MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Dragon Quest had a good run. But it seems the quest is at an end.
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Dragon Quest 1-8 coming to smartphones.
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I feel the same. I don't want them to fail. I realize that I am not part of the target audience and will insteand support other developers.
Square Enix and their games are no longer something I look forward to. The same goes to Capcom. If mobile phones/tablets are the market they are aiming for then good for them.
I couldn't care less.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
The iOS market might be large, but the market for a sub-premium priced RPG remake on that storefront isn't. Dragon Quest IX sold reasonably well on DS too.
NHarmonic.
Member
yep. shitty company. What a shame...
PixyJunket
Member
I wouldn't mind being able to sneak some DQ I-VI in at work, actually.
DrROBschiz
Member
OK I will reserve judgment until they are released
But i expect the development to be quick and dirty, low quality and god knows if it will be localized
The frustration with SE's direction is justified dude
DrROBschiz
Member
You know
I wouldn't be so mad if someone would make a successor to the Xperia play and if they bothered to patch in controller supported modes into the game.
Something about playing traditional games on a touchscreen just rubs me the wrong way even though Turn based RPGs should make perfect sense for Mobile.
Not a FAN of SE's DRM practices on their mobile titles either
I wouldn't be so mad if someone would make a successor to the Xperia play and if they bothered to patch in controller supported modes into the game.
Something about playing traditional games on a touchscreen just rubs me the wrong way even though Turn based RPGs should make perfect sense for Mobile.
Not a FAN of SE's DRM practices on their mobile titles either
RPGCrazied
Member
What? I wanted VIII to be on PS3 in HD. 
Who wants to play that on a small smartphone screen with touch controls?
Who wants to play that on a small smartphone screen with touch controls?
Minsc
Gold Member
What? I wanted VIII to be on PS3 in HD.
I presume people who own smartphones and don't mind touch controls?
Get the traditional audience to get used to play DQ games on their phones.
Magicpaint
Member
DQVIII unlike the 3DS remake of VII is a port, so it can't have cost much work to bring VIII. Plus I dunno, seems like 3DS will have a lot of trouble running VIII. I still think there's room for an VIII remake
on the next generation of mobiles/tablets.
RPGCrazied
Member
I guess, but VIII is a beautiful game. Just seems like a waste to play that game on a small screen.
This is where my confusion lays as well. They haven't done anything less than make a bucket of money with the DQ games on the DS and 3DS. Why not put DQ8 on a 3DS and charge $40 where there is no question of it selling millions? I think the most they could possibly get away with on mobile would be maybe $20 to $25.
It's probably a lot easier to put DQVIII on smartphones than on the 3DS. Keep in mind that modern phones are a lot more powerful than the 3DS.
Minsc
Gold Member
But it should actually run at higher res than a PS2, so the detail would be there, minus whatever sort of crazy cropping they use if there's no landscape support. Which is the biggest legitimate complaint I can see now, the screenshot in the OP looks more like an endless runner than a DQ game.
PixyJunket
Member
Hmm, if these have Game Center achievements on iOS, I'm all in.
HolyBaikal
Banned
More games for a touch-screen that I don't want to play with a touch-screen.
I wish there would be more devices developed like the Nvidia Shield, so that gamepad support for Android games would take off.
I wish there would be more devices developed like the Nvidia Shield, so that gamepad support for Android games would take off.
No PS4 will be too small in Japan to put out a mainline DQ game better make it for 3ds/phones or whatever handheld will be selling at the time of making the game
DQ on phones in Japan is nothing new, unless I'm remembering wrong I'm pretty sure old DQ games got Japanese phone ports years ago, probably even in the pre-iPhone age.
They will still need to cut/compress down on stuff to make the game download package fit in under 2GBs.
They will still need to cut/compress down on stuff to make the game download package fit in under 2GBs.
Teknopathetic
Member
My phone doesn't even have enough battery life to get to the first battle in DQ7.
PixyJunket
Member
You are correct, I and II have been on many phones prior to this.
StoppedInTracks
Member
The portrait mode even fits for a 3DS release:
Hehe, Square is trollin' 3DS fans.
Hehe, Square is trollin' 3DS fans.
PixyJunket
Member
City transformers can't even provide enough power (to any device) to get to the first battle in VII.
HolyBaikal
Banned
I feel like people wouldn't feel this way, if "mobile" didn't have such a flawed history.
People don't like playing games on a touch-screen. And neither do I.
But if the PlayStation Vita was running a modified version of Android rather than FreeBSD, would people really have a problem with it?
I want to believe that what people don't like about mobile is games like Final Fantasy All The Bravest.
This is something Microsoft should have made a deal with them to have done, along with achievement filled versions of the first 12 Final Fantasies, in order to get some respect in Japan.
Regardless it's pretty f-ed up that no xbla, psn versions are coming.
I HATE square enix. Deus Ex the Fall should have been an indication of their intentions.
Regardless it's pretty f-ed up that no xbla, psn versions are coming.
I HATE square enix. Deus Ex the Fall should have been an indication of their intentions.
Mechanized
Member
This is what I'm wondering. It's not like they announced DQ11 for smart phones. They're just ports.
I don't even think the bolded bit is true. Vocal enthusiasts on an internet forum don't like playing on touch screens. Nobody else seems to give a shit. To the young 'uns growing up today, touchscreens are probably a far more natural interface than a lump of plastic covered in buttons and sticks.
I agree with your last bit though, the bit people should really take issue with are the exploitative business models that are ripe in mobile gaming. I'm hoping that higher priced 'complete' games will come to achieve such popularity that F2P with exploitative IAP is relegated to Candy Crush style games.
No way in hell would we have a problem if that were true. In fact if vita ran a modified version of Android and allowed me to make calls. I would buy 9 of them.
I find all the reactions here funny. I mean SE has been doing stuff like this for years now, it's not long away from the point where everything will crash and burn for them.
Dude it's already happening lol.
Dude it's already happening lol.
Better start raging then
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Takamura-San
Member
What is the reaction in Japan for this?
HolyBaikal
Banned
I don't know about that. I've tried playing a lot of games on the touch screen.
It just doesn't have the same degree of precision and control needed.
Maybe on a large tablet where touch accuracy is vastly improved from the $300 tablet of today. Could touch buttons be equal or approaching equal to actual buttons. But that's not what I've experienced, personally.
What it all comes down to, is would you want to try to beat the Yellow Devil from Mega Man with a touch screen? As thing currently stand, I certainly wouldn't. And I'm not sure it would be "natural" for anyone.
Takamura-San
Member
Do Squeenix games support the Gameklip?
I dig the precision thing. Hell, even Apple seem to with the advent of a controller standard. I'm just not convinced that 'people don't want to play on touchscreens' is true. If 'people' didn't, mobile gaming wouldn't have trampled handheld gaming in such a short time.
I'm not saying for one second that touchscreens are better, just that they're good enough for many, many people.