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Previously announced Dragon Quest X Offline is coming to PS4/PS5/Steam/Switch on February 26th, 2022.
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Nope, Japan only for now.
They'd be silly not to localize this
MaitreWakou
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So dumb that they seem to not even be sure if it'll get localized someday when the first time they ever mentionned the possibility of an offline version, years ago, was specifically so that people in the west could experience Dragon Quest X.
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Wel they haven’t released Heroes in the west, so…
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On Switch specifically. It's been released in the west on every other platform.
Which makes the lack of the western switch version all the more baffling tbh.
Rellik
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It was one of the first 32gb cartridge games, I thought that was the reason for not bringing it to the west (production of such cartridges was really expensive).
Dragon Quest X will come to the west.
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It could be released digitally. Also I'm pretty sure there have been other games now released on 32GB cards. TW3 being one of them.
I'm assuming they just assumed there's no demand and forgot about it.
Rellik
Rattata
I’m sure they were thinking about bringing them now to the west (there were even some rating boards or placement holders IIRC?) but this was a launch game in Japan, has been out on PS and Steam for many years and maybe thought it was not profitable to bring them even digitally (be it for the localisation cost or thinking there was no demand as you said).
Mpl90
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Especially since Dragon Quest X Online, while on PC, is not available on Steam. I have a good feeling about this coming in the West now that it's confirmed for Steam as well.
Barely Able
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Would love to have this localized. I’m not really sure how much of the online content this is based off of, so no clue how long that process might take. After watching that I also would like to see at least an upresed version of 9 released so the online features aren’t gone forever (though I did spoof the DQVC via someone’s router they set up to get the extra missions and the birthday items).
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If they don't localise this, I'll eat my amiibo collection.
Jet Jaguar
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So will this now play like the other DQ mainline games?
BGBW
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I have no experience with the original, so I could very much be talking out my arse, but it still strikes me as odd they completely changed the look of this game for the offline version because I would have thought that would be more work than just working with the original assets and removing the online parts.
Elven_Star
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Steam basically means localization.
It's coming, otherwise why make a Steam or PS5 version
GamerJM
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If this isn't going to get localized I wish SE would just say so. I don't like having to play this game of guessing whether or not a game will get localized or not and waiting years to play it, as someone who can make it through Japanese games with some work but would greatly prefer to play them in English.
To be fair I think that's basically the equivalent of a full single player DQ game anyway.
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...If they're really going this route - charging more-or-less full price for each xpac in Offline - it does make me wonder what's the point of not releasing the MMO itself. Would a sub fee really be that much more of a hindrance to sales?
I guess with the current global silicon shortage, and the fact that they're struggling for XIV servers atm, things might be a bit different...
If you look at how DQX sold in Japan compared to the other mainline games then yeah it appears to be a big hindrance. Doing this offline game also allows them to sell DQX to a massive audience in Japan that won't have played an MMO.
i kinda assumed it's gonna be the whole package, but yeah you're right, each expansion has a LOT of content so it wasn't very realistic to expect it to be DQ11 up to date in its entirety, that would be an insane amount of content.
i'm curious what their expectations are for this, both is japan and rotw. to me it seems like this project is going to have a very small target audience, even smaller than DQ usually has outside of japan.
Kano
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Hosting servers and everything related to MMOs is far, far more expensive than doing it this way.
Epidemic
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Absolutely did not expect to see Steam included for platforms, and find myself agreeing with the sentiment of it making a localization seem much more feasible. Obviously would be great to see something more definitive, but I'll happily accept continued signs of life given that I'd largely shelved the idea of getting to play this particular Dragon Quest entry.
scamander
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Yeah, I was sure this was coming west when they announced it and I'm still confident it will make it. All games from the Anniversary Stream that are coming west will launch worldwide simultaneously. That's probably not the case here, or otherwise they would have announced it like with the other games, but I hope we will get it still in 2022.
wrowa
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I seem to be the odd one out, but I really love the looks of this. I don't particularly care for DQX or the DQX MMO experience, so whether this captures that experience is not really of any importance to me. I just love how this appears to be a new, full-fledged traditional DQ. As lovely as DQXI is there's to me just something that gets lost when transitioning to the more detailed 3rd person style.
I'm not particularly hopeful this will see a localization though. It just seems incredibly niche and the amount of text likely quite enormous. I know that they've made comments in the past about how an offline version of DQX might be considered for western markets, but the actual end product appears to be tailor made for the part of the Japanese fan base that doesn't care for or doesn't have the time to play an MMO.
I'm not particularly hopeful this will see a localization though. It just seems incredibly niche and the amount of text likely quite enormous. I know that they've made comments in the past about how an offline version of DQX might be considered for western markets, but the actual end product appears to be tailor made for the part of the Japanese fan base that doesn't care for or doesn't have the time to play an MMO.
Steam page is region-locked so looking not very likely to get localized. It's being developed by B.B.Studio, which is known for Super Robot Wars