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>>562235371
STRAWBERRY MILK

>>562236520
maam's maams

>dead 3 times back to back

>>562245201
We're having a rough go of it.

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>og re1 on steam before dragon quest 12
>og re2 on steam before dragon quest 12
>og re3 on steam before dragon quest 12
>breath of fire 4 on steam before dragon quest 12
>capcom putting ps1 titles on steam with drm even though they are on gog without before dragon quest 12

>>562245201
we are eternal jobbers

>>562245201
>anon casts zing!
>but /dqg/ remained lifeless

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>Nobody posted any Serenas and we died

>>562256460
I think it was the ugly chopped hair serena that killed it

Just finished DQ3 HD2D as my first DQ game. Liked it a lot. Will probably dick around with it a bit more tomorrow but not sure whether I'll do the postgame stuff, from what I've heard it seems like a lot of grinding which I have 0 interest in

>>562260084
What was your party bro?

>>562245201
The sheer amount of gachashit makes keeping any other thread alive impossible

We have lots of Yggdrasil leaves!

I was going to say it's kind of sad that we can't stay alive when even /eog/ is hanging on but they died just now too

>>562265252
This is what nearly a decade without a new mainline game does.

Why are character names so often localized as something completely different from the Japanese, when the Japanese versions already sounded western anyway?
I don't see any point in changing Barbara to Ashlynn, or Camus to Erik.

>>562266410
Either to match whatever regional accent or joke theme they've decided on or as part of a gag (Erik, though they probably also figured people would mispronounce Camus even with the characters saying it all the time) or just for the hell of it (Ashlynn).
My favorite pointless name change is Flora to Nera, since someone obviously decided on that before Debora existed and stubbornly refused to let it go.

>>562267307
I read the translation so obviously it could be totally different in Japanese, but was Erik even confirmed to be from there originally in the first place? The vikings range far enough they could've got him from anywhere, and it seems like they probably got him old enough to already have a name.

>>562270161
You'll have to play Dragon Quest Treasures™ to learn the truth.
I haven't played it.

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I'm gonna leave this short-haired Serena here and go to sleep. The thread better still be alive in the morning.

Is the HD2D games the definitive way of playing the first games or is the SNES/PS4/etc. versions still the preferred ones?

>>562274936
They're so different you can't really compare.

>>562274936
With DQ3 it's kind of a wash. The HD-2D version is pretty faithful, with some nice additions but also some small annoyances that add up. You honestly can't go wrong with any release*, even the NES or GBC versions.
1&2 were changed much more than 3 in the HD versions to the point where they're basically totally different games. The HD versions are pretty good and definitely worth playing, but you miss the entire experience of actually playing DQ1 and 2.
*don't play the first PS4/Switch releases of the trilogy from a few years ago whatever you do, they're dogshit.

>>562270454
Not gonna lie I completely forgot that existed.

Here's your bump before I got to bed.
Stay living.

>>562280220
And another

>>562252185
>on steam with drm even though they are on gog without
they know people still prefer to use steam, even if just to have all their games in one place, so they're free to do whatever. I get it, even though i don't do it i don't even buy games :^)

>>562287556
also forgot: people on steam deck (and the other upcoming steam systems) are quasi-locked on steam for games, as getting non-steam games to work takes more effort than what the general user bargained for when buying that kind of system

>>562252185
>breath of fire 4
never played those games, do they have a similar feel to dq games?

>>562290745
I only played through 1 and then like a third of 2. To me, they don't feel like DQ at all.
They're really mediocre, terribly balanced, and feel like someone's first attempt at a JRPG, which is excusable for 1, but not so much for 2.
The first game also has a lot of padding and drags on for about 10 hours longer than it should. And to clarify on the balance, in the first game one of your party members learns the strongest attack spell in the game at like level 25 and the rest of the spells she learns at 30, 40, etc. pale in comparison on top of costing her more MP, also the main character can turn into a dragon and deal stupid damage for little to no cost. 2 on the other hand from what I had played is badly balanced in the other direction where you get mauled by even the earliest encounters unless you spend a lot of time grinding, also once again the main character has dragon forms since that's like the main gimmick I guess of the games, but in 2 the forms were nerfed into the ground, they cost all of your MP and don't do much damage for it, you're better off just ignoring them so you can still cast heal and shit.

idk how much 3 and 4 might have improved things, but with how bad 2 fumbled I just lost interest in the series.

>>562290745
no but breath of fire 4 is top 3 ps1 rpgs for me

ogre in the next game or the thread dies

>>562301650
post your favorite non-dq games, I have a theory

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>>562303260
Not him, but some of my all time favorites are
Chrono Trigger
Xenoblade Chronicles
Final Fantasy X
Megaman X4
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Persona 2 Eternal Punishment
Nightmare of Druaga
Tales of Destiny
Kingdom Hearts II
Ape Escape

What's your theory?

>>562301650
100% a mario sunshine fan

>>562304014
we still believing mario sunshine is bad?

>>562311109
NTA but I played it for the first time a couple of months ago really hoping to like it and it's just not that good. Lots of neat ideas but it doesn't come together.

>>562311109
NTA but Mario Sunshine sucks balls, Luigi's Mansion too.
God my options on Gamecube were so bad when I first got it, those two games, plus Starfox Adventures too, only thing I actually liked was Smash, but that disc just stopped working at some point (I think that game hates me, I've had 3 copies and every one would eventually shit the bed after playing for about a week)

>>562311738
i played it a few years ago and really don't see what makes it "not that good"

>>562311948
retarded opinions all around, good job

>>562290745
They're way better games.

>Dragon Quest 9

>>562290745
I don't think they're that close to DQ but 3 and 4 are good games

flatlucia

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No dying.

Is there any kind of pity system in the Gallopolis Horse Racing for DQXI?
I swear I got the 1st place reward of the Black Cup, even though I finished in 2nd place. I noticed there was some kind of dialogue after the race, but I was skipping it to try again, so I dunno if it announced something like the game taking pity on me, or maybe disqualifying a racer for some reason.
Couldn't find an answer on the internet.

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What the heck

>>562311109
it is a rushed out piece of shit, mario controls like he is on soap constantly and the game isn’t hard besides that, plus there is a real lack of different theming that makes shit blend together and the voice acting is worse than anything seen in dragon quest. only tendo made mario game that’s worse is that tech demo shite they slapped on the switch release of 3d world

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>octopath traveler trpg translated before dragon quest 12

>>562236520
hips

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>>562304014
i never had a gamecube
>>562303260
i play runeterra sometimes. used to play halo, metal slug, lego SW, League of Lesbians, mario kart, backyard wrestling, the simpsons game and brawl but those were only fun with friends. the solo games were Kameo, Kingdom Hearts, and a few Zeldas, also some licensed games like Dragon Ball and Harry Potter.

>>562365372
My number one memory of the early Harry Potter games was that the gnomes scared the absolute shit out of me on the PC version of Sorcerer's Stone as a child.

>>562350289
>octopath traveler
I still haven't played any octopath game aside from the first one which I never finished

>>562373362
New challenge, you can only buy a new game if you beat 2 of the unbeaten ones in your library.

Made it to the post game in 11, what am I in for?

>>562350026
not true by the way

>>562374310
>actually playing the games you buy
lmao imagine that

>>562388321
dev team has stated it was rushed out and that they weren’t happy with the feel of mario

>>562369573
my hp game was goblet of fire for the gba. aside from DQ i never played a game consistently over my life. we never did learn anons theory...

>>562396595
sakurai said the same about melee, would you say that makes it a bad game?

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Can't decide what to play, im 10 hours into dq7 on 3ds and 10 hours into pokemon mystery dungeon eos. Ive been ill all week and havent been at work, i dont wanna waste more time which should I playy.

>>562400642
Mystery Dungeon if you've never beaten it or Time/Darkness before, otherwise DQ7.

>>562405520
I've beat it tons of times.

>>562405852
Then DQ7, the instructions should've been clear.

>>562407441
>>562405520
Sorry I meant to write more but my chimp brain hit submit. Yeh im kinda enjoying dragon quest 7, I beat 1 2 and 3 last year and wanted to get the reimagined 7 a go but I saw the class costumes on the 3ds version and they were awesome so I decided just to play that instead. Is there a reason they didnt add the class costumes? They are a super cute idea would have been nice to see them.

>>562407903
7R was rushed out the door, plus the costumes aren't liked by everyone.

>>562409528
Why aren't the costumes liked? They are just a silly addition to the game, they dont take anything away.

>>562414460
from what i read what people didn't like is, as usual, the lack of transmogrification, so using x weapon while making it look like y weapon. In the case of costume the issue is not being able to switch them while keeping the class
Besides, i'm pretty sure in 7R it came down to the introduction of dual vocations, given again they don't want you to freely change this kind of shit unless it's dlc items they thought they had to come up with combination costumes and decided to just not bother with costumes at all. Instead of, again, just giving you all costumes and letting you freely change between them
then again this stuff eludes most games out there to this day

>>562415175
I guess but I think having a cool selection of costumes is cooler than having different weapons on show.

>>562414460
Personally I think most of them are ugly, and I much prefer the default looks for each character. This kinda goes for every game with class outfits for me.

>>562415175
XI S had a cosmetic armor slot, but I know it's considered impossibly unfair to expect a series to keep track of its own features anymore

I don’t think I’ve ever recognized any of the women posted by “before DQ XII” Anon and at this point I’m afraid it’s too late for me to ask.

>>562420078
It took them a herculean effort to make that and they can't be expected to repeat the process. I could also make a joke about how literally every armor in the game displayed in 9, but I'll cut them some slack they don't deserve since that was a lower res game.

>>562420909
I think DQ could do it again someday
Though its never been a common feature in single player RPGs really. There's Xenoblade and Xenoblade X and then those games stopped doing it too besides the remasters.

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>>562414460
I just don't think they fit with the overall vibe of the game. Also I just like the characters' default looks as is.
That being said there should always be options for this kind of thing and it's a shame that they, along with many other things, were cut from the newest remakes with little to offer in place.

>>562421608
I think they really just got away with it because all the characters were more or less the same. If you wanted to do it in a game with actual characters you suddenly have to make all the generic armors work on unique character models. If we used 11 as an example the mage armor alone would be a nightmare, not even mentioning some of the more generic armors that over half the party could use.

That critical hit sound is so satisfying man

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>>562435726

>X

>X

ogre sex

chubby dwarf sex

>>562419442
me and food anon.

>>562464923
Granted, but it's the monster from 4.

>>562472746
why are you like this?

>>562473279
You receive what you ask for.

>>562474046
What about >>562468294, huh?

>>562468294
Maribel sex

>>562485475
What's she so smug about?

>>562474156
Sometimes people have to make their dreams reality alone.

>>562245201
Would be awfully embarrassing if it happened again.

>>562501379
yeah imagine what the /vg/ elder council would say

>>562501379
Ermm

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>>562485475
I need to have her sit on my lap and tease me until she gets fed up and asks why im not hard yet, then she realises Im a limp cock boymoder and she bullies me till I cry

>>562511115
You ever consider that your life is meaningless?

>>562513558
Yeh sadly, thats why i post all day about dragon quest on this basket weaving board

>>562517279
And you aren't even doing a good job of that if we go by the premature deaths of the last few threads.

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>>562522545
Yeh I've got pneumonia rn, so more time to post. Currently just unlocked dog boy in dq7 3ds. Hoping to get pretty far way through the game before I have to go back to wage slaving

Every day we stray further from The Almighty's light.

Crazy how badly 7r killed the thread

>>562522696
would

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>>562537016
DQ characters have never reacted to their costumes in the party chat, have they?

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>>562543713
Not that I can recall. Closest thing is Torneko's appraisal, I guess.

>X

Play DQX

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How's it feel knowing DQII is now considered one of the best games in the series?

>>562555773
People can say whatever they want, everyone with a brain knows that 6 is the best.

>>562555773
I like the remake but I don't think it's that impressive. Maybe if the new story stuff was less derivative or the main cast were more interesting that would push it into the upper tier, but as it is it's a solid middle of the series game.

>>562557762
Dragon Quest 6 was my introduction to Dragon Quest. I knew about it because a Japanese friend had a bunch of imported games, and when it got translated it was also the first one I played.
Even nostalgia points can't save DQ6 to me.
And it's a shame, because I really like the presentation of the game, but everything post-Mudraw is such a drag.

>>562555194
fine, but i wont be the healer. get another chump to do it.

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I do like how they kept the "princess carry her all the way back home" from the original.

>>562561598
6 was also my first DQ when my parents got it for me on a whim when also getting me a DS for my birthday.
I tried to play it, but I got stuck constantly, probably because I skipped dialogued like hell back then and not really much better these days. Led to me actually getting the strategy guide for it, but still didn't help enough. Eventually got quit after getting stuck at this cliff area with exploding fat dragons.

Eventually sold it and the guide, which I do really regret these days. I actually still need to play 6 properly. Also that first experience is why Slime Knight is one of my favorite monsters, and call recruitable slimes in any game Gooba, after what I called the party one in that game.

>>562568557
>kept
Does he know?

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>>562569012
I don't know what you are trying to spoil but I just finishing doing just that so you are talking about something unrelated to my post.

>>562569150
Reload you last save right now, anon.
You don't need to return the princess to progress, in fact, it's advantageous to just keep carrying the princess all the way to the final boss.

>>562569150
Her role was significantly expanded if you hold onto her. She gets lines in nearly every cutscene and eventually there's even a gameplay benefit to having her along.

>>562570970
>Bianca's son with Goku's hair once again
Why does this keep happening?

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>>562571449
Dragon Quest fans love Dragon Ball a little too much.

>>562568557
Not only that, but they kept "princess carry her all the way to the final boss" from the original too.

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>>562572074
And to this day I still wonder how come none of the Dragon Quest spells make any reference to Dragon Ball.
But now it just feels wrong to do it without Toriyama's approval.

Rab's Pearly Gates was the closest thing we've ever got.

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If I can be honest I think cutting so many monsters from DQ7R hurts the game way more than cutting the 3 islands. I'm still enjoying it way more than I did on 3DS though.

>>562584565
It was the monsters that fully killed any interest I had in even pirating 7R. You could maybe argue that the other cuts were just misguided, but there's no possible artistic excuse for leaving out monsters, it could only be time crunch or laziness, and that puts all the other cuts in the worst possible light.

>>562555773
it’s pure larp as someone who has always liked 2. it doesn’t feel the same, it lost its charm, 2hd is generic

>>562572684
Not much point in doing it that late into the series when they really didn't have the graphical capacity to make very good ones until 8, and even then I think they've aped going super seiyan with some of the buffs a couple times. Not spells, but 11 had a few very Dragon Ball segments in it.

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>>562584565
I have this plushie, I sleep with it in my arms most nights. I also have a large green slime one but its kinda lame.

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When I was a kid my dad found a copy of rocket slime ds on the bar of his local pub, he took it home and gave me it and thats how I fell in love with dragon quest. I ended up emulating Dragon quest monsters on my psp and showing kids at school how much better it was than pokemon and they called me gay and cringe. To this day the only series of games I play aside from dragon quest is the trails series.

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Pneumonia ridden faggot keeps dqg alive for a day while everyone else celebrates easter with their family.. sigh

>>562603962
you're never alone anon don't worry

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>>562604787
Im the only person posting for the last 4 hours...

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Still alone

>>562603962
Ive been asleep. I have a rib injury and have to do specific stretches and can’t get in a car so im also not going anywhere

>>562611965
Hope you feel better eventually, Im stuck here in a blanket playing dq7 3ds cause of this shitty pneumonia. Not like I would have anywhere to go on easter anyway.

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So once I finish dq7 3ds, my plan is to play through 9 then 4,5,6 then dq monsters 1 then dq 8 then dq monsters 2. Basically I want to play every dq game including spin offs by the end of the year, then start x at christmas. I know my orders retarded, but thats just cause I played 1,2 and 3 late last years so i will save them for later

>>562600823
Based school children putting cringe queers in their place.

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>>562615618
Yeh, i did deserve it, idk why I insisted on telling everyone how much better it was, I was an annoying kid. Now i just dont interact with anyone, learned my lesson

>>562616347
Favorite trails game so I can bully you further?

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>>562616828
Sky sc, Im a big estelle head, her plushie just arrived in the post yesterday its pretty cool

Feels like the 40th anniversary stream will make it or break it for me. If we get no 12 news I'm just about gonna throw the towel. Not that the game was cancelled or anything, but it would mean it got rebooted and is still years away.

>>562621796
DQ as a series is basically complete. I'm not hung up about XII. I just wish the spinoffs were better.

>>562622149
I agree with this aside from the spin offs being better, since I think most of them are very good. Few exceptions like the dai game and treasures, but most range from good to excellent

DQXII will be the first mainline game without Toriyama's designs.

My new schizo theory is that DQ12 was going to be "dark and mature" (figuratively AND literally) to appeal to westerners, then they saw FF16 do that and bomb, so they got scared and had to rework DQ12 into something more colorful and traditional.

>>562628137
They *were* good, but post-Builders 2 it's been bleak. Treasures, DQM3, Dai, more disposable gachashit than ever. No new Heroes or Mystery Dungeon, nothing inventive and sovlful like Rocket Slime or Swords, and Pokemon got Builders 3. It's bleak.

>>562628191
XII was in development for years before Toriyama passed away. I'd be very surprised if the main cast designs at least weren't complete well before then. The soundtrack is another story, even if the official story is that Sugiyama got it done.

>>562628862
Yeh its a shame about builders probably never getting a 3. I would have loved one in the world of 11. A new rocket slime would be awesome, i still need to play rocket 3 with the fan translation.

>>562629019
A lot of XI's soundtrack was just old tunes anyway

>>562628494
as far as i'm concerned it's neither a new nor schizo theory to have. Though i'd say the "dark and mature" they were going for is likely just idk persona shit, so just a tiny bit more towards late teenagers, gameplay changes too are probably in the ballpark "here's a cool new ui" rather than "it's not turn based anymore"

>>562629019
There was no official word saying that Sugiyama finished DQ12's soundtrack, only that his body of work included DQ12 at the time of death.
From previous interviews we know that Sugiyama always worked in parallel to the development of the games, i.e. the soundtrack isn't done until the game itself was done. And given that he died in late 2021, which was around the time DQ12 entered development in full force, he most likely got very little done and the devs had to scramble for someone to fill his role.

>>562633952
Dark and mature usually does just translate to edgeshit. Honestly 11 was plenty dark with act 2 even if they didn't lean into it that hard. 6 also had some pretty wild shit in there, they just don't overplay it that much. I'm convinced normie opinions are just trash, I started Persona 5 recently and the combat is barely any different from any other JRPG and the story starts off with a decently strong arc before dipping significantly in the second one and being laughable by the third one.

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Dark and mature often means LITERALLY dark. Most FF are colorful, but 16 has dark colors all over and the main character's design is mostly black. All we've seen so far of DQ12 is a logo showing fire and brimstone in darkness (this also describes FF16's cover). I worry that the game might LITERALLY be dark. DQ is one of the series that has consistently had a colorful medieval world.

>>562639221
>muh destroyed world is too upbeat because the artstyle doesn't look like some dumped an ashtray on it

I have trouble believing a modern DQ could even hit V's level of intensity anymore.

>>562612237
May dragon quest heal us both

>>562644702
I am already healing, baja blast and dq7 are keeping me strong.

Mountain Dew Maribel Piss

>>562633952
If anything I hope they just aren't gonna give a shit about trying to keep a low age rating from CERO and just do what they want with the plot and character outfits and shit like that

How do you beat the knight aberrant? Ot feels like every fight I win is by accident

>>562649267
cop the fuck out or come back later

>>562653398
Well, I beat him. Guess I got lucky and copped out.

>>562653756
based cop outer

Is the post-game stuff in 3 worth doing or should I move on to another game?

>>562658909
If you're going to play nu-2 later it's pretty similar in that game

>>562662601
So skip it if I was planning on going straight into 1+2?

>>562665661
You're not losing much if you just want to move on.

Ashlynn begins doing something...just...disgusting!

>>562668408
I have a feeling that applies to the whole series. Is that true?

>>562671947
Heavily depends. The postgames in 5 and SFC-onward 3 are short and enjoyable if you just want a little more out of those games. 2HD's is similar but adds a bonus boss and ending so it's more worthwhile, and 6 (in a slightly different way) and 8 are similar to that. 11's is very fleshed out, does some controversial things to the story but is a lot of fun. 4's is absolute dogshit that actively hurts the game but at least there's the novelty of a new party member. 9 is 99% postgame if you want it to be. I forget what 7 has, when I finished 7 I didn't want to play any more of it.

>>562672507
8's postgame absolutely sucked.

>>562675842
I played it on the 3ds, all I remember was that there was a superboss you had to fight 7 times or some shit and I gave up after I killed the 4th one with only Angelo left on like 10 hp because I didn't feel like grinding any more.

>>562672507
7 has a pretty beefy bonus dungeon and the fight with God

>>562672507
They should release a mobile port of 9 with access to the online content to hold us over until they do an actual remake. If I'm not retarded it's the only mainline game without some form of release available now.

>>562678661
I love Gwaelin.

I'm so glad they gave up on the stringy-haired Kenshin Gwaelin. I like my girls fluffy.

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Your wife has something for you

>>562691342
I don't have a wife

>>562691342
I married Debbie and I don't touch gachas

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>>562691342
Thanks babe, Luv ya.

>>562677136
You can beat all the Dragonlord's forms around the same level
Especially on 3DS since Morrie shits on the hardest version with the high defense gimmick
8's postgame does suck though cause every boss crutches hard on desperate attack spam so you're mostly just praying for good RNG with dodge gear equipped

>>562672507
I've heard people saying that the postgame of DQ4 makes the game worse multiple times, but what's the main reason for this?
Do people dislike the quest to get the pandemonic equipment? Or do they dislike the change of the narrative about who's the villain of the story?

>>562695350
I dislike both, but the main thing for me is the ratio of how long the postgame is to how long the main game is. Like a quarter of your playthrough ends up being that fucking dungeon. The story being a waste is just the cherry on top.

>>562694398
I was just sticking to the original party, really just didn't feel like spending however long farming metal king slimes to make it not an inconsistent pain in the ass.

>>562670630
my wife

>X

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I woke up why is everyone asleep

>>562716310
everyone is clearly busy playing DQIX, what else?

>>562726747
If its multiplayer worked we could all play together...

Zing...

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Sick of the slow threads aaaaaaaa Which dq girl do you wanna lay with the most? Which job system was your favourite? Me personally I love 3 job system, but I also have a big thing for 7's. My favourite Job system of all time is the bravely default one so Im a big fan of classes and stuff.

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I'm about to pay full price for this and if I don't like it I'm blaming YOU.

>>562736332
If you ever stop having fun just imagine sex with pregnant Gwaelin for a while.

>>562736067
>Which dq girl do you wanna lay with the most?
Alena
>Which job system was your favourite?
The one from 6 and 7, it may not be balanced but it is fun to keep all the skills. I'd maybe like 9's systems best if it was so absurdly stingy with skill points.

My favorite of all time is probably Metaphor's system, I liked how you can carry over up to 4 skills from other classes you had gone through, and I really liked the synergy skills that require you to have certain other classes or multiple of the same class in your party, it reminded me of the dual and triple techs from Chrono Trigger.

>>562737220
>Alena
Loli or shortstack?

>>562737220
Metaphor's job system fails at a fundamental level because it greatly rewards sticking to one class..

>>562737220
They probably should've locked skill points to the class in 9, they're probably so stingy because you can you can just run through every class for a few levels for points and then dump them all in whatever class you actually want.

Somewhere out there there's a hybrid 6/9 job system just waiting to exist

>>562736067
>Which job system was your favourite?
I dislike how Dragon Quest implemented the job system in most entries.
Dragon Quest 3 (before the remake) doesn't allow anything interesting besides carrying the priest/mage spells to other vocations.
Dragon Quest 6 makes you aim for the hero vocation, so you end up with a redundant party where everyone do everything.
Dragon Quest 7 is just 6 with a few more options, still leaves room for redundancy.
Dragon Quest 9 takes forever to learn a single vocation, reclassing feels very punishing, and the few abilities you can carry over usually aren't great.

I think 7 Reimagined did it best by just using the Final Fantasy/Bravely Default approach. Unfortunately vocations are still tiered, so invariably you will have heroes, champions and druids in your party, but there's still room for personalization.

>>562737512
loli I guess, though I don't see what that has to do with Alena.

>>562738070
I don't see how. I had to change my classes and strategy a lot as I went through the game. If you're talking about the royal classes that are exclusive to each character, there's only one of those that's worth using, the rest are weaker than what you can build with regular classes. You are definitely rewarded more for mixing and matching.

>>562736332
I got Octopath Traveler 2 over this during the sale.

>>562740517
>Dragon Quest 6 makes you aim for the hero vocation
The game isn't even long enough to bother with that
The problem with 6/7's system is that like 80% of the game you can just spam Focus Strength/Knuckle Sandwich and by the time that stops working you've definitely gotten at least one of the three moves across all the other 15 jobs that's better than that.
And Carver just breaks the whole game in 6 from the outset cause he's too swole to control.

>>562740905
I have that on switch still have yet to try it. Been playing this indie game that got a new update recently.

>>562740553
>I don't see what that has to do with Alena.
I'm asking whether you prefer her chunky or petite, since it's a dice toss which way she'll be portrayed in any given game.

>>562741114
Dragon Quest 6 desperately needed a magical might/mending stat.
A mage traditionally have both high MP and a lot of utility to compensate their low stats, but in DQ6 anyone can learn any spell, so only having high MP doesn't cut it.

>>562741743
And a lot of the late game bosses in 6 resist everything but Frizz and Zap, and Kafrizzle is an Armamentalist spell.

>>562741612
Huh? She's consistently petite, unless you want to call the original famicom art chunky.

>>562741324
I refuse to buy nintento priced games

>>562740517
Agreed. Was hoping 7R would finally be a great DQ job system but the system itself was just alright. Would like something that has both abilities/spells and passives that you can use to customize your character. Ultimately I think DQXI has the best character building system out of any DQ.

>>562744004
If anything the problem with generic classes instead of unique trees is that people will optimize the fun out of them if one winds up better than the others, and you know they're never actually catch everything stupid the hundreds of thousands to millions of people who play it later will turn up.

>>562736332
I told you not to buy it for more than 30. I only enjoyed 1hd and even then i have many issues with it and will play other versions over it 90% of the time

>>562744750
Dragon Quest is way too simple to have game breaking builds. It probably won't be happening until the devs decide to focus on passive abilities.

>>562744750
In games with class customization, I don’t mind if there are OP builds as long as they aren’t pushed on the player, obvious, and available early.

>>562742275
Put her appearance in Heroes next to something like Rivals. She's pretty variable.

>>562744750
If you let powergame brain spoil your playthrough that's really on you. Even on whatever hard mode there is no DQ is tough enough that you can't do whatever you want.

>>562740553
If you stick with one class you get those EXP gems or whatever and can freely max out a class without ever touching it. That constitutes a failure of a job system in my book.

The Heroes 2 implementation of a 9-like job system was a really cool idea and could've been great if it was more fleshed out and had costumes like 7 3DS and the main characters weren't so boring.

Dragon Quest Ten

>>562755314
They look the same basically. Both are petite.

There's no response.

>>562784989
It's a crime they didn't give us the sequel.

I for one really like Dragon Quest Monster Joker

>>562795496
But can you do it? Can you cast the spell?

>>562795952
I’ve got to put 100 skill points into cure-all to do that

They should do a spinoff that's a party member crossover like Heroes but everybody was turned into monsters. I might even touch a phone game about that.

>>562802989
Dragon Quest Shadows when?

>>562802989
as long as it looks like this >>562784989

>X

>>562817361
What use is a comb that runs away from you?

>>562831938
It can catch all the hairs you're losing.

>>562838761
heh

>>562838761
I'll have you know my hairline isn't even receding. Now considering how all my family members look I'm probably fucked in 10 years, but that's a problem for future me.

Anyone have the 2 DQ3 HD-2D Remake exclusive wallpapers here? Need help looking for them since my code expired before I could avail them.

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Reused dungeons in the postgame already? Yeah fuck that shit.

>>562866131
Reusing dungeons in the postgame is a time honored dragon quest tradition

>>562866716
It's a very dumb idea that makes me want to drop the whole series.

>>562867097
You can just skip the postgames, you're not missing much.

>>562866131
If you don't like it here, you're gonna hate it in 2HD where they reuse almost every single dungeon from 1-3 for the big 25 floor postgame dungeon.

>>562878631
Well, thanks for saving me $60.

I like the recycled dungeon postgame areas

>>562817361
My mom wants one but got the slime earrings instead

>>562886553
I've come to accept it. Not great, not terrible.
The one thing I wish Dragon Quest would stop doing is recycling sprites/models of important enemies.

>>562889939
It depends on the boss, but I've started to kind of like it as long as there's more difference than just a recolor. One that comes to mind is the generic Boogas you see later in XI since he's not that important of a character and their designs are simplified.

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>>562891940
Fair enough.
But this one still hurts me.

The secret super boss of Dragon Quest 6.
The strongest legacy boss of Dragon Quest 9.
The mother fucker who requires The Almighty, Ramia, Lord of the Dragovians and Mortamor to be synthetized in Dragon Quest Monsters.
It's just a recolor of a common enemy.

>>562892946
Oh yeah, there's no excuse for that. But the other Dhuran recolor in XI is another one I have no problem with. It's all about context.

>>562892946
How do you even use that weapon anyway

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>>562900903
Did you source that footage yourself?

>>562901403
Yes?
It's just a capture.

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Queen Frysabel's socks...

>>562901679
Based.

>>562903685
>Name ends in -bel
>Stinky

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>fairy tail begins serialization again before dragon quest 12

>>562909828
At this rate we'll see consistent releases of HxH before DQ12 only for it to be used an excuse for him to stop again.

>>562909828
I have never once heard anyone say anything nice about Fairy Tail. I watched probably 30 episodes of the anime and don't remember a thing about it except that I confuse it with Seven Deadly Sins, which I also watched a few episodes of and don't remember anything about.

Does anyone remember Fairy Tail guy's Erik manga

>>562555194
https://x.com/ExalinExcels/status/2041696960659517559

>>562922089
cool

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Strong warriors slay monsters

>X

>>562935914
What's she so smug about?

>>562955175
I was hoping for something that could flesh out the world and add in the more adventurey DQ elements that weren't in Dai's frantic story. It's a real shame.

>>562955175
what were they thinking

I believe we will get DQXII trailer in a little less than two months. They will announce the DQ Day livestream by May 13th. It will be late at night on Tuesday in Japan so that when the clock strikes 12 on DQ Day they announce the 12th game. BELIEVE!

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>>562966305
If we receive anything less than detailed, comprehensive gameplay footage on the 40th fucking anniversary I'm done with this series. Such a step back from DQ11's announcement, which was less than 3 years after DQ10's release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8tXNUNLwyE

>>562967472
I remember it well. It still felt like a huge amount of time had passed for me, as I (naturally) haven’t played X and wasn’t too fond of IX. I hope we do get gameplay footage and commentary but think best case scenario is cinematic trailer and Horii talking about the game a bit and promising more details “soon” during the stream. Also a press kit with some screenshots and character key art.
If the 40th anniversary comes by and we get another “we’re working hard” message then I think it’s a five alarm fire, every schizo theory of what could be going wrong is true situation.

>>562970358
Surely since they've spent so long on this one there will be more unique monsters and 80% of the bestiary won't be recolors, right?

>>562982145
Please enjoy encountering classic DRAGON QUEST monsters in this newest installment of the DRAGON QUEST series.

>>562913495
i like erzas tits

>>562967472
looking back on it, the animation looks a bit more fluid here. the lights and shadows also look diferent.

DQX

>>562985667
Thank you John S. Enix, I'll enjoy beating up 10 different variations of dracky very much.

>>562996375
I'm going to replace his mount with a metal one and see how long it takes him to notice.

>>563002085
Not taking bets on how long it takes the Killing Machine to notice.
Let's start with... two days.

Party Chat Improvement for Dragon Quest IV.
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/9574/
Allows characters in the wagon to chat without having to first move them into the active party.
Needs versions for V and VI.

>>563007441
These are the kinds of "QoL" features new DQ games should be including instead of ruining half the utility spells

Will DQ12 be based enough to ship with no voice audio?

>>563009305
What, don't like pressing buttons as you finish reading and having them awkwardly stutter between sentences?

A major benefit of VIII and XI not being voice acted originally is that the tableau style cutscenes give the English VAs as much time as they need, which I'm sure is a major contributor to the English dubs not being Xenoblade 2 tier intolerable.

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>>562683575
you might as well port 11 2d to phones also.

I was going to play one of the DS Pokemon games but after 10 minutes I started wanting to play DQ5 instead

>>562928836
Dragon Quest XII will feature a red headed protagonist thats a female.

>>563036009
Ah yes, a female protagonist, because that will for sure make a huge difference when the protagonists never talk. Honestly they probably could've just let you pick in half the games you couldn't and it wouldn't have mattered that much other than party chatter.

>>563024160
No one that's an actual DQ fan uses the English dub. They're all posers.

/dqg/ begins doing something...just...disgusting!

>>563038248
I put a Fandangow on pizza.

>X