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Dragon Quest XI S - DE new story details, each party member getting a solo adventure (UPDATE: preview and gameplay from GameXplain) [read staff post]
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i'm good with 720p/30fps in handheld
don't care about battery life since i'm never taking it out of the house anyway.
time to decide: 2D or 3D first.
good god i cannot pick
Also sounds like the GX people who played the demo really liked it. Looking forward to a review where they heap praise upon it :)
don't care about battery life since i'm never taking it out of the house anyway.
time to decide: 2D or 3D first.
good god i cannot pick
Also sounds like the GX people who played the demo really liked it. Looking forward to a review where they heap praise upon it :)
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i'm making two save files, one for each, and then doing a chapter of each and moving to the other one.
but i'll be doing a basic run in 2D mode and a complete run in 3D mode.
Play it in 2D mode - this will solve all potential problems. :-)
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I played it on PC, so the music wasn't a problem since I just used the orchestrated mod, but I know PS players didn't have that opportunity. I get that later editions always have added on content, but they should at least add the orchestrated music to all versions because it really feels like a whole different game with it. I am a bit envious of the extra content that this version gets as I absolutely loved the game and would absolutely welcome more content for it, but it is what it is. I don't have a Switch and even if I did I probably wouldn't double dip as it would be quite jarring going from 4k/60 to whatever it's gonna be on the Switch.
I don't say it's impossibe that it's sub 720p, but at this point this is all just speculation.
Yeah, you're right, this would just be a back and forth, let's wait for more footage.
Switch audience is going to eat this game. Should do pretty well imo.
hard to say just how well it's gonna do. Zelda will suck up a lot of air, but it shouldn't be as bad as being saddled around Spider-Man and Tomb Raider. it should outsell the PS4/PC version (in the west), but the question is how much
Basically you can unlock areas of old DQs (around 5 per game) to play through these sidequests. Completing them gives you a statue representing the game.
Here's a video of a guy giving a rundown of them from the Japanese 3DS version MINOR SPOILERS
A HUGE difference here is that in the 3DS version these were unlocked with a special Streetpass minigame and the worlds for DQ I-VI used authentic graphics for each game (VII-X just use the same Chibi 3D graphics the main game uses)
DQ1=Original "Crab Walk" Famicom graphics
DQ2=SNES Remake (DQV Engine)
DQ3=SNES Remake (DQVI Engine)
DQ4=Original NES game
DQ5=Original SNES game (with Deborah retroactively added)
DQ6=Original SNES game)
But so far, it looks like the Switch version is using the SAME DQVI-based 2D style for ALL the DQ games (maybe because it looks better in HD and/or there's less "nostalgia" for these old graphics since a lot of these games didn't come out in NA originally)
I know :( I got a new CPU JUST to play DQXI in top form. I think I'm going to make my Switch playthrough in 2D to keep it fresh.
Dragon Quest Builders 2 seems like it's doing really well and that was released on another busy month.
This will do even better no doubt.
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i'm sure this will do very well. both SE in japan and nintendo outside japan have been doing A LOT of advertising for it, nintendo has featured it in the past several directs and getting the hero into smash is advertising that money can't buy, and in japan for the past several months SE has been marketing it like it's a whole new release. i expect it to easily become the best selling version of the game in the end.
And I've seen some Pokémon fans saying that they're interested in picking up Dragon Quest XI S after seeing a graphical comparison video between Pokémon Sword & Shield and Dragon Quest XI S. So I'm cautiously optimistic Dragon Quest XI S will sell better than expected outside of Japan.
Ah ok
Definitely won't. Hopefully this will be the first JRPG on the Switch I won't get eventually bored of and drop.
PS4 version has to be sitting close to if not over 2m. That's gonna be a tough act for the Switch to follow.
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Nice, not quite as long as DQ7 for the main story but overall about the same. https://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=40485
(I put 250 hours into DQ7 in one of my playthroughs because I absolutely needed everyone to master the Platking class so I could steamroll the bonus dungeons' bosses (AKA God)).
I'm betting all of this extra content for DQXIS adds about 20-30 hours.
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i would go as high as 40-50.
this game will probably last me all the way until the end of 2019. bye pokemon and doom eternal, see yall in 2020.
That's unlikely. I can't imagine the side chapters having much meat to them, and the 2D sections are generally much quicker than the pace the HD events and scenarios happen at.
I'm kind of expecting the side areas to be FF4: The After Years-level of recycled content.
Do people have a good estimate for how much shorter the 2D version of the game was relative to the PS4 version, at least for the content that roughly appears in both versions?
Gah, this is getting better and better. This will be my fourth time buying DQXI and I'm just as excited as I was the first time.
Nah, DQB2's PAL results seem meh on Switch; they just happen to be terrible on PS4.
If the Switch version somehow sold 2m copies it would call into question why SE prioritised PS4 even more...
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there'll be a new quest for each of the characters, i can't imagine them being shorter than 2 or 3 hours each, so that's 20 hours at least.
finishing all the retro quests will probably take 10 or 15 hours.
then there's the 5 hour voice drama.
also there's new side quests, iirc.
and all of that is assuming you'll stick to just 2D or 3D and won't want to play both modes.
Damn, I cant decide to use my last voucher on this game or wait for Pokemon. Assume Pokemon's replay value is to cath em all (sort of) and increase their level,, what's the replay value for this game? Sidequests?
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i actually haven't played the game but based on what i've heard and read the "main story" time you see is not actually the whole game, the game technically ends there but there's actually an entire other act after you see the credits. there's also a lot of side quests and mini-games
That's a new weapon for the hero in the gameplay video. Japanese voices sounded lovely (I muted the english voices in the PS4 version), the orchestrated soundtrack too though I didn't have problems with the midi, I thought the music was beautiful overall. This is a day 1 buy whenever I get a switch, this game is on my top 3 this gen, it's incredible.
I played the game twice doing pretty much everything and it was around ~125h for each playtrough.
Regarding DQ7, I played the 3ds version recently and while the game was big I felt like I spent way too much time with battles that had no interest (it's pretty much impossible to avoid enemies in small corridors, the frequency of fights was actually higher than all random based jrpgs I've played, sometimes I couldn't walk 2 steps without bumping into a enemy that spawned right where I was), so a lot of the time felt like filler to me.
In the normal difficulty DQXI is quite easy, in my first playthrough I only fought normal enemies when I saw a new monster that I haven't faced before and in my second I pretty much avoided all fights except the ones at the sea which are random. It still took me over 100h for each, there's crazy amounts of content here.
I played the game twice doing pretty much everything and it was around ~125h for each playtrough.
Regarding DQ7, I played the 3ds version recently and while the game was big I felt like I spent way too much time with battles that had no interest (it's pretty much impossible to avoid enemies in small corridors, the frequency of fights was actually higher than all random based jrpgs I've played, sometimes I couldn't walk 2 steps without bumping into a enemy that spawned right where I was), so a lot of the time felt like filler to me.
In the normal difficulty DQXI is quite easy, in my first playthrough I only fought normal enemies when I saw a new monster that I haven't faced before and in my second I pretty much avoided all fights except the ones at the sea which are random. It still took me over 100h for each, there's crazy amounts of content here.
To me it would say they are genious in being able to make this game sell like 6 million copies tbh.
This will be the best-selling version in the West, but I don't think it has a chance to outsell the versions in Japan.
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I sure hope the new chapters are shorter than 2-3 hours each. In some if those circumstances, they are are going to be literally the 4th arc to take place in their respective city. If they are going to be long they really need to have genuinely new dungeons and areas for them to justify their time. Otherwise they are just piling on to the game's significant problem with repeating content.
Nah, it would still be a pyrrhic victory considering DQIX did 5.5 million without having to be developed four or five times.
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