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Is this game worth the praise in 2021 or is it just a generic JRPG?

>> No.8297028

>>8297016
yes git gud

>> No.8297057

>>8297028
any tips?

>> No.8297058

Generic JRPGs are still worth playing if they're well done.

>> No.8297060

>>8297057
when your health gets low, use a potion

>> No.8297063

>>8297016
Why don't you play it and form your own opinion?

>> No.8297071

it will filter you, too much strategy and patience required, skip it and go back to fortnite/gradius/doom/wipeout whatever shit zoomers play now

>> No.8297072

>>8297016
i think it still holds up
i mean DQ as a whole is quite literally the template for generic JRPG, so theres a bit of that
but the amount of post-game content is actually insane
its like 3/4ths of the game

>>8297057
you can grind metal slimes pretty early down on the shore of the river by that one lone church
i cant remember the name. its near that one mountain

>> No.8297073

>>8297016
CURRENT YEAR

>> No.8297074

>>8297071
t. virgin
I am 30yo nigga.

>> No.8297086

>crossposting your /vr/ thread to /v/
Stay there and leave us alone.

>> No.8297126

>>8297016
it's the most generic JRPG on the PS2
and don't listen to those fags telling this game it's hard, it's piss easy and if it did filter you it will filter you with it's tedious and boring combat

>> No.8297136

>>8297016
it's dragon quest, of course it's generic

>> No.8297161

>>8297071
you may have meant it in jest, but this post will bait jarpigs for real.

>> No.8297173

play the 3DS version if you're a real man

>>8297071
this^
Estark will filter action game shit for brains

>> No.8297176

>>8297016
Good game but one of the weaker in the franchise

>> No.8297182

>>8297057
>any tips?
Go Swords or Boomerang for Eight.
Go Axes or Scythes for Angus, fuck hammers.
Go Whips or Staves for Jessica.
Swords or bows is fine for the silver haired guy whose name eludes me right now.

As that other anon mentioned there's a good place to grind metal slimes around level 15 that's before the church, if you went axes with Angus you can easily Helm Splitter to kill them with crits for easy levelling early on.
Once you get the ability to form a monster team, go look for a large bipedal lizardman called "Hackzilla" that's north of the first town and a brick golem called "Brickman" who's wandering around the north west portion of the Southeast continent. They're the best monsters you can recruit early and with no ranking, and will easily carry you a decent way through the monster arena and generally help out with bosses for a decent while.
If you obsessively collect mini medals, you can have just enough to early a bunnygirl outfit for Jessica at the first chance you have to cash them in.
About halfway through the game you come across a casino, once you've progressed the story a little more and unlocked the ability to gamble there then if you like you can savescum betting until you can buy Jessica's ultimate whip and some great swords. Keep in mind this will pretty much trivialize combat for the next few hours, Jessica will be oneshotting entire groups of monsters by herself for a fair while with it with little effort.
Consider playing the 3DS remake of the game that has additional endgame content, a new super dungeon, and an alternate secret ending among other things. Downside is that Jessica's outfits have some censoring done to them, but you can uncensor them with a fan made patch if you like and I'd recommend.

It's long been my favourite JRPG of all time, would recommend.

>> No.8297184
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>>8297182
>It's long been my favourite JRPG of all time, would recommend.
based
although I think 5 is my personal favorite in the series

>> No.8297187

>>8297184
5 made me sad.
I feel bad for the MC, he will never be the hero, only get to sleep with his waifu once before they're turned to stone and end up with two children, spends half his life as a slave, etc. Dude can't even raise his luck value above 4, feelsbadman.
I will say though that I do like that it does something pretty unique for a DQ game: lets you have an actual choice about something plot related.

>> No.8297190

>>8297184
>>8297187
Oh yeah and
Why the fuck do 80% of the doujins have to be Kon kidnapping either of the main two waifus and impregnating them with NTR and buckets of semen? Why can't we just have something fluffy and wholesome damnit?

>> No.8297237

>>8297016
>"INCLUDES DEMO FOR TOTALLY DIFFERENT GAME" on the front-cover
that's sad.

>> No.8297238

Dragon Quest is truly the ultimate pleb filter as evidenced by this thread.

>> No.8297284

>>8297238
>pleb filter
That would be SMT games

>> No.8297345

>>8297284
You mean that series copying Persona? They need to get some originality.
:^)

>> No.8297359

>>8297345
le funny

>> No.8297489

bump

>> No.8297490

>>8297173
Estark is easy as shit, he just sleeps throughout the whole battle. 3-4 bosses before him though? Really damn hard

>> No.8297870

>>8297016
I played this on release and dropped it about 40 hours in when I was bored as fuck and looked up a guide and saw I wasn't even half through the game.
This summer I tried DQ11 and dropped it after 60 hours, and apparently wasn't even 1/3rd through.
The games are fun for about 20-30 hours, then you just wait for the game to add anything interesting mechanically which they never do, while intentionally wasting all your time under the guide of being "massive" and they're just such a fucking drag to play.

>> No.8297903

>>8297870
Filtered hard. Stick to modern two hours long cinematic experiences made for dads to play before sleeping on the couch.

>> No.8297935

>>8297870
git gud shitter

>> No.8297945

>>8297870
>DQ11 60 hour fail
speedrunners beat it in 5 hours glitchless and like 8 or 9 to get the true ending lol

>> No.8297951

>>8297870
You're already seething, the next step is to cope.

>> No.8297980

>>8297903
>>8297935
>>8297945
>>8297951
>literally 0 arguments
If you have fun wasting 300 hours hitting the exact same 5 enemies in different colors depending on the area, then that's fine, but don't pretend these games are good.

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8297986

>>8297980
I do have fun doing that and I don't have to pretend because they are.

>> No.8298036

>>8297980
>literally 0 arguments
You didn't have anything of value to say, and were mocked for it.

>> No.8298046

>>8297870
Reddit Quest 11 is the worst in the series (yes even 2 was better) please do not bring that turd up in a retro board again

>> No.8298052

>>8298046
Based. DQ's last good game was 7. 8 was a downgrade but it had a cool 3D world so people forgave it and most westerners didn't play 7 to begin with.

>> No.8298071

Good story, atmosphere, music and graphics
>JRPG
Shit gameplay, as always.

>> No.8298075

>>8298052
>DQ's last good game was 7
7 alongside 6 are peak DQ and although i agree 8 was a downgrade i still think 9 was good it's literally DQ3 in 3D
but Reddit Quest 11 was a huge disappointed i played both light and definitive versions and it was the most bland and boring JRPG i played in a long time, even the 2D mode that picked my interest turned to be even worse

>> No.8298201

>>8297870
You should try Nocturne SMT.

>> No.8298225

8 was the first one i played because it was the first one to get pal release. i guess it was an alright introductionary game to the series but in retrospective it pales in comparison the the classics.

>> No.8298434

>>8298225
Oh yes, the classics like the grinding the video game that is DQ1.

>> No.8298464

>>8298434
and 8 isnt a grinding game? with slow attack animations that make battles take forever?

>> No.8298468

>>8298464
There is actual content besides grinding mate

>> No.8298470

>>8298464
It isn't, thanks for asking and come again.

>> No.8298509

>>8298046
Fuck off back to /v/ retard

>> No.8298531

>>8297016
It's an okay-ish DQ game.

>> No.8299085

>>8297072
>the amount of post-game content is actually insane
>its like 3/4ths of the game
For the PS2 version? There was just one new dungeon and that was it.

>> No.8299148

>>8299085
The 3DS version includes a new character, lots of new character interactions, 2 new endings, new enemies, new skills, new weapons/armours, lots of collectables (that constantly reward you with great stuff through the entire game) and a lot of extended content, not including the post game adventures (which fleshes out the main character's backstory) and an extra dungeon with crazy difficult versions of bosses that will force you to fight wisely because they still can massacre your group even if you maxed out their levels.
Fortunately, the 3DS version also allows you to skip grinding by simply throwing you lots of zones where you can easily hunt and kill metal slimes for some crazy quick leveling up if you know how to do it.

>> No.8299157

>>8299148
Sorry, I meant TWO new characters: Red and Morrie, who can help you a LOT because unlike most remakes, DQ8 gives you new characters with tons of crazy useful skills and great stats to complement the original character's skillsets.

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8299169

>>8298464
>and 8 isnt a grinding game?

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8299224

>>8297187
Not spoiling because 30 year old game
But even if DQ5 hero suffered a lot he can take solace in the fact that he still played a massive part in saving the world despite not being the legendary hero, he gets his own kingdom and on top of that he gets two (potentially) OP children and heirs to the throne while he and his wife retained much of their own youth due to being statues. Dude endured through hell but he's set for life once the story is over.

>> No.8299284

>>8297028
/thread fpbp

>> No.8299308

>>8297187
>>8299224
There's also some A+ storytelling going on, where everything at the end wraps back to the beginning. The hero ultimately avenges his dad's death and fulfills his last wish because he BECOMES his father, he finds the legendary hero his father was looking for once HE becomes a father himself. The last chapter of the game is the father and his heroic son just as the beginning was the father and his son who we all thought was the hero.

>> No.8299323

>>8299308
Don't forget about Dr. Agon's hylarious introduction and his comical speech pattern modeled after Ned Flanders.

>> No.8299504

>>8297016
Would have been a better game if you could save in the fucking menu instead of at a stupid church every time. How fucking archaic and dated can you be for a ps2 game?

>> No.8299508

>>8297016
All Dragon Quest games are generic boring shit that have no redeeming qualities aside from the fact that they inspired better games like Earthbound.

>> No.8299513

>>8299504
not being able to save in dungeons and overworld is what makes exploration more exciting since you have something to lose if you screw up

>> No.8299517

>>8299504
>How fucking based and pleb filtering can you be for a ps2 game?
FTFY

>> No.8299523

>>8299508
seething shitter

>> No.8299539

>>8299508
>they inspired better games like Earthbound.
lmfao zoomer as fuck

>> No.8299965

>>8297945
Speed running is pretty gay though, especially speedrunning jrpgs

>> No.8300282

>>8299965
t. tranny

>> No.8300285

>>8297870
Both games are 40-50 hours long at most. It's your fucking fault for going through them so inexplicably slowly. Are you just larping or did it really take you 60 hours to get 1/3 through DQ11? If the game took over a 100 hours to beat, let alone over 180 hours, it would be insufferable for real. The truth is, though, it ends at around the 50 hour mark.

>> No.8300291

>>8297187
>only get to sleep with his waifu once before they're turned to stone
You best be kidding. They clearly humped nonstop throughout the sea journey, a vacation to Not-Egypt, and over their trip half across the world. You understand how pregnancy works, correct? Humans don't stop having sex when the woman conceives. Most don't stop having sex throughout the pregnancy, but the first few months are often the wildest time.

>> No.8300298

>>8300291
You realize nobody eats the puss while pregnant right?

>> No.8300481

>>8300298
Yeah, nobody likes when the baby suddenly grabs their nose.

>> No.8300496

>>8297016
yeah it's a jrpg. The only saving grace is the non-seppo dub, but Xenoblade is better

>> No.8300498

>>8300481
Not to mention that women know their vagina is dirty and instantly lose any respect they had for a man who licks it.

>> No.8300504

>>8297136
This, Dragon Quest is literally THE generic JRPG series because it fucking invented a lot of those "generic" conventions
Fucking dumb to whine that it's "too generic", it's exactly like complaining that Pac-Man is "just a game about running around in a maze and avoiding ghosts", no shit

>> No.8300618

>>8298509
/v/trannies loves Reddit Quest 11 being the fags with shit taste they are

>> No.8301229

>>8300618
>Reddit Quest 11
You talk exactly like a '/v/tranny'. As far as I'm concerned you people don't like Dragon Quest and care only about Sony exclusives and Western trash or some shit I don't know, I don't visit /v/ often

>> No.8302576

>>8301229
Reddit Quest 11 is the worst in the series, deal with with it
in fact it's not retro so why the hell are we bringing up that piece of shit here lol

>> No.8303072

>>8302576
Because you can't stop seething about it so much that you keep bringing it up when nobody asked.

>> No.8303254

>>8299508
>Says DQ is generic
>Names a even more generic game as a better game
Have a (you), you made me laugh.

>> No.8303321

bump

>> No.8303371

DQ games are so boring not sure why japan has such a hard on for this series if you have to be a weeb theres more exciting jarpigs on the ps2 like FFX

>> No.8303383

>>8303371
>FFX
Yeah sure, corridor simulator

>> No.8303560

>>8303371
Japan thinks that FFX is the greatest game of all time

>> No.8303562

It is simultaneously the most generic JPRG possible and extremely good.
Simplicity, when well executed, is the best.

>> No.8303905

>>8303562
>extremely good
How so?

>> No.8303948

>>8297016
it's the best dq game. dq 11 was similar but overstays its welcome with ridiculous content that sticks around long after you're ready to play something else.