[News] Dragon Quest IV, V & VI announced for DS. All 3 coming stateside. Sept 16th for IV.

It's official.




I'm just hoping they will bring them to America.

Agh! I really hope that this is localized. DS Remake serie woot! Looks pretty enticing due to the updated graphics.

Considering that they are for the DS AND they also released FF3 AND that at least DQ4 was actually released in the US AND(yeah, I'm abusing the "AND", so sue me...) DQ8 was a great success, I would say that it's highly likely that they will be coming to America, and quite possibly even (gasp!) Europe.

Creepy how EGMs rumors were right for once. This is their chance to finally give us the PSOne remake of 4 (the scans certainly look like shots from it anyway just ported to the DS) and I'd love a remake of 6 rather it winds up in English or not. :x

I approve of these ports, if only because Dragon Quest IV was awesome and V and VI have never really made it here before. If localized, all three are pretty much guaranteed buys from anyone that owns a DS and even one RPG for it.

There's good money to be made here, if they do the right thing and bring them over.

Who's doing the remakes? Is it TOSE or is it actually Level 5? I'd be surprised for the latter, considering they're working on White Knight Story and Dragon Quest IX.

I'd assume TOSE, and that's nothing but bad news, but at the very least their DS stuff generally has turned out better than their PSP stuff. We can only hope this follows suit.

Looks like Arte Piazza (of [presumed] Opoona fame) will be covering the remakes.

I've never really gotten into the Dragon Quest series (I still haven't finished VIII and can't see myself doing so any time soon ;_; ) but this news, like the announcement of Dragon Quest IX for the DS, has got me intrigued. I like the graphical style and gameplay mechanics (I've read/experienced [about] them). Here's hoping all three games are localised. I'm about 95% sure that they will be...I mean, just look at the recent DQ treatment out of Japan!

ugh, yet another reason to own a ds now i guess

With Tales of Innonce/Dragon Quest 9 and now this... I really wish there was a dsplayer for the wii or whatever.. i really dont like handhelds, i wanna play them on the tv dammit :P

Are IV-VI anything like VII? I thought VII blew big chunks...

Depends what you mean by 'alike'. They all generally share the same interface but the only games that are really that similar are 6 and 7 (since 6 uses pretty much the same job class system). If you mean the terrifying length in which the game never seems to end (DQ7 was a loooonnnngg game) then at the very least you're safe from that. None of the others are even close in that regard.

I'd be more enthused if this was remakes of 1-3. A little more classic, please.

Not a huge DQ fan, but I'd have liked to be back at the beginning.

They've already remade 1~3 for the SNES and GBC. This is a good chance to finally get out 5 and 6 too, which never left Japan previously.

... That and I'm sure we can all agree it's either 3 or 4 which is the best game in the series (or not but I sure think so) and since they've already remade DQ3 semi recently for the GBC (and actually released it stateside...!) we should all be woot wooting for a remake of 4 we may actually get in English! =P

This is good news. I am hoping for these to come state side.
DQ5 has one of my favorite storylines.
DQ6 has tons of gameplay.
I would also like to see the PS1 version of DQ4 come to DS.

Dragon Quest IV dated for Japan: November 22.



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Dragon Quest V dated for Japan: July 17



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Are these actually getting a US release? DQ5 sucked pretty bad, but I'd jump on a remake of 4 in a heartbeat, especially if they drop the AI control over the rest of the party.

DQ5 is my favorite in the series. I'm really hoping that they localize it...

Originally Posted by Monkey King

Are these actually getting a US release? DQ5 sucked pretty bad, but I'd jump on a remake of 4 in a heartbeat, especially if they drop the AI control over the rest of the party.

What was so bad 'bout 5?

They allowed manual control in the PSX version and as far as I can tell the DS version of 4 is a graphically toned down (barely) port of the PSX version so I'm sure it'll allow for it too. Not that it matters, there is absolutely nothing anywhere that even HINTS these games are going to be available over seas so everyone get ready to flip off SE.

Do remember that if you can tolerate (or understand) Japanese, the DS games are region-free and can be imported. Although this looks good, it just makes me think that DQ9 is even farther off than I imagined.