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Dragon Quest 6 DS |OT| of Tax-Free 2DS Valentine's Slime Curling
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jaundicejuice
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Got my copy and the last plushie slime at that, without a pre-order.
meltingparappa
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I am insanely jealous of anyone who gets to an extra weekend to play this. My local gamestops have workers indignant at the mere question if they have it in stock.
Dark Octave
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Please don't start calling the DS the 2DS..
Mega Man's Electric Sheep
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Oh nooooooo, just wasted an hour of my night when I discovered the Slime Curling!!!
Ok, not wasted, because it's awesome.
I named my main character Bastian, after the boy in the Neverending Story. So far, 2 hours in, the game feels identical to Dragon Quest V to me, which is not a bad thing. I'm sure it will develop its own identity soon enough
Ok, not wasted, because it's awesome.
I named my main character Bastian, after the boy in the Neverending Story. So far, 2 hours in, the game feels identical to Dragon Quest V to me, which is not a bad thing. I'm sure it will develop its own identity soon enough
the second world map looks promising though
sorry for the offtopicness, got bored and decided to look up some video games on ebay.
i decided to look up dragon quest V for the super famicon.
found out a complete boxed set sells for $10. something like that in the pic. i don't even own an SNES or know a lick of japanese but damn that would look nice displayed on a shelf or hell just to even have, i mean it's just $10. seems most SFC games are around that price.
i decided to look up dragon quest V for the super famicon.
found out a complete boxed set sells for $10. something like that in the pic. i don't even own an SNES or know a lick of japanese but damn that would look nice displayed on a shelf or hell just to even have, i mean it's just $10. seems most SFC games are around that price.
I'm somewhat anti-gamestop, but they have an extra 50% trade in starting today if you are a Power up member (the paid kind), or starting tomorrow if you're not. I'm going to trade some stuff in and put down a pre-order (and hope they say, "Oh, we have it already, here you go!")...
Chesskid1 said:
Yeah, I'm surprised at how cheap a bunch of "classics" are in Japan. At a few stores I went to during a business trip, the used game sections seemed to have all of the DQ games and ports for 1000~1500 yen, or something like that. Not even at big game stores, I'm talking general entertainment stores with tiny sections for used games.
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
These things had prints runs in the millions in Japan. While RPGs of the era have obtained a notoriety for rarity in the US (even though many of them are not rare as far as print runs are concerned) they are very common in Japan.Yaweee said:
It's akin to finding a copy of Super Mario World over here.
Augemitbutter
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B.K. said:
that's why i got brand new copies of FF 1-3 NES some years ago and DQ 2-3. they're beautiful!
Crazymoogle
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Thanks Tiktaalik. Picked up the game (and the preorder slime bonus!) at pacific centre!
turnbuckle
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Cow Mengde said:
Agree completely. I just played through both again a few months ago and they still look good today. The DS games look little different than the hideous DQVII
Love em all, but it's too bad they used this style.Had 6 pre-ordered since the day it was announced. Can't wait to play it again. Gonna be refreshing after wasting so much time grotto grinding in IX.
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
Yuji Horii is signing (early) copies of Dragon Quest VI at the GameStop in Palo Alto, CA from 1:00 to 3:00 PM on 2/12.
How raging jealous am I right now?
How raging jealous am I right now?
Mr. Wonderful
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While I agree with your main point, V and VI both still look MILES better than Dragon Quest VII, even if still fugly.turnbuckle said:Agree completely. I just played through both again a few months ago and they still look good today. The DS games look little different than the hideous DQVII
jaundicejuice
Member
Loto said:
I had to ask. I only got it because my friend is a regular at that store, they gave him his pre-ordered copy early which he then texted me about.
^^^ Haha! Wow... if only.
I think the 2D/3D DS games look fine. People would complain if it were the SNES titles shrunken down on the DS, and they'd surely bitch about the music. I'm happy that we got them in the first place, and the tweaks to the DQ7-style engine are good, too.Mr. Wonderful said:
Dead Prince
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will definitely buy this when i have the money. hopefully it gets on sale on amazon in a few weeks.
I was thinking about picking this game up this month. At the very least, I already have it preordered at gamestop, because you get a free plush Slime for preordering there which I'm stoked about, but other than that I really know very little about this entry in the series.
Is there any insight anyone could give me as to the quality of this game? I already expect it'll have the same quality in terms of presentation and graphics compared to the other DS remakes of Dragon Quest 4 and 5, but was this game fondly remembered by anyone when it originally came out on the Super Famicom in Japan?
As always, I love the art style for the DQ series, and seeing the box art and ads for it make me want it for that reason alone, but is are the story and characters any good?
Is there any insight anyone could give me as to the quality of this game? I already expect it'll have the same quality in terms of presentation and graphics compared to the other DS remakes of Dragon Quest 4 and 5, but was this game fondly remembered by anyone when it originally came out on the Super Famicom in Japan?
As always, I love the art style for the DQ series, and seeing the box art and ads for it make me want it for that reason alone, but is are the story and characters any good?
I've always wondered about this. Were Super Famicom games like really mass produced, because I noticed you can find almost any big JRPG on SF in complete condition for a fairly reasonable price. Anyone know the reason behind this?Chesskid1 said:sorry for the offtopicness, got bored and decided to look up some video games on ebay.
i decided to look up dragon quest V for the super famicon.
found out a complete boxed set sells for $10. something like that in the pic. i don't even own an SNES or know a lick of japanese but damn that would look nice displayed on a shelf or hell just to even have, i mean it's just $10. seems most SFC games are around that price.
Auron_Kale
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Princess Skittles said:
Going to see if I can be one of those 50 as Palo Alto's about an hour and half from my place... then it's back to work at my GS for a closing shift.
lordoftherink
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No luck getting an early copy at EB Games or elsewhere. The employee at HMV has happy to say that he's suuuuuuper excited for Dragon Quest VI, after having spent 50 hours on IX, and the employee at EB said the game was streetdated for the 15th, which doesn't make sense given what others are saying, but I already wasn't going to get it from there because of the extra $5 they're charging. Guess I'll just have to wait until Monday.
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
Twas explained above.. Dragon Quest does Madden numbers in Japan. There are millions of these. They're monetarily worthless on the second-hand market.Yuripaw said:
As far as condition goes, that's just a Japanese thing, they take care of their stuff better in general, I beleive. Almost every used game I've gotten from Japan has been in meticulous condition (a few Famicom carts I got were cart-only). It also helps that they didn't have FuncoLand (pre-GameStop) throwing away millions of boxes and manuals on second-hand games.
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
Godspeed. Take pictures (of what you can) and tell Horii that I love him.Auron_Kale said:
So I just pre ordered mine (got my slime!) And was told that it was supposed to come in today. No street date, so I would have gotten it. I live in Orlando, btw. They said it was probably due to bad weather in texas that they didn't get it, expecting it tomorrow. I need to finish up Ghost Trick!