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Aeana · Jun 30, 2010

http://www.square-enix.com/jp/recruit/career/job/game/dq_index.html

It seems that SE is hiring scenario writers for DQ. Horii has had the same scenario team for a really long time... this is pretty weird.

Kad5 · Jun 30, 2010

The scenarios in Dragon Quest usually are pretty simplistic in a good way based on what I can tell.

Hopefully they can still retain that simplistic charm despite the hiring of new scenario writers.

Jeels · Jun 30, 2010

Aeana said:
http://www.square-enix.com/jp/recruit/career/job/game/dq_index.html

It seems that SE is hiring scenario writers for DQ. Horii has had the same scenario team for a really long time... this is pretty weird.

Does this sound like a bad thing or a good thing to you? I know the DQ fanbase is very traditionalist, but maybe it's time for some fresh blood, so long as they can keep the charm.

Loto · Jun 30, 2010

I guess I just didn't remember the push for DQ8. I don't remember the television commercials =(

I don't know about the demo, yeah it was a great move, but I don't understand people paying 50$ for a demo.

Aeana · Jun 30, 2010

Oh, I see it as a potentially very good thing, because DQ8 and 9 have had me feeling like Horii spent all of his really good ideas in DQ6 and 7. He even reused some of them in 8 and 9.

Aeana · Jun 30, 2010

Loto said:
I guess I just didn't remember the push for DQ8. I don't remember the television commercials =(

I don't know about the demo, yeah it was a great move, but I don't understand people paying 50$ for a demo.

People paid more than that to get the FF13 demo with the Advent Children Bluray.

Jeels · Jun 30, 2010

Loto said:
I guess I just didn't remember the push for DQ8. I don't remember the television commercials =(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QZwyxyxvts I liked it.

I don't know about the demo, yeah it was a great move, but I don't understand people paying 50$ for a demo.

Nah, they paid 50 dollars for the best JRPG of that year, and for fans obviously the generation. Sure they might have snapped because of the demo, but that's not what they were paying for. Also, don't underestimate Final Fantasy fans willing to buy entire games just to play demos. Aeana mentioned FFXIII, but I remember people buying Brave Fencer Musashi for the FFVIII demo. There's a long history of this.

Rpgmonkey · Jun 30, 2010

Aeana said:
http://www.square-enix.com/jp/recruit/career/job/game/dq_index.html

It seems that SE is hiring scenario writers for DQ. Horii has had the same scenario team for a really long time... this is pretty weird.

Speaking of the creation of DQ games, did we ever learn what part Square Enix had in DQIX's development?

I remember people noticing SE suddenly being credited as the developer along with Level 5 when the game was nearing its release or something like that.

Loto · Jun 30, 2010

Thank you Jeels, that was the first time I had ever seen that commercial =o

Jeels · Jun 30, 2010

Loto said:
Thank you Jeels, that was the first time I had ever seen that commercial =o

I enjoyed how it highlighted Japan's craze for the game.

Yottamole · Jun 30, 2010

Rpgmonkey said:
Speaking of the creation of DQ games, did we ever learn what part Square Enix had in DQIX's development?

I remember people noticing SE suddenly being credited as the developer along with Level 5 when the game was nearing its release or something like that.

I remember reading somewhere that Enix, even as a publishing company, had always kept a small team to help Armor Project and whichever developer they chose to make the games. That team was like Enix's only internal development studio. After the merger, I guess that this team became SE's product development division 9. But they were never recognized as a developer along with Chunsoft/Heartbeat/Level-5/etc., so I'm also curious to why they suddenly appear as such in the credits.

djtiesto · Jun 30, 2010

Jeels said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QZwyxyxvts I liked it.

Nah, they paid 50 dollars for the best JRPG of that year, and for fans obviously the generation. Sure they might have snapped because of the demo, but that's not what they were paying for. Also, don't underestimate Final Fantasy fans willing to buy entire games just to play demos. Aeana mentioned FFXIII, but I remember people buying Brave Fencer Musashi for the FFVIII demo. There's a long history of this.

I wonder how many people bought DQ8 for the FF12 demo and ended up liking DQ8 a helluvalot more?

Warren Ellis · Jun 30, 2010

Kad5 said:
The scenarios in Dragon Quest usually are pretty simplistic in a good way based on what I can tell.

Hopefully they can still retain that simplistic charm despite the hiring of new scenario writers.

the scenarios of dragon quest VII were anything but simplistic. I have never seen a game so heavy on mythology,even for the standards of the series. It was like a mini-collecion of fairy tales. The best dragon quest and one of best rpg of all times.

unfortunately, dragon quest VIII was very bad gameplay and story-wise.I hope that dragon quest 9 will be a return to form.

bluemax · Jun 30, 2010

Loto said:
I guess I just didn't remember the push for DQ8. I don't remember the television commercials =(

I don't know about the demo, yeah it was a great move, but I don't understand people paying 50$ for a demo.

I remember the DQVIII commercial coming on Comedy Central and my stoner roommate at the time going, "What is this? Some kind of Dragon Ball Shit?" or something to that effect.

The Technomancer · Jun 30, 2010

Just saw the Seth Green TV spot and it was...interesting. Like, not bad, I probably wouldn't call it good either, it just was.
*shrug*

Jeels · Jun 30, 2010

Seda said:
See Seth Green Talk Up Dragon Quest IX

via Kotaku

Trained very well.

ronito · Jun 30, 2010

so if I'm not wrong July 11th is a Sunday? Am I missing something or is this the first Sunday release for a game in a while? Why do it on a sunday?

bon · Jun 30, 2010

ronito said:
so if I'm not wrong July 11th is a Sunday? Am I missing something or is this the first Sunday release for a game in a while? Why do it on a sunday?

Nintendo always releases their big games on a Sunday.

ShockingAlberto · Jun 30, 2010

ronito said:
so if I'm not wrong July 11th is a Sunday? Am I missing something or is this the first Sunday release for a game in a while? Why do it on a sunday?

"Big" Nintendo published games, like Mario or Pokemon or games that release alongside hardware (like Warioware DIY) get Sunday releases.

Recently Nintendo has been doing it with a lot of stuff for no rhyme or reason. In fact a Sunday game came out this week.

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