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I have never played a Dragon Quest. Id like to fix that. Which ones are worth it or your faves? Best advice? Thanks all!

>> No.5467298

>>5467290
My personal favourite is V.
Either start III, V or VIII depending on your age.
V is best played on a ds in my opinion, the mobile version is similar to the ds one as well.
VIII on ps2 has better graphics but less content and way more loading times, grab the 3ds version with the patched soundtrack if you can.
No idea about III.

>> No.5467301

>>5467298
>Either start III
For the love of God. Don't play Dragon Quest III if you haven't beaten the first Dragon Quest. Players who finished DQ3 will know why.

>> No.5467303

>>5467298
Thanks a lot. From everything Ive seen over the years I was thinking of starting at trying 3 or 4 but def doing 5 and 8 and then the new one. Figure that will get me the big good ones first

>> No.5467306
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5467306

This is the best one.

>> No.5467318

>>5467298
>Either start III, V or VIII depending on your age.
???

>> No.5467326
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5467326

You're better off playing the originals and ignoring the remakes, you'll spare yourself a lot of grief in the long run.

>> No.5467327

>>5467326
Arent all the DS remakes good?

>> No.5467338

>>5467327
they reuse the same assets so if you play more than one some of the magic will be lost. personally I would stick to the originals

>> No.5467339
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>>5467290
The absolute best games I feel are III, IV, V, and VII. A lot of people love VIII but I personally don't get the hype, though it is still enjoyable.
>>5467301
While it will leave a greater impact DQII is honestly a game I wouldn't hold over someone for skipping.
>>5467327
They're mixed bags.

They have pretty bad English translations making them offputting to a lot of people. I would say DQVI on ds is the only one that is objectively better then the snes version, though VI is still one of the weakest games in the series.

>> No.5467343

I really like VI

>>5467327
>remakes
>good

>> No.5467346

>>5467290
Not retro but 8 is my favorite. But you really can't go wrong with any game from 3 to 6, however you should play 1 before 3 to get the most out of it.

>>5467327
Depends on how you feel about the accents.

>>5467338
The originals reuse shit too, not to mention they're quite ugly even for their time, especially the NES games.

>> No.5467347

>>5467327
I love the remakes. I prefer the new translations with the goofy scripts and puns and wordplay, they're adorable and what got me hooked on the series in the first place. My favorite in the series is V, but i also love III and IX. Debora is my wife and my love forever.

>> No.5467367

I love 1 because of how cheesy it is.

>> No.5467382

>>5467346
4, 5, and 6 do not reuse assets between eachother though. meanwhile on the ds all 3 games look identical

>> No.5467387

>>5467290
Dragon warrior 3 is great

>> No.5467395

>>5467327
If you know Japanese.
Otherwise you shouldn't really bother with the series anyway.

>> No.5467402

Was it VII or VIII that was ridiculously long?

>> No.5467406

>>5467382
And that's unironically a good thing since out of those 3 only 6 does not look like dogshit in the original.

>> No.5467423

>>5467406
6 has some great pixel art on the SNES

>> No.5467424

>>5467402
7 is the long one.

>> No.5467429

>>5467406
For 5 you should compare it to the PS2 version.

>> No.5467431

>>5467423
Exactly, 6 looks great but 3 and 4 look terrible even for NES RPG standards and 5 looks like an NES game.

>> No.5467438

>>5467395
This guy is wrong, ignore him.

>> No.5467442

>>5467431
The NES ones reuse assets for sure. If you can get access to any other versions, they’re most likely improved in every area.

>> No.5467445

Of course they reuse assets, there was a limited amount of ROM space. DQ1 is only 80k.

>> No.5467452

>>5467438
The Japanese version is far better than the English crap with removed content, crappy translations and forced rewrites.

>> No.5467453

>>5467452
The translations are great and I only speak English anyway.

>> No.5467474

>>5467453
Then you are in a very bad position.
DQ is good learning material though.

>> No.5467475

Somebody has a link for the book in OP's pick?, i have searched everywhere and i couldn't find shit.

>> No.5467550

>>5467290
Avoid all of them from 8 on ps2 onwards as they have absolutely god awful translations. Unless you can read runes in which case play the original japanese versions.

Stick with the older ones on SNES and ps1. The only one worth playing on NES is 4.

>> No.5467558

>>5467290
Why is this series the epitome of quality despite being so simple and generic?
These games are like 20x better than some edgier and more complicated entries in the genre

>> No.5467662

>>5467442
Yeah the SNES ports of the first 3 games are superior to the NES originals in every way. I don't know if IV ever got a less radical remake like V got with the PS2 version so the DS remake might very well be the best version of it.

>> No.5467680

>>5467290
vi is best

>> No.5467685

>>5467680
Said no one ever.

>> No.5467714

RELEASE ORDER
FUCKING RETARDED NIGGERS
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH

>> No.5467739
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5467739

I've played through the first 3 games on the SNES. DQ III by far being the best.

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>>5467306
>>5467662
>>5467739
I played the first three on Game Boy Color, and I thought they improved on the NES versions in every way possible.

>> No.5467853

>>5467326
>uses the only bad remake as an argument

>> No.5467925

>>5467685
It's certainly not the best but I think it's probably the most underrated game in the series, I liked it a whole lot more than VII.

>> No.5467928

>>5467753
The GB ports are cool but the SNES ports are simply better.

>> No.5467958
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5467958

>>5467290
>decide to finally finish my DQV playthrough from 5 years ago
>get to a point where I need 3 rings to open the hell portal
>have the fire and life ring but cant find the water ring despite the fact that every guide says I should have it already

>> No.5467962

>>5467958
It's in Cataract Caves.

>> No.5467985

>>5467326
>>5467327
The DS remakes are great, these antfuckers just want an excuse to ignore all of the major quality of life improvements in the remakes.

Guess what? If you knew Japanese you would realize that the original games actually have some accents too. Very little of the remakes have any accents, people like to post the egregious example at the beginning of 4.

>> No.5468026

What versions of 1-3 were released on PS4? (JP onry for now(probably forever))

>> No.5468058

>>5467962
I went back to double check and it wasn't there, it wouldn't make sense if it was because supposedly you need it to start the marriage but I already have my wife out of the stone and both the kids. I would think its equipped on some monster I forgot about but I already checked all of them

>> No.5468101

Play DW4 on NES. You'll need game genie codes to control your party in the last chapter. Also the GBC trilogy ist gut.

V on PS2 is the best version.

>> No.5468103

>>5467327
People, (read:'muricans) bitch about the written out accents because they're functionally illiterate. The DS remake is good, it's missin party talk which sucks balls but it's a good forst entry into the series since it introduces all mechanics in the four chapters leading to to the main game.

>> No.5468115

>>5468058
Either you missed it while looking or there's some undiscovered bug.

>> No.5468140

>>5468103
how the fuck was I supposed to recognize what a Russian English accent looks like in writing?

>> No.5468230

>>5468103
When your first sentence is calling people illiterate you really wanna proofread the rest before clicking that post button

>> No.5468274

>>5468140
By reading it, it's not that cryptic.

>>5468230
Touché.
In my defence the only people I've heard complain about the accents are Americans, and it's really not just that. When you hear Americans read something they just don't know or understand words above two syllables. I'm not smart or learned, and I know what those words mean. Then I hear people mispronounce and struggle with simple words from the only language they speak and it's just so deeply unsettling that I just flinch.

>> No.5468286

>>5467558
Probably because they're just cute and don't focus on being edgy or brooding or tryhard.

>> No.5468317

>>5467558
They are completely fucking generic and playing them is largely a waste of time. So, the best representation of the genre indeed.

>> No.5468318
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5468318

Reminder that in the original Japanese she's asking if you want "puff-puff".

>> No.5468321

>>5468103
>story gets to an intense moment
>half the party is doing retardspeak
actually in order to get away from ever having to see a midboss say "ergnie bergnie shmergnie" again i started learning runes

>> No.5468324

>>5468103
The DS port of DQ4 does have party chat. Only the international release cut it out.

>> No.5468331

>>5468324
I'm not writing in Japanese so you know what version I'm mean.

>> No.5468334

>>5468331
I'm not writing in Japanese right now either and I still played the Japanese one.

>> No.5468761

>>5467290
And if you see a slime at any time, run away. Don't wait it out, just run away.

>> No.5468837

Play either VIII, V or III if you want a good intro for it.


For III, Don't play the mobile version since that version cuts out Pachisi Track and the translation can get silly. for that, get the SFC version instead with or without translations. though, you might want to play the first 2 for the surprise at the end

for V, the DS/mobile remake has more content and doesn't look like an enhanced NES game but there is a slightly better PS2 remake which even had orchestral music and in full 3d.

VIII can go either way with the vanilla ps2 version or the 3ds remake with the cut content patched in. keep in mind the 3ds version had a fast forward button and some QoL fixes + new content even if it looks slightly worse than the ps2 version

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>>5468318

>> No.5469197

>>5468950
I'm not sure what this screenshot was taken with but a real NES should not have all that rainbow banding.

>> No.5469209

>>5469197
A Famicom? I dunno. They don't have composite out.

>> No.5469231

>>5467445
The original Famicom DQ1 is 64k in size and split 50/50 between PRG and CHR ROM. It's also a CNROM cartridge meaning the PRG bank stays fixed while the CHR is paged. The interesting part is how the vast majority of the CHR ROM is just level data and only 12k of it is actually graphics--when you switch between a town/dungeon/overworld it disables video output, switches in the level data, reads it, and then switches in the actual CHR data.

For the US localization they switched it to an MMC1 mapper and moved the level map data into the PRG ROM (allowing more space for the larger English language dialog). The PRG is thus 64k while the CHR ROM is 16k and now entirely graphics data, containing the added sprite patterns and extra bits of background detail.

And of course the reealllllyyyyy loooooonnggggg password saves on the original were replaced with a battery save.

>> No.5469442

>>5467327
DQ5 DS improves the original by polishing the game, adding an extra character slot (so you could play as your whole family during the final chapter) and added an extra bride candidate in case you don't want to choose between the original weak, but magical skilled or the strong, but zero magically skilled original candidate.
The new bride is a balanced mix of both.

>> No.5469451

>>5469442
>The new bride is a balanced mix of both.
I got the impression that Deborah was an Alena-like hard melee fighter, and Bianca was the balance between the other two.

>> No.5469463

>>5469451
She's a good figther with good magic abilities, but none of her stats can top the other two girls's main stats.
Plus it's fun to see how the selfish bitch becomes Mama Bear after she's finally de stoned.

>> No.5469640

>>5467475
a PDF or to buy it? I got it from Amazon last year

>> No.5469652

>>5469463
oh man I want to do another DQ5 run with Deborah
First one was with Bianca for CANON reasons