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DQIX TO DS. DS WINS NEXT GEN WAR! (DQ gets cash cowed!)
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soundwave05
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Wouldn't really surprise me if the DS gets a FFXIII game too. They're getting a FFXII spin-off after all.
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
White Man said:
I agree with this word for word. This is really dumb to me, but, I can understand why they would do it from a business point of view.
Pimpbaa said:
This will sell so good it will make pokemon, nintendogs and brain training COMBINED look like canon fodder.
The DS userbase is going to explode EVEN BIGGER. It may not be ideal for handheld gaming, but it will still sell.
Also, it sounds like they are tweaking it and making it more of a handheld type game. This will probably infuriate many DQ fans (i'm more shocked at how different it sounds than i am about putting it on the ds... Turning DQ into an action RPG? holy crap).
pol's voice said:
I agree that the SNES had some of the best rpgs ever. However, those games were progressions and not regressions for gaming during that point in time. Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana 3 and Chrono Trigger were some of the best games technically during that time period. FF6 had some of the best graphics I had seen on the SNES at that point and still has some of the best music I've ever heard in a game. Ditto for Chrono Trigger. These games stood above the SNES pack in terms of production value. Releasing an SNES-esque game today wouldn't get nowhere near the same reaction.
This announcement is like after seeing Final Fantasy 6 and dreaming of a new Final Fantasy for N64 only to get Final Fantasy 7 on the green screen gameboy.
I can understand disappointment, but some people are already holding funerals for the franchise or saying PS3 is dead and they are totally over-blowing the impact of this announcement. I enjoyed DQVIII as well as many others here and it was my first DQ (although I did know about the series before and I've played quite a few now), but I can understand why S-E is doing this and I'm not really disappointed about it being on the DS since I do know that this series has never relied on the latest technology to be as great as it is. What I am disappointed in though is that the game is setting out to be radically different from the other installments in the series as I've never been one to as for such radical changes, I'd rather a company make a new IP if they want to try something different with a main installment of a series.White Man said:
CajoleJuice
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:lol :lolMike Works said:
BigJonsson
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ROFL
I heard about this thread in the OT
So finally, there is something that deserves the MEGATON after all these years?
Haha
I heard about this thread in the OT
So finally, there is something that deserves the MEGATON after all these years?
Haha
its a pretty shameless money grab from SE.
I would have preferred to see the game on a home console, any home console. It should be cheaper to produce for SE and will probably sell boatloads in Japan but i wonder about the series in the west esp given that it was just really gaining some traction.
I must say i would have liked to see a DQ with PS3/360 level graphics and as such am disappointed that it will be on a PS1/N64 level platform with a tiny screen.
I would have preferred to see the game on a home console, any home console. It should be cheaper to produce for SE and will probably sell boatloads in Japan but i wonder about the series in the west esp given that it was just really gaining some traction.
I must say i would have liked to see a DQ with PS3/360 level graphics and as such am disappointed that it will be on a PS1/N64 level platform with a tiny screen.
Joseph Merrick
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awesome screens. want more
SnakeXs said:
110% sure then, whatever floats your boat.
I am just saying that just because they choose to release a game on the best selling hardware at the moment (because let's face it, PS2 games aren't selling so great anymore, even FF12 failed to hit 3m copies) that you shouldn't care so much. If you don't want it because it'll be a DS game, big whoop, it'll just be the FF11 of the series.
There wasn't much of an outrage over FF11 because everyone knew FF12 was coming and would be a normal game. They will probably announce DQ10 sometime next year, for release on either the PS3 or Wii in 2008 or 2009.
soundwave05
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That looks pretty sweet for a DS game actually.
IMO, Square-Enix is done with traditional turn based RPGs. FFXII had a more action oriented battle system, DQIX will as well, I think FFXIII will as well.
IMO, Square-Enix is done with traditional turn based RPGs. FFXII had a more action oriented battle system, DQIX will as well, I think FFXIII will as well.
Chris Michael
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creamsugar said:
Oh God, no... that looks ****ing hideos.
And it does look like an action RPG... those characters don't even implement the Toriyama feel well.Why couldn't it just use the DQMJ engine.
Alex
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Did they say anything about release date? I'd assume part of the reason they stuck it on DS is that it's not worth commiting to any of the consoles yet.
People really think that looks bad? That first screen is so nice, the detail isn't bad at all, and the draw distance is pretty mighty shit for a handheld.
People really think that looks bad? That first screen is so nice, the detail isn't bad at all, and the draw distance is pretty mighty shit for a handheld.
wandering goat
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Level 5 are gods. WOW.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
creamsugar said:
beautiful absolutely amazing better than i could have ever imagined
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