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kirbysuperstar posted:Dhoulmagus 2 was a bastard Technically not released in the last 20 years.
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lets hang out posted:DQ11 has a hard mode, it's not insanely difficult but you might at least need to think about what you're doing in boss fights. They even had to nerf a few parts when they ported it to Switch and PC. I'd say once you start combining them it makes the game rather difficult. If you want some real punishment, put them all on. No fleeing from battle, no shopping, no armor, reduced exp, super strong enemies, shypox/super shypox and party wipe if Hero goes down would make the game quite hard.
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Dec 8, 2021 16:52
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It'd be hard but not for the right reasons.
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Dec 8, 2021 16:58
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shypox is so incredibly unfun.
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Kuros posted:I'd say once you start combining them it makes the game rather difficult. That's less "challenging" hard and more "tedious" hard. Especially shypox RNG.
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Dec 8, 2021 17:13
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Harder monsters is the only challenge that is any fun, the rest are just for completionists, but without harder monsters they arent really a big deal at all.
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Dec 8, 2021 18:04
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DQ6 DS/mobile was pretty challenging. There's this one multi-phase boss gatekeeper that's comes before a lot of the job class abilities so it's really rough.
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Dec 8, 2021 18:11
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DQ7 as I recall has a couple bosses that are absolute walls
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Dec 8, 2021 18:18
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Yeah I'm at the Dharma Temple now in 7 and everything is just whipping my rear end, though judging by how many fights I'm supposed to lose here it doesn't seem unfair. I don't know if ANY of these fights are winnable right now.
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Dec 8, 2021 18:50
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The last boss of dq6 hosed me up until I realized you can switch party members during the fight and that multiheal works on people in the caravan
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Mustached Demon posted:Technically not released in the last 20 years. It was rereleased though, it counts
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DoubleDonut posted:The last boss of dq6 hosed me up until I realized you can switch party members during the fight and that multiheal works on people in the caravan
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Dec 9, 2021 00:32
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Hit or miss Clitoris posted:Yeah I'm at the Dharma Temple now in 7 and everything is just whipping my rear end, though judging by how many fights I'm supposed to lose here it doesn't seem unfair. I don't know if ANY of these fights are winnable right now. I can think of two for sure One is definitely a forced loss, right when you get into the town of skill robbed people and the town leader puts you in your place doesn't matter what you do Then there is one where you have to last for so many turns i thiiiink maybe and then lose? which is the two jerks in the cave
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Dec 9, 2021 01:08
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Yeah the two jerks in a cave I don't know if I survived long enough. I don't know if the one guy robbing a priest when you first show up is unwinnable but god drat did it put me down. I'm really, really enjoying this game, and I think it's my favorite Dragon Quest so far, but to be fair I haven't played V, VI, or IX, and only got as far as the boat in VIII. Although I am pretty intimidated by picking classes once I'm out of here, outside of FFV and FF Tactics I've never really played much with job systems so I'm pretty sure I will be hitting choice paralysis soon.
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Dec 9, 2021 01:14
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Has there been any more word on DQXII and/or the remake of 3?
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Dec 9, 2021 01:15
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I'm on disc 2 of a replay of 7 myself and have been quite enjoying it but it absolutely does drag in bits. At least if there's ever a section you're not super into you know there's gonna be a new tablet with a new island just around the corner, and it's consistently fun returning to the present versions of locations to see what's up
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Dec 9, 2021 01:18
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JustJeff88 posted:Has there been any more word on DQXII and/or the remake of 3? i think the only news lately has been about DQX Offline since it's the one coming out soonest
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Dec 9, 2021 01:54
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Dragon Quest game announcements and actual release usually have one or two major life events happen in between. Ask that guy/gal you're seeing to marry you. DQXII will release when your first child is going to Kindergarten.
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Dec 9, 2021 03:27
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Yeah, AFAIK there's no actual news on DQ12 yet, which has caused people to go absolutely insane and make a game up whole cloth, like what happened with SMTXFE before TMS#FE was announced. It's gonna be edgy, it's gonna be an ARPG, according to the Internet it's gonna be a lot of things that it makes no sense for them to do with DQ, a historically "safe" franchise. Hell, it took them 30 years to add in dual-wielding to the franchise, something that's been in Final Fantasy since 1988. For all we know, that "we're going to change things up a bit" sound bite from the teaser back in that DQ not-Direct means they're going to have the protagonist actually talk or something.
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Dec 9, 2021 03:32
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They're going to give us the option of a female protagonist, and then act like it's a new revolutionary idea and not something they had in 1988 and then just forgot about for like thirty years.
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Dec 9, 2021 03:40
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Detective No. 27 posted:Dragon Quest game announcements and actual release usually have one or two major life events happen in between. Ask that guy/gal you're seeing to marry you. DQXII will release when your first child is going to Kindergarten. I'm an avowed bachelor, so I will content myself with more gray hair. lets hang out posted:i think the only news lately has been about DQX Offline since it's the one coming out soonest I normally disdain MMOs, but I hadn't heard about this. Are they bringing this as a single-player game to the West?
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Dec 9, 2021 03:43
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DQXII will have only a female protagonist. Still silent.
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Dec 9, 2021 03:44
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JustJeff88 posted:I normally disdain MMOs, but I hadn't heard about this. Are they bringing this as a single-player game to the West? A few months back they had a Dragon Quest stream in Japan where they announced five new DQ games. A treasure hunting game with Eric and his sister, some mobile trash, DQX Offline, DQ3 Remake, and XI. Only DQ3 and XII got announced worldwide releases. XII was also announced to be a simultaneous worldwide release. I don't remember if the DQ3 Remake isn't getting that treatment.
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Dec 9, 2021 03:49
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We need a new monsters and a new rocket slime. gently caress the other poo poo
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Detective No. 27 posted:A few months back they had a Dragon Quest stream in Japan where they announced five new DQ games. A treasure hunting game with Eric and his sister, some mobile trash, DQX Offline, DQ3 Remake, and XI. Only DQ3 and XII got announced worldwide releases. XII was also announced to be a simultaneous worldwide release. I don't remember if the DQ3 Remake isn't getting that treatment. In fact Offline was the only thing in the stream to have an explicit "Only for Japan" text over its trailer lol
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Commander Keene posted:Yeah, AFAIK there's no actual news on DQ12 yet, which has caused people to go absolutely insane and make a game up whole cloth, like what happened with SMTXFE before TMS#FE was announced. It's gonna be edgy, it's gonna be an ARPG, according to the Internet it's gonna be a lot of things that it makes no sense for them to do with DQ, a historically "safe" franchise. Hell, it took them 30 years to add in dual-wielding to the franchise, something that's been in Final Fantasy since 1988. For all we know, that "we're going to change things up a bit" sound bite from the teaser back in that DQ not-Direct means they're going to have the protagonist actually talk or something. They’re gonna make the skill grid more spherical
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Commander Keene posted:DQXII will have only a female protagonist. Still silent. im ok with this
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Dec 9, 2021 05:44
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They could’ve let XI’s protag be either gender and change nothing but pronouns. Except it would make Sylvando even more overpowered as support.
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Dragon Warrior IV and Final Fantasy VI were the first RPGs I ever played and they gave me unrealistic expectations ever since.
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DrakePegasus posted:They could’ve let XI’s protag be either gender and change nothing but pronouns. Except it would make Sylvando even more overpowered as support.
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Dec 9, 2021 06:15
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Commander Keene posted:Yeah, my point was kinda that without dialogue or a personality, whether the character model has boobs or not is kinda irrelevant. Nah, people still care. Pokemon went for that back in Crystal and has kept that one up ever since.
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Dec 9, 2021 06:29
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Commander Keene posted:Yeah, my point was kinda that without dialogue or a personality, whether the character model has boobs or not is kinda irrelevant.
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Let me try this one more time, hopefully with 99% less failing to words on my part. There isn't really any reason for the game to not have gender selection for the protagonist when the only difference to the game would be the character model and pronouns used when characters talk about and around the cardboard standee that is the protagonist in these games. My joke was that they'd do a mandatory female protagonist for the first time in the series... and it'd be basically the same as if the protagonist was male, technically fulfilling their promise to "change things up" while still not having to do a drat thing different. I was not saying that people shouldn't want a female protagonist in a video game with a silent protagonist, nor was I saying that allowing the player their choice is irrelevant.
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Dec 9, 2021 07:41
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Oh hey Dragon Quest game news https://www.gematsu.com/2021/12/dragon-quest-the-adventure-of-dai-game-project-winter-2021-special-live-stream-set-for-december-18
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I always picked female heroes in DQ III and IV. There are a few armors and helmets that only female characters can equip. As far as I know there's nothing only male characters can use.
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Dec 9, 2021 10:24
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There's some low-mid tier male only equipment in DQIII but the strongest two armors in the game are female only.
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Honestly even if it were the other way around and there was a bunch of stuff only guys could wear I’d still pick the girl in DQIV cause the guy looks generic and like a tool, especially compared to a cute girl with a killer afro.
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The girl in DQIV has some serious "80's exercise video instructor" energy IIRC.
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Dec 9, 2021 14:28
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The whole point of the silent protagonist is that you're supposed to project yourself into them. It's why I'm certain that being able to pick their gender adds to that. Even in YA books where the protagonist has to speak they keep their personality and emotions to a mostly blank slate.
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kirbysuperstar posted:In fact Offline was the only thing in the stream to have an explicit "Only for Japan" text over its trailer lol The weird thing is they showed DQX Offline on the global stream but not thew other Japan-only stuff the Japanese stream had, so maybe they're thinking of putting DQX Offline out as a global title if the interest is there.  Hyper Inferno posted:There's some low-mid tier male only equipment in DQIII but the strongest two armors in the game are female only. What gear is male-only, something added to the remakes? DQ3's SFC remake also had a much more powerful/stat-gaining personality that female characters could start with as well.
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