Dragon Quest 8 demo + Keychain FREE

[Melf]

About time, shit...

I registered for mine, but had to use my dad's address in Texas because they don't include territories or DC. Fuckers.

Lol, I'd love to see my dad's face when he checks the mail and finds a slime keychain.

[rama]

hope he doesn't throw that shit out.

again, has anyone heard the music/bought the sountrack yet? how is it compared to the other games?

[sonic6]

Thanks guys...just sent for mine.

[Finch]

;_; i'll miss Yoshi. i like Yoshi and Jeremy. That they always fight is like how verbal and Riisuke... *wahhh...*

rama- Would dog$ know? He was all over 7. I'm sure it'll be similar to the last 7 games, unless i missed one that was dramatically different. If all else fails, i'll tell you in 2-4 weeks.

[MVS]

It isn't a prerequisite for writing skills but do you really think that someone who hasn't played say Pac-Man or Super Mario Bros. is qualified to give review scores for games or even deserves to write about them? There has to be a certain level of knowledge and experience in a gamer for his opinions to be taken seriously. Where do we draw the line?

I know you have a thing for old games, but someone does not need to have played Pac-Man or SMB to review games today, no more than someone needs to have played Pole Position to review GT4.

I draw the line at knowing previous incarnations and recent competitive games.

[Revoltor]

I want to make long string of DQ8 slime keychains and strangle Jeremy to death.

[marwan]

Yoshi gets a week off

Best news i have ever heard!!!!!


back to DQ8...

[dog$]

again, has anyone heard the music/bought the sountrack yet? how is it compared to the other games?

I think overall 6 and 7 have better 'tracks on a whole but 8 still has a few standout pieces, and the orchestrated versions once again make everything magically better. There's certain dc++ hubs and other places you can go to find them.

What I liked the most is that there are certain themes which change with the current time and dungeon level depth, something which a DQ game hasn't done since the very first one in that latter instance. The overworld and shipsailing themes are good too.

The bad surprise was that songs were reused; DQ6's Pegasus and DQ4's Casino songs specifically. The use of the songs weren't out of place, but I would have thought he would have done the same as he did with 7 and compose new pieces outright.

There are some rumors of US DQ8 using the orchestrated versions of the songs but I haven't heard much of it and I would be very surprised if it did indeed happen.

[rama]

dog$, thank you for the info. i was planning on ordering the original/arranged soundtrack sooner or later but i just wanted some comparisons to all the other games. i didn't like 6's soundtrack as much as i liked 4's. 5's was pretty good and 3's remake ost is a good one as well. actually, 3's remake had the dungeon depth change thing, too. i can't remember that happening in the 1st game, though.

[Jeremy]

Revoltor, nice way to get around Kano's edict. Would you like me to send you mine? Or should I just shorten the process and send you some piano wire? Here's a Q&A on the game that might be helpful -
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gen...topic=23701856

Apparently, if you pre-order DQ VIII at Canadian EBs, you get the demo right then. The cover for it looks nice.