Dragon Quest thread

Gaagaagiins

Breath of Fire III is the real DQV rip off here, it even has a mine!

fridgeboy

I love Breath of Fire III. It’s the only one in the series I played. Does this mean I would love Dragon Quest?

Syzygy

fridgeboy
Probably. Breath of Fire originates as a real elevator pitch of a game: Dragon Quest (1) is about a warrior (戦士) questing to defeat the Dragon Lord (竜王). Breath of Fire (1), subtitle 竜の戦士, is about a warrior who is a dragon. Literally flipped the script!

tapevulture
To be sure FF has gone in its own direction but the building blocks of the genre almost always came from a DQ. It’s like calling FPS “Doom clones”. I acknowledge the divide you’re talking about, though I might put it on FF6 since that was the first deliberate regression from game to film-like design.

tapevulture

Syzygy I am surprised by this answer but I think I see what you’re getting at. For me FF7 seems like a clear pivot into trying to make a film/game hybrid, as is the case with every FF helmed by Kitase since. It’s a very different experience than what I’ve gotten from Dragon Quest.

treefroggy

I just beat DQ 8 for the first time. PS2 version. :j

exodus

okay I haven’t played any dragon quest aside from Rocket Slime (which rules) for longer than an hour. Can folks tell me whether they ALL have extremely stupid english localization or if that’s just the ones I’ve recently seen? I’m talking about people talking in “ye olde enlisshe” or “talkin’ lahk thiyus” et cetera.

I absolutely cannot abide that nonsense and I’m hearing maybe this is consistent across the series!?

Syzygy

exodus
I refuse to play them except in Japanese for that very reason, and I can confirm they’re all varying degrees of terrible, with the lowpoint being the English DS remasters. And even all the fan translations I’ve seen miss out on the cultural aspect that DQ, like SMT, has had its own series-long names for spells and other recurring elements.

yeso

The only official exception is the PS2 DQ VIII release which is the least assertively like that

You could also go the fan translation route for the super famicom games, which don’t attempt the accents as far as I can recall. I think they look better than the samey DS rereleases anyway in my opinoin

bodydouble

I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve played through the first 30 minutes of DQ1. The tension of choosing to buy a bamboo pole & leather armor versus the club & clothes OR going for broke and trying save for a copper sword while beating enough red slimes without dying – it’s one of my favorite little gameplay loops.

It’s unreal how satisfying the sounds effects are in that game. So good in the very first iteration that they continue to use them today.

GigaSlime

I love the Dragon Quest localizations. I like funny accents and puns and I will never apologize

I will say that as far as I can recall, the modern Dragon Quest localizations only use Ye Olde English as kind of a regional dialect for Alefgard, the setting of Dragon Quest 1, 2, and the latter half of 3, as an homage to the original localization for Dragon Warrior. Every other setting just gets a different regional British or other European accent

sabertoothalex

I think it’s the DS remake of DQIV w/ the different dialects that were damn near impossible to read for me at times. The scottish one specifically I think was hard.

DQXI, I really didn’t notice it much outside of the spoken accents. Game was very easy to read and understand and didn’t lean too hard in any direction. From my recollection of it at least.

GigaSlime

sabertoothalex Ye dinnae ken how tae save the wee bairns???

exodus

looks like XI or VII are my only options to ever try this series, I don’t feel like playing it in japanese when it’s already kind of “work” to start playing the game at all!

treefroggy

Jtwo

Amazing. Wish I had it.

hellomrkearns

I sure do like Dragon Quest. I think DQ1 on NES must have been the first one I played, but never got much into it. It took Dragon Quest IX to really get me into it, which I realise is a bit of a weird one to start with. There’s a lot of cool stuff in there, but it’s probably the hardest to go back to just because it was on the DS. Then I started playing all the DS ports that came out (IV, V & VI). Really got into VIII on PS2. Picked up a few of the Android ports when they went on sale and they were perfect for my commute. I’ve only just downloaded the PC demo for XI. Will be picking that up when I’ve got some time to dive into it..

AdventNick

I’m relatively new to Dragon Quest. Got super hooked after playing DQ11. Decided to go back and start at the beginning.

Enjoyed playing DQ1 on mobile – heresy, I know. But there’s something soothing about grinding through the quest with one hand while chillin’ on my commute. But now with the pandemic going on, haven’t found time to do the same with DQ2 on mobile.

But I’ve decided to try DQ3 on SFC to learn some beginner’s japanese per Tim’s recommendation somewhere on Twitter.

Overall, love playing through the RPG grandpappy of video game franchises so many years later.

treefroggy

AdventNick Tim’s suggestion is cool but you know what, the GBC ports of DQ1-3 are based on the SFC ports and were released in the USA and I recommend those over the SFC versions.
-Even more refined
-8bit chip tunes make the gameboy sing and are more like the original music, with added layers
-gameboy is the pokemon machine, play dragon quest on it
-more likely to complete the game on a portable?

Especially in the case of DQ3, I think the GBC is the best version ever made, definitive, even.

I remember hearing Tim say that, and I thought, “well, he must also mean the GBC ports, since they’re the same thing”

yeso

good call those SFC DQs look+sound great

p3ters

oh.

I started playing Dragon Quest XI lol. I’m 3 hours in now, but I’m committed!!

the only other DQ games I played:

the 1st one on gameboy (the 1+2 pack). I beat 1, never put a dent in 2. I also have DQ3, but also barely scraped the surface of it.

4 on DS; I beat it, but not the post game stuff.

9 on DS, I never beat it but played it for quite a bit. I think I lost momentum when I tried to change my character class and felt like I was weak and had to start grinding again?

Rocket Slime - also never beat it. The game stopped being fun for me, which was sad coz lots of ppl really loved this one.

DQ games I want to play: 5 and 8; I have both for DS and 3DS and hear they’re real good!

until then, I’ll be on the DQXI train for the next few months!

Jtwo

Haha, partially due to this thread I’m putting more time into DQ11.

Some of our British posters will enjoy this, apparently there is british turn of phrase where you call something “Jammy” like, if its too saccharine or overyly sentimental.

Anyway, my GF knows I like DQ but is only vaguely familiar with it.. I was playing DQ11 on the bedroom TV and after watching it for 20 minutes she told me “jammy as fuck” which I thought was hysterical and started laughing so hard I had to quit my session.

Jammy is the perfect word to describe DQ.

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