Dragon Quest 9 Official Thread

[Jetman]

Pretend it's called DQ:Gaiden and stop whining.

FINE. I WILL

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Personally I hate DQ mostly on account of its too-simple battle system and level grinding. The fact that this is going for an action based battle system make me more interested in this than any DQ yet.

[Jetman]

It worked for part VII.

VII didnt look shittier than parts V and VI...well maybe the overworld, but there were at least some improvements and steps forward...

[sethsez]

Level-5 is just a tiny bit better than whoever made the fucking Shining Soul games. And you know this is getting more attention and a bigger budget.

VII didnt look shittier than parts V and VI

I thought VI looked much better. It was a good looking SNES game along the lines of FFVI and CT, while VII looked like polygonal diarrhea when it came out and has aged poorly since.

[bbobb]

Level-5 is just a tiny bit better than whoever made the fucking Shining Soul games. And you know this is getting more attention and a bigger budget.

That's not Shining Soul you fool.

That game had a lot of attention and a big budget.

[sethsez]

That's not Shining Soul you fool.

Correct. It's Children of Mana. Which was outsourced to the Shining Soul/Shining Tears developers.

[bbobb]

Correct. It's Children of Mana. Which was outsourced to the Shining Soul/Shining Tears developers.

[Jetman]

Level-5 is just a tiny bit better than whoever made the fucking Shining Soul games. And you know this is getting more attention and a bigger budget.

Ahh, its Children of Mana, Seth (shouldve labeled it, I guess).The Secret of Mana series is usually the first I think of when it comes to someone saying Action RPG. Secret of Mana is not usually known for depth, length, or being too overly difficult. Not too sure if I want "Secret of Dragon Quest" here.

I thought VI looked much better. It was a good looking SNES game along the lines of FFVI and CT, while VII looked like polygonal diarrhea when it came out and has aged poorly since.

Well, Im of the camp who thinks Final Fantasy 7 looks like polygonal diarrhea (lol) as compared to a game like Final Fantasy 6 too but I cant deny that there were some improvements in presentation (the summons) and a few other things that made it a bit of a step forward. Same with DQVII....if not a little less so...

[sethsez]

Ahh, its Children of Mana, Seth (shouldve labeled it, I guess).

Already addressed this. It was made by Nex Entertainment, the Shining Soul people.

Well, Im of the camp who thinks Final Fantasy 7 looks like polygonal diarrhea (lol) as compared to a game like Final Fantasy 6 too but I cant deny that there were some improvements in presentation (the summons) and a few other things that made it a bit of a step forward. Same with DQVII....if not a little less so...

Except DQVII didn't have a big leap forward in presentation to make up for technical flaws. It was presented the same as always, just uglier than the last one.

[Shin Johnpv]

How does that saying go? "Its hard to go back to Hamburger when you've tasted steak" or something?

You know what though I'm not always in the mood for steak, and I fucking love steak. There are some times when something like a hamburger is just right and steak would be too much.

VII didnt look shittier than parts V and VI...well maybe the overworld, but there were at least some improvements and steps forward...

VII was a disgustingly ugly game, had less frames of animation than V or VI by a good deal

[rama]

i think dragon quest 7 was a bit of a step up from 6 in terms of depth. the sprites weren't 3d but the environments were pretty nice for dragon quest at the time. everything felt pretty solid when you'd rotate the camera around an area. i like it a lot more than ffs pre-rendered thingies.