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Dragon Quest IV Coming to the DS
Kotaku is reporting that, while no official announcement has been forthcoming, a new Square Enix Dragon Quest IV teaser site has been launched. It seems that the game is slated for a September 16th release in the US for the DS. In addition to the announcement, the site also seems to be promising Dragon Quest V and VI at undisclosed times in the future.
I'm not sure what you mean, but I think all kotaku "articles" are never over a paragraph, at least all the ones I've seen. I would have to say you are out of touch about the DS thing, but take that with a grain of salt since I own one, but I think the big deal is that it's Enix's rpg second to Final Fantasy, and yeah it's not front page worthy.
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Now all I have to do is buy a DS! I hope this is the remake, but the original would still be sufficient. I LOVED that game...
Other than size? I'm not aware of any functional ones (my girls love their DS Lites).
Dragon Warrior IV still won't be gracing the Virtual Console any time this century. Because why give people the original when you can make them pay for remakes again and again?
If by some odd chance you're not being sarcastic, yeah, it'll run on the DS Lite. AFAIK, all DS games are DS Lite compatible. The only thing "lite" about the DS Lite is it's smaller form factor; it still has the same capabilities.
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Ofcourse it will, they are the same (except form, battery and lcd.)
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I don't see why this makes Slashdot thought, there are lots of games for the DS and for all other game consoles aswell, but we can't have a news item for each of them can we?
Just use it for huge titles if anything, such as Starcraft II.
A third Castlevania title are in the works for the DS, I'd rather play that (Though I have played no Dragon Quest at all so I don't know what I'm missing.)
I also saw that there existed a SIP-client for the DS as homebrew, something I may actually start to use
Just like the other Square/Enix games re-released, I assumed this one will be labeled "Advance" and yet will be so ridiculously easy as to make you want to stop playing two hours into it.
The same thing happened to Final Fantasy IV Advance, Final Fantasy V Advance, Final Fantasy VI Advance and Final Fantasy I & 2 Dawn of Souls.
I was so excited that I would be able to replay my experience in the original FFIII and I ended up terribly disappointed. I haven't gotten very far into any of the remakes.
However, I did purchase an M3 DS Real that lets me download an emulator onto my DS and play the original ROMs. Those are much more satisfying.
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Not the only thing, but they run the same software.
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The brighter screen would be "light" not "lite" ;-) I'm a very happy DS Lite owner, playing Age of Empires, Advance Wars & looking forward to Civ Revolutions.
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I love (most of) the Final Fantasy games too, but Dragon (Warrior|Quest) has always seemed to expect more intelligence from the user. By comparison, FF games usually feel a bit like they're stuck in tutorial mode. DWIV was my favorite of the NES games, even though it was commercially a disaster in the US, and I know from the magic of emulation that DQV is even better. Hopefully this'll sell well enough that they really will remake DQV and DQVI, which were never released here at all.
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I personally thought the chapter based setup was awesome, as it reminds me of a Chaucer story. However, where the series fails is where the first 3 were the Roto(Erdrick) trilogy, after that, was the Castle in the Sky. There was no real trilogy going on there, sadfully.
I want a multi-game story, either in sequential or "jumping around in time".
When I beat DW3, I found that I was the Erdrick. Just that alone finished both 1 and 2.
"News for nerds, stuff that matters."
This hardly qualifies as "stuff that matters". If I cared about this sort of thing I'd be reading a gaming site. Less news for nerds, more stuff that matters please.
AIUI, DQ 4-6 was the "Zenithian" trilogy. We just never got the full trilogy (until now, I hope. Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease)...
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Only downside to the remakes instead of translated roms is that you can't use the emulator's save state feature to game the casino.
I'd be reading a gaming site.
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5 is completely translated, and 6 is "99%" translated. Both are very playable.
I've beat 1-7, and the only tie between 4-6 is there's a Castle in the Sky. There's no epic like the first 3 had..
The Japanese Rom of the DS title had the complete English translation contained within it, minus a couple bits of the intro, and of some bonus content. The entire game was playable with a simple patch (google it) to the rom and a copy to a DS flash cart.
The conversion on the DS is a quite nice job, actually. It's definitely my favorite of the Dragon Quest series - classic simple Dragon Quest gameplay, with excellent characters, and a driving sense of progress that is a bit missing from the later games.
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What are your point? That it's named lite and not light? Or that I should have said the light one?
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It's indeed named lite and it's the DS lite which have the screen with better lighting, so there are nothing wrong in my post?
Or did you just doubted it? It's much brighter in the lite.
I haven't played on mine for long, since I surf to much and play some wc3 even thought I've played it a lot. Suck... I really should play more DS.. but
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I'm having trouble developing any sort of excitement about this at all. I loved the first three Dragon Quest/Warrior games, but the fourth just didn't have the same appeal to me. I think that was primarily due to the fact that it felt more like StarTropics than Dragon Quest.
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Just use it for huge titles if anything, such as Starcraft II.
Dragon Quest *is* a huge title. It's also an important series in Nintendo history since it was one of the first RPGs released for the NES.
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Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
So what was the problem with my grammar? It's the lite which are brighter. Still.
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Well, whatever "it would be" it is brighter, and it's called lite. And I think Nintendo used it for both size and brightness.
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Ok, saw that there existed 3 games for NES, weird, never heard of it back then, I have seen screenshots for the DS of course but it haven't got me intrested, tried the rocket/slime thingy a little.
1-4 were released in the US on the NES under the name Dragon Warrior. 1 and 4 were my favorites.
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