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Dragon Quest VIII announced for 3DS
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PumpkinSpice
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Maybe. I was pretty pessimistic but DQH is coming so maybe.
If we're really lucky Square Enix will go crazy and flood western 3DSes with DQ7, DQ8, DQ11, DQM1,2 and find a way to make DQ10 work in this market... but maybe I'll just stick with learning Nihongo.
nrvalleytime
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That makes complete sense - it's a bit too early to announce it, but I wonder if they'd make it part of the E3 lineup.
sörine;163748692 said:
The 70k pages is (probably) from the scenario books. They are not typed text. They look like this:
It's handwritten with diagrams, lots of white space.
Saint Anima
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Although a HD remaster of this would have been awesome, I wouldn't turn this down if it actually gets localized.
Well, I certainly didn't expect this but I am happy to hear it and I hope it comes west. I thought I was done with the 3ds for good. I haven't played mine in over 4 months, but if this comes west and Nintendo has a great 3ds line up at E3, I might have to turn my OG aqua blue 3ds back on.
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Heroes might be a bit different since most if not all musou games from Koei come out over here.
Tizoc
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What you tellin' me they're not internally localizing KH3 and FF15? Are Sony doing the localization in their stead @_@
People never shut up in Fantasy Life, I'll believe any word count.
While dialogue does change often in DQ VII and its a huge game, they don't say a lot unlike the Trails in the Sky games.
Animal Crossing also has an unbelievable amount of text, and they just keep upping it with new installments which add new personality types.
While dialogue does change often in DQ VII and its a huge game, they don't say a lot unlike the Trails in the Sky games.
Animal Crossing also has an unbelievable amount of text, and they just keep upping it with new installments which add new personality types.
The interview with Enix about the script length doesn't really go in to full detail about the contents of its 70,000 pages so unless a full script is eventually released, then none of us really know for sure.
PumpkinSpice
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The 70k figure is Hori's (and others?) scenario design pages. This is what's in the famous binder pic. Should look like this (from DQ6):Well depending on how many words you consider it taking to fill a page those 2 pieces of info could both be true if we're talking one of those childrens books with massive lettering and tiny pages it could easily be 70k pages
uncredited male
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Eventually the petitions for localization will just ask Nintendo and never mention SE.
You're right that it's incomplete, he states he's only about halfway so probably closer to 500k words. That doesn't make 70k pages though, it makes 2k.
Sammy Samusu
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Should we care?
Square Enix can die.
Square Enix can die.
Unless they pack VII and VIII for the western release. Perfect for E3!
I think we're already there after Bravely Default.
Zippedpinhead
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Please come to America...
The iOS version sucks so much and I really want to play it on the go.
I'm not counting chickens or anything but this needs to happen
The iOS version sucks so much and I really want to play it on the go.
I'm not counting chickens or anything but this needs to happen
CamHostage
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Quite strange to me that they went to the trouble of porting this game again to the only platform that cannot use the engine (Unity) they ported to just a little bit ago... I'm also curious how 3DS will cope, though DS/3DS have done well with the cel look in the past, I'm not sure how complex the underlying architecture is in DQ8. Seems like they would have done this earlier if it was doable in the past (and it's again strange that it's not a N3DS product given that there's a fair doubt it'll run well,) but Square Logic is not normal logic. In any case, it's always nice to have large-scale RPGs in a to-go form.
It was DQ XI, which is the Dragon Quest Online game, that was online-based. It ran on a server and streamed to 3DS (and iPhone/Android), much like PlayStation Now or OnLive.
Also, the mobile version was rebuilt and reorganized to run in vertical mode (unless a patch has been released?) and that would be an odd arrangement (if viable at all, even if you give away 3D viewing) with 3DS. It was also configured for touch, which wouldn't work on 3DS with the two panes. You could spin it back around in the process of port and re-rig the context controls, but it'd be another thing.
sörine;163742113 said:
It was DQ XI, which is the Dragon Quest Online game, that was online-based. It ran on a server and streamed to 3DS (and iPhone/Android), much like PlayStation Now or OnLive.
Also, the mobile version was rebuilt and reorganized to run in vertical mode (unless a patch has been released?) and that would be an odd arrangement (if viable at all, even if you give away 3D viewing) with 3DS. It was also configured for touch, which wouldn't work on 3DS with the two panes. You could spin it back around in the process of port and re-rig the context controls, but it'd be another thing.
Regardless of what the interview says, we have the text. It's in the game data. We know how much there is. There's a complete script dump for the 3DS version and it pales in comparison to stuff like Kiseki. DQ7 does have a lot of text, but it is not significantly more than other RPGs anymore.
Velcro Fly
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I'd easily have paid $50 for DQ7 on the 3DS if it were in English.
Mr. Nice_Guy
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Give the rest of the world VII and VIII. The 3DS basically prints money, and these are two of the best games in the series. You bothered localizing all the others for the DS, don't stop when you get to the best two.
Didn't DQ9 (the only one of those properly marketed) sell over a million in the west?
Right. I have no hope for DQVIII when Square Enix is still dead silent on no brainers like Bravely Second or FF Explorers. I want to believe but man it's getting hard.
You're wrong. People never shut up in that game and always change what they are saying. One of the biggest complaints against the game is how much people natter on during the story segments.
sörine;163750045 said:
Don't worry about Bravely Second, Nintendo was quite pleased with that and if SE won't bring it over Nintendo would love to. FF Explorers isn't that old either and I think still has a chance because of better brand cache over here.
sensui-tomo
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it could be on 3ds and ps4, just like ni no kuni did, (well for its respected platforms). so there is a precedence for it. But on topic, I wonder if they added more monsters for the monster arena, raise thing.
Dragon Quest Heroes is coming out over here, how is that killing DQ?
Why do fans get blamed? Fans are the ones that buy the games in the first place! I got DQ4/5/6/9/Joker 2 just like I got Yakuza/2/3/4 so what blame could I ever possibly receive o.o?
It's worth mentioning that said localizing did not go smoothly. Square Enix basically abandoned the series, VI almost got cancelled, and then Nintendo came in and handled IX. VI and Joker 2 flopped though.
There's a reason DQ games hit a wall here, as far as releases. That reason was years ago though. It's certainly worth giving it another shot given the differences from then to now.
Sammy Samusu
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I can totally see this making use of the N3DS, just like MH4U did.
Last I saw, they only had access to the script, but don't have the entire script itself yet?
If it is true that Fantasy Life's script is larger (which I still don't believe), it just makes me even more upset. :/
……forgetit
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Never coming to the US -_-
SweetTeddie
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I was debating between buying the PS2 version or waiting for a remaster. This is...kinda inbetween. If it has no compromises compared to the original I'll happily play the new version (if it's localized).
Really? You can find the PS2 version for like 20$ a used copy if you want to play it badly
Well it still might, seeing this is a company that has even brought over another HD remix of X to PS4 and I can't Imagine KH is not that far off from coming.
metalslimer
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Was really hoping this would be saved for NX
Tizoc
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That would require one to still own a PS2 or have a pc/lappy good enough to emulate the game.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Hey now dont beg. Besides it is on the ps2
nckillthegrimace
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I remember something about Square giving Nintendo the choice between localizing DQ7 and BD and not both. Nintendo went with BD. Need to find the source for it so hold on.
Edit: Here we go
From the DQ7 thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=587921
IIRC, that's not actually true.
Here's my dumb theory: all Dragon Quest localization projects were halted because of a combination of poor spinoff sales and the fact that there's no way that DQX would be localized since it's an MMO that requires ongoing support. Because of that, there's nothing to sort of rally all these spinoffs around, so everything's on hold until the next mainline game appears.
Obvious hole in this theory: the deluge of iOS ports, DQ Heroes. Explained away by the ability to use existing localizations on most of the iOS releases and the relative lack of text in DQ Heroes. iOS versions are also a completely different market. DQ Heroes could also be the first step in a more comprehensive plan (hahaha).
Godzilla's Left Toe
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Holy shit
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