Dragon Quest X will be online; Wii U confirmed
The mysterious Dragon Quest X has been revealed as an online RPG headed to both Wii and Wii U with cross-platform play, Square Enix has revealed.
The mysterious Dragon Quest X will be an online RPG coming to Wii U as well as Wii, developer and publisher Square Enix revealed at an event in Japan today, after years of silence. Nintendo 3DS features are also to be expected.
The Wii U edition of Dragon Quest X will have snazzier graphics, Andriasang reports, but will support cross-platform play with the Wii version. Square Enix mentioned in June that it was looking into developing Wii U games, but said at the time that it wasn't definite.
It's not clear quite how being online will change the game. Players still form parties by going to pubs, making it sound somewhat instanced, but you can see other players fighting in the game world and help them if they've fallen in battle.
You can play by yourself, too, purely with the support of NPC party members. You can also let your character be used as an NPC for their own parties, when you're not playing it yourself.
Nintendo 3DS features are not settled, but Dragon Quest creator Hori Yuuji noted that the team is looking at letting players transfer characters onto a 3DS then swap them with others.
Dragon Quest X is slated to launch in 2012, in Japan at least.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Dragon Quest X will be online; Wii U confirmed.
The mysterious Dragon Quest X has been revealed as an online RPG headed to both Wii and Wii U with cross-platform play, Square Enix has revealed.-
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>"It's not clear quite how being online will change the game"
>Decides immediately he won't buy it anyway.
On a more serious note, I like that they're starting to experiment with the series, even in spite of some of the fans who only liked Dragon Quest because it was essentially the same game every release. I think the social aspects sound nice (I'm assuming the bros who play COD and BF aren't exactly playing this), and I really liked Dragon Quest 9; it's also good to see such a big dev make a push for online play on a Nintendo console (maybe if enough people do it, Nintendo will finally take online seriously). I think it sounds pretty good so far, provided there isn't a monthly fee or anything.-
From what I saw of the demo in the streamed conference online didn't change the game at all. It was still turn-based battles with several party members (except now the other members are controlled by other people). It actually looked really good. Also multiplayer is optional and not forced, which is nice.
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"Also multiplayer is optional and not forced, which is nice."
Yeah like it was in DQ9 and just look out that game turned out, Quest markers above npc's head, huge quest journal full of boring quest just like an MMORPG, randomized dungeons to stretch out the game time and don't forget about the huge letdown that was the story.-
Yeah, the only issue I have with DQ games is that they're not all Hand of the Heavenly Bride.
But to be honest those things aren't inherent in MMOs, or at least they don't HAVE to be. If Squeenix wants to fix those things they can do it easily (but I hope they keep in randomized dungeons for grinding and looting, just not make them necessary to progress in the game).
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