"I V" <wrongbad@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.12.16.09.23.22.838558@gmail.com...
> This brings up something I (with my extraordinarily limited knowledge of
> contemporary console gaming) have been thinking about for a while. It
> seems (maybe) that increasingly what you might call  "old-school" gamers
> are moving towards portable systems - the various FF games on the Advance
> and DS would be an example of this. Is this true (like I say, I pay very
> little attention to what happens in the world of console games these days,
> so I could just be hallucinating)? If so, given that there seems to be a
> division of labor between the DQ and FF games (DQ for people who want more
> of the same type of game, FF for people who want the shiny new stuff), I
> guess releasing DQ on the DS would make sense.

Except that DQ9 is a radical departure from the standard for the series, as
it is moving from turn-based, menu-driven combat to multiplayer
action-driven Zelda/Mana-type battle mechanics...


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