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>News:
- Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is now available on Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
- Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince is now available on Switch, PC, and mobile phones.
- Dragon Quest Keshi Keshi and Dragon Quest Champions ended their service.
- Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake has been confirmed for the Switch and will release in 2025.
- Dragon Quest Builders is now available on PC, including all QoL that the mobile port had.
- Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai is now available on PS4/5, Switch, and PC.
- Dragon Quest Treasures, a treasure hunting RPG featuring Erik and Mia from Dragon Quest XI, is now available for the Switch and PC.
- Dragon Quest X is available on PC in English via a fan translation. Check DQX Resources for more info.
- Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate has been announced. Details aside from the title are unknown.

>Guides:
/dqg/ Beginner's Guide to Dragon Quest: https://imgur.com/gallery/kE7vCn2
Versions to Play/Buy: https://pastebin.com/TcW5bgqv
DQM3 Resource: https://dev.metalkid.info/DQM3/Monsterpedia
Dragon Quest IX DLC/Treasure Map Searcher: https://pastebin.com/Paf0Ypme
DQB2 Resources: https://pastebin.com/ykdKc201
DQX Resources: https://pastebin.com/kE3XGQNS

>Links:
ROMs/Hacks/Mods/Translations: https://pastebin.com/QbQS5i2S
Anime/TV: https://pastebin.com/a2cRRuzi
Music: https://pastebin.com/NceqwLAa
日本DQ Wiki: https://wikiwiki.jp/dqdic3rd/
DQ Art, Guide Books, Non-H Doujins: https://pastebin.com/GnaCV4vW

>OP
https://pastebin.com/RSbUEyfQ

>BROTHERS IN ARMS (F)
>>>/vg/eagg/

>>528679931
fat kid

dragon questin'

questin' dragons

No dying.

>>528679931
miss verofags drawings

behoimi

is there any reason to turn a character into a mage over a sage?

>>528731932
Stats, I suppose. In several respects, Mages have better stat growth than Sages. But personalities can help with that.

>>528704718
Sorry, I am dead.

Zing. Zing. Zing. Zing. Magic Water. Zing.

drake mission

lizard task

reptile objective

bros???

It's over. You must become Persona fans.

>>528787905
Never!
Seriously, I've somehow avoided it my whole life. Never seemed appealing to me. I've only played the first SMT game for Super Famicom, that was a fun time.

when do we get the news
i need to see the news

Last party member for 3
Monster wrangler - met in Manoza dungeon, imprisoned on accusations of Mod Rod theft (the imposter king was correct), grim, austere, somewhat emotionless, can come off as rude and snobbish, likely from her upbringing in Edina, becomes much more animated and unhinged during monster arena battles and when she throws herself into combat, always loved animals and training them (the occasional friendly monster that would show up too) growing up, fell in love with the monster arenas on a business trip she took with her family, realizing that the sheltered, stuck up life wasn’t making her happy, life’s goal is to be the world’s greatest monster arena champion, gets along well enough with everyone in the group except for the priest, his xenophobic attitude and disdain towards monsterkind disgust her, legitimately wants to kill him at the journey’s end

I can't decide on a party in 3 (SNES).

Best Monsters spinoff?

>>528806790
Well, we could always roll you a party. There are 7 standard jobs. The last three digits of this post number will determine your party. Let's go with:
1. Warrior
2. Martial Artist
3. Priest
4. Mage
5. Merchant
6. Gadabout
7. Thief
8, 9, and 0 are wildcards with which you can pick a Job. Pray I don't get many of them.

>>528675018 (OP)
Do you feel optimistic about Dragon Quest's art/designs going forward without Toriyama?

>>528812294
Tough to say. There are plenty of Toriyama imitators who can draw his existing designs very well, but new stuff is a dice toss. Might depend on how much work was already being done by understudies. A lot of the designs from the X expansions aren't exactly awe-inspiring.

>>528812294
Hard to say because they haven't announced any sort of plan yet. We know there's good copycats like Fenyo_n and Nakatsuru still around, but they don't 'belong' to DQ, they're freelance, so it's a coin toss if they return to DQ in the future. SE has people in-house like Eiichiro Nakatsu, but he does art mainly for technical purposes and it shows with how rigid his promotional art is compared to the others.

>>528787905
already am

https://insider-gaming.com/square-enix-will-make-more-turn-based-games-clair-obscur-expedition-33/
>“At the Square Enix shareholders meeting, one investor said they would like the new Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy games to be turn-based and highlighted Expedition 33’s success as an example,” it’s claimed.
>“Square Enix responded that they are aware of Expedition 33 and believe that command-based RPGs are the origin of Square Enix. They value the genre of command-based RPGs, and plan to continue delivering such games in the future.“
Confirmed? Deconfirmed?!

>>528831768
I wholeheartedly believe that when Horii said the battle system was getting a refresh, he meant it was going to be the addition of timed-hits.
His later tweet saying it would be okay if you weren't good at action games also made me think said timed-hits wouldn't be 100% necessary for playing the game either, just some bonus damage.

>>528831768
It'd be really funny if FFXVII was turn-based while DQXII was an action game

>>528832660
I hope not. There's a million ways to handle turn-based combat without introducing anti-RPG elements like timed hits. I'd sooner take ATB over it.

>>528832660
Welcome back legend of dragoon

The steam sale begins tomorrow! I can't wait to get Heroes and Heroes II at a nice steep discount!

https://store.jp.square-enix.com/sp/dq1and2/index.html

you now remember

>>528860504
bumhole~

>>528860504
Is that Moon-chan's butthole?

>>528860504
l-lewd...

>>528832660
i really don't see what's the problem with any of that anyway, SE did it themselves with mario rpg and that series kept using that formula forever and afaik everyone likes them. Granted, i too feel the "mainline game shouldn't change do it in a spin-off instead" but still

:(

>>528882642
why is he staring at her like that, he has the girls in the party….

>>528861339
I have no interest in Baldur's Gate or Expedition 33 for other reasons but I'm glad they blew this stupid idea out of the water

>>528884031
they're not as va va voom

>>528882642
Reminder that Ruby used to look exactly like this and Roxy will eventually look exactly like Ruby. The cycle is eternal

>>528832660
Praying it's NOT timed hits. Would be perfectly fine with big revamps to a turn based system. Positioning, more advanced combo system, time line manipulation. Even ATB. Timed hits are just such a pointless addition. If it's not enough to matter, why bother? If it does make a big difference, why be turn based?

>>528809401
joker 2

>>528873761
The core of RPGs is the combination of player knowledge/decision-making and character skill vs. stochastic design, and how well the player juggles these elements determines how far they get in a campaign. Including things like timed hits, especially shit like dodges and parries, completely misses the point of RPGs and diminishes the core elements in favor of player skill. It's an attempt to "innovate" combat by hamfisting elements from other genres, without examining anything else like environments, positioning, etc things that we've had in other RPGs for decades.
Mario RPGs are very clearly not serious games and intended for audiences younger than even DQ. No one invested in the genre would seriously recommend them. Same for E33 which is very much intended for people more invested in spectacle and story than RPG mechanics. DQ is a basic RPG series but it's one that's always stayed true to the genre at the very least. In my eyes, DQ falling for the timed-hits meme would be just as damning as going the action route.

>>528917912
>Mario RPGs are very clearly not serious games and intended for audiences younger than even DQ.
this is true

>No one invested in the genre would seriously recommend them.
this is not
autists are not "people invested in the genre", they're just autists that don't like anything that goes outside their perceived notion of what something should be, no one sane would seriously listen to their recommendations

>>528917912
Completely agree. DQ gameplay is simple but very polished. I have criticisms for various games in the serious but you almost always see what they're going for. Timed hits would be a signal to me that they have completely lost the plot. I even understood the thinking behind going action based for DQ9, it was a multiplayer focused handheld game and on a certain level that sort of gameplay makes sense even though I didn't want it. But mucking about with some sort of hybrid system just smells like trouble.

>>528917912
I don't mind timed hits in the Mario RPGs but it seems like a totally pointless thing to add to DQ (and a very funny thing to add to the "grown up" DQ, and a pretty silly thing to make a big fuss over when XII was revealed). Whatever the master plan for the battle system was at the time of reveal, which is probably totally different now anyway, I seriously doubt it was timed hits.

Pimiko sexo

>>528937424
NOOOOOOOOO THATS A SNAKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76KqOOUSqvg

When will a DQ game feature a slime as one of the major villains?

>>528952207
goocifer will have his day, I am sure

the lure of money proved too strong, she will start her empire here, perhaps even return to claim the hero as her king consort once she has established her power

Does the HD2D remake fix this shit?

>>528957241
Yep. None of that in HD2D.

>>528961714

>>528959927
Damn. Guess I'll have to play that version.

Garboyle really had me down to the wire there. My female sage was the last person standing and had little health left and did a Hail Mary Kacrack to bring him down.

Is DQ3 HD2D worth it?
Is there an endgame? What's new etc.

>>528961714
kekaroooo

>>528798198
Very nice! Love the monster arena connection. I hope she and the priest can make up before things turn to blows.

>>528980451
Yes and yes, same endgame with xenlon. New stuff is the monster wrangler class, monster recruitment, and secret spots, off the top of my head

>>528980451
It's very good.

IX!

>>528731932
Uhh... Mages can use those poison needles for metal slime hunting. So if you aren't going to have a character end up as a Sage, Mage helps you grind though attack magic faster.
I suppose you might also not have enough books to easily make Sages, so you make do.

>>528985784
Thanks. I hope I have a somewhat interesting group of heroes for the protag to adventure with

dragon ball_

>>529013534
dragon's dogma

>>529028542
Delete this.

>>529032434
Shut up, Hargoober.

>>529006074
You definitely do. Hopin' I can get back to my own journey next month.

Am I missing anything from not playing 2D XI aside from the past altars in endgame
I also understand it does the classic turn order where you don’t do each turn individually

>>529066437
All the same beats are there, it's just a slightly different experience on account of being 2D, is all.
And yes, 2D uses the traditional turn order system.

>>529066437
I personally couldn't stand playing 2D mode because there wasn't a decent battle speed. I've never had that problem in a DQ game before, it's really weird.
I do recommend playing the Tickington stuff, it's in 2D even if you're playing a 3D game so it's a bit weird, but if you've played any past DQ games it's kind of fun and you get a couple of decent goodies.

>>529067013
What's different in 3D?

>>529068092
A Z-axis.

post high quality game screenshots (i'm calibrating my screen)

>>529060084
Cute secret sisters

Just another day in the world of DQ.

>>528891874
Persona 5 came out and did great. So did Metaphor. Who's telling these people turn based is disliked?

>>529089236
Corporate suits since the mid-2000s who want RPGs to sell as much as [popular shooter type]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFvCjnPQMwk

>>529086170
that's me fr

>>529091920
this, FFXVI made it clear given that's all they ever talked about in interviews: how much the game was for everyone and that they wanted everyone to buy it
sadly SE is saddled by some extremely retarded execs, it's just a bunch of them but they always push for them most retarded ideas one could have. They're lucky the videogame industry has grown considerably since then but thanks to them SE pretty much had a spirits within blunder a year in the last few years, like that one exec that afaik is still pushing for nfts

>>529128394
>pushing for nfts
it kills me that kaneko is an nft weirdo now

1 hp

>>529140138
there's no response, it's just a corpse...

I&II...

II&I...

giant

DQXII is gonna have all the vocations

builders 3 needs to add conveyor belts and production automatization

Turning my town into a fully automated girlpoop factory

So when does Act 3 go bad? i just got all the seedlings

>>529179574
This NEEDS to be a spell in XII

XII will be "mature" in the sense that it has a ton of weird fetish spells

>>529225421
kek

>>529197867
When you finish the game

>>529221713
san kyu anniversary

dra...que.........

>>529254671
dead

Why does Baramos prop up a random skeleton in his chair

>>529254893
oh no, anyways...

>>529254893
Fucking hate this

>>529255886
Just keepin his chair warm nothing weird about that

wait... the smear on dq8s logo is actually a horse

Veronica status?

>>529268110
hugged

>>529214304
Like the breast enlargement spells Boing, Boing Yoing, and Boing Yo-yoing.

DQ ended with XI..

>>529269128
I would've been OK with that. I just wish the spinoffs were better

Serena status: fat

Gemma should've won

X!

Neat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EduVbL3-_8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7nuu2AIin0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkvDAYtR0RI

>>529268968
kek, I bet some Jap has made a horny DQ parody in rpgmaker with spells like these.

be honest: did you really mind this?

>>529300747
I forget it exists as a mechanic, waste of a turn imo

>>529300747
Psyche Up or SSJ Eighto? I like both.

>>529266892
?

>>529301851
I remember reading that in VIII psyching up once and attacking did less damage than attacking twice, but psyching up twice and attacking did more damage than attacking three times.

>>529306472
I can see it but it looks like shit.

>>529306472
Looks like they drew a horse then squished it down in Photoshop kek

bros...

>>529326441
Eighto is so lucky

I figure this is the only reasonable-ish place I could potentially get a remotely timely answer to this question, so here it goes.
Since DQIX and to a lesser extent Final Fantasy: 4 Heroes of Light I've been really interested in the idea of multiplayer turn based games. And while DQX doesn't exactly scratch that itch (I'm also interested in that eventually, but I know enough about that already) I have seen a couple other options. Notably there's a couple options on BYOND (home of Space Station 13 to those who forgot). NEStalgia is probably the big one, alongside several historic Final Fantasy games (Super RPG being the current iteration), but as somebody who is super into job systems Dragon Warrior 3 Online really caught my eye (I went in hoping for FFV but it seems what I wanted no longer exists and possibly never existed). Unfortunately BYOND is currently undergoing constant DDOS apparently by script kiddies who refuse to do actual hard work decompiling shit, and even then I'm pretty sure Dragon Warrior 3 Online was offline for a month or two before then because I dunno the guy who was making it was busy with his sugar gliders or some shit. With that out of the way, I suppose the questions are
1. Did any of you actually play that shit? I'll take experiences of the other BYOND Dragon Quest games if you have them, as a bonus.
2. Was it a reasonable version of DQ3? I don't need it to be SNES or HD-2D levels of polish, I know I'm dealing with BYOND here, but if I wanted to play DQ3 with friends or anyone else would it be a solid way to do so?
3. The long shot would be knowing anything about the game on the back end, probably exclusively known by exactly one guy, which is fine I don't expect an answer to this one.
I don't have any plans on playing it any time soon, like if it's up by 2027 that's probably about on time if not a little too soon or too late depending on how things pan out, but I've been thinking about it enough that I'm really curious.

Damn the super strong modifier in XI is kicking my ass

>>529341062
I will be honest with you: I am shocked that 1. BYOND is still around and 2. that there is a Dragon Quest game on it.

>>529351832
1. People have to get their SS13 fix. I'm pretty sure that's literally the thing keeping the entire platform afloat. Second is probably whatever version of the DBZ game there is. I think the main dev has a Patreon or something now so I guess there's some reason to keep it running.
2. There's like at least five of them (several that seem to be precursors to DW3O, like Hero's Destiny, all made by Canthus/dphoenix7), and unlike the FF ones I don't think Squeenix has shut down any of them (could be very wrong). Some of them are probably offline for other reasons though, I think Dragon Warrior Online might be hosted but is probably maintained by somebody else because the dev went on to work on NEStalgia that I mentioned earlier. You can go play Shadows of Erdrick right now if you want, there's two whole people on last I checked and apparently there's at least a class system based on some blog post from 2013. And who can forget the incredibly strangely named Dragon Warrior Quest that was recently re-hosted by somebody who got the source code and actually tried updating it.
DW3O apparently made the interesting choice to make DQ2's world the post-game, which is a choice I'm kind of surprised that no DQ3 remake has attempted. Torland might be really weirdly scaled based on that but honestly I'd just be happy to play through some DQ2 content in a fun video game.

>>529341062
idk about those but "multiplayer turn based game" reminded me of a ps2 lord of the rings game i played back then

>XII

What

>>529378962
hurry and sweat like fish in tree

>>529378962
This must be where the humans waterboard monster POWs.

>>529333092
sword kinda small

>>529395231
Looks average to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12iQDfe5K44
Intermezzo-san, you sound a little weird today...

>>529395231
that's what she-slime said

>>529422474
Michael!

>>529407270

>>529442187
my wife

>>529442187
She can't keep getting away with this!

>>529442830
>>529442891

>>529442984
Imagine the hugs...

July calendar, it's summer festival
https://x.com/DQ_PR/status/1939806213451206989

What's the best Monster family and why is it the Machine family?

>>529477794
The best family is whichever one includes Metal Dragon, which is sometimes but not always the machine family

>>529479486
Man, how did Yangus go from being this badass to the state Eight found him in at the beginning of VII?

>>529268968
like the spells za-zoom and za-za-zoom

>>529378962
the heat of the water cooks the testicles

>>529495097
that's nuts

I like Dragon Quest IV’s cast. I wish Dark Prince utilized them more

oi guv

>>529515174
Solo would never unless this is the 17th time she’s stolen the party’s purse and lost it all on monster arena

>>529513828
The socials I could find for this guy are all suspiciously new, considering output and quality, but it seems like he might be legit

>>529526476
oi!

Zoom.

>>529550585

Asshlynn...
Thighshlynn...

>>529560908

Why is Super Strong Monsters almost universally recommended to use in 11 when it wasn't even in the game originally?

>>529563132
The game is too easy without it.

say i wanted to introduce my 5-year-old nephew and 4-year-old niece to rpgs
would this be the series with which to do it?

>>529564825
It's one of the better options. If it wasn't for the translation and party chat issues I'd say IV is basically the perfect beginner RPG.
My first RPG was Pokemon but I don't know if I'd have gotten along with the modern ones the same way. Sometimes it's good to be thrown in the deep end just a little.

>>529564825
i'd say to go with the Mario & Luigi (or super mario rpg) games, mostly cause dragon quest is for kids sure but they like to throw in some curveballs that might make some little kids feel uneasy, not a "scarred for life" thing but still they do have instances of death, torture, suicide etc etc. Idk if you're a worried parent and might not like exposing your kids to that, should be fine if you're playing the games alongside them i guess

>>529563781
I don't really think difficulty is the point of the series, and most of the rough spots in older games had more to do with resource management rather than individual monsters hitting hard or taking a while to kill.

>>529566074
It's not about the game being an epic challenge or whatever, but XI on normal has very little bite, even compared to stuff like the DS remakes. Stronger Monsters isn't even that much of a modifier, and most of the bosses that people consider challenging are because of status effects that it doesn't modify at all.

>>529566074
>I don't really think difficulty is the point of the series
For me, at least, it was so easy that it was boring, and I've never felt that way about any other DQ.

>>529582604
I really miss the games having all of this cool promo art. I was so excited to go through XI's artbook just to see a bunch of 3D Model Renders..

>X

lmao

Which DQ should I play

>>529599819
1

>DQXI is too long
>they made it longer in DE

>>529612659
If they remade VII, regular adult forms or hobbit forms

dqx

>>529633761
Everyone gradually grows up over the course of the game through subtle model updates except Maribel who just gets a little fatter

>>529612659
>not eating the whole apple
wasteful

>>528922961
>they're just autists that don't like anything that goes outside their perceived notion of what something should b
trvke

>>529333092
Erdrick never wore this.

What's the recommended level to take on the Lord of the Sands on Stronger Monsters. My current party are all around level 15-16.

>>529582604
Why is adulthan travelling with 18, Bra and a thug?

>>529655372
This reminds me of how I still want a game starring tween Gohan set between the Cell and Buu arcs

>>528792220
Persona is fun... when they let you play it

but between every dungeon you have to sit there and listen to about 10 hours of weeb dialogue, it really kills the pacing

Ah loik dis aht

>>529479707
As an ojisan who peaked in high school, be glad it didn't happen to you.
>>529511353
kek

Why does Serena have dual wielding

>>529689418
So she can stuff her face with two cakes at once

>>529689418
equip her lightsaber wands so she can go “it’s treason then AAAAAAAAAGH” when the party doesn’t buy her that pastry she was eyeing up

DQX

based and luminary/veronica pilled
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/132101245

>>529717218
Gross

I don't know if I should troubleshoot this or quit while I'm ahead.

>>529717218
basado

bam

Gemma lost again..

i'm playing fantasy life and i like it, when's level 5 making another dq again

Bro where's DQXII
I can't play DQXI forever

I'm playing Terry Wonderland 3D. I notice Slimey has a shit ton of skills he learns. Is just keeping him around without breeding a more viable option?

There’s a lot of serena on eleveno art where she’s wearing his mother’s necklace

>>529764618
Then play other DQ games

How should i tackle DQ 11 act 3? What do i do first? Rebuilding Cobblestone was a bit of a chore.

>>529774276
The sidequest with Sylvando's dad is the most important even if it's not the easiest since it unlocks skill panels for Sylv and Hendrik
The best equipment for a few characters is in the Drustan trials. You can do the dungeon part to get the stuff and not worry about the boss at the end (although you can probably knock off a couple of those too)

>>529722832
i don't get it

Man DQ7 has the ugliest character designs

>>529717218
I’m mad we’ll never get Serena aged Veronica except in like two cutscenes
Disappointing

>>529786390
Okay then. Thanks

>X

>>529818657
He is literally me.

>>529821549
You've got four legs?! That's so cool!

>>529821757
Well only three but close enough ;)

>>529822457
That's not as cool but still a little cool.

>>529793321
Wrong + you're ugly.

>>529824479
I can’t get over how her design is so fucking good I fucking love
MariSMELL but I fucking hate her she’s so fucking mean

>XII

>>529832610
So mature...

>>529786390
Fucking hell

>>529841473
Why they locked the tank abilities behind this annoying quest so late in the game is a complete mystery to me

>>529832610
there it is

>>529786401
Look at the spearhead.

Maribel is a 80 years old grandma

>>529855991
Are you playing with framegen on? What is this?

>>529864029
Maribel is youthful, svelte, fresh-smelling and has a completely normal-sized head

>they know DQXI overworld theme is kinda bad they included VIII theme for you in DE

>>529864489
That's apparently just how the game handles TAA. If you follow the modding guides it'll happen.

>>529864825
I don't mind it, but it drives me crazy that it didn't have a different overworld theme for Act 2. Or its own casino or ship themes. I get a certain amount of music reuse but getting those key themes feels essential to me.

Boomerang is still as shit as I remembered from playing the original back then

>>529878141
Boomerangs are good in the childhood part of V and the Heroes games and no other times in the entire series

>>529878952
They're good in 8.

>>529832610
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velella
Huh. Neat.

>>529866713
that's the only complaint on the music side i agree for DQ, cause they always did that. Even contemporary games at the time had specific music for each town or whatever, but dq always had "town music" (every town). With some exceptions of course, but still

was it kino?

>>529903096
Absolutely.

>>529878952
They're pretty great at times in VII.

haha

I want a Serena spinoff with all those food monsters they added in DQM3

>>529968821
Oh shit. Oh fuck. Fuck. We are so fucked. Shit. Fuck.

Saving the world just so you can marry the chubby kindergartener and no one can stop you

I'm actually kind of surprised it's been so slow here after the 3make came out

>>529996724
dq games don't have infinite amounts of content and the whole site has been kinda dead since the sharty shit

Just replay DQ1-11
Its infinite content

>>529996724
There was a decent amount of activity during the hype period and for a bit after release.

i like slime :)

>>529997376
>and the whole site has been kinda dead since the sharty shit
i don't see any difference between before and now, but i do only go on /vg/ pretty much. And, as everone knows, /vg/ only issue is the gacha threads forcing every other general to keep up, otherwise generals are supposed to be slow and "dead" when there's no news, in those periods it's just places where someone might chime in every once in a while to ask and/or talk about something. And it's not like those gachas really have that much more content, they just have a endless shitposting about their favorite waifu jpegs

*saps you*

I believe in hag supremacy

>>530025821
i don't know why this does things to me

What an absolute circus

>>530025821
XI is the game for you then

>>530025821
Milly scares me.

>>530039651
2 million year old hag

>>530056362
Not canon.

>>530056496
Thou art a retard.

>>530025821
These hags need bags (for their heads)

I feel that Klaha is a very underrated X waifu

DQXII's new gameplay mechanics will be uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh idk the boost mechanic from xenosaga (there's a gauge that fills during combat and you can use it to get more turns with the same character)

>beat nightmare of druaga, azure dreams, and baroque in recent years
>decide to give ye olde torneko a go again after having dropped it pretty angrily like 6 years ago
>determined to beat it this time now that I have a lot more mystery dungeon experience beyond pokemon
>turns out torneko really is just a special kind of bullshit and you will be put in unwinnable situations often
>enemies quickly become much stronger than you unless you take a lot of time to grind on each floor, however this means you will need a lot of bread, which you won't always have enough of cause you're limited in how much you can bring into a dungeon
>undead have like a 75% chance to drop a tombstone which will resurrect them with full HP if another monster is adjacent
>zombies can freely vomit on your shield, making it less and less effective
>skeletons can freely disarm your shield, potentially deleting it if it lands on an invalid space
>carrots can freely make you dance, leaving you with nothing to do but run for 10 turns
>mages can freely to put you to sleep, leaving you with nothing to do but get your ass beat for 5 turns, aka instant death
>druids can freely warp you and put you to sleep on the space you land on
Fucking hell man, I really forgot just how bad it was. Even trying to grind to have the right equipment to handle all this bullshit can just blow up in your face cause the game decided to say fuck you. This one really is just miserable more often than it is fun, but I'm still going to finish it this time so I never have to play it again.

Did anyone translate Young Yangus while I wasn't paying attention

X!

is jp onry

V PS2

>>530089676
Western Covers are truly something

V PS6

>>530128994
>>530129078
My wife Debora in 4K.

>X

the Jade story event is so short compared to the rest...

friendzoned..

>X

>>530161594
yeah

>>530154421
I'm pretty sure there's a special ending bonus you can choose with her though I only played the JP version so don't quote me on that

>>530089676
Goddamn, that image takes me back to trying the game on my friend's PS1. Had never played a mystery dungeon game, but I'd played DW1&2 on my GBC so I was like hey, I know what Dragon Warrior is! A bizarre but funny experience, I really didn't understand what was going on or why I was playing as a silly fat man instead of a chad knight.

>>530183596
Yeah, you get to marry her, and you see the wedding picture. In XI S where they added other options, its just a "friends forever" thing where whatever party member you picked is standing next to you.

>>530196140
>you'll never celebrate your ever lasting friendship in a not-marriage with your friend
why even live bros

Our Hero!

>>530219314
Hol up
So you be sayin
We wuz heros 'n shiet?

>>530222542
nah blud
we wuz Lotos n shieeet cuh

The autistic part of my brain says I should be here until I catch up on every part of dragon quest media.

>>530237626
Let us know how those Rubiss novels are

>>530240628
I meant more like the games and the spinoffs games but I have been wanting to get to the Dai manga too…

>>530237626
same

I wish Dai was better than it is

>>530251972
I'm fine with Dai's manga/anime being as okay as it is, but the game sucking is a travesty.

what do you mean the manga was great

>>530219314
Incredibly based.

>>528831768
>They would like the new Dragon Quest to be turn-based
>highlighted Expedition 33's success as an example
How about the success of Dragon Quest XI, your own freaking game, that was turn based and did extremely well. No wonder Square Enix is struggling. There are so many retards working there, lol.

>>528831768
>look a turn based game is insanely popular we need to copy that!
Current SE is literally ran by monkeys
Years of chasing gacha and NFTs and they did jackshit for their games and franchise in general

My DQ3 HD2D party is Priest Mage and Thief. Which class do change them to and when?

>>530279959
essentially it doesn't hurt to make them all sages, but if you think that's boring you can (imho)
>Priest into monster wrangler
>Thief into martial artist
>Mage into sage
or some variation of these, keep in mind that a sage learns every spell both priests and mages learn

My big titty mage wife

>>530293134
Eighto...

>>530293134
Stops listening to her mom for 5 minutes then starts showing off her boobs. One of the most realistic moments in any video game

>>530219314

>Kamikazee yourself NOW

>>530310308
fatherless and brotherless behavior

>>530334617
It's up to (You) to be her brother.

>>530335268
Other brother, husband, father that’s just semantics

>>530319350
You should thwack yourself, NOW!

>>530340160
kek

This is Loto. Tier. Gawd.

Honestly, DQ6 is pretty cool and i like it more than DQ7, im sorry Maribel.
Flying Bed > Childhood friend abandoning us 20h in.

>>530347197
Jack Black leaving you was so lame and about half way in during some water castle area I just had to put the game down. It was so long and drawn out. 6 had the better characters. Tania and Ashlynn cute.

>>530347459
6 also has Milly which is a top tier DQ girl
7 has a lot of issues, but it's the perfect game if youre jobless and have nothing to do, honestly.

>>530347197
There are ups and downs to each but ultimately I think a job system game (and frankly DQ in general) is just better with 8+ characters than only 4 and that counts for a lot.

dog quest

horse quest / cow quest

capybara quest

>>530347197
the supporting characters in DQ6 is worse than 7
I think they are both kinda similar but DQ7 has better characterization imho

what do you guys think of the HD remake of 3?

>>530388114
waiting for sales to buy it

>>530388114
looked at steam $68 dollarydoos (on sale) too pricey maybe for under $40

>>530388114
It's really good.

>>530388114
should've been a full 3D remake instead

DQ V 2nd remake coming soon

>>530409280
we need 2nd remakes for VII and VIII actually

VI would benefit most from a remake

XI remake

People always told me im weird for liking short hair girls, but Valeria from DQX is my new crush.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonquest/images/6/6b/DQT_-_Archfiend_Valeria_Kimono.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20241015231908

I have no strong feelings about short-haired girls in general but I love short-haired Serena specifically

>>530437454
not-5head Anlucia is cute

Whats the worst boss in DQ8?

>>530460661
The big bird. There's nothing interesting going on with her, and the super high defense makes her more annoying than fun.

>>530388114
It's ugly as fuck and i hate how easy they made some things. You can now Zoom from anywhere. It should've been full 3 and not this ugly wannabe retroslop.

>>530388114
it’s DQ3 which makes it already good, but the remake is an inferior version. Something just feels off about the way they made the game. I’d rather emulate the DeJap translated SFC version or hell even the GBC version is better.

>>530472025
(Me)
i also don’t support the censored art direction and tarnishing Toriyama’s designs either. they are spitting on his grave for woke DEI slop mentality and Squeenix is cringe for adopting this mentality still in current year.

DQ is not Dragon Quest
DQ = Dairy Queen

Dairy Questin

Jessica, Debora and Jade are Dairy Queens

Dragon Queenin

This nigga Rex is kind of a psycho. He looks at the place his dad was sold before being forced to live as a statue and just goes
>ha! I wouldn't be able to afford you with my allowance.

IX!

>>530491180
Kids say the darndest things.

>>530482371
Squeenix should do a collab with them. If they can do it with Mickey D’s, they can do it with Dairy Queen.

The Luminary's design is so fucking boring

>>529341062
So Dragon Warrior 3 Online is currently up, as well as the BYOND website, if anyone else wants to check it out
https://www.byond.com/games/Dpheonix7/DragonWarrior3Online
I created a character and fucked around in Aliahan a bit so here's my review so far I guess.
The number zero thing you want to do is bind some keys to your controller or some shit because the game's basic controls involve the num pad which is functional but not ergonomic and DQ3 was designed for controllers in the first place so you're free to use the keyboard to call people slurs (note: do not actually do this). You're also going to want to at least check all the guides at the top just in case there's something you're missing and to check the known issues so you avoid them. Then you create your character, with things like class and draconian quests, and you're dumped in a cute little room where you pick your appearance. Except the menu there is godawful in every visual way, the color text goes off the box and you can't even see what the color is until you confirm it so you're going to spend more time than necessary there. After you actually get into the game, it seems to visually be based off the NES version but map design elements from the SNES/GBC version. So yes, Mini Medals are in, alongside some other items in almost every barrel and dresser that may or may not be regenerating random ones or are just sources of new weapon types like fans. Recruiting monsters is also in, you have to set it up in your menu, and I'm pretty sure it limits your party to 3 unless that's some fucked up limitation of the game itself I bumbled upon. I also have no idea how recruiting monsters works (or the bestiary) because I have not left town, so maybe I'll come back later and elaborate more. From what I see it's slightly scuffed so far but is probably the best way to play DQ3 with your friends so if you guys want to do a game night or something it's way easier than setting up 9 or 10.

>>530501176
I wish Toriyama hewed closer to the concept sketch, at least with the costume. It's funny that the Cobblestone NPCs still have some vaguely Inca-esque patterns on their generic clothes, like someone on staff absolutely refused to let that concept go

>feel nostalgic for my childhood in DQV as I travel with my in game kids

>>530511824
Warrior needs food.
Look at her, she's skin and bones.

Every hero should have 1 lean warrior, 1 beefy warrior and 1 strongfat warrior. That's all the variety you need.

>won the slot jackpot without abusing and asking the bunny girl
Woah. Is this rare or something
Free 1 million token weeee

>>530523898
Omg

>>530501176
Fixed

Dragon Quest Builders 3 when?

>>530544260
i cry myself to sleep every day asking the same question

>>530544260
after Rocket Slime 5

>>530504723
They literally traveled as a group to Machu Picchu for research lol. Didn't want to feel like they wasted their time I suppose.

>>530523898
Is that R63 Solo and Broccoli?

>>530089676
>get to final floor, decked out with lots of overpowered stuff like my +20 equipment and items such as heal pots and haven scrolls
>sit on a haven scroll to be invincible
>final boss summons 4 more monsters when hit
>a rockbomb detonates on me while I'm surrounded which drops me to 1 HP and deletes my scroll, my 164 max HP is meaningless
>die immediately to the other 8 monsters swinging on me
>gotta redo that whole 3 hour dungeon all over again
I don't wanna play anymore....

>>530511824
Unf

>>530561898
Sure looks like it.

>>530577453
october can't come fast enough

>>530578532
r34 of princess of cannock inc

>>530579739
Matilda is not for lewd! But who am I kidding, it's going to happen anyway...

>

>>530584037
Look at that smug son of a bitch. Look at him. What's got him so happy?

>>530460661
Worst in what sense? Difficulty-wise, excluding the postgame content, the worst ones are Crow, Empyrea and Dhoulmagus. Between these three, in a blind playthrough the worst is probably Empyrea as you likely relied on lowering a boss' defense every time and that doesn't work on her, on top of being a surprise boss battle.
>>530463789
I disagree. Her battle comes as a surprise and her high is balanced by the fact that she doesn't have a huge health pool; her being able to use Midheal can counter your lack of DPS, too. It's not a boss battle like the ones yoou had before, same for Dhoulmagus.

>>530591660
overdosed on EXP

>>530594056
You're right. The Ruin is the worse boss fight with the Great Argon lizard as second, but he does have a killer design.

>>530597595
great argon lizard's face when you kill him makes it worth it

>>530598180
Who's getting the best head?

>>530600306
kekaroo

>>529179574
do you have the picture of shrunken eight and yangus in jessica's giant boobs
it was drawn in celebration of something for DQ

IX

>>530626359
I have it somewhere. I'll look for it tomorrow.

I am legit mad at the tentacular on Stronger Monster. It deals more damage than I can recover the whole party and can attack multiple times with its tentacles and it feels useless to hit them since it just recovers the tentacles after a single turn to keep attacking the whole party again just after.

X!

>>530482371
>>530484450
>>530488415

>>528675018 (OP)
Im actually impressed how the "beginners guide" in OP doesnt list the actual best version for a single one of the fucking games. whoever made it needs to remove themselves from existence.

>LOVED viii
>HATED xi

am I the only one?

>>530653453
i liked 8's premise and story better, also the luminary is kind of a lame duck of a hero imo

>>530653276
>the actual best version
which is?

>>530664342
the original releases, obviously. the only exception is ps2 version of V, and even then I still prefer the snes version, but I can see how its worse. snes/gbc versions of 1-3 are acceptable I guess but still inferior for fucking up the balance and difficulty. ds versions are a tired meme that look like trash. mobile versions make the ds versions look like art. 7 and 8 3ds are strict downgrades. dont get me started on the hd2d slop. none of this should be even slightly controversial

>>530666576
>inb4 MUH WHORE WIFE MUH PARTY CHAT

not important, dont care

>the original releases, obviously.

>original schizo

>>530669595
>>530671792
>demake casuals who never played the real games have 0 arguments, only name calling

Im shocked

Pre-mid-2010s DQ remakes are all good. It used to be possible

>>530666576
yikes

>>530672379
>casuals
it's a jrpg series bud, not some sweaty esports competition

in fact we need more remakes and/or definitive editions

>>530705238
uh no thanks

>>530666576
>they hated him because he told the truth.

>>530637024
Going to give the advice everyone gives regarding the Tentacular just in case you haven't heard it already:

Did you use the cannon?
Does Sylvando have Hustle Dance?
And (least important but can make a difference for some bosses) have you tried using "Defend" when you think a strong attack is coming?

Who invited /vr/?

>>530666576
TRVTHNVKE

>>530666576
been a while since I've seen a take this bad.

>>530724620
Best girl

DQ9 remake will ditch UE5 for Decima Engine

>>530636213
thanks

16 years ago today was the release date of Dragon Quest IX
Say something nice about it

>>530760681
It had a cool train.

>>530760351
Thanks for the reminder, I almost forgot. Was it this one?

>>530761895
yep that's the one, thanks much

Fuck was I supposed to lie to Michelle or say the truth by being honest with what happened to Kai? Did I screw myself up?

>>530763410
In the long run it doesn't matter.
In the short turn it doesn't matter either, really.

>>530760681
NO FUCKING WAY ITS BEEN THAT LONG WTF

>>530760681
I said it way earlier in the thread, multiplayer co-op JRPGs are a neat idea and when the standout examples are two Square Enix DS games and the second best examples are a bunch of SNES games that let you fuck around with the second controller you know it's an extremely untapped market. It's not like turn-based gameplay is dead like some people claim, a new popular one comes out every few years and Pokemon exists and is the biggest media franchise on the planet (even if the games apparently made less than Fist of the North Star games well before the new TCG game came out). And online in video games are such a huge part of the industry it's genuinely become a problem. But no, don't make a game where you can sell so many cosmetics, almost anyone can play it, and it has a great justification for dopamine hit mechanics. Surely the thing that would probably take slightly less effort than your average MMO and could even be played okay on fucking phones isn't a good idea. Basically, if we're not getting a 9 remake any time soon there's a huge gap in the market I'm seeing, but I feel like I see gaps in the market that may not even exist sometimes so whatever. I'd still prefer a 9 remake though, despite how much money I could be making off this video game that I cannot remotely make.

>>530769197
DS is a very old handheld

They will never remake IX
Its too much work

they better not "remake" 4-6
just do XII already

>>530790242
Ill be absolutely shocked if they dont hd2d sloppify 4-6. theyll probably remake 3 a 5th time just for kicks before 12 comes out. the amount of shitty fucking dq remakes this company will put out has truly no limit. the only ones that were actual quality were 3 on snes and 5 on ps2.

Whats the point of Kathwack
It doesnt fucking work on any enemies
while it has 90% chance to kill you

After playing X, I don't think a IX remake will ever happen, since X is what IX wanted to be, and releasing a IX remake with online multiplayer would basically be competing against X in a way.

>>530790242
honestly i'd rather they take all the time they need without making rushed decisions, especially after what they said XII will be like

>X

>>530806358
there's still a "niche" of sort, aka the niche that wants to pay for a game once instead of paying a subscription

Id rather a real time combat dq than another multiplayer sloppa.

>>530831908
That niche can still play X.
X has a 2 hour period every day known as "kids time" where you can log in and play even if your sub is expired.

I just wish the spinoffs were better

>>530840292
What's your favourite spinoff?

I think I’m going to cry I just saw an image on twitter of ritsuko akagi dressed up as a gadabout and it vanished

>>530806358
X is a sequel to IX though.

>>530843508
DQM2 or Rocket Slime maybe, but I like Builders, Heroes and Mystery Dungeon too. Since XI it feels like the only good thing we've gotten was Builders 2

>>530837203
they can also do both, get IX to play it when X's kids time isn't on
plus again there's people that just don't want to play X

they can just take all the online features and proc. generated maps and make it a standalone single player offline game with non-DS visuals, i dont see what's wrong with that

DQ all-stars unlimited dungeon crawler

>>530861875
Yes, but looking at it from a business perspective, it doesn't seem wise.
>there's people that just don't want to play X
And that's why they made X Offline, including a code for a 1 month sub to X and the ability to transfer your offline save to the online MMO in case you change your mind.

Its been 16 years, the longest period any mainline DQ has gone for without a remake or a port, and they have never even hinted at the idea. Its pretty clear they don't want to do it, and X is likely the biggest reason why.

>>530862141
That's kinda defeating the whole purpose of why most people in the west want a IX remake in the first place, and in general IX is kind of a wet fart without the multiplayer.

>>530869328
>but looking at it from a business perspective, it doesn't seem wise.
it is though, its about filling every niche with a product to make money with

>>530872916
If filling every niche was profitable, X would be available globally.

I want to fill all of Serena's niches

>>530183596
you're weirdly obsessed with X, but no that's not profitable simply cause DQ doesn't have that kind of appeal worldwide. Same for all the DQ gachas that eventually closed down worldwide but not in japan. Plus, they already have FFXIV for that so they technically already filled that niche
in any case the two just aren't comparable, for the very simple fact that one is a single player game and the other is a mmo, that alone means they have different userbases and they'd have to be extremely retarded to think otherwise.
Then again it is SE we're talking about, being ectremely retarded is their bread and butter

>>530880641
idk how that happened but this was meant for >>530873656

>>530880641
IX is very comparable to X because it isn't strictly singleplayer, multiplayer is a big part of the appeal, hell looking at what Japanese people have to say on the topic of a remake, multiplayer is the main appeal of IX.
>you're weirdly obsessed with X
Because I've jumped through the hoops to be able to play it, and its like the deja vu you get when going from VI to VII or vice versa, it makes so much sense to me if this is why IX is never getting remade. Though the Japanese seem to think the local multiplayer and stuff with the DS not being transferable to modern platforms unless they remake it on phones is the main reason.

>IX

I played VIII and really loved it. I didnt care much for XI but I dont really know why. just felt kinda soulless. then I played VII (ps1) and the beggining was really fucking cool but it honestly just dragged for way longer than it should have. Which one should I try out next?

>>530900454
If you liked the vibe of VII but didn't like the part where it turned into VII, try IV, V and VI on DS. Otherwise III is an evergreen option and XI takes a lot after VIII, at least superficially.

>>530882049
You're missing what is probably the second biggest part of IX that X can't currently compete with, the entire Grotto system (and to a lesser extent the Legacy Boss grind but that's something they could implement in X tomorrow and I wouldn't be surprised). IX's original appeal was local multiplayer, which you can sort of do with X but it's kind of scuffed, and while we're all expecting an IX remake to have online the only time that would have had a 100% yes it's happening rate is if it started development in late 2020. An IX remake does sort of have a niche, especially given that there's content you can't get unless you set your WiFi to a really old type and also set a specific DNS, not to mention it's the only main DQ game that hasn't been released on more than one console. The main reason they probably haven't remade it is because it's a lot of fucking work, the NES titles are a lot easier to make just from a game design perspective. Plus on top of that the RNG manipulation in the original is fucking insane and is probably part of the game's legacy at this point, alongside two iconic randomly generated maps, so as a developer you have to start asking questions about what to try to preserve and what you can't because it was never intentionally like that. Basically it has a good reason to be remade and not overlap with X, but it's a pain in the ass to do so in all the non-obvious ways and probably the balancing as well if we're only talking about the obvious.

Yah, I'm thinking DQ XII doesn't actually exist.

>>530882049
>multiplayer is a big part of the appeal, hell looking at what Japanese people have to say on the topic of a remake, multiplayer is the main appeal of IX.
maybe for some, but not for everyone. Like i wouldn't buy a IX remake to play the multiplayer part, i'd buy it to play the single player game just like i did for the og IX
I mean reducing IX to "multiplayer" is just straight up stupid, it's like saying that if III got a multiplayer mode then that would be the main appeal and it would suddenly overshadow the actual game which is still there in the forefront

Jesus fuck this might be the most annoying boss in entire DQ

>>530914373
>You're missing what is probably the second biggest part of IX that X can't currently compete with, the entire Grotto system
X has something pretty similar with it's magic dungeons, some legacy bosses are in there too. Though you don't have to explore to find X's magic dungeons, which I consider a positive, cause finding grottoes was the most annoying part of IX to me, pretty sure I never found over half the maps I had.

I am.... the Dragon Quester....

Questing Ashlynn
Questing Maya
Questing brides who used the dragon staff as an item in battle

>>530943018
this but unironically

>>530939451
I am the Dragon Warrior!

>he quested dragons

I'm just the Quester's Rest.

>>530388114
I like it I just wish that there was a ps4 version. there is literally no reason why they couldn't of put it on the older console. playing this on my ps5 honestly just feels like a waste of hardware. I enjoy playing older games on my older console.

>>530974531
Especially since they put it on Switch. It just doesn't make sense.

>>530980504
Of course Nintendo always gets the special treatment. Apparently same with 11 se. runs better on switch just because enjoy the stuttering frames if you are a Sony boy

>>530914873
It does but only for Japanese you will get a downgraded version 5 years later filthy gaijin

X

is annoying to initially setup to play

>>>/v/715305956
>another DQ remake
>in 2026
>... of DQ7
That would be hilarious after all the smug Zenethian and 8 fags getting uppity, so I'm hoping this is a real leak.

>>531003180
>The key word here is “remake”—and that’s exactly how it’s labeled internally. This distinction is crucial, as Square Enix has previously referred to other updated Dragon Quest titles (such as Dragon Quest III, IV, and the upcoming I & II) as HD Remakes. The explicit use of the term remake strongly suggests a more ambitious reimagining of Dragon Quest VII than a simple graphical upgrade.
These people are fucking idiots.

>>531003729
Are they saying the HD-2D Remakes are just simple graphical upgrades? Because that couldn't be farther from the truth. Also:
>Dragon Quest IV HD Remake
I'm inclined to agree with the idiot remark.

>>531003729
>>531005112
It's pretty clearly a fake leak or, much like with the 2DHD previews, some guy who knows NOTHING about DQ somehow got insider info on DQ shit and mangled the entire message of what was happening.
It being specifically 7 in particular is so out of left field that I am inclined to believe it more than the standard "SE is remaking DQ4-6" talk, but I also don't really think we'll get another remake before 12.

>>531005396
A remaster of the 3DS version would be far more believable. I want to say especially so because of Bravely Default just being recently released, but honestly there's no real connection there besides Square Enix.

>>531003180
Swiped the full article from the thread. Take from it what you will, but I think it's all over the place, as another Anon said.

I made that thread on /v/ to bait people

>>531006094
Did you also make the article on MP1st?

>>531006198
Nah, I just saw a post on twitter getting shared around and thought the concept of a DQ7 remake was funny.

>>531006294
Well you're not wrong there.

>>530929480
It's more being able to share them, and the fact that they're functionally actual dungeons and not like three rooms long. But mostly the sharing them, there's two entire iconic maps, one of which is just straight up referenced in XI. However, due to what Version 7 is doing and Zenias so far being just the first continent of IX I feel like we'll be seeing a pseudo-remake of IX over the next few versions (perhaps ending on Ver. 9 so Ver. 10 can be some big send-off for the game because I genuinely don't think they can keep this up for another decade and will have to go into maintenance mode eventually). That having been said it's like saying III is a remake of I which is just silly, and honestly it being IX-based means that we'll probably be getting an IX remake sooner than later (but almost certainly after XII at this point).
>>531005396
VII is probably the most baffling possible remake honestly, because the 3DS version is serviceable, has a system that bears a passing resemblance to IX's Grottoes, and if it does release in 2026 would have consistently released every 13 years for some reason. It's just a weird number of factors that are confusing and point in random directions, I don't get it, but maybe Hori just really fucking loves time travel and wants to remake the game nobody likes because it's too fucking long again. Who knows what it will actually be though, they could replace the Traveler's Tablets with something else (or nothing at all), or do the SMA4 thing.

>>531005683
I dunno about that. The 3DS version doesn't look particularly good even for that platform. I think we're already well past the point where it's aged worse than the original.

>>531006483
>>531006552
The duality of man.

I was considering getting back into DQ7, but I'm not sure if I should start over or not. I have a save that's about 14 hours in, but I have no idea what's going on or when I last played. I know the story in DQ7 isn't the draw, so I wanted to get you opinions

IXmake when

I think it will be a remaster of not of the 3DS game but the original PS1 version. Think it will follow the path that Tactics Ogre and FF Tactics took, just slightly above a port.

>>531011535
>14 hours
That's not too far in, so if you wanted to start over, I don't think it would hurt. You're also early enough in where you haven't seen that much and don't have many options to look for where to go next, so jumping back in probably wouldn't be too hard either.
Assuming you're playing PS1 at least, if 3DS, they cut down on the game so its like 30% shorter, so 14 hours would be an equivalent to 18 on PS1, which is still not too far in, so yeah either way.

I will take 7 over 9 but my heart wants 4

best granny in hd

JUST HEARD THE NEWS, HOW BACK ARE WE?!

>>531025753
Not terribly back.

>another dragon quest 7 remake before dragon quest 12

>>531025753
>giant ass DQVII remake again
>releasing late 2025, early 2026
>when I&II HD drops late 2025
>and DQXII is still being worked on
I think its fake news.

>>531025947
Just how fucking long is that list now anyway

>>531026214

>>531026556
>comment too long before dragon quest 12

>>531026556
Goo'd Goodess! *slurp*

>>531026184
Could it be one of those external studio ports?

>>531029108
>dq7 remake that looks like dqx offline
new fear unlocked

Best buddies

>>531029367
X Offline is the direct successor to VII 3DS visually

>they gave up on remaking IX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktMm4xYfSik

act 3 is just one giant backtracking

Now I'm sad I finished DQV
It's all over..

>>531043723
Two other wives

>Remake VII (done recently as well) but not IX (only one without a remake)
Fuck my stupid Celestrian life

>>531046189
>VII
Kasnooze

>>531045174
I played ps2 so I'll have to play 15 hours again on DS to get to Debora. I got a save to reload to on ps2 for Flora but maybe I do all on DS now?

>>531046495
or you could stop being a fag and play SNES like god and the devs intended.

debora is an absolute whore and only the most non serious of casual piggu gaijin would even consider her an option.

>>531046758
Sounds comfy what translation I play?

>>531046848
pretty sure theres only one english translation. be forewarned theres only 3 character slots and no debora so im basically the only one who likes SNES the most, for me its just got the most SOVL factor but most importantly has by far the best renditions of the OST.

>>531046948
Am I going to miss party chat? I thought it was amazing on ps2

>>531047234
Party chat didn't get invented until VII on PS1, so yeah.

>>531052635
Maybe I'll reload my ps2 save, marry Flora, play till the end of gen 2 getting all the honeymoon party chat and then switch to the snes version

The kids would have mostly the same party chat stuff I've already read and the wife doesn't get too many more lines after rescuing her I could just look that up

>>531056198
Is she strong?

>>531046840
She's a sweetheart and a good mom

He must've got insider info when he interviewed Masaaki Hayasaka

>>531026726
LMAO

Female MC is not canon

>>530089676
Final update for me on Torneko
>do a bunch of runs in the magic dungeon and exit to build up my sword and shield
>get a confuse nulling ring, very important since thats the only ailment to worry about in the boss fight
>get to boss
>rockbombs are already there
>kill them in one hit because I did so much grinding
>they still explode anyways because fuck you
>die
Yeah this game is ASS ass. Like genuine garbage, complete and total kusoge.
The only way i could imagine being able to beat it is getting lucky enough to find a bunch of yggdrasil leaves to revive yourself with a little HP a bunch of times, or grind until you've got a +99 sword so you can maybe oneshot the boss.

I'm playing Chocobo's Dungeon instead, fucking Torneko is a savestate type of game. Makes me not even care if that Yangus game ever gets translated, all the DQ mystery dungeons might just be dogshit.

>>531056198
Loto if cute

>>531077038
Now you know to RESPECT the rockbombs

perhaps dq7 was rewritten to become a direct sequel to qd2.

Quagon Drest

>>531056198
sex with roto-chan

vamp Roto-chan
amazon Roto-chan
gourmand Roto-chan

>>531089150
vamp Roto-chan with three lothario warrior-kuns.

>>531089150
>Amazon
im okay with that

Play DQ Monsters

>>531101130
Being stuck with a party of monsters were the worst moments of V for me, so no I don't think I will.

>>531101130
which ones there are too many
the standard ones or joker or the new one with psaro

>>531111379
NTA but DQM2 (either version) is great

>>531025947
>marismell in high def SMELL O VISION
thank god…

>>531145116
That axe is clearly meant to be held with two hands, and here's Ortega swinging it around with just one. What a beast.

I wish Hendrik had a skill panel that let him one-hand greatswords so he could use one with a shield

>>531151528
You can't wield greatsword with one hand..

>game trying hard to railroad you into using one handed sword but greatsword is just so much better for majority of the game even after getting SoL
I wish Sword of Light had a greatsword version

They should add the option to marry midgame in VI so we can finally have our real deal canon game which Horii envisioned

>>531166216
>>531174228
my wife

>>531202010

Nightmare scenario

Is the Dragon Quest XI Retranslation Project mod any good? I stop playing at the village where everyone speaks in rhymes because someone told me that in the original Japanese the villagers just speak normally, I was so disgusted by this that I couldn’t play the game anymore knowing that the translators were literally making up stuff instead of doing their fucking job properly. Does the retranslation fix that or does it only retranslate names and stuff?

>>531213141
Kiryl get out of there she'll drain you of everything you have!

>>531215243
Why don't you try it and report back?

Maya can drain me but only if she casts puff first

>>531232137
HD Remaster for Steam when?

>>531233768
2027

Is the DQ3 2D-HD Remake worth playing as my first Dragon Quest?

>>531239343
Yes

>>531239343
if you want, you could play 1 and 2 to make the payoff of 3's playthrough way more epic but 3 is a solid starting point

>>531239343
what the other anons said but

>>531242368
horii specifically said they want people to play 3 first with the HD-2D games
>why?
idk but that's what he said, we'll see when 1+2 comes out
might be absolutely nothing in true jap fashion

>>531246043
likely cuz of the added post credits scene but that's stupid

>>531246043
There's still the mystery of the red Roto's Sword and Roto's Shield. Unless it actually is just canonizing Emblem of Roto, then there's no mystery at all.

X!

>>531239343
It's a fantastic starting point. I'd almost say it even rivals 11 as a solid "First Dragon Quest for RPG newbies" title, maybe.

>>531273856
What a nice chestImean girl.

Is it okay to play DQ3 before DQ1 and 2?

>>531279982
it doesnt matter

>>531279982
If you're talking about the new remake, it's fine to play it now. No reason to wait for 1&2. If you're talking about the NES/SNES/GBC versions, 1&2 aren't very long so it's worth playing them first, but it's not a big deal either way.

I hope DQXII girls dont have big foreheads

>>531273856
>You have two choices
>the childhood friend who you grew up playing and adventuring with
>or some random girl out of nowhere you just met
>secret third option: her ugly sister
hmmmmmmmmmm tough call

>>531289019
Im afraid of the new direction if they ditch Toriyama’s artstyle

>>531289279
Not happening. HD-2D games have Toriyama artstyle

https://x.com/Ranazell/status/1944426377622470880

>>531289487
it's reasurring to know, but you never know. they might pull a Pokemon Scarlet/Violet on us

>>531297358
flat

>>531290138
no reason for that, keep in mind Toriyama was just doing designs, actual art was done by the gorillion Toriyama copycats they have

>>531289695
ogre puff puff

>>531290138
>they might pull a Pokemon Scarlet/Violet on us
What do you mean?

>>531324983
Flourishing

I married Jade..

Milky pregnant Jade...

Jade's nursing handjobs...

Plump mama Queen Jade...

this but Meena

>>531335578
Floorishing

>>531324615
just look at previous generations style and compared it to Scarlet/Violet
it’s quite jarring

>>531343485
>>531344184
>>531344415
>>531350336
Ireburn...

X

what will the princess of cannock be like?
a thief? better magic than her brother and better fighting than the princess of moonbrooke?

>>531393692
probably a monster wrangler

i just realized that Maya and Meena are probably the first twins to have started the trend of purple haired girls in anime shows.

>>531396167
Arale? Creamy Mami?

>>531396167
Simpsons did it

>SE says no upgrade path or compatible saves for DQ 1+2 from the switch to the switch 2.
>The FFT remake has an upgrade path
SE gonna SE, I guess.

Did anyone else watch the anime about the kindergarten teacher who plays DQ9

whats the tldr on the waifu choice in 3? im playing the snes original. all I really care about is who is better in battle/who makes better child party members.

>tfw this will be the closest I ever get in life to finding a mate

>>531411875
*5, not 3 obviously.

imagine if they ditched trannyama slopstyle for xii and hired an actually good composer who hasnt been washed for decades. might actually be a good and interesting game.

>>531411875
They both have similar stats, spell lists and equipment. When I say a character has higher stats, it is not by much. Maybe ten points or so over the other character at max level.
Bianca is a little bit stronger physically, with higher HP and Strength. Her exclusive spells are Blaze and Firebal.
Flora gains more overall MP and Resilience than Bianca. Her exclusive spells are Healmore, Day-Night, and Explodet.
It's worth noting that Flora has an initial level restriction. At first, she can only go up to level 10. Later on in the game she'll be able to go past that. Bianca has no such restriction.
The children are not affected by who you pick as your bride in any way except their hair color.

>>531411875
>snes original
Bianca. In the PS2 version it's more fair and in the DS version Debora's probably the best, but they're all pretty similar and not especially good. The kids are the same no matter what.

>>531412130
Shoji Meguro should be the one to do the music for DQ12.

>>531414346
But Sugiyama already did the music for DQ12

>>531414530
*already reused music for DQ12
FTFY
The amount of reused tracks in DQ11 is mindboggling
Not trying to shit on his legacy but DQ really needs some new blood on the music department

Now that the dust has settled, what are our thoughts on the new class in DQ3?

>>531414689
>the game that was intended as a celebration of Dragon Quest in general with loads of references and callbacks also brings back several old tracks
Yeah, real mind boggling. For someone saying he's trying to shit on his legacy you're not trying very hard not to.
Anyway. His obituary on Dragonquest.jp said he'd already finished composing for 12. So that's that.

>>531415763
cant wait to hear the same 5 mind nauseating songs over and over again. music was the weakest part of XI along with act 3.

>>531406842
they had also said "no more exclusives" and then made bravely default remastered a switch 2 exclusive (likely timed, but still)

why is Jade so much worse than Erik against bosses..

>>531437017
Erik’s abilities are just busted, simple as

can't stop thinking about Jade's body

>>531440406
we know jadeanon

wait you can choose to marry Veronica?

>>531415118
Pretty great before they nerfed the ever living fuck out of it but ultimately even before the nerf i wouldnt have used it ever again after my first run since finding the monsters is a pain in the ass

>>531414689
Sugiyama wasn't the one who decided to reuse tracks, that was entirely on the devs and Horii. Sugiyama's involvement only entailed composing whatever they ask him to compose, as stated in interviews before. Blame Nobuyoshi Sano, who was the sound director for 11, for the reused music.

>>531415763
>His obituary on Dragonquest.jp said he'd already finished composing for 12
IIRC it just included 12 in his body of work, not that he actually finished working on the soundtrack. Historically, Sugiyama always worked on music parallel to the games' development. There's even video of him using a scene from DQ11 as a reference for a track during development. Considering that development on 12 really only started in 2021, with him dying in September of that year, I really doubt that his work until that point was substantial enough to carry the whole game.

>>531351647
heh
>>531396167
anime seems to make Indian people brown skin+purple hair, not sure why. Maybe DQ started that too.

>>531462149
>re-check the obituary
Oh shit, you're right. I misremembered. I am the faggot.

nigga this wheel of harma trial is full of shit with the reinforcement

>>531475032
You WILL accept granny's spanking

>>531485196
With pleasure!

>X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQLpbbs0fZg

>>531514352
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-z5yR7992E

>>528675018 (OP)
Maribel pads her chest!
Will we ever see Druid or its too similar to sage?

>>531529162
Hey Stinky!

>>531538245
anlu!

analucia

andalucia

>>531564807
Adult Maribel

>>531564807
?

>>531575393

>Adult Maribel

>>531590903
why did she do it, bros...

>>531596954

>>531576585

I like Sylvando. Is he popular among fans?

>>531616530
He has a few detractors but overall he's probably one of the most popular characters in the franchise honestly.
It's hard to imagine him not getting in a Heroes 3 if that ever happened. And if they ever do another Mystery Dungeon, he should absolutely be the protag.

>>531616530
He's pretty popular. I liked him a lot at first but he wore off his welcome a bit on subsequent playthroughs. I think I'd prefer him in smaller doses or if he dropped the camp and got serious a bit more often.
Probably the most interesting character in terms of gameplay though. I really enjoy party members with an eclectic mix of abilities.

>>531616530
He was the MVP of act 2 for me. Really thought I'd hate him and keep him benched in act 1 but he grew on me

Your dad and sister

>>531628235
D'aw, a Roto Family Get-together

>>531628235
That's me as a cute girl actually

>>531529162
>hero gets multiheal
>warlord/champion hets multiheal
>Sage gets multiheal
>Druid doesn't get multiheal

>>531628664
S-so cool...

>>531628664
Thanks for the pit job

Roto-chan is more of a buttjob girl

>>531598262
>vorebaiting
kinda based...

>>531636747
cute roto-chan spamming HealUsAll/Omniheal and giving me the motivation to keep going

>>531648326
You should teach her Hustle Dance

Remake soon.

i hope 12 will still be on switch 1 and the 7 remake will also be on switch 1

How's the 3DS DQM anons? I played the GBC version of 1 and 2 last year and idk if I should play the 3DS versions too (and maybe try the PS1 version as well)

>>531637702
>>531647321
Heroes are NOT whores.

Sofia is the buttjob heroine
Anlucia is the pitjob heroine
Roto-chan is the wholesome impregnation to create heroic descendants heroine

>>531678898
Incorrect. All male heroes love boobs above all. All female heroes are irredeemable sluts. It is known.

>>531683249
Seven might be gay. He doesn’t fill Maribel with kids.

tact is still dead

>>531705553
all the dq mobile games are a series of flops

do you still need a vpn to play DQX if you're a yuro?

Favorite Weapon Type?
Hard Mode: No Swords

>>531730480
Yes.
You will be IP blocked from everywhere except Japan, China, and the United States.

>>531731612
Whips and boomerangs

>>531731612
axes and staves

>>531731681
sucks

>>531731612
FISTS.

>>531731612
1. Whips
2. Spears
3. Claws

>>531731681
Is it really true that the reason the US isn't IP blocked is so that Japanese vacationing in Hawaii can still play?

>>531739524
Idk how true it is, but the block being lifted on China and US because they're popular for vacations makes the most sense of any reasons I've heard.

I love cute NPC girls

>>531739524
>>531740572
i think more than vacation is work, ie when companies have their employees work abroad for months at a time

>>531731612
sex appeal

>>531731612
Spears and Axes

>>531759230
that hat makes her look bald

>>531731612
boomerangs
they are always OP in any DQ game

I've never used boomerangs in XI but I seriously doubt they're good

>>531792421
Cute Nevan-chan

>>531793095
they are the weapon of choice in any speedrun of the games that have them

>>531793787
I only slowrun DQ games

>>531667815
not likely. 3 hd isnt even on the ps4.

>>531793095
I don't know how you could beat the wheel of harma without them. Erik is a monster with divide + high level boomerangs

tori

>>531793095
Its only ever useful for wheel of harma

can't be assed to finish all the Tickington quests to get the remaining outfits trophy
Why did they have to lock those behind a 2D mode sigh

>>531829529
they aren't THAT bad, those all finish relatively quickly

>>531831178
that's the thing. I dont really hate 2D stuff but it just felt so lazy and tack on
its just small maps with fetch quests and go kill this monster over and over

>>531829529
>>531832106
I saved them all to the end but I had a good time with them, more memorable than most of the side quests

>>531832831
I thought they said she was not canon..

Bustin' dragons

Hello?

Busting to Jade

>>531731612
Scepters.

>>531717268
Cute

LMAO

>>531793095
Discuss.

Man, Yushka is such a gigachad.
He's a lad I'd gladly take a bullet for

>>531842762
fujoshi

It's been 24 days too long.
Please move to the new thread:
>>531841883
>>531841883
>>531841883

>bumb limit-o!