Square Enix Teases Plans For Dragon Quest X In 2023

Oh boy I'd love to! Sadly SE is not very fond of its DQ overseas fanbase.

Meh I just really dont like the chibi style that much. It was pretty good for Bravely Default but this one looks a bit weird. Just my opinion tho.

Ugh, chibi. Not for me.

Oh please localize this square enix. I have been waiting so long

Feels like this is one of those that'll get a fanmade English patch later like DQMJ 3 got not too long ago. That particular instance always makes me wonder why Square didn't just kick some money their way and make it official.

Square Enix is a braindead company that never respect their international fanbase. Who in their right mind would turn one of their main line game into an MMORPG and then never release it outside anything but a freaking island. At this point this game may as well stay dead. We're already finish with DQXI, just make DQXII already and stop going back to this cash cow garbage of a game.

Dragon Quest X Offline English version, please.

@Serpenterror i disagree with you 100% square-enix brings out tons of games for the switch in the usa.. next year dragon quest 3 hd-2d will come out for the switch

@SonOfDracula miserable little pile of secrets.

@LikelySatan

I would love to see a western release. As it stands, this is the only game I’ve ever imported! And it harder and not as fun when you can’t read anything!

@Pointy59 I thought I would hate it, but it's less "Chibi" than Tales of Symphonia, and more similar to Dragon Quest IX / VII DS, in terms of character design.

I'd be very much interested in the offline version, yes. Bring it on.

I just just hope they can quickly create the expansions to catch up to the online game. Which hopefully won’t be as hard once they get to the original voice acted expansions. I like the chibi style as it reminds me of IX but also because supposedly it helped with ai processing for development. So if that helps them churn out the whole game it can look like a DOS game if they want to.

While I'd love to finally have DQX offline, I'm actually looking forward to DQXII more

is there content in DQ 10 that is super offensive to life outside of Japan and that's why they have not localised it?

Surely the offline version will come West next year, they bring games like treasures over to the west and crap like babylons fall and valkyrie elysium.

I have my doubts of DQX Offline getting a western release considering that it's ten years of content. But I would happily nab a copy day-one if it happened.

I'll gladly take the ugly chibi Offline version if it means I can finally play the game in a language I can understand.

After all, we will never get to play the original MMO version here anyway.

The fan community's done a great job of making X Online as playable as possible on PC, there's a translation app for the menus and even a side app that translates the in-game text on the fly. Wasn't too hard to setup and the game itself is free to download. There was a very helpful Discord community at the time I was playing it too. I'd recommend it if like me you're a Dragon Quest fan curious what this game is actually like.

I understand localizing the MMO to other languages is a titanic ask and don't expect to ever see that one. However, I feel like Dragon Quest X Offline would be more feasible given its scope. Please, Square Enix? Insert cute slime eyes

I always forget DQX was even released. Would love to play it someday, as I finally got around to playing XI last year and was again reminded how much I truly love Dragon Quest games.

@Tyranexx I am curious how this is less of an ask when they are adding voices to the non voice acted parts and (so far) adding the expansions. Unless they planned localization from the start and are currently working on it unannounced, it’s still going to be a massive amount of text to translate. Not trying to rain on your parade, just curious about the thought process you have.

DQ is very popular in other countries. I don't know why X wouldn't be translated and released outside Japan. They've done it with so many DQ games in recent years.

@Ryu_Niiyama For some reason I was under the impression that some of the online version's content was being cut in the offline release. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure translating the offline version would still be a ton of work. I just thought it would take less localization out of the two. Heck, I could live without translated VA if any non-Japanese speakers could access the game in some official form.

@Tyranexx I will admit I zoned out on some of the interviews but offline is the original human campaign story and you can already preorder the first expansion. They have been coy about if they plan to match all the expansions but this game has the potential to be just as massive as its counterpart. Which of course is bad news usually for localization. I mean I will totally double dip if it comes to the west, but I have the exact same expectation as I do with online. Snowball’s chance.

I just want the online version localized to go adventuring with friends! They're huge DQ fans so it would be really fun for them.

@Ryu_Niiyama I recall reading that offline would involve the original campaign (I've also kinda zoned out on some of the interviews). Not sure how in-depth they'll go with the expansions. I do agree the potential is there for all the expansions to definitely show up. Which...would compound any localization efforts. Seems like it's too early to know much for sure. If this even marches outside of Japan, I'd still expect it to take a significant amount of time to show up in any case.

It would be madness not to bring DQX Offline to the West. Madness, I say!

@Ryu_Niiyama for one translating a game is not as expensive as some like to think it is. I mean you get fan translations of jrpgs all the time and that’s usually only 2 r 3 people doing it over a year. So companies like square can do that pretty fast and cheap especially if it’s just text and not voice. It’s like when they release the atelier Ryza and it wasn’t dubbed they give the dumbest excuse we wanted to release internationally at the same time so not enough time. That’s a lie. If they started the dub while they writing it, it would be done the same time as the Japanese version. When a new game is not dubbed the only reason is because they just don’t care because they know there’s people who will buy it for full price anyway. It don’t take a million dollars to dub a big jrpg so if they sold a million copies that’s only a dollar per copy that went to the dub

How about Dragon Quest Builder 3? Lots of people would love that.

Kind of a clickbait tactic here. Doesn’t seem like much of a tease for anything because normal things many developers say about any game that’s still current. Not really anything pertaining to us in the west. Definitely not enough “there” to create an article about, but the click got me here so.. there’s that.

@Bwight33 I never mentioned expense. Neither is that the reason I would suspect for Squeenix having no interest in localization. Rather the amount of text that needs to be translated which has historically been a reason behind delays or skips in DQ localization. If they didn’t plan for it at the start Squeenix is usually not interested in localization after the fact. Not to say they won’t, but the argument becomes one of ROI. And time spent is still just as much of an investment as salaries. Fan translation is a poor argument. Anything can be done with no oversight and infinite time investment. Companies don’t operate that way. They have budgets, deadlines, employees and shareholders to manage. As well as profit margins to maintain. The rest of your comment is emotional speculation. I have no desire to say a company is lying as I have no internal knowledge of why a decision is made. I will double dip if Squeenix releases DQX in the west but I won’t let that prevent me from playing otherwise.

@Ryu_Niiyama I don’t think it will come to the west. My main problem is games like trails to zero which was just a port of the ps4 Japanese version and they charged 60 dollars Canadian and never even dubbed it. It’s ridiculous and it wouldn’t of costed no more then a half million dollars so if they sold half million copies that be 1 dollar per copy extra. I just find there starting to charge big money for remakes with nothing being done. Also it was the same people who did the geo dub with trails from zero a few years earlier. Then they will say something dumb like we wanted a worldwide release as early as possible so the dub would have delayed it. That’s a lie because if they started the dub as soon as they started writing the game and recorded it while they were recording the Japanese voice it would of been finished the exact same time. The problem is they had no desire from the start to do it so it’s just easy to say that BS

@Bwight33 Like I said I have no interest in saying a company is lying as I have no internal knowledge of why a decision is made. I don't expect it to come west either but I already said that. I just hope they port all the expansions.