might have been an easy convincing since they have Bravely Default and Octopath in the pocket
Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition demo & preload out NOW
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Making an assumption off the cuff from imperfect memory is not very misinformed. I love this game and I'm really happy about this release but fucking hell if attitudes like this are welcome.
You're saying it's an easy game to run, that's being misinformed.
It does, at least on "Super strong enemies" you cannot smash "a" to win. DQ games make GREAT use of buffs and debuffs, specially against bosses.
Depends on if you enable hard enemies and other draconian options at the start.
Tried it to see the graphics because dq bore me so much and reaching the city there was no miracle. At first I thought it was nice except for the grass which is so aliased. Then at the village it was so rough with textures and geometry that I went to xenoblade 2 to have some point of comparison. On tv, xeno is much better, doesn't help I was in Uraya which is gorgeous. So I dont know what is coming from the original game or the downgrade hammer but I feel they could have done more docked. Handheldwise it's pretty good compared to xeno. But man, the latter with a resolution upgrade on switch 2 is so set! I'm replaying it now lol
Yeah, the game looks nice, but Xenoblade 2 looks leagues ahead. Especially given the fact the scope of XBC2's world as opposed to DQ11's, and DQ11 has pop-in out the wazoo.
Wait what? Jesus I'm hyped! With the rate I play at I'll probably finish the demo right around the time the full game unlocks lol.
Enable harder enemies at the start of the game and it'll be rewardingly challenging.
This demo is gonna make the next month's wait to be just awful lol. Good thing I have VI to tide me over.
I enabled less xp, harder enemies, and if my character dies my party dies. Anything else i should turn on? I enjoy a challenge on my games
That should be good then. Some of the others don't really impact the difficulty directly but moreso how you play it. Not being able to buy from shops instead just makes you farm mats for the crafting system, for instance.
Sometimes I feel FF made so much damage in this aspect, and that's why a entire generation can't get certain series. It bloat you with a lot of skills and sometimes don't work always, so why you need to try buff, debuffs and ailment skills? To be fair DQ can bloat you too (specially if it has a class-system, like in VII), but at least the ailment skills works.
Yeah here at least you can put bosses to sleep/poison fairly often then do Erik's damage multiplying dagger skills to help out a lot early on.
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I left cobblestone and got to the first camp and decided to save and wait until release, If i play more I am going to be anxious I have to wait a month so I don't want to get too into it, so far I am really enjoying it though. Super charming.... my first DQ game other than the original on NES
I had to do the same, I may get back into the demo around the week of release.
I like the japanese dub but there's that weird thing with the localised names that don't match the Dub.
I know it's not a big deal but it's weird.
I know it's not a big deal but it's weird.
Surprised how good the game looks on docked mode. I think I might just buy my first Dragon Quest, really enjoyed my time with the game.
Btw, for anyone that has played the game:
Btw, for anyone that has played the game:
are the people in Cubblestone actually dead ?
It does, but if you want to enable it do it to make the game in general harder, not the post game specifically. Post game is quite hard as is, and actually the game gets difficult before that; mid-way through act 2.
I feel dirty, like I stole something. Even though I already pre-purchased this.
Hmm. It's already much easier than usual DQ, which also has jumps in difficulty for me usually,. Idea is just too keep the post game hard as possible, providing its meaty.
Yeah I get you, it's the one thing I disliked about the game, it's just ridiculously trivial until late into act 2 where it hits an absurd difficulty spike that makes it extremely fun. Ironically I tried draconian and found it too much, so I had to stick to normal difficulty lol.
I guess you can always restart with draconian modifiers and see how far you can get. You can disable them at any time after all. Personally I had my fill by the time I reached the desert.
new dialog in event scenes was one of the changes for this version, yes.
Played 15 minutes undocked.
I'm surprised how it looks. Played around 20 hours on the PS4 Pro and still looks great on Switch.
I'm surprised how it looks. Played around 20 hours on the PS4 Pro and still looks great on Switch.
Definitely best playing it handheld. I'm usually not that picky when it comes to docked visuals, but it was not great, and the grass looked like a worse shimmery mess than it was on PS4 Pro (checkerboard), which at least made everything else look extremely crisp and detailed. Maybe I'll play it docked in 2D mode. :)
This is such an impressive port - I kinda expected to hear my the Switch fan from time to time playing in portable mode because it should be quite taxing but haven't heard a thing yet while the game performs great.
They really used that additional time for the Switch release.
You arent lying.
They really used that additional time for the Switch release.
lol
You arent lying.
If you think that the game is too blurry in handheld mode, adjust the brightness from 50 to 30 in the settings.
I'm so torn. This version has everything but it just looks terrible compared to when i played it on PC. But i REALLY wanna replay the game :s
Honestly I'm already in love and I've played like 10 minutes? It's got nice cutscenes, great music, dual audio and you can fight with your dog. Like I kinda don't want to play anymore because the game is still a month away but now I've opened Pandora's Box...
Amazing playing this and TH back to back. The second half of 2019 delivers.
Amazing playing this and TH back to back. The second half of 2019 delivers.
The funny thing is when I heard that they put out a demo for DQ11, my first thought was confusion over why they would do that when the first few hours of the game is the worst part. Then I found out that it's like the first 10 hours of the game.
I found this helped how it looked too fwiw. I think the bloom exacerbates some of the muddled-ness.
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