Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Sky is out this summer

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Don't expect any more DQ games but VI if this tanks.

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Don't really see it tanking, 8 did well and they've kept releasing the remakes so someone's obviously buying DQ games.

Also yeah I'm looking forward to it, though it's quite way down on my list of priorities as DQ has never been a favourite series of mine. Strange Journey, HeartGold and Alpha Protocol at least have to be bought first. Galaxy 2 as well.

Also didn't this have problems in Japan or was that just the internet bitching loudly over nothing?

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Originally Posted by greed

Don't really see it tanking, 8 did well and they've kept releasing the remakes so someone's obviously buying DQ games.

DQIV did bad. DQV did half of what DQIV did.

When I mean bad, I mean "worse than low-profile Atlus game" bad.

Originally Posted by greed

Also didn't this have problems in Japan or was that just the internet bitching loudly over nothing?

Mostly, it was panned by traditional fans for changing too many things. It focuses a lot on the multiplayer aspect. As far as I know, the post-game is like two third of the game.

DQIX is the best-selling non-Nintendo game this generation in Japan, so I think it was pretty popular.

Originally Posted by Magus

Don't expect to see more DQ on the DS, maybe, if this tanks.

Expect more DQ on DS... just not in the West.

Originally Posted by Magus

Also is this the one that didn't even have a real story and you're supposed to play it with friends or something? It seemed...very not what I wanted to play after having played all the other ones.

It has a story in the sense that you go to town, fix the town's problems, and then you go to another town to do the same. About three fourths of the game in a plot twist occurs, and the plot focuses on that.

So, standard DQ fare.