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Dragon Quest 7 is a very episodic game, moreso than any other game in the series, and the streamlining for the 3DS version really helps make that more... workable, I guess? Like, if you put down the game for a month and come back to it, it makes it easier to figure out what you were supposed to be doing.
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Bongo Bill posted:Is it true that VII 3DS reduced the requirements to unlock some jobs? the only thing i've heard is that leveling up job classes is faster, but what that means in practice, who knows
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Jun 17, 2016 03:51
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They did shorten the points requirements for most jobs, in some cases quite heavily. The major change to the job system is that they redistributed all the skills and made it so the advanced class skills are exclusive to those classes and can't be freely swapped around, so you gotta specialise. They also gave the monster classes way more poo poo, including advanced skills that can be accessed from any class once unlocked.
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Bongo Bill posted:Is it true that VII 3DS reduced the requirements to unlock some jobs? I hope so because you could easily beat the game before mastering GodHand and long before unlocking the tier 3 caster class.
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Jun 17, 2016 04:08
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Part of the reason I explicitly ask in this thread like a moron is that I also tried yesterday and the Amazon customer support guy said "it works for me" and told me to try another browser or another computer, both of which do not work for me. I reported the broken link and they gave me $10 in credit. You should report it again and maybe they'll do the same. Still not fixed as of right now, though. Edit: Weird, under features and details it's clearly talking about Zelda: Twilight Princess. Overemotional Robot fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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Jun 17, 2016 13:27
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Overemotional Robot posted:I reported the broken link and they gave me $10 in credit. You should report it again and maybe they'll do the same. Still not fixed as of right now, though.
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Jun 17, 2016 16:28
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Here's a link to the pre-order page of VII that should work: https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Quest...=dragon+quest+7
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Jun 17, 2016 18:48
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Overemotional Robot posted:Here's a link to the pre-order page of VII that should work:  e: like it even says 8 and "Journey-Cursed" in the URL, it's not just a redirection error at this point I think people are gaslighting me DACK FAYDEN fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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Jun 17, 2016 18:52
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Overemotional Robot posted:Here's a link to the pre-order page of VII that should work: I still get 8.
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Jun 17, 2016 18:53
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Yeah, that's my bad. The rep. linked 8 and I didn't read very well. poo poo, I just want to pre-order this game!
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Jun 17, 2016 20:42
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Overemotional Robot posted:Yeah, that's my bad. The rep. linked 8 and I didn't read very well. poo poo, I just want to pre-order this game! It looks like the pre-order page for the physical version isn't quite up yet, even though the digital version for VII is and both versions of VIII are on display even though it's presumably coming quite a bit later. I would want a physical copy of VII even without the 20% prime discount, but that certainly doesn't hurt. I want to pre-order a cartridge of VII as soon as I can also, mostly because I am worried that there is going to be a very limited production and they will sell out.
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Jun 17, 2016 21:00
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In the ongoing saga of this broken page, I got in touch with Amazon again and they are aware of the problem. The guy I talked to this time actually added the physical version to my cart because he could reach the page even though I couldn't. So I pre-ordered both physical games. I'm with you on wanting to get them ASAP. I just don't think SE has enough faith in the US market to make tons of these carts.
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Jun 17, 2016 21:37
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Dragon Quest VII 3DS: Collector's Edition (A physical cartridge)
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Now that I've secured the pre-orders there will undoubtedly be some collector's thing (pleeeeease release a special DQ edition N3DS Nintendo).
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I beat Dragon Quest 4 today on my "catching up with the last 20 years of the series" campaign I've been on over the last several months. I know Toriyama does all the character art for these games but I didn't know I was going to literally be fighting Cell as the final boss. After like the 4th or 5th time I wailed on the dude and some new poo poo grew out of him I was just like "Really? When are you going to die already?" raditts fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Jun 18, 2016 |
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Jun 18, 2016 05:34
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raditts posted:I beat Dragon Quest 4 today on my "catching up with the last 20 years of the series" campaign I've been on over the last several months. Does that mean you have 5 coming up next? That's my personal favorite.
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raditts posted:I know Toriyama does all the character art for these games but I didn't know I was going to literally be fighting Cell as the final boss. Well, I mean, the main driving plot element of the game was evolution.
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Zaggitz posted:Does that mean you have 5 coming up next? That's my personal favorite. Yeah. Is Healie the Healslime a recurring character in this trilogy or something? I've heard him mentioned so much over the years but he was just a sidekick character in like half a chapter, and I think maybe he appeared once later in human form? I thought there would be more.
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Healie is the true main character of the trilogy.
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raditts posted:I beat Dragon Quest 4 today on my "catching up with the last 20 years of the series" campaign I've been on over the last several months.
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raditts posted:I beat Dragon Quest 4 today on my "catching up with the last 20 years of the series" campaign I've been on over the last several months. Honestly Psaro continually anatomizing himself was probably one of the more unnerving final boss things I can remember and basically made the fight for me.
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Nate RFB posted:If you're playing on the DS there's a bonus chapter where you get another character and a new final boss (who is basically the same as the original IIRC) and if I remember right it's pretty fun because the new character is very powerful. I have the mobile version, which is a port of the DS version. How do you get to the bonus chapter? It just asked if I wanted to save my clear data after the credits, and when I loaded the clear save I was at the church in Endor. Last Celebration posted:Honestly Psaro continually anatomizing himself was probably one of the more unnerving final boss things I can remember and basically made the fight for me. Don't get me wrong, it was great from a final boss standpoint, it was just like "all right, I've cut his head off, now he's finally dea- NO WHAT IS GOING ON" "okay, now I killed the face that came out of his stomach- WHY ARE NEW ARMS AND HEAD COMING OUT OF HIS ARM AND HEAD HOLES" and so on
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I think that's it, but you have you go on a quest to get some yggdrasil flowers or something to bring someone back to life, who you then take to the final boss and have things go down differently.
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I randomly came across my copy of DQIX today and I feel like playing it again and trying to get the light-speed champion accolade (finish the game up in under 12 hours.) Is doing it solo the best way to go about this? It feels weird not having my three mute comrades ripped straight out of DBZ.
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Anyone have a specific Power Saves device or Pro Action Replay they can point me to in order for me to unlock the online stuff for DQ9? There's so many, and when I find one that I think works I read a review and see it only works on certain games. I figured someone here has done this, so just looking for what works. I have a DSi and N3DS XL I can use it on if that matters.
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The Phlegmatist posted:I randomly came across my copy of DQIX today and I feel like playing it again and trying to get the light-speed champion accolade (finish the game up in under 12 hours.) That's not super helpful since I haven't looked at a leaderboard ever, but I know Highspirits over on Twitch runs it every so often (and every other DQ, which is why every so often) so if nothing else you could find an old run of his for inspiration. e: to the above poster: If you have a flashcart or something you can download a save with all the content unlocked then use the two DSes to have your legitimate copy streetpass (it's not streetpass, I forget the name of the in-game feature that mimics it) the flashcart save and that unlocks the content on the legitimate copy. There may also be a way to trick your DS into connecting to a local wifi network that mimics NFC? e2 to below: That might be! I was thinking of specifically the quests and not the patrons and the shop items, that's my bad. DACK FAYDEN fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Jun 20, 2016 |
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I'm pretty sure it is impossible to get all the inn patrons now since it required thirty unique tags and the service isn't running anymore. Th3 only way to do everything is with a flash cart.
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In retrospect it's a really bad idea to have an immense amount of your single-player game's content tied to timed DLC. I seem to recall that even when the servers were live you'd miss inn guests if you weren't checking DQVC constantly.
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Draile posted:In retrospect it's a really bad idea to have an immense amount of your single-player game's content tied to timed DLC. Once a week, I think? And it looped but only once. I have like 90% of the days on my file and I am afraid to create a new file to start over as I will then no longer have all of them.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:
Ugh, this sounds overwhelming. I hate that it's so difficult to see everything in the game now.
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The future of gaming I'm afraid
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Yeah, apparently 7 is going to have some kind of streetpass thing. Years from now that'll be a thing of the past and people will be locked out of content again.
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It looks like Amazon has their wires crossed regarding DQ VII and VIII. The digital version of VII is up for pre-order but the release date says 31 December 2016, which is what the always put when they don't have a semi-firm release date, and clicking on the link for the physical version still leads to the "Sorry!" page with pictures of large dogs on it. Meanwhile, both versions of VII are available for pre-order with the release date of 16 September. I honestly think that they confused one for the other.Overemotional Robot posted:Yeah, apparently 7 is going to have some kind of streetpass thing. Years from now that'll be a thing of the past and people will be locked out of content again. I'm getting really tired of social/multiplayer aspects being shoehorned into single-player games, and making it so that content will be inaccessible later due to natural obsolescence is just twisting the knife.
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Are there not rom hacks / save editors for DQ9 at this point that unlocks all the stuff for you? It's not as though the stuff in question is actually being transferred between DSes, right?
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I know many of you probably don't care about speedruns, but within four hours last night nescardinality broke his own DQ1 NES world record (down to 45 minutes), then broke it again down to 42:21, where it may sit for a while. Highlights: It uses the RNG manipulation from the TAS in real time to beat the Dragonlord at level 7 (real runs can maybe do it at 17 in ~5:15ish) by attacking for 1 and casting a bunch of Hurts while the Dragonlord stays asleep the entire fight. The entire drat thing is a highlight, honestly. It's marvelous to see the game be so broken.
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Level 7?! I have got to see this, I used to be proud of myself as a kid when I got to where I could beat the game in an afternoon.
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raditts posted:Are there not rom hacks / save editors for DQ9 at this point that unlocks all the stuff for you? It's not as though the stuff in question is actually being transferred between DSes, right? Probably, but I actually own the game cart and couldn't apply one to it. I guess trying the wifi thing ought to work.
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Overemotional Robot posted:Anyone have a specific Power Saves device or Pro Action Replay they can point me to in order for me to unlock the online stuff for DQ9? The Action Replay Powersaves Pro works for this. You'll have to use a .sav converter (and it always corrupted my suspend save for whatever reason) but it's easy enough to figure out.
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Prism posted:Probably, but I actually own the game cart and couldn't apply one to it. If you have a flashcart you absolutely can write a hacked save to a real cart. I did it for specifically DQ9. If you don't have a flashcart I bet someone you know does.
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Crimson Harvest posted:If you have a flashcart you absolutely can write a hacked save to a real cart. I did it for specifically DQ9. If you don't have a flashcart I bet someone you know does. I do not know anyone nearby with a DS flashcart, no. (I could do it for some other game systems... just not that one.)
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