- The game's story will have lots of volume, with the hope that players can continue to play online for a long time. - Outside of story, you'll find a lot of gameplay content, as each of the game's five races have their own specific quests. - While it's common for online games to not have an "ending" with a "last boss," it appears that this will not apply to DQX. - The game's inn facility will now have a concierge. The concierge will give you info about events. - While the game will have auto save, you'll still be able to go to the church to pray in order to save. - The game will have a post office through which you can send letters and items to friends without directly meeting. - The game world will be many times bigger than Dragon Quest VIII's massive world. - Your player character is actually human, but after some sort of happening, he turns into one of the five announced races. - You start the game off in a small village, where you live with either your brother or sister. The game's character making feature allows you to create this family member as well.
From: SHINE GET 64 | #001 - The game will have a post office through which you can send letters and items to friends without directly meeting.
They are touting this like it's a big deal. How archaic can you get?
Still pissed about this. I was expecting this game to just be a bigger and better DQ8 but it turned out to be DQ Online made by the people that churned out a piece of **** like FF14.
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Going to a post office sounds like a neat idea and makes it all the more personal.
Although yes I guess it's less convenient than just being able to use an instant message whenever you want, but this is Dragon Quest where until DQIX you always had to save at the church.
Still really hate the fact that they are making this into an MMO, and every fiber of my being wants to stay away from MMORPG's, but being the Dragon Quest fan I am I may just have to give in just this once.
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The Utility Man posted... Wait...isn't this a Wii game? What's this about a subscription???
Wii and Wii U. A lot of Wii games have subscriptions in Japan but don't have them in America like Monster Hunter Tri. Probably won't have any when they come out in english unless it is a true MMORPG
The most likely scenario is that only the Wii U version sees a release outside of Japan anyway. Better graphics, more content and presumably a better online system as well. Now whether that means we get a subscription based fee to go along with that, who knows. Nintendo's been pretty adamant about not having those though and they'd be the one's publishing it in North America.
SHINE GET 64 posted... The Utility Man posted... Wait...isn't this a Wii game? What's this about a subscription???
Wii and Wii U. A lot of Wii games have subscriptions in Japan but don't have them in America like Monster Hunter Tri. Probably won't have any when they come out in english unless it is a true MMORPG
I keep hoping that too. If the online is all instanced or only with people you want to play with it'll be fine. I just really hate the aesthetics of thousands of players clogging up the overland map and all the treasures being like the red(or was it blue) ones in the DQIX bonus dungeons
From: SHINE GET 64 | #019 The most likely scenario is that only the Wii U version sees a release outside of Japan anyway. Better graphics, more content and presumably a better online system as well.
IDK, they never seem to want to give us the "Professional" or "Final Mix" version of anything even though Japan gets it.
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but in this case the Wii is dead anyway after Skyward Sword comes out and with DQ not being as popular here you'd think they'd want to maximize sales by having it be one of the premiere games to be out around the time of the Wii U launch instead of releasing it on Wii a year from now when no one is buying or making Wii games anymore.
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it's definitely online, but whether it's like PSO and Monster Hunter where you can have a lot people in the lobby buy maybe only 6 people in-game or if it's a true MMO like WoW where you can have dozens hundreds of people in the same game is yet to be seen.
Well, what I'm asking is it a single player RPG with online play, or is it multi-player only?
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That too is unknown. It's almost like a mix of both because it seems to have an extensive story mode that you don't really see in MMOs and you can play through the whole game by yourself with AI party members, but at the same time it's required to be online to play the game.
GuessMyUserName posted... however, you must be online
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considering that you can transfer your character from the Wii version to the Wii U version when it comes out, I'm assuming characters are stored on servers then to prevent hacking.