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Is Blue Dragon worth playing in 2020?
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Since I haven't played Blue Dragon this just makes me think of Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden 😂
that is probably more worth the OP's time than blue dragon tbh
While I enjoyed BD (got 1,000 pts. avhievements), Lost Odyssey gets the nod from me as well. Got my XSX, and this thread reminded me I should replay LO.
Soundtrack, composed by Nobuo Uematsu, is also fire:
Love this rendition of the main theme in particular:
Soundtrack, composed by Nobuo Uematsu, is also fire:
Love this rendition of the main theme in particular:
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Oh wow yeah after seeing that with Lost Odyssey I have no doubt Blue Dragon is even more playable than I would expect lol
I haven't played Blue Dragon in ages, buttttttt I did play Lost Odyssey as recently as last year and found that it held up pretty well, allow that to inform you how you will.
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Just played about an hour on my xsx, load times seem pretty dang short. Don't know how they were originally.
I loved it and remember enjoying the DS sequel as well (didn't realize there was a 3rd game until just looking at wiki) but I find playing old games difficult in general so I can't imagine I'd have an interest in playing it now. If that issue doesn't bother you and you've got nothing else to play then I say give it a shot. It's a very good game.
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I am barely into the game but it seems like there are about a billion treasure chests
It might? Where did you hear that?
Both Mistwalker games not being enhanced is the main reason why i don´t own a series x yet.
I would assume so, considering it ran well on the Xbox One BC when I last played it.
I'm shocked this never grew into a series, it felt a lot like an alternative HD Dragon Quest before HD Dragon Quest existed.
Every time I think of Blue Dragon, I just think of Uematsu at a sound mixer, listening to this with some poor Artoon producer and telling them how hard this rips.
I'm less surprised they're not enhanced and more surprised they aren't on Game Pass. Damned shame that. Abandoned children both unfortunately.
That wasn't my experience at all, unless I went out of my way to fight enemies. The first couple of bosses pose a challenge (pretty refreshing imo) because at that point your immortals barely have any abilities, but after that the game is blown wide open with all the equippable abilities and it's no longer a challenge, so at least I can appreciate that they gate experience in a way that doesn't make you too overpowered when you fight bosses. Even then, other than a couple of exceptions like Living Ice, the bosses in LO never reach the heights of the first two.
The encounters are not meaningless anyways since the important thing in LO is getting those skill points over exp, and those are still earned in any battle.
@OP: try to get the Nothing Glasses DLC item if you can, otherwise you will lose your mind scouting every corner of the game looking for nothing. This will make sense soon.
Also everyone can shit on that boss song, but if by the tenth boss you're not going WAAAAAYEAH along with Ian Gillan you have no soul.
Blue Dragon Plus is a pretty vanilla RTS.
If you played Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, you'll know what to expect.
The gameplay is a little less polished than RW, but still decent.
The story was quite good. Delve's a lot more into Nene's past. It's a pretty good sequel in that department.
If you care about the story in BD it's worth a play.
Awakened Shadow is a very basic action game, similar to the DS Crystal Chronicles games.
I don't really remember much about it. Very forgettable, but inoffensive.
Came here for this.
I remember initially having some fun with with Blue Dragon when it first came out, but lost interest early on and dropped it.
Sadly no.
I played it for at least 30h+ as my dedicated Christmas game, but the combat is too repetitive and boring and the characters are super dull at best - and super annoying at worst.
It didn't age very well and there are a plethora of better games in the genre.
I played it for at least 30h+ as my dedicated Christmas game, but the combat is too repetitive and boring and the characters are super dull at best - and super annoying at worst.
It didn't age very well and there are a plethora of better games in the genre.
Collecting "nothing"'s was both the most clever and the most cruel thing to ever thrust upon anyone with any level of gaming OCD.
Like gamifying the amount of dust in your house.
The battle theme still haunts me to this day. It made everyone living with me want to throw the console and me out the window.
Like gamifying the amount of dust in your house.
The battle theme still haunts me to this day. It made everyone living with me want to throw the console and me out the window.
I liked the game when i beat it some years ago and i think it is worth playing for people who are into the jrpg genre but i think Lost odyssey is the better game, it is a "just good" but not great very classic jrpg with a charming story and characters and good music but it has some flaws that prevent it from being great:
-The game runs like shit a lot of the time, sub 30 fps with horrible image quality, shitty AA and anisotropic filtering and just 720p resolution because it is a xbox 360 game, if it ran at 1080p 60 fps with good image quality it would still hold up because i think the art direction of the game was great.
-I played the normal mode and it was stupidly easy, the game has a hard mode but i didn't know that when i played it so i can't say if it is well balanced or not.
-The plot and characters while charming are a bit too simple for my liking.
-I played with japanese voices and english subs because i watched some scenes on youtube and thought the english dub was atrocious, the japanese voice acting is way better in my opinion but the european version of the game does not have the japanese voice track, only the north american version of the game does, so take that into account.
I imagine the game can be bought very cheap these days so give it a shot just don't expect Chrono trigger or Final fantasy VI levels of quality.
-The game runs like shit a lot of the time, sub 30 fps with horrible image quality, shitty AA and anisotropic filtering and just 720p resolution because it is a xbox 360 game, if it ran at 1080p 60 fps with good image quality it would still hold up because i think the art direction of the game was great.
-I played the normal mode and it was stupidly easy, the game has a hard mode but i didn't know that when i played it so i can't say if it is well balanced or not.
-The plot and characters while charming are a bit too simple for my liking.
-I played with japanese voices and english subs because i watched some scenes on youtube and thought the english dub was atrocious, the japanese voice acting is way better in my opinion but the european version of the game does not have the japanese voice track, only the north american version of the game does, so take that into account.
I imagine the game can be bought very cheap these days so give it a shot just don't expect Chrono trigger or Final fantasy VI levels of quality.
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Yes. It reminds me more of a SNES kinda Final Fantasy in terms of town structure etc though.
But it also has a lot of really useful and time saving QoL turn based battle options.
There is a hard mode they added as free DLC later on. Definitely changes things up for the better if you crave challenge.
Goddamn. I legit forgot anything that happened in this game then this track brought it all back.
Thanks for the impressions, I'll give em a go if only for a bit.
I have the discs for probably 10 years now and still haven't played it, it's been installed on my XB1 since I got one. Someday I'll play it.
Everything they said. I was psyched for Blue Dragon when it came out because old school JRPGs will forever be my shit, but it was extremely average. I wouldn't waste my time with it OP.
Lost Odyssey though? Yezzir.
Yeah, it wasn't available at launch but it did cut a lot of those long battle intros. It helped a lot The Last Remnant as well but sadly, that wasn't enough for that game.
Yeah, I tend to forget that as I own both but that's weird as well.
Both are MS games and both aren't available on GP... Either the games aren't a priority for MS or the BC team couldn't enhance them until now. Probably a mix of both! :P
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This.
There's gotta' be 100 other JRPGs that are better. I guess if you have exhausted all your options, go nuts and play Blue Dragon. But otherwise, why waste time with such a mediocre title?
On hard mode yes, otherwhise no it make the game way too easy.
I hope this helps!
Nothing Trader
The Nothing Trader is the item-exchange system of the Blue Dragon XBOX game, where "nothings" scattered throughout the game are traded for special accessories. Only two characters can make the trade, the Nothing Man in Jibral or the Nothing Mecha Robo in Split-World. NOTE that the number of...
There are two games on DS. One RTS while the other is more of an A-RPG iirc.
It did become a series with several games, a manga and its own anime.
I'm a big fan of it! I recommend giving it a shot, it's got its problems, but everything about it comes together for a pleasant experience.