Dragon Quest

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Dragon Quest Anonymous Sun Sep 7 23:52:22 2014 No.1921992 [Reply] [Original]

So I want to get into dragon quest. I played some of 8 and loved it but never finished it. Now I am planning to run through the games. Is there an order that is recommended? What ports are best/most viable? etc.

Anonymous Sun Sep 7 23:57:52 2014 No.1922005

Get a DS and play the remakes of IV, V and VI in that order.
Get a PSP and play the eBoot of VII. You could also play the first six games in the series on NES/SNES emulators on PSP this way but I suggest the DS remakes for the updated graphics.
Get IX for the DS and play with some friends.
They're great fucking games.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 7 23:59:17 2014 No.1922010 >>1921992 4 5 and 6 on the DS There are also snes versions of 1, 2, and 3 And I don't recall if it has an English translation or not but 5 has a ps2 version that is similar to DQ8 graphically. Personally I'd do 4 5 and 6 next.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 00:00:59 2014 No.1922018 >>1922010 For me, V ps2 is the definitive. Use emulators with fast forward though OP. For the earliest titles anyway. You'll save some sanity!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 00:01:29 2014 No.1922020 >>1922005 Thanks for the info! what about 1-3? I heard about the remakes on the Wii in Japan which we didn't get sadly. Is there a version I should play or have they just not aged well or something?

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 00:07:35 2014 No.1922036

>>1922020
The Wii version was just a repack of nes ROMs and the SNES remake ROMs.

1+2 SNES is generally considered the best though the GBC games are identical minus graphics and music.

3 nes is easiest thanks to a major glitch, SNES 3 looks great for 16bit era and great music. Adds a bonus dungeon, personality system, and a couple of other bells and whistles.

3gbc is all of the SNES remake plus monster medals which unlock yet another bonus dungeon.

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 00:25:56 2014 No.1922087

VII (7) is apparently the best selling video game ever but I found it to be one of the worst DQ games. If you miss a fucking piece of the puzzle (and they can be just hidden in barrells behind someone's fucking house sometimes) you can't progress the game. So if you play 7 remember to check EVERY SINGLE FUCKING THING.

I like: 8, 4, 9, 3, 5, 6, 2, 1,7

in that order from best to worst.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 00:29:59 2014 No.1922102 Is anyone else still waiting to try dq4? Just praying someone puts the party chat back in the ds version because the ios version has it. Also dq1 snes is a great starting point

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 00:30:27 2014 No.1922104 >>1922087 Have you tried the monsters games?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 01:06:52 2014 No.1922239 Make sure to play the first one before you play the third one. Other than that IV, V VI are connected but not really in a meaningful way so just play in whatever order you want. Also make sure you play V since that is the best one.

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 01:14:39 2014 No.1922261

>>1921992
my recommendation is to play in order.

best versions imo -

1&2remake - SNES (if your playing on console), GBA for handheld

3remake - SNES or GBA

4 - NES

5 - PS2 fan translation , but DS is fine if portability is what your looking for

6 - DS

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 01:17:22 2014 No.1922270 >>1922239 >V since that is the best one. probably my least favorite, after 2. still a great game though. also never played the PS2 version(only played the SNES), really want to though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 01:19:07 2014 No.1922272 >>1922261 Not saying you are wrong but why would you suggest the NES version of 4 over the DS remake?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 01:22:23 2014 No.1922284 >>1922272 None of those awful accents and the sprites look less samefacey like they do in the sort of DQVII style

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 01:24:16 2014 No.1922290 >>1922284 The accents were pretty goofy but I thought it was sorta charming personally. I can definitely see disliking it though.

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 01:46:59 2014 No.1922331

>>1922290
Even excluding the accents, the DS translation was played fast and loose. Excluding minor censorship (Houses of Healing and Puff-Puff) the NES translation is more accurate. The biggest plus that the DS version would have had, the Party Chat, was removed in the western releases.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 09:46:52 2014 No.1922828 >>1922331 The Android/iOS version of 4 re-added the party chat.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 10:09:26 2014 No.1922841 >>1922828 Yes, but at the expense of it being a Squeenix mobile port. Tablets are all but excluded because of the "play it with one hand" idea for example.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 10:28:15 2014 No.1922865 Not sure about the order, but I would say 5 is definitely the best. It really gets it.

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 12:00:32 2014 No.1922975

>>1922841
I'm playing through it on a tablet right now.

Because my tablet has the stupidest position for a charge port(short side) and the game is locked in portrait, I often have to use a program called xscaler, which scales landscape res to portrait size.

Overall though it's really not terrible but I really wish the move arrows were more precise.

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 15:28:22 2014 No.1923442
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>>1922331
They had puffpuff in the NES version. It happens in Monbaraba at night in Chapter 5 and they called it "pufpuf." It only worked with a male character and they had to be alone.

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 15:30:20 2014 No.1923448

The DS remakes of IV-VI are the best introduction to Dragon Quest aside from VIII.

I-III are not really that worth playing unless you're accustomed to old-school JRPGs. Try the remake of III at least.

VII is such an unholy slog of backtracking and shitty FMVs. Wait to see if the 3DS remake gets localized, it looks amazing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 21:28:41 2014 No.1924298 Where's a good place to emulate Dragon Quest I-III?

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 21:39:49 2014 No.1924331

>>1924298
Really, anywhere. If you're looking for emulators either check out the wiki on the sticky.

These days either GBC, SNES, or NES versions can be played on pretty much anything. Just make sure to get a translated version setup if you're playing the SNES version.

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 21:43:23 2014 No.1924351

>>1924298
If you mean which version, I'd personally recommend the GBC for three reasons:

>III in particular actually has more content than the SNES version
>I personally like the aesthetic a little more; basically feels like the NES version as it should have been.
>Official translation.

The SNES version is just as wonderful though. If you like the look of that go ahead and grab it, it's just as good and is mostly the exact same outside of graphics/sound.

Anonymous Mon Sep 8 22:03:39 2014 No.1924416

>>1924331
>>1924351
I was talking more about a site where I can download it, since there seems to be a bunch of them and I heard on /vr/ that a good chunk of them tend to crash at certain points in the games.
Not to be a bother, I'll guess I'll just try and find it on my own.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 22:05:57 2014 No.1924425 >>1924416 If you ask around the Emulation General you should be able to find something. They seem to know their sites a little.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 22:18:49 2014 No.1924470 In all seriousness guys why are you dragon quest fans so chill on /vr/ but are hyper defensive on /v/?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 22:24:01 2014 No.1924482 >>1924470 Those are /v/'s underage hysterical JRPG fans. Is not only for dragon quest, but here in /vr/ the people is more civilizated.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 22:25:24 2014 No.1924489 >>1924416 Just stay away from Coolrom. >>1924470 /vr/ on the whole is a lot more chill than /v/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 23:45:47 2014 No.1924667 >>1924489 >Just stay away from Coolrom Wait, why?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 8 23:56:21 2014 No.1924685 Could you guys give me a short review of Dragon Warrior VII? Not too spoiler heavy or anything though, I want to be surprised. I just wanna know if it's worth the 40$ (ps1 purchase included)

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 9 01:40:26 2014 No.1924917 >>1924685 Do you like Dragon Quest? Do you want to spend the rest of your natural life playing a Dragon Quest game? If so then yes, it's worth $40.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 9 01:47:39 2014 No.1924926 >>1924667 Riddled with ads and may even have some malware these days on said ads. I can vouch for the ads, though I've never been infected. I can believe it, though, given their shitty download method.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 9 02:14:35 2014 No.1924973 >>1924667 Cooilrom is legitimately a pretty shitty site to get roms from due to bad dumps. You want to try somewhere like emu-russia, emuparadise, or romhustler, just use common sense when downloading though.

Anonymous Tue Sep 9 02:20:30 2014 No.1924987

>>1924470
I avoid /v/ like the plague but I spend at least an hour a day on /vr/. So much better over here. I think maybe because there is a common interest among us all whereas /v/ is almost like a constant competition to prove that your gaming niche is better than mine.

Anyway emuparadise is all you need to get the games and many more

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 9 04:24:32 2014 No.1925141 >>1923442 >Pufpuf therapy >must go to the club in Monbaraba at night alone with a male character They did their best to try and hide was it was, so it is censored a bit. Didn't stop 12 year old me from knowing what they were really doing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 9 20:27:16 2014 No.1926672 >>1924917 Oh god I heard it was long but is it THAT long?

Anonymous Tue Sep 9 21:46:44 2014 No.1926901

>>1921992
III and IX are at the top of my list. You might want to play the GBC version of III if you're the type to get annoying when a party member doesn't attack because a previous member killed the monster he was targeting, but it's still a great game

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 9 23:51:19 2014 No.1927190 >>1924470 I've honestly never stayed on /v/ for more than ten minutes in a row, and I don't think I'd ever want to.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 01:46:24 2014 No.1927473 >>1926672 100-120 hours for the main quest.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 02:22:50 2014 No.1927558 >>1924926 Who the fuck even clicks on ads?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 02:53:44 2014 No.1927634 >>1927558 here we go

Anonymous Wed Sep 10 18:14:45 2014 No.1929235
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I played through Dragon Warrior (NES) over the past couple of days.

The whole game is a complete grindfest. At any part of the game your goal is just to achieve enough levels and buy the best equipment available so enemies don't annihilate you. You could certainly try to get through areas underleveled and undergeared, I tried it at some places, but you're going to have to run and hope you can escape and you also have to hope that tough enemies don't get the initiative on you and kill you before you even get the chance to run away.

I originally reached the Dragonlord at level 16 and got completely raped. There was nothing I could do. I'm certain that it's impossible to beat the Dragonlord unless you have the HEALMORE spell that allows you to out-heal the damage he does to you and you don't get that until like level 19 iirc.

Grinding from lv16 and on is SLOW. Enemies that I fight give very little experience and even in the rare encounter of fighting a Metal Slime I only get 105exp for killing one of them and at this point all levels take around 4000exp to level up. I could've just grinded for hours and hours, but I used game gamie codes at this end-game point where I had nothing else to do to make it so Slimes were worth 255exp and I was able to powerlevel to level 24 in like half an hour. To be honest, level 24 is overkill as it made the Dragonlord too easy. If you play Dragon Warrior, just stop grinding as soon as you learn HEALMORE and if you have the best equipment in the game you should be able to beat the Dragonlord.

>that's so "hero who has more maximum mp that he does maximum hp!"

I started playing the SNES version of DQ2 right after and it's much easier, the leveling is much much faster and enemies aren't ramping up nearly as fast. I'm only about an hour into the game and enjoying the story. If you interested, I plan on playing through all the Dragon Quest games on my stream, Twitch dot tv/N0Lif3 . I'll start playing again later tonight.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 18:20:35 2014 No.1929251 1 is great 2 is good with balance problems and finding crests is bullshit, great first half though 3 is great, one of the most loved and deserves it. Feels like a more freeform western RPG if you're into that

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 18:26:49 2014 No.1929265 >>1929235 Your stats develop differently depending on your name iirc, so that might be why the MP is higher.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 18:27:59 2014 No.1929269 >>1929235 Your stat gains in DQ1 depend on your character name.

Anonymous Wed Sep 10 18:32:10 2014 No.1929280

>>1929251
>1 is great

Dragon Warrior 1 is a cozy game. It's a small game-world and you don't feel pressured or burdened, you just grind for levels and equipment. I highly recommend listening to a podcast or an audiobook or at least listen to music or talk to people while playing it or it could get monotonous.

I can't really speak for DQ2 that much yet. I have a feeling that they really did tone down the difficulty on the SNES remake that I'm playing, but I'm sure it'll get harder as I go on. I hope so, at least. I like flexing my rpg game prowess.

>>1929265
>>1929269

That's what people in my stream were telling me. I wonder how bad "NoLife" really is as a stat-name compared to others. To be honest, having more mana than health is pretty good. I presumably got more HEAL casts than other people did, so I had to go to Inns less often during my grind sessions.

If you guys have screenshots of your end-game stats, I'd like to see them. I wonder how my numbers compare to yours.

Do you know what the BEST name is that you can enter for the absolute best growth?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 18:47:53 2014 No.1929305 >>1929280 I really don't think you should be concerned about numbers in this game

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 18:51:15 2014 No.1929313 >>1929305 I think you're right. Even if you have the worst name possible I doubt it has a meaningful impact on your stats.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 18:54:59 2014 No.1929321 File: 237 KB, 320x568, screen568x568[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] By the way, DQ1 came out today on the App Store and...is this the NES translation?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 18:56:55 2014 No.1929326 >>1929321 WOW. Lazy as fuck SE does it again!

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 19:05:33 2014 No.1929339 >>1929326 >>1929321 It looks slightly different from DWs translation but I think they may have spiced it up a small bit. At least they didn't add a billion indecipherable accents into the game like what they did with the DS remakes.

Anonymous Wed Sep 10 19:05:46 2014 No.1929340

>>1929321

It does seem word-for-word the NES translation. Again, I just beat the Dragonlord last night and I remember him saying that line about him being the "king of kings."

I wonder what kind of tweaks they made to game balance or if the game has new content.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 19:07:22 2014 No.1929341 >>1929340 It does, they probably took the SNES/GBC remake and made it even a small bit easier.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 19:09:48 2014 No.1929347 DQ 3,7, and 8 were the most enjoyable for me. As far as story goes, 7 is probably the best. But if you play it make sure you don't take any breaks. It'll fuck you up in the long run. Remembering where everything is at is very important.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 19:13:36 2014 No.1929356 >>1929347 >Dont' take any breaks >In a 150~ hour game Isn't it easier just to take notes or something

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 19:19:13 2014 No.1929362 >>1929347 NEET detected.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 19:19:51 2014 No.1929363 >>1929356 Fuck that. Get some dorritos, some mountain dew, crank up the volume on your iPhone to listen to berserk on repeat and power through that shit. Remember to piss in the empty dew containers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 19:27:53 2014 No.1929378 File: 460 KB, 640x480, pufupufu.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1923442 >pufpuf >puffpuff

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 23:08:45 2014 No.1929829 >>1929265 >>1929269 How? Does it judge on how many characters and what letters you use? And why? Does it have an impact later on in the game, or did the creators just wanted to fuck with you?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 23:13:14 2014 No.1929831 >>1929356 >150 hour game Game on, it's probably THE longest RPG ever in terms of main history content and it took me almost 80 hours to beat the first disc, but it isn't that long. If you try to 100% the game it easily goes past 150 hours though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 10 23:16:01 2014 No.1929836 >>1929831 >game on I meant come on, but game on too, bro.

Anonymous Thu Sep 11 12:48:04 2014 No.1930731

>>1929829

i think it's based on the first four letters of your name. arguably there is no "best" or "worst" name, only names that increase MP more than HP, or Strength more than Agility, etc. but no name that would make you bad at everything or good at everything.

of course, it's easy to argue that some of those stats are more useful than others.

the actual math is slightly tedious:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/563408-dragon-warrior/faqs/18342

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 11 12:50:17 2014 No.1930736 >>1929321 This brings up the question of who did the GBC translations? And does Square not have those handy anymore?

Anonymous Thu Sep 11 23:16:53 2014 No.1932042

1-3 SNES or I guess iOS since it's based on that. Since it cuts down grinding which 90% of DQ is. DQII would be fun if they didn't make the crest a pain to find and that last area is pure pain. Horii seem to understand what went wrong because he basically fixed everything that was wrong with DQ 1 and 2 and it's pure happiness.

DQ IV I say NES. Yes DS is a lot better in almost every way...except for the localization. The people that decided accents were the way to go should never touch another game in their life. Yes it get better after chapter 2 but its still pretty bad. If you can get by it great but I just couldn't.

DQV DS. Accent are way tone down and there's more stuff than the PS2 version.

The rest only been localized once. Hopefully SE would do the smart thing and localize DQVII for 3DS but knowing them it won't ever happen.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 11 23:19:10 2014 No.1932048 >>1922104 naw guy. i have not. probably more like a pokemon game i guess.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 17:44:05 2014 No.1933685 File: 263 KB, 1920x1080, dq8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Playing my first dragon quest. VIII I'm enjoying, the only problem is the battle animation, they take really long.

Anonymous Fri Sep 12 17:55:34 2014 No.1933710
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>>1921992
3 or 5. 3 for open world adventure, 5 for story.

Best version of 5 is, hands down, the PS2 remake. Play it, it has a fantranslation. the DS remake is botched, it has altered stats and the official translation is pretty bad (the whole script uses accents and speaksa liek thiese or laik ziz and it's borderline unreadable).

Best version of 3 is a tie between the SNES remake and the GBC remake. Both are great. I like the GBC one, it has even more content, was officially translated and is easier emulatable on portables.

Under no circumstances play 1 or 2 first. They are the worst int eh series and will put you off. 9 is for people who like randomly generated content (and it's a terrible DQ experience), and 10 is literally a goddamn MMO.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 17:58:19 2014 No.1933715 >>1933710 Didn't DS 5 add a bunch of content? I can deal with cockney for the bonus stuff

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 17:58:40 2014 No.1933717 >>1929321 See >>1933060

Anonymous Fri Sep 12 18:01:07 2014 No.1933723

>>1933715
The content was irrelevant. There's a new wife that clashes with the story and is entirely unnecessary. More importantly, though, the game has altered stats on everything and goes by too fast. Pacing is important in a game like DQ, and DQ5DS (and also DQ4DS) had their pacing ruined.

Also, DQ5 PS2 is one of the ebst looking DQ games, period, and it has an orchestrated soundtrack. Not a synthesizer, but a real recorded orchestration streaming from the DVD (in 5.1 if you ahve the hardware) as you play.

DQ6DS is fine, though. It IS the definitive verison of DQ6.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 18:04:36 2014 No.1933727 >>1933710 >Under no circumstances play 1 or 2 first fag

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 18:09:08 2014 No.1933731 >>1933723 Would DQ4 PS1 be the best way to go then?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 18:13:06 2014 No.1933737 >>1933723 >goes by too fast. Pacing is important in a game like DQ, and DQ5DS (and also DQ4DS) had their pacing ruined. Did they remove plot padding or? How did they change the pacing on these games?

Anonymous Fri Sep 12 20:17:02 2014 No.1934049

I played through DQ1 last year over a weekend and adored it. Had trouble getting into DQ2 for some reason, I don't think I cared for the party members or something. Might have to go back and and give it another try. The only other DQ game I've played was 8, which was my first and I loved. Also tried 4 and 5 a bit, but the accents pissed me off and really turned me away from the game when I couldn't figure out what the hell some of the NPCs were trying to tell me.

>>1933710
DQ5 PS2 had a translation? I had no idea, is it complete?

Can't stand the fucking accents in the DS versions of 4-6. Are there any decent fan translations of 4 and 6, anyone know?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 20:19:23 2014 No.1934062 >>1934049 It is complete. The first version of it had a crash on sugoruko boards but that has since been fixed. Works on real ps2s as well.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 20:21:20 2014 No.1934068 About to buy DQ7 for about 60$ says in near mint condition but the case has a 3 inch crack in the back. Comes with manual. Good deal?

Anonymous Fri Sep 12 20:24:44 2014 No.1934082
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So looking at the thread, basically it comes down to the best versions being:

1-3: SNES
4: SNES w/ translation?
5: PS2
6: DS
7: PS1 (3DS? >implying it'll ever get localized)
8: PS2
9: DS

Anonymous Fri Sep 12 20:31:47 2014 No.1934101
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>got a mint copy of DQ7 for $40 bucks at a really generous retro gaming store
>could only play it for about 3 hours one day before succumbing to a cold before needing to move cross country

>finally settled at the new place, got excited to get my PS2 and play me some DQ7

>no memory cards to be seen

>they're in the den area with tons of boxes no one has touched yet

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 20:32:38 2014 No.1934105 >>1934082 >4: SNES w/ translation? There's no SNES version of DQ4. It's either NES or DS...or smartphone.

Anonymous Fri Sep 12 20:33:04 2014 No.1934107

>>1934082

People might disagree with me, but I think 4 on the DS is fine even if Party Talk is taken out, cause I'll be honest, sometimes they never got too much interesting shit to say until DQ8.

And 5 is best on the DS.
PS2 is nice, but the models look ugly.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 20:34:28 2014 No.1934109 >>1934105 Well fuck, that sucks.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 20:38:13 2014 No.1934118 >>1934107 Come on we both know the music alone is worth a play.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 20:38:23 2014 No.1934119 >>1934107 Ugly models > inlegible dialogue

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 20:45:52 2014 No.1934129 >>1934119 >HE ACTUALLY HAS ISSUES WITH THE DIALOGUE DQ8 was far worse. Bianca's southern accent wasn't that bad.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 20:54:01 2014 No.1934139 >>1934129 >he eats shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 21:00:44 2014 No.1934149 >>1934129 I always thought it was weird how she starts the game with a very heavy accent, but, as the game goes on, she eventually loses it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 21:19:38 2014 No.1934180 >>1934129 And broken English for Russian was great? Naw fuck everything about DQ4. Hell I say NES of DQ4 is fucking better than the train wreak that is that shitty DS version.

Anonymous Fri Sep 12 22:14:55 2014 No.1934301
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Does dialogue actually matter to you guys that much? As long as I get the jist of what is going on, I'm fine with crude broken English in games. In fact, I often just skim through dialogue in these kinds of games.

mfw

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 22:22:15 2014 No.1934317 I'm curious, are the people complaining about the accents not native English speakers or something? Because I have no problem understanding them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 22:28:17 2014 No.1934328 >>1934317 I think it's the opposite.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 12 22:35:26 2014 No.1934336 >>1934328 >I think it's the opposite. How could it be the opposite? The only people I can imagine having difficulty with them are people who aren't comfortable with English.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 13 00:53:48 2014 No.1934653 >>1934317 >>1934336 Go away you SJW

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 13 01:05:45 2014 No.1934676 File: 64 KB, 499x419, 129099886145036139.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1934653

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 13 02:13:43 2014 No.1934804 Just finished GBC DW. That was really enjoyable. Gonna move on to II, and then maybe grab a GBC copy of III I'm also in the middle of V, VII, VIII, and Monsters GBC

Anonymous Sat Sep 13 06:59:07 2014 No.1935101

>>1934301
NPC can give a feeling of the town. In the NES/SNES horrible dialog was because it was normally done by one Japanese made locked in a room with a Japanese to English dictionary.

Nowadays localization came a long way and how NPC interact can change how you feel about the people in the game world. If the dialog is annoying to read you will feel more and more frustrated at the game and will start to not want to talk to NPC. Which in Dragon Quest is bad because to get the full story and world you need to talk to NPC.
>>1934336
Accents should only really be used in special occasions. Even more so if the accent is too thick you will have some struggle to read. And NPC should be easy to understand since they are the ones providing feeling of the world.

When talking about accents I normally look at Hagrid from Harry Potter as a good example of nice use of accents. It's not horribly thick and gives a good idea on his character. And his character is only in the books a short while.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 13 07:23:12 2014 No.1935116 Fuck you Square Enix for not localizing the 3DS remake of the original Dragon Quest Monsters. Fuck you long and hard.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 13 10:09:54 2014 No.1935289 >>1935116 It's over anon. Dragon Quest is dead in the west. It's easy to blame Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2's terrible sales but...come on, man, Japan had Joker 2 Professional already out and we got this crappy version. It's no wonder it sold so bad.

Anonymous Sat Sep 13 10:50:35 2014 No.1935324
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>>1935101

>enjoy the accents as it adds a bit of flavor to the game (DQ8 wouldn't be the same without the british accents)
>and since I can read past a 6th grade level I can understand the hard russian/southern/british accents they are going for with ease

Oh no. I am enjoying a game.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 13 11:14:06 2014 No.1935353 >>1934317 I love the DQ8 accents personally, I don't see the problem. The voice acting was great.

Anonymous Sat Sep 13 11:24:15 2014 No.1935363

>>1934301
>Does dialogue actually matter to you guys that much? As long as I get the jist of what is going on
In Dragon Quest games, dialogue is the most important part of the gameplay. You will never solve the puzzles and progress if you don't take note of everyhting that everyone says.

Outside of cutscenes, which are short and far between, DQ dialogue is 50% jokes and 50% hints and nothing else. It's not like Final Fantasy where it's perfectly irrelevant and most of time time literally copypasted between all NPCs like they didn't even expect you to read it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 13 12:03:08 2014 No.1935397 >>1935363 Yes, and even with accents in place, I never, not once, had a issue understanding what to do next. Unless it was DQ7, where it is less dialogue and more Metroid scanning the entire place.

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 04:12:03 2014 No.1937292

>>1935397
That's fine. A lot of others and me personally felt the accents were a bit much. Even worse that took so much time on thinking of the accents that they took out the Party Chat. Which was a big part of the game since that's really where your party actually show what they think and feel.

And one of the reasons any are saying they can't bring it over DQ7 is because the accents would take too much effort.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 04:16:28 2014 No.1937297 >>1921992 I just started playing them myself. I booted up the SNES remakes that were translated. Just finished DQI and working on completing DQII soon. I read DQII is the worst and it kinda sucks compared to the exploration in DQI.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 04:40:17 2014 No.1937346 If only I could get a copy of V on DS. I only have a 3DS at the moment so flashcarts won't work.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 04:53:09 2014 No.1937354 >>1937346 You should not play the DS remakes of 4 and 5, they're broken. There is no reason to ever play any version of 5 than the PS2 remake, though. It's probably the best remake of anything ever.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 05:02:35 2014 No.1937368 >>1937354 DS ones are comfier though. Can't play PS2 on the go.

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 05:59:57 2014 No.1937419

>>1937368
Don't listen to him. DS of DQV is just fine. Accents are not nearly as annoying as in DQIV and it has a bit extra stuff. He doesn't like the change of stats but they don't really fuck with the pacing at all in my opinion. Since you are meant to just explore which DQV does well.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 06:02:31 2014 No.1937425 >>1937419 I just play DQ games for the story and exploration

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 06:18:02 2014 No.1937440

>>1937425
As you should. And DQV does that very well. PS2 is a nice more faithful in it's translation but the DS isn't rage inducing like DQIV DS was for me. Please play it and enjoy.

As for IV I personally can't stand the DS and while the gameplay is much better in the DS I personally can only play DQIV on the NES. Wish there was someone that did a fan translation of the PSX version just so I can actually enjoy exploring and talking to NPC and get back my Party Chat.

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 07:01:41 2014 No.1937485

>>1935101
>Accents should only really be used in special occasions. Even more so if the accent is too thick you will have some struggle to read. And NPC should be easy to understand since they are the ones providing feeling of the world.
But I don't struggle to read them. And like I said earlier, I don't see how any literate, native english speaker would struggle with them, either.

I love the accents. One of the best things about the new releases.

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 08:36:37 2014 No.1937593

>>1937485
And that's you. For me and for many others we felt the accents really hurt the experience. People were showing side by side comparison for the new from the old and most people felt the NES was much easier to read while still giving some feeling of the world. You like it others don't. Don't really matter because SE said that the accents are there to stay because they want to stay "consistent."

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 10:05:34 2014 No.1937661

>>1937593
This. The older versions had a consistent 'olde english lite' feel to them; more heavy with the earlier games, but they've always had a more formal tone which was consistent throughout each game.

I agree that the accents are probably less problematic than the other guy is making them out to be, but do feel that there was really no reason to introduce them considering that not everyone who plays english games has english as a primary language.

I showed my wife (who is french) that screenshot that goes around here with the Scottish accents and there were some words she had to go over again to understand, ("dinae" was one). So, clearly, she's going to be limited to the original translation if she wants to play it, and frankly she isn't missing anything for doing so.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 10:18:29 2014 No.1937681 >>1937661 My native language is spanish and I didn't really struggle much with that translation. I think people complain a bit too much about these things like it's something that would ruin the whole experience.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 10:46:10 2014 No.1937737 >>1937681 Having to read shit through twice in an RPG is absolutely possible of ruining the experience. Did you understand? >NO< >YES Multiply that by a hundred and you'd get pretty upset.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 10:49:35 2014 No.1937747 >>1937737 I think that at such point you would already have learned what it meant, honestly. Without looking it up.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 18:41:20 2014 No.1938802 This thread is so useful. I find it hard to get into long running jRPG franchises because I barely know where to start. This thread certainly came in handy for me since I've been wanting to play DQ for some time.

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 20:00:33 2014 No.1939019

>>1937661
>but do feel that there was really no reason to introduce them considering that not everyone who plays english games has english as a primary language.
I don't see the problem.
English games/localizations should be written primarily for native English audiences.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 20:13:51 2014 No.1939050 >>1937440 Learn Japanese Play DQIV on DS Problem solved

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 20:14:59 2014 No.1939056 >>1939050 Or he can play the latest mobile release of DQIV which has party char as I understand. No learning moon required.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 20:17:50 2014 No.1939068 >>1939056 There's that, too. But I'll never regret learning it, so fucking rewarding.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 20:44:59 2014 No.1939153 >>1939019 You realize that fucks pretty much everyone who isn't English, French, Spanish or Japanese, right? Everyone else is probably playing their games in one of these languages, but hey, YOU don't have a problem.

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 20:51:56 2014 No.1939176
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A few years ago I played through most of DQ5 on PS2, but at the Demon World's Parcheesi board I ran into two bugs.

1.) The game froze on me when winning the whole thing
2.) The optional treasure room was broken

So I figured I'd wait until it got fixed and try again. Well, the fan-translation hasn't been updated in like two years and so Patch 1.2 can be considered final so I gave it another go today.

FIRST TIME TRYING PARCHEESI I GOT TO THE OPTIONAL TREASURE ROOM AND IT'S STILL BROKEN. I can't talk to the NPC, none of the doors work, I've spun the camera around and there's nowhere to go, and I can't even open my menu for some reason. This is fucking gay. Did you guys get trapped here too? Is it possibly an HDloader bug? I'm playing the game off of my PS2's harddrive.

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 21:01:02 2014 No.1939205

I'm playing III on the GBC right now and right now I'm on the quest that gets you the boat. I hear that the Dharma Temple where you can change classes of party members is coming up and I did a bit of research into it but I'm a bit unsure on something. The party I chose was Soldier, Fighter, and Pilgrim/Cleric. Would it be a good idea for me to turn my soldier or fighter into a wizard at the temple, get them up to level 20 or so again and then change them to something else?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 21:08:44 2014 No.1939235 >>1939176 I played through all of it and don't remember a single bug like that, so maybe it's on your end

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 21:39:37 2014 No.1939325 I'm trying to find a cheap copy of DQ V for nds, but it seems a mission impossible. Should i just buy the ps2 version ?

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 22:05:55 2014 No.1939383
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I was gonna do a Dragon Warrior IV "retardy" on /v/ where the hero doesn't participate and the Allies (all AI-controlled) have to fend for themselves. I didn't want to start another thread and have it die to quick, so I wanted some input in this thread on who to give these remaining items to. While I could easily choose who to give these to, it doesn't feel right for the playthrough I'm doing unless I CAN'T make the decision and have to have somebody else do it (especially if I don't agree with it)

To be equipped constantly or swapped with (as in, swap with their used weapon for bosses) (for Ragnar only); swapping is allowed, but which should be his "main" when fighting bosses, and his "main" when travelling about?
Mirror Shield (45 DEF, and randomly reflects enemy spells (debuffs and damage spells, but not skills like breaths); but, this also includes ally spells (healing and buffs, but not revives))
vs
Dragon Shield (30 DEF, but always reduces damage from Breath attacks (and supposedly Blaze, Fireball, and/or Ice magic, but that's a notable "supposedly"))

To be used as an item (infinite uses, works as an auxillary attack) by anyone (including Ragnar, if this wasn't clear)
Fire Claw (Casts 2nd level fireball* spell at an enemy group, approx. 30-42 fireball damage per foe hit) *= "Blaze" and "Fireball" are separate damage properties
Ice Blade (Casts 2nd level ice spell at an enemy group, approx. 42-58 ice damage per foe hit)
Magma Staff (Casts 2nd level explosion spell at all enemies, approx. 52-68 explosion damage per foe hit)
Staff of Healing (Casts 2nd level heal spell on user or any active ally, approx. 74-95 damage healed)
Zenithian Sword (Casts a disruptive wave to dissipate stat boosts/debuffs from all active allies and enemies)
Zenithian Shield (Casts a single-spell reflect buff on user. This buff has the same reflect properties as the mirror shield, but lasts approx. 6-9 turns)

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 22:24:54 2014 No.1939415 >>1939205 Anyone?

>>	Hawken TKD Sun Sep 14 22:31:17 2014 No.1939424 >>1939205 You fucked up when you chose a party that wasn't full of sexy jesters start over or turn everyone into jesters

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 22:52:12 2014 No.1939443 >>1939424 I'm seriously considering doing that one at a time, just so I'm not completely fucked. Hell, maybe I should have it stagger so that my fighter becomes a jester, my warrior becomes a fighter, and my priest stays the same.

Hawken TKD Sun Sep 14 23:22:59 2014 No.1939508

>>1939443
Here's a hint

Only the silly can become the saints

Jesters can turn into sages without the zen tome. Sages kick ass. You're not screwed but sexy is best stat gains and sages are best non hero class. You can stagger people into jester, but doing it all at once and farming metallys is quickest to get you back on the right track

Are you stuck on the spice thing? I got stuck there for FUCKING EVER. That and the goddamm fucking horse quest

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 23:29:31 2014 No.1939528
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>>1939205
You should probably make the Cleric a Thief, because Thieves get higher evasion, but also still gain MP, so you won't be stuck with half the cleric's former max MP value. Don't change the cleric into a thief until you get all of the cleric spells learned. One value of this later is that fighters and thieves share some equipment, so you can give stuff like the golden claw, ninja suit, and dark outfit to your thief later.
In regards to making a wizard from your phys classes, if you do, make sure they gain every spell from a wizard/mage before again changing them into something else later. Not only do they have all of the wizard spells, but they also have more MP past level 20.
I'd suggest making the Soldier a Cleric, as Clerics can use some some of the same stuff soldiers can, and you'll be getting MP for that unit. After that, possibly consider moving to a Sage.
For the Fighter, I'd possibly suggest making it a mage, as the Fighter's high agility will help a mage's normally low defense. After that, possibly move back to fighter, as the high crit values are always helpful. Or, if you prefer, make it into a thief for the ability to steal and keep gaining MP.
Again, leave the Cleric as is for now, then once it learns its last spell, make it into a Thief. Should you choose to change again, you might consider a Warrior/Soldier, as that class has several weapon and armor options that most classes do not.

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 23:29:56 2014 No.1939529

>>1939508
Yeah, I knew about the Jester to Sage thing.

But god damn fuck this spice quest, I spent like a day wandering around because I didn't know what the King meant by east until I found the Hobbit/Dwarf dude who says hmph a lot. Then when I'm in those parts the enemies just jump in difficulty and some know Firebal now? What the hell, I was so tense during the whole trip to Baharata or whatever because of those enemies and the fact that my SP needed to charge and I could have died at any moment. I made it there safe though, and managed to save back in Portoga so I can just cast return to go back there. I'm reading up on the next dungeon and I really don't want to have to face Kandar again because he took me like three tries the first time I challenged him.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 14 23:30:38 2014 No.1939531 >>1939508 >That and the goddamm fucking horse quest Not him, but which was that?

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 23:34:21 2014 No.1939542

>>1939528 here
Just to be clear, this is just my advice based on what you said. MY personal choices for my end-classes are different and also my entire party is always female. However, it's always best to try and play how you want to. The nice thing about dharma is that reclassing is unlimited, and once you get to Rimuldar, leveling is cake.
So don't take my advice as be-all, end-all. It isn't. DQ3 is pretty neat like that. Hell, especially in GBC/SFC, because Merchants can actually be a little better due to their new equipment options. Not GREAT, but still not bad to mess around with if you feel like a challenge.
>>1939529
Kandar is always easier the second time around.
Especially because by then you'll have better gear and spells.

Hawken TKD Sun Sep 14 23:34:54 2014 No.1939548

>>1939531
>>1939529
I litterally leveld a sage to learn invisibility to get past those two guards because i didn't know you could walk PAST the shop to get to the spice guy

and that fucking final key with that fucking fucking FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING DRY FUCKING VASE GOD FUCKING DAMMIIT MONTHS OF MY CHILDHOOD WASTED OVERLEVELING FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Anonymous Sun Sep 14 23:38:47 2014 No.1939557
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>>1939548
>I litterally leveld a sage to learn invisibility to get past those two guards because i didn't know you could walk PAST the shop to get to the spice guy
LOL
At least that was technically an option.
Imagine if it wasn't.

>>	Hawken TKD Sun Sep 14 23:40:51 2014 No.1939561 >>1939557 in my anger, i still have respect for enix for programming a contingency a modern game would have just let me walk past and slowly broken down after that

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 15 00:02:47 2014 No.1939614 >>1939383 here I'm hoping for a response in the next 10 minutes, if possible. If not, I'll just use random.org.

Anonymous Mon Sep 15 00:27:06 2014 No.1939665

>>1939614
Okey dokles.
So be it.
I'll post the results here just for the heck of it.

Ragnar uses the mirror shield for travel, dragon shield for bosses (if it gets approved by the other posters to swap)

As for the auxiliary gear:
Fire Claw = Nara
Ice Blade = Cristo
Magma Staff = Mara
Staff of Healing = Alena
Zenithian Sword = Brey
Zenithian Shield = Taloon

Fucking wow. Some of those are just bad.
All the better for an entertaining run.

Anonymous Mon Sep 15 04:21:55 2014 No.1939976

I was always interested in the series, mainly because if the Akira Toriyama designs, but it took me several tries over the years to come to fully appreciate the series. Back when I was younger I only liked the action oriented games but now I like a simple adventure with lots of grinding. I recently played through the first on game boy(psp emulator), and now I'm playing 8 and hooked! It's hitting me hard too as I want to collect and play all of them. The DS ones(iv and v in particular) are so damn expensive but I suppose I'll have to save up and get them so I can check em out. I managed to get VI and VII for a good price so at least I have games to play till I can find a deal in IV and V. On some listings for I and II on Game Boy it seems they have dead batteries. Are those easy to replace or should I not bother?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 15 04:32:06 2014 No.1939982 >>1939976 Game Boy batteries are pretty easy to replace. If the games are cheap, go for it.

Anonymous Mon Sep 15 04:40:46 2014 No.1939987

>>1939153
Hey man, if it was up to me games would be localized for every language that there's a market for them. But I don't see why native english speakers should have to put up with simplified localizations just for the sake of those who have trouble with it.

Anonymous Mon Sep 15 06:16:22 2014 No.1940052

>>1939665
Just to tell you this is a slow board. You can go over an hour before someone post something.
>>1939987
Well Dragon Quest is writing is very simplified if I heard right. Because it was meant that everyone that can read Japanese can understand the game. No accents to cause confusion and other things that might make it difficult to understand the game.

Anonymous Mon Sep 15 10:42:20 2014 No.1940325

>>1939529 here
I did a bit of grinding, but I don't have any party members at 20 yet so I decided I'd just dick around and explore with the boat so I can just get there a bit more leisurely. Right now I got into Tedanki Village and wow I got a legitimate chill from it when it became daytime. I have a question though after asking around, is it wise to go after the final key at my current level?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 15 11:43:28 2014 No.1940439 >>1940325 Might as well, you don't have to do any big fights or move through particularly difficult areas to get it, so the sooner the better. You can't sequence break and won't risk missing anything if you have it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 15 12:26:57 2014 No.1940509 Just finished (!) Dragon Warrior 7 over the weekend. Game isn't too hard if you have at least one Teen Idol with Hustle. Pretty much no boss can hurt you if you have two characters using hustle every round.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 15 20:33:28 2014 No.1941439 >>1940325 Just play it at our own pace. You never really need to grind. Once you hit 20 you can just cast return and teleport to the temple.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 15 21:58:40 2014 No.1941627 >>1940509 I'm playing DW7 right now. I'm on the island with the robots attacking. The boss is fucking wreaking me. Does the game get easier when you get the classes?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 16 02:52:06 2014 No.1942002 Ive got a month until I start a real deal, no more staying up late playing video games, career. So until that time comes, Im playing every single one of these.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 16 02:54:08 2014 No.1942005 >>1942002 This sounds like meaningless blogging anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 16 05:17:17 2014 No.1942143 >>1921992 Order is not important for the most part. Just don't play 3 before 1, or 2 before 1. You don't need to play 2 before 3, however.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 16 05:28:29 2014 No.1942152 >>1942143 >Just don't play 3 before 1, or 2 before 1. Bulshit, that's irrelevant either. The little tweest is worthless, for christ's sake.

Anonymous Tue Sep 16 08:10:26 2014 No.1942339

>>1942152
Not him but I feel a lot of the impact 3 has is lost if you played it first. It's sad since 1 and 2 are both annoying in their own rights (1 is 90% grinding while 2 has a lot of other things wrong with it). However I feel it is a game where playing 1-3 in order gives a nice feeling when the twist happens in 3.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 16 08:15:12 2014 No.1942351 >>1942339 No, the impact is merely redirected onto your 1 or 2 playthrough, whichever comes next.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 16 08:32:09 2014 No.1942365 >>1941627 It does get easier after classes are available, but the robot island and the quest for getting classes were probably the hardest sections of the game for me when I first played it.

Anonymous Tue Sep 16 12:23:43 2014 No.1942695

>>1942365
Finally beat him. The problem was trying to get Sap to work. Out of 10+ times of casting it I think I only got it twice. Bank helped when it worked (which wasn't often). But happy I finally got it done. I think I died 3-4 times to him. The boss before him was a pain too because of that antimagic thing. Maybe it's because I haven't grind for levels since most videos I've seen on the fight they were 4+ levels higher. Right now I'm only level 11, 12, 5, and 12.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 17 16:42:23 2014 No.1945524 So what are the varying differences between the versions of DQV? I've only played VIII and IX, and V comes highly recommended by a friend, though I definitely want the best version of it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 17 17:10:53 2014 No.1945572 >>1945524 ctrl+f "wife"

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 17 18:03:09 2014 No.1945662 File: 386 KB, 1028x936, DQ7_3DS.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Will it come?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 17 18:38:43 2014 No.1945743 >>1945662 No. SE confirmed it's not coming unless western fans show major interest a couple weeks ago.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 17 18:56:05 2014 No.1945775 >>1945743 Oh yeah, and that's when the other half of the fanbase decided to bombard the SE blog or whatever right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 17 21:33:47 2014 No.1946113 >>1945775 Still are. http://na.square-enix.com/us/blog/nice-meet-you-kupo#comment-118178 I don't know if it would do anything but he's hoping I guess.

Anonymous Wed Sep 17 22:51:04 2014 No.1946265

>>1945743
What constitutes major interest to SE, do you suppose?
It seemed like buying Bravely Default was supposed to show interest in JRPGs in the west, but that proved to be wishful thinking.
They want to see us spending, right? But what current DQ content is there to buy other than the mobile games? Buying those will only encourage mobile ports. The last DS game came out how many years ago? I already bought those.
I don't know, man.

Anonymous Thu Sep 18 05:23:44 2014 No.1946726

What about DQ9? Is it good? I heard all playable character are created by you and they never speak, and that put me off a little (i know DQ protagonists are always silent but four artificial mute drones in a party totally devoid of character interaction through all of the game? you gotta be fucking kidding me)

Anonymous Thu Sep 18 05:33:15 2014 No.1946731

>>1946265
>But what current DQ content is there to buy other than the mobile games?
The mobile games, exactly. Enough people buy them = DQ7 3DS gets localized and perhaps DQX. That's exactly it. Also, petitioning actually works to an extent, in the sense that it makes people on 4chan, NeoGAF, IGN and Gamespot forums talking, and when all of these places are buzzing with "we want it," the chances of "it" happening actually do increase dramatically.

Anonymous Thu Sep 18 05:36:14 2014 No.1946732

>>1946726
>What about DQ9? Is it good?
Randomly generate content and focus on online interactions. Proper Dragon Quest gameplay section is uninspired and basic. There's a boring, bare-bones story mode that lasts the first 15-20 hours, and then there are dozens of hours of procedurally generated dungeons and crafting. If you're into that kind of gameplay (replaying same or randomly generated content to gain crafting materials etc.), you'll likely enjoy it. If you want a Dragon Quest experience, it's not really there.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 18 06:05:48 2014 No.1946748 >Dragon Quest MMO never coming stateside Fucking horseshit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 18 06:10:18 2014 No.1946750 >>1946748 Who cares, though. It's a fucking MMO. We've got two Final Fantasy MMOs, and both are insufferable.

Anonymous Thu Sep 18 08:17:30 2014 No.1946836

>>1946265
The problem is that SE seem to have this weird idea that everything needs to outsell Japan. Even Dragon Quest when nearly everyone in Japan buys Dragon Quest. So when they see Dragon Quest selling a million copies they think "They seem to not care as much about the series as Japan so might as well not even try."

Really the only thing we can do is just send them letters, e-mail, and other things and hope they feel it's "justified." Honestly it's fucking retarded that anyone should be force to ask a company as big as SE to actually try to localize their games.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 18 16:56:02 2014 No.1947684 So DQ5 on DS is shite? What a bummer, i wanted to play it on Drastic...

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 18 17:02:50 2014 No.1947712 >listen to orchestral DQ soundtracks >amazing every time >get pumped to play DQ >it's not enjoyable as just listening to the OST I guess it's just gonna be one of those series

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 18 17:04:39 2014 No.1947714 >>1947684 i really couldn't stand the graphics in the DS version, it also felt that it had a horrible framerate even on a real DS, the ps2 version was actually good and i recommend it

Anonymous Thu Sep 18 17:16:54 2014 No.1947750

>>1947684
Having played through most of the DS version without knowledge of the PS2 one's existence, I can assure you the DS version is a suitable alternative, though the PS2 version does definitely look like an improvement.

As such, I'd say it's really up to you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 18 17:22:53 2014 No.1947772 >>1947714 i know what you mean about the graphics, the shit actually looks better in the snes emulator, and indeed the framerate is horrible (not phone fault it's a nexus 4), damn if my ps2 wasn't broken...

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 18 17:25:44 2014 No.1947783 >>1947684 DS version is great, play it anyway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 18 20:23:53 2014 No.1948351 >>1947684 If you want a bit more extra stuff DS is the way to go. If you don't care about the extra wife and a couple extra monsters just play the PS2 version. It sounds better and like other said no framerate issues.

Anonymous Fri Sep 19 06:58:45 2014 No.1949607

I beat Dragon Quest 3 tonight

Pretty cool that it was the prequel to DQ1 and 2. Was pretty funny when I realized the demon world was the DQ1 world again.

Has anybody maxed out a whole party in this game? I see the potential and if I were playing this as a kid I would be compelled to do it, but as an adult I don't see the point in wasting a load of time maxing out my character when I can already kill every enemy in the game super easy.

As far as I could see, you get the best stat growth after level 20. So you just level guys to like 30 or 40 and then you change classes at the Dharma Shrine to reset to lv1 with some stats carried over and then you just repeat until you have 999hp/mp and are maxed out on every other stat.

For the hero though, it's a bit tricky. Hero can't change classes, but you can get permanent stat-ups on the Suguroku/Parchesi board, so with a lot of luck and time you can slowly max out there.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 19 07:29:55 2014 No.1949638 >>1949607 i'm tempted to try, but i've got several other dq games to beat before I attempt. I prefer the snes version, but I have a feeling the stats might get messed up eventually

Anonymous Fri Sep 19 07:33:18 2014 No.1949639

>>1949607
I never did that. Never felt the need to. I went with Solider, Warrior, Pilgrim and turned the Pilgrim into a Sage a little bit after level 20 to get Vivify just in case. And that's all the class change I did. Mostly since I felt my Warrior dealt enough damage and I liked having a nice beefy guy along side me.
>>1949638
While the SNES is better in a lot of ways I feel the personality thing really mess things up for me. I like the idea of their stats growth is just part of the class not because of their personality. Since sometimes they switch and I have don't really have the book to make them what I want. I know I can really leave them be and I can still beat it without a problem. I just wish they never added it.

Anonymous Fri Sep 19 09:14:59 2014 No.1949716

>>1949638

I played the fan-translated SNES version too

>>1949639

Because of the translation, the class names I think were a little different. My teammates were warrior, priest, and mage.

I gotta say, Mage is pretty garbage in this game. Throughout the whole game, weapons were just stronger than offensive single-target damage spells and the multiple target spells were often limited to groups instead of all and worst most enemies tend to resist these group spells completely (0 damage). Also, it didn't help that mage has such low health.

It makes me mad because the Firebane spell in DQ2 was excellent. It hit ALL enemies and did so much damage for only 4mp. In this game, Firebane is weak as shit, often gets resisted, only targets a single group, and on top of everything it costs 6mp!

I turned the priest into a sage and eventually turned the mage into another warrior.

Anonymous Fri Sep 19 10:56:06 2014 No.1949818
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Sorry to ask here, but this seems to be the only Dragon Quest Thread amongst the 3 video game boards.

I'm trying to remember something one of the NPC Bunny Gilrs said in DQ8. It was something like:

"A quest without a dragon is like a bunny without a tail."

Does anyone remember the town she was in?

Anonymous Fri Sep 19 12:41:45 2014 No.1949951

>>1949716
They might be different Classes. I picked the girl (all female party including myself) that can equip armor, the monk, and healer. Yeah sadly attack spells don't really do much. And while the buffs her gets are nice they don't really come as much into play until basically the second half of the game. Plus the healer class can equip some pretty nice armor and has some nice HP which basically make her just a all around better class until you turn her into a sage.
>>1949818
I think you are confuse. I'm going to put it in a spoiler for others but this might be what you are talking about.

In the abbey where the Sage is in the bookcase there is a book with some of his puns. One of the reads "It's like a quest without Dragons"

I'm guessing that is what you are looking for.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 19 14:17:23 2014 No.1950102 >>1922010 >5 has a ps2 version that is similar to DQ8 graphically. Holy shit. It's translated.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 19 14:43:22 2014 No.1950170 >>1946113 >all people want is Final Fantasy Type-0 Jesus fucking christ.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 19 14:48:43 2014 No.1950187 >>1950102 Yes, it also has a fully orchestrated (as in, studio-recorded real-life performance) soundtrack.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 19 15:08:25 2014 No.1950228 >>1950170 I don't even know what the fuck, Type-0 HD is coming to the PS4(?) and Agito Vita is also getting a localization.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 04:34:06 2014 No.1951898 >>1949951 Buff spells are crucial in some later games fights. SpeedUp, Increase, and Bikill are excellent. Again, because enemy resistance was so high, I felt like whenever I cast Sap on the enemy it would NEVER work. It's stupid.

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 04:38:25 2014 No.1951912

>>1949951

Oh also, posting again here, my hero was a female as well. I had 3 females and 1 male on the team.

Having at least "1" female on the team is mandatory in my opinion because the absolute best armor in the game is the Light Dress and only females can wear it. It's better than the legendary Armor of Light.

I'm not particularly into crossdressing, but if I were a hero and I obtained a dress with armor stats that outclassed any armor in the world, I would wear it. You could laugh, but bullets would bounce off of me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 04:42:54 2014 No.1951916 >>1950170 Nothing wrong with that.

Anonymous Sat Sep 20 08:20:45 2014 No.1952068

>>1951898
Oh I agree. Dragon Quest does buffs/debuffs very well. Just saying they are more useful well after you can class change. And having a healer with nice armor is more crucial in the early part of the game. So having a Mage right at the start really fucking sucks.

As for Debuffs like Sap I found it useful myself but now playing DW7 and facing against some bosses. Fuck me they just can't be debuffs it seems. After like 15 tries against EvilMech I think I got it to hit once and it goes away after like 2 turns.
>>1951912
I actually ran a all female group mostly as a joke the first time. Played it when I was little (5 or 6) and named them all after my mom and 2 sisters. One of them commented that "way not all female" and so I did. I actually did it for fun. And I loved DW3 so much I ran another female in 4. And been picking female as my starting gender when I can ever since.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 08:25:28 2014 No.1952073 >>1951916 There's nothing really wrong with it but personally as a Dragon Quest fan it's a bit annoying. Type-0 is already coming out but they want more. Dragon Quest fans just want ANY game to come over here that's not a iOS port.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 20 23:32:00 2014 No.1953717 >>1949951 Thank you for trying but I definitely remember that it was a bunny girl that said it. I don't really have the means to check it myself now however, otherwise I would find her in game and snap a photo.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 07:56:36 2014 No.1954354 >>1953717 Alright. Sorry but right now playing Dragon Warrior 7 and don't have time to find the line. Hope you find it and share it when you do.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 11:02:17 2014 No.1954558 >>1954354 Thanks, I'll definitely post it here when I find it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 13:10:42 2014 No.1954809 I've been seeing a lot of stuff about Dragon Warrior Monsters and I just wanna know if it's like Pokemon but medieval or actually something cool on its own?

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 13:15:57 2014 No.1954824

>>1954809
OK think pokemon.

Cool now imagine every battle is basically a 3v3

Ok keep with me
You catch monsters by feeding them food and killing them.

Still with me?
You use the monsters you recruit for breeding stronger monsters which inherit stats and skills from the parents. You lose both parents though.

Now the cool part
The first game is all randomly generated dungeons and the second is preset dungeons and worlds for the main story and random key worlds. So really it can have infinite replay value. All monsters(with propper breeding and such can 999 all stats.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 13:22:56 2014 No.1954838 >>1954824 OKAY YEA IM ORDERIN THAT SHIT

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 19:37:28 2014 No.1955694 >>1954824 Why can't SE release the 3DS version. Fucking hell.

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:13:52 2014 No.1955756

>>1954824
Nigga that's not it

DWM had 215 monsters

If you had some fucking fire bird and bred it with an ice bird YOU GET SOME FREAKY ASS FUCKING FIRE/ICE BIRD HYBRED

Or how you can breed the 2nd stongest monster in the game (the strongest can only be gotten post game with the monster you get for completing all the gates) THE MOMENT YOU CAN BUY MEAT

THE FIRST 5 LEVELS ARE ALL YOU NEED TO GET A MONSTER THAT CAN 100% SOLO THE GAME

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:16:16 2014 No.1955759
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>remember when I was younger and on 4chan for years people talked about Dharma in DQ7 as "Oh my god the WORST Dungeon and you have to go through it TWICE no less."

>first time took less than 15 minutes
>second took less than 5 minutes

People haven't played this since they were a kid, have they?

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:26:00 2014 No.1955786

>>1921992
Aight, so i loaded up my old rom of DW3, discovered i had no idea where i was and didn't feel like continuing with a party of 3 lvl 18 jesters and a lvl 51 hero (srsly enix, that fucking bug man...)

So, new Game. Team Sexy Pant

Hero - FVCK
Jester 1 - Team
Jester 2 - Sexy
Jester 3 - Hole

wish me LVCK, though i don't think i'll need it

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:36:26 2014 No.1955810 File: 4 KB, 160x144, Dragon Warrior III.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1955786 >Be right in front of a mirror >look at your feet Autism QuestIII everyone

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:37:42 2014 No.1955815
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>>1955810
a woman LYING! HOWEVER COULD THIS BE?

Better question - How did she pitch this? did she edit Ye olde wikipedia or something to the king? "Oh yeah BTW baby that kingdom with all the jewels i want totally hates us"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:39:29 2014 No.1955819 >>1955810 >>1955815 Going for "Lewd"? I approve. God speed Anon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:39:43 2014 No.1955821 File: 5 KB, 160x144, magicSJWinthesky.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1955815

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:41:33 2014 No.1955826
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>>1955819
So when a GUY is lewd, that's a bad thing

But when a GIRL is lewd it's "sexy" and gives the best stats in the game and is even given as a endgame reward to be considered the equivelent of "GIVE ME AN ENTIRE FUCKING BONUS DUNGEON", "REVIVE MY FALLEN FATHER", and some other shit i forgot about. Been ages since i killed Dive

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:43:58 2014 No.1955834
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>>1955826
Thanks for the incredible fucking 50 gold king. This is surely the reward for the child of the hero who GAVE HIS FUCKING LIFE TO CLEAN UP YOUR MESS from a kingdom that USED TO RULE THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD FROM NOT AUSTRAILIA

but first, some "companionship"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:45:48 2014 No.1955841 File: 4 KB, 160x144, dontslutshameme.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1955834 AUSshitposters demonstrates compassion and tact Isn't this the nation that considers CUNT a friendly greeting?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:49:07 2014 No.1955845 File: 3 KB, 160x144, RastaquestIII.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1955841 Hey mom, i'm taking our HERBs and i'm gonna go hang with some sexy ladies in bunny suits while running around big scary tentacle slimes, that cool with you?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:50:10 2014 No.1955848 File: 3 KB, 160x144, afterigotthisherb.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1955845

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:51:59 2014 No.1955850 File: 3 KB, 160x144, OHYEAHMOTHERFUCKER.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1955848

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 20:53:54 2014 No.1955856 File: 42 KB, 500x500, 1398054748566.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >three fucking Jesters I couldn't imagine.

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 21:06:45 2014 No.1955876
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>>1955841
>Isn't this the nation that considers CUNT a friendly greeting

No it doesn't
That's like thinking that all Americans are overweight uneducated rednecks.

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 21:09:37 2014 No.1955886

>>1955876
I wave my mcdonalds at you sir

Also, does anyone have a guide to getting the sexy personality from the recruits? I used to have one but i lost it and Gfags isn't helping at all goddammit

How the hell did they know i was all Sexy anyway? am i wearing a low cut leather armor or some shit?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 21:31:16 2014 No.1955928 File: 3 KB, 160x144, THANKFUCKINGGOD.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1955886 There's a Wiki for this http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Dragon_Warrior_III/Personality Jesus, wiki is the new planet

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 21:33:02 2014 No.1955930 >>1955876 but americans are just as you described them.

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 21:37:56 2014 No.1955941
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>>1955928
>>1955930
Indeed, i'm not some 6'3 faggot trying to gain from 155, i'm some 5'2 300 lb bowling ball trying to convince people i do martial arts

Alt Filename - IT'S FAPPENING

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 21:40:13 2014 No.1955945 File: 6 KB, 160x144, amisexyandAndro.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1955941 So it's obvious to the naked eye that i'm LEWD, but people confuse me for a man This is now the Bridget playthrough

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 21:53:31 2014 No.1955971
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>>1955945
For anyone wondering what combat is like

The Hero is the only one killing things

Every turn 1-2 people will fuck around and skin their knee or try to run away

I expect this to get only more and more humorous as i go along

Pic related - The Sexy Trio got a level up - STR -0, LUCK - 17.

Luck is used for picking up medals, right? I pray to fucking god it is.

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 21:58:20 2014 No.1955980
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>>1955971
>break into someone's home at night
>steal their hard earned medals

What if that sleeping little girl just won the spelling bee? Is getting a Light Bikini so important, Team Sexy Cvnt?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 22:00:18 2014 No.1955982 File: 3 KB, 160x144, SexyQuestIII.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1955980 >are you staying here too? >Yes The Quest for Cock continues

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 22:00:34 2014 No.1955984 >>1955971 >I expect this to get only more and more humorous as i go along Yeah, Jesters get more...uh..."moves" as they level.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 22:10:51 2014 No.1956003 File: 1 KB, 160x144, thiswillprollykillsomeone.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1955984 Oh, i know OH i fucking know >filename related

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 22:11:54 2014 No.1956005 >>1956003 >File: thiswillprollykillsomeone.png (1 KB, 160x144) >>>1955984 >Oh, i know >OH i fucking know >>filename related THANK YOU BASED RNG I NEEDED ANOTHER FUCKING EXAMPLE I'm not even going to the 2nd town before everyone has a decent weapon

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 22:12:57 2014 No.1956008 File: 2 KB, 160x144, Toomanyherbs.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956005

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 22:19:54 2014 No.1956025 File: 4 KB, 160x144, Dracocisrighthere.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956008 I can just imagine ortega going around telling everyone he's finally getting a son to carry on the family name

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 22:22:00 2014 No.1956030 File: 7 KB, 160x144, Vargandhisgirlfriends.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956025 *tips leather helmet"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 22:25:28 2014 No.1956035 File: 2 KB, 160x144, thiscanonlyendwell.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956030 How much of the sexy was put in this game on purpose VS completely unintentional? The world may never know

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 22:38:16 2014 No.1956071 File: 5 KB, 160x144, EscortQuestIII.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956035 After a long and grueling journey in which i remember i forgot a warp wing

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 22:39:20 2014 No.1956076 File: 5 KB, 160x144, BootyQuestIII.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956071 All Night long baby!

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 22:51:13 2014 No.1956104 File: 4 KB, 160x144, ISISquestIII.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956076 Found a warp wing in the tower, got 5 tiny medals Now i've found a fucking bomb

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 22:55:26 2014 No.1956115 File: 6 KB, 160x144, ISISquestpart2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956104 It's not like i need training or anything, it's just high explosives

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 23:02:38 2014 No.1956146 File: 2 KB, 160x144, StrongestJesterinParty.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956115 For those wondering what my level ups have been like >Everything that you want, that could be helpful +0/+1 >LUCK + 20 I wish i was joking

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 23:06:25 2014 No.1956151 File: 8 KB, 160x144, Bootyquestpart2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956146 Finally a new land I think there's only one thing to do >gamble with my newfound luck superpowers

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 23:16:33 2014 No.1956169 File: 5 KB, 160x144, iveplayedthisgametoofuckingmuch.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956151 i knew this was there without the guide god how much of my life have i wasted in this game

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 23:19:55 2014 No.1956182 File: 9 KB, 160x144, AlmostFuckingThere.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956169 Obviously jesters are the superior support team for the Hero Moral support, that is

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 23:21:23 2014 No.1956189 File: 6 KB, 160x144, MrBonesWildTale.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956182 I've never understood Claws But that's because i'm a kicker, not a puncher But even then they don't really make sense. Wraps would have been a better choice

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 23:34:11 2014 No.1956209 File: 4 KB, 160x144, Yourewinnar.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956189 Flawless Translations, as always Then again, he prolly doesn't know Ukemi and just took a pretty big fall.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 23:37:57 2014 No.1956217 >>1956209 Oh, those pop culture references...

Anonymous Sun Sep 21 23:39:27 2014 No.1956220
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>>1956209
For those wondering

i used one of the jesters (TEAM) because there's a glitch in DW3 that will level your char super high, but give them shitty shitty shitty stats

Sure i could savestate scum through it, but fuck that.

also, never noticed Bravo on the gateway. Nice little touch

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 23:43:03 2014 No.1956224 File: 2 KB, 160x144, Attackitsweakpointgoddammit.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956220 For massive damage I WAS FULL FUCKING HP WHEN THIS BATTLE STARTED AND IT WAS 1 ARMY CRAB AND 2 PUPS man, fucking jesters

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 21 23:48:57 2014 No.1956238 File: 7 KB, 160x144, Howdidigetbackhere.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956224 You don't need to swear, apparently i'm Mr Immortal when it's plot convienent

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 22 00:04:30 2014 No.1956262 >>1955821 Aww shit, motherfucking DWIII for the GBC.

>>	TKDomygoditsamazing Mon Sep 22 00:21:09 2014 No.1956305 File: 2 KB, 160x144, lookatallthefunigive.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956262 It's a good thing i'm playing FFTA on my phone or this would be TOO MUCH FUN

>>	TKDomygoditsamazing Mon Sep 22 00:24:34 2014 No.1956315 File: 5 KB, 160x144, i'mprollybetteroffwithoutthem.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956305 So i healed up after running from >>305 Then i wiped against a party consisting of 1 magician and 2 catapillars

>>	TKDomygoditsamazing Mon Sep 22 00:30:30 2014 No.1956335 >>1956315 i warpwinged back to allihan and i'm busy farming first level monsters for money with the whip and my spacebar zoom key And this motherfucker has a problem with me carting around the bodies of three sexy women

>>	TKDomygoditsamazing Mon Sep 22 00:31:34 2014 No.1956338 File: 5 KB, 160x144, goddammnecrophobes.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1956335

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 22 02:18:57 2014 No.1956525 Working on DWII atm, have DWIII up next. What's the deal with jesters?

TKDomygoditsamazing Mon Sep 22 02:27:42 2014 No.1956537
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>>1956338
So i did some leveling. upgraded some gear

The jesters are all still useless, and my hero has almost 10x their exp as of this pic

She can barely pull the party, and fighting the super uber death crabs or roguenites will wipe the party

TKDomygoditsamazing Mon Sep 22 02:31:29 2014 No.1956543
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>>1956525
>>1956525
I told this jester to attack
Instead they started juggling

THIS TIME, one of the rocks hit an opponent

Last time, they killed one of our own party

Other jester moves include falling down, falling asleep, and falling for stupid jokes.

Their only ability is the ability to call monsters without walking the 3 steps it takes to get a random encounter

BUT

Once i make it to a certain point in game, i'll have THE BEST party to take on the endgame with.

Moreso because these are all Sexy jesters, which means their stat growths will be very good once they're not worthless fucking jesters anymore

TKDomygoditsamazing Mon Sep 22 02:40:35 2014 No.1956556
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>>1956543
Oh, and their level ups look like this

>everything you need +0
>Luck +20

If my sexy female jesters are wearing a Kilt and not a skirt...

It's a shame this game has no graphics to speak of. I could use some AAA graphics right now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 22 05:37:39 2014 No.1956715 >>1933710 Highly disagree. DQ 5 on PS2 is buggy, the stubby models are jarring and don't blend in nearly as well as DQ8 ones did with its world. DS one is the way to go, especially with its quick save and extra contents.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 22 06:07:28 2014 No.1956728 >>1955759 At that part right now. Do they mean the dungeon to rescue the little girl Priest or something different? I'm just about to rescue her. It's mostly annoying because you don't have any spells but that healing stone is nice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 22 06:08:16 2014 No.1956730 >>1956556 And that's why you should have loaded up the SNES version.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 22 06:24:37 2014 No.1956739 >>1956556 So are you going to run 3 Sages or are you going to turn one of them into a fighter? Since with all that luck they would crit over and over again which becomes amazing near the end.

Anonymous Mon Sep 22 12:11:48 2014 No.1957103
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I know this is gonna sound silly but it just feels like this thing I have.

So I got to Dharma Temple about 30 hours into DQ7 (I don't know if this was the normal amount of time it takes as I know I idled on the game a bit the last week), though I won't lie, I feel like this game is kind of running out kind of fast, like not that much longer and I am gonna beat it.

I know that is silly cause I've heard it takes maybe 80 for the first disc, but looking over a walkthrough, it just seems like I don't have much to do once I do Revive God.

Anonymous Mon Sep 22 13:32:53 2014 No.1957203

>>1956715
The only extra content D's version has is the extra wife and two useless recruit able monsters.

Ps2 has the orchestrated soundtrack and if you're using the latest patch its not buggy at all. Models though I may give you but to me they are just fine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 22 13:33:56 2014 No.1957204 >>1957103 >not much longer till I beat it HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Anonymous Mon Sep 22 16:23:57 2014 No.1957530

>>1957103
I'm actually where you are. You would think you would be near the end. But remember you only unlocked about 1/3-1/4 of the islands. There's no way we are near the end. Also we are just about to unlock the classes so they would just drop that on us right at the very end.

Anonymous Mon Sep 22 20:02:48 2014 No.1958058
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I just got DQIX and am currently obsessing over it. I'm only about 20 hours in but I am in love. The stories in each town are great and tug at my heartstrings. The only other games I've played is 1 which I beat, and I started VIII some time ago(only 10 hours in). Which should I play after I'm done with IX?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 22 20:15:49 2014 No.1958094 >>1957103 >it just seems like I don't have much to do once I do Revive God. Dude, you are so wrong. That game is bigger than Matt Smith's chin.

Anonymous Mon Sep 22 20:37:19 2014 No.1958136
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>>1958058
>every dragon quest game has been released on Nintendo consoles except 8
>the greatest game of all time is exclusive to Sony

Says a lot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 22 21:02:05 2014 No.1958190 >>1958136 Don't start. Xenoblade is on a Nintendo console.

Anonymous Mon Sep 22 22:28:34 2014 No.1958389

>>1958058
I feel 9 gets beat up on way too much but from a purist perspective the overall tone was too dissimilar to the spirit of dragon quest.

But if you somehow amazingly have people to play with its amazing.

Easily the longest endgame too even if its because of random dungeons and grinding.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 22 22:37:30 2014 No.1958408 >>1958389 Some guy who works at some game company or whatever 100% the game and it took him like 700+ hours or some shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 22 22:39:49 2014 No.1958413 >>1958408 Did he stat seed up all his chars to 9999 in every job too?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 22 22:47:41 2014 No.1958429 >>1958413 No clue. http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/773-hours-later-steve-tolin-is-finished-with-drago/1100-3482/

Anonymous Mon Sep 22 22:53:24 2014 No.1958442

>>1958058
9 is great but I feel it was mostly made for it's time. With a heavy use for map trading and multiplayer questing. Would be nice to have a 3DS with street pass or something. But still a fun game.

I honestly HATE DQ4 DS. To a point I can never recommend it even if they improved almost everything. The localization is so fucking bad that I just raged quit when I finally got to chapter 5.

TKDomygoditsamazing Mon Sep 22 23:44:45 2014 No.1958518
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>>1956730
What's the SNES got better?

Is there any remakes of DW3?

>>1956739
I was thinking 3 sages, but now i'm thinking of how rapetacular 2 sages 1 fighter would be. 2 fighters would compete for claws though. That's a good idea anon, never thought of that.

I'll prolly pop 2 sage cherries right away and see how long i can stomach the 3rd before i make him useful

Related - Still leveling for Kandar.

>>1957103
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

"I just beat the 4th gym in pokemon gold i feel like this game is going to quickly"

Anonymous Tue Sep 23 00:11:49 2014 No.1958554

>>1958518
That's what I did on my Jester only playthrough. The giant luck stat makes one fighter broken as fuck. Just don't go for the Golden Claws. I know the curse only gets effected in the Pyramid in the SNES but I don't know if that was kept in the GBC version.

Also the GBC is basically the same just looks worse because it's on the GBC. Actually the GBC is a bit better since it has a bonus dungeon post game. So it's up to you which one is better. Personally I love my physical copy of DW3 GBC.

Anonymous Tue Sep 23 02:17:51 2014 No.1958706
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Dragon Warrior Thread?
good times!

with pic related I also got DW1, DW 1&2, DW 3 and DW Monsters

hate that we probably won't get 7, but not much we can do about it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 03:12:20 2014 No.1958772 >>1957103 You're right on track. Keep going. Stop looking at walkthroughs.

Anonymous Tue Sep 23 07:31:30 2014 No.1958952

>>1958706
Sadly I just have the games. I really need to fix my NES (Just reallening the pins and swab with alcohol but lazy) and start another DQ run.

I say email them and other things. Yeah it's kind of pointless but I rather feel like I did something (and real something instead of signing a petition and be done with it). I would love to take my picture but gathering all of the games is annoying.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 08:21:02 2014 No.1958989 >>1933723 I still love anything on the SNES, DQ6 was really pretty for its time. The story in that game is great, although it's less of an epic plot and more of an episodic One Piece type thing. My favorite

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 23 08:24:30 2014 No.1958992 >>1934082 I like 6 on the SNES because that pixel art appeals to me, the music is well done, emulators can fast forward and I can play it on my phone.

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