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Dragon Quest Community Thread: Come in! Would you like a Puff-Puff?
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i noticed there is an abundant amount of sealed copies of DQ V going around for $20 on ebay, etc. idk, im just kinda suspicious. any chance they are bootlegs?
me too! getting back into the 3ds and DQ8 is a big want for me, so figured i would start collecting/completing the DS games. IV and V ordered and should arrive soon, will get VI if i complete them as motivation. V and IX are the only ones i completed and i loved them.
me too! getting back into the 3ds and DQ8 is a big want for me, so figured i would start collecting/completing the DS games. IV and V ordered and should arrive soon, will get VI if i complete them as motivation. V and IX are the only ones i completed and i loved them.
I know SE was selling copies of DQ V on Black Friday for $12, maybe people bought them up and are trying to flip.
ahh. makes perfect sense there is a bunch of sealed copies floating around. thanks.
I actually got my copy of V off ebay too, but for more than $20. I saw those listings too, but I noticed they were coming from China. That was enough to make me a little suspicious of the listing.
Agent Unknown
Member
Last year I was able to get my sealed copy of Dragon Quest V DS for $39 but that was a steal because at the time new copies of DQ V were averaging around $60, so yeah, those are probably copies someone is flipping from the SE sale. Either that or someone found a stash of them somewhere.
It's hasn't been too hard to figure out, although I've gotten to a point where someone wants me to get a hammer but I can't craft one and I can't seem to find one anywhere on the map either. Maybe it's the end of the demo.
Got reasonably far into the demo. Really liking it so far, it's like a more charming Minecraft. Also no first person perspective, so my girlfriend can play this without getting motion sickness. I'll definitely buy it if it gets released in English.
Now I'm stuck, though. Can somebody tell me what exactly I have to do here (I hope that one screenshot is enough)?
Now I'm stuck, though. Can somebody tell me what exactly I have to do here (I hope that one screenshot is enough)?
You have to place pots/beds/etc in rooms to get the town to level 2.
PumpkinSpice
Banned
Anyone try the Vita version demo? Hows the perf looking?
https://www.jp.playstation.com/blog/detail/2294/20160125-dqbuilders.html
Shinjuku's metro station currently has a huge ad campaign for builders going on, including a wall of dragon quest pixel art made entirely out of LEGO Bricks (18 million bricks) spanning 80 meters.
Shinjuku's metro station currently has a huge ad campaign for builders going on, including a wall of dragon quest pixel art made entirely out of LEGO Bricks (18 million bricks) spanning 80 meters.
Confusatron
Member
That's awesome!
I really hope that game gets a release in NA. I've been watching streams of it, looks like a lot of fun. But I don't have a lot of hope for it coming out here.
KiTA
Member
Megalosaro
Banned
I thought ver 3 had been out
KiTA
Member
Is it? I feel stupid then, haha.
Aarglefarg
Member
I bought DQ Wars (DSi download) for my 3DS. Seems like a mistake since it looks like the disabled network features are a big part of the game.
Agent Unknown
Member
I'm thinking about playing Dragon Quest Monsters Caravan Heart for GBA as my second DQ game (still playing through V which is my first). I've never played a DQM game but I love the monster collecting in DQ V, and based on videos it looks much more like a proper quest than the Joker series and I hear it ties into the early games somehow. I also like that a young version of Kiefer is in the game, so also thought this could be fun to play before DQ 7 3DS is localized later this year. Any folks here like this game, recommendations, pros/cons?
Speaking of Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3...
AN AMERICAN PLAYER! YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS!?
Probably nothing at all...
oh shit
WE IN THERE BOYS
Agent Unknown
Member
According to Trevelyan9999, DQ VII should be coming in mid-June. For those who don't know, Trev was verified by Bish today as an insider with a confirmed source within Nintendo who leaked the 3DS schedule for 2016, his reply to me is here:
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=196320569
Mid-June will be perfect for my summer gaming schedule if that pans out.
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=196320569
Mid-June will be perfect for my summer gaming schedule if that pans out.
Maintenance
Member
Someone just told me that Nintendo is taking care of the localization of Dragon Quest 7 and 8.
In a scale of:
To:
How high are the chances that Treehouse is translating it?
In a scale of:
To:
How high are the chances that Treehouse is translating it?
I have a feeling I'm going to have to play the PS2 version.
Maintenance
Member
I hope so, I did not mind what they did in Fantasy Life (the dude that worked in that game talking about it in the Stream during E3 was amazing, you could feel his effort there) but their last jobs were terrible, not something I would consider "fine". I hope they just reuse the PS2 script.
DQVII is a "maybe", I think Treehouse did DQMJ2 and DQIX while 8-4 did DQVI. So it could go either way. DQVIII is practically finished, so I don't think there's that much in the way of new text (aside from the new content).
Maintenance
Member
Thanks. I'll wait and hope everything turns out fine.
Dragon Quest IX was mostly by Plus Alpha (they claim they did "two thirds", not sure about that other third). No idea about DQMJ2.
Agent Unknown
Member
Who told you this? Someone with actual connections in NOA like Trev?
Treehouse will have its hands full just localizing DQ VII which is massive, aside from some elements exclusive to the 3DS game, why on earth would NOA bother spending additional money and resources re-localizing all of DQ VIII? NOA looks for any opportunity it can to *not* spend money on something, they're not going to re-localize DQ VIII, SE will surely be giving them the PS2 version script to use.
In any case, people overreacting to Treehouse inserting an occasional pun here and there (MC Hammer joke in the Japanese version of Link to the Past says hello) or making regional adjustments when needed is out of control. Skip either of these games if you don't want more DQ games in the west, I still can't believe we're getting them at all (especially DQ VII 3DS which is three years old now).
If there's one thing that will truly spoil the integrity of a Dragon Quest game, it's puns.
Agent Unknown
Member
Seriously, what else is Treehouse going to do that will make people mad? This stuff didn't become an issue until people freaked out over the Doge meme bit in Triforce Heroes, now everything they do gets blown out of proportion.
Aarglefarg
Member
Pastor Bedthyme.
Count Uptaten.
Zere Rocks.
Count Uptaten.
Zere Rocks.
PumpkinSpice
Banned
I started playing DQ Builders and I'm about 8 hours in. I'm impressed! It's a total Minecraft clone but they do some interesting things for the sake of convenience. Depending on how you want to play you can mostly ignore the heavy building side and just do basic stuff to go through the scenarios. Or you could go crazy and tear down whole structures in the game and use the material for elsewhere. I like how flexible it is in this regard. Currently I'm trying to spec / level up my first town just cause I want a really nice looking town.
The visual style of the characters kinda bugs me though. It looks like the people on box art of DW1+2 or Torneko: The Last Hope. I'm not sure how they ended up with that. Otherwise it looks really cool. I'm playing on Vita and the performance is also really good, waaaay better than Minecraft on Vita.
The visual style of the characters kinda bugs me though. It looks like the people on box art of DW1+2 or Torneko: The Last Hope. I'm not sure how they ended up with that. Otherwise it looks really cool. I'm playing on Vita and the performance is also really good, waaaay better than Minecraft on Vita.
Megalosaro
Banned
Dragon Quest games are light hearted, but could still maintain a straight face.
I'm okay with the occasional word play or whatever... but they've been going overboard. I think people over blow the fire emblem stuff.
There are legitimate complaints about the changes to dq though. They are truly changing the meaning, emotional and intention of nearly every scene in these games lately.
What is the point of changing perfectly fan names like reidock and elysian academy to bullshit like somnia and swinedimples.
Hassan to carver, more illegal to molly l, Barbara to ashlynn. These are all unnecessary changes.
I'm okay with the occasional word play or whatever... but they've been going overboard. I think people over blow the fire emblem stuff.
There are legitimate complaints about the changes to dq though. They are truly changing the meaning, emotional and intention of nearly every scene in these games lately.
What is the point of changing perfectly fan names like reidock and elysian academy to bullshit like somnia and swinedimples.
Hassan to carver, more illegal to molly l, Barbara to ashlynn. These are all unnecessary changes.
Just caught up with the Direct news and was excited to see Dragon Quest VII get talked about, it's a shame we didn't get a release date though (in Europe). They footage they showed looked great, I can't wait to get a chance to finally play it.
For any weirdos like me who sometimes study or work to the symphonic suites of the Dragon Quest music, I made a compilation of the more relaxing stuff if anyone wanted to listen to it: here. You could sleep to it too, I guess.
For any weirdos like me who sometimes study or work to the symphonic suites of the Dragon Quest music, I made a compilation of the more relaxing stuff if anyone wanted to listen to it: here. You could sleep to it too, I guess.
Aarglefarg
Member
I was sure they would show a release date at the end of the segment. Even a quarter.
