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Update 6/24: We've been given a new 11 minute promo with some new sights, along with some more information about the game, beta testing, and pricing.

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Update 4/28: We have been given a Japanese trailer! And in addition, a Japanese release date, set for August 2, 2012.
It will come with 20 free days of online play, and people will be able to use Wii points or money to purchase further online play. The Wii version will be coming with a peripheral memory USB, presumably to bring it in line with the Wii-U version.

No word yet on a western release, but keep your eyes peeled, and be sure to post all you know here!

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Original post:

It's gonna be big. It's gonna be on Wii and Wii U.

And, hold on to your panties...

It's gonna be an MMORPG.

Look here for all that has been revealed so far.

More in the morning when I can think straight. Sleep disorders stink. I took notes on what I could understand. I'm sure many fans will be shocked at this information, given the response to DQIX's initial layout and DQ's steadfast, unchanging nature.

So for now, reserved. I'll give this thread the presentation it deserves, more info about the press conference (as far as I could tell, being unable to understand Japanese), and any images or videos if they are up at this point. At which point I (Or anyone else who wants to do it) will post it as an announcement for everyone to see.
Information is welcome if you have it. Post it here.

I totally understand. I lied a little. I am a bit worried, but I am not worried as a series fan. I know that we differ on issues of pureness, though.

Since Square and Enix are one, and the game is being developed by an internal team, I would like to think that FFXIV's suckitude (or at least from what I've heard, FF and I no longer tango) would raise some red flags to developers, especially since DQX is still in testing.
To me, it looks a LOT like DQIX as it is and was. For peace of mind.

I'm not done talkin'. But I will be ten times more coherent in the morning and I can talk about it proper.

Now that I have slept and had a good meal, I can talk. I have already posted a more coherent and opinion-based post in the same VGD thread.

What worries me most is not the fact that it's a Dragon Quest MMO, but that it's an MMO in general. It's gonna compete with World of Warcraft and all of the other ones that exist. It will have to differentiate itself from the crowd as an MMO while retaining it's DQ name, which can make for a potential mess. I talked about that more in the aforementioned post, and I want to address something else.

What has me the most relaxed, on the other hand, is the fact that the game CAN be played solo, and it will have its own self-contained story, as well as a quest system similar to that of Dragon Quest IX. It can be played with a party of NPCs, just like IX, and the game can be played 100% alone. Again, just like IX. I changed the link in the first post to one that better represents all of the revealed content.

And from the demo and trailer I saw, I can also say that it looks and sounds beautiful. Sounds like Sugiyama's got his game back.

And on a side note, when the DQ fanfare started up at the press conference and Yuji Horii stepped onto the stage, I admit to feeling a but squiggly in my tummy. whee

It's been awhile since I last had a look at DQX, and now would be a great time for a second glance at it, since it was recently brought up elsewhere, as well.

Since then, my view on it has calmed down tenfold. Much like Descendent of Erdrick here, I feel as though the combination of Horii goodness, as well as SE quality, and with a Toriyama atmosphere, this will most likely end up quite well. I saw further screenshots of this game, and what I like about DQ opposed to other titles is the love of pursuing cartoon-like figures versus trying to make them look real. I don't know, I just like cartoon looking games more for whatever reason..

Whether or not it goes its own formulae, or follows FFXI's is fine by me. As my guilty confession, I have yet to play an MMORPG, and if I do, this will be the first one I am going to play ever.

Descendent of Erdrick also brought up an interesting concept if I say so of a PC version, I actually endorse this a lot. Being a university dorm student 2/3rds of a year, I unfortunately do not have access to anything but my room mate's PS2, so gaming sans various games on my computer is far and between. Although as far as I have read, there is no intent on a PC version, but PC vs Wii, PC wins easily. On a final note, I feel as though while the series might not be exactly what one would call mainstream in NA, I have no doubt that it is well off enough to almost guarantee an NA release.

EDIT: Dragon's Den also has various interesting DQX scans to view.

Here's the thing. From what I know of the game, DQX will not be an MMO in the same sense that World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XI or whatever is. It will be very similar to Dragon Quest IX in nature. There will be a stand-alone main story, a sidequest list, and the ability to make your own party characters to go with you, just like in IX. The difference is that instead of relying on people near you with DS wi-fi, you can go online for multiplayer. And as a North American Dragon Quest fan who has trouble even getting one person to sit down and play DQIX with, I think this will present many cool possibilities.

And I recently found this out. Dragon Quest IX actually broke world records in japan, not just in sales, but in people simultaneously playing together, which was in the range of 100 million people playing DQIX at once. In light of these crazy statistics, I am actually not as surprised that they went in this direction with DQX. I'm glad to see that people have cooled down a bit, because I really don't think this will be that much of a betrayal. What I'm most worried about is if it will come to the states or not.


I think I can answer that one for ya. In general, cartoony and stylized visuals age much better than what is considered "cutting edge" at the time, especially when talking about "Realistic" looking characters. This is why things like Loony Tunes and Tom and Jerry hold up like they do even after 50 years, whereas things like Reboot and other Computer animated things look dated after only 5 or 10 years after their conception. It's like comparing Super Nintendo Graphics to first generation 3D graphics. DQ goes for the stylistic route, and knows how to be economical with its graphical power. Toriyama's style in particular is very simple, which allows for easy movement and expression, and above all, timelessness, since nothing about the style itself can really age.

Exactly. Like I said before, Dragon QUest IX actually set records in connectivity and people communicating all at once. So an MMO seems like a logical next step. Especially since it is essentially like Dragon Quest IX, just with online capabilities instead of DS Wi-Fi, and on a home console. From what I understand of it, anywho.

Thread updated with a recent trailer and the Japanese release date. Whaddya think about this?

A Wii MMO? There's no way I'll be able to access that! First off, I'm already playing an MMO and second, even if I didn't have a regular one to sink spend my time on in the evenings, the big TV is always hogged so I'd never get it to myself. gonk

And with both the online FF MMO's being flops (XI didn't do too well, but I didn't know that FF XIV was an MMO too. The More You Know.)

As for the statistics discussed earlier: That's in Japan, where this game is all the rage. I'm fearing how it will do in NA markets because it's not as hot of an item here, so I don't know if we'll have the huge band of users using multiplayer at the same time.

I don't know if it will come to our shores, and if it does, I'm not sure how it will do in the market.

Ah, I sound too negative, don't I?