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Dragon Quest 11: New English Character Trailer and Descriptions
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Love Jade's and Rab's vo work. Game looks as great as ever. Going to get the PC version day 1 for music replacement.
OT title should be DQ XI: Echoes of an Elusive OST :P
Glad to hear the little runt is not the Lymle type.
OT title should be DQ XI: Echoes of an Elusive OST :P
Glad to hear the little runt is not the Lymle type.
Marvel movie fans are vast and anything related to Marvel really sells nowadays. And comic fans are pretty much a large part of guys that would look in the direction of a Japanese game with a cool art style.
More so than the unavoidable random encounters, this was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. was about to purchase the game but then I read all these comments about how the plot was brain dead, predictable and had absolutely no intrigue to it.
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I love Octopath but I'm ready for a less "linear" experience for sure.
Fingers crossed it can find success. Best JRPG of the gen so far. Wish I could delete it from memory and spend my summer again replaying it fresh.
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Is the dancing bug in this one as well? I loved this when it happened in VIII lol
I never cared much about Dragon Quest, but the combat looks good in this one. I never liked the ones where you couldn't see the characters.
I'm just not a fan of the music, though. If this game had different music, I might check it out.
I'm just not a fan of the music, though. If this game had different music, I might check it out.
No, it isn't. In any way to reach such argument.
And I hope that you're only referring to the west in this because that's not true in japan either as it's obviously show.
From what I remember if Dragon Quest IX, it actually is somewhat similar, because of the vignette-based story structure. Come to a new town, learn about a problem, go through a dungeon and fight a boss to solve it...that's basically how it goes most of the time.
Not quite the same. In Octopath, you know you're up to chapter 17 out of 32, you know that it's going to take place in the city with the "Chapter X" marker over it on the map, you know the story of that chapter will only involve the character who stars in it, you know you'll have to run around using your path actions, you know you'll never have to leave the city (other than to enter the dungeon that's right next door), and you know the boss battle is going to unfold the same exact way.
In a Dragon Quest game, you have no idea what kind of city you're going to get to explore next, you have no idea what kind of problems you're going to have to solve, and you have no idea what's going to unfold along the way. Even if the basic formula is usually "town -> dungeon -> boss," things are always changing. There are always interesting surprises, whether it's new party members or a new wrinkle to the main story or some sort of subversion on that formula. It keeps you emotionally invested in so many ways that just don't exist in Octopath Traveler. After that slog, DQXI is very refreshing.
(Octopath has way better combat, though.)
I knew all that stuff in DQ IX too, because I used a walkthrough. I really prefer knowing how far I've progressed.
Yeah, Octopath gives you a few extra verbs to work with.
From what I recall of IX the plot-related dungeons were all fairly close to their respective towns, although for sure there wasn't a path from town directly to them like in Octopath.
Gonna have to give an unequivocal win to Octopath on that front. DQ's always been relatively light on boss battle gimmicks. I do enjoy the type of boss battle that DQ usually throws at you though, especially in the late game, I think it does a marvelous job of balancing the tension between making you feel good for managing the battle well and still leaving room for things to go wrong.
If you say so. IX's vignettes seem pretty standard in my memory. Gotta play through VI, VII, and VIII sometime, though.
How so? I've never seen a gaming franchise that has seen regular installments of exceptional quality for over 3 decades have such little appreciation aside from Japan (and how they eat it all up). The fact that you have series like the Trails games get almost as much talk in comparison blows my fucking mind (not to shit on those games, they deserve the love they get).
I'm just beating a dead horse here. I've heard industry vets like Peer Schneider express the same viewpoint so I think my original statement is a fair argument.
IX is an intentional throwback to NES Dragon Quest and was never known for having a gripping story. V, VII, and VIII all are better showcases in that regard. XI, from what I've heard, seems to be right up there with them.
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I did come out of 9 feeling that they were lackluster and they didn't really stay in my memory, but I have to wonder if I would have felt differently if there was more to make the player feel involved emotionally. Maybe the vignettes aren't lacking so much as it's the lack of any avatar with personality that made it harder to feel involved or care about them as much. Even though stuff is happening, there's no one on your side to react to it so you just kind of feel like an outsider looking in thinking "oh that's interesting."
In that regard 11 is much better.
Actually I take that back. Bringing up Dragon Quest will generally get someone to pop up saying how they're glad they'll never play it and joke about how it apparently involves grinding or something(even though that's bull) so yeah I guess it's famous in a way.
In that regard 11 is much better.
I don't know if I'd say almost as much, it honestly seems like more. It is pretty remarkable how a series that has apparently sold a million copies in the west with the last 2 main entries somehow has almost no presence in online communities. How does that even work.
Actually I take that back. Bringing up Dragon Quest will generally get someone to pop up saying how they're glad they'll never play it and joke about how it apparently involves grinding or something(even though that's bull) so yeah I guess it's famous in a way.
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Yeah, the Dragon Quests with pre-defined party members who actually have personalities and interact with one another (ie: 7 and 8) are by far the best ones.
He has no imagination? almost nothing out there is like his style, dude is a genius, as for the clones what do you really want him to do? that's his style, just like all other artists, they make characters that look similar.
IMO Toriyama's style is "rigid" in the sense that you will end having variations on DB/Dr. Slump characters. I'm going to play the game anyway, but Toriyama is a "con" instead of a "pro" for me.
Oh come on, this is absolute nonsense, especially with his more recent DQ designs. I hate how people will jump on one little characteristic like hair or eyes and go, "Yep that's *DB Character*. Practically the spitting image! Toriyama is a hack!"
The fact that his XI designs still feel fresh and not like rehashes says a lot.
Day one, dragon quest is such a special game series i remember playin 8 at y grandma and 9 on my ds and as akid these games felt like a huge special adventure.
Hopefully it sells well cuz the series deserves more recognition.
Hopefully it sells well cuz the series deserves more recognition.
I kinda wish someone would get some PC version footage. I'm also looking forward to seeing DigitalFoundry compare the JP and INT versions.
...Why did I buy this game when I know I don't have the kind of patience for it? Something is wrong with me. Maybe this will manage to keep me engaged like other roleplaying games haven't.
...Why did I buy this game when I know I don't have the kind of patience for it? Something is wrong with me. Maybe this will manage to keep me engaged like other roleplaying games haven't.
What's the argument here? Why would some think it's no longer suited to long JRPGs? What's different now?
edit: somehow didn't realize I was unburying a two week old post. Sorry :(
The argument you see often that people doesn't have time to sit on their sofa and commit to play a game
I prefer to play jrpgs with speech bubbles rather than any voice, doesn't matter if english or japanese.
Unfortunately a lot of games have no voice slider or the subtitles doesn't have any indication on who's talking.
Edit: Oh, this thread kinda died weeks ago, i guess? : p
That's the opinion of a small vocal minority tho? most gamers these days want their games longer and longer than ever to justify their $60 purchase and JRPGs aren't excluded from this mentality just because minorities on era like to push this narrative.
There are options to lower various sound effects right?
I meant to say, lower the music voice, it's a bit too loud.
I meant to say, lower the music voice, it's a bit too loud.
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Hey bro, some things never die.
Game length is just a personal preference. Some people like short JRPGs and some people put 400 hours into Octopath Traveler. As long as the content is good I don't mind putting a lot of time into my JRPGs. I think most people would agree with that.
For context, the main story is roughly half as long as Persona 5 and way better paced. I beat it in ~55 hours, but iirc, I was pretty slow due to my subpar Japanese reading speed, and a couple of folks in the import OT were closer to ~45.
Noooooooo. Just including the main story and 'epilogue' chapter. If you want to do all the side quests and other stuff, there's easily another 50 hours there.
45 hours to beat the main game doesn't sound plausible for a casual play through to me. We're talking about a game where the fastest speed runs still take like over 13 hours. Even the main game is pretty damn long. That sounds more like playtime for people who stream so they're pressured into going faster which means no exploring thoroughly and talking to all the NPCs because they don't want to bore their audience. Or just people who are eager to get the end of the main game.
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Square-Enix: you'll get hyped by our 3 tweets per week and no other attempt at advertising or putting the game in a position to succeed at all and you'll like it.
Lack of marketing? Not seeing recent previews and not sure when embargo is up.
Its ashame, no marketing, bad date. Square just be throwing Dq out there
It really is pretty mind blowing how little has been out there and said about this title. Are they saving all the marketing/advertising for the eventual Switch launch? Hmm....