Please be welcome everyone to the one and only Dragon Quest General! Also known as the Dragon Warrior General.Last Thread: >>561653898 >News• Dragon Quest Smash/Grow, a Roguelite RPG for Android & iOS. Closed beta ran from October 14, 2025 to October 21, 2025.>Now Available• Dragon Quest VII Reimagined. Out now on Switch, Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.• Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake. Out now on Switch, Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.• Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake. Out now on Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.• Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai. Available on PS4, PS5, Switch, and PC.• Dragon Quest Treasures. Available on Switch and PC.>Other Updates• Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate. Officially announced, title revealed. No further details yet.>Guides:• /dqg/ Beginner's Guide to Dragon Quest: https://imgur.com/gallery/kE7vCn2Versions to Play/Buy: https://pastebin.com/TcW5bgqv• DQM3 Resource: https://dev.metalkid.info/DQM3/Monsterpedia• Dragon Quest IX DLC/Treasure Map Searcher: https://pastebin.com/Paf0Ypme• DQB2 Resources: https://pastebin.com/ykdKc201• DQX Resources: https://pastebin.com/kE3XGQNS>Links:• ROMs/Hacks/Mods/Translations: https://pastebin.com/QbQS5i2S• Anime/TV: https://pastebin.com/a2cRRuzi• Music: https://pastebin.com/NceqwLAa• 日本DQ Wiki: https://wikiwiki.jp/dqdic3rd/• DQ Art, Guide Books, Non-H Doujins: https://pastebin.com/GnaCV4vW>OPhttps://pastebin.com/RSbUEyfQ>BROTHERS IN ARMS>>>/vg/eagg/
>>562235371STRAWBERRY MILK
>>562236520maam's maams
>dead 3 times back to back
>>562245201We're having a rough go of it.
>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
>>562245201we are eternal jobbers
>>562245201>anon casts zing!>but /dqg/ remained lifeless
>Nobody posted any Serenas and we died
>>562256460I 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
>>562260084What was your party bro?
>>562245201The 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
>>562265252This 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.
>>562266410Either 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.
>>562267307I 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.
>>562270161You'll have to play Dragon Quest Treasures™ to learn the truth.I haven't played it.
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?
>>562274936They're so different you can't really compare.
>>562274936With 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.
>>562270454Not gonna lie I completely forgot that existed.
Here's your bump before I got to bed.Stay living.
>>562280220And another
>>562252185>on steam with drm even though they are on gog withoutthey 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 :^)
>>562287556also 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 4never played those games, do they have a similar feel to dq games?
>>562290745I 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.
>>562290745no but breath of fire 4 is top 3 ps1 rpgs for me
ogre in the next game or the thread dies
>>562301650post your favorite non-dq games, I have a theory
>>562303260Not him, but some of my all time favorites areChrono TriggerXenoblade ChroniclesFinal Fantasy XMegaman X4Castlevania Symphony of the NightPersona 2 Eternal PunishmentNightmare of DruagaTales of DestinyKingdom Hearts IIApe EscapeWhat's your theory?
>>562301650100% a mario sunshine fan
>>562304014we still believing mario sunshine is bad?
>>562311109NTA 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.
>>562311109NTA 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)
>>562311738i played it a few years ago and really don't see what makes it "not that good">>562311948retarded opinions all around, good job
>>562290745They're way better games.
>Dragon Quest 9
>>562290745I don't think they're that close to DQ but 3 and 4 are good games
flatlucia
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.
What the heck
>>562311109it 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
>octopath traveler trpg translated before dragon quest 12
>>562236520hips
>X
>>562304014i never had a gamecube>>562303260i 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.
>>562365372My 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 travelerI still haven't played any octopath game aside from the first one which I never finished
>>562373362New 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?
>>562350026not true by the way
>>562374310>actually playing the games you buylmao imagine that
>>562388321dev team has stated it was rushed out and that they weren’t happy with the feel of mario
>>562369573my 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...
>>562396595sakurai said the same about melee, would you say that makes it a bad game?
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.
>>562400642Mystery Dungeon if you've never beaten it or Time/Darkness before, otherwise DQ7.
>>562405520I've beat it tons of times.
>>562405852Then DQ7, the instructions should've been clear.
>>562407441>>562405520Sorry 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.
>>5624079037R was rushed out the door, plus the costumes aren't liked by everyone.
>>562409528Why aren't the costumes liked? They are just a silly addition to the game, they dont take anything away.
>>562414460from 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 classBesides, 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 themthen again this stuff eludes most games out there to this day
>>562415175I guess but I think having a cool selection of costumes is cooler than having different weapons on show.
>>562414460Personally 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.
>>562415175XI 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.
>>562420078It 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.
>>562420909I think DQ could do it again somedayThough 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.
>>562414460I 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.
>>562421608I 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
>>562435726
ogre sex
chubby dwarf sex
>>562419442me and food anon.
>>562464923Granted, but it's the monster from 4.
>>562472746why are you like this?
>>562473279You receive what you ask for.
>>562474046What about >>562468294, huh?
>>562468294Maribel sex
>>562485475What's she so smug about?
>>562474156Sometimes people have to make their dreams reality alone.
>>562245201Would be awfully embarrassing if it happened again.
>>562501379yeah imagine what the /vg/ elder council would say
>>562501379Ermm
>>562485475I 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
>>562511115You ever consider that your life is meaningless?
>>562513558Yeh sadly, thats why i post all day about dragon quest on this basket weaving board
>>562517279And you aren't even doing a good job of that if we go by the premature deaths of the last few threads.
>>562522545Yeh 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
>>562522696would
>>562537016DQ characters have never reacted to their costumes in the party chat, have they?
>>562543713Not that I can recall. Closest thing is Torneko's appraisal, I guess.
Play DQX
How's it feel knowing DQII is now considered one of the best games in the series?
>>562555773People can say whatever they want, everyone with a brain knows that 6 is the best.
>>562555773I 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.
>>562557762Dragon 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.
>>562555194fine, but i wont be the healer. get another chump to do it.
I do like how they kept the "princess carry her all the way back home" from the original.
>>5625615986 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>keptDoes he know?
>>562569012I 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.
>>562569150Reload 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.
>>562569150Her 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 againWhy does this keep happening?
>>562571449Dragon Quest fans love Dragon Ball a little too much.
>>562568557Not only that, but they kept "princess carry her all the way to the final boss" from the original too.
>>562572074And 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.
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.
>>562584565It 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.
>>562555773it’s pure larp as someone who has always liked 2. it doesn’t feel the same, it lost its charm, 2hd is generic
>>562572684Not 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.
>>562582839
>>562584565I have this plushie, I sleep with it in my arms most nights. I also have a large green slime one but its kinda lame.
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.
Pneumonia ridden faggot keeps dqg alive for a day while everyone else celebrates easter with their family.. sigh
>>562603962you're never alone anon don't worry
>>562604787Im the only person posting for the last 4 hours...
Still alone
>>562603962Ive 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
>>562611965Hope 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.
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
>>562600823Based school children putting cringe queers in their place.
>>562615618Yeh, 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
>>562616347Favorite trails game so I can bully you further?
>>562616828Sky 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.
>>562621796DQ as a series is basically complete. I'm not hung up about XII. I just wish the spinoffs were better.
>>562622149I 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.
>>562628137They *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.
>>562628191XII 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.
>>562628862Yeh 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.
>>562629019A lot of XI's soundtrack was just old tunes anyway
>>562628494as 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"
>>562629019There 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.
>>562633952Dark 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.
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.
>>562612237May dragon quest heal us both
>>562644702I am already healing, baja blast and dq7 are keeping me strong.
Mountain Dew Maribel Piss
>>562633952If 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
>>562649267cop the fuck out or come back later
>>562653398Well, I beat him. Guess I got lucky and copped out.
>>562653756based cop outer
Is the post-game stuff in 3 worth doing or should I move on to another game?
>>562658909If you're going to play nu-2 later it's pretty similar in that game
>>562662601So skip it if I was planning on going straight into 1+2?
>>562665661You're not losing much if you just want to move on.
Ashlynn begins doing something...just...disgusting!
>>562668408I have a feeling that applies to the whole series. Is that true?
>>562671947Heavily 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.
>>5626725078's postgame absolutely sucked.
>>562675842I 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.
>>5626725077 has a pretty beefy bonus dungeon and the fight with God
>>562672507They 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.
>>562678661I love Gwaelin.
I'm so glad they gave up on the stringy-haired Kenshin Gwaelin. I like my girls fluffy.
Your wife has something for you
>>562691342I don't have a wife
>>562691342I married Debbie and I don't touch gachas
>>562691342Thanks babe, Luv ya.
>>562677136You can beat all the Dragonlord's forms around the same levelEspecially on 3DS since Morrie shits on the hardest version with the high defense gimmick8'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
>>562672507I'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?
>>562695350I 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.
>>562694398I 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.
>>562670630my wife
I woke up why is everyone asleep
>>562716310everyone is clearly busy playing DQIX, what else?
>>562726747If its multiplayer worked we could all play together...
Zing...
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.
I'm about to pay full price for this and if I don't like it I'm blaming YOU.
>>562736332If 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>AlenaLoli or shortstack?
>>562737220Metaphor's job system fails at a fundamental level because it greatly rewards sticking to one class..
>>562737220They 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.
>>562737512loli I guess, though I don't see what that has to do with Alena.>>562738070I 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.
>>562736332I got Octopath Traveler 2 over this during the sale.
>>562740517>Dragon Quest 6 makes you aim for the hero vocationThe game isn't even long enough to bother with thatThe 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.
>>562740905I 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.
>>562741114Dragon 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.
>>562741743And a lot of the late game bosses in 6 resist everything but Frizz and Zap, and Kafrizzle is an Armamentalist spell.
>>562741612Huh? She's consistently petite, unless you want to call the original famicom art chunky.
>>562741324I refuse to buy nintento priced games
>>562740517Agreed. 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.
>>562744004If 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.
>>562736332I 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
>>562744750Dragon 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.
>>562744750In 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.
>>562742275Put her appearance in Heroes next to something like Rivals. She's pretty variable.
>>562744750If 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.
>>562740553If 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
>>562755314They look the same basically. Both are petite.
There's no response.
>>562784989It's a crime they didn't give us the sequel.
I for one really like Dragon Quest Monster Joker
>>562795496But can you do it? Can you cast the spell?
>>562795952I’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.
>>562802989Dragon Quest Shadows when?
>>562802989as long as it looks like this >>562784989
>>562817361What use is a comb that runs away from you?
>>562831938It can catch all the hairs you're losing.
>>562838761heh
>>562838761I'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.
Reused dungeons in the postgame already? Yeah fuck that shit.
>>562866131Reusing dungeons in the postgame is a time honored dragon quest tradition
>>562866716It's a very dumb idea that makes me want to drop the whole series.
>>562867097You can just skip the postgames, you're not missing much.
>>562866131If 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.
>>562878631Well, thanks for saving me $60.
I like the recycled dungeon postgame areas
>>562817361My mom wants one but got the slime earrings instead
>>562886553I'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.
>>562889939It 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.
>>562891940Fair 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.
>>562892946Oh 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.
>>562892946How do you even use that weapon anyway
>>562895467
>>562900903Did you source that footage yourself?
>>562901403Yes?It's just a capture.
Queen Frysabel's socks...
>>562901679Based.
>>562903685>Name ends in -bel>Stinky
>fairy tail begins serialization again before dragon quest 12
>>562909828At this rate we'll see consistent releases of HxH before DQ12 only for it to be used an excuse for him to stop again.
>>562909828I 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
>>562555194https://x.com/ExalinExcels/status/2041696960659517559
>>562922089cool
Strong warriors slay monsters
>>562935914What's she so smug about?
>>562955175I 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.
>>562955175what 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!
>>562966305If 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
>>562967472I 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.
>>562970358Surely 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?
>>562982145Please enjoy encountering classic DRAGON QUEST monsters in this newest installment of the DRAGON QUEST series.
>>562913495i like erzas tits
>>562967472looking back on it, the animation looks a bit more fluid here. the lights and shadows also look diferent.
DQX
>>562985667Thank you John S. Enix, I'll enjoy beating up 10 different variations of dracky very much.
>>562996375I'm going to replace his mount with a metal one and see how long it takes him to notice.
>>563002085Not 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.
>>563007441These 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?
>>563009305What, 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.
>>562683575you 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
>>562928836Dragon Quest XII will feature a red headed protagonist thats a female.
>>563036009Ah 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.
>>563024160No one that's an actual DQ fan uses the English dub. They're all posers.
/dqg/ begins doing something...just...disgusting!
>>563038248I put a Fandangow on pizza.
i really wish 7 was less good than it is, Im having a fucking blast but its so long, even with days off work cause of pneumonia im still a ways off beating it. I have 4 more days I can have off and I dont think ill be done..
>>562892946he needs some kind of stronger form, I think in DQX it's said that this one is just an avatar of the real dealand also the other variants need to be based on dhuran's lighter armor design, only nokturnus should get the full thing
I hope we don’t play as a human in the next game, let me be some humanoid race that is enslaved and breaks free during an attack on the kingdom
>>563063084I hope we play as a slime.
Ogre...
Im about to force my wife to set up dqx for me cause I dont wanna figure it out and she's autistic as fuck.
>>563068326We all know the monster is superior.
>>563065374I want to be a rockbomb.
>>563069012She did it
>>563095814I can't get enough of this fucking series whens the next spin off that isnt mobile shit?
>>563105013When Fiveo finally gets his whole family together so you don't have to carry the party anymore and you don't know what to do with your life now
>>563097031We don't really know since they're developing the games in secret. DQ7R was only announced once it was fully finished.
1 kind of sucks I'm skipping it.
filtered
>>563086106based supportive wife
>>563105917pussy
>>563095814I wonder if they will stick to purple haired Peronel now.It will probably be the standard for as long as they keep Matilda around, to create some distinction between them.
>>563105917But if you skip it I'll call you a bitch on the Internet. You wouldn't want a random person on the Internet to call you a bitch, would you?
>>563117716It's just not interesting or fun.
Gwaelin is interesting and fun.
>>563129251dont listen to them. 1 and 3 should be skipped. both origanls and remakes.
>>563132521Gwaelin became one of my more favored character after 1HD.
>>563132823I had a feeling that pic was ragebait, but I gave it the benefit of the doubt.Now I know.
3 only started to get good around when you got the ship.When does 2 get good?
>>563138170>When does 2 get goodUh
>>563138170Zing.
>>5631381702 is fun right away.
What's more likely to come out first, TESVI or DQ12?
>>563164909unironically DQ, at least until Horii also comes out and says "maybe we announced it too early, don't expect it any time soon"
>>563164909At least DQXII was announced with a logo and subtitle, and Horii seemed to have a general idea what it was going to be about. Bethesda clearly had no idea where Elder Scrolls VI was even going to take place when they showed that generic mountains reveal.
>>563164909>>563178315>>563182965Yeah, the wait for 12 has been egregious but from interviews over the years it seems like DQ games tend to get rewritten a lot so it’s not unusual for them to have weird development cycles. 7 had a very long development (for the time) and one of the scenario writers talked about how it was common for Horii to reject scripts.
>new layton got the alchemy potlevel 5 please make another rpg again fuck
>>563182965It's going to be in Hammerfell because of course it would be.>>563164909Really depends on if they've actually been working on 12 or not. I have no doubt in my mind that Bethesda will shit out an undercooked pile of garbage in a couple years to appease investors before Microsoft finally has enough and kills them, so since they probably won't drop DQ12 in a similarly awful state it's basically a matter of how far along it may or may not be.
>>563192184>It's going to be in Hammerfell because of course it would be.i thought the "for sure" pick was elsweyr
>>563210351NTA and I haven't followed any speculation but black people + relatively grounded real worldish setting seems like exactly what modern Bethesda would go for, and still probably interpret in the most boring and safe way possible.
>>563211141They'll do Hammerfell and somehow not even have sword singing.
DQX available in English
>>563192184>It's going to be in Hammerfell because of course it would be.I hope it's Hammerfell because I want to see Todd trying to shill Redguard all over again, it'll be a true return to form
>>563198536If I ever see a Platypunk with an umbrella I'm mugging its ass on sight.
>>563248237I'd also put this monster on pizza.
>>563233140If they had a true return to form and actually made a good game I'd be even more impressed, but anyone who thinks that will happen should probably lay off the copium before they overdose.
I've got three generals to bump off page 10 and I chose /dqg/ to bump first.
>>563261395how about now
This one is for the IX remake we are getting at the end of the year
>>563273749anon, i...want it too
>>563273749We can hope.
>>563273749IX remake with more equipment and classes and basically being even more "just fuck around and watch numbers go up"also, remove the limit for accepting quests, or at least don't make it fucking 10
>>563300645Quest limit reduced to 5.
>>563300645Finish your damn quests, boy.
>>563307931It's a man's Almighty given right to sit on upwards of 50 incomplete quests at any given time.
>>563313670
>>562236520drink up
Crag.
>>563318578I'd play it.
>>563337534That's not a mockup, that's an actual game someone was developing until at least 2023.Like most Japanese exclusive Dragon Quest fan works and RPG Maker fare, it's nigh impossible to find, and this particular fangame was shitcanned by Square so the dev took it down.So if you really do want to play it, good luck finding it. Here's a playthrough of a more recent version in any case.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv9NLKAJFUU&list=PLvceNuQtp-OUv8W3N1g1mgsLXKdg_Q3Vv
I want to play Yangus Quest
I noticed in XI that sometimes enemies have a brief recoiling animation when a party member blocks their attack. I bet XII is taking so long because they want to add small details and polish.
>>563341530Psaro’s great-grandparents
>40th anniversary approaching>our best chance to get DQ12 news in a long time>meanwhile DQ10 is receiving its final updateGuys, DQ12 is guaranteed to be a single player game, right?Well, the MMORPG genre isn't thriving or anything right now, so hopefully this is not a possibility.
>>563364118Not that they've given away a lot about DQXII, but none of the scant information would fit an MMO very well. Plus like you said, the MMO market isn't what it used to be. It seems very unlikely.
The only chance of Squeenix starting a new MMO instead of spamming out more mobile games would be a replacement for FF14 if they decide its too big of a pain in the ass to work on anymore
>>563368965Follow me here. It'll be a mobile MMO. An MMMO if you will.
Massively Maribel
Word has it all the Marivels in the world are combining into a massive Maribel big enough to cover the entire world!
>>563377058night night estark
>>563261395you can just let this one rest until we get proper news.
>>563364118>meanwhile DQ10 is receiving its final updateWhat are the chances that they make an offline version with every expansion, translate it, and release it in the west? lol yeah right
>>563395219you joke but it's the issue with DQX being, essentially, a live service subscription game. All they do regarding that game is to at best getting more subscriptions each month, and at worst not causing a decrease in subscriptions. Even making an offline version after DQX is eos'd might be in function of that, as i can see the suits thinking "if we tell people there's an offline version with everything in it waiting for them at the end of the road they might never subscribe when the game is live", which methinks is also why gachas also almost never do offline versions. And all that other shit that leads to ubisoft telling you to destroy the physical copy of the game you own cause they shut down its servers so the game has to stop existing
>>563396605It's honestly pretty impressive it's still going when it dropped as a Wii exclusive.
>>563342676>Square slapped it but won't make their ownGiga gay.
>>563410416VA VA VOOM
>>563408979There was a really autistic fangame I played once that was a Pokemon game with FF style plot and four niggas in a row combat.I guess doing that with DQ to old FF or vice versa wouldn't be that interesting though cause it wouldn't be as big of a gameplay shift but I still kinda wanna see the result.
>>563416345what about adding groups, like DQ does them, to FF
>>563425153That would improve nearly any traditional JRPG.
>>563425558>improve
>>563431940Yeah, it's way better than 1/all targeting like FF and a ton of other games use.
DQXII will have the owner's puff-puff
>>563443126>this character is supposed to be way taller than the others>but we have a standard sprite size sir, we can't make it bigger>what if we just draw his head really tiny instead?Poor Hassan, looks like a brainlet meme.
What level is expected for the last boss of DQVI? I've managed to avoid grinding for the most part in my playthroughs, barring DQ1 obviously, but I reached him at about 35 and he wiped the floor with me. Even after an extra 5 levels he was still the toughest final boss so far.
this is how i want the 9 remake to look.https://x.com/doukutsupenguin/status/2043341715218841675
>>563450132Level 40~45 is pretty standard.35 is definitely low.
>>563450793Probably one of the best styles they can use for it. I don't know much about sprites but with individual armor pieces showing up on your party in the original, I think an HD-2D remake would have to omit that detail.
Something about the character design in DQ, mainly in clothing, armor and weapons is odd to me. It feels really grounded and believable, detailed, but not too outlandish like a lot of generic anime JRPGs tend to be.
>>563458418It's weird how they have a bunch of normal looking ones then they've got the half naked warrior women and the shirtless guys in gimp masks running around.
Whoever said 2 HD barely had any accents was lying out their fucking ass. I hope you get raped and die.
(Me) the Wit in III about to surround myself with pretty ladies at Patty's Party Planning Place.
>>563464465I'm sorry, we're all out of pretty ladies.
>>563465864Don't think I won't go upstairs and talk to the guy who can get me some.
>>563466418How DOES he do it?
I'll take three female gourmands, pumped full of seeds of life, any class.
>>563466612Right this way, sir!
>>563473839I'm flipping the breaker at the most inopportune moment possible.
>>563478263Mean! Why would you do that?
Monsters are friends. Sometimes.
>>563462116Sexo Quest
I appreciate that the DQ1 remake wasn't too cowardly to depict a hero rescuing a princess. The bar is extremely low, but even Mario can't always clear it these days.
Green Quest VII
Is there any place I can get save files for the DS JP version of DQV, ideally the part before you select your wife?I'm about 10 hours into the game and just found out the localization basically rewrote Bianca's personality. I can read Jap, but need to look up kanji frequently so I went with the English version but am now regretting that decision. This is my first DQ game, so do all of them have these kinds of localizations or just the older ones?
>>563489894>and just found out the localization basically rewrote Bianca's personalitynever heard of this
>>563478263jokes on you, he's playing without a memory card
>>563483498Monsters are xp, not friends. All the time.
>>563484629Odyssey still pisses me off
>>563484629I also like that she's able to have a larger role in the story without girlbossing her or making her a party member, keeping the hero as the true hero of the story. It's also cute how totally head over heels she is for hero.
>>563485990Maribel a cute_
Total Shaman Death.
>>563527612We should see bottom middle more often.
>>563513976Same. Could've been turbo kino if they had the balls to actually let Mario and Peach get married.>>563515737She was really well handled. I kept waiting for something to go horribly wrong but it never happened, she's just a sweetheart.
>>563396605I expect DQX to follow the FFXI path, including still rarely getting story updates, just no new paid expansions.
Mottle Slime
>>563571689>doki
>bloodborne movie before dragon quest 12
>>563523269I’m sure
Maribel obtuse
>X (cloudflare)
i'm gonna put Maribel in tomodachi life
>>563598627>she spawns on an island
gotta make the bingo before anything leaks.
>>563602435>Hero goes baldFinally, a Yuusha for true Dragon Quest fans...
Maribel taking a leak
>>563602435Monsters bleeding feels the most likely given it's not exactly out of character for Toriyama's art style for characters to bleed.
>>563614113Why Murdaw for 6 and not Mortamor?
>>563614113minimedals will be XII's final boss
alive
>>563609973
I want a first-person DQ dungeon crawler in the style of Dark Messiah or King's Field or something. There's DQ Swords already and I know Horii-san's played Elder Scrolls. It would need to have all the DQ presentation trappings though, leaning as hard as possible into retro-style menus and PS2-era cel shading.
Something I was thinking about earlier is that the Magical Might stat kind of makes the Poison Needle way less valuable. Dealing way more spell damage is far more useful than a small chance to maybe instagib one enemy.
DRAGON QUEST Smash/Grow will be smashin' its way onto smartphones worldwide Tuesday, April 21 UTC!
>>563643789Got a cool new animated trailer, too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZhM8l8B8sYProbably higher-budget than the game LOL
>>563643789>>563643949I have no sense for this stuff but I'm having trouble imagining this sticking around
>>563631427i kinda want a DQ autochess...>>563643949why no female hero?
>>563643789I lost track of all the dq mobile games, did they ever release that one pokemon go clone outside of japan?
>>563640830me on the left
>>563643789Already tied up with another mobile game, wake me up when they talk about 12.
New Horii interviewhttps://x.com/dengekionline/status/2044250713883357199https://dengekionline.com/article/202604/69830
Another one this time Famitsuhttps://x.com/famitsu/status/2044250736121524688https://www.famitsu.com/article/202604/70917
>pokemon poptarts back after 25 years before dragon quest 12
>Smash/GrowOh boy how long we giving this one? Two years? One?Worthless tripe all the same.
>>563675337EOS in 8 months
>>563676261I'll give it a year and 3 months international before running to a full 6 years in Japan before being sunset.
>>563676891I dunno. Champions and Keshikeshi were both pretty underwhelming.
>>563684516looking back on it. graphics didnt need to improve after this. https://x.com/KXII/status/2037490362332348518
Which DQ game has the least to do with dragons?
>>563691373Dai
>>563676891This game has a fully global release to my understanding, so when it tanks it's gone in nipland too. Same deal with the Dai game, iirc.
>>563698980I feel like they could definitely drop localizations and server maintence costs and keep it maintained only in regions that actually generates money if they wanted to, but that would require it to not totally flop in the first place.
tact is still dead
The only thing phone games are good for is providing new official art of girls I like from real games
>>563708036slower
how long before we get a DQ monster racing gacha game
>>563724062We'll get it after DQ12 releases after a wait twice as long as it had.
>>563708036this but unironically, the DQ games especially given they don't even try being engaging. Like the one i really could see myself still playing today was keshi keshi, and they eos'd it anyway
>neogeo aes+ with physical cartridges and supposedly runs the games natively before dragon quest 12
>>563749780it also reads the original carts
Have you considered this guy's legacy?He spent his whole life running away from responsibilities, letting everyone down, being bullied even by the local loser.Then some day an idealized version of himself appears, saves the day, then offers him his whole legacy as some kind of magical inheritance.Suddenly the failure prince becomes a brave hero well renowned around the world, gets respect, friends, a GF, the resolve that he lacked.This is the story of the DQVI hero.
https://x.com/DQ_PR/status/2044793036753015133I think this qualifies legally as torture if this doesn't end by revealing what we are all hoping for.
>>563758405I'm not gonna hold my breath, just in case.
>>563758969Well I should hope you're not going to hold your breath for over a month. Can't be healthy.
>>563364118>>563395219Investing my stocks in that one spammed french leak about DQXII being a prequel to IX and X.
>>563763584what was it about again? I remember there was something extremely retarded about it, but i can't remember what it was
>>563774161They said the game took place over the span of a full century, Corvus would be in your party, the main characters would be former slaves, and the first act would end with something "so shocking" that it caused the leaker to want to vomit.Sounded retarded. But honestly, so did the Dragon Quest VII leak from a few months before VIIR got announced.
It would be extremely funny if DQXII was hyper violent but anything to do with sex or gambling was just as censored as usual these days. Hero-kun is beheading human enemies with blood geysers but all the bunny girls wear shorts.
>>563776889Imagine wanting to vomit over a video game.
>>563777967only japanese games get censored, if it's a western game then they can show dicks and tits as much as they like
>gome-chan what is that smell?
>>563718093what the hell. is it Tact that's getting RS characters?
>>563776889Don't forget the main story is also supposedly over 135 hours long.
>>563776889>that it caused the leaker to want to vomit.how can something like that happen for something shocking in a game.
>>563786687Nobody at SE wanted to stop Horii from including the uncut rape scene to honor Toriyama...It might've been fine had it not been followed by Hero-chan getting her hands melted by boiling water for a full twenty minutes, in honor of Sugiyama.
>>563783639Does Dai really not work as a RPG?
>>563790529If they made a proper DQ Dai RPG, it'd cause people to realize it has more in common with older FF than it does with DQ.
So considering what spells/abilities the cousins in 2HD learn, is it safe to assume Arus had a female sage party member that he married/got knocked up
>>563782086Gotta keep the rating lower even though a shitload of parents were buying their kids CoD for years and nobody really gives a shit about simulated gambling in a fantasy game. If Dragon Quest or Pokemon got a person hooked on it they've just got the personality type and were fucked regardless, gambling for the exclusive rewards is literally the worst part of those games for normal people.
>>563790529didn't that Dai videogame end with a cliffhanger and bombed?
>>563792732Ending a game on a cliffhanger when there's no guarantee for a sequel is probably the singular largest dick move a dev could make.
>>563790529It probably could, and I wish they tried. A game that filled in the blanks with actual DQ stuff could've been really cool and maybe even an improvement over the source material.>>563792936In terms of an anime game it's not like that's unusual. If you wanted to complain about every Dragon Ball or Naruto game that doesn't cover the entire story you'd be here a while. It was still pretty disappointing after it took so long to come out, though.
>>563799907I'd exterminate the whole population of that cave and use their drops to help exterminate another one.
>>563815059I want to throw a pebble at it from behind a small hill
>>563815546
The dark and edgy part of DQ12 will be that there's a cute rockbomb girl but she blows up
>>563784185https://x.com/DQ_TACT/status/2045095137303474223
>>563817756the dark and edgy part will be no puff-puff
>>563790997The theory I'm partial to is a balanced harem party with many children from each.
>>563832139I want Claudia
>>563826148>gachas can have real DQ-style text boxes>main games absolutely have to look like generic dogshit to be taken seriously
Are we expecting anything besides gacha slop on DQ day?
>>563840291It'll be so edgy everyone has puff-puff.
XII will have ass puff-puff
>>563855727I'm also expecting disappointment.
>>563855727>>563861975They're doing a 40 day countdown, it would be insane if they weren't. But always remember they could show us a cinematic trailer and then make us wait another three years.
>>563857730XII will have sweat
I'm going to jump in front of oncoming traffic so I get put in a coma.Wake me up in 40 days.
>>563866240Yummy...
>>56386854140 day countdown to disappointment. If you expect nothing you can only be pleasantly surprised.
>>563857730braapuff-puff
>>563882448>>563868671>>563872106
>>563893939Look at this fat piece of shit. How did he land such a hot wife?
>>563903985Maybe he wasn't fat when he landed her
>>563903985the same way ugly fatsos get hot wives in the real worldmoney
>>563905310He didn't have money when he married her. That happened later.
>>563903985I wonder if the woman who packs him a legendary lunch every day might be into fat guys
i caved in and started playing 10. the story didnt grip me in the offline version (the chibi one) but i wanted to try the original at least once.
>>563905689women can sniff out an investment
>>563868541>it would be insane if they weren'tJapan loves announcements of announcements of fucking nothing Brace for a "We're still totally working on it please be excited"
>>563906267My favorite Yuusha
What if DQ12 is the Chrono Trigger remake
>>563914707chrono trigger quest monsters
Ecks-kun
>>563917609I can't wait for Bravely Xeno Dragon Chrono Fantasy Ocean Traveler SaGa.
>>563924939of Mana.
>>563925114Fuck I was going to add that and forgot.
This is me AND where I post from
>>563930639based
Miitopia is proof DQ3 could've had talking companions/party chat, especially for the HD2D version
>>563951384Come on, they can't just be expected to come up with generic dialogue loosely tied to fitting classes/personalities for a remake they're charging $60 for in the year of our lord 2026.
>American DQ account isn’t doing the 40 day countdown because there aren’t enough DQ games in EnglishTo be expected but kinda funny. But if they join in on the countdown when there are 12 days left…
>>563955372We're at like 20 something.
>>563952772>>563951384You're acting like if DQ fans arent heavily resistant to change, especially in remakes.
>>563972798DQ remakes give dialogue to characters who had little or none in older versions all the time, as far back as DQ4 on PS1 and as recently as DQ2 HD.
>>563973818And there are a bunch of people that complain about DQ1/2 HD having too much talking.
>>563973927Sure, and in DQ2's case I agree with them, but that doesn't have anything to do with what we're talking about. Dialogue was added to the game regardless of any objections, and anon was proposing party chat which is always optional anyway.
>>563972798which is why we don't listen to them, and instead fart in their general direction
>>563982717Maribel...
>>563972798sure but not doing that is just laziness, especially when basically the only people in the DQ fandom that don't like 3 and 9 are those that don't like the party members being nameless voiceless characters
Tell me /dqg/What's the deal with the two major religious icons in DQ?Are they interchangeable? Do they represent different faiths? Do they coexist in the same world?Are they secret hints about the hidden Dragon Quest timeline?
Some dragons have been slain on my quest, and more will likely meet the same fate.
#dragonlivesmatter
total dragon death
>>564002272One's for Splatterstants and the other's for Cathoozeslicks
frens why they name him netherlord nergel? could you have a less threatening more dorky villain name than fucking nergel
>>564017981I was going to make a comparison, and then I realized this guy was kind of a joke in the grand scheme of things, too.
>>564017981"Baalzack"
>>563994934cute minidini cosplay
>>564021537It's damage caused by a later IP, but has anyone done a Rick and Morty edit of Mortamer yet?
this can only mean one thing
>>564017981>>564020265You do know that Nergal is the name of an actual mythological entity right?
>>564030748The Babylonians got it from Warhammer.
>>564027951Honestly I'd take phone port with the Internet features restored. If we somehow get better that'd also be pretty nice.>>564030748But it still sounds like something you'd call a nerd before giving him a swirly.
>>564027951i'll now join the anon fastforwarding to dq day
>>564027951yes, it can only meanDQIX content for smash/grow!!!
>>564027951This is it this is the next piece of confirmation we needed for a IX remaster
I might have to tap out on my DQ2 HD Draconian Only run. I’m at the point where I can’t beat bosses without grinding, which would be fine if it wasn’t for the fact that grinding takes like twice as long because of the stupid fucking XP penalties
The Smash and Grow app seems to be downloading, but I haven’t followed when it’s meant to release.
>>564068475If you're just mindlessly grinding and don't want to you can just lower the difficulty to get beefed up and set it back before you move on. Nobody will ever know.
>>564071663Rubiss will know anon, Rubiss will know
>>564068687
>>564080773just one more day...
>>564068475Early game on Draconian is a little rough but once Middenhall hits critical mass nothing should really stop you
Anything else I should add/replace in my party in DQV? Just got to Mostoferrato.
>>564068475The only point I had serious trouble playing on Draconian was trying to force the bat boss to get Matilda as soon as possible.>>564093440As long as you have a slime knight which it's almost impossible not to, it's fine to do whatever.
i don’t understand the ogre people
ogre in the next game
fat tummy dwarf-chan
for me it’s the fish
:( Trying to recruit a healslime to complete my slime army, near the tower that had the mirror. Can I only recruit monsters in the overworld with my wagon out??
>>564104510No, you can recruit anywhere, but it's not worth the trouble. You can get a King Slime later that'll be useful for the rest of the game.
>>564104642I'll try for a few more encounters, just doing it for the aesthetic desu :)I have a killed a bunch, but only recently been killing them "last".
>>564098650do not lewd dwarfsthey are a noble race
>>564114916Ugly!
>>564114916Veronica also has this body type
>>564030748yeah, a dweeb one
>>564114916Cuter than Marismell
uh
Zing.
>>564138761is this swords?
>>564068687>>564080773are you guys phone users?tried to be ready on bluesacks since I don't have a compatible phone for it but it crashes after some seconds; tried several configs in pie64, androiid 11 and android 13 beta, they all behave the same, main screen loads and then crashes after a momentIdk if it's one of those games which recognizes emulators and force the app closing... maybe will have to wait if the bluestacks team updates with a fix in case if that's the problem
>>564104886 (me)Just tried a few times to get a healslime again, and now the game gives me a metal slime :oo
>>564170365I wish warrior-chan would sit on me. I bet she's heavy
>>564159487Yeah. It's OK so far. I wish it used the nunchuck.
>>564162570afaik SE is one of those that constantly fucks with people that don't have the most ad approved phone out there, which includes emulators
https://x.com/q_blue0910/status/2045972784623599815
>>564191953>Staff so big he needs an assistant to carry it around for himYou know what they say about big staves...
>>564195665Veronica...
Actually, this game is good.>Excessively thick French accentActually, this game is great.
I love when apps say they'll release on a specific day but don't specify when on that day
I love when we hit page 10
How many days till DQ Day?
>>564195665Could've just been making sure it didn't get bashed into anything because the costume had shit visible rather than it being too big/heavy.
>>564093697The Brute Bat is actually where I got stuck. What level did you kill him at? Because everyone is 22-23 and he’s pushing my shit in. For reference, I did Shrine of Rain/Rubiss or whatever and that went pretty easy, although the whip boss at the end took 3 tries.
alefgard artbook previewhttps://x.com/Matma___/status/2029942595174993947
>>564216990Grind out levels until Middenhall learns Attack Attacker (it’s like, 24ish?). There’s a stretch of mini bosses that all hit with Physical Attacks, but are all quite venerable to getting it lowered with AA. Between that and Kabuff it basically neuters them.
can i smash and grow yet
>>564217792not him but what's the recommended skills/spells distribution?
whoa
>>564220445what was Swords
>>564195665They've got big magic? They take up more space in your infinite inventory?
>>564207904Page 10 is more threatening than any monster in the series, change my mind.
>>564234379Change your mind.
smashgrow seems to be out now.
drakooie smaggero
>>564235170Mind not changed, if you provide an example of a monster more threatening I might be swayed.
>not available in my region>apk still requires google playwell fuck you too, SE you jap cunts
>>564243151
>>564243151Well, it's not from the series but it's definitely more threatening.Page 11.
>>564244689As long as I don't let it get wet or feed it after midnight it's fine.
Roly is ok but the gacha animation makes me miss Mindini more than I already miss Mindini.
>>564244598can you share the apk? To me the store says i can't run it on my phone, but i'm sure i can
unironically would like to see a soulslike spin off
>>564270893Which monster would be the most rage inducing? I'm going with king slime.
smash and grow isn't every good....
>>564282052Most mobile games aren't.
>>564199290ikr?
I'm having fun with Smash Grow, but I really like rougelikes and dungeon crawling.
Succubats are Rougelike
>>564219842You can get multiple copies of everything that actually matters, just double check what souped up skills are exclusive but you only get one scroll. Mostly it's just anti-monster type attacks should go to Middenhall and Matilda's the only one who gets a special move from Thin Air, iirc.
>>564282052It's ok. Better than Dai was.
Predictions for DQ day?
>>564313312videogameshopefully
the only way to get equipment is to pull on banners?
>>564320024>we get more gachas and nothing else
>>564333120our dark future...
>>564270893>>564276802The bubble slime swamp...
>>564350961I like to imagine that king variants of slimes aren't natural boss fights and instead form when you ignore the goobers spawning to the point they combine and push your shit in out of nowhere. Basically just punish you for running through an area without killing anything.
It still bothers me that King Bubble Slimes aren't in the main games at all
>>564359435They should make kings for every slime variant and rather than having a specific area where they merge just make it a random thing to jumpscare you. If you get a kingslime beating your ass in the first area that's just unfortunate.
>>564344363We can always travel back to the past with our newfound powers and knowledge to correct our problems with the timeline and totally definitely not cause bigger problems.
How many times can Thwack miss?
>>564270893I've wanted this forever too. Give me a DQ Soulslike ala Stranger in Paradise. I want a group of slimes to feel like a legitimate threat.
>18k on the Golem Gauntlette to advance in the storyI hate this
>>564394684>mobile game has intentionally designed difficulty spikeNobody could have predicted this.
>>564394684Early game seems a lot more difficult in general compared to the closed beta. Might actually be worth investing in the metal equipment pool to get one of the weapons, I remember the boomerang being crucial to the metal slime stages.
I prefer the big booty warrior over the injun inventor
how many days left
35 days till DQ Day!
I love fat hags
I hear the ladies like music so I played her a song I hope she liked it :)https://files.catbox.moe/kz72dt.mp4
Can someone go into more detail on the features locked behind local multiplayer for the DS?
>>564444216I've played the DS version like 7 times and I can't remember. Something to do with the knick-knackatory, maybe? It's nothing remotely important.
>>564444216It's a lesser version of StreetPass. You put the game into sleep mode and trade knick-knacks of your own creation with people who also happen to have the game running as you go about your day. There's nothing significant unlocked through it.IV, VI, and XI each also have variations of this system, with VI and XI actually having things locked behind their progress.VI has Suite Dreams, where you trade Dreams with other people, and two recruitable slimes are locked behind progression.XI has the Quester's Rest, where you add characters to stay in rooms similar to IV. What's locked behind progression here are cosplay armor from legacy characters that stay in special rooms separate from the StreetPass rooms. Unless you have a certain amount of random people staying in your Inn, they won't give you all they have to give.I think that's about it. I hope I didn't get anything wrong.
>>564445603>XI>XI>XIfuck me, I meant IX, IX, and IX.
>>564276802Whatever is spider-like or has many limbs, they'll just copy the grafted scion moveset from ER.
>>564445603thanks for the rundownif that's all it is then i'll just play the DS version. DS games played on phones feel like shit.
Play DQIX
>>564459630Squenix doesn't want you to, that's why it's the only one without a version available for purchase on any modern platform.
Should I even bother with this new mobile game? It's gotta have like 3 months tops before it EoSes, right?
>>564465292Nah, it's not very good. The base gameplay isn't all that interesting and is kind of shit on a touch screen, and it doesn't have fun meta stuff like collecting monsters in the tactics one. If it was a crossover game where you collect heroes from throughout the series instead of create-a-character dressup shit it'd probably be worth dabbling with on the crapper but they didn't even bother with that.
>>564217792>>564216990Buy Fire Blade from Cantlin and optionally scum Tombola in Rimuldar until you get the rarest drop (you'll want to do this eventually for 4 copies btw)The HD games are terrible at communicating this to you, but Buff/Kabuff operate under a 4 stack system, so if you're using Kabuff, then you need to use it 4 times to match what casting Buff twice does.The Rimuldar Tombola item is a literal best in slot for the entire game because it makes whoever wears it gain an extra stack when (Ka)buff is cast on them. This is especially important for Midenhall when Souped Up Skills unlock.If you really take advantage of this system, you can beat a lot of bosses are far lower levels then expected.
>>564460780>available for purchase
>>563951384miitopia is unironically a great 4 niggas in a row jrpg, it's very easy of course but it has great interactions and generally lots of "numbers go up" opportunities
>>564486049Don't need to, I still have my physical copy. Still retarded for them not to have a version available.
>>564465292It's alright. It's a solid Smash TV once you get into the second chapter's hard mode.
>>564465292>Should I even bother with [any] mobile game?There are 40+ years of actual games to go back to and play, that even entertaining the thought of playing this mobile cashgrab garbage that'll get shut down in a year or two is asinine, especially after the utter embarrassment that was KeshiKeshi and Champions.
Keshikeshi looked kind of cute. I wish we could get a DQ puzzle game that's a real game and not gachashit
>>564465292>3 months topsYeah, it's way too generous. The 2star weapons are better than 3star ones and the 3star armor doesn't matter because you dodge anyway. The game is doomed.
'ate Dhoulmagus
If they had made a Slay the Spire DQ clone as their attempt at chasing the mobile roguelike trend I would probably play that, and maybe even shamefully spend a little money on it. I'd like a new DQ mystery dungeon game too while we're at it, but I am happy with just getting Shiren if we get any at all.
>>564529924You ATE Dhoulmagus? Oh dear. Then it's only a matter of time until you sprout Rhapthorne from your belly button!
Jessica's tits should've gotten bigger when she was possessed by the giant lardass
>>564534867Women should always become hotter when corrupted in any fashion and they should retain the hotter design when they're fixed.
Playing DQ IV on the NES, does anyone know where I can grind before fighting this Balzac guy? Or any tips in general to make the game go a little quicker?Had fun with I-III but not really a fan of this one. Seems like I'm a little more than halfway through so I gotta finish it though. Was thinking of maybe going back to some lighthouse since I kept running into metal slimes there.
>X Online
2 maps left to do on DQ7 3DS. Is there much game left bros...? As much as I enjoyed the game so far, I want to beat it soon to start playing other stuff.
Maribel and Ruff singing the song that never ends
i should have saved tantagel for last after having matilda and cannock back into my party. it's just awkward for just midenhall and moonbrooke to just talk about their lineage in front of the castle without those two.
>>564602286el stinko maribello
>>564612320What's she smell like?
>nintendo music on spotify before dragon quest 12
https://x.com/dq40th_dive/status/2047481901372280931https://www.dragonquest.jp/dq40th-dive/
I can't find the Ghost Ship in 2 HD.
>final fantasy xiv evangelion collab before dragon quest 12
Less anons talking about the new game than the Dai gacha somehow
>>564657680What new game? You mean the remake?
>>564664528Super Smash/Grow Bros
>>564648712Go to the sea just northwest of the Shrine North of Beran, dive there, and wait. It'll be along eventually.
>>564541125thats a good ms spot there is another in the top right corner of the map. if you are no feeling it you can take a break since 4 solo chapters, and 4 after recruiting mcryan feel very different.
why a chibi offline version of X?
>>564657680Not surprised. I doubt most people are going to get through the first few hours to reach the point where you do anything other than walk into enemies. You don't even have to dodge until midway through chapter 2's hard mode.
