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Square-Enix held a press conference yesterday in Japan (very early this morning for Europe or North America) detailing the much-anticipated Dragon Quest X. Turns out it's been structured as an multiplayer online RPG, complete with selectable races and subscription fees.

Dragon Quest X: The Wake of the Five Tribes: Online will have Wii and WiiU versions made, very similar to the GameCube and Wii versions made of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess soon after the Wii's launch. Players will create their own character, choosing from one of five different races, and can choose to play either entirely offline (with other online players replaced by NPCs) or pay a subscription fee to play online with others. The game will retain the series' trademark turn-based combat and menus, but will take the limited online features of Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies several steps further.

DQX still has no formal release date (neither does the Wii U, for that matter), but lead designer Yuuji Horii is hopeful that it will come out in 2012. There is no word on a release outside of Japan, but Square-Enix and Nintendo have been pushing the DQ brand somewhat recently, so an eventual English-language release is likely.

Source: Kotaku

This kinda bums me out. I really loved DQ 1 - 6, played 7 briefly back in the dyas of PSX, and never got a chance to try 8. I started playing 9, but never finished it. It felt hollow and empty to me. I just couldn't force myself to grind the class levels. I'm worried that without playing the "online" version, this game may be the same. I am a big fan of MMOs, but I don't think this will do well for SE. They currently are 1 for 2 as far as MMOs go. Hopefully it does well. If it does, I may consider looking into buying it, but for now, I am apprehensive, at best.

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Dragon Quest X: The Wake of the Five Tribes: Online will have Wii and WiiU versions made, very similar to the GameCube and Wii versions made of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess soon after the Wii's launch.

So which version is left-handed?

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The game will retain the series' trademark turn-based combat and menus

Interesting that they're going to do turn-based combat in an MMORPG. MMOs usually have real-time action based on what little I know.

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