Dragon Quest III: HD-2D Remake

[6souls]

Fusing pixel art with 3D graphics, this HD-2D remake is planned for simultaneous release on home consoles worldwide.

[Tyrath]

DAY ONE

[BWYuko]

Helming this is Octopath Traveler producer Masaaki Hayasaka. Looks like it'll be the best version of the game yet.

[Lucavi]

I was meh about it since I'm not the biggest DQ fan, even though I recognize that DQ3 is the most beloved (and has the best looking protag), but then I thought about it a bit more and now I'm 100% supporting this. I love the 2.5D style and if this blows the fuck up, we may get games like FFVI, Tactics Ogre or FFT in 2.5D.

Ima need ALL of you DQ boys and girls to buy about 4 copies each!

[Tyrath]

I'm down with this plan. Everything 2.5D GIMME

[Koul]

God, it's fucking gorgeous looking lol

[BWYuko]

I love the 2.5D style and if this blows the fuck up, we may get games like FFVI, Tactics Ogre or FFT in 2.5D.

Ima need ALL of you DQ boys and girls to buy about 4 copies each!

What. The toybox style is already extremely popular. It's arrived - mainstream. Link's Awakening was a huge hit, the Pokemon D&P remakes are 6 months away, now DQ3. Those are like 3 of the 5 largest JP game properties that exist. Don't hold trends or consumers responsible for Square's ongoing, utterly inexplicable, shit treatment of FF3, 5, 6, 8, 9, and Ivalice IPs. They're sitting on a nostalgia platinum mine and, this far gone, it seems they'll never be not retarded enough to tap it.

[Lucavi]

You make it seem like they're the only one doing it. There's a ton of Japanese companies doing the same goddamn thing. Konami makes SE bend the knee and kiss the goddamn ring when it comes do sitting on vast stores of delicious IP that are coated in cobwebs.

SE is using those IP, just not in the ways I want. There's no shortage of those IP used in mobile addiction simulators, just not in standalone games or quality revamps. You can't go 3 feet without seeing Agrias or a Viera packed into some mobile game for that sweet sweet gatcha income.

[BWYuko]

>> everyone buy this game so the style becomes popular enough that SE will give this treatment to FF6

<< toybox is already mainstream, SE just doesn't give a fuck about certain IPs for inane reasons

>> oh yeah? well Konami is worse

ok

[Lucavi]

Konami. Does. Nothing. With its IP. That is objectively worse than doing half-assed things with IP. This isn't complicated or hard to understand.

[arus2001]

Yeah, was joking with a friend the other day that Suikoden was basically built for gacha with having 108 characters in each game to draw from for a character pool, including game-specific originals. If Konami had interest in cashing in on that, they would've done it by now. It's likely safe to say Castlevania and Metal Gear are also dead, even if respective directors have moved on precisely because of Konami's bullishness.

SE may be shit at times, but DQ and FF are at least seeing movement. Probably safe to say we'll never see a Xenogears remake, though.

[6souls]

PC/PS5/XSX/NSW
November 14, 2024

[Kaisha]

Little disappointed at no PS4 release, since I wanted to grab a physical copy for that platform. If they had to make it work on a Switch, you'd figure a SKU for the other half of Sony's large active playerbase would warrant a release as well.

[Gokulo]

Oh wow, didn't even notice that, since I'm PS5 myself, but that it a pretty surprising choice.

[Kaisha]

I only point it out because S-E is still generally extremely supportive of PS4, both in their HD2D releases, but also modern ones. It got Visions of Mana, and the upcoming Saga 2 remake is also slated for it. I'm a wait and see what goes on, as I'd prefer to play these in order anyways, with 1&2 coming out later. Will just get them on Steam during a sale at a later date if I can't have a disc copy.

[Bombur]

The final launch trailer. It actually has voice acting ! I just assumed it would be text only.

[Tyrath]

I have never played DQ 1-6 so I am hyped for this, already have it pre-ordered. Hopefully they will do 4-6 after this trilogy.

[Ratatapa]

always felt DQ battle system was slow which is why I have issue playing DQ XI

Is it like that all the series?

[Tyrath]

DQ XI is one of the faster ones in the series lol

Although I imagine this remake will speed things up

[Yuri-G]

like a man on too many antidepressants, this can't come fast enough