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Dragon Quest 9 |OT| Last chance* to shine
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Easystride
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Sticky thread on Cheapassgamer.Loto said:
Wow. I'm so glad that text was bolded and even in RED.
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Ah well, my sweetie bought one on Amazon on cheap (11 bucks) and now he's encouraging to go ahead and get another one at TRU for their gift card. IE he'll play the TRU copy while I'll play the shipped copy 4 days after.
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Ah well, my sweetie bought one on Amazon on cheap (11 bucks) and now he's encouraging to go ahead and get another one at TRU for their gift card. IE he'll play the TRU copy while I'll play the shipped copy 4 days after.
speedpop said:
I don't think anybody does. The only information I can find is "August"
Just import it. Word is that copies from any region can communicate with one another, so you shouldn't be missing anything if the game does get popular here and tons of people are out playing the Australian version in a month.
antispin said:
In my experiences, pre-orders of US games don't usually ship for a week after release. They have to get their stock from the US shipped to Hong Kong first, then sent out to everyone who pre-ordered.
Freyjadour
Member
Easystride said:
Closest one to me is participating. I'm torn between wanting to be the only person there and not wanting to be. Midnight Openings are awkward enough.
commanderdeek said:
You won't be the only one. I'll be making sure to have it on in tag mode whenever I'm in the city or on public transport and not actually playing. Hopefully I'll bump into at least one person, although I'm not holding my breath until the game gets a proper Aussie release.
vagabondarts
Member
Philthy said:
I think it's working... A friend of mine that works at a gamestop I usually hit was telling me
people are buying DS systems just for this game and pre-ordering the game like crazy. He said it has caught him totally by surprise.
Maybe it will work out and tag mode will actually be somewhat feasible in N.A.
Anyone else hearing anything similar where you are?
vagabondarts said:
It'd be nice, but I still don't have high hopes for this not backfiring even if it sells.
For now I'm going to be really impressed if I manage to get at least five people with tag mode outside of a Gamestop event.
Mejilan said:
I think people quickly discovered a bunch of the treasure map bosses and other content that way, so I assume it's possible.
vagabondarts
Member
Mejilan said:
If that is true, then that is a relief
I hope I will be able to find this on Sunday. It's a Nintendo game so it should be available everywhere right? I live in a very small city so I hope Nintendo handled the distribution of this one like it was one of their Mario or Pokémon games. At worst it will give me more time to complete my Innocent Sin playthrough.
vagabondarts
Member
Hex said:
I think it's more of a last resort if I can't find anyone around here thats playing it and I want to enable the content down the road.
Sammy Samusu
Member
"With players able to act independently of each other, you can choose to explore the world together in order to find rare and valuable items... or alone, knowing that friends are around if you need them."
EDGE - 9/10
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=254838
EDGE - 9/10
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=254838
Fantastical
Death Prophet
I think I'll actually get this with that Toys R Us deal. I've been wanting to get into the JRPG genre as of late, and this seems like a good way to do it.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Myself and a friend both have copies pre-ordered for co-op play, but I just realized:
If there's less than 4 human players, can the host still select CPU characters from his host-world party to fill in the empty slots?
I'd imagine so, as some tough battles would be impossible with only two, or three, party members when they were designed for 4...
If there's less than 4 human players, can the host still select CPU characters from his host-world party to fill in the empty slots?
I'd imagine so, as some tough battles would be impossible with only two, or three, party members when they were designed for 4...
vagabondarts
Member
yes you can, the recent nintendo week video highlights this. You simply hire a class of character at the pub and design them yourself to adventure with you.
Pretty spiffy
Pretty spiffy
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
vagabondarts said:yes you can, the recent nintendo week video highlights this. You simply hire a class of character at the pub and design them yourself to adventure with you.
Pretty spiffy
Thank you! Xcite +10 (on top of 9999)
vagabondarts
Member
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G15qF10hh7c
it's a weird show but I've been mostly in the dark about the mechanics of the game and I didn't know we would be able to make our own custom party members.
ROCK!
story spoiler warning on that video about 3:30.
The part of the video with the party creation starts about 5:00
it's a weird show but I've been mostly in the dark about the mechanics of the game and I didn't know we would be able to make our own custom party members.
ROCK!
story spoiler warning on that video about 3:30.
The part of the video with the party creation starts about 5:00
teekun said:
I'd rather just be playing the game.
Otherwise, the system will be off to conserve on battery life.
I've fiddled with the tag modes of other games, and found the feature unequivocally stupid.
Not a fan of holding content hostage to such a ridiculous mode.
Thus... content-unlocking cheat codes to the rescue!
Mejilan said:
I guess conserving battery life is an issue, but seeing as I end up charging my DS every day when I'm using it regularly, I don't have much of a problem with that. Sure I'd rather be actively playing it, but if I'm somewhere that I can't play, yet have my DS on me, why not put it in tag mode?
As for holding content hostage... it's randomly generated. I suppose they could include a random map generator that lets you create them yourself, but that kind of destroys the social aspect of trading maps with nice rewards, and so on.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
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Much thanks for posting the Toys R Us deal!
I don't like these kind of features. If you want to lock content and make it available only in multiplayer, at least make it online multiplayer. None of my friends are getting this so it's kinda frustrating. Also pretty sure that using tag mode while walking around where I live won't net me anything either.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
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I agree with you here.Vamphuntr said:
But I hope the single player is just as lengthy and satisfying as the other DQ remakes. I think the NP review said the single player content is the equivalent to those. Let's hope that's true.
That'll be fine by me, but I'd still be bummed out that I won't be able to play more than half of the game's content just because I don't have any friends to play with.
In theory tag mode sounds pretty sweet, maybe you've taken a trip into town or something and played your DS on the bus, popped it into tag mode and put it in your pocket. Then when you get on the bus back or when you're back at home and start it up again there's a new adventure waiting. Sadly the reality is I'll get bugger all because I doubt there'd be anyone else to do that over here.