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From WikipediaDragon Quest IV was later re-released for the Nintendo DS in Japan in November 2007. The game has been remade in 3D, similar to the PlayStation version.[16] This release has kept many of the enhancements from the PlayStation, but has received enhanced upgrades to smooth the graphics further, and improved sound.
Shortly after the Japanese release, several people editing the Japanese ROM file discovered a near complete English translation along with Spanish, French, German, and Italian translations already inside the Japanese game.[17] Many fans took this to mean such an announcement was imminent. On April 9, 2008, Square Enix applied for a trademark to the title "Chapters of the Chosen", and speculation began that this is the new subtitle to Dragon Quest IV for an American Release. [18]
On April 18, 2008, Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen was found to have a rating of E10+ by the ESRB, for Alcohol Reference, Animated Blood, Mild Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, Simulated Gambling, and Suggestive Themes.[19] A official release date of September 16, 2008 was finally established on the official North American site.[2] The game has also been announced for a European release on an unspecified date in September under the title Dragon Quest: Chapters of the Chosen, omitting the number IV in a similar fashion to the European version of Dragon Quest VIII.[6]
This version of the game contains an entirely new translation of the script, and several enhancements to the game.[7] The new translation has changed the names of many of the main characters, weapons and towns to be closer to, or include their original Japanese names, while adding several new localizations.[7] This version also uses the new spell naming convention first used in Dragon Quest VIII, such as the spell Beat from Dragon Warrior IV is now Whack.[7] The new translation includes 13 regional dialects for the various areas[20] , including Burland now being Scottish, and Lakabana now being Irish.[7]However, the western translations have been slightly changed in places where the Japanese version included sexual components. This version also includes the Prologue and Bonus (Chapter 6) Chapters and Immigrant town (with some enhancements) from the PlayStation version.[7] This version allows players to take manual control of all of their party members in Chapter 5 and Chapter 6.[7]
Yeah, they have Last Remnant and Star Ocean 4 coming. But if you look at the risk/reward of re-releasing old stuff or new games in old series' vs the new series' they tried since the PSX days, there's a reason they're sticking to sequels and remakes.Don wrote:Does Sqix do anything besides re-releasing old stuff these days?
Have you read any of my comic scripts yet?Chris wrote:oh I love it when poeple talk about comics and have no idea what they are talking aboutSineSwiper wrote:In other words, they are like Marvel after Image fucked them up with a plastic spork.
Please. Marvel was losing quality artists and story writers to Image (among others, like Dark Horse and Vertigo) left and right during the 90's. I was witnessing this before my very eyes with each issue progressively getting worse and worse, as they played musical chairs with the employees.Chris wrote:oh I love it when poeple talk about comics and have no idea what they are talking aboutSineSwiper wrote:In other words, they are like Marvel after Image fucked them up with a plastic spork.
It takes much longer, and more money, to develop their games now. You don't need multi-million dollar FMV to make a game, just some good gameplay and decent graphics.Dutch wrote:The reason why Square is releasing fewer and fewer big titles is because of technology, it takes much longer, and more money, to develop games now. If they're spending a lot of money on developing a game, it better be a high selling title or else they're in trouble.
The vats of genericness are currently sitting approximately 1000ft above ground level thanks to the revolting mountains of money they make from the series (if I'm not mistaken, this particular remake has sold over 2M copies in Japan alone). DQ has always been a very retro, no-chances, give-the-fans-the-same-thing series 'cause they have no reason to ever change thanks to the disgusting number of copies they sell. If you thought MM didn't change in 20 years, it's had WAAAY more innovations in that series than DQ.SineSwiper wrote:I was never a fan of Dragon Quest games for the way they dripped it in genericness.
Weird, I am too =PKupek wrote:I've been meaning to start a DQ8 thread, but I'll just throw this out: I'm playing it now, and it's wonderful.
It really is great. I still need to beat it.Kupek wrote:I've been meaning to start a DQ8 thread, but I'll just throw this out: I'm playing it now, and it's wonderful.
