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[Vargas]

Is Dragon Quest 8 as long as DQ7? I hope it doesn't take as long to get to build up abilities.

 

[Dragona Akehi]

Actually no, warrior is be official and forever dropped.

Are you sure? The original reason why they went with "Warrior" in NA is because "Dragon Quest" was already copyrighted by a fellow who wrote PnP RPGs (he also wrote the story for the atrocious Aidyn's Chronicles).

Has SE bought permission for the "DQ" moniker then?

 

[Mrbob]

Are you sure? The original reason why they went with "Warrior" in NA is because "Dragon Quest" was already copyrighted by a fellow who wrote PnP RPGs (he also wrote the story for the atrocious Aidyn's Chronicles).

Has SE bought permission for the "DQ" moniker then?

Did you *read* the interview linked on the first page?

Plz dont hurt me.

The interview said the issues had been worked out.

 

[Dragona Akehi]

No, I've been busy.

 

[Pellham]

From the interview,

Gamespy: Is there any pressure to adapt to the success of Final Fantasy which is very full motion video heavy, very plot heavy whereas Dragon Quest is more gameplay oriented, more dungeon oriented.

YH: Just watching visuals isn't what makes games fun, I think it's the experience is what matters, living the characters' lives is what's important. Making a virtual world that you can experience is very important to me. Rather than using the evolving hardware for graphics its more about the experience, it's better to experience the game than just look at the game.

This is why DQ rocks so much. Horii is the man.

 

[Erdrick]

I didn't work on any of the DW games, no. I had a couple of good friends at Enix though, so it's possible my name might have been mentioned somewhere? But I don't think so -- at least if it was, I didn't know about it. Send me a screenshot if you ever come across it again.

Well, I know I have seen your name on a few games I have beaten at the end. It's been so many games and so long though... I'll take a look again and see what I can find.

In any event, I think all this extra tweaking is nothing but good news. I can't wait till November. (Hopefully I can actually beat SMT: Nocturne by then...)

 

[jiggle]

It's easy to navigate and has nice-looking graphics for all your items.
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??
Are you saying each item has a distinct picture?? Nice.

 

[duckroll]

duck - I guess we'll just have to disagree on this one. DQ8 is more than modern enough to suit today's RPG fans, IMO. The new menus and voices and such only serve to make it an even better game than it already was in Japan. I really can't wait. In fact, I'm not gonna play the Japanese one anymore -- I'll just wait and play it in English now. It's so much better now, I can't see myself going back.

See I was going to defend my stand on the changes when you said this........ but then you had to go and say THIS:

Oh, BTW - not sure if anyone mentioned this or not, but the US version will have a 16:9 mode. It was in the E3 demo's settings screen.

Now I'm torn... because that does sound really awesome. Damn you!!

 

[Kintaro]

I can see the perplexed looks on the faces of the general populace at seeing "Dragon Quest VIII" on the shleves. "WTF happened to 1-7?" (yes, I know 7 hit here, but it was a low key release and I doubt anyone will care to remember).

Anyways, I just wanna play this game, but I seriously doubt this game will be any sort of a big seller here.

 

[Azure Dream]

That happened with FFVII ("What happened to 4-6?"), but it might work positively for DQ; if a series has made it all the way up to 8, that most likely hints to a buyer that it's had strong commercial success, and has probably been polished over the years into well-received games.

Tomb Raider almost destroys this theory, but then, most of the recent ones aren't numbered.

Still, though, just using "Dragon Quest" and the subtitle would probably work best for this one.

 

[Tamanon]

I can see the perplexed looks on the faces of the general populace at seeing "Dragon Quest VIII" on the shleves. "WTF happened to 1-7?" (yes, I know 7 hit here, but it was a low key release and I doubt anyone will care to remember).

Anyways, I just wanna play this game, but I seriously doubt this game will be any sort of a big seller here.

I don't think gamers will be "I won't get fooled again! Damn you Leonard Part Six!"

 

[Azure Dream]

Watched G4 tonight on a whim (wow, nothing like two bad episodes of X-Play back-to-back to make you forsake the network again, even after their excellent E3 coverage), and Cinematech was airing E3 2005 trailers, including an English one for DQ8, which called it "Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King"... Not to be odd, but wasn't the original Japanese subtitle something like "The Sky, the Sea, and the Cursed Princess"?

 

[Shouta]

Yeah, the original title was "The Sky, The Sea, The Earth and the Cursed Princess" (more or less).

 

[Pellham]

it doesn't matter if the number is in the title or not, what's going to sell the game is marketing and positive reviews. i have faith that this will be the best selling DQ game since Dragon Warrior in the US.

 

[Azure Dream]

So... not that I want a big spoiler, but is there both a cursed King _and_ a cursed Princess in the plot, or are they trying to lead on the US gamers to not give away that it's a princess, or... are they getting unnervingly "creative" with their localization work?

 

[demi]

It has a Dragon King. THEY ALL HAVE DRAGON KINGS!

Ok I dunno, I've only really played DW1, 3, and 7.

 

[Jonnyram]

Oh man, I'm like 5 hours away from completing the Japanese version and they go and drop this on me. I'm gonna have to import the US version now. British voices will rock.

BTW, the item pics already exist for pretty much everything in the recipe pages. I don't know if they need to add many more or not, but it will be nice to see the new menu interface. Are there any screens online that show it? Mmmm, widescreen too. Hope they fix the tearing issues, but it's no biggy if they don't.

 

[JackFrost2012]

So... not that I want a big spoiler, but is there both a cursed King _and_ a cursed Princess in the plot, or are they trying to lead on the US gamers to not give away that it's a princess, or... are they getting unnervingly "creative" with their localization work?

Explanation of title (Not a spoiler AT ALL, but spoiler-tagged anyways):

Spoiler

Troide is the king who was cursed along with the princess. The princess is the horse.

You learn this in the first like 3 minutes of the game.

 

[JackFrost2012]

Anyways, I just wanna play this game, but I seriously doubt this game will be any sort of a big seller here.

Yes, because FFVII was such a sales disaster in the States?

...

::BIG MOTHERFUCKING EYEROLL::

Do you people think about these things before you say them?

 

[Shouta]

I almost had a picture of the interface but a Square-Enix nutbag got his hand in the way just as I took the picture. I got a blurry shot of the in battle menu redesign from faraway though.

 

[Alex]

Dost thou love me?
>No.
But thou must!
Dost thou love me?
>No.
But thou must!
Dost thou love me?
>No.
But thou must!

It's Dragon Warrior, damnit, my childhood decrees it.

Anyhow, I think it'll do well. If the minimal effort Enix USA put forth brought down well over 100k for DWVII, then I assume Square-Enix will do quite well with the heavier push for DQVIII.

 

[Cheerilee]

I think those changes are all kinds of awesome. W00t w00t. Now announce DQ5r, you whores.

I think that the last time I saw it mentioned, Enix said that they might consider thinking about bringing it over. Maybe. Depending on how well DQ8 sells.

I really don't buy Enix's excuse about Heartbeat not properly documenting their work or whatever that was, and nobody else in the entire videogame industry being able to be hired to reverse-engineer what they wrote, in order to install the English translation of DQ4r. Considering that DQ7 had just bombed over here (by their reckoning). They just used Heartbeat's departure as a very-convenient excuse to can the game.

Personally, I think the reason Dragon Quest is so dead in America is because Enix just expects their games to do as well over here as they do in Japan, and when that doesn't happen, they give up on us and give us the shaft. Every now and then they just turn their attention back to America again and ask "Hey, have you magically decided that you love us yet?"

Has SE bought permission for the "DQ" moniker then?

About a year ago, the trademark on "Dragon Quest" being held by that pen-and-paper RPG company expired from lack of use. A swarm of Square-Enix lawyers literally dove on top of the name within minutes of it's expiry, trademarking it for themselves.