Dragon Quest 9 Official Thread

[Finch]

What do you hate most? Drugs? Candy? Imagine what you loved most was only available with what you hate the most. dog$ hates Nintendo. dog$ hates portables. dog$ likes Dragon Quest. The only thing that could make it worse is if it was called Final Dragon Quest Fantasy IX.
I laughed when i first read it, because the first thing i thought was, "LOL DOG$" but now... now... it's over and it's not funny. It's just a mean joke, like if your favorite ice cream was only available with spinach or was only made in sugar-free or something. Poor, poor dog$.

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Then fuck him. This game looks and sounds like fun.

[sethsez]

He has a point though. If Ion Storm (ok, someone that still exists) made a new Deus Ex on DS, PSP or Wii, I would be ripshit. I didn't spend tons of money on a setup so I can play with one of those.

Deus Ex benefits hugely from technological advances and as such wouldn't be properly served on any of those systems, so you'd be fully justified to be pissed off there.

Dragon Quest has never been about pushing technological limits or utilizing a system's power to its fullest. Part VIII was a fluke in the grand scheme of the series for this, and even then the Japanese version didn't take advantage of the PS2's audio capabilities at all... it just looked nice, with no voice acting, MIDI music and "classic" sound effects.

Basically, to continue the PC analogy I'd be furious if Half-Life 3 were made for the DS, but wouldn't care if it were the next X-Com game instead (assuming the X-Com franchise weren't dead and buried).

[Nash]

Deus Ex benefits hugely from technological advances and as such wouldn't be properly served on any of those systems, so you'd be fully justified to be pissed off there.

Dragon Quest has never been about pushing technological limits or utilizing a system's power to its fullest. Part VIII was a fluke in the grand scheme of the series for this, and even then the Japanese version didn't take advantage of the PS2's audio capabilities at all... it just looked nice, with no voice acting, MIDI music and "classic" sound effects.

Basically, to continue the PC analogy I'd be furious if Half-Life 3 were made for the DS, but wouldn't care if it were the next X-Com game instead (assuming the X-Com franchise weren't dead and buried).

That's all pretty irrelevant if you just dislike playing games on a 2-inch screen in general.

[sethsez]

That's all pretty irrelevant if you just dislike playing games on a 2-inch screen in general.

I was replying to Joust's example.

[kingoffighters]

Then he's limiting himself and preventing himself from what can be an enjoyable experience due to his arbitrary hatred of handhelds. Why would anyone do that to themselves?

Hardcore gamers.

[StriderKyo]

When is this supposed to come out, anyway?

[dog$]

Hope your Page Down key works.

To be fair, it's more accurate to say I hate Nintendo fans than Nintendo itself. Most of their games I don't like but I'm cool with a few things like FZero GX and such. It's most of their fucking fans - with their distorted interpretation of videogame function and history - that drive me insane.

Now on to the rest of the crap to catch up with.

how old are you and what do you do for a living?

January 13, 1980.

Two jobs. One is night shift (11p-3a or such) at a FedEx Ground hub in Bedford Park, IL. I pull an IC (Incompatible) belt, meaning I spend 4 hours taking long or 100+lb things off of one belt and placing them elsewhere. Number two is going to be a manager of a Jackson Hewitt branch in Steger, IL. Prefile starts December 28.

If you spend any appreciable length of time in the day away from your home theater setup you probably get the urge to play games away from it.

I don't. I have plenty of shit to do.

Furthermore, the point isn't about how good my home setup is (it's not anything special), the point is it's all shit I already spent money on.

I remember you in another thread some how claiming that games are far more about graphics then they actually are. If that was the case then games like State of Emergency...

That was not the point at all.

To me, saying that a videogame system is not about graphics is comparable to making - a computer that isn't about processing, a guitar that isn't about acoustics, a knife that isn't about cutting, and so fucking on. Sure, it can be done, but certain people won't accept the angle.

Not quite sure why you brought that up.

Anyway, let's tie two together for a finish.

Also, sometimes other people (girlfriends) commandeer the tv and you're forced to play games on a handheld

he's limiting himself and preventing himself from what can be an enjoyable experience due to his arbitrary hatred of handhelds. Why would anyone do that to themselves?

I'm not forced to do a goddamned thing with videogames - there are only 24 hours in one day and I try not to squander them.

There's nobody that is able to purchase, play, and complete every single videogame that comes out. There are few people who would actually want to do that in the first place. Everyone has standards on what they decide they will spend time with and what they will purchase.

I've tried the whole handheld thing too; really, I have. I had a GBP with Bionic Commando once, a NGPC too - I didn't get those goddamned V$ the hard way, blindly playing that GnG minigame was quicker. Even in the rare times I used them in those cases, I felt like my time was fully wasted to the point that I actually felt guilty for playing them. I try my gf's PSP for a round of Lumines and when I'm done twenty minutes later I truly resent having picked the thing up in the first place. For whatever reason, I can't enjoy playing handhelds.

So that's a standard for me. Some people don't buy games based on developer, or genre, or whatever. I demand the game to be playable on my TV instead of some proprietary, tiny, shitty LCD screen. The game on said shitty screen might be all kinds of wonderful, but I refuse to invest my time and money into it. There are so many other things I'd rather do.

[StriderKyo]

To be fair, it's more accurate to say I hate Nintendo fans than Nintendo itself. Most of their games I don't like but I'm cool with a few things like FZero GX and such. It's most of their fucking fans - with their distorted interpretation of videogame function and history - that drive me insane.

This is so true. We should all band together to get hardcore Nintards a new hobby so the rest of us can enjoy it for what it is without the freakish manchild my-entire-emotionally-stunted-being-is-invested-in-this baggage.

[NeoZeedeater]

most of their fucking fans - with their distorted interpretation of videogame function and history - that drive me insane.

I'm one of the biggest fans of Nintendo's games around but yeah, it really is an epidemic. Nintendo constantly gets credited with things they did not invent, and often it's from the gaming media itself.