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[Namomura]

http://www.jeux-france.com/news20010_dragon-quest-ix-en-images.html

holly shi...

 

[Silicon Knight]

That does look really nice.

 

[AniHawk]

quite possibly the best looking game ever.

 

[Creamium]

DO WANT

 

[Magicpaint]

<3 <3 <3

 

[Dascu]

Pretty. Very pretty. Cannot wait to get my hands on this one.

 

[BlizzyAzz]

I said WOW!

 

[Reilly]

so...the combat isn't real-time anymore?

Spoiler

thank god

 

[65536]

Wasn't this supposed to be an action RPG now? (like Diablo) Looks turn-based in these shots.

 

[santouras]

SE are by far and away the most graphically talented developer on the DS. This game looks absolutely stunning

 

[cw_sasuke]

WTF - old school gameplay also ? plz translate

 

[Kurosaki Ichigo]

Thank god this is Level 5 and old good Armor Project. No way SE can .... this one up!

 

[E-phonk]

Anticipation: rising!

 

[Diomedeskun]

Wait, so it's not an Action RPG? Awesome graphics though.

 

[Jonnyram]

Wow... u-turn FTW.
Command system is back!!! <3

 

[SantaC]

someone mirror...

 

[acidviper]

2 cartridges confirmed

 

[Geoff9920]

Wow, that looks great! Can't wait.

Any new info in the text?

edit: Not realtime anymore? Hopefully someone can clarify.

 

[Tobor]

Looks so gooood.

 

[SantaC]

am I the only one who cant access the page?

 

[Magicpaint]

I love the character maker system!

Also it seems the turn based battles are for only single player while multi is the action based?

 

[Haunted]

I think this looks quite good. Maybe the first 256MB DS game?

 

[Vyse The Legend]

Wasn't this supposed to be an action RPG now? (like Diablo) Looks turn-based in these shots.

Yeah, looks like they changed it, which may explain the delay from the summer 2007 date. Now, it looks like a mix of real-time and traditional. You see the enemies on the field (thank god, random battles suck ass; sorry, DQ8) and can hit them for the advantage or w/e.

I think they had to change it for the online wifi to work. DS latency was probably too high to do 4-player real-time. Turn-based is much easier to do.

 

[DefectiveReject]

WOW
If they can do this on DS i can't wait to see FFCC Wii!!

Simply amazing!

 

[Saoh]

:O impressive.

 

[Reilly]

Also it seems the turn based battles are for only single player while multi is the action based?

probably a mix

 

[Creamium]

someone mirror...

 

[SantaC]

http://www.darunia.dommel.be/pics/DQIX.jpg

thanks a lot. It looks great

 

[Aadil]

2 cartridges confirmed

.

 

[arab]

:OOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[PolyGone]

customizable characters ala Miis? awesome!

looks like the battles are still turn-based, but players can take their turns all at once for speedy encounters! looks pretty sweet

best-looking portable RPG ever confirmed?

 

[El Papa]

Sickness. DS domination total. record breaking launch day.

 

[DCharlie]

this.... looks like it's just using the DQM engine.

With a little bit more art direction and the help of some grainy shots.

that's not to say it's not great - because DQM was great - but i'm guessing the games will look about the same.

 

[Grug]

So am I right in assuming that this will be the biggest selling handheld game of all time in Japan and there will be bloodshed in the streets on the day of its release?

 

[Vic]

translation please!!!

 

[tanasten]

Graphics are AWESOME. My God, I want more dev efforts on the DS

 

[Kafel]

In the bottom left corner, faces from all the characters ever created by Toriyama.

 

[DCharlie]

So am I right in assuming that this will be the biggest selling handheld game of all time in Japan and there will be bloodshed in the streets on the day of its release?

6 million sales bonanza coming right up!

 

[Vic]

In the bottom left corner, faces from all the characters ever created by Toriyama.

+1million unit sold

 

[marc^o^]

Sickness. DS domination total. record breaking launch day.

Indeed.

 

[Zweisy1]

Definitely one of the prettiest DS games so far.

SE are by far and away the most graphically talented developer on the DS. This game looks absolutely stunning

Well, Level 5 deserves the credit for these visuals not SE...

 

[plank]

Gameplay downgrade complete. :/

 

[Zerodoppler]

Looks oh so sweet! Bring this to the west or die!

 

[Matix]

customizable characters ala Miis? awesome!

looks like the battles are still turn-based, but players can take their turns all at once for speedy encounters! looks pretty sweet

best-looking DS RPG ever confirmed (IMO).

Fixed.

 

[Kreed]

Menu based combat returns. Not that I didn't like the idea of it being an action RPG, but now it's more like Dragon Quest.

Though I have a feeling the switch to menus had more to do with the game being online and Level 5 not being able to pull of an Action RPG on the DS. I wonder how the game will play online now that it's not an Action RPG? For example when a character runs into an enemy will everyone in the party go into a menu based battle or just the character that ran into the enemy?

 

[Kafel]

Does the scan say something about a DS-Wii link ?

 

[toypop]

There are no "action" factors at all, in what I can read in this article.
They probably removed all of ARPG systems.

 

[speedpop]

Interesting.

Instant buy.

 

[djtiesto]

Back to turn-based??? YESSSSSSS!!!!! I was so worried that the action RPG mechanics would get stale, fast. I guess enough Japanese gamers complained or something, and Horii was pretty much forced back into turn-based gameplay. But having enemies visible on the world map is definitely something I've wanted to see in DQ for a while (hell, nearly any turn based RPG). Graphics look nice for DS, as well.

 

[Geoff9920]

Looks oh so sweet! Bring this to the west or die!

Why wouldn't they?