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SOON

>>565481718
>Mottle Slime looking directly at the 27th
DQ6 HD-2D announcement incoming, trilogy to be released in 6-4-5 order.

>Remakes not in the pastebin

Are they bad?

>>565484616
Mixed bag, but the pastebin's just out of date.

>>565485991
I see. What ones are worth playing?

>>565485991
The new DQ wiki should probably be added too.

>>565487735
3 HD is pretty faithful to older versions with some nice additions and minimal cuts. It's good, but if you've played 3 before the updates ultimately don't make a huge difference.
1+2 HD are more ambitious and add way more to the point of being very different games from the originals. 1 has some inherent issues that come with being a one-guy RPG that the remake exacerbates, while 2 is a very substantial game now, on par with something like DQ6. I'd still recommend playing an older version first just to appreciate the difference.
7 Reimagined is cut down a lot from older versions without adding much new of substance. Despite the name it's way less of a "reimagining" than 1+2. The battle system and job system updates are very welcome but the cuts are substantial and mostly arbitrary. If you hated 7 it's less of what you hate, I guess.

>>565501732
Thanks anon. Guess i'll play the originals then do 1+2 remakes.

guess i'll try to play II HD this month. too bad i didn't get matilda and Cannock during Moonbrooke's speech regarding their ancestor at Tantagel. wonder how much of a script I miss at the castle gates.

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>>565479817
>We lost half our gold
are we even making any gold?

>>565508374
I keep mine in the bank.

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I THOUGHT I'D LOST YOU GUYS FOREVER!

>>565513886
we're still here...

Just to splatter...

Just finished 7 on 3DS, it took like 6 months but it's one of my favorites now. I'll probably play the Reimagined next year.
Glad you guys are back as well.

>>565482482
I'm tired of remakes, I just want something new even if it's bad...

Anyone know how the 7 remake sold? I know the Erdrick trilogy greatly exceeded sales expectations

>>565532686
I doubt it did well but it probably didn't make them lose money.

I don’t think it’s a very good idea to hand the throne over to a nonverbal autistic :(

Zing!

i didn't make a new thread cause i thought we could just wait it out until DQ day

>>565553197
nobody is gonna fuck you bro

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>>565479817

have you guys played the Dragon Academy games by Splush wave? are they any good?

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How do I get a cute queen wife bros...?

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>>565566908
Be a king. Marry a cutie.

>>565551998
I made one so we can preemptively start doing “it’s so over, it’s been nice posting with you gentlemen, etc” and “we’re so back, kino kino kinooooo, etc” posts for DQ Day.

>>565532686
>>565534719
More than 1 + 2 HD but less than 3HD if you compare the first week sales.

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>Start DQ3 HD-2D
>Appearance B aka Female
>Vamp Personality aka Slut
It's gaming time

Now I only missing playing 6 and 8 of the main games. No idea which one to play first

>>565576289
>I'm*

/dqg/ is done smashing, now is the time to grow.

Super Grow Bros.

>>565570408
i didn't think of that, based

>>565576289
I think 6 is a bit shorter, but between the two really it's a matter of whether you're in the mood for something more retro or modern-esque.

>>565584301
I think I'll go with 6 first but I'll play something else before. 7 was way too long.
Still need to decide which version of 8 as well for when I play it.

>>565586961
The PS2 version is fine.

god fucking damn it I woke up from my coma early how many days are left

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>>565509385
in dq12 the banks can default

>>565598601
So this is how it feels to be a grown-up...

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>spirit airlines shuts down before dragon quest 12

>>565586961
>Still need to decide which version of 8 as well for when I play it.
the eventual remake

ogre sex in the next game or i riot

In the DQ5 remake Bianca will be a wetling, Nera will be an elf, Debora will be an ogre and the hero will be a poppet

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Play DQ Builders.

>>565618790
I'll play Builders 1.

>>565618790
I own 1 and never bothered touching it

So what's up with this new DQXIS for the switch 2? Just an uprezzed port right?

>>565621123
All we know is that it exists.
At the very least it's likely to have a higher resolution. A high framerate may not be out of the question either.

>>565622582
will Jasper's armor shine this time since the OG switch couldn't?

>>565632408
Depends on how much they decided to spruce the game up.

To better suit modern audiences, Jade is now black and Serena is now fat.

>>565633136
We are adding body type C to Dragon Quest XII

Critical hit sound dot wav

>>565652026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQ0T9QLo8M

>>565621123
they will count this as a new game and won’t release anything else this year jajaja

>>565618790
already did

>>565621012
depending on what version it is you did a good thing, play the steam version if you can

>>565659724
best monster

>X

Dragon Quest Builders 3: Pokopia

Tell me about the knight. Why does he ride the slime?

>>565703786
Hey, it's me.

There's no response. It's just a corpse.

Fuck I accidentally closed the tab and thought we wiped out again.

>>565697942
Why not ride a slime?

>>565713957
I'd ride this jiggly creature.

Horii says the story isn't that important in video games.

>>565729929
I agree with the point he was making in that article, and the article itself was a quote of someone who worked with him so not even Horii himself. But I was surprised by the all Xitter hubbub. Nothing particularly controversial was said even if you dont agree. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that people don’t read past the headline or purposefully misconstrue things online.

I haven't seen the alleged quote but since plenty of his games have good stories I'll assume he was talking about modern movie games (100% correctly).

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>>565729929
he's right, "story" (as in, the overall plot) isn't important to anything. Not books, movies or anything. What matters most is how you tell the story, the characters and moments and shit. Which is kinda what Horii says, that what matters is what players will feel when playing the game
also this is purely from a narrative standpoint, cause on a general level what matters in videogames is gameplay above all else, cause if the gameplay is bad then even the best story ever won't save you from dropping the game, while a game with absolutely no story but good gameplay can keep you hooked for months

>>565731943
you mean nobody reposted pic related?

posted in the wrong general

Imagine if the Erdrick trilogy was redone in 3D.

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>>565732190

>>565734384
The original source
https://futabasha-change.com/articles/-/2825

>>565732190
DQ games have good stories but he was being quoted as saying that it's more important to consider the experience of playing rather than "scenario" which is generally how Japanese people refer to the plot of a game.

>>565732192
Ancient wisdom lost to today's Xitter user.

Zing.

>>565751351
Abunai Mizugi designs were all downhill from there.

The original pink leotard is also superior to whatever they're trying to pass for that now. The DQ7 angel leotard is better than the classic version, though.

>>565752379
Honestly surprised they let Moonbrooke use the original pink leotard for HD-2D, even if they had to add a sarong. Even 3 couldn't manage that.
Would've been a deeper cut to use the MSX-2 design, but...

Reminder that Ashlynn is fat and Milly is old.

>>565733564
would be cool but I don't see it happening

>X

>>565729929
Well the storyline of dragon quest is go to a town with
1 of out of like 16 possible storylines resolve it and go to the next town to repeat 7-11ish times
It's about the characters and the players involvement that makes it feel engrossing. Not doing the "someones wife in the town is dead and they can't get over it so you need to go get a magicial ghost thing or whatever to have them see their ghost again" or "the leader is suddenly very weird and uh oh it's actually a monster in disguise" for the 18th time.

>>565733564
I adore how dq5 ps2 looks. I think the hd versions look decent but at the same time my eyes just glaze over everything

https://files.catbox.moe/wm70mr.png

too big

>>565804661
Dhoulmagus...

>X

>want to play Dragon Quest X

>too fucking lazy to go through all the hoops


Why won't they just localize the damn thing?

>>565843161
Maribel will be shaped like this in 1 year

DQX

I can’t find a physical copy of 7R anywhere :(

>>565869105
Typical /dqg/ anon carrying his fellow anon back to page 1 with a heroic post about Maribel's sweaty ass or something

>>565843161
literally me

>>565481718
Is there normally a stream or something put on for DQ anniversary events?

How tf do you guys find this shit fun? Game is boring af

It's so sad that the switch wasn't the device chosen to have every single RPG ever ported to it.
Bro I'm not spending 300 dollars for a 3ds just to play dq 5 and 8 comfy

>>565910327
You could spend less for a chinkheld and play a lot more than 3DS games (until it breaks after 8 months)

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>>565900040
Debbie's burger...

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Average /dqg/ user

>>565910327
also agree on the chinkheld, though good ones are still in the 200ish range
alternatively, use your phone with a controller you likely already have, or otherwise by a small controller for it (i recently bought a "acegamer", which is a chinkbrand so you can likely find the exact same under another brand, for 13 eurobucks and it's a full ass controller with even gyro and hall effect sticks but in smaller form), or one of those switch like grips for phones (which are also around 20/30 bucks)
and if you're wondering, DS/3DS emulation is almost flawless, DS especially but 3DS is not too shabby either

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any DQX players in this crypt of a general?
im probably gonna start soon because I brought a download code for versions 1-7 for like five bucks (they had an 80% sale running that ended a few minutes ago)

im gonna play through the trial first though
and if I bounce off of it before that point, then eh - its only a few bucks wasted

>>565900040
I don't think I like the implications...

>>565916653
It's pretty good. You might just bounce off of it from the fact of how long it is and something else you rather do comes out but it's on par with any other dq game
The MMO stuff is actually handled pretty well, maze bosses is one of the better forms of redoable content I ever saw

>>565936492
why are they so cute

>X

>Swords

>>565900040
>most interesting girl has the most boring burger
Odd choice.

How should I be building my Auster?

Fuck I bumped another thread that was on page 9 before seeing this one was on page 10 don't fucking die before my cooldown expires.
So how about them Metal Slimes?

>>565964897
Hero, of course.

>>565964897
Midenhallmaxx, no magic classes

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>>565971135

>>565980208
Come back here, you little shit!

>>565983112
You're not gonna get it to come back talking like that

>>565983721
Come back here, you big shit!

they should just make a gacha that experiments with gameplay stuff random people would like but DQ fans don't want in a mainline game. Aka, make an action game
like i don't really understand their "let's make a gimmicky game for people to spend 5 mins a day while they're on the shitter" tactic otherwise

>>566009956
money laundering

>>566009956
They could do this thing they used to do where you put those ideas into spinoffs that are still real games

>>566025131
too costly, gachas run rampant nowadays cause people spend money on them every day instead of just buying it once. When they work at least, but even when they fail and/or get shutdown they still make more than they would've by being a normal game. Plus, it really feels like as if companies don't believe in lower budget games anymore unless again it's a gacha for phones

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>ted turner dead before dragon quest 12

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If we're getting a livestream/Direct style video on DQ Day, it will probably be announced in the next week.

>>566003878
Frysabel is a predator who uses her position to force vulnerable witches into unwanted relationships.

>>565479817
helo does DQX work on linux?

>>566044215
That's hot

>>566044236
lol

>>566031280
20 years ago we would have gotten a small fun complete spinoff with the same idea but now it's a shitty gacha designed to be as gay as possible to rope in a couple of retards to paypig it for the next decade.
Mystery dungeon or monsters would have not existed today, instead they both would involve spending money and doing boring 2/10 gameplay with them on mobile only.
I hate gacha, and I hate that people used to defend it by saying it doesn't effect you if you don't play it.

>>566047338
idk, i still blame suits for believing they just can't put out a small, not big dick graphics, game on pc and consoles (and also phones, instead of ONLY on phones), cause ultimately what gets made is on them. SE especially does this

dragon questin'

the dragon answer to the dragon question

Building up tokens for the platinum greatsword

>>566055132
I don't disagree but also we got Treasures and Dai and Monsters 3, all small-dick titles like you've described in the phonefag era. Can't speak directly for the performance of these titles but they did at least try. Maybe if they performed a bit better and/or we didn't live in a turbo gay profit world smashgrow would be a cool little 30 dollar roguelite but it is what it is.

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>new star fox remake (again again) before dragon quest 12

>>566085827
It’s so fucking ugly lmao

>>565900040
Is the Bianca burger supposed to be a faux-Australian kind of thing

Taking Bianca to Hungry Jack's

>>566085827
>>566091632
>Low detail western flash slop Advance Wars
>Groteqsue unnecessarily realistic Star Fox
What if they did one of these remakes and just had the characters look normal

>>566105886
I swear the character models look like something out of a western fangame, it's ridiculous.

>>565916653
i uninstalled it because its just not fun to play solo, hope you have friends to play with, because /dqg/ never had a guild or anything like that.

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>>566107772
feel like they're based on this

>>566084956
that's the thing, both treasures and monsters 3 were made with the switch 1 in mind, so they were already a small budget game, and even then they were two games they got out one single game (as they were initially one and the same). Cause again, they think they just can't put out a game like that on a more powerful system unless it's first exclusive to a less powerful system, as if people somehow go "no i'm not buying that unless it was originally a 3DS game and later ported to the system i have now, only then i'm buying it"
dai is a different thing, as they clearly had a project going with the anime, given it also got an arcade game and a phone gacha too. They were clearly ready for it to become a somewhat next big thing for them, and i still think the console game was purposefully cut in half so that they would come up the following year with a "sequel" which was just the first game but it didn't stop at half the plot, and probably with proper cutscenes all the way through instead of narration

>>566130739
They don't actually look anything like that though

>>566085827
clearly we need another DQ3 remake

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I can't wait for Nimzo's Woolly World™

>>566105886
I didn't find it that bad other than Falco.

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>You VILL buy ze DQXI again

>>566163976
get ready for the nintendo switch 2 edition announcement on DQ day (it's also the only announcement)

>X

>X Offline

>>566130739
They openly said they were made to look like real animals, so no, they weren’t going for the puppet aesthetic. Nice cope though xittertranny

>>566188538
Maybe he didn't know that crucial bit of information. Why does everything have to be a cope these days?

>>566189346
cope harder

>>566198636
It's really that difficult to believe that someone just didn't know?

Bianca playing Star Fox
Debora playing Panzer Dragoon
Nera playing Wing Commander or Tie Fighter or something

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Playing DQ4's remake after playing the NES original has given me new perspective on how much I don't like these post-7 translations. Imagine playing one of these 10 years down the line and seeing a character refer to something as "bigly".

>>566208482
'MERICA

>>566208482
There just wasn't a word in English to convey the nuance of what he originally said, chud.

>>566189346
Cope

>>566207120
The slime im fucking on the side playing Sin & Punishment

I finally found a copy of 7 reimagined!

>>566224507
Gross, better throw it away.

>>566224507
what does it smell like?

>Nintendo price increase before DQ12

>>566208482
i'd agree, but what you posted is an evergreen, it's the very same thing that is happening now too

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>>566224507
me too!

>>566208482
I don't think the DQIV localization is bad, but it does need toned down. I think the fully-voiced games do it best since they actually have to take in consideration actors saying this shit. DQVII 3DS/R is also pretty front-loaded with thick accents, but it mellows out fairly quickly.

any recs for DQ "adjacent" games to try? Something that isn't DQ (so no spin-offs) but it still kinda similar, as my jrpg knowledge basically stops at what SE made

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>>566276998
If you're up for something with a slightly different format I strongly recommend the classic Shining games on Genesis and Saturn. Shining in the Darkness and Shining the Holy Ark are dungeon crawlers with near 1:1 DQ combat, while the Shining Force games are very approachable tactics RPGs. Extremely soulful presentation, recognizably DQ-influenced but with its own identity.
Shining Wisdom sucks though, feel free to pass on that one.
Alternatively you could just play Earthbound if you haven't. I'm not a huge fan but it's a charming game that's worth playing once and it's clearly downstream of DQ2 in particular.
Or if you're willing to risk choppier waters you could try Lufia & the Fortress of Doom, which is very rough around the edges but is 100% a DQ clone, and sets you up for its much better sequel that's not a DQ clone at all.

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>>566276998
Don't know about adjacent but I got into the Romancing SaGa games looking for more open-ended, non-linear JRPGs like DQ2 and 3 (not the HD2D versions), and they did not disappoint. RS2 in particular is like DQ3 on crack

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I thought pic related was a funny meme some anon made about the stated direction of DQ12 but it turns out it’s the logo of a porn game.
I’ve been using it for years on several different boards, why didn’t anyone tell me what it was sooner?

>>566292906
Anons either assumed that you knew or are so desensitized to the DQXII logo after seeing it 50,000 times that they didn't even notice that's not what it was

19 more days, believerbros. We’re all gonna make it!

>>566283849
Love SaGa, my favorite series outside DQ. They're more similar than most would think IMO even though people describe them as being diametrically opposed.
>>566276998
Breath of Fire is a pretty classic series. I and II are skippable in my opinion (the games are standalone). III and IV are fun. I love V but that is not like any BoF game and is nothing like DQ. Very divisive.
Popolocrois games are kinda like DQ: lighthearted turnbased games that can be emotional.

>>566283849
i tried RS2 (the remake, to be specific) and i just can't get over the characters having somewhat fixed "lives". And when i thought i acclimated to it, i got to the desert zone where you get hit harder by everything and some of my guys kept dying constantly