InfiniteNine
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Dragon Quest 9 |OT| Last chance* to shine
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Segata Sanshiro
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I forget, but I don't think so. Don't worry though, you'll be drowning in skill points thanks to the overlapping trees.BooJoh said:
Mockingbird
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at Toys R Us you get a $15 gift card with the purchase of this.
Easystride
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Nice. Thanks for the heads up. Reading Best Buy's price matching policy, it seems that they would match this offer, but the wording is a little confusing. Has anyone successfully PM'd a gift card promo like this at Best Buy before?Mockingbird said:
Easystride said:
Very YMMV; price-matching Gift Cards at Best Buy is not guaranteed and doesn't actually fall under their price matching guarantee (it's considered a "promo"). I've never tried it myself, but I have seen a pretty good number of people successfully price-match giftcard offers at Best Buy. I'd say it's definitely worth a shot yeah.
I have some small questions, hope you can help.
From what I have read you get to create every characters in your team? How many can you create? Are you limited to 3 to fill your team or can you create more. Since you can pretty much change everyone jobs I guess it's hard to create a useless character.
Now let's talk about the jobs. Are the jobs balanced? Are some of them worthless? I maybe want my main character to be a thief or monk and then become a ranger. I want it to be different than the classic DQ hero. Are you stuck alone for a while in the game? If I create a mage are the solo battles winnable or will I have to switch to a melee type job to beat them?
From what I have read you get to create every characters in your team? How many can you create? Are you limited to 3 to fill your team or can you create more. Since you can pretty much change everyone jobs I guess it's hard to create a useless character.
Now let's talk about the jobs. Are the jobs balanced? Are some of them worthless? I maybe want my main character to be a thief or monk and then become a ranger. I want it to be different than the classic DQ hero. Are you stuck alone for a while in the game? If I create a mage are the solo battles winnable or will I have to switch to a melee type job to beat them?
Segata Sanshiro
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You can create quite a few. Enough to have one person of each job, at least, if you want.Vamphuntr said:
As to job balance, I haven't really put every job through serious paces, but I think every job offers something useful in terms of an ability or two that kick butt. I'm not sure if you could create a character that could get particularly stuck. As for being alone,
you're alone for the first part of the game, and there is one part later where you are alone, but no matter what job you choose, your hero should be strong enough to handle it. He's still the strongest character in the game, after all.
lordoftherink
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:/Aeana said:
I think the real thread title-sorta related question that needs answering is which battle speed is fastest.
Freyjadour
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This may have been asked before, but is there a Japanese Wiki of any sort with Skill / Class info? The few I've stumbled upon are incomplete at best.
Segata Sanshiro
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Um, dunno if it's exactly what you're looking for, but there's a list of skills here:Freyjadour said:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/937281-dragon-quest-ix-sentinels-of-the-starry-skies/50487714
edit: this might be better:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ds/937281-dragon-quest-ix-sentinels-of-the-starry-skies/faqs/57178
Freyjadour
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Segata Sanshiro said:
Didn't even think of GameFAQs, no idea. Thanks though.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Bah, I pre-ordered at Gamestop.
Oh well. I'm too lazy to change it.
Oh well. I'm too lazy to change it.
Shouta
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Gravijah said:
You'll never get messed up characters because the points are allotted by leveling up and every job gives points, so you can go to another job to earn points for the other if you wanted to. Kind of nice but makes the characters a lot more samey because it's so easy to do that.
RoboManus said:
I wouldn't touch Twilight with a prophylactic covered razor spiked baseball bat, but indeed it is true that they put the commercial there.
Not sure if it would be the right audience as I would think Twilight viewers would be too busy laying in their hot topic fasioned synthetic velvet poly blend rooms eating bon bons, smoking cloves and writing shitty poetry and being all angsty and shit to play Dragon Quest but you never know.
Will definitely be seen by huge numbers.
KeioSquad2
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Can't wait to pick up my copy, with my midnight blue xl 
I just have one question? Can you still get treasure maps and quests in the single player game? I would love to do them on my own if I could.......
I just have one question? Can you still get treasure maps and quests in the single player game? I would love to do them on my own if I could.......Fantastical
Death Prophet
Putting a commercial before Twilight is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.
Fantastical said:
Did you see the numbers of people that went to see the movie already?
I would call it an odd idea because of the crowd (I would have put it in front of a more fantasy oriented film myself) but more people saw the ad over the weekend than would see it on tv in three months.
seady said:
I think Nintendo is making a huge mistake by trying to go all american with the ads.
If they pushed it with more of an anime style ad accenting the art and the world I think it would be more successful.
Most game ads are asinine these days anyway.
I very much think that the lack of hype is sad though, no pre-order bonuses and no in store swag to buy makes it look like it was sent to die.
Luckily it looks like a strong game, and word of mouth plus those loyal to the series should help.
Hex said:
As much as I love this series I'm not convinced any type of advertising would actually give this a strong push. At the very least what Nintendo is trying is different and who knows, maybe it will be wildly effective.
Less than a week to go! I'm tempted to try and play through Dragon Quest 3 before 9 arrives. Three, six, and nine are the only three I haven't played through yet. I don't think I'd make it in time though and I'd hate to have to stop in the middle until I finished up with 9.
I'm curious if anyone been able to get any of their friends interested in this title? I'm definitely going to be picking it up but I'm sad to say that I doubt I'll be able to experience any of the online features.
Everyone I know is ready and willing to jump on the Monster Hunter/Peace Walker hype train but turn based combat apparently turns off a heck of a lot of people. :lol
Everyone I know is ready and willing to jump on the Monster Hunter/Peace Walker hype train but turn based combat apparently turns off a heck of a lot of people. :lol
lordoftherink
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The tagline for Eclipse movie posters was "It All Begins With A Choice"Fantastical said:
The Seth Green advertisement emphasizes the high degree of CHOICES you can make in the game.
Best cross-promotion everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Making of the commercial:
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=11554
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=11554
Freyjadour
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Dineren said:
Yeah I don't see this selling anywhere near what it needs to / they want it to no matter what audience they throw ads at. Thread title is as relevant as ever.