Dragon Quest IX

[Correction]

Needs its own thread.

Trailer's Out.

Fucking ridiculously pretty game for a DS title. It looks as good as VIII did.

http://kotaku.com/5064337/here-is-th...ix-tgs-trailer

[Katlan]

If it's as CS heavy as the teaser trailer made it seem, how the hell they gonna fit that into a cartridge. dual cartridge DS games?

[Correction]

Call me crazy but it looks like they render a lot of the CSs live. I really don't know 100% because they're using lighting effects I have until now assumed were impossible on the DS hardware.

[Kiarax]

They could just use a 256 MB cartridge. FFIV was only 100~ MB and although this looks like it could be alot bigger I can't see it going that high. Game looks fantastic graphically though, that's for sure.

[Katlan]

Call me crazy but it looks like they render a lot of the CSs live. I really don't know 100% because they're using lighting effects I have until now assumed were impossible on the DS hardware.

The CS's look like a mix of real time w/pre-rendered (i.e Cell shaded) backgrounds akin to how FF8 did things. But they really made that trailer seem very CS heavy (w/will be an amazing thing if its true) in how it panned to cell shaded stuff for bar scene, mobs, ect... a lot of stuff you wouldn't do if your production values weren't through the roof.

[Rokku]

Holy fuck that trailer is amazing. Why do they keep stuff like this to private theaters? I'm way more psyched for this after seeing that, lol.

[Xavier]

Certainly does look pretty good.

I think the Dragon Quest experience should translate better to a handheld too, where its 20 year old gameplay is much less of an issue to me.

[Charla]

I'd like to point out that I recently played through DQ8 for the second time and enjoyed it, but I can understand why many would prefer a less anachronistic style of both gameplay and plot design.

[Firedemon]

Fuck the DS....so many good games on that thing and I'm lacking one. Needs to be on PS3

[Correction]

I didn't buy Blue Dragon for my console because I don't like sitting in front of a console for 6+ hours anymore.

I'd buy DQ IX because I can suspend/resume my handheld at any time. I hope they never put a DQ game on a console again

[Chezo]

wow that game looks awesome, from the trailer I didn't realize it was a DS game

[Atreides]

I originally thought this would be a major step down from DQ8 on ps2, and while losing the 3-D graphic shinyness of DQ8 does bum me out a bit, the trailers so far make me pretty excited. Playing DQ4 made me realize what was said earlier, that the somewhat dated gameplay mechanics of the DQ series translate pretty nicely to a handheld. Can't wait for this ;o

[Correction]

Kotaku - Dragon Quest IX Only Saves One Game At A Time - dragon quest ix

Square Enix is run by madmen.

[GRT]

looks like the video's been taken down

anyone got an alternative?

edit: nvm found it

the part that "matches DQ8" seems to be fmv-ish cutscenes only, gameplay is straight DS quality

not that i mind it anyway

[Zilong]

Kotaku - Dragon Quest IX Only Saves One Game At A Time - dragon quest ix

Square Enix is run by madmen.

Flash cart, multiple .sav

Sucks to be people that actually spend money on DS games though.

[Pharaun]

Kotaku - Dragon Quest IX Only Saves One Game At A Time - dragon quest ix

Square Enix is run by madmen.

Meh, don't care. I'm the only person going to be playing my copy so it won't make a difference to me.

[Julian]

Wasn't this game announced like.. years ago?

I remember being excited about it with my friend who likes the DQ series, because there was some talk about wifi co-op, and I haven't talked to this friend in like, over 2 years <_<

edit: Watched it, looks cool, any word if wifi co-op is still in the game?

[Atreides]

not like DQ games really need more than 1 save, I suppose lots of people like to have the option to save in multiple place but I've never thought of any DQ as the kind of game that you could screw up badly enough that you'd need an earlier save.

[Minions]

Kotaku - Hey Pirates, Beware of Fake Dragon Quest IX Hentai Boobies! - dragon quest ix

ITS OUT!? or..... not!?

Nothing like bricking your DS with hentaiboobs!

[Julian]

What kind of stupid joke is that?

It's real, lol. (the rom, not that kotaku bullshit)

No point in playing it in JP anyway so I'll wait.