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Is Blue Dragon worth playing in 2020?
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I don't think so personally. Combat is dull (with low fps), the characters are basically cardboard cutouts, and the story isn't interesting at all. Lost Odyssey was/is far superior. Nice artstyle though.
This. I really wanted to like it when it came out but I just couldn't. I stopped playing after 10 hours or so. Maybe it got better after that but I just couldn't continue forcing myself to play it.
It's not really a Dragon Quest-style game. It has Toriyama art, but the game plays and is structured a lot more like Final Fantasy V than Dragon Quest.
It's been a while since I've replayed it, but I find the game fun.
But really, why ask? If you have the game, don't listen to anyone else's opinions, just give it a play and find out for yourself if you like it or not.
Came into to say skip blue dragon and play lost odyssey.
Even as a jrpg fan and xbox fanboy, blue dragon was tough to play even after a few hours(for me as well!!!!)
I have played lost odyssey on the 360, the one s, and still have it on my series x. I consider its a master piece and it hits the feels.
Kaim was a cool protagonist.
Even as a jrpg fan and xbox fanboy, blue dragon was tough to play even after a few hours(for me as well!!!!)
I have played lost odyssey on the 360, the one s, and still have it on my series x. I consider its a master piece and it hits the feels.
Kaim was a cool protagonist.
If OP can only play one...
I loved Lost Odyssey so much more than Blue Dragon when it came out.
I haven't done a playthrough since, but I've dabbled in the beginning areas of Blue Dragon again recently and I think it's still something worthy of playing, though. I just never have time for a JRPG now in between all the "new" stuff I wanna play lol.
I just bought it from my X for 19.99. I probably should have waited for a sale, but oh well; I'll dig in soon enough
It is absolutely worth playing if you're a fan of classic Final Fantasy.
Lost Odyssey too. They both have a lot of FF DNA.
Lost Odyssey is a lot more complex, but Blue Dragon is still great.
You don't need to worry about grinding for achievements much either. There's an easy overnight AFK grinding method that'll get you maxed.
I've only played the first 3 DQ games, but BD feels more like the classic FF games to me than those.
Kinda like FFIV if it was made with 360 tech.
Lost Odyssey too. They both have a lot of FF DNA.
Lost Odyssey is a lot more complex, but Blue Dragon is still great.
You don't need to worry about grinding for achievements much either. There's an easy overnight AFK grinding method that'll get you maxed.
I've only played the first 3 DQ games, but BD feels more like the classic FF games to me than those.
Kinda like FFIV if it was made with 360 tech.
Yes, if you liked Lost Odyssey and Dragon Quest, then it's worth a shot. Especially since you already have it.
I do recommend playing it on Normal, and letting it just be a little easy. I tried hard mode on a second playthrough, and after a point, grinding becomes necessary. But it's easy to just go overkill on grinding and making the game far too easy.
I do recommend playing it on Normal, and letting it just be a little easy. I tried hard mode on a second playthrough, and after a point, grinding becomes necessary. But it's easy to just go overkill on grinding and making the game far too easy.
I would wait as it might be enhanced next year.
Both BD and Lost Odyssey not being enhanced yet is pretty weird to me.
Both BD and Lost Odyssey not being enhanced yet is pretty weird to me.
I remember the biggest problem I had with Lost Odyssey was the load times into each battle. They took, not extremely long, but still too long for each random battle (maybe like 10 seconds each?).
The Xbox One X made them a lot shorter and you're really just dealing with the intro (I have memories of those purple circles really taking too much time on the 360. They're barely here on the Xbox One X. Imagine... okay when they show up, count 7-10 seconds and that's how long before they'd go away on the 360 and the rest of the battle intro would start).
I can't remember how it was for Blue Dragon on the 360 since I played that before LO and didn't try it again on the 360.
I made a video clip of the battle loading on an Xbox One X and... there was really no battle loading. Outside of the animation/small intro, the battles started right away. I'm not sure why, but it got a lot more views than anything else I ever captured according to xboxdvr and xboxclips' view counters (in the thousands, and I wasn't like posting it all over the place). Unfortunately it just disappeared long ago. Like auto=deleted or something. In fact I made another clip of the same battles in the start area (there's a place where you can just rapid-fire start battles really quick, end them really quick, and jump right into another battle) when I got my Series X and I didn't see any improvement. It was still really fast. Seems like that clip got deleted too (weird, since it's only been like what? 3 weeks?)
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I really liked the job system but found it to be a cakewalk - I beat it when it first came out, before the 'hard mode' DLC was available, however.
The encounter system was pretty unique, how you can chain battles together for additional bonuses, and how some monsters would attack each other.
The encounter system was pretty unique, how you can chain battles together for additional bonuses, and how some monsters would attack each other.
I saw yes. It was fun, and at the time really felt to me like "What if Dragon Quest was more like Final Fantasy in terms of changing huge elements but keeping a similar core".
You just reminded me that I now have access to Lost Odyssey since I bought a Series X.
Went and got a complete copy on mercari for $18.
Play it! It's the real Final Fantasy XIII. Not like that trash that's actually called Final Fantasy XIII
I don't remember that being the case.
I don't remember grinding at all in BD! :P
Yes.
As for everyone saying it's grindy, I don't want to be all "get gud" here, but I really wonder if we played the same game.
The game is not only not grindy, but it is massively improved by the Hard mode DLC. I did not have to grind at all, and my first playthrough was on Hard. The biggest benefit was that it actually made you pay attention to the job system and use a bit of strategy to get past certain bosses.
Sure, I lost a few times, but all that meant was that I had to try again with a slightly different equipment/job makeup. The bit I played on Normal required even less than that.
If you all meant the encounter rate was high, then yeah maybe a little, but you have a lot of tools/items for avoiding combat if you're just exploring. You should use those.
As for everyone saying it's grindy, I don't want to be all "get gud" here, but I really wonder if we played the same game.
The game is not only not grindy, but it is massively improved by the Hard mode DLC. I did not have to grind at all, and my first playthrough was on Hard. The biggest benefit was that it actually made you pay attention to the job system and use a bit of strategy to get past certain bosses.
Sure, I lost a few times, but all that meant was that I had to try again with a slightly different equipment/job makeup. The bit I played on Normal required even less than that.
If you all meant the encounter rate was high, then yeah maybe a little, but you have a lot of tools/items for avoiding combat if you're just exploring. You should use those.
This was likely fixed on X1/1X.
:P
You sound like someone who didn't install the game on 360! :D
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Oh I did, and you're right it did help a lot. I'm almost certain that when the game launched you could not install games to the hard drive though, and that's when I played most of the game (or shortly after when I got injured and was bed-ridden).
Off topic but I find it funny (if a little insulting) how people use Lost Odyssey as an example for gatekeeping Final Fantasy. Depending on whom you ask and on when FF lost its appeal for them, Lost Odyssey is the 'real' Final Fantasy 13, the 'real' Final Fantasy 12 or the 'real' Final Fantasy 10.
I simply use it as XIII because it came out after XII and before XIII, so it chronologically fits better. I guess the argument could be made for XII because that's when Sakaguchi left Square Enix.
X makes no sense though. That's just silly.
Right, the hard drive install feature wasn't around when Lost Odyssey came out. Makes it much more bearable. I imagine it's even better on the newer systems.
It's probably held up reasonably well. I think turn based JRPGs are the genre that has evolved the least over the years, so if you liked them in the NES/SNES era, not much has changed in many respects.
Not sure how the Blue Dragons sequels have held up. People forget that Blue Dragon is a series of three games. Both follow ups to the first game are DS titles, with Nintendo's own Brownie Brown (now known as 1-Up Studio) assisting in development of the second game.
Not sure how the Blue Dragons sequels have held up. People forget that Blue Dragon is a series of three games. Both follow ups to the first game are DS titles, with Nintendo's own Brownie Brown (now known as 1-Up Studio) assisting in development of the second game.
I still remember it fondly. Story is simple. I think the biggest problem going to it now will be the performance. I wonder if XSX actually improves that?
Absolutely, why wouldn't it be? It isn't that old, the story's still fun in a Dragon Quest way, the battle system is great, the job system is neat, has a world map, no random encounters and the music is extremely good.
It loads massively faster now and runs at 30fps locked unlike on 360.
It loads massively faster now and runs at 30fps locked unlike on 360.
The genre has evolved tremendously over the years, but Blue Dragon was specifically designed to hearken back to older games and there's nothing wrong with that.
You say "copycat," I say "too lazy to read the whole thread."
It's the Era-way.
I only clicked this thread for this inevitable video.
Not disappointed.