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Dragon Quest is full of party wipes your first time through. Then you play it again ten years later and just kind of chump everything and you can't figure out why you had difficulty before.
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Fenrir posted:Or you can just not die. If you're prudent enough with grinding and getting gear, you won't die ever.. unless we're talking DQ2. Yeah what's up, I'm a Silver Devil, I can use Sacrifice and kill all y'all  Also there's all the unlucky people who got slammed by a certain wrong turn you can take near the end of 4 buuuut 
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Aug 3, 2014 03:45
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Fenrir posted:What wrong turn? This isn't ringing a bell at all. Some people ended up in a certain fake House of Healing instead of the real one and got sent back to the other side of the very long dungeon
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Aug 4, 2014 00:18
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It's been an age and was a different version than the one you're probably playing so take this with a grain of salt - some of the late game critters are okay, but you'll be just grand with the humans alone. If you have a free party slot (you will, for a while) have a critter in it at least for providing an extra target for enemies, but in the end use who you want. Game's balanced enough in that regard. e: Also thanks to some idle posts, I know there was a 10th main game and thanks to Google I know why I had no idea
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Aug 4, 2014 02:06
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Yeah on the NES version I kept the claw around actually for grinding purposes even if I didn't have anybody in the party to use it. I'd just shove it in the Vault back at Aliahan and pay some money to get it back out when grinding time came around again.
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Aug 5, 2014 21:46
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Meanwhile, all us android dorks get is a port of VIII, the playability of which depends heavily on how good your device is
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Aug 6, 2014 15:26
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Bongo Bill posted:If you don't like stupid puns then get the hell out of here. I really need to get around to finishing IX. The puns were fun.
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Aug 6, 2014 22:46
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Yeah 7 is really long and really grindy. I liked it much more years later on an emulator with the magic power of turbospeed. Also for whatever reason, my inner however old I was when I got a PlayStation felt vindicated as gently caress that a computer's optical drive finally played a PlayStation disc.
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Aug 13, 2014 00:38
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RadicalR posted:I did see that Dragon Quest 8 got released on Android. Any opinion on that? It's pretty wonky apparently. I wouldn't.
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Aug 13, 2014 18:10
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Arcaeris posted:I have 7 on the 3DS, the class system is dramatically different. While it's easier to level up, you don't keep most skills between classes so it turns out Monster classes are the best for actually getting skills because they keep between classes. Frankly that turns it into... basically an entirely different game with the same story. drat.
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Aug 15, 2014 02:48
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Yeah that's what they do.
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Sep 10, 2014 00:08
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I think probably the "worst" in the series for me is 6. There's just this long period where it feels really, really aimless. (If you had asked me like ten years ago I would have said "4" without hesitation but there have been rereleases that aren't subject to the godawful mandatory party AI the original release had.)
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Oct 7, 2014 04:36
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Costs more money to do poo poo for mobile too though, it's pretty different from 3DS (I assume) and is more effort. Also doesn't fix the problem that Dragon Quest just doesn't sell well in the US. 
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Oct 9, 2014 15:39
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rvm posted:So, I'm playing DQ7 now and I've just cleared what I can only describe as JRPG Hell. But payoff was worth it. That was a bold move to introduce the defining feature of the game more than 24 hours in, I must say. But all and all, I'm really enjoying it (it was funny, for instance, how they set up disaster flags for the fishing trip in the beginning, but then everything went smoothly). Also, usual Horii's combination of wacky humor and soul crashing tragedy and I have a feeling I haven't seen anything yet. So I guess you just got done with Dharma, AKA literally the worst part? loving game double-loving you out of combat power
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Oct 14, 2014 22:36
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Yeah, Hustle is just a great skill. 0-MP full party heal spell? Don't mind if I do!
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Oct 15, 2014 18:29
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Doug Dinsdale posted:I wrote around 70 of those idiotic gags over a weekend for $300 since the original translator made a total mess of them. Do you remember some of the most mangled ones, or are they lost to time?
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Oct 15, 2014 23:51
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The princess is, in fact, just kinda useless yeah. Aside from being able to use healing magic.
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Oct 24, 2014 04:07
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Evil Fluffy posted:Shame the source of the gag took what should've been the best healer by far and made him a huge liability for bosses in the original DQ4. Half the party dead and the other half almost there? Guess I better cast Beast on Necrosaro a few more times! It really is a wonder that anyone actually finished that game on the NES.
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Feb 2, 2015 03:17
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The most fun I had with 7 was years afterwards when I was emulating it. The game is so very grindy that having a turbo function really makes all the difference in the world.
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May 16, 2015 15:07
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Eight is real good. I would say 2 is the worst because holy crap is that absolutely-mandatory one tile island a dick move. I know you get told about it but it's trivially easy to miss.
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Jun 4, 2015 15:37
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DACK FAYDEN posted:3 GBC has the second bonus dungeon, which the SNES version doesn't, but it's a huge grind to get to and not really worth it. Lord the monster medal drop rates are just the worst thing 
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Jun 19, 2015 14:02
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Alpha Kenny Juan posted:I have no idea what that is and I'm glad I'm not familiar with it if drop rates are involved. They were a thing in the GBC remake of 3. Sometimes you would find a monster medal for one of the monsters you fought. There was a second bonus dungeon that was entirely about collecting the drat things. It was terrible.
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Jun 19, 2015 19:11
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FinalTitan posted:A big plus is that you will spend far less gold to equip them than Warriors. Yeah you don't need to equip them to use them. Just have them in the character's inventory and select "use" in battle.
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Jul 15, 2015 17:12
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I think the "hardest" end boss in the series was 6. Stupid hands reviving each other and the main body 
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Jul 17, 2015 19:17
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Would it be better to play 8 or 9 after I'm done with Joker 2. 8 is a much more modern game with characters. 9 is much more like 3 in that you create your party out of nowhere. Also it's basically your dad telling you puns. All the time. Nonstop.
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Jul 21, 2015 16:15
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Moltrey posted:Ey what's good, my dudes? Honestly the 6 and 7 job systems are mechanically the same system, 7's is just... bigger.
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Sep 6, 2016 15:29
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Draile posted:The best Dragon Quest bad ending is on the NES when the battery glitches and erases all your saves and the game announces that you are screwed to the cursed item sound effect. Authentically still there for the GBC remakes!! 
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Sep 8, 2016 01:25
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Was the single tile island with the absolutely mandatory shrine on it even particularly visible on the pack-in map for 2?
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Sep 8, 2016 15:19
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Unmature posted:It's been a while since I've played a Dragon Quest so I forget. Is this an RPG where when the MC dies, but other party members are still alive, you lose? I don't think Dragon Quest has had an actual lose condition after the soft-lock in NES DQ1
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Sep 19, 2016 16:21
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I decided to play the DQ1 remake on the phone and holy lol I forgot that there's literally nothing to do after getting the harp but grind until you can handle the poo poo further south
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Oct 6, 2016 02:46
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I really like 7 
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Jun 25, 2017 02:30
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... actually being honest, disc 1 is the part of 7 I really like. Just going to all the sealed off parts of the world, solving their problems, and fixing the world. It does get kinda boring once Orgodemir actually shows up.
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Jun 26, 2017 00:13
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"Cool, you just got to the end of the grueling dungeon! Congratulations! Now, the enemies between you and the next healing/save point just got even stronger!" - Dragon Quest 2 Which is, I suppose, still marginally better than Dragon Quest 4 with the literal fake safe spot that's actually a boss battle in essentially the same situation
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Aug 4, 2017 23:59
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Recycle Bin posted:Just beat 2. I grinded a few more levels and got in to a good heal/attack routine with the final boss. The iOS version takes away his healAll spell so it's not completely agonizing. Now on to 3! Anyone have some general tips/tricks i should know going in? I think the GBC did as well. It did not take it away from the third of the castle's mini-bosses though which resulted in it being probably a harder fight than the final boss
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Aug 6, 2017 00:18
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Professor of Cats posted:[Walks in circles in the mountains for hours in order to grind levels to not die immediately 4 steps over] *: Beware of bridges!
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Aug 7, 2017 11:30
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I'm probably grabbing XI on 3ds because that's the thing I actually own I've been replaying through the Monsters games and for some reason decided to go 2 then 1 which let me really break the game over my knee by breeding Literally Anything with my supercritters from 2 And despite this, that loving battlerex managed to last three (!) full rounds from poo poo bred with level 99 boss family monsters that started with 200+ in each stat. It was trivial but what a difficulty spike 
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Aug 9, 2017 23:09
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an actual dog posted:I just had a thought about how amazing a Builders game based on Dragon Quest 7 would be and I wanted to share it with people who'd understand. I'm the crazy person around here who thinks 7 is the best. Last time I brought that up someone brought up the point that it's basically the most Dragon Quest of all the games which can be both good and bad (I love it).
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Aug 19, 2017 02:00
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Does it play the cursed item sound when the save is corrupted?
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Dec 8, 2017 17:14
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Evil Fluffy posted:Got a PS4 for Christmas. some time this year!
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Jan 13, 2018 01:22
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The only one I've played on the phone is Dragon Quest 1 and I learned that I hate virtual d-pad. A lot. Especially how it's movable for some god forsaken reason.
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Jan 13, 2018 23:35
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