EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: dragonquest
When last we met, we’d been taking a peek under the duvet of history and marvelling at the influences that Western RPGs had on Eastern RPGs. This influence would continue for a while, and later on even be reciprocated, but for now let’s pick up the trail of this history back in the West, and see what followed in the footsteps of Wizardry, Ultima, Rogue-likes and Telengard.
Continue reading El33tonline’s editorial by guest writer Fayyaad, A complete history of role-playing videogames: Part 2.
Following its announcement at the tail-end of 2008, Square Enix has finally taken the wraps off of the next entry to the publisher’s other world-conquering RPG series, Dragon Quest.
Announced for a Wii and Wii U release, Dragon Quest X - officially titled Dragon Quest X Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online - will feature a strong online component as players fight and explore together in an online world.
Itadaki Street is a series that is built into the fabric of gaming in Japan. It was one of the first fan-service games ever, allowing players to play a board game as a Dragon Quest character. Now for the first time one is coming out in English on the Wii, published by Nintendo as Fortune Street.
The game is developed and published by Square-Enix in Japan, and it is basically a Monopoly-style board game where you race around a board buying, selling and trading properties. As you collect properties adjacent to one another they grow in value and you can charge other players who land on your shops a higher fee. While this sounds remarkably similar to Monopoly, there are some more advanced features to the game, such as a stock market. We’ll have to wait for the hands-on previews to get more details.
In Fortune Street you will be able to play as Dragon Quest characters or as Mario or other Mushroom Kingdom characters. Up to four players can play on one Wii console, and the game features 15 different boards to play on. Nintendo assure us the game will be out in the US in 2011, “Holiday 2011” to be precise.
Check out the heap of screenshots Nintendo have released below:
Mario Sports Mix is a new and upcoming Wii title that includes different sports (namely volleyball, basketball, ice hockey and dodgeball) for players to compete in while taking control of fan-favourite Nintendo characters like Mario, Bowser, Wario and Yoshi, only with the kinds of twists you would expect from a competitive sports game set in the Mushroom Kingdom.
It’s recently been revealed, however, that you won’t be limited to just Nintendo characters when you’re met with the selection screen: beloved characters from Square Enix’s Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest series will make an appearance in Mario Sports Mix, too!
This past week in Japan saw the DS title Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for the PSP continue their streak of sales dominance, both sitting atop Media Create’s Software Sales Chart for the region, at No. 1 and No. 2 respectively, despite massive drops in sales from the week previous.
After a couple of slow week’s things are really heating up on the Japanese software chart with a number of high profile titles debuting in the Top 10 this week. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 for the NDS is the best-selling new entry for the week ending the 2nd May with a whopping 624 000 copies.
The latest Media Create figures show that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for the PSP also debuts strongly at number 2 with 434 000 copies. Meanwhile Super Street Fighter IV for the PS3 is new at number 3 with 81 000 copies, but New Super Mario Bros. Wii manages to beat off the competition from the Xbox 360 version of the game which only sells 28 000 copies to earn fifth place. Despite dropping two places to number 4 this week, New Super Mario Bros. continues to sell well with 44 000 copies shifted this week and life-to-date sales now standing at 3.76 million.
Square Enix have revealed, by way of their recent corporate strategy meeting, the combined sales numbers for their top three franchises (in terms of units sold), which seem to be Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts.
Every game in the Kingdom Hearts series of games has sold a combined 12 million units. Every game in the Dragon Quest series has sold a combined 47 million units. And Final Fantasy?
Well, the heading gave it away, but that’s right! Every game in the Final Fantasy series of games has sold a combined 85 million units!
That’s a lot of RPG gaming!
Source: Kotaku
By now, Dragon Quest fans would know that the next iteration, Dragon Quest IX, is coming to the DS and releases March 28th next year in Japan. Maybe you’ve even peeped the special edition case.
If, however, you haven’t seen any footage from the game yet, then wait no longer as the video below shows off an inspiring little animated cinematic, as well as some in-game footage. It’s looking as charming as ever!
In addition to announcing Dragon Quest X for the Wii and a release date for Dragon Quest IX in Japan, Square Enix also revealed a special edition Dragon Quest IX protective case for the DSi at yesterday’s Dragon Quest press conference in Japan.
The Dragon Quest IX protective case will be released simultaneously with the DS game in Japan on the 28th of March 2009. Early reports indicate that it will be metallic silver and cost 1 200 yen. It will only be compatible with the DSi.
Source: Gigazine.net
Square Enix has announced that the latest installment in its popular Dragon Quest series will be released across Japan on the 28th of March 2009. Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS will cost 5 980 yen when it launches. The publisher has not announced if the RPG will be released outside Japan.
Even bigger news coming out of the Dragon Quest press conference in Japan yesterday was that Square Enix is developing Dragon Quest X for the Wii. The publisher has yet to set a release date or selling price for the game.
Sources: Reuters
Square Enix has announced that the Zenithia Trilogy (Castle in the Sky) will be released on the Nintendo DS in Europe, PAL territories and North America. The trilogy includes Dragon Quest IV: The Chapters of the Chosen, Dragon Quest V: The Hand of the Heavenly Bride and Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie.
The trilogy will begin with Dragon Quest: The Chapters of the Chosen, an update of the NES title Dragon Quest IV. The game will ship on the 16th of September in the US with the European release date listed as September.
This is the first time these titles have been released in Europe. Dragon Quest IV was released on the NES in the US but it will be the first time that Dragon Quest V and VI arrive on North American shores.
Dragon Quest IV was originally released in Japan for the Famicom in February 1990. The North American version, titled Dragon Warrior IV, was released on the NES in December 1992. It is the final Dragon Quest/Warrior series title for the NES.
Developed by ArtePiazza, Dragon Quest: The Chapters of the Chosen is different to the rest of the series because it consists of five chapters, the first four being told from the perspective of the Hero’s future companions and the final one from the Hero’s perspective.
Players will embark on a journey, meeting new characters, battling monsters and discovering treasures along the way. The game will feature 3D graphics, newly animated monsters, an arranged orchestral score along with dual screen presentation and DS wireless communications.
Game Watch have posted a whole bunch of new screenshots which were released at Nintendo conference today in Japan.
Included among them is some shots of Kirby Superstar DS, which may or may not be a straight remake of the SNES game. Also particularly exciting are shots of the newly announced Fire Emblem DS which looks to be a remake of an early Fire Emblem game from the NES/SNES era. Square Enix’s games are looking beautiful as always (except for the DS Kingdom Hearts with the odd name). Anyhow, this is one amazing batch of games - check them out if you love gaming.
Why do I single out Kirby you may ask? Kirby is awesome, that’s why.
Here are the names of the games shown on that page in English and in order so you at least know what you’re looking at:
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