Thread 723379706

how is the yearly replay going /v/?

I'm waiting for the DQ9 remake. Please save it from the DS....

Act 3 was my replay and I don't wanna do another 100 hours

Never. I even bought the fucking downgrade for the dlc when it came on steam to do it but saves don't import and I literally do not want to have to beat the game over again

Fuck square
Fuck Nintendo
Fuck the switch

>>723379706 (OP)
its great until i reach part 2 and they take Veronica away from me, not only do i like her better, shes the magic dps and they fucking mix her kit with the healslut who is too busy healing and buffing/debuffing to fucking make use of the spells.

>>723380039
You say that as if Serana can't just unga bunga dps everything. Her stats are better than the hero's

>>723380121
This. Serena just inherits Veronica abilities and becomes a god.

>>723380358
You only have her for 2 seconds though

>>723380121
shes still the only one with the better spells for buffing and healing unless you make hero the healbitch.

I stopped playing and switched to Tactics Ogre. Act 3 is bullshit. The developers think a challenge is preventing the player from playing the game. Auroral Serpent fight is just stun, down, one shot the only character doing damage, rinse, repeat.

>>723380121
Not the point. Veronica was my favorite. But then she gets taken away!

>But she comes back
Not MY ronica.. Not MINE.

playing it once was enough for me anon.

When I play it should I use the tougher enemies mode?
I like my rpgs to be challenging but how hard is it? Do you have to grind?

>>723382241
No. There are a lot of spergs out there who think that adding this tedium to the game somehow improves it, all you're doing is making things take longer.

I couldn't get through that bloated mess once, let alone a yearly fucking playthrough jesus. How the fuck do you guys subject yourself to it. I liked the game, but it's way too fucking long. Rpg's make sense to be longer than other games sure, but they still shouldn't be longer than at most 30 hours

Part 3 ruined most of the cast. Erik, Hendrik, Serena and even Rab get their character arcs completely negated and replaced by worse speedran versions. Pretty much only Veronica and Martina end up better.

Do I buy the definitive edition for 11? I heard it was a downgrade.

i played until the faggot appeared and never went further

>>723379706 (OP)
I got sucked into Legend of Heroes after playing the remake so it's been delayed.

I can't replay games yearly, that's way too soon for me. every 5-10 years is more in my ballpark

>>723382817
>muh graphix

>>723382241
>When I play it should I use the tougher enemies mode?
Absolutely. It hugely benefits from it and you'll appreciate how well designed the game is with it. It makes tons of stuff more worthwhile and it's just better thought out and balanced than the default game. There's lots of stuff to discover that you can take advantage of and will make you more powerful which you will want to use.

>>723382241
>>723382305
The game is way too braindead wihout it, tried without it and couldn't imagine doing a whole playthrough like that, it was legit maddening how baby mode it was

I wanted to replay it recently but remembering the gay parade killed the urge.
And the 'happy ending' arc completely undoing the best part of the game really sucks. If I ever do play again, the game ends with Act 2.

>>723380481
Just get the mod that lets Serena keep her power merge in act 3.

>>723380506
Hero is almost always best suited to buffing and healing and off dps/mob clearing with gigaslash in DQ. That's why you have Erik, Jade, and Hendrik for dps.

>>723379758
9bro...we're gonna make it...2029 for sure...

>>723382817
It's a visual downgrade. Some textures look more plastic. But it's worth it for the other upgrades and content. Being able to replace the overworld theme with DQ8s alone makes it the better version.

>>723387930
>It's a visual downgrade
How bad is it...

>>723385968
No Silvando? Ladies first is busted.

>>723388456
There are mods to fix it.

This is the one modern JRPG I only manage to get a couple hours into before stopping. Should I return from scratch yet again? How many hours in does it hit a stride?

>>723390706
I enjoyed it from after the prison break.

>>723390706
brown esl retard

>>723388456
With mods it has:
- Same quality world and character models: I've only found two bugs in my playthroughs: Erik's eyes have a buggy glow when wearing the hood, and Octagonia's signs have some minor bugged lighting.
- Sidegraded lighting with worse AA: 11S uses stock UE4 lighting which you can edit the engine.ini to have more bells and whistles than they set for the Switch/PC version. The OG used a licensed lighting system which arguably looks and runs better. The TAA in 11S ghosts like a mother bitch but the FXAA is grainy and shimmery to all fuck.
- Tons more content
- Outfit system so your party can look however you want regardless of the gear they're wearing.
- Far better grass draw distance. Worse pop in.

That's about it. In general terms, if you mod it, it will look as good or better.

>>723379706 (OP)
if only the writing for DQ11 wasn't so poor. I love the char designs a lot. And the gameplay is basic but I think I'd be okay just doing numbers go up and resource management if the writing didn't drag it down so much.

>>723392451
The DQ11 writing is fine, though.

Oh, you're talking about the EOP version. Yeah, I don't know how anyone plays that.

>>723379706 (OP)
fuck, I just realised with Toriyama dead we're never going to get kino character designs like this again

I hope square were smart enough to get 10 games of character designs in advance from him

>>723379953
this

>>723392512
talking to the wrong dude there bud, i was born japanese and went to elementary school there before moving overseas. still go everywhere on my jp passport

I don't understand myself with this game. It has better pacing than DQ8. It has better environment variety than DQ8. It has more world interactivity than DQ8. It has a fantastic cast as good as or better than DQ8. More goodies. More secrets. Better crafting. Better character building. Its a BETTER GAME.

... So WHY do I like DQ8 more?! Why can't 11 get over the hump and into my top 3 for the series? Am I broken or is Act 3 really that much of a boner kill?

>>723393032
DQ8's writing wasn't as embarrassing, I thought. DQ8 didn't have great writing but it didn't piss me off nearly as many times as 11 did. That stupid mermaid sidequest in 11 that makes no sense in terms of the timescales involved still annoys me just thinking about it.

>>723393032
I mean, you explained it just fine. The story isn't as interesting, act 3 doesn't end well even if the novelty to begin with is high.

>>723385805
My friend dropped the game 50 hours in at the gay parade part.
I agree that it's kind of annoying, and the intermissions kill the game's pacing even beyond the flamboyance, but being so put off by it that it keeps you from finishing this masterpiece I will never understand.

Gotta love Veronica-sama

>>723382241
Just dont go with both shypox on, thats painful on some bosses

>>723393032
The game goes a bit too long and drags at certain parts. Some enemies should have died sooner, but nooo, they refuse to die even when killed,one came back to die in a cutscene and i think it was back as a ghost as a sidequest. it was annoying.

8 also spoiled many people as the first DQ. It was very charming, magical and a great adventure in the right size

>>723393609
Ah yes, the parade. If i knew i could run to the next location i would have, but i thought you had to walk slowly..


and why the clown outfits were exclusive to this part only? they are great

>>723394351
Hendrik kek

>>723394351
>and why the clown outfits were exclusive to this part only?
Not in the DE.

>>723397527
Huh? i have the switch version, you can only use the clown for Rab and Hendrik in this part.

why didnt jade get a dancers outfit

>>723380039
Sage has been a stable class since DQ3 you Anon

>>723379706 (OP)
>yearly replay
That's way too many replays. I played it with stronger monsters first, then when XIS came out I played with every other draconian option but stronger monsters and stayed as underleveled as I could to prove a point to a friend about how pathetically easy the game is without stronger monsters. (there were only 3 challenging fights in that playthrough and those were just the first Jasper fight, and the two solo Hero fights with AI Hendrik "helping")
A couple years later I was doing a third playthrough when I bought XIS on a whim to try the 2D mode, but I dropped it somewhere around the intermissions in Act 2, I really hated how those killed the pacing and I lost interest.

>>723392524
Mate, XII is gong to be the last mainline game in the series before DQ is completely handed off to the younger generations, of course they didn't get future character designs out of him, the man didn't even like drawing heroes much in the first place and much preferred drawing the monsters (which they actually do have a lot of unused designs they could pull for future games)

>Yearly replay

The game took me 130 fucking hours to finish. I really liked it but goddamn, I'm not gonna be picking it back up for a long time.

>>723399567
Exactly my thought. These games are too long for what they are