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[Aeana]

Faster battles please.

DQ7 has really fast battles, provided you turn up the text speed in battle. I'll be disappointed if they don't keep them as fast in the remake.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Enough content for 2 games eh? My 3DS is ready.

 

[Zee-Row]

Its hard to get excited when the chances of this being in English are very low.

 

[bomma_man]

Play 5 if you can find it.

Amazon's the only place with any of them and they don't ship games to Aus

 

[ScreenSplitter]

Its hard to get excited when the chances of this being in English are very low.

Why would a game that's been announced for Japan be in English? Patience my friend. It'll come. Maybe.

 

[frankie_baby]

Its hard to get excited when the chances of this being in English are very low.

Really? I'd be shocked if this wasn't localised

 

[Man God]

The last time I played all the games was right before 8 came out.

It took me the same amount of play time to beat 1-5 and about a third of 6 as it did for me to clear 7.

 

[zroid]

How does 7 stack up as far as DQ goes? I'm not too familiar with the series.

 

[Alboreo]

7's the only main-series Dragon Quest I haven't played other than 10, so this is great news (assuming it is localized).

 

[RPGamer92]

Localize this shit ASAP Square

 

[P90]

So, is DQ VII coming to the 3DS like AC III/CoD coming to the Vita?

Spoiler

j/k. I will hold out (false) hope that DQ VIII comes to the Vita.

 

[Nirolak]

DQ7 has really fast battles, provided you turn up the text speed in battle. I'll be disappointed if they don't keep them as fast in the remake.

Yeah, the lack of that was half the reason I almost fell asleep playing DQIX.

The MMO-iness being the other.

I say this even as someone who likes MMOs and plays more multiplayer games than singleplayer.

 

[Magicpaint]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS FINALLY

but the monster sprites are awesome

Love them in IV, V & VI DS, but 3D would be nice as long as it's DQV PS2 level of effort.

 

[Aeana]

How does 7 stack up as far as DQ goes? I'm not too familiar with the series.

Dragon Quest is an incredibly consistent series. Unlike Final Fantasy, you'll find that the majority of Dragon Quest fans like all of the games and the things that elevate them up and down in personal rankings tend to be smaller things. DQ7 is not really any different - it's a very good game, although too long for its own good. It's one of my favorites, personally.

 

[Kenai]

I disagree slightly on this; the beginning up until the first battle is poorly paced and it takes far too long to unlock class changing. Besides that though? I basically agree.

Also it has enough content for 3 games.

Yea, if class changing had been unlocked sooner and was less punishing for situations like I described in my spoiler I probably wouldn't have had many other issues.

 

[luca1980]

DQ7 has really fast battles, provided you turn up the text speed in battle. I'll be disappointed if they don't keep them as fast in the remake.

Faster than 8 and 9 sure. As fast as remakes my memory fails probably.
Anyway lets hope this remake runs as smooth as the other ds remakes.
Dqvii was the most charming IMHO.

 

[Gambit]

DQ7 has really fast battles, provided you turn up the text speed in battle. I'll be disappointed if they don't keep them as fast in the remake.

someone should have told me that way back when. I had the text speed on medium, if not slower (as I feared my English wasn't good enough).

 

[ohlawd]

So we'll probably have to wait until Q4 2013 for the English version huh? I can wait... I can wait.

 

[robotnik]

Its hard to get excited when the chances of this being in English are very low.

wat. I'd say 100%

 

[Mitama]

Wow, who would've thought they'd ever remake such a huge game. Great news!

 

[Kenai]

I think that was roughly where I stopped...I got tired of grinding for job levels.

I *think* I was almost to the end.

Spoiler

I remember flying into the big tower endgame thing on the spaceship and promptly having my ass handed to me on a platter by the first random encounter I had. A trio of Zombie? Dragons who resisted/nulled literally everything I threw at them owned me so badly it still stings a bit. I didn't feel like checking to see if there was something I (probably) skipped, I played that game for ages and that encounter just crushed my remaining spirit

 

[Bjoern the Smexy]

Theatrhythm Chrono

Please don't toy with my heart.


Also I think that the chance of this being localized is 100%.

 

[Aeana]

wat. I'd say 100%

Even after the poor sales of the remakes on DS and the passing of DQM 3DS and Slime Morimori 3?

 

[Brazil]

Yeah, the lack of that was half the reason I almost fell asleep playing DQIX.

The MMO-iness being the other.

I say this even as someone who likes MMOs and plays more multiplayer games than singleplayer.

I broke my old DS because I dropped it after falling asleep while playing DQIX.

 

[Takao]

I see I'm not the only one who has fallen asleep playing a Dragon Quest game. I have also fallen asleep playing Blue Dragon.

 

[Man God]

Even after the poor sales of the remakes on DS and the passing of DQM 3DS and Slime Morimori 3?

Do we actually know that they've passed on DQM 3DS? Rocket Slme 3 I'll give you.

 

[Perfo]

That was... kinda unexpected. I mean it's an unexpected that Square Enix announces a title on Jump and together with it the release date so close to the announcement. Things are really changing there, aren't they?

edit. from the first images it appears to use the "Monsters 3d" remake engine... it looks ugly.

 

[Pepboy]

Even after the poor sales of the remakes on DS and the passing of DQM 3DS and Slime Morimori 3?

But but but... didn't they do reprints of V at some point? DQJoker did do poorly (surprised they localized 2), but how were sales of IX?

 

[Cactus]

Even after the poor sales of the remakes on DS and the passing of DQM 3DS and Slime Morimori 3?

Do you know for certain that DQM was passed on? I would be really surprised if we don't get that.

 

[frankie_baby]

Even after the poor sales of the remakes on DS and the passing of DQM 3DS and Slime Morimori 3?

I didn't think the remakes sold too bad and its too soon to rule out monsters, rocket slime however never stood much chance it just looks like a ds game (wasn't it ported up last minute before release?)

 

[cullenx]

There's a scan up on tinycartridge.com

it looks great, not just a port, but with full 3D characters now. I want.

 

[Magicpaint]

Oh, I'm still clinging unto hope that DQM 3DS is still coming :\

 

[Ainaurdur]

I'm still hoping for more monster raising adventures with Terry in English. Don't care if my hope is misguided.

 

[frankie_baby]

But but but... didn't they do reprints of V at some point? DQJoker did do poorly (surprised they localized 2), but how were sales of IX?

9 sold pretty well at least in Europe, they even ran new adverts for it 6 months after release

 

[CronoShot]

I remember renting DQVII a long long time ago. 11 year old me thought it was garbage. I played it for like an hour and had no idea what to do.

I'll give it another try if it gets localized. Although DQVI and Joker 2 bombed IIRC, so I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they didn't localize it.

 

[donny2112]

So does that make the XX million Nintendo announcement 7.77m? :lol

 

[Winnie the Pimp]

The last time I played all the games was right before 8 came out.

It took me the same amount of play time to beat 1-5 and about a third of 6 as it did for me to clear 7.

damnit this game is THAT long?

is it good/worth it at least then?

 

[Absoludacrous]

By far my favorite DQ game. I will be so crushed if it doesn't make it to the US.

 

[Mpl90]

So does that make the XX million Nintendo announcement 7.77m? :lol

Going by Famitsu...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|System | This Week | Last Week | Last Year | YTD | Last YTD | LTD |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 3DS # | 60.033 | 78.401 | 75.386 | 3.578.548 | 2.158.416 | 7.714.287 |
| PS3 | 22.306 | 28.010 | 23.419 | 990.611 | 1.107.384 | 8.407.759 |
| PSP # | 15.179 | 15.107 | 21.707 | 721.994 | 1.567.070 | 18.959.102 |
| PSV | 7.031 | 7.028 | | 566.530 | | 969.324 |
| WII | 3.596 | 4.238 | 12.516 | 427.182 | 642.753 | 12.594.925 |
| 360 | 1.937 | 5.151 | 1.459 | 53.969 | 95.715 | 1.574.707 |
| PS2 | 339 | 286 | 689 | 20.783 | 51.228 | 21.975.074 |
| NDS # | 168 | 159 | 1.818 | 26.099 | 690.328 | 32.861.601 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| ALL | 110.589 | 138.380 | 136.994 | 6.385.716 | 6.312.894 | 105.056.779 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| DSi | 168 | 159 | 1.818 | 26.099 | 663.449 | 8.271.297 |
| PSP | 15.179 | 15.107 | 21.707 | 721.994 | 1.546.947 | 18.798.527 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

...Yes, it seems 3DS did around 60k and so, 7.77 millions. Here we go :lol

 

[Pyrrhus]

I'm torn. On the one hand, this looks beautiful. On the other, even if they do localize it (not by any means guaranteed), they'll obliterate the slice of life charm with another trying-way-too-hard localization full of joke names, shitty cartoon accents, and wall-to-wall puns at inappropriate times.

 

[Aeana]

I didn't think the remakes sold too bad and its too soon to rule out monsters, rocket slime however never stood much chance it just looks like a ds game (wasn't it ported up last minute before release?)

They did. 4 and 5 sold so poorly that it caused SE to bail out on DQ in western markets. 6 would not have come had Nintendo not picked it up. And then 6 didn't do very well at all, either.

9 did very well, but that isn't something to look at if you want to see the chances of another remake coming out, honestly.

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damnit this game is THAT long?

is it good/worth it at least then?[/QUOTE]

The game is fairly long, but I think what Man God said is misleading, since DQ1-5 are all fairly short games. Each can be beaten in less than 20 hours apiece.
Honestly, anybody who is willing to play a game like Persona 3 or 4 should have no problems with DQ7.

 

[jj984jj]

Why wouldn't they localize this? They could even go the lazy route and tweak the original localization with this one if they didn't want to spend much on it.

 

[brandonh83]

I'm sure this will come to the west very shortly after!

 

[Kenai]

Even after the poor sales of the remakes on DS and the passing of DQM 3DS and Slime Morimori 3?

It stands a good chance I think considering it is the 3DS and not DS, still pretty early in the 3DS life and they might be more ambitious.

I don't think your pessimism is totally unwarranted, unfortunately.

 

[DJSharpeCheddar]

damnit this game is THAT long?

is it good/worth it at least then?

I believe Shane "DraQue" Bettenhausen once claimed "...you literally can't beat this game in under 100 hours".

I'm paraphrasing, but I remember raising an eyebrow when he said that on some podcast or another.

 

[Aeana]

Why wouldn't they localize this? They could even go the lazy route and tweak the original localization with this one if they didn't want to spend much on it.

They're going to be adding lots of stuff in the remake, so using the original translation would be difficult (and dumb, since it isn't very good at all).

I believe Shane "DraQue" Bettenhausen once claimed "...you literally can't beat this game in under 100 hours".

I'm paraphrasing, but I remember raising an eyebrow when he said that on some podcast or another.

It takes me about 60.

 

[donny2112]

The problem is that it has enough content for 2+ games,

So they'll remake the first game's worth and sell the second game's worth via DLC. BOOM More profitable than FFXI!

 

[frankie_baby]

They did. 4 and 5 sold so poorly that it caused SE to bail out on DQ in western markets. 6 would not have come had Nintendo not picked it up. And then 6 didn't do very well at all, either.

9 did very well, but that isn't something to look at if you want to see the chances of another remake coming out, honestly.



The game is fairly long, but I think what Man God said is misleading, since DQ1-5 are all fairly short games. Each can be beaten in less than 20 hours apiece.
Honestly, anybody who is willing to play a game like Persona 3 or 4 should have no problems with DQ7.

I remember seeing 6 in the UK charts, which for a ds RPG was quite good

 

[Lambtron]

Even after the poor sales of the remakes on DS and the passing of DQM 3DS and Slime Morimori 3?

Wait, was Slime Morimori 3 officially passed on? I've been holding out hope all this time

 

[Heropon]

They could rename this game as Dragon Quest X in Europe and market it as a new game!