Dragon Quest 9 came out today in America

Tulpa · Joined: 31 Jul 2008

why would you play strange journey? It's so boring.
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Persona-sama · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:23 pm

Actually yeah I didn't play it much either. I guess I don't like the etrian oddysey style 3d dungeons. I like devil survivor though although I wouldve enjoyed it more if it had kazuma kaneko or soejima character art.
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secondpillow · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando

BenoitRen · I bought RAM Joined: 05 Jan 2007

What? When did people suddenly start disliking SMT: Strange Journey? And do we have some people here who hate Etrian Odyssey's dungeons?!

THERE IS NO DEITY!
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secondpillow · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando

I gave etrian odyssey an honest, long try. The lifeless, non-animated world eventually lost my attention. The enemies need at least basic animation. Why grind for hours and hours if I'm basically looking at static images? It's an approach that loses the power of imagination that you get from pen and paper rpg's while neglecting the moving image potential of the vidcon.
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Monsieur Eek · Joined: 07 Dec 2006

Should I be getting panic attacks over how to allocate my skill points? What's the deal with the fan? Can I just build my character however I want and still have the game be manageable? I need reassurance to enjoy this game.
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secondpillow · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando

Tulpa · Joined: 31 Jul 2008

according to an faq, you're likely to have less than 400 skill points before the end boss
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BalbanesBeoulve · Malicious Bastard Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Why the hell are you guys reading faqs and worrying about skill points.
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secondpillow · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando

BalbanesBeoulve · Malicious Bastard Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Doesn't mean you have to approach it like you're min/maxing for an mmorpg.
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Moogs · Joined: 06 Dec 2006

Man, I wasn't following this one very closely at all. I thought this was going to be all real tine battle Zelda-like or some shit. Did Squeenix chicken out?

BotageL · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:01 am

BalbanesBeoulve · Malicious Bastard Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Didn't the Japanese freak out or something?

And this font is terrible.
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Ashura · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: Far East of Eden

Some months back, I designed a really cool little 20 page freebee guidebook for this called 'Starting Your Dragon Quest Adventure' along with a little standee for it.

If you guys see it out in the wild, take a picture of it for me!

secondpillow · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando

secondpillow · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando

BalbanesBeoulve · Malicious Bastard Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Ashura · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: Far East of Eden

Oh wow, awesome! Glad you guys saw it/like it.

It's actually a really nice little book for beginners. I worked really hard to try to capture the whimsical nature of the game, too. Hopefully it comes across.

Did the spot varnish on the logo and the two slimes on the front come out nicely?

skelethulu · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: OAKLAND

Hey I picked up one of those booklets to give to my wife, as this will be her first Dragon Quest. Varnish definitely turned up, although it's a little blocky on the littler slimes. Still nice job MAN. The card stock is extremely good (you can ask secondpillow, I literally said that outloud in the store when we spotted these a week-ish ago).

Ashura · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: Far East of Eden

Awesome skelethulu. Thanks for the pictures! Also cool to hear it'll be useful to your wife!

I don't have one yet, so it's good to know that the stock is really nice and stuff.

diplo · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Location: Brandy Brendo's bungalow

Swimmy · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

I've got a booklet too. Yeah, it's nice.

I'm excited, picking this up tomorrow. Will probably have a gushy orgasm in this thread and will not be bothered at all by the sameness of this game.
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secondpillow · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando

This game is kind of starting to have a story!

Look at each town and its accompanying dungeon as a chapter in a book. The first two chapters were written by the author falling asleep with his head on the keyboard, and having his editor come along and add some periods to it. But the third chapter is when the author woke up and banged out something respectable.

L/R buttons NOT NEEDED for entry to this club.
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Persona-sama · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:23 am

How much does it use the touch screen? Can you play the game with one hand.
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SuperWes · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:08 am

secondpillow · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando

BenoitRen · I bought RAM Joined: 05 Jan 2007

secondpillow, plenty of people didn't mind looking at static monster pictures in the 8-bit and 16-bit Final Fantasy games. You may even be one of them. Some other RPGs probably also had them.

I didn't find the environments in Etrian Odyssey to be lifeless, despite not being animated. They had a lot of charm.
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Tulpa · Joined: 31 Jul 2008

Swimmy · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Thoughts within the first 20 minutes:

-No way to speed up text? Booooooooooo!
-There really ought to be a compromise with the graphical battle system. It wouldn't kill them to add a menu option that turns long battle animations off. It seems that DQ has permanently moved in a flashier direction, and I'm still not very happy with it.
-This game is pretty. By zooming out and lowering the attempted detail a smidge, it eliminates most of the pixelation that plagued DQM:J. I have yet to see how most of the world really looks.
-The Celestrians talk like stupid people think smart people talk. "The humans can't see we Celestrians," and us Celestrians can't speak English good, can us?
-I have a profile? And I can wave to people? I'm not sure if all this makes me happy or sad that I'll never find anyone to play it with.
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Tulpa · Joined: 31 Jul 2008

Knurek · Joined: 16 Dec 2006

What pisses me off is the massive, *massive* framerate drop when you have a complete party. The game is smooth as butter with just the main character running around, and there's no option to disable the cronies. :(

Tulpa · Joined: 31 Jul 2008

Huh? I haven't had that experience. The game plays just as smoothly for me whether I have 4 people or 1 person in my party.
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culpalibri · Joined: 12 Feb 2010

What really? I'm playing on an old DS lite, and I too suffer from the framerate drop. It was painfully noticeable the first time I left the inn with all 4 party members.

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:31 am

Now is when I make a series of subtle gestures indicating forum users may wish to compare the non-licensed hardware they may be using as an interpretive measure.

(although there's also the remote possibility that it's a DSi matter?)

edit: WISH

edit 2: SERIES

Felix · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:52 am

oh, ffs. smooth as silk in dsemume. emulation's not supposed to surpass the actual hardware for at least a generation or so...

Tulpa · Joined: 31 Jul 2008

I'm on a DS Lite with an Acekard 2.1
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gooktime · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: no

DS Lite with an R4. There is slowdown but it's usually when there are several monsters + party on screen.

secondpillow · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando

Legit copy. No slowdown noticed.
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