Thread 11840276

What are the best versions of Dragon Quest I-III? SNES? GBC? NES? Looking for the best experience for a first playthrough of the trilogy.

>>11840276 (OP)
GBC has the most content but you might as well walk through walls to access the extra extra dungeon because accessing legit is impossible (locked behind a rng mechanic)

Snes has the best graphics

No reason to play nes

>>11840276 (OP)
GBC, more stuff to do and a non retarded, actual translation. SNES if you need more refined graphics.

Just play the NES versions, all the other versions were casualized for already simple JRPGs. Keeping it pure.

>>11840281
>>11840283
Yeah, I was leaning towards the GBC version. I heard about the SNES fansub being questionable but wasn't sure if it was overblown or not. Graphics are not really an issue, otherwise I'd just play the version that can't be discussed on this board.

>>11840281
Faggot opinion

>>11840276 (OP)
Nes

>>11840276 (OP)
Since 4 is best on the NES you might as well play 1-3 on there as well to fully appreciate the gradual advancements.

>>11840276 (OP)
NES versions look great and play great. GBC versions look weird. SNES version looks better but still has that input delay that the NES has so it's not a worthwhile upgrade.
Just play the originals.

>>11840276 (OP)
Every version made after the NES were made easier so it depends what you're looking for. Do you want the challenge and grinding or do you want something more carefree? So it's either NES or SNES.

Either way for a first playthrough avoid the GBC versions, and in general handheld versions of RPGs, the audio and visuals are an important part to the enjoyment of an RPG and handhelds ports are always a huge downgrade in that regard. They also have a smaller FOV which makes overworld exploration a pain unless you're already familiar with them.

>>11840281
>No reason to play NES
>Recommends the versions with the shittiest graphics, musoc, and screen crunch

>>11840276 (OP)
In general, avoid any English version that calls itself Dragon Quest. It's Dragon WARRIOR on this side of the Pacific, pal

>>11840380
>JRPG thread
>collagefag is summoned and gives his copypasta about DQ2
Like clockwork

>>11840391
Maybe contribute yourself sometime :)

>>11840391
Based, I respect his gumption.
You, on the other hand. Heh, well. Take a hike, bozo.

>>11840276 (OP)
theres only one version

Why the fuck are people recommending the version with no thief, no post-game, no iconic pachisi boards and the worst graphic?

Like this is beyond contrarian
>>11840363
>4 is best on the nes
>no party chat
>no post game
>can't even control your party

What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>11840690
The amount of shit taste radiating from this post is unreal.

>>11840690
>goes on a retro board and gets ENRAGED when people wont play the non retro games he recommends
are you sure youre not the contrarian?

Always release order.
Play NES first, then SNES remakes then GBC

>>11840690
>can't even control your party
You don't need to. The AI is for the most part quite competent, while the remakes actually dumb down the party AI because Japan thinks it's hilarious to watch the Priest keep wasting MP on instant-death spells.

>>11841241
I would rather like PLAY the game myself

There are no "best versions." The different releases are substantially different from each other to be considered different games. To see the full picture, you need to play all of them.

>>11840276 (OP)
The best version of the game isn't available to EOPs. Learn Japanese if you want to experience it for yourself.

>>11840276 (OP)

NES. The SNES version feels hollow.

>>11840276 (OP)
SNES if you're a little bit of a loser, Game Boy if you're badly broken inside, NES if you're a good person

>>11840281
>because accessing legit is impossible (locked behind a rng mechanic)
Is not even hard even less impossible, just stop being a little bitch.
Pic related.
Get 2 bronze medal from each monster and then an NPC will change 2 bronze for one silver, just don't get all the gold medals or the new boss will fall asleep and won't fight you anymore.
>>11840281
Awful opinion, NES and SNES are different enough to deserve both being played.

>>11840297
The Spanish versions of 1-3 are actually pretty good, and apparently bug free, or so some anon was posting a while back.

>>11840276 (OP)
NES for the best and most balanced gameplay
SNES for the best audio/visuals
GBC for the most content
mobile if you have mental issues and no standards
HD2D if youre a toddler who hates rpgs

/thread

SNES version is one of the most beautiful looking and sounding 16 bit games ever. who cares if the NES version is harder, its a jrpg. youll have to grind less and cleric becomes kind of pointless since you have a bag now and herbs are cheap. oh no, who cares. its worth it for the massive boost in presentation. anything other than NES or SNES is objectively wrong though, but it was badass having that huge rpg on the go back in the day. one of my most cherished gbc carts (dragon quest monsters 2 taras journey was also amazing)

The SNES version is fire AF it's basically the story of the originals but without the crusty ass graphics of the NES. I recommend the remakes on switch more but SNES is better than nothing. As a bonus you can run the emulator faster to speed through all the grinding if you go ultra classic. You will want to check out a rom hack though since the game was mistranslated as Dragon Warrior back in the olden days. Easily my favorite games and some of the best jrpgs ever

>>11841906
this post is a brainrot rollercoaster

>>11840276 (OP)
snes with the MSU1 patches, even if DQ3 has some bugs that can be solved by going back and forth to an un MSU1 patched ROM.

>>11840690
Some people don't like bloat in their games.

>>11840690
You sound like someone who would throw away all of their old games the moment a "superior" remake is released.
Some day you will understand why you are wrong, young buck.

DQ2fag samefagging hard lol

>>11841906
>mistranslated

Removing all the "kerzap zablooey poopypoo" spell names and putting in cool old-timey English was not an error. It was the correction of an error. Sometimes Japanese artists get lost in their awful aesthetic tunnels and need to be gently led back out by people who have not lost track of the sane parts of the world.

>>11840297
GBC is how i played them the first time
i think theyre solid ports. really fast/snappy battle system, good translation thats thankfully not in ye olde english and retarded (see: 1 on NES), less censored, slightly less grindy

lady lora 4 lyfe

>>11843119
doing olde english in NES games, let alone JRPGs, was an incredibly questionable/stupid idea. it just makes everything take twice as long since youre mashing through ~ twice as much text. ffs, in DW1, the princesses name, alone, takes up almost a whole line of text

its pretty clear why that style of localization fell out of favor. not only does it usually drift pretty far from what the actual script is, but its also just dumb af from a gameplay PoV

>>11843146
>its pretty clear why that style of localization fell out of favor.
Except it came back with the new localizers that took over since DQ8 and made it even more of a problem with other ridiculous accents being added.

>>11840276 (OP)
>best version of III
Still not translated yet...

>>11843007
DQ2 mogs your favorite retro game

>>11840281
>No reason to play nes
They nerfed the difficulty in the remakes
You should play it if you wanna have some bragging rights.

>>11840391
>>collagefag is summoned and gives his copypasta about DQ2
MY FUCKING GOAT

>>11841803
Damn, that bitch is skinny.
Pack it a little more and she'd be the Architect's new concubine.

>>11844969
>russian delight according to Toriyama

>>11844971
I swear she was Ukrainian.

>>11843151
I genuinely think the accents in DQ8 is one of the rare instances of a game in which that works. It totally sucks in the DS remakes though.

I'm totally biased against 8 though, I think the game is pure soul and I am really not into 6th gen jRPGs

>>11841796
I've done and it's super tedious and the new exclusive dungeon is very disappointing. Also by the point you have all the medals you will probably have close to max stats in everything that matters so the new boss is just a box to check.
The whole medals/new dungeon thing falls into the "not worth it" category which so many extra dungeon of RPG ports/remake fall into.

>>11840690
I hate the party chat and post game in dq4. It really is a lot more enjoyable on the nes

>>11845313
How dare party members have a personality once their chapter is done

>>11845317
Well saro is a really good character I the nes version. In the bonus stuff he is much more of an edgy try hard. I think the nes version does a great job of making sure characters show personality. Maybe I am more comfortable with reading the simple characterizations than having tropes repeated over and over at me. It is a pretty short game, much shorter than dq3 for instance. It doesn't need cutscenes

>>11840380
>The hero this board deserves but not the one it needs.

>>11844953
And hopefully it never is. Fuck EOPs. Leave the Japanese romhacking scene the fuck alone, lest K Mix fall into the same cursed pit as T Edition (creator fucking bounced not long after the translation appeared due to the unwanted attention it brought the project).