Dragon Quest 9 Official Thread

This game looks fun.

I do believe I'd like to try it.

Hooray.

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Be careful, because you're getting dangerously close to Joust levels of post worthwhile-ness. This isn't about what we personally like or dislike, what our petty biases are. If you truly think Japanese software support doesn't matter for a console, in the overall picture, not just in your little world, you're an absolute idiot.

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What is "this" exacty, dragon quest or games in general? Either way my concern doesn't rest in what the masses will buy, it only concerns what I buy. And of course japanese support matters, I (me and myself) don't give a flying fuck about it though. For the simple reason I wont be buying much of any of it. I fully understand it matters, I just don't care that's why I used "I" think instead of "people" or the masses think. All I care about dealing with DQ is they took a franchise I was starting to like and robbed it of everything that made me like it in the first place. Legions will still buy it I'm sure, but again I'm not concerned with them. Only myself and see no reason to think otherwise.

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Originally Posted by Joust Williams

Vivid Video doesn't make tentacle rape or poo porn because the Japanese like it.

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They should, and they are missing 50% of market penetration (oops).

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Originally Posted by burgundy

Is "spade" the secret word today?

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you didn't get the PM?

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Originally Posted by sethsez

Big Momma's House 2 sucks.

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Going by your argument, you can't say that because someone else might find it a great movie. You can only say "Big Momma's House 2 doesn't appeal to me."

What's the difference between that statement and "portable gaming sucks"?

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Originally Posted by Joust Williams

"And, if you go back and read what I've already written in this thread, it points to a growing movement in Japan away from consoles and towards handhelds (well, the DS), which if that continues, you bet your ass we'll feel some of the effects from that over here."

Nope. Japanese devs can stick to worthless platforms. Almost every good game in 2007 is developed by Western devs.

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So your going to kill yourself at the end of 2007?

Can't you go study for an exam and put your budding legal mind to work on something useful? Because this little aside on the nature of opinion SUCKS. Oops, I mean it doesn't really appeal to me, but I could see why someone else might find value in it.

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Originally Posted by Nash

Going by your argument, you can't say that because someone else might find it a great movie.

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Criticism doesn't being and end at liking something or not. I also like some movies that I know are objectively shit (hi Rocky Horror).

Either way, burgundy's right, because getting into yet another goddamned console war (even in a more generic sense like "handhelds suck" versus "no they don't") is the last thing TNL needs.

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Originally Posted by Sega saturn x

I'm familiar with the idea (and agree mostly) but in this case all dragon quest hitting the ds really means to me is more japanese games I would have ignored anyway. Since 90% of the games I play are of the shooting genre, which have been beyond awful on the ds. Dragon quest 8 was simply the one Jrpg I actually enjoyed (because of it's lush presentation and great voice acting), and I really don't think any one can say with a straight face that being DS only is a good thing for the series.

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Wait what? The only reason why you like DQ8 is becuase of the presentation and the voice acting? DQ8 was medicore in both of those areas.

Either your lying and you never played the game, or jrpgs are just right for you.

Uh, avatar, even the people who hate Dragon Quest VIII admit that it was absolutely gorgeous. The presentation was fantastic.