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[Kacho]

I'm trying to choose between this and Unicorn Overlord, but I am worried that the very basic leveling system in DQ3 Remake will bother me. I understand it's a product of it's time, but I'm so used to more in depth customization by now.

You can't go wrong with either honestly

 

[Madflavor]

You can't go wrong with either honestly

Yeah I know whatever I end up with, I likely won't end up regretting my choice.

 

[ap_puff]

I'm trying to choose between this and Unicorn Overlord, but I am worried that the very basic leveling system in DQ3 Remake will bother me. I understand it's a product of it's time, but I'm so used to more in depth customization by now.

Get the cheaper one. I love DQ3 and it's my nostalgia goggles game, but Unicorn Overlord is an excellent game. Unicorn Overlord is more modern and has more content, and its combat system is truly fun. DQ3 is beautiful, has a great soundtrack (UO has a middling soundtrack), and is a great turn-off-most-of-your-brain-for-30hours game.

 

[TintoConCasera]

UO has a middling soundtrack

??? ???

I agree on the turn-off-brain part tho. Game's way too easy most of the time, at least for the time I played it. Story is nice and the waifus are great tho. Enjoyable comfy game imo.

 

[Danjin44]

I agree on the turn-off-brain part tho. Game's way too easy most of the time, at least for the time I played it.

I played on true zenorian difficulty and battle can get very tough and you can only use 5 items and it has permadeath.

Story is nice and the waifus are great tho

Damn straight!

 

[TintoConCasera]

Danjin44 based evil women appreciating chad.

 

[ap_puff]

??? ???

I agree on the turn-off-brain part tho. Game's way too easy most of the time, at least for the time I played it. Story is nice and the waifus are great tho. Enjoyable comfy game imo.

I really didn't think the UO soundtrack was anything special. Hell I can't really remember any of the themes without looking them up.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

Lame that you have to put it in Framerate mode on Series X to hold it at smooth 60fps. I wouldn’t think it’s that demanding of a game. But the constant jitteriness in towns and open areas was noticeable. Not sure what the resolution is in Framerate mode, looking forward to DF coverage.

VRR doesn't help?

 

[TintoConCasera]

I really didn't think the UO soundtrack was anything special. Hell I can't really remember any of the themes without looking them up.

I remember this theme from the prologue kicking some serious ass:

 

[ap_puff]

I remember this theme from the prologue kicking some serious ass:

You know what I remember thinking when I heard that song it started out very reminiscent of the Ghost in the Shell song

 

[TintoConCasera]

You know what I remember thinking when I heard that song it started out very reminiscent of the Ghost in the Shell song

Shit, you are right lol. Good thinking!

Guess we can deduce from all this that chanting, more often than not, results in pure kino.

 

[ClanOfNone]

I treated myself to this on Switch cause all my other gear is packed up for a move.
Comfort food gaming that nails the feel good nostalgia vibes with a gorgeous new coat of paint.
I can only imagine what a Crono or FFVI remake would look like with this engine.

 

[Arsic]

Yeah I know whatever I end up with, I likely won't end up regretting my choice.

Do not be fooled. DQ3 is deeper than it looks.

You get to pick which classes for your party, then weapons they’ll use, then there’s all this personality stuff to tinker with for stats.

Plus, there’s a whole monster capturing and arena to d d d d d duel!

Exploration is rewarded well too. Put it on ultra fast combat and auto run and the game cruises.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Do not be fooled. DQ3 is deeper than it looks.

You get to pick which classes for your party, then weapons they’ll use, then there’s all this personality stuff to tinker with for stats.

Plus, there’s a whole monster capturing and arena to d d d d d duel!

Exploration is rewarded well too. Put it on ultra fast combat and auto run and the game cruises.

Which classes do you recommend starting with?

 

[Kacho]

This game

 

[Arsic]

Which classes do you recommend starting with?

I only have the ones I tried but I did google what is “optimal” since I picked hard mode.

Apparently 3 wizards that become sages plus your character is the min max strat?

I went with a thief. Has abilities to blind entire groups of monsters so your team doesn’t take damage. Plus it can equiop weapons that hit all enemies or groups of enemies like a whip.

Then a wizard. Yep Magic does big damage.

Healer. Gets access to boomerang early to hit all enemies and has a wind magic to hit all in a group.


Main character is stuck as hero so Jack of all trades. Get heal magic, damage magic, and good stats in everything.

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I am curious about monster tamer too.

Oh and apparently all female cast and you’re the only male is optimal too because some equipment is tied to sex?

 

[ap_puff]

Which classes do you recommend starting with?

The weakest starting classes are the goof-off (gadabout), merchant, and priest. But you need a priest because they are a healer and early on medicinal herbs are kinda precious. Also i would recommend not playing with the preorder bonus items as they make the game wayyyyyy too easy.

Soldier and Fighter are good frontliners, but Soldiers are more expensive to equip - the tradeoff to having access to the best equipment (fighters only use fists until you get access to claw weapons later and can't wear a lot of equipment). Thieves are pretty mid but have a chance to steal items at the end of every combat, and they're very fast so most often go first (there's a formula for turn order that i cba to look up so there's a bit of randomness, just because you have the highest agi doesnt mean you always go first). Wizards are very strong when they cast but they are slow and limited by their mp pool, they are kind of a low tier pick in the early game imo because there are so many random encounters that you'll mostly be autoattacking even on your casters. But he does get access to needle weapons which are fun and very niche. Merchants are okay, middle of the pack, not very special. I don't find their bonuses to be super useful.

For a starting team the only real way you'll screw up is by taking 3 wizards/goof-offs or 3 soldiers as the wizard/goof off team sucks in combat and the soldier team is too expensive to equip.

 

[Kacho]

Has anyone set the voices to Japanese and had them revert to English?

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

I'm around five hours in and so far it's really really good. Story is light but I don't mind

There's a battle speed option and I turned it to ultra fast. There's lot of Random Encounters in Dungeons. I wish they did a Random Encounters Frequency Slider for the game though. I never finished the first Bravely Default but I remember you could turn off the Encounters if you wanted to and turn them back on when you wanted to grind

I played both docked and undocked

Docked wise, the game looks beautiful and runs smoothly

Undocked, there's a bump down but it's still beautiful. There a little framerate issues. It's not to the point where it's unplayable though and hardly noticeable

My Party consists of a Warrior, Priest, Thief and Monster Wrangler

My party are around Level 8 to Level 10

I hope they do a HD-2D Remake remake for Dragon Quest IV, Dragon Quest V, Dragon Quest VI and Dragon Quest IX. Also do a full remaster of the 3DS Versions of Dragon VII and Dragon Quest VIII

The game overall I think is great but nothing special. It is growing on me so far so I might even enjoy it more the more I play it

One last thing I'm playing on the Switch OLED

 

[Danjin44]

Has anyone set the voices to Japanese and had them revert to English?

I played in english from get go, unless the english voices are pretty bad I usually play JPRGs that's set in medieval fantasy in english.

 

[Blackage]

This game is funny, it's like "Ok, you need a party, go get em!" And you instantly have mage, priest, warrior.

 

[ap_puff]

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

I'm around five hours in and so far it's really really good. Story is light but I don't mind

There's a battle speed option and I turned it to ultra fast. There's lot of Random Encounters in Dungeons. I wish they did a Random Encounters Frequency Slider for the game though. I never finished the first Bravely Default but I remember you could turn off the Encounters if you wanted to and turn them back on when you wanted to grind

I played both docked and undocked

Docked wise, the game looks beautiful and runs smoothly

Undocked, there's a bump down but it's still beautiful. There a little framerate issues. It's not to the point where it's unplayable though and hardly noticeable

My Party consists of a Warrior, Priest, Thief and Monster Wrangler

My party are around Level 8 to Level 10

I hope they do a HD-2D Remake remake for Dragon Quest IV, Dragon Quest V, Dragon Quest VI and Dragon Quest IX. Also do a full remaster of the 3DS Versions of Dragon VII and Dragon Quest VIII

The game overall I think is great but nothing special. It is growing on me so far so I might even enjoy it more the more I play it

One last thing I'm playing on the Switch OLED

You can use items to reduce encounter frequency, get some holy waters

 

[Arsic]

This game is funny, it's like "Ok, you need a party, go get em!" And you instantly have mage, priest, warrior.

Go upstairs to get better classes.

 

[Blackage]

Go upstairs to get better classes.

I did! This is a very old school JRPG, talking to townsfolk actually like gives you hints and guidance, it's kinda nice.

 

[Fake]

Consoles have a quality and performance toggle, performance is probably 1080/60.

With all due respect, this game doesn't need a quality/performance mode.

 

[Rran]

Honestly there's probably no real wrong choice with the classes (unless you go three Gadabouts or something). I really liked my initial team and then I really liked the classes they were after I reclassed. All classes seemingly get a pretty good variety of skills and abilities.

For completionists, I do recommend Monster Wrangler and/or Thief (or reclass one into the other like I did). MWs have an ability that tells you if a friendly monster is nearby and even if there's one there but it's the wrong time of day. Thieves have a similar ability at one of the levels in the teens that shows you how many treasures are left in the area and it pops up with the HUD from that point on. Very nice for those looking to grab it all.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

I’m playing on ps5 pro and the “quality” mode is a locked 60 fps with higher detail than the “performance” mode

Is this game only 30 fps for base ps5 on quality?

The soundtrack in this game is outstanding and really elevates the experience

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Honestly there's probably no real wrong choice with the classes (unless you go three Gadabouts or something). I really liked my initial team and then I really liked the classes they were after I reclassed. All classes seemingly get a pretty good variety of skills and abilities.

For completionists, I do recommend Monster Wrangler and/or Thief (or reclass one into the other like I did). MWs have an ability that tells you if a friendly monster is nearby and even if there's one there but it's the wrong time of day. Thieves have a similar ability at one of the levels in the teens that shows you how many treasures are left in the area and it pops up with the HUD from that point on. Very nice for those looking to grab it all.

So I should start with MW and Thief? What about the last one?

 

[Northeastmonk]

I went with Thief/Warrior/Priest. Grinded for 360 gold for the whip to get 40 strength on my Warrior. It feels like I’ve gotten more seeds this time around. I am loving the graphics. It brings everything to life.

Ultra fast battle speed, auto attack on everyone, makes grinding a lot simpler. It’s running great on Steam Deck.

 

[Jinxed]

Havent felt this good playing a game in a long time. Looking forward to playing tomorrow night after work, this is great

 

[cartman414]

James Sawyer Ford it’s why I never understood the comparisons between FF and DQ over the years. Most of DQ has extremely milquetoast and straightforward plot developments and lore.

I will eventually buy this on a sale because I know it’s a great classic and I want to experience it, but I am going to find a way to play through it as fast as possible, whether that means 2x game speed or something else.

DQ is a lot more consistent when it comes to deeply cutting emotional moments.

 

[March Climber]

DQ is a lot more consistent when it comes to deeply cutting emotional moments.

Apologies, I don't think that either game series is necessarily 100% better than one another, I just think that aside from both having turn based gameplay and being sibling franchises early on, they are incomparable at a deeper level. Consistency is a strong point of DQ that mainline FF lacks and high risk-taking is a strong point of FF that mainline DQ lacks. It's just as admirable that DQ doesn't budge the same way FF continues to throw a huge gamble behind something different every time.

I highly enjoyed DQ Builders 1 and 2, DQ Swords, and DQ Heroes. To me they are a main course, but as far as I'm aware mainline DQ fans think of these games as a side dish.

 

[DoktorCoktor]

I would like to test this on the Steam Deck. Seems straightforward.

Yeah, it really is. If you haven't tried it yet, just go into desktop mode and then to your Steam library to browse Dragon Quest III's local files. Navigate to the game's "Pak" folder and create a folder called "~mods", drop the mod files inside of the folder you just created. That's it.

 

[adamsapple]

With all due respect, this game doesn't need a quality/performance mode.

I agree 100%.

But for what it's worth, looks like the Quality mode (also) runs at 60fps. So that means either they're both 60, or Performance is running 120fps.

I don't have the game yet so can't confirm first hand, but that's what I read on reddit (that Quality is 60fps on PS5).

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Great OT, will be picking this up as soon as Sony puts more God damn disc drives on the market for my Pro.

 

[Rran]

So I should start with MW and Thief? What about the last one?

You can reclass (and should reclass) partway through the game so you don't necessarily have to have both at once. I started one character as Monster Wrangler then later reclassed into Thief which lets you keep all your learned abilities. Priests are a good utility class that hit harder than you might think and offer handy heals/buffs/debuffs. Really there's no wrong choice and you can always reclass later but consider at least Monster Wrangler and/or Priest for early healing options.

 

[phant0m]

If this game is half as fun to play as Star Ocean 2 was, I need it. That game showed me how RPG remakes have to be done. The sheer accessibility of it, pretty much everything, SO2R was a GOTY contender for me.

Same.

Picked it up on GMG for $47.99, can’t wait to dive in this weekend

 

[Killer8]

 

[ap_puff]

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

For folks picking up the physical version, the ESRB edition doesn't come with interior cover art like the CERO release. If that’s important to you, you should consider importing the CERO physical version, as it comes with English language support (that's what I'll be doing at least).

 

[Kacho]

This game is doing exceptionally well on Steam. Peaking now.

 

[Arsic]

Something about this game scratches all the right itches as I play more.

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

Like most of these games, is there a hidden area with high metal slime encounter rates to drastically level up fast?

 

[TheCed]

Any guide explaining what each Classes do ?

Just want to plan ahead before creating my initial team.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

Any guide explaining what each Classes do ?

Just want to plan ahead before creating my initial team.

https://www.thegameisafootarcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Dragon-Warrior-III-Game-Manual.pdf

 

[Little Mac]

I really didn't think the UO soundtrack was anything special.

 

[Rran]

Any guide explaining what each Classes do ?

Just want to plan ahead before creating my initial team.

Warrior: strong and tanky with good equips but slow
Martial Artist: strong and fast with good crits but weak equips
Mage: great for crowds and bosses but very fragile
Priest: great for healing and bosses, okay damage but middling stats
Monster Tamer: learns good abilities through game-wide sidequest, decent stats and versatility
Thief: quick, good treasure hunting skills, some middling stats
Merchant: gets extra gold, has some quirky abilities, weaker stats
Gadabout: doesn't listen about a third of the time, kind of horrible all-around, but at L20 can reclass into
Sage: like the best of Mage + Priest + very good stats. Can only be gotten with a special limited item or Gadabout

 

[TheCed]

Warrior: strong and tanky with good equips but slow
Martial Artist: strong and fast with good crits but weak equips
Mage: great for crowds and bosses but very fragile
Priest: great for healing and bosses, okay damage but middling stats
Monster Tamer: learns good abilities through game-wide sidequest, decent stats and versatility
Thief: quick, good treasure hunting skills, some middling stats
Merchant: gets extra gold, has some quirky abilities, weaker stats
Gadabout: doesn't listen about a third of the time, kind of horrible all-around, but at L20 can reclass into
Sage: like the best of Mage + Priest + very good stats. Can only be gotten with a special limited item or Gadabout

Thanks
Gonna go for Thief (Because Treasure hunting is good right ?)
Monster Tamer (Love blue mages in FF)
Gadabout A grind but easiest way for Sage

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

VRR doesn't help?

That option is grayed out for me. Not sure. But the Series X version doesn’t run at 60fps in Graphics mode. Which is too bad. Framerate mode is silky smooth but it’s too bad it doesn’t happen in 4K.

 

[Yoshichan]

Quick question for those who have a Monster Wrangler class at 20...

Hero
Thief > Martial Artist
Priest > Sage
Monster Wrangler > ?????

What is a recommended vocation to transition to with the Monster Wrangler?