As a person born in Houston and raised in Dallas, there’s absolute nothing more annoying than the various, redneck, country bumpkin stereotype the rest of the world has of Texans. But for one series of DaddyGotGame posts I will fully embrace the trailer park to bring you the latest and best new game trailers around. On the heels of the big Nintendo DS Dragon Quest IX announcement, we’ll bring you the brand new games brand new teaser trailer as well the buzzworthy Halo 3 trailer as highlighted trailers. Also included are Lost Planet, Star Wars: Lethal Alliance, and NCAA March Madness 07.

Dragon Quest IX - Nintendo DS (Square Enix)

Halo 3 - Xbox 360 (Microsoft)

Lost Planet - Xbox 360 (Capcom)

NCAA March Madness 07 - Xbox 360 & Playstation 2 (EA)

Star Wars: Lethal Alliance - Playstation Portable (LucasArts)

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Jump Festa is this Saturday in Japan and there’s quite a bit of Square Enix news.

Perhaps the biggest of all news comes in the announcement of two new Dragon Quest games for the Nintendo DS and in arcades.

The DS game is entitled Dragon Quest IX: Protectors of the Sky is being developed by Level-5 which worked on the DQVIII and Dark Cloud. There will be four-player network enabled play and the battles appear to be action-based. DQ creator Yuji Horii acknowledged the limitations of the DS but is hopeful to make a groundbreaking adventure for the platform that should be ready in 2007.

Square Enix also announced the card-based arcade game Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road which is set to hit Japanese arcades next summer.
Famitsu magazine reports that the Final Fantasy XII spinoff Revenant Wings –which is expected to debut a trailer at the Jump Festa– will continue the adventures of Vaan, now as an air pirate with girlfriend Panelo as his navigator. The story in a island chain above Ivalice called Remless which in inhabited by the Eagle race of Humes.
The battle system appears to have real-time strategy elements based as your party faces off with enemies on a 2D map. Screenshots imply that the Gambit system may make it’s way into the DS game with some references to a “Gambit” system in some form. The games director did also announce that the second screen will be used to display some data and you would switch which screen displays what part of the game.

Yet another DS game Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates will be featured at Jump Festa and the a playable version is expected to be present. The PSP will receive love also as Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII will also be playable at the game show.

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A little less than a month has passed since the next-gen preview I had published in DT Weekend and now that some time has passed, I think it’s time to revisit my concerns about the 360, PS3, and Wii. And while I still have no plans on dropping any dollars on either system anytime soon, my outlook is at least a little brighter on the systems. I’m still concerned about much of the online updating and what that may or may not mean for the future. I do see the advantages of the ability, but I stand by my criticism that this may pose a problem in the future as the systems become more widely available and start reaching into the broader market. If only roughly half of US household have broadband, something still has to be done to assure those households aren’t given a screwjob on an update and aren’t left out of being able to play games they want to because of it. For example in a completely hypothetical situation, if I don’t have broadband where ever I’m living at the time of the next SOCOM release and there happens to be another firmware update much like the launch update PS3 had and couldn’t play it without; I’d be greatly upset.I understand where the companies are trying to go with the online marketplaces and allowing the type of online play PC gamers have had long before Xbox and PS2 and I respect their attempts to bring that to consoles. I’m personally not a huge fan of most online modes on console games, but I understand the appeal. I really like the direction Microsoft is going with the downloadable HD movies and TV shows. I’m a huge fan of the EA/ESPN partnership with the online ticker and ESPN Radio programming. And Nintendo’s Virtual Console is absolutely awesome. I just want to see stuff like this done and improved in ways that ultimately exclude people like myself that generally just want to get my system, pop in my game and play.I still think the HD market is still so very niche that a lot of the emphasis both developers and journalists have put it is vastly overrated. Yes, even on standard definition screens the games look prettier, but good-looking games don’t necessarily equate to good games. Heck the only true blow my mind away game I’ve seen come from the November launches was Zelda, a game on the least visually impressive of the next-gen systems. HDTVs aren’t expected to sneak into the majority of households for a another couple of years so I’m more interested in great games than Hi-Def games right now.That said, there are some really fun games out there. Resistance, though nowhere in the vicinity of perfect, is a lot of fun. The PS3 Fight Night Round 3 also makes for a lot of fun. WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007, Ridge Racer, Viva Pinata (yes Viva Pinata) were all incredibly fun games. And based off the launch, if I were to go for any system, it’d be the Wii. Twilight Princess was as good as it gets, and games like Wii Sports, Super Monkey Ball and Excite Truck in their lack of greatness are still pretty addictive.

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