Dragon Quest VIII launches in Japan: Pics inside!
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Guns N' Poops
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Doom_Bringer
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Guns N' Poops said:
heh nice
http://squarenet.gamigo.de/display.php?site=news&id=5512
lmao they made that an actual attack?? this game is a winner.
lmao they made that an actual attack?? this game is a winner.
shoplifter
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SomeDude said:
Then you have absolutely no taste.
shoplifter
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Sure, you may have not -liked- it but to say it was one of the WORST means you either played very few games or are completely off your rocker.
sonycowboy
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When are we going to hear about some numbers???
CrimsonSkies
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I've never played a DQ game. I may give this one a whirl because I like Level 5's Dark Cloud games.
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JoshuaJSlone
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Let's check back in 10 years.Bog said:
I want to play this game, it looks really cool actually. For the record I thought dragon quest 7 was a craptacular waste of time myself. I rented it , played for 3 hours and never got into a single random battle nor did anything interesting in it. Plus they released that mess after FF9 had allready come out and well it's graphics were god awful, it had unnessecary ugly CG to boot. Normally I don't hold things like that against a game but in DQ7's case it really was getting in the way of my enjoyment of the game.
On the other hand before someone bitches, I played some DQ5 on an emulator in english and it actually seemed sort of fun.
On the other hand before someone bitches, I played some DQ5 on an emulator in english and it actually seemed sort of fun.
JackFrost2012
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dog$ said:
It's Dragon Quest. Eight!
Um ... it's pretty good but expect to level, and stuff. Graphics are lovely but concessions to modern gameplay expectations are few and far between.
JackFrost2012
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jiggle said:
None, perfunctory, and there.
This game uses NES SFX, for Chrissake. The Cinematic RPG Experience of 2004 it ain't.
In its defense, DQs are more about characterization than narrative, and that's fine so far.
Littleberu
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So I suppose this isn't import friendly, eh? I don't want to wait 1 year just to play it...
Littleberu said:
It's about as import-friendly as any other Japanese rpg. I mean for most part you just keep tapping circle for the random battles and level up if your getting beat. Usually the next place to go to is the next place you find while walking down a path, but I guess that could get confusing.
The story is pretty straight-forward. I dunno, for people who know zero Japanese it's probably unplayable but the people with 6 months of the language under their belt who can get through FF imports should have no problems here.
AndriaSang
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I actually wasn't enjoying the game until I got about 8 hours in. Now, I'm totally loving it. It's totally an old-school RPG in 3D, complete with a helping of RPG cliches. Very basic battle system, but it starts getting more complicated once you start learning spells. It's also a good idea to set it so you can give commands to every character (I went through the first six hours thinking you could only give commands to the main character with the computer controlling the rest of the characters -- I didn't like the game this way).
It's somewhat hard to judge the visuals because PS2 games all look like garbage on my television. The framerate drops down during the more complex town scenes, but it tends to hold still during the most impressive part of the game -- the vast overworld, which streams in as you move. The game supports widescreen, by the way.
I also really love the little animated cinema scenes that play every now and then. They're a total riot. I just wish there were voices. Voices would be perfect for this game.
It's somewhat hard to judge the visuals because PS2 games all look like garbage on my television. The framerate drops down during the more complex town scenes, but it tends to hold still during the most impressive part of the game -- the vast overworld, which streams in as you move. The game supports widescreen, by the way.
I also really love the little animated cinema scenes that play every now and then. They're a total riot. I just wish there were voices. Voices would be perfect for this game.
By archaic, you mean "not of your tastes". There's absolutely no reason why a battle system where you only see the monsters should be considered archaic. Besides, the battles required more strategy and were quicker than a typical Final Fantasy battle.
The game sold 4 million copies in Japan, and almost everyone loved it (demonstrated by magazine reviews and just general word of mouth review). Are you going to keep being in denial about the game's quality?
AndriaSang said:
It's a strangely obnoxious tradition DQ now has that sets all of the party AI to auto on default except for the main protagonist. I also spent several hours playing DW7 worried that my party was a bunch of NPC's that would abandon me soon after they arrive until I discovered AI control in the menu settings. You just have to set new members up to manual control the moment they join, something that likely may never leave the franchise. I'd have to double check, but I believe DQ5r and later SNES entries also set AI on by default as well.
I'd love a description of the overworld and dungeon layouts. As large and bewildering as the screens suggest?
Pellham said:
I don't remember the game getting rave reviews in America. In Japan it's like a religion, but I think if it was released under a diffrent name noone would of gave a shit about it. I'm not fond of pokemon either which sells really well. Anyways, I didn't like the visuals and the music quality was poor. I just expected better. I think Chrono Cross is far superior in every way.
Bizarro Sun Yat-sen
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I've seen a lot of grumbling about DQ7 on Japanese message boards. Japanese magazines are pretty timid about giving bad reviews to games in established franchises, so I'm not sure their reviews can be taken as representative.
Don't hear what was poor about the music quality though (the music quantity is another matter)
JackFrost2012
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Pellham said:
No, by "archaic," he means archaic. That shit's Triassic, yo.