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Dragon Quest XI Review Thread
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Just to be clear, you can only up the difficulty through restrictive toggles, and you can only do this before you start the game. If you start playing the game and find it too easy, there's nothing you can do about that.
Gotcha. You can turn it down (once?) can't you? So could start with it on and then adjust it down if it's too punishing? Shame you can't whack it up while playing.
Thank you very much.
This was the one question I was looking for it all of the reviews.
I like a good challenge, but I don't want to play something stressful. I want something similar to DQ3/4 in terms of challenge.
I would usually say VIII but it sounds like its similar enough to XI that you might as well just play XI and not risk any burnout. Still, the 3DS version of VIII is mostly great. IV is also good and relatively short compared to some of the other series highlights.
NNK1 was clearly influenced by DQ. NNK2 got pretty far away from DQ though, and for the worse IMO
VIII is easily the closest DQ to XI.
Otherwise, everyone will say V, but the real answer is IV
Draconian quest is a mode that allows for extra modifiers in your game, including making enemies more difficult. With this setting enabled, I found it to be more challenging and engaging in terms of mechanics when compared to OT for example. There is a lot of hidden depth in the game that the extra difficulty brings out. During some boss battles I was at the edge of my seat, it can be that good.
Not VI. For Western fans I'd say IV, V, and VIII are the most popular.
For Japan I'd switch VIII with III but not sure.
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Wait, i just realized this is wrong, Xenoblade Chronicles got a 94 in 2012.
Sounds exciting. You still lose pretty much nothing if you wipe out, right? Keep all the exp and items you've gotten, etc. Always liked that even with failed dungeon runs in DQ, you've made at least a tiny bit of character progress.
No, for either franchise, but we all know what kind of thread those arguments lead to :P
The first three are actually a connected thing though, right?
Only finished 7, 8 and Monsters personally.
Yeah forgot about it which is weird because It's in my top 3 JRPGs and I'm currently playing Xeno 2...
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Haha, I guess you were maybe only thinking of turn based ones.
I'm actually a bit unclear on this to be honest because there are more options now. I think you get to keep xp and items if you wipe out and return to the last save statue you saved at, but you lose half your money. But I'd always choose for the ' return to last autosave' option, which does delete whatever xp and items you earned, but doesn't take your money. I don't care about the money, but the game autosaves pretty frequently, so I barely lost any progress.
Are there any random huge difficulty spikes like Dhoulmagus? And that cloud thing in VII
LOL, that review sure is something.
Love the passion. Slightly annoyed by all the quick-cut text pop-ups.
Really fun review either way.
I was really hoping this was Jason and not Tim "why say in 6 minutes what I can say in 36 minutes!" Rogers.
Haven't played a DQ game since VIII. Does this still have that archaic save system where you have to go to a church and have to go through multiple lines of dialog just to save your game?
Bit of a specific question about turning off voices, but can anyone comment on whether this also includes the characters' sound effects (grunts and whatnot) and dialogue, during combat? Thanks in advance, to anyone who could provide the info.
I don't think presentation and music are related imo... I would love to play a PS4 presentation game with DQIII or DQV MIDI musics.
That could be a perfect fit.
FFVI MIDIs are pretty awesome too.
Well, that's not what "recent" means. :P
I'll also gladly take XIII over Blue Dragon. It's great.
No quick save like in the portable versions? Guess we can also just put our PS4s in rest mode.
Some will say VIII but I will say the best DQ in no order are III, IV, V, VI and VII... there is no way to go wrong with any.
VIII is great but probably the first step back in the franchise.