DRAGON QUEST XI: WEAPONS OF MAP DISSEMINATION

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LIKE ONE WEEK, KIDS GET HYPE!!!!

tbqf im really getting excited for this - probably scoring some kind of hat or keychain idk get it preordered for me for my bday so - the class system sounds p great & the lack of random encounters is, well it could be good.

still dont really get having a major mp component to what in na is really just another aspie shut-in title but ohhhhhh wellll

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haha!

still dont really get having a major mp component to what in na is really just another aspie shut-in title but ohhhhhh wellll

or the glass-half-full version: finally, an in-game reward for going to all those stupid Star Trek conventions!

can't wait for DQ9 btw; sucks that I won't be able to take advantage of the downloadable stuff but it sounds like it'll be a minute before I run out of content anyway

Not changing the thread title

but then what will we do when dragon quest eleven comes out

is tht ralph pootawn

i saw this thread title a few times and only noticed this time that it said 11. haha. man. i love how my brain doesn't so much read things as it like skims them for letters and says "yeah, that's that thing"

I am so stoked for this! I was in a video game store and they had an ad for it w/the Dragon Quest opening music playing on the PA – I got hyped up like a little kid.

I started playing this last night!

i cant seem to summon the energy to get past the character creation...

this is pretty great

I like this a lot so far. I think the menus really need to be streamlined and the font needs to be bigger and less 1994-looking but overall, I'm having a good time with this game. The move away from random encounter is definitely a bonus.

I have to go and find an abbot (not Abbott) so I can stop being a minstrel now.

is that ralph pootawn

The move away from random encounter is definitely a bonus.

Totally OTM. So nice not to have to encounter a slime if you don't fucking want to.

SO far the only thing I dislike is a lot of the sidequests are dumb, but that's a thing in RPGs where you gotta use the Serenity Prayer bcz that's not changing anytime soon.

Ok, I am not very far (still) in this game but it doesn't have a very good story. Normally I don't even care about that (when has Dragon Quest ever had a really interesting plot?), but this whole kind of vaguely defined "uh maybe let's get some more benevolessence I guess?" story really fails to move things forward. I don't have a lot of motivation to move forward.

the quests (both story and side) are really clearly just pegs holding together the alchemy/job skills/item collection strands of the game, which are the real point. certainly that is whats driving me fwd and holding my attention. teh skills mastery system is a joy, & i think all the talk about how much there is to do once your finished the game is really credible.

i liked the story in DQ8 & am disappointed that this one is so boring and slight but tbqf im such a sucker for any kind of job system that i really dont care.

hey i've been playing this and each town being based on a different regional UK dialect has been amusing - is this the same localisation in the US, or do they have a different one riffing on US accents?

I think it's the same in the US. I remember reading somewhere that Nintendo weren't sure it would do so well there because of all the British in-jokes and accents. What accent is Port Lllwehhwhatever supposed to be, btw? I'm guessing 'generic Welsh'?

yeh, Welsh. there are a lot of in-jokes and old-fashioned choices of words, some of the language in the Scottish town i last heard used by my grandfather!

What kind of team are you guys using, for those of you who haven't yet abandoned this? I've unlocked a couple of the 'advanced' classes but I'm not sure if/when I should switch jobs. I have minstrel, martial artist, mage, and thief. Kind of want to change the minstrel and thief to a paladin and armamentalist but I don't know if that would leave me with just the martial artist for immense damage-doing.

The overall storyline to this seems a bit predictable so far, but I like that the small stories in each town are a bit weird. The Bloomingdale one was almost Layton-esque, I thought.

wtf so am i the only ilxor who loved this and played like more than a hundred fucking embarassing hours

yeah the story was not quite dq8 lvl but the addictiveness was through the roof

i didn't play it for a few months but then my buddy started and i brought him in on some metal king slime hunts and he one time rose ten levels after one fight i shit you not.

I had/have like a dozen printouts of stuff I need to grind to be able to make 80% of the alchemies, but then I did some study into what the other 20% requires and yikes. And then I put it down for a little while, and down it stayed. I'd have to go back and be sure I have all of the files an decipher some of my chicken-scratch writing to even think about finishing.

I played/adored the hell out of this game when it came out and for a few months after. I think I'm around or near 100 hrs. I didn't get into the post-game content much... tried a couple of the hidden dungeons but found the difficulty of the bosses too unpredictable to keep going with it. I didn't get a chance to play co-op at all.

I played quite a bit of the post-game, but those ultimate alchemy items, yikes! I made 2 of the 'unlucky' mixes then gave up.