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Dragon Quest IV was my favourite DQ for a long time so I'm excited to see how the new Monsters game's story goes. Also, I like Capsichum.
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OT for tomorrow got canceled and I'm gonna celebrate by staying up way too late and playing my Nintendo Switch!
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:OT for tomorrow got canceled and I'm gonna celebrate by staying up way too late and playing my Nintendo Switch! let's loving go
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Araxxor posted:Yeah, Waluigi had an excellent design. This one's just pretty boring. Can't say we missed much. tbf it's an early design that miyamoto rejected without looking at. Though that's one miyamoto story I actually find funny since he assumed they were just gonna copy the villain from a particular kids' show (Yatterman), which if you look up the villain crew makes it clear that he already thought waluigi was ripping it off Motto fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Dec 1, 2023 |
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Dec 1, 2023 18:09
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Annath posted:I get that they're more accurate to the mainline names. mods rename this guy to Batatouille
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Dec 1, 2023 18:39
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Quantum of Phallus posted:https://twitter.com/oliemack/status/1730600956637945954 Steps up to the open mic, coughs: 'More like Arkham Shite'
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jackhunter64 posted:Steps up to the open mic, coughs: 'More like Arkham Shite' 
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Annath posted:I didn't want to use "loving stupid". I hate the newer DQ translations too.  I don't care if they're "more in the spirit" of the original, they are obnoxious as hell and make me actively less interested in playing. The older American version had jokes and puns too!Some jabronis are just really invested in making sure you know your preference is wrong, actually.
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Dec 1, 2023 21:10
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Puns are fun and good. Dragon Quest tries to make everything a pun and as a result for every Ham Shamwitch and Sham Hatwitch you have one that feels like it exists because it has to come hell or high water.Silver Falcon posted:Better than Pokemon, you say? I was already intrigued by this game but now I am extra intrigued. I've never played the MH Stories games so I can't compare them. Annath posted:And then there's just the weird change of "breeding" the monsters to "combining" them. I'm glad they got rid of gender as an extra factor to deal with and just let you blend two monsters together in DQM3. It was annoying having to reload because one of the 29473832 steps in the endgame fusion you're making ended up being the wrong gender and couldn't be fused with the next monster in the chain.
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Dec 1, 2023 21:19
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I cannot comprehend how one can both hate puns yet like Dragon Quest. Goofy wordplay is in the very DNA of that series!
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Dec 1, 2023 21:26
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Pining for the halcyon days of the NES with their faux medieval accents.
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feetnotes posted:I hate the newer DQ translations too. are you a guy who also still likes the Vic Ireland cut of Lunar?
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Devs need to continue to create low quality ports so Nintendo is pushed toward new hardware.
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Does Trials of Mana run well? I liked the SNES version a lot and would like to play the new version.
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I don't remember dwelling on any performance issues when I played through it personally. (It's a good game and you should play it)
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feetnotes posted:Some jabronis are just really invested in making sure you know your preference is wrong, actually. Some jabronis really want to die on a tiny hill.
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feetnotes posted:I hate the newer DQ translations too. I mean in this specific case it is wrong, yes. You are upset the brightly animated cartoon RPG with tons of goofy character designs is silly. If you don't want a silly RPG then you don't play it, but it is like saying "I would like Mario more if he cursed a bunch and they didn't have ridiculous level names like Mushroom Kingdom." You're free to hold that opinion but you're looking for a different kind of game.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Puns are fun and good. Dragon Quest tries to make everything a pun and as a result for every Ham Shamwitch and Sham Hatwitch you have one that feels like it exists because it has to come hell or high water. Re: gender - the egg evaluator made that a non-issue, you could change the gender of the monster before hatching it in order to fit your needs. And one thing I did want to acknowledge re: names is that some of the charm I found in the GBC games was in the goofy (but not punny) translations. For example, Agdevil is a cool devil! His name is a harsh, gutteral, devil name! No, actually, his real name is Silver Devil, but due to restrictions on the number of characters in the names, they translated "Silver" as "Ag", the elemental abbreviation for silver  I dunno, I loved that kind of thing lol.
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Mario should curse a bunch, you're right
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symbolic posted:mods rename this guy to Batatouille i'll take the compromise, thank you anonymous goon
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I was pro-puns but some of you people are making me reconsider my position.
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I guess we can expect wapeach cosplay to turn up pretty soon.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:07
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Wapeach should be called Plum.
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Meowywitch posted:are you a guy who also still likes the Vic Ireland cut of Lunar? That's sort of the opposite stance, the Vic/Working Designs translations were notoriously goofy and changed a lot, the people here want a less goofy translation. I just assume that every awful, "that not even a joke" tier pun was the same level in Japanese.
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Inzombiac posted:Does Trials of Mana run well? I liked the SNES version a lot and would like to play the new version. It runs fine on Switch but its 30 FPS while the PS4 version is 60 FPS.
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ImpAtom posted:I mean in this specific case it is wrong, yes. You are upset the brightly animated cartoon RPG with tons of goofy character designs is silly. If you don't want a silly RPG then you don't play it, but it is like saying "I would like Mario more if he cursed a bunch and they didn't have ridiculous level names like Mushroom Kingdom." You're free to hold that opinion but you're looking for a different kind of game. I'm not, though! No one ever said Dragon Quest should not have jokes! A couple of just said we liked the old jokes much more. My goodness.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:09
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Man, I've used that avatar for like a decade.  I'm on mobile so I can't tell if it overrode my Diamond Frogs logo.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:14
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Where my Turok 3 peeps at!!!
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Annath posted:Man, I've used that avatar for like a decade. changing peoples avs for little to no reason should be treated with more care imo
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Dec 1, 2023 22:20
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Annath posted:I get that they're more accurate to the mainline names. those are all good.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Where my Turok 3 peeps at!!! Certainly not on Opencritic  Yeah I know it is likely just a duplicate entry marked for deletion, albeit in a kludgy way but I thought it was funny.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:26
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I will never delete a Turok game
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Well, I don't wanna grab another full-priced game just now cuz I'm trying to finish the ones I have first, but I'll be done with work in a few mins and gently caress yeah I'll at least grab the DQ Monsters demo to see what I think about it! I'm guessing I will love it. This game sounds laser targeted at me.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:27
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feetnotes posted:I'm not, though! No one ever said Dragon Quest should not have jokes! A couple of just said we liked the old jokes much more. My goodness. This entire discussion started because people wanted jokes/silly things that were in the Japanese version taken out! Like honestly, to go over the names here: "Bewarewolf"? - The Japanese name is "Lycant" and basically is supposed to be a variation on Lycanthrope but not exactly. There's a whole weird line of jokes/name evolutions that come from it so the translation building from Werewolf makes sense. The original translation was... Wolf, which is missing a pretty important part of the monster concept. (In fact it isn't called Werewolf until it's final pallet swap in the original English translation!) "Ratscal"? - This one is a case where the Japanese name (Mountain Mouse) is changed to a joke, though it's worth noting that the Japanese name was weird because it doesn't appear in mountains so it's possible it is just a joke I don't get. (But looking it up it seems like Japanese sources also say "Why is it called a mountain mouse? No idea!") The joke also doesn't translate over to the 'higher tier' versions so  "Batatouille"? The Japanese name is like "Mousebat" and the joke behind it is "Is it a bat or a mouse pretending to be a bat." The name's a bit of a stretch but I admit I'd have a hard time coming up with a good way to convey such a weird idea in a simple name.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I will never delete a Turok game I AM TUROK
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ImpAtom posted:This entire discussion started because people wanted jokes/silly things that were in the Japanese version taken out! Did you write the first sentence and then go look up the Japanese names afterwards? Because the rest of your post disagrees with the point you're trying to make. I like the puns but people are being way too aggressive about defending them, the old translations had their charm too and there's nothing wrong with preferring them.
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DQM very early trip report Performance isn't improved from what we saw in the demo but it is better than S/V and if you can stomach that or the 3ds DQM games you'll be fine. The visuals are a (small) step up from the 3ds games and monster models are done rather well with nice little touches to their animations. I barely did the tutorial area but it's insanely addicting as always to scout as many mons as you can see, and the seasons changing th available mobs is gonna be fun I think. Can't speak for much past the first hour or whether the game will be any challenging but I'll probably end up loving this just because collecting classic DQ monsters is fun.
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Snake Maze posted:Did you write the first sentence and then go look up the Japanese names afterwards? Because the rest of your post disagrees with the point you're trying to make. No? The initial point of the discussion was the spell names, not the monster names. They get brought up afterwards Annath posted:I don't mind the puns at all.
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