 years beyond the point of its relevance with tons of P2W crap in its cash shop.

Maybe I'm jaded, but I'm not holding my breath this is any different from all the Asian MMOs that take forever to come to English speaking regions.

FlyByKnight

When your particle/VFX person(s) get paid more than the CEO (tone it down some).

If Phantasy Star Online was done like this, and they rebooted the story for after Phantasy Star IV, I'd be less grumpy.

As someone said earlier, if it's Open World... I'm interested. If instance themepark, then meh.

Hariken

Did you notice it has day and night cycles. Something rare in modern mmo's.