Dragon Quest 40th Anniversary Logo Revealed, Expect "Various Announcements"

I’ll be honest, like I guess it’s clean but it also looks like someone whipped it up in like 10 minutes because they forgot. Like is that the best they could do?

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 3 , please!

GIVE ME FORTUNE STREET, DAMMIT!!! >:c
I miss that game, the Wii version was the best...TwT

I really like to see a remaster of Dragon Quest 8

No way 12 is coming any time soon, so for now I'd settle for Builders 3, Heroes 3 or just bring over 10 offline.

Blue Man Group condoms are finally available.

zenithia trilogy is next after dragon quest 7 reimagined..

Dragon Quest Monsters series could use remasters
DQ9, and 4-5-6 would be more obvious.

How bout just translate and localize the two Dragon Quest Heroes games that were already on Switch and release those worldwide please. That shouldn't be too hard, Musou games in the west is very popular now. Time to join the hype Square Enix or else Hyrule Warriors and Dynasty Warriors 3 Remastered will get all my money..

40 years of great adventures with the worst soundtracks imaginable.

I'm curious to see what will surface this year along with Dragon Quest VII Reimagined. I'd love to see Dragon Quest Builders 3 (though it's kinda unlikely) and at least get an update on DQ XII.

@Serpenterror I'm honestly surprised the Switch variants haven't come West yet.

@Serpenterror no need to translate them as they are on Steam and PlayStation over here but yeah it’s a bit baffling we never got those…

If we are playing pray for stuff then I’d like a remake of 8 or a Monsters collection with the 3DS remakes of the originals finally brought over.

Prediction time: I expect to see something about DQ XII this year, but I don't see us getting it anytime soon.
No, I think the big thing this year will be full remakes (likely HD-2D but I'm hoping for a different style) of the Zenithian trilogy. And next year we'll see an enhanced port of DQ VIII, an official western release of X Offline, and a full remake of IX.
Whether or not we actually get all these games in the course of two years remains to be seen, but considering the time between announcement and release of the DQ VII remake, I think they've been working on all of these for a while now.
Post remakes we'll finally get DQ XII and I imagine Horii-san retires shortly after.

There's a CHANCE we get a second Definitive Edition of DQ XI, to bring the visuals back to par of the original release... but I'm not expecting it.

I'm just waiting on news for DQ12. Not the game to release, just some news, it's been years of radio silence. YEARS.

There is so much I want from the series for this anniversary, but I also want to keep my hopes in check because the West rarely gets lucky in that regard. But with the recent influx of games... well let me go hog wild:

I would love for them to make the Zenithian Trilogy in the HD-2D style. Just... do it. Don't reinvent this wheel, just keep it rolling because the Erdrick Trilogy was phenomenal.

With VII already being remade, I'd love for them to do a remake of IX, which thus far is the only mainline game without any port, remaster or remake since the original debut over 15 years ago. The time is now!

VIII Remastered would be nice, too.

I don't think XII will happen any time soon; the passing of both Sugiyama and Toriyama during its development has put a dark cloud over the game, and I imagine it might languish a bit in development hell before we get to see it. Sad, but very likely.

And that's about it. I won't even huff copium for DQX Offline, because I don't need to anymore. I've been playing the Online version thanks to the wonderful fan project to run the game in English, and I've been enjoying every second of my couple hundred hours so far. But hey, if DQX Offline happens, I'll buy it just to say I support the series.

Which I do, as DQ is my favorite series. But more than anything, here's hoping for a wealth of Smile Slime merch I can pay ridiculous amounts of money to import.

Dragon Quest XII news, Dragon Quest VIII remake and Zenithian trilogy remake, preferably HD-2D style!

The best news they could announce???

DQ12 confirmed as still turn based! 👍

They are getting into the vape market. Puff Puff Vapes!

I’m currently playing Dragon Quest 11S yada yada. First DQ game I’ve ever played. Actually I just finally rolled credits the other day. Thought it was a very good game. But lagged a bit in the middle and very long. Of course there seems to be a lot more. The completionist in me annoys me sometimes. Because I want to move on, but it seems I may only be just starting a Third Act now…

I should probably play this postgame stuff, you guys think? I will say I was plenty satisfied with the way everything wrapped up with the credits roll ending. I just could never find a bunny suit nor the universal key. So maybe I will find those at least.

Lookit the slime in its cute little bow tie. :3

My top 3 wishes would be:

DQ8 Remaster/Remake on Switch 2
DQXII finally shown / dated
Dragon Quest Builders III

ROCKET SLIME REMAKE?

@Anti-Matter came on to post this game exactly!
I love Dragon Quest series but Dragon Quest Builders 1 and 2 will always be my favourite.We need another one definitely!

As for what I think could happen: I don't feel like its quite time for anything to do with Zenithia just yet, and anything to do with 8 and 9 also doesn't seem that close. Something with Monsters would be nice, maybe port the two 3DS remakes and finally translate them? Though I'm also not sure if its been long enough there. Some kind of slime trilogy thing/Builders 3 would also be neat, and there are potentially three DQ teams currently unnacounted for (Monsters team, Treasures team, and Infinity Strash team), so even if one of them is handling 7 Reimagined, and the Monsters team is doing monsters, one of them is still available to be doing something wacky like a Slime game or something a-la treasures or Builders 3.

But, my dark horse candidate is something to do with the DQ Mystery dungeon games. Its been years since anything happened with those, and they were big enough for both series that I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a Torneko no Daiboken remake this year or something along those lines.

DQ has always been my favourite series, even more than Zelda, and I love Zelda. Imo DQ11S is the GOAT. DQ Builders 2 is great. I'm excited about DQ VII remake. Pretty much the only game I'm excited for so far this year.

Surely a trailer for Dragon Quest XII? It’s been a couple of years since it was first announced and nothing has been shared so far.

Anyone agree that development time for AAA games is getting ridiculous?…no wonder indie games are crushing it at the moment.

@Glassneedles I'd guess it was to do with a regional PS exclusivity deal. There was the whole situation about DQXI being PS exclusive outside Japan for awhile despite it being the first ever announced NX game.

I think I met Akira Toriyama, in Fantasian Neo Dimension today. 2026 will be a good year, thanks to Dragon Quest VII Reimagined.

I welcome this... er, pre-announcement, and I appreciate the enthusiasm everyone is showing here. I'm surprised, however, that no one has mentioned DQ X Offline as yet. That project was announced at the last anniversary celebration in the midst of the pandemic, and we have yet to hear anything about that one leaving Japan. We haven't forgotten, Square Enix!

EDITED TO ADD: Kingy beat me to it! Many thanks!

I think the team that have made DQ7 Reimagined are starting work on DQ8 Remake, The HD-2D team will now make HD-2D versions of 4, 5 and 6. The aim is obviously to have all numbered titles playable on modern systems. I do hope that DQX offline is also part of the plan for the west and fingers crossed for a big DQ12 reveal this year.

IX will get ignored again. I was hoping for it last time and instead they skipped it and released X Offline and started doing the 2DHD games.

@RumandCohibas

I don't know, its just a gut feeling, but I don't think the issue with DQ12 is a "AAA development time running long" issue. My instinct is that its a "argument over the fundamental nature and direction of the series" issue. Or basically, DQ12 development has run absurdly long, because people inside S-E are fighting over what Dragon Quest should actually be, and where it should be it. Because, side issue: there is absolutely zero excuse for S-E not releasing a new DQ game on the Switch, what with it being the most successful thing in Japan ever. That they went the entire life of the Switch 1 without a new DQ game on it was an error in itself.

@MJF agree! We need more dragon quest monsters!

@RumandCohibas that only dragon quest 12 trailer was in 2021..

@The_MANSLAYER it's one of the few spinoffs in all of videogames that scratches the itch of the original but also has something new

I just want an official English version of X offline

Like some of you, I would also like Dragon Quest Builders 3, but the team that made the first two have just made Pokemon Pokopia. If they do Builders 3 next, no chance it will release this year.

Hopefully a heavy discount on 1-2 HD and a S2 version of 3 HD. Really want them but they're a bit pricey atm.